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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species90
Land‐Use Impacts on Plant Functional Diversity Throughout Europe84
Rising Atmospheric CO2 Alleviates Drought Impact on Autumn Leaf Senescence Over Northern Mid‐High Latitudes83
The biome inventory – Standardizing global biogeographical land units83
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Biogeographic pattern of living vegetation carbon turnover time in mature forests across continents78
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects69
Three‐dimensional distribution of mesoplankton assemblages in the Central Atlantic66
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Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive—A new database of plant community composition and environmental conditions62
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Contrasting effects of host or local specialization: Widespread haemosporidians are host generalist, whereas local specialists are locally abundant61
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa54
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Phylogenetic structure of alien and native species in regional plant assemblages across China: Testing niche conservatism hypothesis versus niche convergence hypothesis53
Does island ontogeny dictate the accumulation of both species richness and functional diversity?49
Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts47
The carbon cost of the 2019–20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type47
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities46
Geometric effects of fragmentation are likely to mitigate diversity loss following habitat destruction in real‐world landscapes46
Human food use increases plant geographical ranges in the Sonoran Desert43
Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions43
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Earthquake disturbance shifts metabolic energy use and partitioning in a monodominant forest41
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition40
Increasing winter temperatures explain body size decrease in wintering bird populations of Northern Europe—But response patterns vary along the spatioclimatic gradient40
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Salinity plays a limited role in determining rates of size evolution in fishes globally across multiple scales37
Biomass and trait biogeography of cephalopods on the European and North American continental shelves37
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods37
Macroecological trend of increasing values of intraspecific genetic diversity and population structure from temperate to tropical streams37
Reinterpreting two regime shifts in North Sea plankton communities through the lens of functional traits36
Phylogenetic relatedness drives protist assembly in marine and terrestrial environments36
Human‐induced behavioural changes of global threatened terrestrial mammals35
Testing the deep‐sea glacial disturbance hypothesis as a cause of low, present‐day Norwegian Sea diversity and resulting steep latitudinal diversity gradient, using fossil records35
Wind dispersed tree species have greater maximum height35
Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning35
Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions34
Widespread latitudinal asymmetry in the performance of marginal populations: A meta‐analysis34
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Geographic context is a key driver of spatial variation of bird species richness during migration33
Regionwide temporal gradients of carbon allocation allow for shoot growth and latewood formation in boreal black spruce33
A roadmap for future research on insularity effects on plant–herbivore interactions33
Geographical variation in community‐wide herbivory matches patterns of intraspecific variation instead of species turnover33
Extreme temperatures help in identifying thresholds in phenological responses33
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation32
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents32
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe32
Evaluating models for estimating introduction rates of alien species from discovery records32
Three major mesoplanktonic communities resolved by in situ imaging in the upper 500 m of the global ocean31
Skeletal mineralogy of marine calcifying organisms shaped by seawater temperature and evolutionary history—A case study of cheilostome bryozoans31
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications31
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)31
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not30
The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall’s Cave30
Reduced climate adaptation at range edges in North American Arabidopsis lyrata30
Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally30
AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their Traits29
Border Interceptions Reveal Variable Bridgehead Use in the Global Dispersal of Insects29
Diversity of Mycorrhizal Types Along Altitudinal Gradients in the Tropical Andes28
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change27
Disentangling ecological drivers of interspecific achromatic plumage variation in birds27
Hydrothermal Conditions Modulate the Impact of Climate Extremes on Vegetation Growth in the Northern Hemisphere27
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Bioclimatic context of species' populations determines community stability27
Climate and ecosystem type affect the correlated evolution of body size and trophic position in fishes27
Climatic Predictors of Long‐Distance Migratory Birds Breeding Productivity Across Europe26
Botanic gardens play key roles in the regional distribution of first records of alien plants in China25
Taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity of freshwater fish assemblages in relationship to geographical and climatic determinants in North America25
Elevational shift in seed plant distributions in China's mountains over the last 70 years25
Higher temperature sensitivity of flowering than leaf‐out alters the time between phenophases across temperate tree species25
Trait dimensions of abiotic stress tolerance in woody plants of the Northern Hemisphere25
Correction to “Global patterns and predictors of avian population density”24
Power laws and plant trait variation in spatio‐temporally heterogeneous environments24
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Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression24
Global phylogeography of hyperdiverse lanternfishes indicates sympatric speciation in the deep sea24
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison24
Spatial genetic differentiation correlates with species assemblage turnover across tropical reef fish lineages23
Co‐occurrence of herbivorous fish functional groups correlates with enhanced coral reef benthic state23
CoralBleachRisk—Global Projections of Coral Bleaching Risk in the 21st Century23
Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific23
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Continental‐scale parameterization and prediction of leaf phenology for the North American forests22
Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling21
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity21
Hindcasted Body Temperatures Reveal Underestimated Thermal Stress Faced by Intertidal Species21
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna21
Identifying global and local drivers of change in mangrove cover and the implications for management21
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Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems20
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities20
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia20
Niche conservatism over deep timescales and diverse niche axes in land vertebrates20
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon20
Local community assembly processes shape β‐diversity of soil phoD‐harbouring communities in the Northern Hemisphere steppes20
Precipitation Steepness Drives Global Patterns of Changes in Bird Community Composition Without Major Phylogenetic Signal20
No strong evidence that modularity, specialization or nestedness are linked to seasonal climatic variability in bipartite networks20
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment20
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests20
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data19
Open habitats increase vulnerability of amphibian tadpoles to climate warming across latitude19
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies19
Asymmetric responses of terrestrial C:N:P stoichiometry to precipitation change19
Global patterns and drivers of leaf photosynthetic capacity: The relative importance of environmental factors and evolutionary history19
Niche unfilling dominates the naturalization of species from intercontinentally disjunct genera19
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review19
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures19
Why Some Habitat Types Are Locally Much More Species‐Rich Than Others: Ongoing Assembly of Species Produced by Long and Rapid Macroevolutionary Diversification19
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity19
Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families18
Restricted power: Can microorganisms maintain soil organic matter stability under warming exceeding 2 degrees?18
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment18
A global synthesis and conceptualization of the magnitude and duration of soil carbon losses in response to forest disturbances18
Demersal fish biomass declines with temperature across productive shelf seas18
Nutrients and seabird biogeography: Feather elements differ among oceanic basins in the Southern Hemisphere, reflecting bird size, foraging range and nutrient availability in seawater18
Geographical homogenization but little net change in the local richness of Canadian butterflies17
Mammalian body size evolution was shaped by habitat transitions as an indirect effect of climate change17
Local compositional change and regional stability across 3000 years of coral reef development17
The critical role of tree species and human disturbance in determining the macrofungal diversity in Europe17
A framework for quantifying deviations from dynamic equilibrium theory17
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Biologically meaningful distribution models highlight the benefits of the Paris Agreement for demersal fishing targets in the North Atlantic Ocean17
Latitudinal variation in the diversity–disturbance relationship demonstrates the context dependence of disturbance impacts17
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Food versus wildlife: Will biodiversity hotspots benefit from healthier diets?17
Dominant temperate and subalpine Japanese trees have variable photosynthetic thermal optima according to site mean annual temperature16
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Non‐native species outperform natives in coastal marine ecosystems subjected to warming and freshening events16
Examining the diversity, stability and functioning of marine fish communities across a latitudinal gradient16
CaPTrends: A database of large carnivoran population trends from around the world16
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere16
Species‐specific acclimatization capacity of key traits explains global vertical distribution of seagrass species16
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Convergent patterns of body size variation in distinct parasite taxa with convergent life cycles15
SIA‐BRA: A database of animal stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of Brazil15
Effects of climate and topography on the diversity anomaly of plants disjunctly distributed in eastern Asia and eastern North America15
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
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Overexploitation and decline in kelp forests inflate the bioenergetic costs of fisheries14
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Optimal pooling of data for the reliable estimation of trait probability distributions14
Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance14
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Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees14
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Dispersal limitation shapes distance‐decay patterns of European spiders at the continental scale14
Lianas and trees exhibit divergent intrinsic water‐use efficiency along elevational gradients in South American and African tropical forests14
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores14
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia13
Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests13
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Size scaling of sea turtle reproduction may reconcile fundamental ecology and conservation strategies at the global scale13
Nitrogen effects on plant productivity change at decadal time‐scales13
Multiple diversity facets of crucial microbial groups in biological soil crusts promote soil multifunctionality13
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach13
Environmental, geographical and time‐related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), a globally invasive species13
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?13
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions13
Evolutionary and environmental drivers of species richness in poeciliid fishes across the Americas13
Globally limited individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors on allometric biomass partitioning13
Conditional love? Co‐occurrence patterns of drought‐sensitive species in European grasslands are consistent with the stress‐gradient hypothesis12
The nature of dispersal barriers and their impact on regional species pool richness and turnover12
Larger diurnal temperature range undermined later autumn leaf senescence with warming in Europe12
The Reef Environment Centralized InFormation System (RECIFS): An integrated geo‐environmental database for coral reef research and conservation12
Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions12
The impact of climate warming on species diversity across scales: Lessons from experimental meta‐ecosystems12
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide12
Harvest and dispersal syndromes influence the probability of tree seedling establishment in the eastern United States12
High phenotypic variation found within the offspring of each mother tree in Fagus sylvatica regardless of the environment or source population12
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen12
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails12
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale12
Photoperiod drives cessation of wood formation in northern conifers12
Strong phylogenetic signals in global plant bioclimatic envelopes12
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour12
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model11
Plant naturalizations are constrained by temperature but released by precipitation11
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats11
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SPECTRE: Standardised Global Spatial Data on Terrestrial SPecies and ECosystems ThREats11
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration11
A demographic framework for understanding fire‐driven reptile declines in the ‘land of the lizards'11
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators11
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Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)11
No General Trend in Functional Diversity in Bird and Mammal Communities Despite Compositional Change11
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Deconstructing the dimensions of alpha diversity in squamate reptiles (Reptilia: Squamata) across the Americas11
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires11
Spatial Scale and the Underestimation of Stream Fish Community Invadedness11
Common processes drive metacommunity structure in freshwater fish10
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China10
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors10
Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence‐only species distribution models10
Multi‐decade tree mortality in temperate old‐growth forests of Europe and North America: Non‐equilibrial dynamics and species‐individualistic response to disturbance10
Population density and genetic diversity are positively correlated in wild felids globally10
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)10
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity10
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies10
Global patterns and predictors of avian population density10
Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change10
ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys10
Threatened fish species in the Northeast Atlantic are functionally rare10
Increasing global ecosystem respiration between 1982 and 2015 from Earth observation‐based modelling10
Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change10
Soil seed bank responses to edge effects in temperate European forests10
Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds10
Beyond latitude: Temperature, productivity and thermal niche conservatism drive global body size variation in Odonata10
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity10
Climate and socio‐economic factors explain differences between observed and expected naturalization patterns of European plants around the world9
Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape‐scale vertebrate richness9
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?9
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions9
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season9
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions9
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data9
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests9
Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence9
Ecological but Not Biological Traits of European Riverine Invertebrates Respond Consistently to Anthropogenic Impacts9
Emergent global biogeography of marine fish food webs9
The global biogeography of reef morphology9
Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism Drives Floristic Assembly Across Mexico's Temperate‐Tropical Divide9
Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals9
Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate9
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate9
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models9
A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate9
Climatic niche shifts in 815 introduced plant species affect their predicted distributions9
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients9
Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients9
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems9
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