Ecology

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night131
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Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth107
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)100
Leaf allocation improves predictability of interspecific growth rates in a broadleaf deciduous temperate forest82
Plant‐herbivore interactions in Atlantic Forest: A dataset of host plants and their gall‐inducing insects78
Habitat fidelity in hawksbill sea turtles70
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”64
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range62
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species60
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus54
Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness53
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions52
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before52
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness51
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators49
A general framework for invasion cycles in ecology47
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web47
Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments46
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity46
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird44
Stochastic colonization, transient and boom–bust dynamics shape invasions by native taxa44
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau44
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger44
Functional properties improve predictions of long‐term productivity invariability but not resistance to drought40
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems40
Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes39
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Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects38
Urban landscapes as ecological filters: Insights from a Neotropical bird assemblage37
Plant community data collected by Robert H. Whittaker in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California, USA37
Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time36
Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients36
A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co‐roosting host communities36
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone35
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Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom34
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests34
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change34
Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers34
Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis32
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms32
Is spider resting metabolic rate more strongly associated with ecological guild or extreme habitat conditions?31
Amphibious feeding mode in an anguillid fish30
High rises and optimal temperatures: Grasshopper microclimate selection30
Landscape structure and species life history affect abundance‐occupancy relationships29
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient29
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands28
Disturbance‐mediated invasions are dependent on community resource abundance28
Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams28
A 16th‐century biodiversity and crop inventory28
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography28
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion28
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms28
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size27
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database27
Erratum for “Rates and controls of nitrogen fixation in postfire lodgepole pine forests”27
Do plant communities show constant final yield?27
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control26
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota26
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Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis26
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction26
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century26
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems25
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions25
Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity25
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning25
Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models25
Small rainfall events increase belowground production in Chihuahuan Desert grassland25
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors25
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers25
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids24
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)24
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters24
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time24
Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey24
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant24
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?24
A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey24
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship23
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient23
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs23
Native trees are related to advanced bird breeding phenology and increased reproductive success along an urban gradient23
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems23
Pairwise interactions and serial bottlenecks help explain species composition in a multispecies microbial community23
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence23
How strong is enemy release? A systematic compilation across taxa and approaches23
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements23
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)23
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP : A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps22
Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat22
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Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates22
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Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide22
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi22
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality22
Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights22
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating21
Small first leaves promote subsequent leaf development in Padus grayana21
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Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model21
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Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data20
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island20
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed20
Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India20
Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in Solanum carolinense20
Discovery of an unidentified species of nicothoid copepod infesting cancrid crabs in Santa Barbara, California20
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs20
Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range20
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not20
One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities19
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara19
Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data19
Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration19
Joint species‐trait distribution modeling: The role of intraspecific trait variation in community assembly19
Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees19
Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider19
Limited responses of lizard assemblages to experimental fire regimes in an Australian tropical savanna19
Genome‐wide associations of leaf spectral variation in MAGIC lines of Nicotiana attenuata19
Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks19
Applying invasion biology frameworks to predict the impacts of range‐expanding predators19
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance18
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)18
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales18
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Function of an extraordinary display in sarcastic fringeheads (Neoclinusblanchardi) with comments on its evolution18
Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream18
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?18
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Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds17
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Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab17
NOTIFICATION : InsectChange : a Global Database of Temporal Changes in Insect and Arachnid Assemblages17
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The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations17
MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species17
From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities17
Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat17
Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment17
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The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest17
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds17
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AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest16
An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants16
Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants16
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests16
Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes16
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction16
A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment16
Swimming snakes wipe out endemic lizards from Mediterranean islets16
A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic16
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It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms16
The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption16
Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests16
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Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance15
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Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby15
Hidden decay of live trees in a tropical rain forest15
Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring15
DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years15
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Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host15
Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades15
Diversity and functional group composition drive biogeographic patterns in marine biogenic structural complexity15
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Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking15
Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States15
Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality14
Beyond seeds: Revealing the clonal reproduction of Bulbostylis paradoxa as a persistence mechanism in tropical savannas14
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population14
Germination speed modulates priority effects: Evidence from a large‐scale field study14
Predation of newly settled Dungeness crab by juvenile sunflower sea stars14
Pacific Northwest birds have shifted their abundances upslope in response to 30 years of warming temperatures14
Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes14
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits14
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time14
Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model14
Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community14
Interpreting field measurements of juvenile growth and survival rates with population growth isoclines14
Phenological shifts and increases in voltinism within a moth community over a century of anthropogenic change14
Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests14
Decades of historical outbreak cycles in a multivoltine insect reveal a plastic phenological response to climate change14
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers14
Who needs closure? Estimating abundance with a Markovian availability model for geographically open removal sampling14
Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities14
Pyrosomes, Pyrosoma atlanticum : Highlighting plankton as an important food source for coral reefs in Timor‐Leste14
Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)14
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A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data14
Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass14
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Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems13
Environmental gradients drive convergence in life history strategies among disparate but coevolved taxonomic groups13
Competition for waterborne food resources among tropical shallow‐water sponges13
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards13
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment13
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions13
FAIRTraits: An enriched, FAIR‐compliant database of plant traits from Mediterranean populations of 240 species13
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The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest13
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)13
Filter feeding by oysters reduces disease transmission in a marine host–parasite system13
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning13
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes13
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Natal dispersal patterns in a social wild mammal: What does family tell us?12
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly12
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir12
Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest12
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Species‐specific responses of leaf herbivory and defenses along a latitudinal gradient12
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities12
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems12
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance12
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species12
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities12
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Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models12
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent12
Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model12
Environmental context alters plant–soil feedback effects on plant coexistence12
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change12
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Unprecedented tropical cyclone in temperate‐boreal ecotone drives declines in emergent conifers and canopy complexity12
Seasonal differences in predation risk among seagrass epifauna species stabilize community‐level predation over time12
Illustrations of Handbook of the Birds of the World: Datasets of RGB values and color classification of birds11
Evolutionary history shapes grassland productivity through opposing effects on complementarity and selection11
Overgrowth competition or facilitation from cushion plants: Implication for the role of plant–plant interactions11
Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines11
Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity11
Why statistical innovations?11
The effects of dispersal, herbivory, and competition on plant community assembly11
Substrate size modifies stream grazer–biofilm interactions in the presence of invertivorous fish11
Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics11
Specialized petal with conspicuously fringed margin influences reproductive success in Habenaria radiata (Orchidaceae)11
High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes11
Reviewers of manuscripts11
A global database of butterfly species native distributions11
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