Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 13. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities88
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities87
Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa87
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)87
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications80
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents77
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems74
Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific70
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment69
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition69
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis64
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas61
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe61
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna57
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures56
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The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data55
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Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model49
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data48
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season48
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia48
Convergent patterns of body size variation in distinct parasite taxa with convergent life cycles48
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions47
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach47
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration45
tinyVAST: R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Temporal Models44
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour43
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate42
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models42
Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N2O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming41
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA40
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale40
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems39
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots38
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators38
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires37
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China37
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)36
Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all36
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Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions36
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients36
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue35
Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance35
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates35
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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Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity33
Surface chlorophyll concentration as a mesoplankton biomass assessment tool in the Southern Ocean region33
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning32
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region31
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean31
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns31
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments30
High regional and intrageneric variation in susceptibility to mass bleaching in Indo‐Pacific coral species30
Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores30
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Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change29
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals29
Reduced habitat suitability and landscape connectivity in a songbird migratory divide29
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds28
Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes28
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups28
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes28
Origin of the tropical–polar biodiversity contrast27
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms27
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes26
A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire26
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms26
Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models26
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database26
Ecological traits underlying interspecific variation in climate matching of birds26
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Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants25
Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil25
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs25
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Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model25
The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude24
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in tropical ecosystems following fire24
What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis23
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens23
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies23
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances23
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule23
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals23
Elevational diversity patterns of rodents differ between wet and arid mountains22
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography22
Atlas of the vascular flora of the Iberian Peninsula biodiversity hotspot (AFLIBER)22
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover22
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Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire22
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island22
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus22
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)21
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data21
Parasite species richness and host range are not spatially conserved21
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Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling21
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds20
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’20
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe20
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity20
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information20
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates20
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns20
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments20
Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities20
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data20
Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography20
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation19
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Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research19
Soil Depth Matters: Divergent Drivers of Ecosystem Productivity in Alpine Ecosystems19
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate19
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species18
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Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression18
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects17
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change17
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests17
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Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation17
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies17
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon17
Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally16
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison16
Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems16
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Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families16
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not16
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A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment16
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review16
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A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity16
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide15
A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States15
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?15
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?15
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models15
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The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies15
Lianas and trees exhibit divergent intrinsic water‐use efficiency along elevational gradients in South American and African tropical forests15
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails15
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration15
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests15
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen15
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds15
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores15
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity15
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere15
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees14
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use14
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Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?14
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle14
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America14
Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’14
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Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest14
Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China14
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales14
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally14
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks14
EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)14
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones14
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe14
Diet influences latitudinal gradients in life‐history traits, but not reproductive output, in ectotherms14
Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups13
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods13
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EstablishMed, a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region13
Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America13
The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region13
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Remote sensing biodiversity monitoring in Latin America: Emerging need for sustained local research and regional collaboration to achieve global goals13
Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
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Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region13
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