Ecology Letters

Article	Citations
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Cover Image	164
Issue Information	151
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	147
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	146
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Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	137
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	136
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	107
Recent and Rapid Assembly of an Island Species–Area Relationship Threatened by Human Disturbance	99
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	95
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	93
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	89
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	87
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	83
SEED : A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	76
Accounting for the Influence of Community Turnover Along Environmental Gradients on Compositional Uniqueness	74
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	72
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	70
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	68
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	68
Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought	68
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	67
Drivers of Viral Prevalence in Landscape‐Scale Pollinator Networks Across Europe: Honey Bee Viral Density, Niche Overlap With This Reservoir Host and Network Architecture	67
Neighbourhood Tree Competition Promotes Microbial Diversity in Phyllosphere	63

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments	62
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Corrigendum	60
Issue Information	60
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	60
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	59
Correction to ‘Biodiversity Modulates the Cross‐Community Scaling Relationship in Changing Environments’	58
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	57
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	56
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	54
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	53
Evolution in Response to an Abiotic Stress Shapes Species Coexistence	52
Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change	51
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	51
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	49
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	48
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	47
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	45
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	44
Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	43
RETRACTED: Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	43
Beyond Habitat: Memory Versus Environment in Shaping Animal Space Use	43
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	41
Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	41
Spatial Portfolios in Coral Metapopulations Are Shaped by Spatiotemporal Asynchrony in Environmental Conditions	41
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	41
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	41
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Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	40
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	39
Negative Frequency‐Dependent Selection Promotes Strain Structure in a Plant Pathogen	39
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	38
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	38
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	38
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	37
Elevated CO 2 and N Gradually Weaken the Influence of Diversity on Ecosy	37
Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	37
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	37
Multispecies Coexistence Emerges From Pairwise Exclusions in Communities With Competitive Hierarchy	37
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	36
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	36
Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude	35
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	35
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	35
Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	34
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	34
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	34
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	34
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	34
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Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	33
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	33
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Geographic, Taxonomic and Metric Gaps in Biodiversity Research Limit Evidence‐Based Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: An Umbrella Review	32
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	32
The Roles of Space and Food‐Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery	32
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	32
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	31
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	31
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	31
Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear	31
Plant Functional Traits and Vegetation Structure Explain Pollination Networks at Scale	31
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	31
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	30
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	30
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	30
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	30
Plant Invasion Decreases the Likelihood of Community Persistence Through Asymmetric Competition	30
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	30
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	30
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
Chronic Heat Tolerance Reveals Overestimated Thermal Safety Margins and Increased Vulnerability in Marine Fish Populations	29
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	29
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	29
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	28
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	28
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	28
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	28
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	28
Correction to ‘Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea’	28
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	27
Plant Genome Size Mediates Species and Community Responses to Precipitation Change and Nitrogen Enrichment in Grasslands	27
Density Dependence During Evolutionary Rescue Increases Extinction Risk but Does Not Prevent Adaptation	27
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	27
Non‐Correlated Variation of Leaf and Fine Root Traits in Subtropical Forest Plants	27
Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	27
Detection of Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Communities Using Joint Species Distribution Models	27
Experimental Evidence for the Desynchronization of Ecosystem Dynamics by Global Change	27
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	27
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	27
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Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	27
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	26
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	26
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	26
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA !	26
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	26
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	26
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	26
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	26
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Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	25
modelRxiv : A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	25
RETRACTION: Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	25
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	25
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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	25
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	25
Genetic Diversity Impacts Climate‐Induced Species Range Shifts	25
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	25
Macroevolution of Steep Interspecific Metabolic Allometry in an Old Insect Order	25
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	25
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	24
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	24
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	24
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	24
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	24
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis	24
MoveTraits —A Database for Integrating Animal Behaviour Into Trait‐Based Ecology	24
Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	24
Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure	24
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Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	23
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Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	23
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 7, July 2023	23
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	23
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	23

Four ways to define the growing season	23
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	22
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	22
The Equilibrium Conundrum	22
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	22
Issue Information	22
Correction to ‘Partitioning Net Biodiversity Effects on Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience’	22
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	22
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	21
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
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	21
Biodiversity Consistently Promotes Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Multiple Temporal Scales in an Aquatic Microbial Community	21
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea	21
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	21
Converting and Constructing Effect Sizes With the Response Ratio	21
Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species	21
No Refuge at the Edge for European Beech as Climate Warming Disproportionately Reduces Masting at Colder Margins	21
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	20
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	20
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	20
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Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	20
Fluctuating Growth Rates Link Turnover and Unevenness in Species‐Rich Communities	20
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	20
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	20
Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	20
Sequential Thresholds Shape Drylands' Multitrophic Response to Aridification	20
No Evidence for Pace of Life Evolution Along Elevational Gradients in Squamate Reptiles	20
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	20
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	20
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Responses of African Savanna Trees to Large Herbivore Extinction and Rewilding	20
Contrasting 50‐Year Trends of Moth Communities Depending on Elevation and Species Traits	19
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	19
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	19
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	19
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	19
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	19
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can	19
Artificial Light at Night Consistently Impacts Avian Physiology and Behaviour: A Meta‐Analysis	19
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	19
Niche types and community assembly	19
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	19
Integrating Physiological Rates of Thermal Stress and Repair Predicts Heat Failure During Temperature Fluctuations	19
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	19
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The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	18
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	18
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	18
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Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	18
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Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	18
Towards Key Principles of Host‐Associated Microbiome Assembly	18
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	18
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Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	18
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	18
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	18
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	18
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	18
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The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling	18
Plant Competitive Balance and Intransitivity Shape Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Grasslands Under Drought	18
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally	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
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Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	17
Tree Species Diversity Suppresses Soil Carbon Priming Effects in a Subtropical Forest	17
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	17
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	17
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Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	17
Lucky To Be Alive, Luckier to Breed: Lifetime Reproduction in Weddell Seals	17
Three‐Dimensional Correlated Random Walks for Animal Movement and Habitat Selection	17
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	17
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	17
Six Decades of Losses and Gains in Alpha Diversity of European Plant Communities	16
Eco‐evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: The role of timescales and rate modulators	16
Phylogenomic Evidence of Fire Regime Changes: The Case of a Resprouting Juniper	16
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Correction to “Causal Effects Versus Causal Mechanisms: Two Traditions With Different Requirements and Contributions Towards Causal Understanding”	16
Leaf Shelters Facilitate the Colonisation of Arthropods and Enhance Microbial Diversity on Plants	16
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Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	16
Temperature Variability Has Limited Effects on Phenotypic Plasticity in Ectotherms—A Meta‐Analysis	16
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Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period	16
The Range‐Resident Logistic Model: A New Framework to Formalise the Population‐Dynamics Consequences of Range Residency	16
The second life of terrestrial and plastic carbon as nutritionally valuable food for aquatic consumers	16
Corrigendum to ‘A Non‐Equilibrium Species Distribution Model Reveals Unprecedented Depth of Time Lag Responses to Past Environmental Change Trajectories’	16
Synthesis of Nature's Extravaganza: An Augmented Meta‐Meta‐Analysis on (Putative) Sexual Signals	16
Higher‐Order Interactions Can Promote Coexistence by Rewiring Intransitivities Into Competitive Networks	15