Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night97
Niche expansion via acquired metabolism facilitates competitive dominance in planktonic communities90
Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems88
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Leaf allocation improves predictability of interspecific growth rates in a broadleaf deciduous temperate forest79
Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness69
VTMaxHerp: A data set of voluntary thermal maximum temperatures of amphibians and reptiles from two Brazilian hotspots59
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau57
Plant‐herbivore interactions in Atlantic Forest: A dataset of host plants and their gall‐inducing insects56
Habitat fidelity in hawksbill sea turtles50
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems49
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”47
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth45
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species43
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Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators40
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range37
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web37
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions37
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird36
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity36
Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments35
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger35
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus34
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before34
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness34
A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades34
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)33
Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis33
Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna33
Emergent properties of microbial communities drive accelerated biogeochemical cycling in disturbed temperate forests33
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone32
Petals and leaves: quantifying the use of nest building materials by the world's most valuable solitary bee31
An Ips bark beetle tracks late Holocene range extension of its pinyon pine host31
Sheltering oak: spotted turtles in a tree31
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects30
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Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient30
Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes30
Plant community data collected by Robert H. Whittaker in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California, USA29
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Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients29
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms29
Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers29
Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams28
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change28
Disturbance‐mediated invasions are dependent on community resource abundance28
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database28
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion28
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests28
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms28
Do plant communities show constant final yield?27
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography27
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size25
High rises and optimal temperatures: Grasshopper microclimate selection25
A 16th‐century biodiversity and crop inventory25
Is spider resting metabolic rate more strongly associated with ecological guild or extreme habitat conditions?25
Amphibious feeding mode in an anguillid fish25
Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom24
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands24
Disturbance to biocrusts decreased cyanobacteria,N‐fixer abundance, and grass leafNbut increased fungal abundance24
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Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis24
Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey24
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers23
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters23
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction23
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs23
A hurricane alters the relationship between mangrove cover and marine subsidies23
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century23
Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights23
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time23
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence22
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)22
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP: A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps22
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control22
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota22
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide22
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors22
Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis22
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant22
A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey21
Small rainfall events increase belowground production in Chihuahuan Desert grassland21
Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates21
Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models21
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?21
Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity21
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality20
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship20
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions20
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient20
Revealing cryptic interactions between large mammalian herbivores and plant‐dwelling arthropods via DNA metabarcoding20
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids20
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)20
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems19
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Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat19
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi19
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems19
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales19
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning19
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements19
Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider19
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance19
One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities18
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara18
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Do plant–soil interactions influence how the microbial community responds to environmental change?18
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Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration18
Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in Solanum carolinense18
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Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model18
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating18
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs18
Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream18
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not18
Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie18
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island18
Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data18
Joint species‐trait distribution modeling: The role of intraspecific trait variation in community assembly18
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?18
Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range18
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Limited responses of lizard assemblages to experimental fire regimes in an Australian tropical savanna17
An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants17
Function of an extraordinary display in sarcastic fringeheads (Neoclinusblanchardi) with comments on its evolution17
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Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India17
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed17
Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees17
Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds17
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Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks17
Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data17
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)17
The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations17
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests17
A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment16
DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years16
The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest16
Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants16
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Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment16
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It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms16
AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest16
A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic16
Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes16
Calling and foot‐flagging: Territory competition behavior of two male Buergeria otai16
Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab16
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Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat16
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds16
Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance16
Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests16
From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities16
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction16
MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species16
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Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby15
Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)15
Decades of historical outbreak cycles in a multivoltine insect reveal a plastic phenological response to climate change15
Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring15
The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption15
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Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass15
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Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests15
NOTIFICATION : InsectChange : a Global Database of Temporal Changes in Insect and Arachnid Assemblages15
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Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities15
Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru15
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Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades15
Pyrosomes, Pyrosoma atlanticum: Highlighting plankton as an important food source for coral reefs in Timor‐Leste14
Hidden decay of live trees in a tropical rain forest14
A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data14
Interpreting field measurements of juvenile growth and survival rates with population growth isoclines14
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time14
Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community14
Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems14
Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States14
Beyond seeds: Revealing the clonal reproduction of Bulbostylis paradoxa as a persistence mechanism in tropical savannas14
Global plant invaders: a compendium of invasive plant taxa documented by the peer‐reviewed literature14
Pacific Northwest birds have shifted their abundances upslope in response to 30 years of warming temperatures14
Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking14
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits14
Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model14
Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes13
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Functional trait database for Nova Scotian coastal barren, green roof, and ruderal flora13
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change13
Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality13
Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment13
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Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes13
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)13
Cover and density of southwestern ponderosa pine understory plants in permanent chart quadrats (2002–2020)13
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers13
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities13
Environmental context alters plant–soil feedback effects on plant coexistence13
Competition for waterborne food resources among tropical shallow‐water sponges13
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population13
Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host13
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards12
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Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest12
Natal dispersal patterns in a social wild mammal: What does family tell us?12
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models12
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates12
Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition12
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest12
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent12
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir12
FAIRTraits: An enriched, FAIR‐compliant database of plant traits from Mediterranean populations of 240 species12
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning12
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance12
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly12
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Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl12
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems12
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species12
Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model12
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions12
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities12
Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time12
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High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes11
Parasitism by multiple strepsipterans accelerates timing of adult parasite emergence11
Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait‐mediated plant–soil feedbacks shape community composition11
Assessing how biofilms modulate stream periphyton metacommunity assemblage: A translocation experiment11
Specialized petal with conspicuously fringed margin influences reproductive success in Habenaria radiata (Orchidaceae)11
Effects of multiple mammalian herbivores and climate on grassland–shrubland transitions in the Chihuahuan Desert11
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Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics11
Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems11
Integrating metabolic scaling and coexistence theories11
Mudflat geomorphology determines invasive macroalgal effect on invertebrate prey and shorebird predators11
Stoichiometric mismatch causes a warming‐induced regime shift in experimental plankton communities11
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Penguin‐mounted video camera provides new insights into predator–prey interactions with prey fish11
Net primary productivity but not its remote‐sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean‐Amazonian rainforests11
The effects of dispersal, herbivory, and competition on plant community assembly11
Elevated temperatures shift flower head height distributions and seed dispersal patterns in two invasive thistle species11
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