Ecology Letters

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Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	116
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	110
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	110
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	96
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	96
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	95
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	90
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	90
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	89
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	84
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	82
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	81
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	77
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	76
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	73
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Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	69
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	69
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	69
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	65

Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	63
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	63
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	62
Corrigendum	61
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	59
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	57
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	57
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	54
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	54
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	53
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	52
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	52
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	50
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	50
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	49
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	49
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	48
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Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	47
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	47
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	47
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	47
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Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	46
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	45
Phenotypic plasticity as a cause and consequence of population dynamics	45
Hydraulic prediction of drought‐induced plant dieback and top‐kill depends on leaf habit and growth form	45
Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	44
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	44
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Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	43
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	42
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	42
The functional form of specialised predation affects whether Janzen–Connell effects can prevent competitive exclusion	41
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	41
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	41
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	40
Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	40
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	40
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	40
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	39
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	38
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	38
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	38
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	37
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	37
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	37
Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	36
Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences	36

Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	36
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	36
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	36
Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	36
Issue Information	35
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 4, April 2022	35
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	35
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Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	35
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	34
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	34
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	34
Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to nitrogen deposition in an old‐growth boreal forest	34
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	34
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	33
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	33
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	33
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Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	33
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	33
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	32
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	32
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	32
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	32
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	31
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	31
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	31
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	31
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Chronic Heat Tolerance Reveals Overestimated Thermal Safety Margins and Increased Vulnerability in Marine Fish Populations	31
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	31
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	30
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	30
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	30
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	29
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	29
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	29
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	29
Host phylogenetic diversity predicts the global extent and composition of tree pests	28
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	28
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	28
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	28
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	28
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Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	28
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA!	28
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	27
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	27
Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity	27
Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	27
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	27
Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	26
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	26
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	26
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	26
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	25
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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	25
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	25
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	25
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Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	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
Temporal turnover of the soil microbiome composition is guild‐specific	25
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	24
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	24
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	24
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	24
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	23
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	23
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 7, July 2023	23
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	23
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	23
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	23
Four ways to define the growing season	23
The kinship matrix: inferring the kinship structure of a population from its demography	23
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	23
modelRxiv: A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	23
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	23
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Low‐salinity transitions drive abrupt microbial response to sea‐level change	22
A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives	22
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	22
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	21
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	21
Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient	21
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	21
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	21
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	21
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	21
A genetically based ecological trade‐off contributes to setting a geographic range limit	21
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	20
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Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	20
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	20
Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations	20
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	20
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	20
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	20
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	20
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	19
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	19
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	19
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	19
Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events	19
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	19
Environmental and anthropogenic constraints on animal space use drive extinction risk worldwide	19
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Response to Comment on ‘Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales’	19
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	19
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	19
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	19
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	19
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	19
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	19
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	18
Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	18
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	18
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	18
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	18
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	18
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	18
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	18
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	18
A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
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Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free‐living ruminant population	17
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	17
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	17
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation	17
Would that it were so simple: Interactions between multiple traits undermine classical single‐trait‐based predictions of microbial community function and evolution	17
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	17
A case for associational resistance: Apparent support for the stress gradient hypothesis varies with study system	17
Trophic downgrading decreases species asynchrony and community stability regardless of climate warming	17
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Dietary abundance distributions: Dominance and diversity in vertebrate diets	17
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	17
Competition for water and species coexistence in phenologically structured annual plant communities	17
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	17
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	16
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	16
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Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	16
Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees	16
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	16
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	16
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	16
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	16
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Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	16
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	16
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	16
Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	16
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	16
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	16
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Size exclusion experiment in a grassland field unravels top–down control of the soil fauna on microbial community assembly	15
Linking pollen limitation and seed dispersal effectiveness	15
Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period	15
Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities	15
Leaf Shelters Facilitate the Colonisation of Arthropods and Enhance Microbial Diversity on Plants	15
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The second life of terrestrial and plastic carbon as nutritionally valuable food for aquatic consumers	15
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Hummingbird blood traits track oxygen availability across space and time	15
Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability	15
Impact of climate warming on phenological asynchrony of plankton dynamics across Europe	15
Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	15