Oikos

Papers
(The median citation count of Oikos 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The ameliorating influence of neighbouring plants on aboveground microclimate depends on their number, size and proximity101
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings80
Warming winters promote biodiversity through reduced mortality of a habitat‐forming species in soft‐sediment intertidal systems45
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Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology40
Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non‐native insects35
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche35
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction34
Spatially‐discrete disturbance overrides inherent environmental heterogeneity in grazed mixed‐grass prairie34
Fish depth redistributions do not allow maintenance of abundance in a region of rapid change29
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients27
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management25
Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities24
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles24
Why sex matters in phenological research23
How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships23
Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities23
The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness23
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra22
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics22
The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology22
Hosts, pathogens and hot ponds: thermal mean and variability contribute to spatial patterns of chytrid infection22
Reproducing in a changing world: combined effects of thermal conditions by day and night and of water constraints during pregnancy in a cold‐adapted ectotherm22
Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways22
The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence21
Marine gastropods at higher trophic level show stronger tolerance to ocean acidification21
Structural complexity of hard substrates shapes shallow marine benthic communities21
Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios21
The role of functional and phylogenetic diversity in riparian tree vegetation on leaf litter breakdown in rivers20
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Unique roles of functional group of submerged macrophytes on ecosystem functions19
How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality19
Disentangling the relative roles of biased colonization and in situ evolution in driving the island syndrome in Coprosma (Rubiaceae)19
Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?19
The role of fish feces for nutrient cycling on coral reefs18
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Above‐ and belowground plant pathogens along elevational gradients: patterns and potential mechanisms18
The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots18
A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird and insect pollinators have generalist diets18
The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish17
Trap‐dependence in capture–recapture studies: empirical evidence in vertebrates and biological meaning17
Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile17
Special issue: Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene17
Niche complementarity stabilizes grassland biomass during drought and eutrophication17
Survival of the sickest: selective predation differentially modulates ecological and evolutionary disease dynamics17
Latitude‐specific responses of European birds' population growth rates to temperature and water availability17
Defensive mutualists affect outcross pollen transfer and male fitness in their host plant16
Climate change may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands16
Patronus charm: a comparison of benefactor plants and climate mediation effects on diversity16
Maintenance of phenotypic plasticity is linked to oxidative stress in spadefoot toad larvae15
Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities15
Winter wipeout? Post‐disturbance recovery of brown trout indicates strong population resilience to harsh winter conditions15
A global synthesis and meta‐analysis of the environmental heterogeneity effects on the freshwater biodiversity15
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns15
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The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation15
Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasion success of giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea14
Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine‐root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms14
Arctic‐breeding black‐legged kittiwakes show individual variation in foraging responses to glacial conditions without consequences for reproductive output14
Host identity, nest quality, and parasitism strategy: influences on body size variation in parasitoid bees and wasps14
Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.)14
Interactions outside local patches contribute to the compound topology of plant–pollinator networks in fragmented dune slacks13
Prey naiveté alters the balance of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects and shapes trophic cascades in freshwater plankton13
Environment‐dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual‐scale movement behaviour13
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model13
Implications of plant N/P stoichiometry influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stability of plant species and community in response to nutrient limitation12
Kin recognition in Drosophila : rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles12
Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi: insights from a modelling approach12
The soil bacterium Lysobacter capsici attaches to the nematode surface, and triggers induced systemic resistance in barley, impairing the invasion of root‐lesion nematodes12
Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests12
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust12
Linking proximate drivers and fitness returns of vigilance in a large ungulate12
What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?12
Carnivore community reassembly provides a test of Eltonian niche conservatism11
Integrating different facets of diversity into food web models: how adaptation among and within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning11
The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria11
Interspecific variation in plant abundance can contribute to the diversity and evolutionary assembly of floral communities11
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The pace and sequence of spatial learning: exploration facilitates long‐term behavioral refinement11
Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning11
Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations11
Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes11
Effects of dominant ant species on ant community structure and ant–hemipteran interactions11
Root functional traits determine the magnitude of the rhizosphere priming effect among eight tree species11
Generalization of a density‐dependent ecosystem function in dominant aquatic macroinvertebrates11
Recruitment probability in a large carnivore: the role of biological and human‐related factors in early‐life11
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Refuge trifecta: intertidal gastropods use pits to escape heat, wave action and predation11
Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach11
Nutritional thermal ecology: investigating the combined influence of temperature and nutrient availability on plant‐ectotherm trophic interactions11
Whole‐seedling trait adjustments of mountain birch under contrasting environmental conditions11
Long‐lasting effects of harsh early‐life conditions on adult survival of a long‐lived vertebrate11
Drivers of species richness in Amazonian amphibians and reptiles: testing diversity hypotheses across taxonomic groups10
Fungal phylogeny and plant functional traits structure plant–rhizosphere fungi networks in a subtropical forest10
Comparing the power of phylogenetic, trait and network structure information to predict plant–frugivore interactions10
Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades10
Environmental organic carbon availability determines metabolic and consumption rates in freshwater isopods10
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying the association between community‐weighted mean and abiotic gradients10
Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator‐follower dynamics in social groups10
Ontogenetic changes in root traits and root‐associated fungal community composition in a heteroblastic epiphytic bromeliad10
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers10
Multiple scales of fear: foraging behaviour of white‐naped jays in semiarid landscapes10
Determining the optimal movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resources and toxicants10
The magnitude of Allee effects varies across Allee mechanisms, but not taxonomic groups10
Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions10
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists10
Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large‐scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield10
Fly pollinator foraging in boreal forests is shaped by climate, forest structure and flower resources10
A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity10
Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity9
Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest9
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Oviposited eggs are sensitive to experimental heatwaves9
Habitat complexity promotes species richness and community stability: a case study in a marine biogenic habitat9
Long‐term spatially‐replicated data show no physical cost to a benefactor species in a facilitative plant–plant interaction9
Nectar dynamics and the coexistence of two plants that share a pollinator9
Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient9
Quantifying the contribution of community trait mean and diversity to ecosystem functioning9
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Effects of intraspecific variation in a native species' phenology on its coexistence with non‐native plants9
Inconsistent effects of P enrichment and predator presence on food‐web dynamics in a bromeliad system9
Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats9
Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals9
Species gain and loss per degree Celsius9
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Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks9
Soil microbiomes drive aboveground plant–pathogen–insect interactions9
Forbs in Viking lands: the effect of disturbing dominant graminoids on recruitment in tundra grasslands9
Changes in land cover drove the recent range expansion of a tropical farmland bird9
Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China9
The thermal sensitivity of growth and survival in a wild reptile with temperature‐dependent sex determination9
Dissecting fine root diameter distribution at the community level captures root morphological diversity9
Secondary production increases with species richness but decreases with species evenness of benthic invertebrates9
To disperse or compete? Coevolution of traits leads to a limited number of reproductive strategies8
Frugivory‐mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy‐fruited tree8
Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of central Europe8
Temporal changes in plant–soil feedbacks between the invasive Phytolacca americana and congeneric native and non‐invasive alien plants8
Agrochemical effects on plankton temporal variability are buffered at larger spatial scales8
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Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity8
The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure8
Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources8
Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine sticklebacks8
Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds8
Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans8
Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient8
Climatic disequilibrium of recruit communities across a drought‐induced die‐off gradient in Mediterranean shrubland8
Plant–mycorrhizal associations may explain the latitudinal gradient of plant community assembly8
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Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes8
Early spring snowmelt and summer droughts strongly impair the resilience of bacterial community and N cycling functions in a subalpine grassland ecosystem8
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A timid choice: risk‐taking behavior predicts individualized niche in a varying landscape of safety8
Stable motifs delay species loss in simulated food webs8
Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions8
Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates8
Biotic and abiotic effects on tree regeneration vary by life stage in European primary forests8
Methods for calculating coexistence mechanisms: beyond scaling factors8
Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality‐driven tradeoffs in habitat use8
Generational variation in nutrient regulation for an outbreaking herbivore8
Global warming confers performance advantages to a non‐native predator8
Does natural root grafting make trees better competitors?8
Root foraging strategies and niche segregation of three mediterranean shrub species7
Long‐term nutrient addition and grazing exclusion determine flower abundance, diversity and community composition in high‐latitude grasslands7
Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species7
Ecological determinants of variation in phenotypic selection on quantitative immune defence traits7
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Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry7
Cross‐scale scaling‐law analyses for the heterogeneity and diversity of animal gut microbiomes from community to landscape7
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Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations7
Winners and losers of reef flattening: an assessment of coral reef fish species and traits7
Different components of biodiversity mediate two ecosystem functions derived from naturally assembled filter‐feeder communities7
Plant landscape abundance and soil fungi modulate drought effects on plant–soil feedbacks7
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks7
Interactive effects of tree species composition and water availability on growth and direct and indirect defences in Quercus ilex7
Native tree promotes invasion when native grasses are absent7
Plant–soil feedback relationships depend on nutrient availability and stoichiometry7
The ecological memory of landscape complexity shapes diversity of freshwater communities7
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Polyploidy confers better cold tolerance in Daphnia7
Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes7
Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex7
Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods7
Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient7
The paradox of searching efficiency or why are violent population cycles so uncommon in terrestrial ecosystem7
Nutritional effects on the expression of cryptic pigmentation in freshwater isopods7
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A review and meta‐analysis of host‐plant selection by lepidopteran larvae: no evidence of diet breadth constraints on larval decision‐making7
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Marine trophic architecture and hidden ecological connections in the Strait of Magellan: keystone species and ecosystem resilience7
Interaction rewiring can buffer the reduction of long‐distance dispersal of seeds when large birds go extinct: an allometric perspective6
Community size and disturbance history jointly explain the interplay between stochastic and deterministic community variation in benthic invertebrates6
Time tells: plasticity and developmental asynchrony underlie trait variation in a dune‐building grass6
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Using survival analysis to develop models for estimating size‐at‐detection of invasive species under surveillance6
Species contributions to ecosystem stability change with disturbance type6
Emergence of structure in plant–pollinator networks: low floral resource constrains network specialisation6
Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population6
Taylor's power law meets ecological networks: introducing TPLoN as a novel framework for heterogeneity scaling analysis6
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures6
Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe6
Reproductive skews of territorial species in heterogeneous landscapes6
Studying the genetic basis of ecological interactions with intergenomic epistasis6
Ornamentation and body condition, but not glucocorticoids, predict wild songbird cloacal microbiome community and diversity6
Thermoregulation of understory birds in lowland Amazonia6
Ecosystem functioning during biodiversity loss and recovery6
Direct and legacy‐mediated drought effects on plant performance are species‐specific and depend on soil community composition6
Changes in prey body size differentially reduces predation risk across predator and prey abundances6
Friends or foes? Polyploidy and competition in a grassland geophyte6
A simple theory for the mesopredator release effect: when does an apex predator protect their shared prey from a mesopredator?6
Non‐native species affect the long‐term dynamics of native stream fish assemblages6
Urbanisation modulates the attractiveness of plant communities to pollinators by filtering for floral traits6
Not just ‘super‐predators': human behaviour shapes wildlife behavioural responses across avoidance, tolerance and attraction6
Special issue: Fruits, animals and seed dispersal: timely advances on a key mutualism6
Biochemical traits enhance the trait concept in Sphagnum ecology6
Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands6
Assessing the links between pollinators and the genetic and epigenetic features of plant species with contrasting distribution ranges6
Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory6
Probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies6
Intraspecific variation in seed size mediates rodent–seed interactions: combined patch‐level trait distributions to individual seed selection6
Patchy indirect effects of predation: predators contribute to landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem function via localized pathways6
An invasive seagrass drives its own success in two invaded seas by both negatively affecting native seagrasses and benefiting from those costs6
Robust metagenomic evidence that local assemblage richness increases with latitude in ground‐active invertebrates of North America6
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Warming and grazing independently and interactively impact plant defenses and palatability5
Effects of salinization on tropical freshwater wetland primary producers and aquatic invertebrates5
Exploring nutrient availability and herbivorous insect population dynamics across multiple scales5
Spread your wings: insect–plant–landscape interactions mediate the wing shape of a multivoltine polyphagous insect5
Community variability in pond metacommunities: interactive effects of predators and isolation on stochastic community assembly5
Density‐dependent and independent mechanisms jointly reduce species performance under nitrogen enrichment5
Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness5
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Amphibian larvae benefit from a warm environment under simultaneous threat from chytridiomycosis and ranavirosis5
Recurrent drought amplifies drought impacts and increases seasonal synchrony in mountain grassland communities5
What makes decomposition faster under conspecific trees? The factors controlling the magnitude of home‐field advantage5
Differentiation of rhizosphere fungal assemblages by host ploidy level in mixed‐ploidy Larrea tridentata populations5
Phytoplankton mean cell size and total biomass increase with nutrients are driven by both species composition and evolution of plasticity5
Chemodiversity affects preference for Tanacetum vulgare chemotypes in two aphid species5
The role of maternal environment and dispersal ability in plants' transgenerational plasticity5
Ground beetle trophic interactions alter available nitrogen in forest soil5
Uncovering the effects of Müllerian mimicry on the evolution of conspicuousness in colour patterns5
Island biogeography theory and the assembly patterns of native versus non‐native forest insects5
Size bias in the documentation of marine biodiversity5
Cushion plants increase and maintain alpine insect diversity through sustaining plant–insect interaction networks5
Aggregated dispersal reduces spatial synchrony but promotes instability and extinction risk5
Landscape structures and stand attributes jointly regulate forest productivity5
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