Ecology Letters

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Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	136
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	114
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	98
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	97
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	92
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	91
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	91
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	88
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	84
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	82
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	82
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	78
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	77
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	77
Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	73
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	71
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	71
Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	71
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	66
Intraspecific variation in plant‐associated herbivore communities is phylogenetically structured in Brassicaceae	65

Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	65
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	64
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	64
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	61
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Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	58
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	57
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	56
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	56
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	55
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	52
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	52
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	51
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	50
Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands	49
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	49
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	49
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	47
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	47
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	46
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	46
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	45
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	45
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How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	44
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	43
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	42
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	42
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	42
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	42
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	41
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	41
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Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	40
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	40
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	40
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	40
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Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	39
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	39
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	39
The functional form of specialised predation affects whether Janzen–Connell effects can prevent competitive exclusion	38
Hydraulic prediction of drought‐induced plant dieback and top‐kill depends on leaf habit and growth form	38
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	38
Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	38
Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences	37
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	37
Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	37

Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	37
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	36
Phenotypic plasticity as a cause and consequence of population dynamics	36
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	35
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	35
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	35
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	35
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	34
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A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	33
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Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	32
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	32
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	32
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	32
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	32
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	32
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	31
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	31
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	31
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	31
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	31
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	31
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	31
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	30
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	30
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	30
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	30
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	30
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	30
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	30
Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to nitrogen deposition in an old‐growth boreal forest	30
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Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	29
Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	29
Host defense or parasite cue: Skin secretions mediate interactions between amphibians and their parasites	29
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	29
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	29
Deep‐time convergent evolution in animal communication presented by shared adaptations for coping with noise in lizards and other animals	29
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	29
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	29
Temporal turnover of the soil microbiome composition is guild‐specific	29
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	28
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	28
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA!	28
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	27
Stress causes interspecific facilitation within a compost community	27
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	27
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	27
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	27
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	27
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	26
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Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity	26
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Host phylogenetic diversity predicts the global extent and composition of tree pests	26
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	25
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	25
Host adaptation to novel pathogen introduction: Predicting conditions that promote evolutionary rescue	25
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	25
modelRxiv: A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	25
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	25
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	25
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	25
The kinship matrix: inferring the kinship structure of a population from its demography	25
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	25
From pattern to process? Dual travelling waves, with contrasting propagation speeds, best describe a self‐organised spatio‐temporal pattern in population growth of a cyclic rodent	25
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	24
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	24
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	24
Joint species distributions reveal the combined effects of host plants, abiotic factors and species competition as drivers of species abundances in fruit flies	24
Four ways to define the growing season	23
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	23
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	23
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	23
Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	23
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	23

Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	22
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	22
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Pathogen transport amplifies or dilutes disease transmission depending on the host dose‐response relationship	22
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Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	21
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	21
Environmental and anthropogenic constraints on animal space use drive extinction risk worldwide	21
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	21
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	21
Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient	21
Low‐salinity transitions drive abrupt microbial response to sea‐level change	21
Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants	21
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	21
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	21
A genetically based ecological trade‐off contributes to setting a geographic range limit	21
Habitat covariates do not artificially cause a negative correlation between native and non‐native species richness	21
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	21
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	21
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	20
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A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives	20
Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence	20
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	20
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	20
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	20
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	20
Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations	20
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	20
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	20
Response to Comment on ‘Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales’	19
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	19
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	19
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	19
Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events	19
Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	19
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	19
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	19
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	19
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	19
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	18
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	18
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	18
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Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	18
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	18
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	18
A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science	18
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	18
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Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free‐living ruminant population	17
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	17
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	17
Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions	17
The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification	17
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	17
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	17
Would that it were so simple: Interactions between multiple traits undermine classical single‐trait‐based predictions of microbial community function and evolution	17
Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	17
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	17
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	17
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation	17
Trophic downgrading decreases species asynchrony and community stability regardless of climate warming	17
Competition for water and species coexistence in phenologically structured annual plant communities	16
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	16
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	16
A case for associational resistance: Apparent support for the stress gradient hypothesis varies with study system	16
Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees	16
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	16
Resilience or Catastrophe? A possible state change for monarch butterflies in western North America	16
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	16
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	16
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	16
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	16
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	16
Dietary abundance distributions: Dominance and diversity in vertebrate diets	16
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	16
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	16
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	16
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The second life of terrestrial and plastic carbon as nutritionally valuable food for aquatic consumers	15
Hummingbird blood traits track oxygen availability across space and time	15
Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability	15
Effects of maternal age and stress on offspring quality in a viviparous fly	15
Impact of climate warming on phenological asynchrony of plankton dynamics across Europe	15
Eco‐evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: The role of timescales and rate modulators	15
Linking pollen limitation and seed dispersal effectiveness	15