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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Hold tight or loosen up? Functional consequences of a shift in anther architecture depend substantially on bee body size58
Correction: Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes48
Antagonistic effects of grazers and shrubs on the emergence and establishment of seedlings in a sub-humid grassland of South America40
Human habitat modification, not apex scavenger decline, drives isotopic niche variation in a carnivore community40
Cueing on distant conditions before migrating does not prevent false starts: a case study with African elephants40
Phenological plasticity alters community structures of mountain Lepidoptera35
Removal of invasive Scotch broom increases its negative effects on soil chemistry and plant communities35
Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release28
Long-term dynamics of the network structures in seed dispersal associated with fluctuations in bird migration and fruit abundance patterns27
Ultraviolet radiation: a double-edged sword in old forest Lobaria lichens—reducing growth while enhancing acclimation23
Using stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) values from feces and breath to infer shorebird diets22
Temperature dependence of carbon metabolism in the leaves in sun and shade in a subtropical forest22
Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes22
Seedling responses to soil moisture amount versus pulse frequency in a successfully encroaching semi-arid shrub21
Trophic effects of vertebrate insectivores and carnivorous arthropods in a subtropical forest: the roles of functional redundancy and intraguild predation21
Assessing carbon and nitrogen economics in temperate forests through the relationship between foliar nutrient resorption and root production21
Announcing winners of the Ehleringer and Hanski Prizes for outstanding papers published by student authors in Oecologia in 202120
The distinctive material cycle associated with seabirds and land crabs on a pristine oceanic island: a case study of Minamiiwoto, Ogasawara Islands, subtropical Japan20
Colouration matters in dull toads: ultraviolet adornment for ladies and agrochemicals fading effects20
Ectoparasite and blood parasite prevalence in birds: a comparative study between urbanized airport environments and natural habitats20
What if the upwelling weakens? Effects of rising temperature and nutrient depletion on coastal assemblages19
Population genetic structure in two contrasting human-altered environments of yellow pygmy rice rat Oligoryzomys flavescens19
Life under leaves: substrate-borne vibrations provide a window into the behavior and ecology of two miniaturized geckos18
Of mutualism and migration: will interactions with novel ericoid mycorrhizal communities help or hinder northward Rhododendron range shifts?18
Individual heterogeneity in ixodid tick infestation and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a northern community of small mammalian hosts17
Chemotype, maternal genotype, or field neighbors: what influences performance and resource allocation in a perennial plant species the most?17
Selective effect of winter weather on a songbird’s morphology depends on individual sex and winter condition15
Food supply and individual quality influence seabird energy expenditure and reproductive success15
Mating system induced lags in rates of range expansion for different simulated mating systems and dispersal strategies: a modelling study15
Correction: Seed dispersal function of the brown bear Ursus arctos on Hokkaido Island in northern Japan: gut passage time, dispersal distance, germination, and effects of remaining pulp15
Intrinsic water-use efficiency influences establishment in Encelia farinosa15
Modeling calcium-limitation in Daphnia with consideration of food quantity and phosphorus content14
Correction: Niche partitioning and individual specialisation in resources and space use of sympatric fur seals at their range margin14
Inter-specific variability in demographic processes affects abundance-occupancy relationships14
Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada14
Application of machine learning and acoustic predation tags to classify migration fate of Atlantic salmon smolts13
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 (Tanza13
Parasites alter food-web topology of a subarctic lake food web and its pelagic and benthic compartments13
Functional traits of plants and pollinators explain resource overlap between honeybees and wild pollinators13
Trade-offs between succulent and non-succulent epiphytes underlie variation in drought tolerance and avoidance13
Preparing for the future offspring: European perch (Perca fluviatilis) biosynthesis of physiologically required fatty acids for the gonads happens already in the autumn13
Patterns of decomposition and functional traits for flower and leaf litter in tropical woody species13
Long-term consistency in susceptibility of prey species to predation by an avian predator12
Do community changes persist after irruptive population dynamics? A case study from an invasive species boom and bust12
Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood12
Parasites, depredators, and limited resources as potential drivers of winter mortality of feral honeybee colonies in German forests12
Multiple and contrasting pressures determine intraspecific phytochemical variation in a tropical shrub12
Plant diversity increases spatial stability of aboveground productivity in alpine grasslands12
Flock size increases with the diversity and abundance of local predators in an avian family12
Cropland encroachment on global protected areas and its national-level drivers12
Colour-specific diet specialization is associated with differences in owlet weight in a polymorphic owl: influence of the trophic quality variation12
Consumer pressure and supplemental pollination mediate shrub facilitation of a native annual desert plant12
Shading and selection effect-mediated species mixing enhance the growth of native trees in dry tropical forests12
Assessing nitrogen deposition and chemistry in mountainous regions of Olympic National Park and North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Pacific Northwest, USA12
Marked differences in foraging area use and susceptibility to predation between two closely-related tropical seabirds12
It is hot and cold here: the role of thermotolerance in the ability of spiders to colonize tree plantations in the southern Atlantic Forest11
Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe11
Intraspecific differences in leaf decomposition and associated traits in closely related Carex species: a microcosm experiment11
Sex-driven neighborhood effects on herbivory in the dioecious Mediterranean palm Chamaerops humilis L.11
Adaptive divergence in diets between the sexes in a tropical snake (Stegonotus australis, Colubridae)11
Mesocarnivores vary in their spatiotemporal avoidance strategies at communications hubs of an apex carnivore11
Phenological mismatch between alpine flowers and bumble bees: its mechanism and impacts on the population dynamics of bumble bees11
Insect abundance patterns on vertebrate remains reveal carrion resource quality variation11
Coexistence of territorial competitor ants in fragmented boreal forest landscape11
Environmental and population correlates of variation in short torpor use by wild hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius)11
Mechanisms determining the multi-diversity of carrion visiting species along a gradient of carrion body mass11
Recent evolution of flowering time across multiple European plant species correlates with changes in aridity11
Plant induced defenses that promote cannibalism reduce herbivory as effectively as highly pathogenic herbivore pathogens11
Host and parasite identity interact in scale-dependent fashion to determine parasite community structure11
Invasion alters plant and mycorrhizal communities in an alpine tussock grassland11
UV treatment of the digestive fluid of Nepenthes hemsleyana pitcher plants affects their digestive process, possibly via reducing microbial inquilines11
Nutrient responses of vascular plants to N2-fixing tree Alnus hirsuta encroachment in a boreal peatland10
Sr/Ca ratios indicate frugivory versus folivory in primates: a case study using handheld XRF in Kibale National Park, Uganda10
Mechanical traits as drivers of trophic interaction between macrodetritivores and leaf litter10
Can lowland plants shifting upwards outcompete mountain plants in terms of pollination efficiency?10
Environmental drivers of ground-floor bryophytes diversity in temperate forests10
Effect of birds and mammals on seed integrity and germination in the columnar cactus Pilosocereus leucocephalus10
How competition between overlapping generations can influence optimal egg-laying strategies in annual social insects10
Fine root trait dynamics and their relationships with productivity across grasslands under extreme drought10
Legume effects in a native community invaded by alien Asteraceae in a multi-species comparison10
Responses of bryosphere fauna to drought across a boreal forest chronosequence10
Heat waves reduce variability in milkweed development, simplify arthropod communities, and suppress herbivory10
The relative importance of abiotic and biotic environmental conditions for taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of spiders across spatial scales10
Global investigation of lake habitat coupling by fishes9
Plant species richness and phylogenetic diversity can favor the recovery of dung beetle communities in ecological restoration plots9
Effects of pronounced seasonal turnover and intraspecific variation in leaf traits on specialization of insect herbivores associated with six Salicaceae hosts9
How does maternal age influence reproductive performance and offspring phenotype in the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea)?9
Consistent responses to moisture stress despite diverse growth forms within mountain fynbos communities9
Linking omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in natural diet with brain size of wild consumers9
Predicting end-of-season timing across diverse North American grasslands9
Temporal decay of similarity in bee-plant relationships throughout the day9
Ensemble evaluation of potential distribution of Procambarus clarkii using multiple species distribution models9
Telomere dynamics in female Columbian ground squirrels: recovery after emergence and loss after reproduction9
No statistical evidence that honey bees competitively reduced wild bee abundance in the Munich Botanic Garden—a comment on Renner et al. (2021)9
Estimating red fox density using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture–recapture modelling9
Broad-scale gradients of resource utilization by phyllostomid bats in Atlantic Forest: patterns of dietary overlap, turnover and the efficacy of ecomorphological approaches9
Using isolation-by-distance to jointly estimate effective population density and dispersal distance: a practical evaluation using bumble bees9
Insect functional traits reveal processes that shape niche differentiation patterns9
Do savanna trees mast? Phenological dynamics of flowering and fruiting in savanna tree species9
Food quality upgrade of carbon from submerged macrophytes by flagellates via a heterotrophic pathway can stimulate growth of Daphnia magna9
Disturbance and disease: host–parasite interactions in freshwater streams remain stable following wildfire9
Seed germination and seedling growth response of Leymus chinensis to the allelopathic influence of grassland plants9
Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawaiʻi Island, USA9
Catchment scale deforestation increases the uniqueness of subtropical stream communities9
Niche construction and niche choice by aphids infesting wheat ears9
Correction to: Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe9
Variability in mycorrhizal status of plant species is much larger within than between plots in grassland and coastal habitats9
Nitrogen and light regulate symbiotic nitrogen fixation by a temperate forest tree9
Coral reef fish density at a tourist destination responded rapidly to COVID-19 restrictions8
Correction: Do savanna trees mast? Phenological dynamics of flowering and fruiting in savanna tree species8
Individual variability in the phenology of an asynchronous penguin species induces consequences on breeding and carry-over effects8
The impact of global change factors on the functional genes of soil nitrogen and methane cycles in grassland ecosystems: a meta-analysis8
Seasonal changes in diet, immune function, and oxidative stress in three passerines inhabiting a Mediterranean climate8
Leaf-chewing herbivores affect preference and performance of a specialist root herbivore8
Changes of cyprinid fishery resources in Lake Biwa over 57 years: association with multiple stressors and restoration measures8
Divergent water use efficiency trends among eastern North American temperate tree species8
Will climate warming amplify the effects of a range-expanding marine predator?8
Effects of climate change on Lepidoptera pollen loads and their pollination services in space and time8
Adult survival has a stronger role than productivity in the annual population change of European songbirds8
The evolution of prey-attraction strategies in spiders: the interplay between foraging and predator avoidance8
Influence of the nurse-protégé interaction on the frugivory pattern of the columnar cactus Pilosocereus leucocephalus8
Mitigating the light pollution problem via spectral adjustment: color-biased phototaxis in male glow-worms8
The influence of landscape characteristics on breeding bird dark diversity8
Size-dependent growth tactics of a partially migratory fish before migration8
Disturbance history, neighborhood crowding and soil conditions jointly shape tree growth in temperate forests8
Colonial waterbirds provide persistent subsidies to swamp forests along an estuarine island food chain8
Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types8
Grazing by wild red deer can mitigate nutrient enrichment in protected semi-natural open habitats8
Constant herbivory rates and plant–herbivore interactions along a resource availability gradient in South African fynbos8
A large-scale field experiment across six rivers illustrates how the effects of resource enrichment are context dependent7
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 communities7
Wing morphology of a damselfly exhibits local variation in response to forest fragmentation7
Impacts of invasion on a freshwater cleaning symbiosis7
Effect of symbiotic N2 fixation on leaf protein contents, protein degradation and nitrogen resorption during leaf senescence in temperate deciduous woody species7
Can smaller predators expand their prey base through killing juveniles? The influence of prey demography and season on prey selection for cheetahs and lions7
Legacies of precipitation influence primary production in Panicum virgatum7
Tree-related microhabitats harbor distinct micro-invertebrate communities and support complex food webs7
Synergistic effects of soil nutrient level and native species identity and diversity on biotic resistance to Sicyos angulatus, an invasive species7
Fatty acid isotopic composition in Atlantic pollock is not influenced by environmentally relevant dietary fat concentrations7
Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population7
Extreme bill dimorphism leads to different but overlapping isotopic niches and similar trophic positions in sexes of the charismatic extinct huia7
Native range climate influences nonstructural carbohydrate storage in oak species growing in a common garden7
Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy7
N-fertilization and disturbance exert long-lasting complex legacies on subarctic ecosystems7
Warming suppresses grassland recovery in biomass but not in community composition after grazing exclusion in a Mongolian grassland7
Timing of extreme heat events matters: exposure during parasitism disrupts top-down control7
How to keep your cool: heat tolerance and thermoregulatory strategies of a cold adapted insectivorous bat7
Age-specific effects of density and weather on body condition and birth rates in a large herbivore, the Przewalski’s horse7
Mismatches in thermal performance between ectothermic predators and prey alter interaction strength and top-down control7
Incorporation of the 15N-labeled simulated arthropod rain in the soil food web7
Browning-induced changes in trophic functioning of planktonic food webs in temperate and boreal lakes: insights from fatty acids7
Dealing with disjunct populations of vascular plants: implications for assessing the effect of climate change7
Plant richness, land use and temperature differently shape invertebrate leaf-chewing herbivory on plant functional groups7
The allocation of anatomical traits determines the trade-off between fine root resource acquisition–transport function7
Phenotypic variation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles from contrasting climatic regimes is the result of adaptation and plasticity7
Wolf spatial behavior promotes encounters and kills of abundant prey7
Short- and long-term effects of nutritional state on IGF-1 levels in nestlings of a wild passerine7
Time changes everything: a multispecies analyses of temporal patterns in evaporative water loss7
A test of trade-offs in dispersal and reproduction within and between a sister species pair of specialist insect herbivores6
Cover crop species alter tallgrass prairie community assembly6
Life-history trait variation in native versus invasive asexual New Zealand mud snails6
Diversity and assembly of lichens and bryophytes on tree trunks along a temperate to boreal elevation gradient6
Variable seed bed microsite conditions and light influence germination in Australian winter annuals6
Contemporary evolution rivals the effects of rhizobium presence on community and ecosystem properties in experimental mesocosms6
The morphological allometry of four closely related and coexisting insect species reveals adaptation to the mean and variability of the resource size6
Global analysis of seasonal changes in trematode infection levels reveals weak and variable link to temperature6
Impact of three co-occurring physical ecosystem engineers on soil Collembola communities6
Without the locals’ aid: no evidence for a role of admixture in the colonisation success of Italian wall lizards6
Correction to: Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons6
Defensive tolerance to parasitism is correlated with sexual selection in swallows6
Induced drought strongly affects richness and composition of ground-dwelling ants in the eastern Amazon6
Inter- and intrapopulation resource use variation of marine subsidized western fence lizards6
Antagonistic biotic interactions mitigate the positive effects of warming on wood decomposition6
Colonization of mudflat substrate by microarthropods: the role of distance, inundation frequency and body size6
Correction to: Host ecology and biogeography drive parasite community composition in Atlantic killifishes6
Early spring onset increases carbon uptake more than late fall senescence: modeling future phenological change in a US northern deciduous forest6
Herbivory legacy modifies leaf economic spectrum and drought tolerance in two tree species6
Consistent timelines, divergent end points: plant community change in multiple tallgrass nitrogen addition experiments6
Lemming winter habitat: the quest for warm and soft snow6
Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies6
Habitat configurations shape the trophic and energetic dynamics of reef fishes in a tropical–temperate transition zone: implications under a warming future6
Early-life, but not late-life, exposure to predator cues reduce the lifespan and reproductive output of freshwater snails6
Diet effects on longevity, heat tolerance, lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial membrane potential in Daphnia6
Dynamic species interactions associated with the range-shifting marine gastropod Mexacanthina lugubris6
Behavioral response to heat stress of twig-nesting canopy ants6
Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard6
Plants with extrafloral nectaries share indirect defenses and shape the local arboreal ant community6
Floral scent divergence across an elevational hybrid zone with varying pollinators6
Invasive and native grasses exert negative plant–soil feedbacks on the woody shrub Artemisia tridentata6
The importance of direct and indirect trophic interactions in determining the presence of a locally rare day-flying moth6
Population density and vegetation resources influence demography in a hibernating herbivorous mammal6
The role of morphological traits in predicting the functional ecology of arboreal and ground ants in the Cerrado–Amazon transition6
Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species6
Energetic benefits of prey choice for a shark-eating shark6
Does a coexisting congener of a mixed mating species affect the genetic structure and selfing rate via reproductive interference?6
The importance of patch shape at threshold occupancy: functional patch size within total habitat amount6
Pathways linking nutrient enrichment, habitat structure, and parasitism to host–resource interactions6
A hybrid beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria × A. breviligulata) is more productive and outcompetes its non-native parent species6
Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change6
Competition for water and rapid exclusion of an island endemic by a pantropical species in a tropical climate5
Viral transmission and infection prevalence in a cannibalistic host–pathogen system5
Year-round activity levels reveal diurnal foraging constraints in the annual cycle of migratory and non-migratory barnacle geese5
Light competition drives species replacement during secondary tropical forest succession5
Nutrients strengthen density dependence of per-capita growth and mortality rates in the soil bacterial community5
Using eDNA to understand predator–prey interactions influenced by invasive species5
Conspecific interactions between corals mediate the effect of submarine groundwater discharge on coral physiology5
Plant traits and seasonality shape coexistence and niche segregation patterns among spider species5
Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the ‘nurse plant effect’ in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert5
Supplementary winter feeding is associated with higher recruitment rates in a population of a scavenging bird of prey5
Hydraulic vulnerability difference between branches and roots increases with environmental aridity5
Individual and interactive effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition and diversity of extrafloral nectary-bearing plants in Brazil5
Good moms: dependent young and their mothers cope better than others with longer dry season in plains zebras5
Long-term spatiotemporal variation in density of a tropical folivore: responses to a complex disturbance regime5
Plant susceptibility to a shared herbivore is reduced by belowground competition with neighbors5
Biological nitrogen fixation activity by co-occurring moss species is affected by their ability to absorb nitrogen from canopy throughfall5
Season and prey identity mediate the effect of predators on parasites in rodents: a test of the healthy herds hypothesis5
A quantitative synthesis of and predictive framework for studying winter warming effects in reptiles5
Intraspecific variation in fine root morphology of European beech: a root order-based analysis of phenotypic root morphospace5
Wildfire and cattle legacies on gradients of soil nitrogen underlie patterns of annual brome invasion5
Anthropogenic sodium influences butterfly responses to nitrogen-enriched resources: implications for the nitrogen limitation hypothesis5
Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts5
Sexual differences in phenotypical predictors of floating status: body condition influences male but not female reproductive status in a wild passerine5
Responses in honeybee and bumblebee activity to changes in weather conditions5
Behavioural hydroregulation protects against acute effects of drought in a dry-skinned ectotherm5
How do the physiological traits of a lizard change during its invasion of an oceanic island?5
Anthropogenically driven spatial niche partitioning in a large herbivore assemblage5
Food availability alters community co-occurrence patterns at fine spatiotemporal scales in a tropical masting system5
Historic trophic decline in New England’s coastal marine ecosystem5
Local soil temperature advances flowering phenology of Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), with implications for climate change assessment5
Indirect plant-mediated interactions between heterospecific parasitoids that develop in different caterpillar species5
Soil nematode assemblages respond to interacting environmental changes5
Foraging flexibility in response to at-sea constraints in a deep diver, the king penguin: an experimental study5
Anthropogenic subsidies influence resource use during a mange epizootic in a desert coyote population5
Urban tree composition is associated with breeding success of a passerine bird, but effects vary within and between years5
Hydraulic constraints to stomatal conductance in flooded trees5
Composition and structure of winter aphid–parasitoid food webs along a latitudinal gradient in Chile5
Water balance affects foliar and soil nutrients differently5
Species-specific traits predict whole-assemblage detritus processing by pond invertebrates5
No evidence of carbon storage usage for seed production in 18 dipterocarp masting species in a tropical rain forest5
The structure of ant assemblages on Amazonian fluvial islands: the roles of recurrent disturbance and isolation5
Environmental filtering mediates desert ant community assembly at two spatial scales4
Defoliation, trampling and nutrient return differentially influence grassland productivity by modulating trait-dependent plant community composition: insights from a simulated grazing experiment4
Treatment effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on foliar traits in six northern hardwood tree species4
Resources and predation: drivers of sociality in a cyclic mesopredator4
Scale dependent niche conservatism in fish communities of the largest freshwater lake in China4
Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’4
The effects of diet-shifting from invertebrates towards fruit on the condition of autumn-migrant Catharus thrushes4
In defense of elemental currencies: can ecological stoichiometry stand as a framework for terrestrial herbivore nutritional ecology?4
IGF-1 induces sex-specific oxidative damage and mortality in a songbird4
Pollinator-mediated facilitation alleviates pollen limitation in a plant–hummingbird network4
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