Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)98
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications95
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems94
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna92
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition92
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity83
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment76
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis75
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas74
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates71
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities71
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity69
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe61
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa60
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities59
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents58
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures55
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients55
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data55
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour54
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models54
Convergent patterns of body size variation in distinct parasite taxa with convergent life cycles53
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale53
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Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season47
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Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate46
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems45
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA45
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia44
Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N2O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming43
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators43
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires42
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach41
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration41
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model41
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data41
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions40
tinyVAST: R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Temporal Models39
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions38
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China38
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)37
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Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all36
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Reduced habitat suitability and landscape connectivity in a songbird migratory divide35
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Stronger niche than dispersal effects on α‐ and β‐diversity of stream algae, insects, and fish across latitudes in the United States34
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Surface chlorophyll concentration as a mesoplankton biomass assessment tool in the Southern Ocean region34
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue33
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments33
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates32
Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores32
Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity32
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region31
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns31
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change31
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Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning31
Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance31
Ecological traits underlying interspecific variation in climate matching of birds30
Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil30
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean30
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes29
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes29
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database28
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups28
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms28
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds28
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants27
Origin of the tropical–polar biodiversity contrast27
Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes27
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs27
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms26
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals26
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model26
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A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire25
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island25
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Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models25
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens24
Elevational diversity patterns of rodents differ between wet and arid mountains24
Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire24
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in tropical ecosystems following fire24
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies23
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover23
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals23
The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude23
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule23
What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis22
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography22
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus22
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances22
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Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities21
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe21
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds21
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information21
Parasite species richness and host range are not spatially conserved21
Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography21
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’21
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates20
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)20
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data20
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Global Enhancers and Constraints of Alien Range Size in Mammals: The Roles of Species Attributes, Invasion History and Ecological Contexts20
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate19
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments19
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity19
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data19
Soil Depth Matters: Divergent Drivers of Ecosystem Productivity in Alpine Ecosystems19
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns19
Nitrogen Availability Regulates Tree Mixture Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Forests: Insights From a Meta‐Analysis and Long‐Term Experiment19
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research19
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation19
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Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression18
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Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally17
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon17
Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis17
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review17
The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects17
Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families17
A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species17
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation17
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison17
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity17
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not17
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change16
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies16
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Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests16
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Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient16
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A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment16
Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems16
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration15
Warming Enhances the Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota: A Global Meta‐Analysis15
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models15
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere15
A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States15
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Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails15
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests15
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity15
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?15
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?15
Lianas and trees exhibit divergent intrinsic water‐use efficiency along elevational gradients in South American and African tropical forests15
Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds15
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide15
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores15
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen14
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Diet influences latitudinal gradients in life‐history traits, but not reproductive output, in ectotherms14
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use14
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies14
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A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones14
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America14
Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America14
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Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle14
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally14
Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
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Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China13
EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)13
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods13
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?13
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Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’13
Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest13
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks13
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees13
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region13
The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region13
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe13
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales13
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Evaluating expert‐based habitat suitability information of terrestrial mammals with GPS‐tracking data12
Phenology Across Scales: An Intercontinental Analysis of Leaf‐Out Dates in Temperate Deciduous Tree Communities12
Global patterns and drivers of raptor phylogenetic and functional diversity12
Range and extinction dynamics of the steppe bison in Siberia: A pattern‐oriented modelling approach12
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Traits, Threats, and Popularity Explain Extinction Risk of Birds Globally12
Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change12
Compound impact of land use and extreme climate on the 2020 fire record of the Brazilian Pantanal12
Dispersal Limitation Governs Bacterial Community Assembly in the Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) at the Continental Scale12
Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies12
Uncertainty analysis of multiple terrestrial gross primary productivity products12
Remote sensing biodiversity monitoring in Latin America: Emerging need for sustained local research and regional collaboration to achieve global goals12
EstablishMed, a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region12
Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate12
Spatial Variation in Upper Limits of Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef11
Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Exhibit Thermal Response Thresholds at Which Carbon–Climate Feedback Changes11
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Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data11
Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data11
Global leaf‐trait mapping based on optimality theory11
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Tropicalization of temperate reef fish communities facilitated by urchin grazing and diversity of thermal affinities11
A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems11
Forest Productivity Decreases in Response to Recent Changes in Vegetation Structure and Climate in the Latitudinal Extremes of the European Continent11
A New Dawn for Protist Biogeography11
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales11
The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds11
Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates11
Disentangling thermal from alternative drivers of reflectance in jewel beetles: A macroecological study11
Regional species gains outpace losses across North American continental shelf regions11
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China11
Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present11
Hydraulic adaptability promotes tree life spans under climate dryness11
The role of refuges in biological invasions: A systematic review11
Contrasting global patterns and trait controls of major mineral elements in leaf11
Biodiversity Within and Beyond the Native Distribution of Tree Species: The Case of Pinus nigra Forests in Europe11
Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales10
Geographical trends of soil‐associated biodiversity changes due to tree plantations in South America: Biome and climate constraints revealed through meta‐analysis10
Macroevolutionary Patterns of Phytochemical Diversity in a Macaronesian Archipelago10
‘Megafire’—You May Not Like It, But You Cannot Avoid It10
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Completing the Speciation Cycle: Ecological Niches and Traits Predict Local Species Coexistence in Birds Across the Globe10
Fine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Patterns10
Increased frequency of extreme climatic events weakens the community stability of natural grassland under directional climate changes by reducing resilience10
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Population‐Level Habitat Breadth Varies With Richness in Reef Fishes10
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network10
Bird lineages colonizing urban habitats have diversified at high rates across deep time10
Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in the distribution of genetic diversity of marine forests at the global scale10
Pre‐adaptation and adaptation shape trait‐environment matching in the Neotropics10
The Erosion of Seasonality in Avian Communities10
Correction to EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks10
Disturbance indicator values for European plants10
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