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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Hold tight or loosen up? Functional consequences of a shift in anther architecture depend substantially on bee body size41
Seedling responses to soil moisture amount versus pulse frequency in a successfully encroaching semi-arid shrub38
Using stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) values from feces and breath to infer shorebird diets33
Human habitat modification, not apex scavenger decline, drives isotopic niche variation in a carnivore community33
Correction: Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes31
Quantifying the nature and strength of intraspecific density dependence in Arctic mosquitoes28
Hotter and drier climate made the Mediterranean Europe and Northern Africa region a shrubbier landscape28
Long-term dynamics of the network structures in seed dispersal associated with fluctuations in bird migration and fruit abundance patterns27
Antagonistic effects of grazers and shrubs on the emergence and establishment of seedlings in a sub-humid grassland of South America25
Temperature dependence of carbon metabolism in the leaves in sun and shade in a subtropical forest25
Cueing on distant conditions before migrating does not prevent false starts: a case study with African elephants24
The limiting factors and regulatory processes that control the environmental responses of C3, C3–C4 intermediate, and C4 photosynthesis23
Correction to: Temperate forest fragments maintain aboveground carbon stocks out to the forest edge despite changes in community composition23
Removal of invasive Scotch broom increases its negative effects on soil chemistry and plant communities22
Of goats and heat, the differential impact of summer temperature on habitat selection and activity patterns in mountain goats of different ecotypes21
Food supply and individual quality influence seabird energy expenditure and reproductive success21
Colouration matters in dull toads: ultraviolet adornment for ladies and agrochemicals fading effects21
Announcing winners of the Ehleringer and Hanski Prizes for outstanding papers published by student authors in Oecologia in 202121
Plant community composition alters moisture and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in semi-arid shrubland21
Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release21
Application of machine learning and acoustic predation tags to classify migration fate of Atlantic salmon smolts20
Intrinsic water-use efficiency influences establishment in Encelia farinosa19
Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood19
Flock-species richness influences node importance and modularity in mixed-species flock networks18
Functional traits of plants and pollinators explain resource overlap between honeybees and wild pollinators18
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 (Tanza18
Preparing for the future offspring: European perch (Perca fluviatilis) biosynthesis of physiologically required fatty acids for the gonads happens already in the autumn18
Of mutualism and migration: will interactions with novel ericoid mycorrhizal communities help or hinder northward Rhododendron range shifts?17
Population genetic structure in two contrasting human-altered environments of yellow pygmy rice rat Oligoryzomys flavescens17
Individual heterogeneity in ixodid tick infestation and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a northern community of small mammalian hosts17
Spatial scaling of plant and bird diversity from 50 to 10,000 ha in a lowland tropical rainforest17
What if the upwelling weakens? Effects of rising temperature and nutrient depletion on coastal assemblages17
Inter-specific variability in demographic processes affects abundance-occupancy relationships17
Rapid decline of a four-trophic-level system over a 15-year period17
Selective effect of winter weather on a songbird’s morphology depends on individual sex and winter condition16
Sea ice extent and phenology influence breeding of high-Arctic seabirds: 4 decades of monitoring in Nunavut, Canada16
Mating system induced lags in rates of range expansion for different simulated mating systems and dispersal strategies: a modelling study16
Species interactions alter the selection of thermal environment in a coral reef fish15
Patterns of decomposition and functional traits for flower and leaf litter in tropical woody species15
Correction: Niche partitioning and individual specialisation in resources and space use of sympatric fur seals at their range margin15
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
The genetic regulation of avian migration timing: combining candidate genes and quantitative genetic approaches in a long-distance migrant14
Environmental conditions variably affect growth across the breeding season in a subarctic seabird14
Parasites alter food-web topology of a subarctic lake food web and its pelagic and benthic compartments14
Soil carbon and plant richness relationships differ among grassland types, disturbance history and plant functional groups14
Mechanisms determining the multi-diversity of carrion visiting species along a gradient of carrion body mass13
Insect abundance patterns on vertebrate remains reveal carrion resource quality variation13
Assessing nitrogen deposition and chemistry in mountainous regions of Olympic National Park and North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Pacific Northwest, USA13
Recent evolution of flowering time across multiple European plant species correlates with changes in aridity13
Plant induced defenses that promote cannibalism reduce herbivory as effectively as highly pathogenic herbivore pathogens13
Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales13
Integration of remote sensing in spatial ecology: assessing the interspecific interactions of two plant species in a semi-arid woodland using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetric data13
Trade-offs between succulent and non-succulent epiphytes underlie variation in drought tolerance and avoidance13
Parasites, depredators, and limited resources as potential drivers of winter mortality of feral honeybee colonies in German forests13
Ecological traps: evidence of a fitness cost in a cavity-nesting bird12
Competition for light induces metal accumulation in a metal hyperaccumulating plant12
Mesocarnivores vary in their spatiotemporal avoidance strategies at communications hubs of an apex carnivore12
Flock size increases with the diversity and abundance of local predators in an avian family12
Shade affects magnitude and tactics of juvenile Chinook salmon antipredator behavior in the migration corridor12
Marked differences in foraging area use and susceptibility to predation between two closely-related tropical seabirds12
Do community changes persist after irruptive population dynamics? A case study from an invasive species boom and bust12
Multiple and contrasting pressures determine intraspecific phytochemical variation in a tropical shrub12
It is hot and cold here: the role of thermotolerance in the ability of spiders to colonize tree plantations in the southern Atlantic Forest12
Plant diversity increases spatial stability of aboveground productivity in alpine grasslands12
Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe11
Density-dependent plant growth drives grazer stimulation of aboveground net primary production in Yellowstone grasslands11
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
Consumer pressure and supplemental pollination mediate shrub facilitation of a native annual desert plant11
Functional trait sorting increases over succession in metacommunity mosaics of fish assemblages11
Intense browsing by sika deer (Cervus nippon) drives the genetic differentiation of hairy nettle (Urtica thunbergiana) populations11
Sex-driven neighborhood effects on herbivory in the dioecious Mediterranean palm Chamaerops humilis L.11
Nutrient responses of vascular plants to N2-fixing tree Alnus hirsuta encroachment in a boreal peatland11
Long-term consistency in susceptibility of prey species to predation by an avian predator11
Colour-specific diet specialization is associated with differences in owlet weight in a polymorphic owl: influence of the trophic quality variation11
Coexistence of territorial competitor ants in fragmented boreal forest landscape11
Sr/Ca ratios indicate frugivory versus folivory in primates: a case study using handheld XRF in Kibale National Park, Uganda11
How competition between overlapping generations can influence optimal egg-laying strategies in annual social insects11
Environmental drivers of ground-floor bryophytes diversity in temperate forests10
Seed germination and seedling growth response of Leymus chinensis to the allelopathic influence of grassland plants10
Catchment scale deforestation increases the uniqueness of subtropical stream communities10
Predicting end-of-season timing across diverse North American grasslands10
Responses of bryosphere fauna to drought across a boreal forest chronosequence10
Adaptive divergence in diets between the sexes in a tropical snake (Stegonotus australis, Colubridae)10
Linking omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in natural diet with brain size of wild consumers10
Native and alien species suffer from late arrival, while negative effects of multiple alien species on natives vary10
Telomere dynamics in female Columbian ground squirrels: recovery after emergence and loss after reproduction10
Legume effects in a native community invaded by alien Asteraceae in a multi-species comparison10
Geographic patterns of seed trait variation in an invasive species: how much can close populations differ?10
Niche construction and niche choice by aphids infesting wheat ears10
The relative importance of abiotic and biotic environmental conditions for taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of spiders across spatial scales10
Behavioral effects of wolf presence on moose habitat selection: testing the landscape of fear hypothesis in an anthropogenic landscape10
Variability in mycorrhizal status of plant species is much larger within than between plots in grassland and coastal habitats10
Mechanical traits as drivers of trophic interaction between macrodetritivores and leaf litter10
How does maternal age influence reproductive performance and offspring phenotype in the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea)?9
Temporal decay of similarity in bee-plant relationships throughout the day9
No statistical evidence that honey bees competitively reduced wild bee abundance in the Munich Botanic Garden—a comment on Renner et al. (2021)9
Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawaiʻi Island, USA9
How predator and parasite size interact to determine consumption of infectious stages9
Global investigation of lake habitat coupling by fishes9
Nitrogen and light regulate symbiotic nitrogen fixation by a temperate forest tree9
Assessing climate change tolerance and the niche breadth-range size hypothesis in rare and widespread alpine plants9
Broad-scale gradients of resource utilization by phyllostomid bats in Atlantic Forest: patterns of dietary overlap, turnover and the efficacy of ecomorphological approaches9
Effects of pronounced seasonal turnover and intraspecific variation in leaf traits on specialization of insect herbivores associated with six Salicaceae hosts9
High frequency of prospecting for informed dispersal and colonisation in a social species at large spatial scale9
Disturbance and disease: host–parasite interactions in freshwater streams remain stable following wildfire9
Consistent responses to moisture stress despite diverse growth forms within mountain fynbos communities9
Correction to: Clinal versus disruptive latitudinal variation in fruit traits of a South American mistletoe9
Estimating red fox density using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture–recapture modelling9
Density-dependent winter survival of immatures in an irruptive raptor with pulsed breeding9
Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations9
Plant species richness and phylogenetic diversity can favor the recovery of dung beetle communities in ecological restoration plots9
Effects of climate change on Lepidoptera pollen loads and their pollination services in space and time8
Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities8
The impact of global change factors on the functional genes of soil nitrogen and methane cycles in grassland ecosystems: a meta-analysis8
Wing morphology of a damselfly exhibits local variation in response to forest fragmentation8
Incorporation of the 15N-labeled simulated arthropod rain in the soil food web8
Will climate warming amplify the effects of a range-expanding marine predator?8
Size-dependent growth tactics of a partially migratory fish before migration8
Influence of the nurse-protégé interaction on the frugivory pattern of the columnar cactus Pilosocereus leucocephalus8
Seasonal changes in diet, immune function, and oxidative stress in three passerines inhabiting a Mediterranean climate8
Age-specific effects of density and weather on body condition and birth rates in a large herbivore, the Przewalski’s horse8
Plant richness, land use and temperature differently shape invertebrate leaf-chewing herbivory on plant functional groups8
Individual variability in the phenology of an asynchronous penguin species induces consequences on breeding and carry-over effects8
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
The influence of landscape characteristics on breeding bird dark diversity8
Leaf-chewing herbivores affect preference and performance of a specialist root herbivore8
Ensemble evaluation of potential distribution of Procambarus clarkii using multiple species distribution models8
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
A large-scale field experiment across six rivers illustrates how the effects of resource enrichment are context dependent8
Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population8
Geographical variation in pace-of-life in a long-distance migratory bird: implications for population management8
The evolution of prey-attraction strategies in spiders: the interplay between foraging and predator avoidance8
Phenotypic variation in a neotropical understory bird driven by environmental change in an urbanizing Amazonian landscape8
Food quality upgrade of carbon from submerged macrophytes by flagellates via a heterotrophic pathway can stimulate growth of Daphnia magna8
Impacts of invasion on a freshwater cleaning symbiosis8
Grazing by wild red deer can mitigate nutrient enrichment in protected semi-natural open habitats8
Coral reef fish density at a tourist destination responded rapidly to COVID-19 restrictions8
Extreme bill dimorphism leads to different but overlapping isotopic niches and similar trophic positions in sexes of the charismatic extinct huia8
Browning-induced changes in trophic functioning of planktonic food webs in temperate and boreal lakes: insights from fatty acids8
Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types8
Plant and soil nitrogen in oligotrophic boreal forest habitats with varying moss depths: does exclusion of large grazers matter?7
Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard7
Global analysis of seasonal changes in trematode infection levels reveals weak and variable link to temperature7
Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies7
Diversity and assembly of lichens and bryophytes on tree trunks along a temperate to boreal elevation gradient7
Dynamic species interactions associated with the range-shifting marine gastropod Mexacanthina lugubris7
Dealing with disjunct populations of vascular plants: implications for assessing the effect of climate change7
N-fertilization and disturbance exert long-lasting complex legacies on subarctic ecosystems7
Mismatches in thermal performance between ectothermic predators and prey alter interaction strength and top-down control7
Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change7
Phenotypic variation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles from contrasting climatic regimes is the result of adaptation and plasticity7
Forest management affects seasonal source-sink dynamics in a territorial, group-living bird7
Early spring onset increases carbon uptake more than late fall senescence: modeling future phenological change in a US northern deciduous forest7
Measuring foraging preferences in bumble bees: a comparison of popular laboratory methods and a test for sucrose preferences following neonicotinoid exposure7
Invasive and native grasses exert negative plant–soil feedbacks on the woody shrub Artemisia tridentata7
Pathways linking nutrient enrichment, habitat structure, and parasitism to host–resource interactions7
The allocation of anatomical traits determines the trade-off between fine root resource acquisition–transport function7
Does a coexisting congener of a mixed mating species affect the genetic structure and selfing rate via reproductive interference?7
Can smaller predators expand their prey base through killing juveniles? The influence of prey demography and season on prey selection for cheetahs and lions7
Time changes everything: a multispecies analyses of temporal patterns in evaporative water loss7
Short- and long-term effects of nutritional state on IGF-1 levels in nestlings of a wild passerine7
Wolf spatial behavior promotes encounters and kills of abundant prey7
Warming suppresses grassland recovery in biomass but not in community composition after grazing exclusion in a Mongolian grassland7
Forest gaps increase true bug diversity by recruiting open land species7
Biotic and abiotic drivers of dispersion dynamics in a large-bodied tropical vertebrate, the Western Bornean orangutan7
Population density and vegetation resources influence demography in a hibernating herbivorous mammal7
Contemporary evolution rivals the effects of rhizobium presence on community and ecosystem properties in experimental mesocosms7
Defensive tolerance to parasitism is correlated with sexual selection in swallows7
Legacies of precipitation influence primary production in Panicum virgatum7
Reducing uncertainty with iterative model updating parses effects of competition and environment on salamander occupancy7
Effect of symbiotic N2 fixation on leaf protein contents, protein degradation and nitrogen resorption during leaf senescence in temperate deciduous woody species7
Fatty acid isotopic composition in Atlantic pollock is not influenced by environmentally relevant dietary fat concentrations7
Synergistic effects of soil nutrient level and native species identity and diversity on biotic resistance to Sicyos angulatus, an invasive species7
A multiple-trait analysis of ecohydrological acclimatisation in a dryland phreatophytic shrub7
Short-lived legacies of Prunus serotina plant–soil feedbacks7
Nightly torpor use in response to weather conditions and individual state in an insectivorous bat6
Life-history trait variation in native versus invasive asexual New Zealand mud snails6
Year-round activity levels reveal diurnal foraging constraints in the annual cycle of migratory and non-migratory barnacle geese6
Within-day dynamics of plant–pollinator networks are dominated by early flower closure: an experimental test of network plasticity6
The importance of direct and indirect trophic interactions in determining the presence of a locally rare day-flying moth6
Diet effects on longevity, heat tolerance, lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial membrane potential in Daphnia6
Variable seed bed microsite conditions and light influence germination in Australian winter annuals6
Plants with extrafloral nectaries share indirect defenses and shape the local arboreal ant community6
Plant traits and seasonality shape coexistence and niche segregation patterns among spider species6
Habitat configurations shape the trophic and energetic dynamics of reef fishes in a tropical–temperate transition zone: implications under a warming future6
Physiological markers suggest energetic and nutritional adjustments in male sharks linked to reproduction6
Lemming winter habitat: the quest for warm and soft snow6
Cover crop species alter tallgrass prairie community assembly6
A test of trade-offs in dispersal and reproduction within and between a sister species pair of specialist insect herbivores6
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
Season and prey identity mediate the effect of predators on parasites in rodents: a test of the healthy herds hypothesis6
Inferring condition in wild mammals: body condition indices confer no benefit over measuring body mass across ecological contexts6
Responses in honeybee and bumblebee activity to changes in weather conditions6
Water balance affects foliar and soil nutrients differently6
Herbivory legacy modifies leaf economic spectrum and drought tolerance in two tree species6
Correction to: Host ecology and biogeography drive parasite community composition in Atlantic killifishes6
Drivers of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversities in dominant ground-dwelling arthropods of coastal heathlands6
Antagonistic biotic interactions mitigate the positive effects of warming on wood decomposition6
The role of morphological traits in predicting the functional ecology of arboreal and ground ants in the Cerrado–Amazon transition6
Large tree mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve6
Correction to: Native and exotic plants play different roles in urban pollination networks across seasons6
The morphological allometry of four closely related and coexisting insect species reveals adaptation to the mean and variability of the resource size6
Impact of three co-occurring physical ecosystem engineers on soil Collembola communities6
Floral scent divergence across an elevational hybrid zone with varying pollinators6
Sexual differences in phenotypical predictors of floating status: body condition influences male but not female reproductive status in a wild passerine6
How do the physiological traits of a lizard change during its invasion of an oceanic island?6
Behavioural hydroregulation protects against acute effects of drought in a dry-skinned ectotherm6
Plant dynamics in a tropical dry forest are strongly associated with climate and fire and weakly associated with stabilizing neighborhood effects6
Contrasting population manipulations reveal resource competition between two large marsupials: bare-nosed wombats and eastern grey kangaroos6
Niche lability mitigates the impact of invasion but not urbanization6
The role of habitat configuration in shaping animal population processes: a framework to generate quantitative predictions6
Hydraulic vulnerability difference between branches and roots increases with environmental aridity6
Behavioral response to heat stress of twig-nesting canopy ants6
Anthropogenic subsidies influence resource use during a mange epizootic in a desert coyote population6
A hybrid beachgrass (Ammophila arenaria × A. breviligulata) is more productive and outcompetes its non-native parent species6
Composition and structure of winter aphid–parasitoid food webs along a latitudinal gradient in Chile6
Colonization of mudflat substrate by microarthropods: the role of distance, inundation frequency and body size6
Nitrogen addition, not heterogeneity, alters the relationship between invasion and native decline in California grasslands6
The importance of patch shape at threshold occupancy: functional patch size within total habitat amount6
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