Ecology

Article	Citations
A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology	168
The misuse of ratios in ecological stoichiometry	106
Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment	97
EpiList 1.0: a global checklist of vascular epiphytes	83
Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of range expansion	78
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony	74
Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time	63
Ecological traits and the spatial structure of competitive coexistence among carnivores	59
Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter	56
Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa	54
A framework and standardized terminology to facilitate the study of predation‐risk effects	53
Community size can affect the signals of ecological drift and niche selection on biodiversity	52
COMBINE: a coalesced mammal database of intrinsic and extrinsic traits	50
Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance in ants	47
Response diversity in corals: hidden differences in bleaching mortality among cryptic Pocillopora species	46
Year effects: Interannual variation as a driver of community assembly dynamics	44
Ectomycorrhizal fungi drive positive phylogenetic plant–soil feedbacks in a regionally dominant tropical plant family	44
Lignin lags, leads, or limits the decomposition of litter and soil organic carbon	44
How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability	38
Assessment of the impacts of an unprecedented heatwave on intertidal shellfish of the Salish Sea	38
Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs	37
Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships across space and over time	37
Abiotic factors and plant biomass, not plant diversity, strongly shape grassland arthropods under drought conditions	37
The dynamics and stoichiometry of dissolved organic carbon release by kelp	37
Remote sensing: generation of long‐term kelp bed data sets for evaluation of impacts of climatic variation	37

The indirect paths to cascading effects of extinctions in mutualistic networks	36
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality	35
Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C3 grasslands	35
Nitrogen enrichment buffers phosphorus limitation by mobilizing mineral‐bound soil phosphorus in grasslands	35
Toward quantitative metabarcoding	35
Soil nutrients and precipitation are major drivers of global patterns of grass leaf silicification	35
SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States	34
Do plant–microbe interactions support the Stress Gradient Hypothesis?	34
Greater root phosphatase activity of tropical trees at low phosphorus despite strong variation among species	34
Co‐occurrence history increases ecosystem stability and resilience in experimental plant communities	34
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi	33
Targeted plant defense: silicon conserves hormonal defense signaling impacting chewing but not fluid‐feeding herbivores	33
Flight efficiency explains differences in natal dispersal distances in birds	32
Determinants of trophic cascade strength in freshwater ecosystems: a global analysis	31
Spatial heterogeneity facilitates carnivore coexistence	31
Eutrophication induces shifts in the trophic position of invertebrates in aquatic food webs	31
An assessment of statistical methods for nonindependent data in ecological meta‐analyses	31
Stress gradients and biodiversity: monoculture vulnerability drives stronger biodiversity effects during drought years	31
Volatile organic compounds from leaf litter decomposition alter soil microbial communities and carbon dynamics	31
Cumulative meta‐analysis identifies declining but negative impacts of invasive species on richness after 20 yr	30
The plasticity of ungulate migration in a changing world	30
Behavioral niche partitioning reexamined: Do behavioral differences predict dietary differences in warblers?	29
Stronger predation intensity and impact on prey communities in the tropics	29
Soil precipitation legacies influence intraspecific plant–soil feedback	29
A graphical causal model for resolving species identity effects and biodiversity–ecosystem function correlations	29
Interactive impacts of climate change and land‐use change on the demography of montane birds	28
The propagule doesn’t fall far from the tree, especially after short‐interval, high‐severity fire	27
Assessing the functional relationship between dung beetle traits and dung removal, burial, and seedling emergence	27
Where and when to hunt? Decomposing predation success of an ambush carnivore	27
Nitrogen addition amplifies the nonlinear drought response of grassland productivity to extended growing‐season droughts	27
Multiple observation processes in spatial capture–recapture models: How much do we gain?	26
Tracking snowmelt to jump the green wave: phenological drivers of migration in a northern ungulate	26
Species pool size alters species–area relationships during experimental community assembly	26
Nikolaeva et al.'s reference book on seed dormancy and germination	26
Simulated rhizosphere deposits induce microbial N‐mining that may accelerate shrubification in the subarctic	26
Relationships between Pacific salmon and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for ecosystem‐based management	26
Pollinator community species richness dilutes prevalence of multiple viruses within multiple host species	25
NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics	25
A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales	24
Plasticity in response to plant–plant interactions and water availability	24
Evolutionary history drives aspects of stoichiometric niche variation and functional effects within a guild	23
Biological invasions reveal how niche change affects the transferability of species distribution models	23
Nutrients mitigate the impacts of extreme drought on plant invasions	23
The allometry of locomotion	23
Life‐history traits, geographical range, and conservation aspects of reef fishes from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific	23
Reproductive phenology across the lunar cycle: parental decisions, offspring responses, and consequences for reef fish	23
Mangrove growth response to experimental warming is greatest near the range limit in northeast Florida	23
An integrated path for spatial capture–recapture and animal movement modeling	23
Time‐traveling seeds reveal that plant regeneration and growth traits are responding to climate change	22
Climate sensitivity of understory trees differs from overstory trees in temperate mesic forests	22

Evidence for Elton's diversity–invasibility hypothesis from belowground	22
Competition for light and persistence of rare light‐demanding species within tree‐fall gaps in a moist tropical forest	22
Magnitude and direction of stream–forest community interactions change with timescale	22
Similar composition of functional roles in Andean seed‐dispersal networks, despite high species and interaction turnover	22
Plant functional traits reflect different dimensions of species invasiveness	21
NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics	21
Full lifetime perspectives on the costs and benefits of lay‐date variation in tree swallows	21
The role of warm, dry summers and variation in snowpack on phytoplankton dynamics in mountain lakes	21
Partitioning the colonization and extinction components of beta diversity across disturbance gradients	21
Adaptations to light predict the foraging niche and disassembly of avian communities in tropical countrysides	21
Previous exposure mediates the response of eelgrass to future warming via clonal transgenerational plasticity	21
Functional traits driving species role in the structure of terrestrial vertebrate scavenger networks	21
Interspecific and interpopulation variation in individual diet specialization: Do environmental factors have a role?	21
Transient top‐down and bottom‐up effects of resources pulsed to multiple trophic levels	21
Declines in plant productivity drive loss of soil elevation in a tidal freshwater marsh exposed to saltwater intrusion	20
Digital biodiversity data sets reveal breeding phenology and its drivers in a widespread North American mammal	20
Soil engineering by ants facilitates plant compensation for large herbivore removal of aboveground biomass	20
The role of native and introduced birds in transmission of avian malaria in Hawaii	20
Optimal sampling design for spatial capture–recapture	20
Quantifying the demographic vulnerabilities of dry woodlands to climate and competition using rangewide monitoring data	20
Interspecific competition between resident and wintering birds: experimental evidence and consequences of coexistence	20
Scale‐dependent effects of host patch traits on species composition in a stickleback parasite metacommunity	20
Modifying connectivity to promote state change reversal: the importance of geomorphic context and plant–soil feedbacks	20
DAMA: the global Distribution of Alien Mammals database	20
Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness	20
Mycorrhizal type influences plant density dependence and species richness across 15 temperate forests	20
Arctic and boreal paleofire records reveal drivers of fire activity and departures from Holocene variability	20
Revisiting the paradigm of shark‐driven trophic cascades in coral reef ecosystems	19
How mutualisms influence the coexistence of competing species	19
As the Arctic becomes boreal: ongoing shifts in a high‐Arctic seabird community	19
Ocean warming and species range shifts affect rates of ecosystem functioning by altering consumer–resource interactions	19
Integrating distance sampling and presence‐only data to estimate species abundance	19
Environmental variation drives continental‐scale synchrony of European beech reproduction	19
Assessing the impact of taxon resolution on network structure	19
Effects of mangrove cover on coastal erosion during a hurricane in Texas, USA	19
Stochasticity‐induced stabilization in ecology and evolution: a new synthesis	18
High environmental stress and productivity increase functional diversity along a deep‐sea hydrothermal vent gradient	18
Foraging strategy mediates ectotherm predator–prey responses to climate warming	18
Toward a function‐first framework to make soil microbial ecology predictive	18
CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination	18
Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes	18
Mixed‐species groups of Serengeti grazers: a test of the stress gradient hypothesis	18
Warming and shifting phenology accelerate an invasive plant life cycle	18
Negative impacts of dominance on bee communities: Does the influence of invasive honey bees differ from native bees?	18
Plant traits are differentially linked to performance in a semiarid ecosystem	18
Multitrophic diversity and biotic associations influence subalpine forest ecosystem multifunctionality	18
The long and the short of it: Mechanisms of synchronous and compensatory dynamics across temporal scales	17
Incorporating abiotic controls on animal movements in metacommunities	17
Satellite‐derived NDVI underestimates the advancement of alpine vegetation growth over the past three decades	17
Efficiency of crustacean zooplankton in transferring allochthonous carbon in a boreal lake	17
An unusually high shrubline on the Tibetan Plateau	17
Responses of a semiarid grassland to recurrent drought are linked to community functional composition	17
Negative effects of an allelopathic invader on AM fungal plant species drive community‐level responses	17
An experimental approach to assessing the impact of ecosystem engineers on biodiversity and ecosystem functions	17
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems	17
Woody plant growth increases with precipitation intensity in a cold semiarid system	17
Distinct responses of antagonistic and mutualistic networks to agricultural intensification	17
A nucleation framework for transition between alternate states: short‐circuiting barriers to ecosystem recovery	17
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands	17
Microbe‐mediated local adaptation to limestone barrens is context dependent	17
Shedding light on environmentally transmitted parasites: lighter conditions within lakes restrict epidemic size	17
Responses of tree growth and biomass production to nutrient addition in a semi‐deciduous tropical forest in Africa	16
Natural abundance of 13C and 15N provides evidence for plant–soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a N‐fertilized meadow	16
Omitted variable bias in studies of plant interactions	16
Species‐specific, age‐varying plant traits affect herbivore growth and survival	16
Arboreality drives heat tolerance while elevation drives cold tolerance in tropical rainforest ants	16
Resource‐enhancing global changes drive a whole‐ecosystem shift to faster cycling but decrease diversity	16
Fungivorous nematodes drive microbial diversity and carbon cycling in soil	16
Multi‐tissue and multi‐isotope (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O and 87/86Sr) data for early medieval human and animal palaeoecology	16
Fungal–fungal and fungal–bacterial interactions in aquatic decomposer communities: bacteria promote fungal diversity	16
Nitrogen‐fixing trees increase soil nitrous oxide emissions: a meta‐analysis	16
InsectChange: a global database of temporal changes in insect and arachnid assemblages	16
Warming acts through earlier snowmelt to advance but not extend alpine community flowering	16
Ecosystem engineering by deep‐nesting monitor lizards	16
Disentangling dimensions of phytochemical diversity: alpha and beta have contrasting effects on an insect herbivore	16
Resource exploitation efficiency collapses the home range of an apex predator	16
Allochthonous aquatic subsidies alleviate predation pressure in terrestrial ecosystems	16
Global pattern of soil priming effect intensity and its environmental drivers	15
Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought	15
Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis	15

Invasive corals hitchhiking in the Southwestern Atlantic	15
A multifaceted approach to analyzing taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic β diversity	15
Beta diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales	15
What happens in Europe stays in Europe: apparent evolution by an invader does not help at home	15
Trophic cascade driven by behavioral fine‐tuning as naïve prey rapidly adjust to a novel predator	15
Vulnerability of grassland seed banks to resource‐enhancing global changes	15
FoRAGE database: A compilation of functional responses for consumers and parasitoids	14
Tree biomass allocation differs by mycorrhizal association	14
Habitat fragmentation changes top‐down and bottom‐up controls of food webs	14
A specialist bee and its host plants experience phenological shifts at different rates in response to climate change	14
Intraspecific variability drives functional changes in lichen epiphytic communities across Europe	14
Pervasive and persistent effects of ant invasion and fragmentation on native ant assemblages	14
Disentangling the role of oomycete soil pathogens as drivers of plant–soil feedbacks	14
Local adaptation to herbivory within tropical tree species along a rainfall gradient	14
Animal aggregations promote emergent aquatic plant production at the aquatic–terrestrial interface	14
The spatial synchrony of species richness and its relationship to ecosystem stability	14
Generalized model‐based solutions to false‐positive error in species detection/nondetection data	14
Thermal evolution of life history and heat tolerance during range expansions toward warmer and cooler regions	14
Migration distance and maternal resource allocation determine timing of birth in a large herbivore	14
The contributions of lightning to biomass turnover, gap formation and plant mortality in a tropical forest	14
Parasite exposure and host susceptibility jointly drive the emergence of epidemics	14
High summer temperatures amplify functional differences between coral‐ and algae‐dominated reef communities	14
Intraspecific variation and energy channel coupling within a Chilean kelp forest	14
Growing‐season length and soil microbes influence the performance of a generalist bunchgrass beyond its current range	13
Influences of the bark economics spectrum and positive termite feedback on bark and xylem decomposition	13
High levels of phenological asynchrony between specialized pollinators and plants with short flowering phases	13
Stronger fertilization effects on aboveground versus belowground plant properties across nine U.S. grasslands	13
Light and thermal niches of ground‐foraging Amazonian insectivorous birds	13
Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems	13
Causal hypotheses accounting for correlations between decomposition rates of different mass fractions of leaf litter	13
Cool as a moose: How can browsing counteract climate warming effects across boreal forest ecosystems?	13
Evolution reverses the effect of network structure on metapopulation persistence	13
Growing‐season warming and winter soil freeze/thaw cycles increase transpiration in a northern hardwood forest	13
Differences in soil organic matter between EcM‐ and AM‐dominated forests depend on tree and fungal identity	13
Linking patterns and processes of tree community assembly across spatial scales in tropical montane forests	13
Direct and indirect effects of a keystone engineer on a shrubland‐prairie food web	13
Energetic efficiency of foraging mediates bee niche partitioning	13
A multiscale framework for disentangling the roles of evenness, density, and aggregation on diversity gradients	13
Tricky partners: native plants show stronger interaction preferences than their exotic counterparts	13
Broad aggressive interactions among African carnivores suggest intraguild killing is driven by more than competition	13
Parsimonious model selection using information theory: a modified selection rule	13
Differences in prey availability across space and time lead to interaction rewiring and reshape a predator–prey metaweb	12
A new native plant in the neighborhood: effects on plant–pollinator networks, pollination, and plant reproductive success	12
Contrasting patterns of richness, abundance, and turnover in mountain bumble bees and their floral hosts	12
Short‐term exposure to silicon rapidly enhances plant resistance to herbivory	12
Effects of plant functional group removal on CO2 fluxes and belowground C stocks across contrasting ecosystems	12
Invasive trees rely more on mycorrhizas, countering the ideal‐weed hypothesis	12
Inconsistent response of taxonomic groups to space and environment in mediterranean and tropical pond metacommunities	12
Emergent properties of microbial communities drive accelerated biogeochemical cycling in disturbed temperate forests	12
Plant–pollinator interactions between generalists persist over time and space	12
Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity	12
Megafires and thick smoke portend big problems for migratory birds	12
Reconciling trait based perspectives along a trait‐integration continuum	12
Belowground community turnover accelerates the decomposition of standing dead wood	12
Coexistence is stabilized by conspecific negative density dependence via fungal pathogens more than oomycete pathogens	12
Geographical variation of multiplex ecological networks in marine intertidal communities	12
Recovery of a large herbivore changes regulation of seagrass productivity in a naturally grazed Caribbean ecosystem	12
Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings	12
Darwin's naturalization conundrum reconciled by changes of species interactions	12
The application of community ecology theory to co‐infections in wildlife hosts	12
Large‐scale, multidecade monitoring data from kelp forest ecosystems in California and Oregon (USA)	12
Climate warming threatens the persistence of a community of disturbance‐adapted native annual plants	12
Variation in hyphal production rather than turnover regulates standing fungal biomass in temperate hardwood forests	12
Positive early‐late life‐history trait correlations in elephant seals	12
Climatic stability, not average habitat temperature, determines thermal tolerance of subterranean beetles	12
Tree diversity effects on productivity depend on mycorrhizae and life strategies in a temperate forest experiment	12
Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity	12
The chemical ecology of tropical forest diversity: Environmental variation, chemical similarity, herbivory, and richness	12
Walking on water: the unexpected evolution of arboreal lifestyle in a large top predator in the Amazon flooded forests	12
How and why plant ionomes vary across North American grasslands and its implications for herbivore abundance	12
Remarkable anoxia tolerance by stoneflies from a floodplain aquifer	12
Heatwave restructures marine intertidal communities across a stress gradient	12
Benthic micro‐ and macro‐community succession and coral recruitment under overfishing and nutrient enrichment	12
Community‐wide seasonal shifts in thermal tolerances of mosquitoes	12
A flexible and efficient Bayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data	11
The response of lianas to 20 yr of nutrient addition in a Panamanian forest	11
Decline effects are rare in ecology	11
Honey bee introductions displace native bees and decrease pollination of a native wildflower	11
Dominance, diversity, and niche breadth in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities	11
Lianas maintain insectivorous bird abundance and diversity in a neotropical forest	11
An assessment of statistical methods for nonindependent data in ecological meta‐analyses: Comment	11
Plant–soil interactions limit lifetime fitness outside a native plant’s geographic range margin	11
Competition–colonization dynamics and multimodality in diversity–disturbance relationships	11
Early resources lead to persistent benefits for bumble bee colony dynamics	11
Migratory birds with delayed spring departure migrate faster but pay the costs	11
The characteristic time of ecological communities	11
Phylogenetic conservatism explains why plants are more likely to produce fleshy fruits in the tropics	11
Tree seedling trait optimization and growth in response to local‐scale soil and light variability	11
Variation in individual reproductive performance amplified with population size in a long‐lived carnivore	11
Dose relationships can exacerbate, mute, or reverse the impact of heterospecific host density on infection prevalence	11
The legacy of biogeographic history on the composition and structure of Andean forests	11
Revisiting the drivers of acoustic similarities in tropical anuran assemblages	11
Decreased bee emergence along an elevation gradient: Implications for climate change revealed by a transplant experiment	11
Forest conversion to oil palm compresses food chain length in tropical streams	11
Unusually large upward shifts in cold‐adapted, montane mammals as temperature warms	11