Ecology Letters

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Five fundamental ways in which complex food webs may spiral out of control	573
Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient	156
Coordination Between Bioelements Induce More Stable Macroelements Than Microelements in Wetland Plants	147
Eco‐Evolutionary Interactions With Multiple Evolving Species Reveal Both Antagonistic and Additive Effects	138
A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence	135
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	125
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	115
Consequences of Local Conspecific Density Effects for Plant Diversity and Community Dynamics	108
Seed limitation interacts with biotic and abiotic factors to constrain novel species' impact on community biomass and richness	95
Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modelling approach	90
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	90
A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities	89
Dispersal plasticity driven by variation in fitness across species and environmental gradients	88
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Evolution of butterfly seasonal plasticity driven by climate change varies across life stages	87
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 1, January 2023	83
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Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 2, February 2023	81
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	80
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	75
The Demographic Basis of Population Growth: A 32‐Year Transient Life Table Response Experiment	75
Coefficients in Taylor's law increase with the time scale of water clarity measurements in a global suite of lakes	72
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Flexibility in coral–algal symbiosis is positively correlated with the host geographic range	64
Upscaling the effect of traits in response to drought: The relative importance of safety–efficiency and acquisitive–conservation functional axes	61
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	61
Rapid Anthropocene realignment of allometric scaling rules	61
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Decay by ectomycorrhizal fungi couples soil organic matter to nitrogen availability	53
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	53
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Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	50
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Responses of intraspecific metabolic scaling to temperature and activity differ between water‐ and air‐breathing ectothermic vertebrates	48
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	47
The role of fire in terrestrial vertebrate richness patterns	47
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Rapid evolution allows coexistence of highly divergent lineages within the same niche	45
Propagule pressure from historic U.S. plant sales explains establishment but not invasion	44
Host–pathogen interactions under pressure: A review and meta‐analysis of stress‐mediated effects on disease dynamics	44
A genetically based ecological trade‐off contributes to setting a geographic range limit	44
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	44
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	43
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	43
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Integrating sensory ecology and predator‐prey theory to understand animal responses to fire	41
Runaway evolution from male‐male competition	41
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Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants	40
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Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	40
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Minimal models provide maximally parsimonious explanations	39
The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus‐cultivar provisioning in free‐ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant	39
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	39
Plant input does not exert stronger control on topsoil carbon persistence than climate in alpine grasslands	39
Habitat covariates do not artificially cause a negative correlation between native and non‐native species richness	39
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	38
A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives	38
Hidden Causes of Variation in Offspring Reproductive Value: Negative Effects of Maternal Breeding Age on Offspring Telomere Length Persist Undiminished Across Multiple Generations	38
A Global Relationship Between Genome Size and Encoded Carbon Metabolic Strategies of Soil Bacteria	38
Community‐level prevalence of a forest pathogen, not individual‐level disease risk, declines with tree diversity	38
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	37

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Frequency‐dependent tolerance to aircraft disturbance drastically alters predicted impact on shorebirds	37
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	36
Urban Environments Promote Adaptation to Multiple Stressors	36
A Mechanistic Approach to Animal Dispersal—Quantifying Energetics and Maximum Distances	36
Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change	36
Acclimation Unifies the Scaling of Carbon Assimilation Across Climate Gradients and Levels of Organisation	35
Mismatch between bird species sensitivity and the protection of intact habitats across the Americas	35
Life, Death and Energy: What Does Nature Select?	35
Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development	35
Understanding different dominance patterns in western Amazonian forests	35
Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	35
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	34
Leaf trait network architecture shifts with species‐richness and climate across forests at continental scale	34
Intensive human land uses negatively affect vertebrate functional diversity	34
Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm	34
Pathogen transport amplifies or dilutes disease transmission depending on the host dose‐response relationship	33
Phenology and flowering overlap drive specialisation in plant–pollinator networks	33
Species trait diversity sustains multiple dietary nutrients supplied by freshwater fisheries	33
The origins of global biodiversity on land, sea and freshwater	33
Distributions of LRS in varying environments	32
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	32
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	31
A common temperature dependence of nutritional demands in ectotherms	31
Interacting global change drivers suppress a foundation tree species	31
A skewed literature: Few studies evaluate the contribution of predation‐risk effects to natural field patterns	31
Differences in the temporal scale of reproductive investment across the slow‐fast continuum in a passerine	31
The ecological causes of functional distinctiveness in communities	31
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	30
Understanding the emergence of contingent and deterministic exclusion in multispecies communities	30
Reconstructing large interaction networks from empirical time series data	30
Animal pollination increases stability of crop yield across spatial scales	30
Low‐salinity transitions drive abrupt microbial response to sea‐level change	30
Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally	29
Rapid evolution of life‐history traits in response to warming, predation and competition: A meta‐analysis	29
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	29
Nitrogen transfer between plant species with different temporal N‐demand	29
Disentangling spatiotemporal dynamics in metacommunities through a species‐patch network approach	29
Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations	29
Environmental gradients predict the ratio of environmentally acquired carotenoids to self‐synthesised pteridine pigments	29
Lianas decelerate tropical forest thinning during succession	29
Effects of size selection versus density dependence on life histories: A first experimental probe	28
Models of underlying autotrophic biomass dynamics fit to daily river ecosystem productivity estimates improve understanding of ecosystem disturbance and resilience	28
Phylogeny structures species' interactions in experimental ecological communities	28
Quality matters: Stoichiometry of resources modulates spatial feedbacks in aquatic‐terrestrial meta‐ecosystems	28
Insect and plant invasions follow two waves of globalisation	28
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Interplay of population size and environmental fluctuations: A new explanation for fitness cost rarity in asexuals	28
Eco‐evolutionary drivers of avian migratory connectivity	27
Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence	27
Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants	27
Life history adaptations to fluctuating environments: Combined effects of demographic buffering and lability	27
Successional syndromes of saplings in tropical secondary forests emerge from environment‐dependent trait–demography relationships	27
Predator‐driven behavioural shifts in a common lizard shape resource‐flow from marine to terrestrial ecosystems	27
Addressing the Eltonian shortfall with trait‐based interaction models	26
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	26
Tree diversity enhances predation by birds but not by arthropods across climate gradients	26
Environmental and anthropogenic constraints on animal space use drive extinction risk worldwide	26
Phenotypic plasticity is aligned with phenological adaptation on both micro‐ and macroevolutionary timescales	26
Sex roles in birds: Phylogenetic analyses of the influence of climate, life histories and social environment	26
Duration and variability of spring green‐up mediate population consequences of climate change	26
Factors controlling the effects of mutualistic bacteria on plants associated with fungi	25
Global plant‐frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history	25
Higher‐order species interactions cause time‐dependent niche and fitness differences: Experimental evidence in plant‐feeding arthropods	25
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	25
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	25
Getting the bugs out of AI: Advancing ecological research on arthropods through computer vision	25
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	25
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit plants in response to major global change factors	25
The hidden role of multi‐trophic interactions in driving diversity–productivity relationships	24
A trait‐based approach to assess niche overlap and functional distinctiveness between non‐indigenous and native species	24
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Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	24
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	24
Mast seeding in European beech (Fagus sylvaticaL.) is associated with reduced fungal sporocarp production and community diversity	24
Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?	24
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	23
Soil biota diversity and plant diversity both contributed to ecosystem stability in grasslands	23
Intraspecific variation in plant‐associated herbivore communities is phylogenetically structured in Brassicaceae	23
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	23

Past and future effects of climate on the metapopulation dynamics of a Northeast Atlantic seabird across two centuries	23
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	23
Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	22
Warming of experimental plant–pollinator communities advances phenologies, alters traits, reduces interactions and depresses reproduction	22
Humidity – The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease	22
Predicting the fine‐scale spatial distribution of zoonotic reservoirs using computer vision	22
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Climate‐driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species’ distributions	22
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	21
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	21
Partitioning the biodiversity effects on productivity into density and size components	21
An Experimental Validation Test of Ecological Coexistence Theory to Forecast Extinction Under Rising Temperatures	21
Effects of phenotypic variation on consumer coexistence and prey community structure	21
Environmental Variability Shapes Life History of the World's Birds	20
Effect of mutation supply on population dynamics and trait evolution in an experimental microbial community	20
The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates	20
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	20
Plant Species Better Adapted to Climate Change Need Agricultural Extensification to Persist	20
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	20
Changes in Plant Biomass Are Driven by Persisting Plant Species, but Species Gains Drive Nematode Carbon Dynamics	20
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	20
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	20
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	20
Nitrogen enrichment alters multiple dimensions of grassland functional stability via changing compositional stability	20
Masting and Efficient Production of Seedlings: Balancing Costs of Variation Through Synchronised Fruiting	20
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	19
Consistent physiological, ecological and evolutionary effects of fire regime on conservative leaf economics strategies in plant communities	19
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Avoiding artifacts when varying the number of species in ecological models	19
Evolutionary double suicide in symbiotic systems	19
Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events	19
Engaging the next generation of editorial talent through a hands‐on fellowship model	19
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PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	19
Continuous Abrupt Vegetation Shifts in the Global Terrestrial Ecosystem	18
The role of plasticity and stochasticity in coexistence	18
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	18
Reconciling Variability in Multiple Stressor Effects Using Environmental Performance Curves	18
A Functional Response in Resource Selection Links Multiscale Responses of a Large Carnivore to Human Mortality Risk	18
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Pollination Across the Diel Cycle: A Global Meta‐Analysis	18
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	18
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	18
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The better, the choosier: A meta‐analysis on interindividual variation of male mate choice	17
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	17
Multi‐generation genetic contributions of immigrants reveal cryptic elevated and sex‐biased effective gene flow within a natural meta‐population	17
The anthropocene biogeography of alien birds on islands: Drivers of their functional and phylogenetic diversities	17
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Towards a mechanistic understanding of variation in aquatic food chain length	17
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	17
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	17
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Non‐random interactions within and across guilds shape the potential to coexist in multi‐trophic ecological communities	17
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Urban socioeconomic variation influences the ecology and evolution of trophic interactions	16
Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of angiosperm sexual systems	16
Defining null expectations for animal site fidelity	16
Seed banks alter metacommunity diversity: The interactive effects of competition, dispersal and dormancy	16
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Environmental quality mediates the ecological dominance of cooperatively breeding birds	16
Field‐realistic neonicotinoid exposure has sub‐lethal effects on non‐Apis bees: A meta‐analysis	16
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	16
The eco‐evolutionary risks of not changing seed provenancing practices in changing environments	16
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Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance	16
Climate change impacts on seabirds and marine mammals: The importance of study duration, thermal tolerance and generation time	16
On the evolution of fish–coral interactions	16
Response to Comment on ‘Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales’	16
Foraging rates from metabarcoding: Predators have reduced functional responses in wild, diverse prey communities	15
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	15
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Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation	15
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	15
Process‐Informed Neural Networks: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Improve Predictive Performance and Inference of Neural Networks in Ecology and Beyond	15
How collectively integrated are ecological communities?	15
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Reciprocal inhibition and competitive hierarchy cause negative biodiversity‐ecosystem function relationships	15
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