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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Leaf allocation improves predictability of interspecific growth rates in a broadleaf deciduous temperate forest140
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”85
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range83
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species69
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity65
Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness62
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before59
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger58
Stochastic colonization, transient and boom–bust dynamics shape invasions by native taxa56
Functional properties improve predictions of long‐term productivity invariability but not resistance to drought55
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau52
Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments50
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness49
Habitat fidelity in hawksbill sea turtles49
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators49
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth48
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions47
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web46
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems44
Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night44
Plant‐herbivore interactions in Atlantic Forest: A dataset of host plants and their gall‐inducing insects41
A general framework for invasion cycles in ecology41
Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus40
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects39
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)39
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Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes39
Urban landscapes as ecological filters: Insights from a Neotropical bird assemblage38
Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time37
Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients37
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests34
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Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers34
Amphibious feeding mode in an anguillid fish33
High rises and optimal temperatures: Grasshopper microclimate selection33
Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom33
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion32
Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams32
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography32
Landscape structure and species life history affect abundance‐occupancy relationships32
Do plant communities show constant final yield?31
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database31
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms30
A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co‐roosting host communities30
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient30
Erratum for “Rates and controls of nitrogen fixation in postfire lodgepole pine forests”30
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size30
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone30
Is spider resting metabolic rate more strongly associated with ecological guild or extreme habitat conditions?30
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change29
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms29
Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis29
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Small rainfall events increase belowground production in Chihuahuan Desert grassland28
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction28
Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis27
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century27
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota27
Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models27
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control27
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers26
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant26
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?26
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids26
Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey26
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters26
Native trees are related to advanced bird breeding phenology and increased reproductive success along an urban gradient25
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)25
Pairwise interactions and serial bottlenecks help explain species composition in a multispecies microbial community25
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements25
How strong is enemy release? A systematic compilation across taxa and approaches25
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs25
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors24
Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights24
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP : A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps24
Oh deer! Videography reveals a range of defensive behaviors against a cervid by a ground‐nesting bird24
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide24
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship24
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient24
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems24
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems23
Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates23
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions23
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time23
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence23
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Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)22
Small first leaves promote subsequent leaf development in Padus grayana22
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The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality22
Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model22
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning22
Discovery of an unidentified species of nicothoid copepod infesting cancrid crabs in Santa Barbara, California21
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not21
Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India21
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Limited responses of lizard assemblages to experimental fire regimes in an Australian tropical savanna21
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island21
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Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales21
Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider20
Genome‐wide associations of leaf spectral variation in MAGIC lines of Nicotiana attenuata20
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed20
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating20
Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks20
Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream20
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs20
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara20
Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data20
Joint species‐trait distribution modeling: The role of intraspecific trait variation in community assembly20
Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat19
One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities19
Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data19
A 2100‐km jaguar journey redefines mobility and large‐scale conservation priorities during large carnivore dispersal19
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance19
Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration19
Applying invasion biology frameworks to predict the impacts of range‐expanding predators19
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Indirect niche construction: A coffee pest facilitates its own ant natural enemies18
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Impacts of large herbivores on savanna plant communities: Predictive models of herbivore selectivity and plant response18
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?18
Consequences of phenological shifts are determined by the number of generations per season18
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)18
Dear neighbor: Trees with extrafloral nectaries facilitate defense and growth of adjacent undefended trees18
Function of an extraordinary display in sarcastic fringeheads (Neoclinusblanchardi) with comments on its evolution18
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The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest17
Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests17
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NOTIFICATION : InsectChange : a Global Database of Temporal Changes in Insect and Arachnid Assemblages17
DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years17
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Swimming snakes wipe out endemic lizards from Mediterranean islets17
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds17
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The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption16
The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations16
Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment16
A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment16
It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms16
An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants16
Diversity and functional group composition drive biogeographic patterns in marine biogenic structural complexity16
Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes16
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests16
A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic16
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Linking genome size variation to phenotypic selection on target traits15
Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat15
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction15
Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants15
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Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring15
Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds15
Historical vertebrate herbivory drives ontogenetic shifts in plant defense across oceanic islands15
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Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance15
From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities15
Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab15
MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species15
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Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby14
Predation of newly settled Dungeness crab by juvenile sunflower sea stars14
Phenological shifts and increases in voltinism within a moth community over a century of anthropogenic change14
Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality14
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population14
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Who needs closure? Estimating abundance with a Markovian availability model for geographically open removal sampling14
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Beyond seeds: Revealing the clonal reproduction of Bulbostylis paradoxa as a persistence mechanism in tropical savannas14
Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host14
Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)14
Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States14
Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities14
Germination speed modulates priority effects: Evidence from a large‐scale field study13
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions13
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Hidden decay of live trees in a tropical rain forest13
A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data13
Interpreting field measurements of juvenile growth and survival rates with population growth isoclines13
Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community13
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits13
Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment13
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Atlas of Arctic bone modification13
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers13
Decades of historical outbreak cycles in a multivoltine insect reveal a plastic phenological response to climate change13
Pacific Northwest birds have shifted their abundances upslope in response to 30 years of warming temperatures13
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time13
Ground‐to‐canopy monitoring reveals hidden ecological patterns in Congo Basin mammals13
Competition for waterborne food resources among tropical shallow‐water sponges13
Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking13
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Pyrosomes, Pyrosoma atlanticum : Highlighting plankton as an important food source for coral reefs in Timor‐Leste13
Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass13
Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades13
FAIRTraits: An enriched, FAIR‐compliant database of plant traits from Mediterranean populations of 240 species12
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest12
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems12
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir12
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems12
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Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes12
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards12
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly12
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates12
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change12
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities12
Filter feeding by oysters reduces disease transmission in a marine host–parasite system12
Environmental gradients drive convergence in life history strategies among disparate but coevolved taxonomic groups12
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent12
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance12
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)12
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Species‐specific responses of leaf herbivory and defenses along a latitudinal gradient12
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models12
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species12
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning12
Seasonal differences in predation risk among seagrass epifauna species stabilize community‐level predation over time12
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes12
Natal dispersal patterns in a social wild mammal: What does family tell us?12
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Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest11
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Reliance on blue, green, and brown energy channels drives a shift in the trophic position of riparian spiders11
Parasitism by multiple strepsipterans accelerates timing of adult parasite emergence11
Illustrations of Handbook of the Birds of the World: Datasets of RGB values and color classification of birds11
The effects of dispersal, herbivory, and competition on plant community assembly11
High sensitivity of tropical forest birds to deforestation at lower altitudes11
Unprecedented tropical cyclone in temperate‐boreal ecotone drives declines in emergent conifers and canopy complexity11
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Environmental context alters plant–soil feedback effects on plant coexistence11
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Assessing how biofilms modulate stream periphyton metacommunity assemblage: A translocation experiment11
Substrate size modifies stream grazer–biofilm interactions in the presence of invertivorous fish11
Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines11
Why statistical innovations?11
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Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model11
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Annual biomass spatial data for southern California (2001–2021): Above‐ and belowground, standing dead, and litter11
Trait space and compactness: A new perspective on explaining variations in primary productivity11
Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity11
Overgrowth competition or facilitation from cushion plants: Implication for the role of plant–plant interactions11
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