Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates79
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)78
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition75
Future Climate and Land Use Change Will Equally Impact Global Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity73
Plant and Soil Function Increase With Larger and Older Coarse Woody Debris72
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities70
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents67
The Performance and Potential of Deep Learning for Predicting Species Distributions64
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity63
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis61
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa58
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe58
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions55
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities55
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity53
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas51
Consequences of the Megafauna Extinction: Changes in Food Web Networks on the Edwards Plateau Across the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition46
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data44
Micro‐Refuges or Ecological Traps: Context‐Dependent Effects of Rock Pools on Intertidal Biodiversity Across Latitudes44
tinyVAST : R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Te43
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia42
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Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate41
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients41
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions40
Joint Influence of Seed Dormancy and Dispersal Syndrome on Dispersal Distance and Range Size Across Two Climate Regions39
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Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N2O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming38
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators37
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data37
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models37
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions37
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Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China35
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale35
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model34
Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores33
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Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour33
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Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach33
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change32
Latitudinal Beta‐Diversity Gradient of Riverine Macroinvertebrate: Interplays of Climatic and Land Use Factors32
Correction to "Dispersal, Climate Anomaly and Contemporary Climate Shape the Latitudinal Patterns of β‐Diversity of Angiosperm Trees"31
Size‐Based Effects of Anthropogenic Pressures and Elephant Activity on Tropical Forest Carbon Stocks31
Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance31
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Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates30
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean30
Correction to Cold and Dark Captivity: Drivers of Amphibian Longevity30
Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all30
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning30
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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 States29
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue29
GNNSDM : A Graph Neural Network‐Based Framework Integrating Complex Landscape Patterns Into Species Distribution Mo29
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands28
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns28
Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity28
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals27
Native and Alien Ungulates in North America: Potential for Restoring Herbivore Diversity and Functions27
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs26
Human Footprint Halves Tail Loss Rates in Geckos Worldwide26
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes26
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups26
A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire26
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes25
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds25
Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties24
Two Decades of Community Responses Reveal a Consistent Increase in Species Occurrences in South‐Eastern Pacific Rocky Shores24
The Interplay of Climate Change, Urbanisation, and Species Traits Shapes European Butterfly Population Trends23
Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models23
Variation in Environmental Conditions and Biodiversity Between Contrasting Intertidal Habitats Across Multiple Spatial Scales on European Rocky Shores22
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms22
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model22
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What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis21
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals21
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies21
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule21
Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire21
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances21
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens20
The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude20
Global Enhancers and Constraints of Alien Range Size in Mammals: The Roles of Species Attributes, Invasion History and Ecological Contexts20
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Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography20
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)20
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Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus20
Soil Depth Matters: Divergent Drivers of Ecosystem Productivity in Alpine Ecosystems20
Plant Trait Matching Occurs in Facilitative Interactions Across Global Drylands20
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation20
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments19
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns19
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity19
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Nitrogen Availability Regulates Tree Mixture Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Forests: Insights From a Meta‐Analysis and Long‐Term Experiment19
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information19
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates19
Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography19
Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities19
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds18
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’18
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Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data18
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Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate18
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data18
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Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research18
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not17
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Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient17
Warm or Dry Springs (Still) Boost the Reproduction of Most Temperate Songbirds17
A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species17
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The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon17
High‐Integrity Forests Are Critical for Forest Specialist Birds17
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Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families16
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison16
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies16
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests16
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation16
Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis16
Correction to “The Interplay of Climate Change, Urbanisation, and Species Traits Shapes European Butterfly Population Trends”16
A Bias‐Robust Framework for Quantifying Community Responses to the Climate Change Using the Occurrence Data16
The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects16
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review16
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change16
Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems15
Contrasting Drivers of Genetic Diversity in Plants Across Previously Glaciated Northern Hemisphere Landscapes15
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The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes15
Warming Enhances the Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota: A Global Meta‐Analysis15
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LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States14
Macroevolutionary Processes Driving the Asymmetric Latitudinal Diversity Pattern of Polyplacophorans Along the Eastern Pacific Coast14
Large‐Bodied and Wide‐Beaked Avian Frugivores Show Greater Specialisation in Tropical Seed Dispersal Networks14
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The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies14
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen14
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere14
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores14
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails14
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?14
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide14
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle13
Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
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
Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’13
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use13
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration13
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones13
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?13
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales13
Global Patterns and Determinants of Multiple Facets of Freshwater Fishes Beta Diversity13
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Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China13
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally12
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Variation in Ectotherm Thermal Tolerances With Elevation and Temperature Across Biological Scales12
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees12
Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America12
High‐Quality Human Activity Intensity Maps in China From 2000 to 202012
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods12
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Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them12
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks12
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region12
Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest12
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EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)12
Novel Estimates of Bird Migration Traffic at the Continental Scale Using Participatory Science Data12
Phenology Across Scales: An Intercontinental Analysis of Leaf‐Out Dates in Temperate Deciduous Tree Communities11
Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies11
The Increased Effect of Spring Leaf Unfolding on Autumn Senescence in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres11
Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change11
Range and extinction dynamics of the steppe bison in Siberia: A pattern‐oriented modelling approach11
EstablishMed, a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region11
Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates11
Global patterns and drivers of raptor phylogenetic and functional diversity11
Urbanisation Is Related to the Prevalence of Threatened Species on Islands Across the Globe11
Global leaf‐trait mapping based on optimality theory11
The role of refuges in biological invasions: A systematic review11
Dispersal Limitation Governs Bacterial Community Assembly in the Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) at the Continental Scale11
Uncertainty analysis of multiple terrestrial gross primary productivity products10
Contrasting global patterns and trait controls of major mineral elements in leaf10
Biotic Velocity Identifies Potential Climate Refugia Beyond Climate Velocity Estimates10
Completing the Speciation Cycle: Ecological Niches and Traits Predict Local Species Coexistence in Birds Across the Globe10
Traits, Threats, and Popularity Explain Extinction Risk of Birds Globally10
The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds10
Spatial Variation in Upper Limits of Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef10
Bird lineages colonizing urban habitats have diversified at high rates across deep time10
Beyond the Highlands: Climate Drives Evolutionary Connections Between Ancient Neotropical Mountains and Lowland Biomes10
Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present10
Contemporizing island biogeography theory with anthropogenic drivers of species richness10
Realm Specific Adaptations Lead to Contrasting Global Patterns in Submerged and Emergent Aquatic Plant Height10
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Remote sensing biodiversity monitoring in Latin America: Emerging need for sustained local research and regional collaboration to achieve global goals10
Fine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Patterns10
Large‐Scale Variation in Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) Relationships in Aquatic Metacommunities on Terrestrial Islands10
Disentangling thermal from alternative drivers of reflectance in jewel beetles: A macroecological study10
Compound impact of land use and extreme climate on the 2020 fire record of the Brazilian Pantanal10
Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data10
A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems9
A New Dawn for Protist Biogeography9
Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales9
Forest Productivity Decreases in Response to Recent Changes in Vegetation Structure and Climate in the Latitudinal Extremes of the European Continent9
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Population‐Level Habitat Breadth Varies With Richness in Reef Fishes9
Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in the distribution of genetic diversity of marine forests at the global scale9
Biodiversity Within and Beyond the Native Distribution of Tree Species: The Case of Pinus nigra Forests in Europe9
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China9
Climate‐Driven Morphological Variation in Passerine Birds9
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Geographical trends of soil‐associated biodiversity changes due to tree plantations in South America: Biome and climate constraints revealed through meta‐analysis9
Increased frequency of extreme climatic events weakens the community stability of natural grassland under directional climate changes by reducing resilience9
Regional species gains outpace losses across North American continental shelf regions9
Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems9
Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Exhibit Thermal Response Thresholds at Which Carbon–Climate Feedback Changes9
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Correction to EuPPollNet : A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks9
A Global Synthesis Suggests Ectomycorrhizal and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Woody Plants Experience Contrasting Plant–Soil Feedbacks9
No strong evidence that modularity, specialization or nestedness are linked to seasonal climatic variability in bipartite networks8
Arctic Migrations Shape Global Meta‐Communities: Contrasting Insights From Species Occurrence, Abundance and Biomass8
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss8
Correction to “Global patterns and predictors of avian population density”8
The Extinction Risk–Range Change Relationship: Evidence From the Fossil Record8
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Spatial Autocorrelation of Species Diversity and Distributions in Time and Across Spatial Scales8
CoralBleachRisk—Global Projections of Coral Bleaching Risk in the 21st Century8
Three major mesoplanktonic communities resolved by in situ imaging in the upper 500 m of the global ocean8
Correction to “Higher Sensitivity of Deep Soil Root Productivity to Precipitation Changes”8
Earthquake disturbance shifts metabolic energy use and partitioning in a monodominant forest8
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