Oecologia

Papers
(The median citation count of Oecologia is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve87
Leaf isoprene emission as a trait that mediates the growth-defense tradeoff in the face of climate stress49
Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought40
Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood36
Integrating stomatal physiology and morphology: evolution of stomatal control and development of future crops33
Linkage between species traits and plant phenology in an alpine meadow31
Short-lived species move uphill faster under climate change28
Plant species- and stage-specific differences in microbial decay of mangrove leaf litter: the older the better?27
Diversity and composition of pollen loads carried by pollinators are primarily driven by insect traits, not floral community characteristics27
Effects of plant species diversity on nematode community composition and diversity in a long-term biodiversity experiment26
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic bat diversity decrease from more to less complex natural habitats in the Amazon24
Costs of territoriality: a review of hypotheses, meta-analysis, and field study24
Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change24
Plant invasion impacts on fungal community structure and function depend on soil warming and nitrogen enrichment23
Individuality counts: A new comprehensive approach to foraging strategies of a tropical marine predator22
Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’22
Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use22
Among-individual differences in foraging modulate resource exploitation under perceived predation risk21
Who can pass the urban filter? A multi-taxon approach to disentangle pollinator trait–environmental relationships20
Some like it hotter: trematode transmission under changing temperature conditions20
Fatty acid accumulation in feeding types of a natural freshwater fish population20
Short- and long-term temporal changes in the assemblage structure of Amazonian dung beetles20
Nitrogen and litter addition decreased sexual reproduction and increased clonal propagation in grasslands20
Personality traits, sex and food abundance shape space use in an arboreal mammal20
Use of anthropogenic-related nest material and nest parasite prevalence have increased over the past two centuries in Australian birds20
Physiological integration can increase competitive ability in clonal plants if competition is patchy19
Hotter droughts alter resource allocation to chemical defenses in piñon pine19
High honeybee abundances reduce wild bee abundances on flowers in the city of Munich18
Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons18
Relative importance of tree species richness, tree functional type, and microenvironment for soil macrofauna communities in European forests18
Pelagic and benthic ecosystems drive differences in population and individual specializations in marine predators18
Effects of pollen and nectar inoculation by yeasts, bacteria or both on bumblebee colony development18
Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales17
Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La Muerte, Costa Rica17
Importance of hydraulic strategy trade-offs in structuring response of canopy trees to extreme drought in central Amazon17
Protein expression plasticity contributes to heat and drought tolerance of date palm17
Pollinator effectiveness is affected by intraindividual behavioral variation16
Soil water availability and branch age explain variability in xylem safety of European beech in Central Europe16
Drought at a coastal wetland affects refuelling and migration strategies of shorebirds16
Stable isotopes of tree rings reveal seasonal-to-decadal patterns during the emergence of a megadrought in the Southwestern US15
Filter-feeders have differential bottom-up impacts on green and brown food webs15
Pre-fledging quality and recruitment in an aerial insectivore reflect dynamics of insects, wetlands and climate15
Ecosystem engineering in the arboreal realm: heterogeneity of wood-boring beetle cavities and their use by cavity-nesting ants15
Seagrass-driven changes in carbonate chemistry enhance oyster shell growth15
Behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade attenuated by prey use of risky places at safe times15
Microclimatic conditions mediate the effect of deadwood and forest characteristics on a threatened beetle species, Tragosoma depsarium14
Using the right tool for the job: the difference between unsupervised and supervised analyses of multivariate ecological data14
Multi-trophic communities re-establish with canopy cover and microclimate in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment14
Pulses of anthropogenic food availability appear to benefit parents, but compromise nestling growth in urban red-winged starlings14
Behavioral effects of wolf presence on moose habitat selection: testing the landscape of fear hypothesis in an anthropogenic landscape14
Plant apparency drives leaf herbivory in seedling communities across four subtropical forests14
Altitude and latitude have different effects on population characteristics of the widespread plant Anthyllis vulneraria14
Numbers matter: how irruptive bark beetles initiate transition to self-sustaining behavior during landscape-altering outbreaks13
A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems13
Habitat loss and canopy openness mediate leaf trait plasticity of an endangered palm in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest13
The impact of variable predation risk on stress in snowshoe hares over the cycle in North America’s boreal forest: adjusting to change13
Biomass allocation and seasonal non-structural carbohydrate dynamics do not explain the success of tall forbs in short alpine grassland13
Catchment scale deforestation increases the uniqueness of subtropical stream communities13
The limiting factors and regulatory processes that control the environmental responses of C3, C3–C4 intermediate, and C4 photosynthesis13
Human-modified landscapes narrow the isotopic niche of neotropical birds13
Timing of forest fine root production advances with reduced snow cover in northern Japan: implications for climate-induced change in understory and overstory competition13
Traits, strategies, and niches of liana species in a tropical seasonal rainforest13
Effect of urbanization and its environmental stressors on the intraspecific variation of flight functional traits in two bumblebee species12
Plant silicon application alters leaf alkaloid concentrations and impacts parasitoids more adversely than their aphid hosts12
Forage stoichiometry predicts the home range size of a small terrestrial herbivore12
The effects of high-severity fires on the arboreal ant community of a Neotropical savanna12
Increased water use efficiency leads to decreased precipitation sensitivity of tree growth, but is offset by high temperatures12
Primacy of plants in driving the response of arthropod communities to drought12
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are associated with reduced nitrogen cycling rates in temperate forest soils without corresponding trends in bacterial functional groups12
An apex carnivore’s life history mediates a predator cascade12
Spatiotemporally variable snow properties drive habitat use of an Arctic mesopredator12
Fire exclusion changes belowground bud bank and bud-bearing organ composition jeopardizing open savanna resilience12
Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population12
Direct effects of selection on aboveground biomass contrast with indirect structure-mediated effects of complementarity in a subtropical forest12
Seasonal dynamics of plant pollinator networks in agricultural landscapes: how important is connector species identity in the network?11
Fundamental dietary specialisation explains differential use of resources within a koala population11
Partitioning resilience of a marine foundation species into resistance and recovery trajectories11
Mitigating impacts of invasive alien predators on an endangered sea duck amidst high native predation pressure11
Within-day dynamics of plant–pollinator networks are dominated by early flower closure: an experimental test of network plasticity11
The role of habitat configuration in shaping animal population processes: a framework to generate quantitative predictions11
Plant species composition and local habitat conditions as primary determinants of terrestrial arthropod assemblages11
Identifying the paths of climate effects on population dynamics: dynamic and multilevel structural equation model around the annual cycle11
Bulk and amino acid nitrogen isotopes suggest shifting nitrogen balance of pregnant sharks across gestation11
The contribution of landscape features, climate and topography in shaping taxonomical and functional diversity of avian communities in a heterogeneous Alpine region11
High frequency of prospecting for informed dispersal and colonisation in a social species at large spatial scale11
Increasing connectivity enhances habitat specialists but simplifies plant–insect food webs11
Short-lived legacies of Prunus serotina plant–soil feedbacks11
Legacy effects of a multi-year extreme drought on belowground bud banks in rhizomatous vs bunchgrass-dominated grasslands11
Functional importance and diversity of fungi during standing grass litter decomposition11
The size dependency of foraging behaviour: an empirical test performed on aquatic amphipods10
Topography shapes the local coexistence of tree species within species complexes of Neotropical forests10
Estimating red fox density using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture–recapture modelling10
Climate affects the outbreaks of a forest defoliator indirectly through its tree hosts10
Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities10
Learning from the past: opportunities for advancing ecological research and practice using palaeoecological data10
Dynamic interactions between apex predators reveal contrasting seasonal attraction patterns10
Environment, phylogeny, and photosynthetic pathway as determinants of leaf traits in savanna and forest graminoid species in central Brazil10
Functional traits of plants and pollinators explain resource overlap between honeybees and wild pollinators10
Multi-species prey dynamics influence local survival in resident and wintering generalist predators10
Seasonal variation in telomere dynamics in African striped mice10
Changes in arthropod community but not plant quality benefit a specialist herbivore on plants under reduced water availability10
Wild legumes maintain beneficial soil rhizobia populations despite decades of nitrogen deposition10
The distinct roles of water table depth and soil properties in controlling alternative woodland-grassland states in the Cerrado9
Metapopulation dynamics over 25 years of a beetle, Osmoderma eremita, inhabiting hollow oaks9
The temporal development of plant-soil feedback is contingent on competition and nutrient availability contexts9
Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat9
Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau9
Carbon allocation to growth and storage depends on elevation provenance in an herbaceous alpine plant of Mediterranean climate9
Plasticity in induced resistance to sequential attack by multiple herbivores in Brassica nigra9
Effects of grazing on C:N:P stoichiometry attenuate from soils to plants and insect herbivores in a semi-arid grassland9
Fire-mediated germination syndromes in Leucadendron (Proteaceae) and their functional correlates9
The effect of avian brood parasitism on physiological responses of host nestlings9
Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems9
Behavioural hydroregulation protects against acute effects of drought in a dry-skinned ectotherm9
Physiological markers suggest energetic and nutritional adjustments in male sharks linked to reproduction9
Colonization history meets further niche processes: how the identity of founders modulates the way predation structure fouling communities9
Mycorrhizal roots slow the decay of belowground litters in a temperate hardwood forest9
Soil chemistry drives below ground traits in an alternate successional pathway from forest to heath9
Continent-wide synthesis of the long-term population dynamics of quaking aspen in the face of accelerating human impacts9
The effects of plant–soil feedback on invasion resistance are soil context dependent9
The effects of personality on survival and trappability in a wild mouse during a population cycle9
Responses in honeybee and bumblebee activity to changes in weather conditions9
Mistletoes and their eucalypt hosts differ in the response of leaf functional traits to climatic moisture supply9
Native and alien species suffer from late arrival, while negative effects of multiple alien species on natives vary9
Heatwave frequency and seedling death alter stress-specific emissions of volatile organic compounds in Aleppo pine9
Interactions at surface–subterranean ecotones: structure and function of food webs within spring orifices9
Flocking in birds increases annual adult survival in a global analysis9
Russ Monson and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis8
Honeybees affect floral microbiome composition in a central food source for wild pollinators in boreal ecosystems8
Top-down and bottom-up forces explain patch utilization by two deer species and forest recruitment8
Local drivers of heterogeneity in a tropical forest: epiphytic tank bromeliads affect the availability of soil resources and conditions and indirectly affect the structure of seedling communities8
Challenging the Preference–Performance Hypothesis in an above-belowground insect8
Seasonal trends in adult apparent survival and reproductive trade-offs reveal potential constraints to earlier nesting in a migratory bird8
Foraging costs drive within-colony spatial segregation in shearwaters from two contrasting environments in the North Atlantic Ocean8
Age-specific reproduction in female pied flycatchers: evidence for asynchronous aging8
Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals: a meta-analysis8
Responses to predation risk cues and alarm pheromones affect plant virus transmission by an aphid vector8
Seaduck engineers in the Arctic Archipelago: nesting eiders deliver marine nutrients and transform the chemistry of island soils, plants, and ponds8
Structural resilience and high interaction dissimilarity of plant–pollinator interaction networks in fire-prone grasslands8
Complex hydroperiod induced carryover responses for survival, growth, and endurance of a pond-breeding amphibian8
Disparate roost sites drive intraspecific physiological variation in a Malagasy bat8
Intraspecific variation in plant economic traits predicts trembling aspen resistance to a generalist insect herbivore8
The contribution of plant spatial arrangement to bumble bee flower constancy8
Predation risk differentially affects aphid morphotypes: impacts on prey behavior, fecundity and transgenerational dispersal morphology8
Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada8
Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies8
Soil carbon and plant richness relationships differ among grassland types, disturbance history and plant functional groups8
Distinctive seed dispersal and seed bank patterns of invasive African grasses favour their invasion in a neotropical savanna8
Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations8
Urbanization’s influence on the distribution of mange in a carnivore revealed with multistate occupancy models8
Changes in bee functional traits at community and intraspecific levels along an elevational gradient in a Mexical-type scrubland8
Pre-dispersal seed predators boost seed production in a short-lived plant8
Measuring foraging preferences in bumble bees: a comparison of popular laboratory methods and a test for sucrose preferences following neonicotinoid exposure8
Variation in breeding phenology in response to climate change in two passerine species7
Soil fertility and water availability effects on trait dispersion and phylogenetic relatedness of tropical terrestrial ferns7
Individual differences in habitat selection mediate landscape level predictions of a functional response7
Phenotypic variation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles from contrasting climatic regimes is the result of adaptation and plasticity7
Modelling selection, drift, dispersal and their interactions in the community assembly of Amazonian soil mites7
Top-down regulation of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) in its native range in the Pacific Northwest of North America7
Evaluating the effects of water and food limitation on the life history of an insect using a multiple-stressor framework7
Wildfire severity influences offspring sex ratio in a native solitary bee7
Sampling effort and the drivers of plant species richness in the Brazilian coastal regions7
Detecting turnover among complex communities using null models: a case study with sky-island haemosporidian parasites7
The contribution of environmental and dispersal filters on phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity patterns in Amazonian tree communities7
Nest substrate, more than ant activity, drives fungal pathogen community dissimilarity in seed-dispersing ant nests7
Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species7
Contrasting population manipulations reveal resource competition between two large marsupials: bare-nosed wombats and eastern grey kangaroos7
High clutch failure rate due to unpredictable rainfall for an ephemeral pool-breeding frog7
Gregarines modulate insect responses to sublethal insecticide residues7
Invasive tree cover covaries with environmental factors to explain the functional composition of riparian plant communities7
Limited sexual segregation in a dimorphic avian scavenger, the Andean condor7
Lianas do not reduce tree biomass accumulation in young successional tropical dry forests7
Plant community composition alters moisture and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in semi-arid shrubland7
Temporal dynamics in alpine snowpatch plants along a snowmelt gradient explained by functional traits and strategies7
Interactions among intrinsic water-use efficiency and climate influence growth and flowering in a common desert shrub7
Effects of environmental heterogeneity on phenotypic variation of the endemic plant Lilium pomponium in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps7
Bird rookery nutrient over-enrichment as a potential accelerant of mangrove cay decline in Belize7
Complementary use of stable isotopes and fatty acids for quantitative diet estimation of sympatric predators, the Antarctic pack-ice seals7
Behavioural drivers of survey bias: interactive effects of personality, the perceived risk and device properties7
Density dependence and the spread of invasive big-headed ants (Pheidole megacephala) in an East African savanna7
Geographic patterns of seed trait variation in an invasive species: how much can close populations differ?7
Phylogenetic distance and resource availability mediate direction and strength of plant interactions in a competition experiment7
Effects of land-use change and disturbance on the fine root biomass, dynamics, morphology, and related C and N fluxes to the soil of forest ecosystems at different elevations at Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanza7
The genetic regulation of avian migration timing: combining candidate genes and quantitative genetic approaches in a long-distance migrant7
Relationships between resource availability and elevation vary between metrics creating gradients of nutritional complexity7
Just add water: rapid assembly of new communities in previously dry riverbeds, and limited long-distance effects on existing communities7
How do the physiological traits of a lizard change during its invasion of an oceanic island?7
Wide variation of winter-induced sustained thermal energy dissipation in conifers: a common-garden study7
Cold water reduces the severity of parasite-inflicted damage: support for wintertime recuperation in aquatic hosts7
Tree growth response to soil nutrients and neighborhood crowding varies between mycorrhizal types in an old-growth temperate forest7
May future climate change promote the invasion of the marsh frog? An integrative thermo-physiological study7
Nutrients and consumers impact tree colonization differently from performance in a successional old field6
The impact of habitat loss on pollination services for a threatened dune endemic plant6
Insect abundance patterns on vertebrate remains reveal carrion resource quality variation6
The legacy of predator threat shapes prey foraging behaviour6
Environmental conditions variably affect growth across the breeding season in a subarctic seabird6
Grazing by wild red deer can mitigate nutrient enrichment in protected semi-natural open habitats6
Long-term dynamics of the network structures in seed dispersal associated with fluctuations in bird migration and fruit abundance patterns6
Soil salinization disrupts plant–plant signaling effects on extra-floral nectar induction in wild cotton6
Long-term patterns in winter habitat selection, breeding and predation in a density-fluctuating, high Arctic lemming population6
A canonical metacommunity structure over 3 decades: ecologically consistent but spatially dynamic patterns in a hurricane-prone montane forest6
Are arthropod communities in grassland ecosystems affected by the abundance of an invasive plant?6
Temperature and productivity distinctly affect the species richness of ectothermic and endothermic multitrophic guilds along a tropical elevational gradient6
Acclimation to water stress improves tolerance to heat and freezing in a common alpine grass6
The role of morphological traits in predicting the functional ecology of arboreal and ground ants in the Cerrado–Amazon transition6
Fine-scale variation in microhabitat conditions influences physiology and metabolism in an Antarctic insect6
Elevated nest temperature has opposing effects on host species infested with parasitic nest flies6
Corridor quality affects net movement, size of dispersers, and population growth in experimental microcosms6
Species identity drives ecosystem function in a subsidy-dependent coastal ecosystem6
Using GPS tracking and stable multi-isotopes for estimating habitat use and winter range in Palearctic ospreys6
Stable isotopes and a changing world6
Removal of invasive Scotch broom increases its negative effects on soil chemistry and plant communities6
Tree species identity, canopy structure and prey availability differentially affect canopy spider diversity and trophic composition6
Consistent community genetic effects in the context of strong environmental and temporal variation in Eucalyptus6
Top–down effects of raptor predation on northern bobwhite6
Direct and indirect effects of geographic and environmental factors on ant beta diversity across Amazon basin6
Seasonal variations in bird selection pressure on prey colouration6
Plants with extrafloral nectaries share indirect defenses and shape the local arboreal ant community6
Early spring onset increases carbon uptake more than late fall senescence: modeling future phenological change in a US northern deciduous forest6
Host plant environmental filtering drives foliar fungal community assembly in symptomatic leaves6
Ecological traps: evidence of a fitness cost in a cavity-nesting bird6
Species interactions alter the selection of thermal environment in a coral reef fish6
Contrasting associations between nestling telomere length and pre and postnatal helpers’ presence in a cooperatively breeding bird6
Rapid phenological change differs across four trophic levels over 15 years6
Costs and benefits of “insect friendly” artificial lights are taxon specific6
Composition and structure of winter aphid–parasitoid food webs along a latitudinal gradient in Chile6
Fires slow population declines of a long-lived prairie plant through multiple vital rates6
Large tree mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve6
Rodent suppression of seedling establishment in tropical pasture6
A modelling framework for integrating reproduction, survival and count data when projecting the fates of threatened populations6
Dynamic species interactions associated with the range-shifting marine gastropod Mexacanthina lugubris5
Individual-based multiple-unit dissimilarity: novel indices and null model for assessing temporal variability in community composition5
Of mutualism and migration: will interactions with novel ericoid mycorrhizal communities help or hinder northward Rhododendron range shifts?5
Autochthonous production contributes to the diet of wood-boring invertebrates in temperate shallow water5
Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents5
Niche partitioning in an assemblage of granivorous rodents, and the challenge of community-level conservation5
Wolf spatial behavior promotes encounters and kills of abundant prey5
Pollinator-mediated facilitation alleviates pollen limitation in a plant–hummingbird network5
Synergistic effects of soil nutrient level and native species identity and diversity on biotic resistance to Sicyos angulatus, an invasive species5
Dominance by non-native grasses suppresses long-term shifts in plant species composition and productivity in response to global change5
An unusually diverse genus of Collembola in the Cape Floristic Region characterised by substantial desiccation tolerance5
Pathogen infection influences the relationship between spring and autumn phenology at the seedling and leaf level5
Re-establishment of cavity-nesting bee and wasp communities along a reforestation gradient in southern Amazonia5
Tree mycorrhizal type mediates conspecific negative density dependence effects on seedling herbivory, growth, and survival5
Light dependence in the phototrophy–phagotrophy balance of constitutive and non-constitutive mixotrophic protists5
Trade-offs between succulent and non-succulent epiphytes underlie variation in drought tolerance and avoidance5
Selection of predictor variables for species distribution models: a case study with an invasive marine bryozoan5
Browning-induced changes in trophic functioning of planktonic food webs in temperate and boreal lakes: insights from fatty acids5
Post-settlement demographics of reef building corals suggest prolonged recruitment bottlenecks5
Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard5
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