Ecology Letters

Article	Citations
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Cover Image	146
Issue Information	144
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Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	127
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	127
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	126
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	124
Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought	121
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	100
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	92
Neighbourhood Tree Competition Promotes Microbial Diversity in Phyllosphere	92
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	90
SEED : A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	83
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	80
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	77
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Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	69
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	68
Drivers of Viral Prevalence in Landscape‐Scale Pollinator Networks Across Europe: Honey Bee Viral Density, Niche Overlap With This Reservoir Host and Network Architecture	68
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	66
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	65
Accounting for the Influence of Community Turnover Along Environmental Gradients on Compositional Uniqueness	64
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	64
Recent and Rapid Assembly of an Island Species–Area Relationship Threatened by Human Disturbance	62

Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	62
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	59
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments	59
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	57
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	57
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	57
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Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	55
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	55
Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change	55
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	53
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How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	50
Corrigendum	50
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	49
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	48
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	48
Correction to ‘Biodiversity Modulates the Cross‐Community Scaling Relationship in Changing Environments’	48
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	47
Multispecies Coexistence Emerges From Pairwise Exclusions in Communities With Competitive Hierarchy	47
Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	47
Evolution in Response to an Abiotic Stress Shapes Species Coexistence	47
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	45
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	45
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	44
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Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	42
Elevated CO 2 and N Gradually Weaken the Influence of Diversity on Ecosy	42
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	40
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	40
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	39
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	38
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	37
Negative Frequency‐Dependent Selection Promotes Strain Structure in a Plant Pathogen	37
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	37
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	36
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	36
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	36
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	36
Beyond Habitat: Memory Versus Environment in Shaping Animal Space Use	35
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	35
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	34
Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude	34
Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	34
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	34
RETRACTED: Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	33
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	33
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	33
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	33
Spatial Portfolios in Coral Metapopulations Are Shaped by Spatiotemporal Asynchrony in Environmental Conditions	33

Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	33
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	32
Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	32
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Plant Invasion Decreases the Likelihood of Community Persistence Through Asymmetric Competition	31
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	31
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	31
The Roles of Space and Food‐Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery	31
Issue Information	30
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	30
Chronic Heat Tolerance Reveals Overestimated Thermal Safety Margins and Increased Vulnerability in Marine Fish Populations	30
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	30
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	30
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	29
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	29
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	29
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	29
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	29
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	29
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	29
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	29
Correction to ‘Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea’	28
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	28
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	28
Non‐Correlated Variation of Leaf and Fine Root Traits in Subtropical Forest Plants	28
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	28
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	27
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	27
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	27
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	27
Geographic, Taxonomic and Metric Gaps in Biodiversity Research Limit Evidence‐Based Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: An Umbrella Review	27
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	27
Plant Functional Traits and Vegetation Structure Explain Pollination Networks at Scale	27
Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear	27
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA !	26
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	26
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	26
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	26
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Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	26
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	26
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	26
Experimental Evidence for the Desynchronization of Ecosystem Dynamics by Global Change	26
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	26
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	25
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	25
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	25
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	25
Density Dependence During Evolutionary Rescue Increases Extinction Risk but Does Not Prevent Adaptation	25
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	25
Detection of Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Communities Using Joint Species Distribution Models	25
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	25
Plant Genome Size Mediates Species and Community Responses to Precipitation Change and Nitrogen Enrichment in Grasslands	25
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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	24
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	24
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	24
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	24
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	24
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Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	24
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	24
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	24
Genetic Diversity Impacts Climate‐Induced Species Range Shifts	24
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	23
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	23
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	23
Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	23
Four ways to define the growing season	23
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	23
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	23
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis	23
RETRACTION: Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	22
modelRxiv : A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	22
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	22
Macroevolution of Steep Interspecific Metabolic Allometry in an Old Insect Order	22
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	22
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	22
Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure	22
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	22

MoveTraits —A Database for Integrating Animal Behaviour Into Trait‐Based Ecology	22
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Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	21
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A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	21
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	21
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 7, July 2023	21
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	21
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	21
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Converting and Constructing Effect Sizes With the Response Ratio	20
Correction to ‘Partitioning Net Biodiversity Effects on Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience’	20
The Equilibrium Conundrum	20
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	20
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea	20
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	20
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	20
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	20
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	20
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	20
No Refuge at the Edge for European Beech as Climate Warming Disproportionately Reduces Masting at Colder Margins	20
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	20
Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species	20
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	20
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	20
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	20
Biodiversity Consistently Promotes Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Multiple Temporal Scales in an Aquatic Microbial Community	20
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	19
Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	19
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	19
No Evidence for Pace of Life Evolution Along Elevational Gradients in Squamate Reptiles	19
Contrasting 50‐Year Trends of Moth Communities Depending on Elevation and Species Traits	19
Sequential Thresholds Shape Drylands' Multitrophic Response to Aridification	19
Artificial Light at Night Consistently Impacts Avian Physiology and Behaviour: A Meta‐Analysis	19
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	19
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	19
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can	19
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	19
Fluctuating Growth Rates Link Turnover and Unevenness in Species‐Rich Communities	19
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Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	18
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	18
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	18
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Integrating Physiological Rates of Thermal Stress and Repair Predicts Heat Failure During Temperature Fluctuations	18
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The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	18
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	18
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
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Responses of African Savanna Trees to Large Herbivore Extinction and Rewilding	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	18
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	18
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	17
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	17
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	17
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Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	17
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	17
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Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	17
The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling	17
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	17
Plant Competitive Balance and Intransitivity Shape Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Grasslands Under Drought	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 Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	16
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Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	16
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	16
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	16
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally	16
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	16
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	16
Tree Species Diversity Suppresses Soil Carbon Priming Effects in a Subtropical Forest	16
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	16
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Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	16
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	16
Temperature Variability Has Limited Effects on Phenotypic Plasticity in Ectotherms—A Meta‐Analysis	15
Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period	15
Six Decades of Losses and Gains in Alpha Diversity of European Plant Communities	15
Linking pollen limitation and seed dispersal effectiveness	15
Eco‐evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: The role of timescales and rate modulators	15
The Effect of Temperature Variability on Biological Responses of Ectothermic Animals—A Meta‐Analysis	15
Leaf Shelters Facilitate the Colonisation of Arthropods and Enhance Microbial Diversity on Plants	15
Marine Heatwaves Transform Coral Symbioses With Enduring Effects	15
Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	15
The Range‐Resident Logistic Model: A New Framework to Formalise the Population‐Dynamics Consequences of Range Residency	15
Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas	15
The second life of terrestrial and plastic carbon as nutritionally valuable food for aquatic consumers	15
Synthesis of Nature's Extravaganza: An Augmented Meta‐Meta‐Analysis on (Putative) Sexual Signals	15