Ecosphere

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecosphere is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Using phenology to unravel differential soil water use and productivity in a semiarid savanna94
Network topology mediates freshwater fish metacommunity response to loss of connectivity62
Alternative lifestyles: A plague persistence hypothesis61
Wildfire disturbance reveals evidence of ecosystem resilience and precariousness in a forest–grassland mosaic61
Modeling the drivers of eutrophication in Finland with a machine learning approach60
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Identifying drivers of population dynamics for a stream breeding amphibian using time series of egg mass counts56
Fear, concealment, and time of day interactively predict group size of a common ungulate48
The influence of postfire recovery and environmental conditions on boreal vegetation48
Functional trait complementarity and dominance both determine benthic secondary production in temperate seagrass beds47
Farming practice affects rice field animal biota during cultivation but not fallow periods in Taiwan47
Plant functional traits affect competitive vigor of pasture grasses during drought and following recovery43
Localized carry‐over effects of pond drying on survival, growth, and pathogen defenses in amphibians39
Understanding the effects of livestock grazing on dryland plant communities within the context of abiotic variability38
Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly35
Demographic rates and diversity vary with tree stature and ontogenetic stage in an African tropical rainforest34
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Within‐site difference in nitrogen status between mixed forests and larch plantations: Evidence from multiple indicators34
Individual patterns of anadromy determine the cost of salmon lice exposure in brown trout33
Habitat associations of six‐lined racerunners in longleaf pine managed with a short fire rotation for northern bobwhites33
A novel method for mapping high‐precision animal locations using high‐resolution imagery32
Modeling the effects of water regulation on the population viability of a threatened amphibian31
Sugar diet affects Culex pipiens early‐life mortality, biochemical parameters, and immunocompetence31
Mechanisms linking river flow regime and riparian hardwood establishment30
Shedding the cloak of neutrality: A guide for reflexive practices to make the sciences more inclusive and just29
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Applying and testing a novel method to estimate animal density from motion‐triggered cameras28
Shifts in grasses diversity patterns between two contrasting 40‐year climate periods in tropical dry islands28
Multi‐scale patterns in the occurrence of an ephemeral pool‐breeding amphibian28
Diverging conditions of current and potential future urban forest patches28
Aquatic vegetation types identified during early and late phases of vegetation recovery in the Upper Mississippi River27
A novel method for fine‐scale retrospective isotope analysis in mammals using eye lenses27
Online citizen science in higher education courses27
Resilience of riparian vegetation productivity to early 21st century drought in northern California, USA26
Carryover effects of environmental stressors influence the life performance of brown trout26
Move, migrate, or tolerate: Quantifying three tactics for cold‐water fish coping with warm summers in a large river26
Grazing intensity effects on herbaceous community composition in burned sagebrush steppe25
Effects of future climate change on the forests of Madagascar24
Agroecological measures in meadows promote honey bee colony development and winter survival24
Using imaging spectroscopy and elevation in machine learning to estimate soil salinity in intermittently tidal wetlands24
Evaluating the effects of nest management on a recovering raptor using integrated population modeling24
Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science23
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Spatial conservation prioritization for the Amur tiger in Northeast China23
Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes?23
Comparison of three global canopy height maps and their applicability to biodiversity modeling: Accuracy issues revealed23
Delineating wildfire burns and regrowth using satellite imagery to assess moose (Alces alces) spatial responses to burns23
Deciphering the spectra of flowers to map landscape‐scale blooming dynamics23
Floral turnover and climate drive seasonal bee diversity along a tropical elevation gradient23
Temperature is positively associated with tree mortality in California subalpine forests containing whitebark pine22
Future exposure of forest ecosystems to multi‐year drought in the United States22
Variable spatiotemporal ungulate behavioral response to predation risk22
Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research22
Approximation of ice phenology of Maine lakes using Aqua MODIS surface temperature data21
Species assemblages and their drivers differ between trees and lianas in a seasonal evergreen forest in Thailand21
Evidence of reduced abundance, density, and survival of coyotes under federal management for red wolf recovery21
Suppression of Australian savanna ants shows “the little rulers” do not rule over spider or beetle assemblages21
Heat wave impacts on crop‐pest dynamics are dependent upon insect ontogeny and plant resistance21
Age‐ and sex‐specific survival of the Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)21
The influence of inherent soil factors and agricultural management on soil organic matter21
Effect of the Asian monsoon on the northward migration of the brown planthopper to northern South China20
Hydrology and trophic flexibility structure alpine stream food webs in the Teton Range, Wyoming, USA20
Geographic drivers more important than landscape composition in predicting bee beta diversity and community structure20
Linking ecological processes and animal movements to inform timing of long‐term surveys of a migratory game bird20
Long‐term ecological research and the COVID‐19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance20
The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion20
Responses of a large herbivore to predation risk are modulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors20
On Daphnia’s path: a semi‐automatic system to analyze three‐dimensional movement patterns20
A model‐based instructional approach in a socio‐ecological course‐based undergraduate research experience (CURE)20
Competition between pink muhly grass and native plant species: Is it really a harmful invasive species?19
Researcher effects on the biological structure and edaphic conditions of field sites and implications for management19
Climatic history, constraints, and the plasticity of phytochemical traits under water stress19
Environmental associations of cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) seasonal presence along the U.S. Atlantic Coast19
Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine19
Geologic, geomorphic, and edaphic underpinnings of dryland ecosystems: Colorado Plateau landscapes in a changing world19
Observations of nectarivorous birds and potential biological control agents in berry orchards19
Estimating wolf (Canislupus) densities using video camera traps and spatial capture–recapture analysis19
Habitat‐specific behavior, growth rate, and survival of piping plover chicks in New Jersey, USA19
Evolution and expansion dynamics of a vector‐borne virus: 2004–2006 vesicular stomatitis outbreak in the western USA18
Assessing impacts of climate change on selected foundation species and ecosystem services in the South‐Central USA18
Are all copepods the same? Variation in copepod stoichiometry with taxonomy, ontogeny, latitude, and habitat18
Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent population structure18
Nitrogen dynamics of grassland soils with differing habitat quality: high temporal resolution captures the details18
Ecometabolomics of plant–herbivore and plant–fungi interactions: a synthesis study18
Effects of solar energy development on ants in the Mojave Desert18
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Early successional changes in coniferous forest small mammal communities following a high‐severity summer wildfire18
Journal reflections shed light on challenges students face in an introductory field biology course18
Professional social connections are associated with student science identity in a research‐based field biology course18
Focused aquifer regeneration produced outsized gains for a threatened fish in a populated, dryland watershed18
Experimental confirmation of effects of leaf litter type and light on tadpole performance for two priority amphibians18
Nutrient inputs in mesocosms of an oligotrophic lake fail to sustain an algal bloom18
Landscape composition and orchard management effects on bat assemblages and bat foraging activity in apple crops18
Video of rusty‐spotted genets consuming bats and other prey: Behaviors observed and eco‐epidemiological considerations17
Decoupled shifts of dominant and rarer fish species as a response to warming and extreme events in a large estuary17
Stochastic metapopulation dynamics of a threatened amphibian to improve water delivery17
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Advance, steadfast, retreat? Growth and establishment of white spruce seedlings at treelines in Alaska17
An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada17
Mammal responses to predator scents across multiple study areas17
First record of antipredator behavior in the gall‐forming aphid Mordwilkoja vagabunda17
Impact and control of feral cats preying on wandering albatrosses: Insights from a field experiment17
Rapid shifts in migration routes and breeding latitude in North American bluebirds17
Changing fire regimes in the Great Basin USA17
Substantial intraspecific trait variation across a hydrological gradient in northern Australian fishes17
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The relationship between thermal spatial variability and mean temperature alters movement and population dynamics17
Growing‐season climate as an explanation of spatial variations in temperature sensitivity of green‐up on Tibetan Plateau17
Multifunctions of fine root phenology in vegetative and reproductive growth in mature beech forest ecosystems17
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Dynamic environments generate geographic fluctuations in population structure of an inland shorebird17
Intentional mentoring should increase inclusivity in ecology17
Estimating the distribution of Oryzomys palustris, a potential key host in expanding rickettsial tick‐borne disease risk17
Nutrient resorption responses of plant life forms to nitrogen addition in temperate shrublands16
Emergency‐line calls as an indicator to assess human–wildlife interaction in urban areas16
Distributed urban forest patch sampling detects edge effects and woodland condition for monitoring and management16
Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity16
Divergent growth‐differentiation balance strategies and resource competition shape mortality patterns in ponderosa pine16
Boreal tree species change as a climate mitigation strategy: impact on ecosystem C and N stocks and soil nutrient levels16
Using masking metrics as a means to quantify effect and guide mitigation measures of underwater anthropogenic noise16
Landscape, demographic, and dispersal parameters influence the spread and establishment of an aquatic biological invasion16
Damming salmon fry: evidence for predation by non‐native warmwater fishes in reservoirs16
Invasive annual grasses destabilize plant communities in a northern mixed‐grass prairie16
A multiscale landscape approach for prioritizing river and stream protection and restoration actions16
Amphibian abundance is associated with reduced mosquito presence in human‐modified landscapes16
Wayfinding, knowledge, perspective, and engagement: Preparing tribal liaisons for stewardship of Indigenous lands16
Wildfire influences individual growth and breeding dispersal, but not survival and recruitment in a montane amphibian16
Exploratory modeling of social‐ecological systems16
Spatial Bayesian models project shifts in suitable habitat for Pacific Northwest tree species under climate change16
Can seasonal fire management reduce the risk of carbon loss from wildfires in a protected Guinea savanna?15
Nitrogen is unlikely to consistently limit primary productivity in most tropical lakes15
Floodplain land use gradients have a stronger effect on soil microbial enzyme activity than spatiotemporal variability15
Climate change impacts on ecosystems and adaptation options in nine countries in southern Africa: What do we know?15
Multiple stressors mediate the effects of warming on leaf decomposition in a large regulated river15
Predation on a pygmy shrew, Sorex minutus, by the noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis15
You can't go home again: Changes in trophic niche following extinction and recolonization of the New Zealand sea lion15
Asclepiasdynamics on US rangelands: implications for conservation of monarch butterflies and other insects15
Beyond predator and prey: First evidence of an association between ocelot and opossum individuals15
Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus15
Facilitation differentially affects competitive responses of aspen and subalpine fir through stages of stand development15
Space‐use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears15
Evaluating the foraging performance of individual honey bees in different environments with automated field RFID systems15
Habitat partitioning by mobile intertidal invertebrates of sandy beaches shifts with the tides15
Negative effects of forest harvest on coastal tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) emerge after a decade‐long experiment15
Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi‐arid cropland‐to‐grassland restoration15
Multistate modeling of Florida scrub‐jay adult survival and breeding transitions15
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Soil enzymes illustrate the effects of alder nitrogen fixation on soil carbon processes in arctic and boreal ecosystems15
Net carbon sequestration implications of intensified timber harvest in Northeastern U.S. forests14
Atypical winter coat coloration of snowshoe hares near the southern extent of their range14
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Pseudogymnoascus destructans environmental reservoir decreases 11 years after an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome14
A greener future for the Galapagos: forecasting ecosystem productivity by finding climate analogs in time14
Divergent responses of insectivorous bats and flying insects to experimental LED illumination of different spectra14
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Turning observations into biodiversity data: Broadscale spatial biases in community science14
Multigenerational emergence trends of Brood X Magicicada spp. across habitat types in southwestern Ohio14
Modeling persistence of coarse woody debris residuals in boreal forests as an ecological property14
Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk14
Parsing spatial and temporal variation in stream ecosystem functioning14
Constant gardeners: Endozoochory promotes repeated seedling recruitment in clonal plants14
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Nonsignificant elevational trends of soil microbial respiration and temperature sensitivity in a subtropical forest14
Ecological service‐learning positively impacts classroom climate and empowers undergraduates for environmental action14
Ecological thresholds and transformations due to climate change: The role of abiotic stress14
It's all about food: Environmental factors cause species‐specific dispersal14
Revealing large‐scale parasite ranges: An integrated spatiotemporal database and multisource analysis of the winter tick14
Choosing priors in Bayesian ecological models by simulating from the prior predictive distribution14
Plant silicon content as a proxy for understanding plant community properties and ecosystem structure14
Effect of increasing temperature and temperature fluctuations on alfalfa and orchardgrass in the establishment year14
Dead tree removal after drought mortality increases understory plant diversity in a mixed conifer forest14
Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting sites to erosion and inundation: A decision support framework to maximize conservation14
Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives14
Novel disease state model finds most juvenile green turtles develop and recover from fibropapillomatosis14
Effects of interactions among primary and secondary foundation species on biodiversity and associated community structure14
Stratified vertical sediment profiles increase burrowing crab effects on salt marsh edaphic conditions13
Snag decomposition following stand‐replacing wildfires alters wildlife habitat use and surface woody fuels through time13
The temporal scale of energy maximization explains allometric variations in movement decisions of large herbivores13
Warm places, warm years, and warm seasons increase parasitizing of moose by winter ticks13
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Temporal variation in habitat quality shapes the distribution–abundance relationship in waterbirds at landscape scale13
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Diet of schistosome vectors influences infection outcomes13
MarINvaders: A web toolkit of marine species for use in environmental assessments13
Using the red‐imported fire ant to study invasive species removal and reinvasion13
Spatiotemporal interactions facilitate sympatry in a diverse mammalian community13
Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition13
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Local and landscape factors differentially influence predatory arthropods in urban agroecosystems13
Idiosyncrasy and predictability in intraspecific trait–climate relationships of grasses13
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Climate change consequences for differential adult survival and the mating system of a temperate breeding shorebird13
Characterizing suburban soil and microbial properties along a soil age chronosequence13
Dispersing across habitat boundaries: Uncovering the demographic fates of populations in unsuitable habitat13
Monitoring of long‐term vegetation dynamics and responses to droughts of various timescales in Inner Mongolia13
Navigating the trade‐offs between environmental DNA and conventional field surveys for improved amphibian monitoring13
Deciphering the composite morphological diversity ofLophelia pertusa, a cosmopolitan deep‐water ecosystem engineer13
An ecological and methodological assessment of benthic gross primary production in northern lakes13
Winter tick sharing between ungulates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and implications for apparent competition12
Disturbance reduces fungal white‐rot litter mat cover in a wet subtropical forest12
Characterizing low‐lying coastal upland forests to predict future landward marsh expansion12
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Movement ecology of exotic nilgai antelope: A threat to the re‐emergence of cattle fever ticks in the southern USA12
Linking permafrost to the abundance, biomass, and energy density of fish in Arctic headwater streams12
The invasive species Rangia cuneata: A new food source for herring gull (Larus argentatus)?12
Land use change converts temperate dryland landscape into a net methane source12
A statistical population reconstruction model for wildlife populations: A case study with white‐tailed deer and fisher12
Moss and underlying soil bacterial community structures are linked to moss functional traits12
Consequences of drought for grassland songbird reproduction12
Restoration of an Indigenous aquaculture system can increase reef fish density and fisheries harvest in Hawaii12
Investigating changes to food web structure after fish removal using size spectra analysis12
Integrating multi‐method surveys and recovery trajectories into occupancy models12
Ecological restoration using intertidal foundation species: Considerations and potential for rockweed restoration12
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Terrestrial wildlife shows limited response in spatiotemporal activity to logging12
Functional but not taxonomic diversity increases productivity of Populus in the southeastern United States12
Effects of landscape position on perennial biomass and food crop performance in buffer areas12
Elevated CO2 and drought modify plant–plant and plant–mycorrhizal interactions in two codominant grasses12
Colder temperatures augment viability of an indirectly transmitted songbird pathogen on bird feeders11
Unexpected stability in faunal population abundances following an estuary‐wide collapse of oysters11
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Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape11
Grassland bird population declines at three Breeding Bird Survey spatial scales in contrast to a large native prairie11
Temperature and barometric pressure affect the activity intensity and movement of an endangered thermoconforming lizard11
Determining potential drivers of vegetation change in a Mediterranean environment11
Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild11
Integrating microclimatic variation in phenological responses to climate change: A 28‐year study in a hibernating mammal11
The influence of climate and management on transpiration of residential trees during a bark beetle infestation11
Bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision making11
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Recycled by leaf inhabitants: Terrestrial bacteria drive the mineralization of organic matter in lake water11
Predation risk and personality influence seed predation and dispersal by a scatter‐hoarding small mammal11
Movement behavior of a threatened native fish informs flow management in a modified floodplain river system11
Identifying management‐driven dynamics in vegetation cover: Applying the Compere framework to Cooper Creek, Australia11
Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods11
Migration strategy and constraint in migration behavior vary among shorebird species with different life histories11
Stable isotopes reveal minimal spatial and temporal variation in diet of the wrymouth (Cryptacanthodes maculatus)11
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A comparison of density estimation methods for monitoring marked and unmarked animal populations11
Recovery of metabolites via subnivean photosynthesis in Arctic tundra plants: Implications for climate change11
Marine animal forest formed by gorgonians Subergorgia on near‐shore mesophotic ecosystems in Reunion Island11
Differentiated plant defense strategies: Herbivore community dynamics affect plant–herbivore interactions11
Drivers of flea abundance in wild rodents across local and regional scales in the Chihuahuan Desert, northwestern Mexico11
Sex‐dependent habitat selection modulates risk management by meadow voles11
Full life cycle assessment of insect biomass allows estimation of bioflows across water, air, and land11
Effects of long‐term nitrogen addition on water use by Cunninghamia lanceolate in a subtropical plantation11
Host preference of field‐derived Schistosoma mansoni is influenced by snail host compatibility and infection status11
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