Ecology

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night111
Niche expansion via acquired metabolism facilitates competitive dominance in planktonic communities100
Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems92
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Host density shapes the relative contribution of vector‐based and aerial transmission of a pathogenic fungus88
Leaf allocation improves predictability of interspecific growth rates in a broadleaf deciduous temperate forest74
Plant‐herbivore interactions in Atlantic Forest: A dataset of host plants and their gall‐inducing insects62
Habitat fidelity in hawksbill sea turtles60
Erratum to “Poor relationships between NEON airborne observation platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland”60
Climate warming increases insect‐driven seed removal of two elaiosome‐bearing invasive thistle species54
Spatial habitat heterogeneity influences host–pathogen dynamics in a patchy population of Ranchman's tiger moth54
Condo or cuisine? The function of fine woody debris in driving decomposition, detritivores, and their predators52
Dynamic sensitivity to resource availability influences population responses to mismatches in a shorebird48
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity47
Fire, grazers, and browsers interact with grass competition to determine tree establishment in an African savanna45
Transgenerational pathogen effects: Maternal pathogen exposure reduces offspring fitness44
A lift in snail's gut provides an efficient colonization route for tardigrades42
VTMaxHerp: A data set of voluntary thermal maximum temperatures of amphibians and reptiles from two Brazilian hotspots41
Risk effects cascade up to an obligate scavenger40
Phenological sensitivity of Bromus tectorum genotypes depends on current and source environments40
Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau40
An exploration of the hidden endosymbionts of Corbicula in the native range38
Comparing edge and fragmentation effects within seagrass communities: A meta‐analysis38
Biological invasions alter the structure of a tropical freshwater food web37
Camera trap surveys of Atlantic Forest mammals: A data set for analyses considering imperfect detection (2004–2020)37
FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions37
Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems36
Cryptogam plant community stability: Warming weakens influences of species richness but enhances effects of evenness36
Climate and topography control variation in the tropical dry forest–rainforest ecotone35
Integrated evidence‐based extent of occurrence for North American bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and before35
An Ips bark beetle tracks late Holocene range extension of its pinyon pine host34
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Icing‐related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes34
Turtle‐mediated dispersal of anostracan dormant eggs: Evidence for dominance hierarchy effects34
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Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers33
Plant community data collected by Robert H. Whittaker in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California, USA33
Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south‐temperate humid forests32
Resource quantity and quality co‐limit consumer production in forest streams32
GABI‐I: The global ant biodiversity informatics‐island database32
A 16th‐century biodiversity and crop inventory31
Predatory walls may impair climate warming‐associated population expansion31
Amphibious feeding mode in an anguillid fish31
Disturbance to biocrusts decreased cyanobacteria,N‐fixer abundance, and grass leafNbut increased fungal abundance31
High rises and optimal temperatures: Grasshopper microclimate selection30
Is spider resting metabolic rate more strongly associated with ecological guild or extreme habitat conditions?30
Measuring complexity for hierarchical models using effective degrees of freedom30
Root microbes can improve plant tolerance to insect damage: A systematic review and meta‐analysis30
Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time29
Endangered Black‐faced Spoonbills alter migration across the Yellow Sea due to offshore wind farms29
Landscape structure and species life history affect abundance‐occupancy relationships28
Grassland bud and shoot demographic responses to single and recurrent droughts vary across an aridity gradient28
Precipitation versus temperature as phenology controls in drylands28
The effectiveness of species distribution models in predicting local abundance depends on model grain size27
Maximum stem diameter predicts liana population demography27
Disturbance‐mediated invasions are dependent on community resource abundance26
Historical forest disturbance results in variation in functional resilience of seed dispersal mutualisms26
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change26
Escape from harmful soil biota at high elevations: Plant–soil feedbacks along stress gradients26
Breaking stereotypes in sexual selection: The female frogs' subtle seduction25
Do plant communities show constant final yield?25
Ten years (2013–2023) of fish assemblage data collected seasonally with diver surveys on artificial and natural reefs25
Residential development reduces black bear (Ursus americanus) opportunity to scavenge cougar (Puma concolor) killed prey25
Dark nectar pouches are visually similar to colored nectar in bird‐pollinated flowers25
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Cue the chorus: Canyon treefrog calling phenology on the falling limb of spring floods and warming nights24
Life on the edge: Two dissimilar extreme events alter food webs through modification of top‐down control24
Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence24
A hurricane alters the relationship between mangrove cover and marine subsidies24
Joining the locals: Plant invaders shift leaf defenses to match native neighbors24
Small rainfall events increase belowground production in Chihuahuan Desert grassland23
Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis23
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)23
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide23
Herbivory and allelopathy contribute jointly to the diversity–invasibility relationship23
Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant23
Bird migration on the edge: Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates23
A peculiar coral formation in the Mediterranean Sea, and its associated biota23
Pollination of Oberonia japonica (Orchidaceae) by gall midges (Cecidomyiidae)23
Delayed trophic response of a marine predator to ocean condition and prey availability during the past century22
Mutualisms in a warming world: How increased temperatures affect the outcomes of multi‐mutualist interactions22
Estimating latent individual demographic heterogeneity using structural equation models22
Stochasticity causes high β‐diversity and functional divergence of bacterial assemblages in closed systems22
What can occupancy models gain from time‐to‐detection data?22
Predation and competition drive trait diversity across space and time21
The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality21
Temperature impacts the environmental suitability for malaria transmission by Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi21
Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning21
FRUGIVORY CAMTRAP: A dataset of plant–animal interactions recorded with camera traps21
Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids21
Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems21
A dataset of zooplankton occurrence, abundance, and biomass in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters21
Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient21
Going with the floe:Sea‐ice movement affects distance and destination duringAdélie penguin winter movements21
Floral diversity increases butterfly diversity in a multitrophic metacommunity21
Predicting responses to climate change using a joint species, spatially dependent physiologically guided abundance model20
A mechanistic model of functional response provides new insights into indirect interactions among arctic tundra prey20
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Spawning and larval development of Colossendeis megalonyx, a giant Antarctic sea spider20
Small first leaves promote subsequent leaf development in Padus grayana20
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Limited responses of lizard assemblages to experimental fire regimes in an Australian tropical savanna19
Bucketloads of aquatic invertebrates in a dry intermittent stream19
Joint species‐trait distribution modeling: The role of intraspecific trait variation in community assembly19
How does parasite environmental transmission stage concentration change before, during, and after disease outbreaks?19
Discovery of an unidentified species of nicothoid copepod infesting cancrid crabs in Santa Barbara, California19
Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat19
Maladaptive plastic responses of flowering time to geothermal heating19
One hundred and six years of change in a Sonoran Desert plant community: Impact of climate anomalies and trends in species sensitivities19
Flower power: Modeling floral resources of wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) for bee pollinators based on 3D data19
Environmental warming increases the importance of high‐turnover energy channels in stream food webs19
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Tolerance between wolves and golden jackals in India19
Plant defense synergies and antagonisms affect performance of specialist herbivores of common milkweed19
Spread of a sea urchin disease to the Indian Ocean causes widespread mortalities—Evidence from Réunion Island19
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara19
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Fungal composition associated with host tree identity mediates nutrient addition effects on wood microbial respiration19
Regional variation drives differences in microbial communities associated with sugar maple across a latitudinal range19
Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in Solanum carolinense19
A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance19
Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales18
Fungal communities are passengers in community development of dune ecosystems, while bacteria are not18
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Interspecific tandem flights in nocturnally migrating terrestrial birds18
An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants18
Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks18
Sample coverage estimation, rarefaction, and extrapolation based on sample‐based abundance data18
Perfoliate leaves reduce herbivory in the shield‐bracted monkeyflower (Mimulus glaucescens)18
The Pharaoh's snakes of the teasel: New insights into Francis Darwin's observations18
Diet analysis using generalized linear models derived from foraging processes using R package mvtweedie18
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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Calling and foot‐flagging: Territory competition behavior of two male Buergeria otai17
MADERA: A standardized Pan‐Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species17
Internal seed dispersal of Rhynchotechum discolor (Gesneriaceae) by a freshwater crab17
Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests17
From treetops to river bottoms: Exploring the role of phyllosphere fungi in aquatic fungal communities17
Phylogenetic and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring17
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Dispersal limitation and fire feedbacks maintain mesic savannas in Madagascar: Comment17
Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat17
A long‐lasting, distant journey of a male griffon vulture informs on the success of differential parental investment17
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Eco‐evolutionary contributions to community trait change in floating aquatic plants17
Estimates of species‐level tolerance of urban habitat in North American birds17
Absence of stress‐promoted facilitation coupled with a competition decrease in the microbiome of ephemeral saline lakes16
AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A data set of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest16
It's about (taking up) space: Discreteness of individuals and the strength of spatial coexistence mechanisms16
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NOTIFICATION : InsectChange : a Global Database of Temporal Changes in Insect and Arachnid Assemblages16
Complex nonmonotonic responses of biodiversity to habitat destruction16
Mycorrhizal dominance influences tree species richness and richness–biomass relationship in China's forests16
Dispersal capacity underlies scale‐dependent changes in species richness patterns under human disturbance16
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DiverReef: A global database of the behavior of recreational divers and their interactions with reefs over 20 years16
The year of a leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during aquatic decomposition and consumption16
The influence of lightning on insect and fungal dynamics in a lowland tropical forest16
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A keystone avian predator faces elevated energy expenditure in a warming Arctic16
Pyrosomes, Pyrosoma atlanticum: Highlighting plankton as an important food source for coral reefs in Timor‐Leste15
Warming shifts soil microbial communities and tropical tree seedling mortality15
Decades of historical outbreak cycles in a multivoltine insect reveal a plastic phenological response to climate change15
Hidden decay of live trees in a tropical rain forest15
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Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host15
Pacific Northwest birds have shifted their abundances upslope in response to 30 years of warming temperatures15
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Developmental stage‐dependent effects of perceived predation risk on nestling tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)15
Top‐Down Processes Drive Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Diversity in a Model Aquatic Microbial Community15
Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru14
Contrasting roles of fungal and oomycete pathogens in mediating nitrogen addition and winter grazing effects on biomass14
Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests14
Biological modification of coastal pH depends on community composition and time14
Beyond seeds: Revealing the clonal reproduction of Bulbostylis paradoxa as a persistence mechanism in tropical savannas14
Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community14
Seasonal timing of ecosystem linkage mediates life‐history variation in a salmonid fish population14
Divergent seed dispersal outcomes: Interactions between seed, disperser, and forest traits14
Remotely sensed crown nutrient concentrations modulate forest reproduction across the contiguous United States14
Modeling spatiotemporal abundance and movement dynamics using an integrated spatial capture–recapture movement model14
A flexible and efficientBayesian implementation of point process models for spatial capture–recapture data14
Predator signaling of multiple prey on different trophic levels structures trophic cascades14
Spawning fish maintains trophic synchrony across time and space beyond thermal drivers14
Interpreting field measurements of juvenile growth and survival rates with population growth isoclines14
Stream and ocean hydrodynamics mediate partial migration strategies in an amphidromous Hawaiian goby13
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Tree demographic drivers across temperate rain forests, after accounting for site‐, species‐, and stem‐level attributes13
Mate‐guarding male desert locusts act as parasol for ovipositing females in an extremely hot desert environment13
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Regeneration strategies and forest resilience to changing fire regimes: Insights from a Goldilocks model13
Migrating shorebird killed by raptor at 3000 m above ground as revealed by high‐resolution tracking13
Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities13
Canopy height, rather than neighborhood effects, shapes leaf herbivory in a tropical rainforest13
Food webs coupled in space: Consumer foraging movement affects both stocks and fluxes13
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Phenotypic plasticity of light use favors a plant invader in nitrogen‐enriched ecosystems13
Predator–prey interactions across hunting mode, spatial domain size, and habitat complexities13
Growth portfolios buffer climate‐linked environmental change in marine systems13
Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species13
Competition for waterborne food resources among tropical shallow‐water sponges13
Host plant‐mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly13
Sex‐specific trade‐offs influence thermoregulation under climate change12
Environmental context alters plant–soil feedback effects on plant coexistence12
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent12
Optimal prey switching: Predator foraging costs provide a mechanism for functional responses in multi‐prey systems12
Functional trait database for Nova Scotian coastal barren, green roof, and ruderal flora12
Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities12
Will a large complex model ecosystem be viable? The essential role of positive interactions12
The unimodal intransitivity–fertility relationship is not mediated by demographic trade‐offs in a subtropical forest12
Reconciling contrasting effects of nitrogen on host immunity and pathogen transmission using stoichiometric models12
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Cover and density of southwestern ponderosa pine understory plants in permanent chart quadrats (2002–2020)12
Host infection and disease‐induced mortality modify species contributions to the environmental reservoir12
Just a cat fight or something more sinister? Infanticide is rare among female leopards12
Natal dispersal patterns in a social wild mammal: What does family tell us?12
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FAIRTraits: An enriched, FAIR‐compliant database of plant traits from Mediterranean populations of 240 species12
Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae)12
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Environmental gradients drive convergence in life history strategies among disparate but coevolved taxonomic groups12
Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates12
Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl12
Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance12
Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning12
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Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole‐nesting passerines11
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Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems11
A global database of butterfly species native distributions11
Overgrowth competition or facilitation from cushion plants: Implication for the role of plant–plant interactions11
Vibrations and mushrooms: Do environmental vibrations promote fungal growth and fruit body formation?11
Seasonal role of a specialist predator in rodent cycles: Ermine–lemming interactions in the High Arctic11
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Parasitism by multiple strepsipterans accelerates timing of adult parasite emergence11
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Integrating metabolic scaling and coexistence theories11
Patterns of frequency and density dependence are highly variable in diverse annual flowering plant communities11
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
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
Global warming disrupts the relative allocation between sexual and clonal reproduction in a common salt marsh plant11
Analyses of three‐dimensional species associations reveal departures from neutrality in a tropical forest10
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