Ecology

Article	Citations
A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology	219
EpiList 1.0: a global checklist of vascular epiphytes	97
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony	94
COMBINE: a coalesced mammal database of intrinsic and extrinsic traits	75
Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time	73
Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter	66
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality	62
Assessment of the impacts of an unprecedented heatwave on intertidal shellfish of the Salish Sea	58
Response diversity in corals: hidden differences in bleaching mortality among cryptic Pocillopora species	56
Toward quantitative metabarcoding	54
How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability	52
Nitrogen enrichment buffers phosphorus limitation by mobilizing mineral‐bound soil phosphorus in grasslands	52
Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs	50
The dynamics and stoichiometry of dissolved organic carbon release by kelp	46
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi	46
Determinants of trophic cascade strength in freshwater ecosystems: a global analysis	44
Stress gradients and biodiversity: monoculture vulnerability drives stronger biodiversity effects during drought years	41
SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States	41
Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C3 grasslands	40
Flight efficiency explains differences in natal dispersal distances in birds	40
A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales	37
Stronger predation intensity and impact on prey communities in the tropics	36
Nitrogen addition amplifies the nonlinear drought response of grassland productivity to extended growing‐season droughts	35
Spatial heterogeneity facilitates carnivore coexistence	35
Targeted plant defense: silicon conserves hormonal defense signaling impacting chewing but not fluid‐feeding herbivores	35

Eutrophication induces shifts in the trophic position of invertebrates in aquatic food webs	34
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands	33
The plasticity of ungulate migration in a changing world	33
The allometry of locomotion	32
Biological invasions reveal how niche change affects the transferability of species distribution models	32
The propagule doesn’t fall far from the tree, especially after short‐interval, high‐severity fire	31
Tracking snowmelt to jump the green wave: phenological drivers of migration in a northern ungulate	31
Interactive impacts of climate change and land‐use change on the demography of montane birds	30
Climate sensitivity of understory trees differs from overstory trees in temperate mesic forests	30
Mangrove growth response to experimental warming is greatest near the range limit in northeast Florida	30
Plasticity in response to plant–plant interactions and water availability	30
NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics	29
An integrated path for spatial capture–recapture and animal movement modeling	29
Multitrophic diversity and biotic associations influence subalpine forest ecosystem multifunctionality	28
Species pool size alters species–area relationships during experimental community assembly	28
Functional traits driving species role in the structure of terrestrial vertebrate scavenger networks	28
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems	27
Pollinator community species richness dilutes prevalence of multiple viruses within multiple host species	27
Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness	27
Life‐history traits, geographical range, and conservation aspects of reef fishes from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific	26
Revisiting the paradigm of shark‐driven trophic cascades in coral reef ecosystems	26
Partitioning the colonization and extinction components of beta diversity across disturbance gradients	26
Time‐traveling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change	25
Mycorrhizal type influences plant density dependence and species richness across 15 temperate forests	25
Quantifying the demographic vulnerabilities of dry woodlands to climate and competition using rangewide monitoring data	24
Adaptations to light predict the foraging niche and disassembly of avian communities in tropical countrysides	24
Interspecific competition between resident and wintering birds: experimental evidence and consequences of coexistence	24
Satellite‐derived NDVI underestimates the advancement of alpine vegetation growth over the past three decades	24
Differences in soil organic matter between EcM‐ and AM‐dominated forests depend on tree and fungal identity	24
DAMA: the global Distribution of Alien Mammals database	24
Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought	24
Warming and shifting phenology accelerate an invasive plant life cycle	24
Ocean warming and species range shifts affect rates of ecosystem functioning by altering consumer–resource interactions	23
Digital biodiversity data sets reveal breeding phenology and its drivers in a widespread North American mammal	23
Soil engineering by ants facilitates plant compensation for large herbivore removal of aboveground biomass	23
Nitrogen‐fixing trees increase soil nitrous oxide emissions: a meta‐analysis	23
Plant functional traits reflect different dimensions of species invasiveness	23
As the Arctic becomes boreal: ongoing shifts in a high‐Arctic seabird community	23
Resource exploitation efficiency collapses the home range of an apex predator	23
Toward a function‐first framework to make soil microbial ecology predictive	23
Optimal sampling design for spatial capture–recapture	22
Transient top‐down and bottom‐up effects of resources pulsed to multiple trophic levels	22
Responses of a semiarid grassland to recurrent drought are linked to community functional composition	22
Responses of tree growth and biomass production to nutrient addition in a semi‐deciduous tropical forest in Africa	22
CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination	22
Fungal–fungal and fungal–bacterial interactions in aquatic decomposer communities: bacteria promote fungal diversity	22
NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics	22
Woody plant growth increases with precipitation intensity in a cold semiarid system	22
Arboreality drives heat tolerance while elevation drives cold tolerance in tropical rainforest ants	21
Environmental variation drives continental‐scale synchrony of European beech reproduction	21

Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes	21
Effects of mangrove cover on coastal erosion during a hurricane in Texas, USA	21
An experimental approach to assessing the impact of ecosystem engineers on biodiversity and ecosystem functions	21
Global pattern of soil priming effect intensity and its environmental drivers	21
InsectChange: a global database of temporal changes in insect and arachnid assemblages	21
Darwin's naturalization conundrum reconciled by changes of species interactions	21
Tree biomass allocation differs by mycorrhizal association	21
Honey bee introductions displace native bees and decrease pollination of a native wildflower	21
Heatwave restructures marine intertidal communities across a stress gradient	20
Ecosystem engineering by deep‐nesting monitor lizards	20
How mutualisms influence the coexistence of competing species	20
Stronger fertilization effects on aboveground versus belowground plant properties across nine U.S. grasslands	20
Plant traits are differentially linked to performance in a semiarid ecosystem	20
Landscape experiments unlock relationships among habitat loss, fragmentation, and patch‐size effects	19
Incorporating abiotic controls on animal movements in metacommunities	19
Natural abundance of 13C and 15N provides evidence for plant–soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a N‐fertilized meadow	19
The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales	19
Alpine butterflies want to fly high: Species and communities shift upwards faster than their host plants	19
Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil	19
Fire decreases soil enzyme activities and reorganizes microbially mediated nutrient cycles: A meta‐analysis	19
Assessing the impact of taxon resolution on network structure	19
Negative effects of an allelopathic invader on AM fungal plant species drive community‐level responses	19
Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees?	19
Beta diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales	18
Generalized model‐based solutions to false‐positive error in species detection/nondetection data	18
Emergent properties of microbial communities drive accelerated biogeochemical cycling in disturbed temperate forests	18
FoRAGE database: A compilation of functional responses for consumers and parasitoids	18
Intraspecific variation and energy channel coupling within a Chilean kelp forest	18
Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis	18
Parasite exposure and host susceptibility jointly drive the emergence of epidemics	18
How and why plant ionomes vary across North American grasslands and its implications for herbivore abundance	18
An unusually high shrubline on the Tibetan Plateau	18
Disentangling the role of oomycete soil pathogens as drivers of plant–soil feedbacks	17
Trophic cascade driven by behavioral fine‐tuning as naïve prey rapidly adjust to a novel predator	17
Vulnerability of grassland seed banks to resource‐enhancing global changes	17
Multi‐tissue and multi‐isotope (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O and 87/86Sr) data for early medieval human and animal palaeoecology	17
The contributions of lightning to biomass turnover, gap formation and plant mortality in a tropical forest	17
Tricky partners: native plants show stronger interaction preferences than their exotic counterparts	17
Unusually large upward shifts in cold‐adapted, montane mammals as temperature warms	17
Energetic efficiency of foraging mediates bee niche partitioning	17
Light and thermal niches of ground‐foraging Amazonian insectivorous birds	17
Plant–pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space	17
Parsimonious model selection using information theory: a modified selection rule	16
Belowground community turnover accelerates the decomposition of standing dead wood	16
A specialist bee and its host plants experience phenological shifts at different rates in response to climate change	16
Megafires and thick smoke portend big problems for migratory birds	16
Community‐wide seasonal shifts in thermal tolerances of mosquitoes	16
Decline effects are rare in ecology	16
Large‐scale, multidecade monitoring data from kelp forest ecosystems in California and Oregon (USA)	16
The spatial synchrony of species richness and its relationship to ecosystem stability	16
High summer temperatures amplify functional differences between coral‐ and algae‐dominated reef communities	16
Disentangling the effects of biomass and productivity in plant competition	16
Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition	16
Inconsistent response of taxonomic groups to space and environment in mediterranean and tropical pond metacommunities	15
Causal hypotheses accounting for correlations between decomposition rates of different mass fractions of leaf litter	15
Climate warming threatens the persistence of a community of disturbance‐adapted native annual plants	15
Multiple resource limitation of dryland soil microbial carbon cycling on the Colorado Plateau	15
Contrasting patterns of richness, abundance, and turnover in mountain bumble bees and their floral hosts	15
Evolution reverses the effect of network structure on metapopulation persistence	15
Phylogenetic conservatism explains why plants are more likely to produce fleshy fruits in the tropics	15
Global plant invaders: a compendium of invasive plant taxa documented by the peer‐reviewed literature	15
Current street tree communities reflect race‐based housing policy and modern attempts to remedy environmental injustice	15
SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Coexistence is stabilized by conspecific negative density dependence via fungal pathogens more than oomycete pathogens	15
Walking on water: the unexpected evolution of arboreal lifestyle in a large top predator in the Amazon flooded forests	15
The application of community ecology theory to co‐infections in wildlife hosts	15
Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems	15
Differences in prey availability across space and time lead to interaction rewiring and reshape a predator–prey metaweb	15
Migration distance and maternal resource allocation determine timing of birth in a large herbivore	15
Bats reduce insect density and defoliation in temperate forests: An exclusion experiment	15
Lianas maintain insectivorous bird abundance and diversity in a neotropical forest	15
Direct observation of killer whales preying on white sharks and evidence of a flight response	14
Revisiting the drivers of acoustic similarities in tropical anuran assemblages	14
Influences of the bark economics spectrum and positive termite feedback on bark and xylem decomposition	14
Predator–prey interactions of terrestrial invertebrates are determined by predator body size and species identity	14
Lessons from the invasion of Spartina alterniflora in coastal China	14
Pervasive and persistent effects of ant invasion and fragmentation on native ant assemblages	14
Reconciling trait based perspectives along a trait‐integration continuum	14
Short‐term exposure to silicon rapidly enhances plant resistance to herbivory	14
Confronting spatial capture–recapture models with realistic animal movement simulations	14

A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey	14
Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings	14
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	14
Functional traits provide new insight into recovery and succession at deep‐sea hydrothermal vents	14
Cold‐air pools as microrefugia for ecosystem functions in the face of climate change	14
Positive early‐late life‐history trait correlations in elephant seals	14
Tree diversity effects on productivity depend on mycorrhizae and life strategies in a temperate forest experiment	14
Dominance, diversity, and niche breadth in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities	14
A lifetime track of a griffon vulture: The moving story of Rehovot (Y64)	14
The chemical ecology of tropical forest diversity: Environmental variation, chemical similarity, herbivory, and richness	14
Tree seedling trait optimization and growth in response to local‐scale soil and light variability	14
Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity	14
Disorder or a new order: How climate change affects phenological variability	14
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales	13
A multiscale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation on diversity gradients	13
Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna	13
Plant–soil interactions limit lifetime fitness outside a native plant’s geographic range margin	13
Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events	13
Climatic stability, not average habitat temperature, determines thermal tolerance of subterranean beetles	13
Asymmetry of marine invasions across tropical oceans	13
Decreased bee emergence along an elevation gradient: Implications for climate change revealed by a transplant experiment	13
The characteristic time of ecological communities	13
Estimating predator functional responses using the times between prey captures	13
Extensive aquatic subsidies lead to territorial breakdown and high density of an apex predator	13
Variation in hyphal production rather than turnover regulates standing fungal biomass in temperate hardwood forests	13
Quantifying the relationship linking the community‐weighted means of plant traits and soil fertility	13
Rainfall pulse regime drives biomass and community composition in biological soil crusts	13
A unifying framework for analyzing temporal changes in functional and taxonomic diversity along disturbance gradients	13
An assessment of statistical methods for nonindependent data in ecological meta‐analyses: Comment	13
Competition–colonization dynamics and multimodality in diversity–disturbance relationships	13
Nitrogen availability determines ecosystem productivity in response to climate warming	13
Early resources lead to persistent benefits for bumble bee colony dynamics	13
Community invasion resistance is influenced by interactions between plant traits and site productivity	13
Species‐specific responses of a marsh‐forest ecotone plant community responding to climate change	12
Predation risk estimated on live and artificial insect prey follows different patterns	12
Grazing affects vegetation diversity and heterogeneity in California vernal pools	12
Transgenerational effects of parent plant competition on offspring development in contrasting conditions	12
Detrital supply suppresses deforestation to maintain healthy kelp forest ecosystems	12
Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity	12
Atlantic bluefin tuna spawn early to avoid metabolic meltdown in larvae	12
Pollinator type strongly impacts gene flow within and among plant populations for six Neotropical species	12
Overcompensation of ecosystem productivity following sustained extreme drought in a semiarid grassland	12
Negative carry‐over effects on larval thermal tolerances across a natural thermal gradient	12
An annotated set of audio recordings of Eastern North American birds containing frequency, time, and species information	12
Facilitation alters climate change risk on rocky shores	12
Evaluating probabilistic ecological forecasts	12
Plant invasion alters latitudinal pattern of plant‐defense syndromes	12
Stoichiometric mismatch causes a warming‐induced regime shift in experimental plankton communities	12
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities	12
Does deterministic coexistence theory matter in a finite world?	12
Joint species distribution models with imperfect detection for high‐dimensional spatial data	12
A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data	12
Species of fast bulk‐soil nutrient cycling have lower rhizosphere effects: A nutrient spectrum of rhizosphere effects	12
Large herbivores facilitate a dominant grassland forb via multiple indirect effects	12
Environment–host–microbial interactions shape the Sarraceniapurpurea microbiome at the continental scale	12
Joint effects of patch edges and habitat degradation on faunal predation risk in a widespread marine foundation species	12
Invasive trees rely more on mycorrhizas, countering the ideal‐weed hypothesis	12
The role of competition and herbivory in biotic resistance against invaders: a synergistic effect	12
Synergistic effects of long‐term herbivory and previous fire on fine‐scale heterogeneity of prescribed grassland burns	12
Dose relationships can exacerbate, mute, or reverse the impact of heterospecific host density on infection prevalence	12
The role of prey and predator identity in eliciting inducible defenses of Daphnia	11
Plasticity and selection drive hump‐shaped latitudinal patterns of flowering phenology in an invasive intertidal plant	11
Functional thresholds alter the relationship of plant resistance and recovery to drought	11
Consequences of phenological shifts and a compressed breeding period in Magellanic penguins	11
Migratory birds with delayed spring departure migrate faster but pay the costs	11
A parasite indirectly affects nutrient distribution by common mycorrhizal networks between host and neighboring plants	11
Let's move out together: a framework for the intersections between movement and mutualism	11
Short‐term plant–soil feedback experiment fails to predict outcome of competition observed in long‐term field experiment	11
A spatial capture–recapture model for group‐living species	11
Non‐additive biotic interactions improve predictions of tropical tree growth and impact community size structure	11
Doubling the lifespan of European plethodontid salamanders	11
Impacts of extreme climatic events on trophic network complexity and multidimensional stability	11
Optimal energy allocation trade‐off driven by size‐dependent physiological and demographic responses to warming	11
Phenology and production of pollen, nectar, and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments	11
Top predators govern multitrophic diversity effects in tritrophic food webs	11
How much leaf area do insects eat? A data set of insect herbivory sampled globally with a standardized protocol	11
Biodiversity hotspots at a small scale: the importance of eagles’ nests to many other animals	11
ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America	11
Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America	11
Food availability and long‐term predation risk interactively affect antipredator response	11
Positive contribution of macrofaunal biodiversity to secondary production and seagrass carbon metabolism	11
Seed bank bias: Differential tracking of functional traits in the seed bank and vegetation across a gradient	11
Foundation species across a latitudinal gradient in China	11
Animal‐borne video from a sea turtle reveals novel anti‐predator behaviors	11
A penalized likelihood for multispecies occupancy models improves predictions of species interactions	11
Putting the Mantel test back together again	11
Forest conversion to oil palm compresses food chain length in tropical streams	11
Benthic micro‐ and macro‐community succession and coral recruitment under overfishing and nutrient enrichment	11
Seasonal upwelling reduces herbivore control of tropical rocky intertidal algal communities	11
Decay of similarity across tropical forest communities: integrating spatial distance with soil nutrients	10
Shining bright in the dusk: How do bat‐pollinated flowers reflect light?	10
Integrated ecosystems: linking food webs through reciprocal resource reliance	10
Temperature but not nutrient addition affects abundance and assemblage structure of colonizing aquatic insects	10
Nonadditive effects of two contrasting introduced herbivores on the reproduction of a pollination‐specialized palm	10
Reduced magnitude and shifted seasonality of CO2 sink by experimental warming in a coastal wetland	10