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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology71
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The impact of plant diversity and vegetation composition on bumblebee colony fitness60
Why sex matters in phenological research53
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Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients44
Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non‐native insects37
Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra35
Local environment and sampling bias drive parasite prevalence estimates in freshwater fish communities34
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 change33
Ecological boundaries and constraints on viable eco‐evolutionary pathways31
Looking beyond Popper: how philosophy can be relevant to ecology30
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Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities30
Effects of tree species diversity and conspecific seedling density on insect herbivory and pathogen infection on big‐leaf mahogany seedlings29
Inter‐ and intraspecific spatial distributions, spatial segregation by dominants and emergent neutrality in understorey plants29
Flower‐visitor and pollen‐load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles29
Marine gastropods at higher trophic level show stronger tolerance to ocean acidification28
The distribution of distances to the edge of species coexistence27
Reproducing in a changing world: combined effects of thermal conditions by day and night and of water constraints during pregnancy in a cold‐adapted ectotherm26
Plasticity and co‐variation of root traits govern differential phosphorus acquisition among 20 wheat genotypes25
Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics24
Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction24
Landscape‐scale dynamics of a threatened species respond to local‐scale conservation management24
Structural complexity of hard substrates shapes shallow marine benthic communities23
Direct and indirect effects of global change on mycorrhizal associations of savanna plant communities22
Phenotypic plasticity may mediate habitat filtering in a forest edge community22
Recreation and hunting differentially affect deer behaviour and sapling performance22
Unraveling how keystone niche individuals contribute disproportionately to the population niche22
A phylogenetic perspective on ecological specialisation reveals hummingbird and insect pollinators have generalist diets21
Above‐ and belowground plant pathogens along elevational gradients: patterns and potential mechanisms21
Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?21
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Variable interspecific competition under megadrought conditions: rodent population dynamics in semiarid Chile20
Special issue: Ecology of information enters the Anthropocene20
The role of functional and phylogenetic diversity in riparian tree vegetation on leaf litter breakdown in rivers20
Species differences drive spatial scaling of foraging patterns in herbivorous reef fishes19
The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots19
How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality19
Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities19
Variation in ripe fruit hardness: a mechanical constraint?18
A global synthesis and meta‐analysis of the environmental heterogeneity effects on the freshwater biodiversity18
Studying seed dispersal through the lens of movement ecology18
Climate change may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands18
Defensive mutualists affect outcross pollen transfer and male fitness in their host plant18
Maintenance of phenotypic plasticity is linked to oxidative stress in spadefoot toad larvae18
Patronus charm: a comparison of benefactor plants and climate mediation effects on diversity18
Can constraint closure provide a generalized understanding of community dynamics in ecosystems?17
The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish17
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Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios17
Environment‐dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual‐scale movement behaviour17
The role of fish feces for nutrient cycling on coral reefs17
Bird pollination syndrome is the plant's adaptation to ornithophily, but nectarivorous birds are not so selective17
Survival of the sickest: selective predation differentially modulates ecological and evolutionary disease dynamics17
Investigating the effects of whole genome duplication on phenotypic plasticity: implications for the invasion success of giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea17
Heat stress can change the competitive outcome between fungi: insights from a modelling approach16
Magnitude and timing of resource pulses interact to affect plant invasion16
Temporal changes in taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversity across tree communities in subtropical Atlantic forests16
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model16
Environmental change alters nitrogen fixation rates and microbial parameters in a subarctic biological soil crust16
Can a complex ecosystem survive the loss of a large fraction of its species? A random matrix theory of secondary extinction16
Interspecific differences in maternal support in herbaceous plants: CNP contents in seeds varies to match expected nutrient limitation of seedlings16
Host identity, nest quality, and parasitism strategy: influences on body size variation in parasitoid bees and wasps16
Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine‐root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms16
What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?16
Climate change and biocrust disturbance synergistically decreased taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in annual communities on gypsiferous soils15
Linking proximate drivers and fitness returns of vigilance in a large ungulate15
Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.)15
Linking intrinsic scales of ecological processes to characteristic scales of biodiversity and functioning patterns15
Kin recognition in Drosophila: rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles15
Prey naiveté alters the balance of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects and shapes trophic cascades in freshwater plankton15
The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation15
Interspecific variation in plant abundance can contribute to the diversity and evolutionary assembly of floral communities14
Why don't all species overexploit: erratum14
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Frugivore diversity increases evenness in the seed rain on deforested tropical landscapes14
Nutritional thermal ecology: investigating the combined influence of temperature and nutrient availability on plant‐ectotherm trophic interactions14
The underground network: facilitation in soil bacteria14
Spatio‐temporal variation in plant–pollinator interactions: a multilayer network approach14
Long‐lasting effects of harsh early‐life conditions on adult survival of a long‐lived vertebrate14
Effects of dominant ant species on ant community structure and ant–hemipteran interactions14
Generalization of a density‐dependent ecosystem function in dominant aquatic macroinvertebrates14
Integrating different facets of diversity into food web models: how adaptation among and within functional groups shape ecosystem functioning13
The soil bacterium Lysobacter capsici attaches to the nematode surface, and triggers induced systemic resistance in barley, impairing the invasion of root‐lesion nematodes13
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers13
Implications of plant N/P stoichiometry influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for stability of plant species and community in response to nutrient limitation13
Carnivore community reassembly provides a test of Eltonian niche conservatism13
Root functional traits determine the magnitude of the rhizosphere priming effect among eight tree species13
Recent increasing homogenisation in Austrian butterfly communities over the past decades13
The magnitude of Allee effects varies across Allee mechanisms, but not taxonomic groups13
Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large‐scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield13
Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning13
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists13
Fine root presence and increased phosphorus availability stimulate wood decay in a central Amazonian rainforest12
A single range‐expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity12
Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions12
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Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large‐scale changes in species associations12
Experimental river noise alters arthropod abundance12
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Determining the optimal movement strategies in environments with heterogeneously distributed resources and toxicants12
Ontogenetic changes in root traits and root‐associated fungal community composition in a heteroblastic epiphytic bromeliad12
Estimated missing interactions change the structure and alter species roles in one of the world's largest seed‐dispersal networks12
Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient11
Effects of temporal environmental stochasticity on species richness: a mechanistic unification spanning weak to strong temporal correlations11
Soil microbiomes drive aboveground plant–pathogen–insect interactions11
Dissecting fine root diameter distribution at the community level captures root morphological diversity11
Strength of seasonality and type of migratory cue determine the fitness consequences of changing phenology for migratory animals11
Defining the danger zone: critical snow properties for predator–prey interactions11
Secondary production increases with species richness but decreases with species evenness of benthic invertebrates11
Understanding behavioural responses to human‐induced rapid environmental change: a meta‐analysis11
The thermal sensitivity of growth and survival in a wild reptile with temperature‐dependent sex determination11
Evolution of searching effort for resources: a missing piece of the puzzle in the ideal free distribution paradigm11
Habitat complexity promotes species richness and community stability: a case study in a marine biogenic habitat11
Long‐term spatially‐replicated data show no physical cost to a benefactor species in a facilitative plant–plant interaction11
Nectar dynamics and the coexistence of two plants that share a pollinator11
Effects of sexual dimorphism on pollinator behaviour in a dioecious species11
Effects of intraspecific variation in a native species' phenology on its coexistence with non‐native plants11
Fungal phylogeny and plant functional traits structure plant–rhizosphere fungi networks in a subtropical forest11
Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats11
Size‐dependent eco‐evolutionary feedbacks in harvested systems11
Biotic and abiotic effects on tree regeneration vary by life stage in European primary forests10
To disperse or compete? Coevolution of traits leads to a limited number of reproductive strategies10
Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China10
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Climatic disequilibrium of recruit communities across a drought‐induced die‐off gradient in Mediterranean shrubland10
Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity10
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Methods for calculating coexistence mechanisms: beyond scaling factors10
Species gain and loss per degree Celsius10
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Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans10
Temporal changes in plant–soil feedbacks between the invasive Phytolacca americana and congeneric native and non‐invasive alien plants10
Generational variation in nutrient regulation for an outbreaking herbivore10
Stable motifs delay species loss in simulated food webs10
Plant–mycorrhizal associations may explain the latitudinal gradient of plant community assembly10
Size matching between fruits and bill gapes differentially affects gulper and masher frugivorous birds10
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The role of evolutionary processes in determining trophic structure9
Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of central Europe9
Does natural root grafting make trees better competitors?9
Measuring individual‐level trait diversity: a critical assessment of methods9
Cross‐scale scaling‐law analyses for the heterogeneity and diversity of animal gut microbiomes from community to landscape9
Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations9
Prickly postglacial pioneers: freshwater plankton community composition influences fatty acid desaturase (FADS2) copy number in southern Greenland threespine sticklebacks9
Aquatic insects balance growth with future supply of algal food resources9
Importance of accounting for imperfect detection of plants in the estimation of population growth rates9
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Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes9
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Many roads to success: different combinations of life‐history traits provide accurate germination timing in seasonally dry environments9
Early spring snowmelt and summer droughts strongly impair the resilience of bacterial community and N cycling functions in a subalpine grassland ecosystem9
Native tree promotes invasion when native grasses are absent9
Resource‐to‐consumer ratio determines the functional response of an herbivorous fish in a field experiment9
Intraspecific variation in the landscape of fear: personality‐driven tradeoffs in habitat use8
Root foraging strategies and niche segregation of three mediterranean shrub species8
Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community8
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks8
Individual variation in marine larval‐fish swimming speed and the emergence of dispersal kernels8
Polyploidy confers better cold tolerance in Daphnia8
The paradox of searching efficiency or why are violent population cycles so uncommon in terrestrial ecosystem8
Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex8
Positive species interactions shape species' range limits8
Temporal environmental variation may impose differential selection on both genomic and ecological traits8
Water the odds? Spring rainfall and emergence‐related seed traits drive plant recruitment8
Shifts and rebound in microbial community function following repeated introduction of a novel species8
Different components of biodiversity mediate two ecosystem functions derived from naturally assembled filter‐feeder communities8
Does fine scale spatiotemporal variation in seed rain translate into plant population structure?8
Effects of population density on static allometry between horn length and body mass in mountain ungulates8
Assessing the links between pollinators and the genetic and epigenetic features of plant species with contrasting distribution ranges7
Non‐native species affect the long‐term dynamics of native stream fish assemblages7
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures7
Ecological determinants of variation in phenotypic selection on quantitative immune defence traits7
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Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population7
Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests7
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Interactive effects of tree species composition and water availability on growth and direct and indirect defences in Quercus ilex7
The internal structure of metacommunities7
Robust metagenomic evidence that local assemblage richness increases with latitude in ground‐active invertebrates of North America7
Changes in prey body size differentially reduces predation risk across predator and prey abundances7
Exploitative competition for floral resources reduces sugar intake but differently impacts the foraging behaviour of two non‐bee flower visitors7
Winners and losers of reef flattening: an assessment of coral reef fish species and traits7
Prey diversity constrains the adaptive potential of predator foraging traits7
Plant landscape abundance and soil fungi modulate drought effects on plant–soil feedbacks7
Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry7
Larvae of coastal marine invertebrates enhance their settling success or benefits of planktonic development – but not both – through vertical swimming7
An invasive seagrass drives its own success in two invaded seas by both negatively affecting native seagrasses and benefiting from those costs7
Sex, competition and mimicry: an eco‐evolutionary model reveals unexpected impacts of ecological interactions on the evolution of phenotypes in sympatry7
Patchy indirect effects of predation: predators contribute to landscape heterogeneity and ecosystem function via localized pathways7
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Dead or alive: carbon as a currency to integrate disease and ecosystem ecology theory7
Urbanisation modulates the attractiveness of plant communities to pollinators by filtering for floral traits7
Direct and legacy‐mediated drought effects on plant performance are species‐specific and depend on soil community composition7
Temporal changes of local and regional processes in the assembly of herbivorous insect communities7
Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes7
Bamboo climatic tolerances are decoupled from leaf functional traits across an Andean elevation gradient7
Top–down effects override climate forcing on reproductive success in a declining sea duck7
A simple theory for the mesopredator release effect: when does an apex predator protect their shared prey from a mesopredator?7
Effects of intrinsic precipitation‐predictability on root traits, allocation strategies and the selective regimes acting on them6
Landscape structures and stand attributes jointly regulate forest productivity6
Floral preferences of mountain bumble bees are constrained by functional traits but flexible through elevation and season6
Using integrated multispecies occupancy models to map co‐occurrence between bottlenose dolphins and fisheries in the Gulf of Lion, French Mediterranean Sea6
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Species contributions to ecosystem stability change with disturbance type6
Ornamentation and body condition, but not glucocorticoids, predict wild songbird cloacal microbiome community and diversity6
Emergence of structure in plant–pollinator networks: low floral resource constrains network specialisation6
Special issue: Fruits, animals and seed dispersal: timely advances on a key mutualism6
Interaction rewiring can buffer the reduction of long‐distance dispersal of seeds when large birds go extinct: an allometric perspective6
Stability of rocky intertidal communities, in response to species removal, varies across spatial scales6
Phytoplankton mean cell size and total biomass increase with nutrients are driven by both species composition and evolution of plasticity6
Higher facilitation for stress‐intolerant ecotypes along a metal pollution gradient are due to a decrease in performance in absence of neighbours6
Plant, insect, and soil microbial communities vary across brome invasion gradients in northern mixed‐grass prairies6
Phylogenetic patterns of rarity and vulnerability in the flora of a temperate mountain range6
Simple attributes predict the value of plants as hosts to fungal and arthropod communities6
Janzen–Connell effects partially supported in reef‐building corals: adult presence interacts with settler density to limit establishment6
Ecosystem functioning during biodiversity loss and recovery6
Probing variation in reaction norms in wild populations: the importance of reliable environmental proxies6
Deterioration of nature's information webs in the Anthropocene6
Local diversity in phenological responses of migratory lake sturgeon to warm winters6
Reproductive skews of territorial species in heterogeneous landscapes6
The species richness–productivity relationship varies among regions and productivity estimates, but not with spatial resolution6
Invasive earthworms modulate native plant trait expression and competition6
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Threshold‐dependent gene regulation and partial assortative mating determine wing dimorphism of an insect6
Linking fine‐root architecture, vertical distribution and growth rate in temperate mountain shrubs6
Thermoregulation of understory birds in lowland Amazonia6
Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐ and density‐dependence of trees? A meta‐analysis of exclusion experiments6
Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands6
Studying the genetic basis of ecological interactions with intergenomic epistasis6
Biochemical traits enhance the trait concept in Sphagnum ecology6
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Repeated extreme droughts decrease root production, but not the potential for post‐drought recovery of root production, in a mesic grassland5
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Aggregated dispersal reduces spatial synchrony but promotes instability and extinction risk5
Seasonal effects and trophic pressure shape the responses of species interactions in a tropical seagrass meadow to marine heatwaves5
Fruits, frugivores, and the evolution of phytochemical diversity5
Determinants of nest box local recruitment and natal dispersal in a declining bird population5
Warming and grazing independently and interactively impact plant defenses and palatability5
Island biogeography theory and the assembly patterns of native versus non‐native forest insects5
Differentiation of rhizosphere fungal assemblages by host ploidy level in mixed‐ploidy Larrea tridentata populations5
Broad‐scale genetic monitoring suggests density‐dependent dispersal in a large carnivore5
Dealing with ‘the spectre of "spurious" correlations': hazards in comparing ratios and other derived variables with a randomization test to determine if a biological interpretation is justified5
Allometry of sodium requirements and mineral lick use among herbivorous mammals5
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Chemodiversity affects preference for Tanacetum vulgare chemotypes in two aphid species5
Unpacking sublinear growth: diversity, stability and coexistence5
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