Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 12. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas118
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity90
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates77
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)76
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition74
Future Climate and Land Use Change Will Equally Impact Global Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity71
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications71
Plant and Soil Function Increase With Larger and Older Coarse Woody Debris69
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities66
Consequences of the Megafauna Extinction: Changes in Food Web Networks on the Edwards Plateau Across the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition65
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents63
The Performance and Potential of Deep Learning for Predicting Species Distributions61
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities59
Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa58
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe57
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis53
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data53
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity52
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions51
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Micro‐Refuges or Ecological Traps: Context‐Dependent Effects of Rock Pools on Intertidal Biodiversity Across Latitudes45
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions43
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 Eurasia41
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China41
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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 Warming40
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model40
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients40
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate40
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour39
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Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season39
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions37
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Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale37
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data37
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models36
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators36
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Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach35
Joint Influence of Seed Dormancy and Dispersal Syndrome on Dispersal Distance and Range Size Across Two Climate Regions35
Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores35
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Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance33
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates33
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Correction to Cold and Dark Captivity: Drivers of Amphibian Longevity32
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change31
Correction to "Dispersal, Climate Anomaly and Contemporary Climate Shape the Latitudinal Patterns of β‐Diversity of Angiosperm Trees"31
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning31
Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all30
Native and Alien Ungulates in North America: Potential for Restoring Herbivore Diversity and Functions30
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean30
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Size‐Based Effects of Anthropogenic Pressures and Elephant Activity on Tropical Forest Carbon Stocks30
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue30
GNNSDM : A Graph Neural Network‐Based Framework Integrating Complex Landscape Patterns Into Species Distribution Mo30
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands29
Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity28
Two Decades of Community Responses Reveal a Consistent Increase in Species Occurrences in South‐Eastern Pacific Rocky Shores28
Latitudinal Beta‐Diversity Gradient of Riverine Macroinvertebrate: Interplays of Climatic and Land Use Factors28
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns28
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds28
Stronger niche than dispersal effects on α‐ and β‐diversity of stream algae, insects, and fish across latitudes in the United States28
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes28
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups27
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes27
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model27
A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire27
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals27
Variation in Environmental Conditions and Biodiversity Between Contrasting Intertidal Habitats Across Multiple Spatial Scales on European Rocky Shores26
Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models26
Human Footprint Halves Tail Loss Rates in Geckos Worldwide25
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms25
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs25
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms24
The Interplay of Climate Change, Urbanisation, and Species Traits Shapes European Butterfly Population Trends24
Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties24
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Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule22
Elevational diversity patterns of rodents differ between wet and arid mountains22
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances22
The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude22
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
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens21
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies21
Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire21
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation20
Global Enhancers and Constraints of Alien Range Size in Mammals: The Roles of Species Attributes, Invasion History and Ecological Contexts20
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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
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography20
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Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments19
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data19
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information19
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research19
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates19
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate19
Nitrogen Availability Regulates Tree Mixture Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Forests: Insights From a Meta‐Analysis and Long‐Term Experiment19
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data19
Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography19
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns19
Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities19
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds19
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity18
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Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not18
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’18
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A Bias‐Robust Framework for Quantifying Community Responses to the Climate Change Using the Occurrence Data18
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Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies17
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Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient17
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison17
The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes17
Warm or Dry Springs (Still) Boost the Reproduction of Most Temperate Songbirds17
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The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon17
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
High‐Integrity Forests Are Critical for Forest Specialist Birds17
Correction to “The Interplay of Climate Change, Urbanisation, and Species Traits Shapes European Butterfly Population Trends”16
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review16
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Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis16
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change16
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation16
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Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems16
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests16
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity16
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores15
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide15
Large‐Bodied and Wide‐Beaked Avian Frugivores Show Greater Specialisation in Tropical Seed Dispersal Networks15
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?15
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration15
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A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen15
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails15
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Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales14
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks14
Macroevolutionary Processes Driving the Asymmetric Latitudinal Diversity Pattern of Polyplacophorans Along the Eastern Pacific Coast14
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies14
Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest14
High‐Quality Human Activity Intensity Maps in China From 2000 to 202014
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America14
A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States14
Warming Enhances the Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota: A Global Meta‐Analysis14
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Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’14
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones14
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere14
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?14
The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region14
Variation in Ectotherm Thermal Tolerances With Elevation and Temperature Across Biological Scales13
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods13
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region13
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use13
Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)13
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees13
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle13
Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America13
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally13
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe12
Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them12
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The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds12
Global Patterns and Determinants of Multiple Facets of Freshwater Fishes Beta Diversity12
Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China12
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Traits, Threats, and Popularity Explain Extinction Risk of Birds Globally12
Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies12
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?12
Novel Estimates of Bird Migration Traffic at the Continental Scale Using Participatory Science Data12
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Urbanisation Is Related to the Prevalence of Threatened Species on Islands Across the Globe12
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