Oecologia

Papers
(The TQCC of Oecologia is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios: an updated synthesis78
Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve69
High temperatures are associated with substantial reductions in breeding success and offspring quality in an arid-zone bird53
Exotic garden plants partly substitute for native plants as resources for pollinators when native plants become seasonally scarce50
Leaf isoprene emission as a trait that mediates the growth-defense tradeoff in the face of climate stress43
Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought35
Benefits of insect colours: a review from social insect studies32
Fasting affects amino acid nitrogen isotope values: a new tool for identifying nitrogen balance of free-ranging mammals31
Combined effects of temperature and macronutrient balance on life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster: implications for life-history trade-offs and fundamental niche29
Foliar water uptake in arid ecosystems: seasonal variability and ecophysiological consequences28
Bitter fruits of hard labour: diet metabarcoding and telemetry reveal that urban songbirds travel further for lower-quality food27
Disentangling the effects of local resources, landscape heterogeneity and climatic seasonality on bee diversity and plant-pollinator networks in tropical highlands27
Divergent field metabolic rates highlight the challenges of increasing temperatures and energy limitation in aquatic ectotherms27
Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood27
Drought response strategies of deciduous and evergreen woody species in a seasonally dry neotropical forest26
Integrating stomatal physiology and morphology: evolution of stomatal control and development of future crops25
Soil resource heterogeneity competitively favors an invasive clonal plant over a native one25
Linkage between species traits and plant phenology in an alpine meadow25
Plant species- and stage-specific differences in microbial decay of mangrove leaf litter: the older the better?25
Diversity and composition of pollen loads carried by pollinators are primarily driven by insect traits, not floral community characteristics24
Flower traits associated with the visitation patterns of bees22
Local sonic activity reveals potential partitioning in a coral reef fish community22
Plant invasion impacts on fungal community structure and function depend on soil warming and nitrogen enrichment22
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic bat diversity decrease from more to less complex natural habitats in the Amazon21
Incubation environment and parental identity affect sea turtle development and hatchling phenotype21
Effects of plant species diversity on nematode community composition and diversity in a long-term biodiversity experiment21
Seasonal and daily shifts in behavior and resource selection: how a carnivore navigates costly landscapes21
Environmental factors influencing fine-scale distribution of Antarctica’s only endemic insect21
Leaf vibrations produced by chewing provide a consistent acoustic target for plant recognition of herbivores20
Plant–pollinator network structural properties differentially affect pollen transfer dynamics and pollination success20
Multiple environmental controls explain global patterns in soil animal communities20
Trophic position, elemental ratios and nitrogen transfer in a planktonic host–parasite–consumer food chain including a fungal parasite19
Some like it hotter: trematode transmission under changing temperature conditions18
Individuality counts: A new comprehensive approach to foraging strategies of a tropical marine predator18
Drivers and consequences of apex predator diet composition in the Canadian Beaufort Sea18
Short- and long-term temporal changes in the assemblage structure of Amazonian dung beetles18
Among-individual differences in foraging modulate resource exploitation under perceived predation risk18
Short-lived species move uphill faster under climate change18
High honeybee abundances reduce wild bee abundances on flowers in the city of Munich18
Effects of pollen and nectar inoculation by yeasts, bacteria or both on bumblebee colony development18
Prey tells, large herbivores fear the human ‘super predator’17
Who can pass the urban filter? A multi-taxon approach to disentangle pollinator trait–environmental relationships17
Use of anthropogenic-related nest material and nest parasite prevalence have increased over the past two centuries in Australian birds17
Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change17
Post-acquisition effects of viruses on vector behavior are important components of manipulation strategies17
Costs of territoriality: a review of hypotheses, meta-analysis, and field study17
Relative importance of tree species richness, tree functional type, and microenvironment for soil macrofauna communities in European forests17
Frequent fire slows microbial decomposition of newly deposited fine fuels in a pyrophilic ecosystem17
Diversification of petal monoterpene profiles during floral development and senescence in wild roses: relationships among geraniol content, petal colour, and floral lifespan16
Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use16
Protein expression plasticity contributes to heat and drought tolerance of date palm16
Regulation of fatty acid composition related to ontogenetic changes and niche differentiation of a common aquatic consumer16
Microbial community assembly in a multi-layer dendritic metacommunity15
Nitrogen and litter addition decreased sexual reproduction and increased clonal propagation in grasslands15
The metabolic performance predicts home range size of bank voles: a support for the behavioral–bioenergetics theory15
Large-scale disease patterns explained by climatic seasonality and host traits15
Resource-use efficiency drives overyielding via enhanced complementarity15
Physiological integration can increase competitive ability in clonal plants if competition is patchy14
Ontogenetic niche shifts as a driver of seasonal migration14
Pelagic and benthic ecosystems drive differences in population and individual specializations in marine predators14
Fatty acid accumulation in feeding types of a natural freshwater fish population14
Personality traits, sex and food abundance shape space use in an arboreal mammal14
Pollinator effectiveness is affected by intraindividual behavioral variation14
Drivers of the structure of plant–hummingbird interaction networks at multiple temporal scales14
Pre-fledging quality and recruitment in an aerial insectivore reflect dynamics of insects, wetlands and climate14
Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales14
Ecto- and endoparasitic nematodes respond differently across sites to changes in precipitation14
Plant diversity influenced gross nitrogen mineralization, microbial ammonium consumption and gross inorganic N immobilization in a grassland experiment14
Stable isotopes of tree rings reveal seasonal-to-decadal patterns during the emergence of a megadrought in the Southwestern US14
Application of machine learning algorithms to identify cryptic reproductive habitats using diverse information sources14
Grazing resistance and poor food quality of a widespread mixotroph impair zooplankton secondary production13
Pulsed food resources affect reproduction but not adult apparent survival in arctic foxes13
Drought at a coastal wetland affects refuelling and migration strategies of shorebirds13
Functional diversity of habitat formers declines scale-dependently across an environmental stress gradient13
Hotter droughts alter resource allocation to chemical defenses in piñon pine13
Ecosystem engineering in the arboreal realm: heterogeneity of wood-boring beetle cavities and their use by cavity-nesting ants13
Experimental drought indirectly enhances the individual performance and the abundance of an invasive annual weed13
Timing of forest fine root production advances with reduced snow cover in northern Japan: implications for climate-induced change in understory and overstory competition13
Soil water availability and branch age explain variability in xylem safety of European beech in Central Europe13
Biomass allocation and seasonal non-structural carbohydrate dynamics do not explain the success of tall forbs in short alpine grassland13
Primacy of plants in driving the response of arthropod communities to drought12
Behaviorally-mediated trophic cascade attenuated by prey use of risky places at safe times12
Importance of hydraulic strategy trade-offs in structuring response of canopy trees to extreme drought in central Amazon12
Microclimatic conditions mediate the effect of deadwood and forest characteristics on a threatened beetle species, Tragosoma depsarium12
Filter-feeders have differential bottom-up impacts on green and brown food webs12
Bryophyte and lichen biomass and nitrogen fixation in a high elevation cloud forest in Cerro de La Muerte, Costa Rica12
Seagrass-driven changes in carbonate chemistry enhance oyster shell growth12
Habitat loss and canopy openness mediate leaf trait plasticity of an endangered palm in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest12
Habitat amount mediates the effect of fragmentation on a pollinator’s reproductive performance, but not on its foraging behaviour11
Human-modified landscapes narrow the isotopic niche of neotropical birds11
Increased water use efficiency leads to decreased precipitation sensitivity of tree growth, but is offset by high temperatures11
Partitioning resilience of a marine foundation species into resistance and recovery trajectories11
Mixed evidence for plant–soil feedbacks in forest invasions11
The impact of variable predation risk on stress in snowshoe hares over the cycle in North America’s boreal forest: adjusting to change11
Proportional fitness loss and the timing of defensive investment: a cohesive framework across animals and plants11
High frequency of prospecting for informed dispersal and colonisation in a social species at large spatial scale11
Climate change-driven elevational changes among boreal nocturnal moths11
The importance of including habitat-specific behaviour in models of butterfly movement11
The effects of high-severity fires on the arboreal ant community of a Neotropical savanna11
Pulses of anthropogenic food availability appear to benefit parents, but compromise nestling growth in urban red-winged starlings11
A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems11
Plant silicon application alters leaf alkaloid concentrations and impacts parasitoids more adversely than their aphid hosts11
Revisiting ecological dominance in arboreal ants: how dominant usage of nesting resources shapes community assembly11
Forage stoichiometry predicts the home range size of a small terrestrial herbivore11
Stronger influence of growth rate than severity of drought stress on mortality of large ponderosa pines during the 2012–2015 California drought11
Predation patterns across states of landscape fragmentation can shift with seasonal transitions10
Multi-trophic communities re-establish with canopy cover and microclimate in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment10
Plant apparency drives leaf herbivory in seedling communities across four subtropical forests10
Traits, strategies, and niches of liana species in a tropical seasonal rainforest10
Spatiotemporally variable snow properties drive habitat use of an Arctic mesopredator10
The role of habitat configuration in shaping animal population processes: a framework to generate quantitative predictions10
Using the right tool for the job: the difference between unsupervised and supervised analyses of multivariate ecological data10
Legacy effects of a multi-year extreme drought on belowground bud banks in rhizomatous vs bunchgrass-dominated grasslands10
Adaptive significance of light and food for a kleptoplastic sea slug: implications for photosynthesis10
Snow-mediated plasticity does not prevent camouflage mismatch10
Wild legumes maintain beneficial soil rhizobia populations despite decades of nitrogen deposition10
An apex carnivore’s life history mediates a predator cascade10
The size dependency of foraging behaviour: an empirical test performed on aquatic amphipods9
Numbers matter: how irruptive bark beetles initiate transition to self-sustaining behavior during landscape-altering outbreaks9
Seasonal variation in telomere dynamics in African striped mice9
Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons9
Fundamental dietary specialisation explains differential use of resources within a koala population9
Environment, phylogeny, and photosynthetic pathway as determinants of leaf traits in savanna and forest graminoid species in central Brazil9
The role of toxic nectar secondary compounds in driving differential bumble bee preferences for milkweed flowers9
Climate affects the outbreaks of a forest defoliator indirectly through its tree hosts9
Identifying the paths of climate effects on population dynamics: dynamic and multilevel structural equation model around the annual cycle9
Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities9
Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species9
Within-day dynamics of plant–pollinator networks are dominated by early flower closure: an experimental test of network plasticity9
Drivers of bat roles in Neotropical seed dispersal networks: abundance is more important than functional traits9
Mistletoes and their eucalypt hosts differ in the response of leaf functional traits to climatic moisture supply9
Seasonal dynamics of plant pollinator networks in agricultural landscapes: how important is connector species identity in the network?9
Fire exclusion changes belowground bud bank and bud-bearing organ composition jeopardizing open savanna resilience9
Interactions between artificial light at night, soil moisture, and plant density affect the growth of a perennial wildflower9
Flocking in birds increases annual adult survival in a global analysis9
Direct effects of selection on aboveground biomass contrast with indirect structure-mediated effects of complementarity in a subtropical forest9
Fire-mediated germination syndromes in Leucadendron (Proteaceae) and their functional correlates9
Bulk and amino acid nitrogen isotopes suggest shifting nitrogen balance of pregnant sharks across gestation9
Density-dependent lifespan and estimation of life expectancy for a parasitoid with implications for population dynamics9
Learning from the past: opportunities for advancing ecological research and practice using palaeoecological data9
Topography shapes the local coexistence of tree species within species complexes of Neotropical forests9
Outcome of interspecific competition depends on genotype of conspecific neighbours9
Behavioral effects of wolf presence on moose habitat selection: testing the landscape of fear hypothesis in an anthropogenic landscape9
Increasing connectivity enhances habitat specialists but simplifies plant–insect food webs9
Changes in arthropod community but not plant quality benefit a specialist herbivore on plants under reduced water availability9
The distinct roles of water table depth and soil properties in controlling alternative woodland-grassland states in the Cerrado9
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are associated with reduced nitrogen cycling rates in temperate forest soils without corresponding trends in bacterial functional groups9
The limiting factors and regulatory processes that control the environmental responses of C3, C3–C4 intermediate, and C4 photosynthesis8
The effect of avian brood parasitism on physiological responses of host nestlings8
Functional importance and diversity of fungi during standing grass litter decomposition8
Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems8
Estimating red fox density using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture–recapture modelling8
Mycorrhizal roots slow the decay of belowground litters in a temperate hardwood forest8
Evaluating environmental DNA as a tool for detecting an amphibian pathogen using an optimized extraction method8
Environmental conditions alter successional trajectories on an ephemeral resource: a field experiment with beetles in dead wood8
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
Temporal patterns of foraging by silver-haired bats during migratory stopover revealed by isotopic analyses (δ13C) of breath CO28
Leaf area and pubescence drive sedimentation on leaf surfaces during flooding8
Effects of community composition on plant–pollinator interaction networks across a spatial gradient of oak-savanna habitats8
Seasonal trends in adult apparent survival and reproductive trade-offs reveal potential constraints to earlier nesting in a migratory bird8
The mechanisms generating community phylogenetic patterns change with spatial scale8
Pre-dispersal seed predators boost seed production in a short-lived plant8
Early predictors of female lifetime reproductive success in a solitary hibernator: evidence for “silver spoon” effect8
Effect of urbanization and its environmental stressors on the intraspecific variation of flight functional traits in two bumblebee species8
The contribution of landscape features, climate and topography in shaping taxonomical and functional diversity of avian communities in a heterogeneous Alpine region8
Forage availability and maternal characteristics affect costs of reproduction in a large marsupial8
Trophic structure of apex fish communities in closed versus leaky lakes of arctic Alaska8
The potential for phosphorus benefits through root placement in the rhizosphere of phosphorus-mobilising neighbours8
Measuring foraging preferences in bumble bees: a comparison of popular laboratory methods and a test for sucrose preferences following neonicotinoid exposure8
Soil carbon and plant richness relationships differ among grassland types, disturbance history and plant functional groups8
Predicting habitat use by the Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi in a warmer world: inferences from the Middle Holocene7
Soil chemistry drives below ground traits in an alternate successional pathway from forest to heath7
Complex hydroperiod induced carryover responses for survival, growth, and endurance of a pond-breeding amphibian7
The effects of plant–soil feedback on invasion resistance are soil context dependent7
Conspecific negative density dependence in rainy season enhanced seedling diversity across habitats in a tropical forest7
Disparate roost sites drive intraspecific physiological variation in a Malagasy bat7
Variation in space and time: a long-term examination of density-dependent dispersal in a woodland rodent7
Russ Monson and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis7
Interactions among intrinsic water-use efficiency and climate influence growth and flowering in a common desert shrub7
Differential responses of macroinvertebrate ionomes across experimental N:P gradients in detritus-based headwater streams7
Spring wildflower phenology and pollinator activity respond similarly to climatic variation in an eastern hardwood forest7
Functional traits of plants and pollinators explain resource overlap between honeybees and wild pollinators7
Carbon allocation to growth and storage depends on elevation provenance in an herbaceous alpine plant of Mediterranean climate7
Turning up the heat: warming influences plankton biomass and spring phenology in subtropical waters characterized by extensive fish omnivory7
Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau7
Context dependence of transgenerational plasticity: the influence of parental temperature depends on offspring environment and sex7
Plant species composition and local habitat conditions as primary determinants of terrestrial arthropod assemblages7
Exotic tree and shrub invasions alter leaf-litter microflora and arthropod communities7
Predation risk differentially affects aphid morphotypes: impacts on prey behavior, fecundity and transgenerational dispersal morphology7
Effects of grazing on C:N:P stoichiometry attenuate from soils to plants and insect herbivores in a semi-arid grassland7
Mitigating impacts of invasive alien predators on an endangered sea duck amidst high native predation pressure7
Distinctive seed dispersal and seed bank patterns of invasive African grasses favour their invasion in a neotropical savanna7
Seaduck engineers in the Arctic Archipelago: nesting eiders deliver marine nutrients and transform the chemistry of island soils, plants, and ponds7
Associational effects of plant ontogeny on damage by a specialist insect herbivore7
Differential stoichiometric homeostasis and growth in two native and two invasive C3 grasses7
Plasticity in induced resistance to sequential attack by multiple herbivores in Brassica nigra7
Metapopulation dynamics over 25 years of a beetle, Osmoderma eremita, inhabiting hollow oaks7
Anticipatory plastic response of the cellular immune system in the face of future injury: chronic high perceived predation risk induces lymphocytosis in a cichlid fish7
Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat7
Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada7
Contrasting responses of above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation7
Heatwave frequency and seedling death alter stress-specific emissions of volatile organic compounds in Aleppo pine7
Beyond resource limitation: an expanded test of the niche dimension hypothesis for multiple types of niche axes7
Short-lived legacies of Prunus serotina plant–soil feedbacks7
Parental effects influence life history traits and covary with an environmental cline in common frog populations7
Interactions at surface–subterranean ecotones: structure and function of food webs within spring orifices7
The effects of personality on survival and trappability in a wild mouse during a population cycle7
Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population7
The genetic regulation of avian migration timing: combining candidate genes and quantitative genetic approaches in a long-distance migrant7
Detecting turnover among complex communities using null models: a case study with sky-island haemosporidian parasites7
Wildfire severity influences offspring sex ratio in a native solitary bee7
Modelling selection, drift, dispersal and their interactions in the community assembly of Amazonian soil mites7
Challenging the Preference–Performance Hypothesis in an above-belowground insect7
Limited sexual segregation in a dimorphic avian scavenger, the Andean condor7
Dynamic interactions between apex predators reveal contrasting seasonal attraction patterns7
Responses to predation risk cues and alarm pheromones affect plant virus transmission by an aphid vector7
Individual and environmental determinants of Cuterebra bot fly parasitism in the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)7
Continent-wide synthesis of the long-term population dynamics of quaking aspen in the face of accelerating human impacts7
Colonization history meets further niche processes: how the identity of founders modulates the way predation structure fouling communities7
Effects of environmental heterogeneity on phenotypic variation of the endemic plant Lilium pomponium in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps7
The contribution of environmental and dispersal filters on phylogenetic and taxonomic beta diversity patterns in Amazonian tree communities7
Age-specific reproduction in female pied flycatchers: evidence for asynchronous aging7
Are arthropod communities in grassland ecosystems affected by the abundance of an invasive plant?6
The impact of tree crops and temperature on the timing of frugivorous bird migration6
Multi-species prey dynamics influence local survival in resident and wintering generalist predators6
Relative contributions of ecological drift and selection on bat community structure in interior Atlantic Forest of Paraguay6
High-risk environments promote chemical disturbance signalling among socially familiar Trinidadian guppies6
The contribution of plant spatial arrangement to bumble bee flower constancy6
Density dependence and the spread of invasive big-headed ants (Pheidole megacephala) in an East African savanna6
Using GPS tracking and stable multi-isotopes for estimating habitat use and winter range in Palearctic ospreys6
Intermittent breeding is associated with breeding group turnover in a cooperatively breeding bird6
Plant community composition alters moisture and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in semi-arid shrubland6
Evaluating the effects of water and food limitation on the life history of an insect using a multiple-stressor framework6
Costs and benefits of “insect friendly” artificial lights are taxon specific6
Physiological markers suggest energetic and nutritional adjustments in male sharks linked to reproduction6
Rodent suppression of seedling establishment in tropical pasture6
Foraging costs drive within-colony spatial segregation in shearwaters from two contrasting environments in the North Atlantic Ocean6
Soil fertility and water availability effects on trait dispersion and phylogenetic relatedness of tropical terrestrial ferns6
Contrasting associations between nestling telomere length and pre and postnatal helpers’ presence in a cooperatively breeding bird6
Invasive tree cover covaries with environmental factors to explain the functional composition of riparian plant communities6
Speed and directedness predict colonization sequence post-disturbance6
Removal of invasive Scotch broom increases its negative effects on soil chemistry and plant communities6
Top-down factors contribute to differences in insect herbivory between saplings and mature trees in boreal and tropical forests6
Urbanization’s influence on the distribution of mange in a carnivore revealed with multistate occupancy models6
Native and alien species suffer from late arrival, while negative effects of multiple alien species on natives vary6
Nutrients and consumers impact tree colonization differently from performance in a successional old field6
Fine-scale variation in microhabitat conditions influences physiology and metabolism in an Antarctic insect6
Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies6
Experimental demonstration of the importance of keystone communities for maintaining metacommunity biodiversity and ecosystem functioning6
Plant-available soil nutrients have a limited influence on cone production patterns of individual white spruce trees6
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