Ecology Letters

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Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	112
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	108
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	108
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	106
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	103
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	103
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	99
Recent and Rapid Assembly of an Island Species–Area Relationship Threatened by Human Disturbance	98
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	95
SEED : A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	93
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	89
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	87
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	81
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	75
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	74
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	74
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	71
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	69
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	66
Neighbourhood Tree Competition Promotes Microbial Diversity in Phyllosphere	65

Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	63
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Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	59
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	58
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	58
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	56
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	55
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments	54
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	53
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	52
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	51
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	50
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	50
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	50
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	50
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	50
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	50
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	48
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	48
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	48
Issue Information	48
Correction to ‘Biodiversity Modulates the Cross‐Community Scaling Relationship in Changing Environments’	47
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	46
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	46
Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	46
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Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	44
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	43
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	43
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	42
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	42
Elevated CO 2 and N Gradually Weaken the Influence of Diversity on Ecosy	42
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	42
The functional form of specialised predation affects whether Janzen–Connell effects can prevent competitive exclusion	41
Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude	41
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	40
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	40
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	40
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	40
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	40
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	39
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	39
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	39
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	39
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	38
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	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
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	37

Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	37
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	36
Multispecies Coexistence Emerges From Pairwise Exclusions in Communities With Competitive Hierarchy	36
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	35
Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	35
Beyond Habitat: Memory Versus Environment in Shaping Animal Space Use	35
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 4, April 2022	34
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	34
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Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	33
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
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	32
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	32
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	31
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	31
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	31
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	31
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	30
Geographic, Taxonomic and Metric Gaps in Biodiversity Research Limit Evidence‐Based Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: An Umbrella Review	30
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Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	30
Chronic Heat Tolerance Reveals Overestimated Thermal Safety Margins and Increased Vulnerability in Marine Fish Populations	29
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	29
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	28
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	28
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	28
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	28
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	28
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	28
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	28
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	27
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	27
The Roles of Space and Food‐Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery	27
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	27
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A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	27
Plant Invasion Decreases the Likelihood of Community Persistence Through Asymmetric Competition	27
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	27
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	26
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	26
Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	26
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	26
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	26
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	26
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	25
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	25
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	25
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	25
Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity	25
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	25
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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	24
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	24
Experimental Evidence for the Desynchronization of Ecosystem Dynamics by Global Change	24
Plant Genome Size Mediates Species and Community Responses to Precipitation Change and Nitrogen Enrichment in Grasslands	24
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA !	24
Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	24
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	23
Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure	23
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	23
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The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	23
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	23
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	23
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	23
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
modelRxiv : A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	23
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	22
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	22
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	22
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	22
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	22
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis	22
Four ways to define the growing season	22
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	22
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	22

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Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	22
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Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	21
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	21
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Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	21
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	21
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	21
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	21
Pathogen transport amplifies or dilutes disease transmission depending on the host dose‐response relationship	21
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	20
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	20
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	20
A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives	20
Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species	20
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	20
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	20
Biodiversity Consistently Promotes Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Multiple Temporal Scales in an Aquatic Microbial Community	20
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	20
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	20
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	20
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	20
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	20
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	20
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Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	19
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	19
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	19
A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science	19
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	19
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	19
The Equilibrium Conundrum	19
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	19
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	19
Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events	19
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	18
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	18
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	18
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	18
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can	18
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	18
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	18
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	18
Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	17
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The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	17
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	17
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	17
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	17
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	17
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	17
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation	17
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Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	17
Sequential Thresholds Shape Drylands' Multitrophic Response to Aridification	17
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	17
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	17
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	17
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	17
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Contrasting 50‐Year Trends of Moth Communities Depending on Elevation and Species Traits	17
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	17
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	17
Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free‐living ruminant population	17
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally	16
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	16
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Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	16
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	16
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	16
Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees	16
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Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability	16
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	16
Dietary abundance distributions: Dominance and diversity in vertebrate diets	16
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	16
Competition for water and species coexistence in phenologically structured annual plant communities	16
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Synthesis of Nature's Extravaganza: An Augmented Meta‐Meta‐Analysis on (Putative) Sexual Signals	16
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	16
Corrigendum to ‘A Non‐Equilibrium Species Distribution Model Reveals Unprecedented Depth of Time Lag Responses to Past Environmental Change Trajectories’	15
Correction to “Causal Effects Versus Causal Mechanisms: Two Traditions With Different Requirements and Contributions Towards Causal Understanding”	15
Linking pollen limitation and seed dispersal effectiveness	15
Six Decades of Losses and Gains in Alpha Diversity of European Plant Communities	15
Temperature Variability Has Limited Effects on Phenotypic Plasticity in Ectotherms—A Meta‐Analysis	15
Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change	15
Marine Heatwaves Transform Coral Symbioses With Enduring Effects	15
Impact of climate warming on phenological asynchrony of plankton dynamics across Europe	15
The gut microbiome reflects ancestry despite dietary shifts across a hybrid zone	15