Oikos

Papers
(The TQCC of Oikos is 8. 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
A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity247
Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks65
Primary determinants of communities in deadwood vary among taxa but are regionally consistent62
Fifty years of European ungulate dietary studies: a synthesis54
Urbanization drives an early spring for plants but not for pollinators50
Trophic niche size and overlap decreases with increasing ecosystem productivity49
Explaining prevalence, diversity and host specificity in a community of avian haemosporidian parasites49
Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks46
Move to nocturnality not a universal trend in carnivore species on disturbed landscapes42
An empiricist's guide to modern coexistence theory for competitive communities40
Plant–soil feedback contributes to predicting plant invasiveness of 68 alien plant species differing in invasive status40
Plant dispersal syndromes are unreliable, especially for predicting zoochory and long‐distance dispersal40
Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions36
Resolving whole‐plant economics from leaf, stem and root traits of 1467 Amazonian tree species36
Infected or informed? Social structure and the simultaneous transmission of information and infectious disease34
Avian trait specialization is negatively associated with urban tolerance33
The internal structure of metacommunities32
Functional and phylogenetic diversity explain different components of diversity effects on biomass production32
Local and regional drivers influence how aquatic community diversity, resistance and resilience vary in response to drying31
Changes in plant diversity and its relationship with productivity in response to nitrogen addition, warming and increased rainfall31
Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest30
Topography consistently drives intra‐ and inter‐specific leaf trait variation within tree species complexes in a Neotropical forest28
Time of activity is a better predictor of the distribution of a tropical lizard than pure environmental temperatures27
A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction–naturalisation–invasion continuum27
Methodological overview and data‐merging approaches in the study of plant–frugivore interactions26
Generalists versus specialists in fluctuating environments: a bet‐hedging perspective25
Mapping species niche and fitness differences for communities with multiple interaction types25
Ants as diaspore removers of non‐myrmecochorous plants: a meta‐analysis25
Plasticity in the trophic niche of an invasive ant explains establishment success and long‐term coexistence24
Phenological responses to climate warming in temperate moths and butterflies: species traits predict future changes in voltinism24
Leaf traits can be used to predict rates of litter decomposition22
Linked networks reveal dual roles of insect dispersal and species sorting for bacterial communities in flowers22
Dead wood diversity promotes fungal diversity21
Earthworm invasion causes declines across soil fauna size classes and biodiversity facets in northern North American forests21
Seed predation and dispersal by small mammals in a landscape of fear: effects of personality, predation risk and land‐use change21
Non‐native species drive biotic homogenization, but it depends on the realm, beta diversity facet and study design: a meta‐analytic systematic review20
Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions20
Nest attentiveness drives nest predation in arctic sandpipers20
Landscapes shaped from the top down: predicting cascading predator effects on spatial biogeochemistry19
The dangers of irreversibility in an age of increased uncertainty: revisiting plasticity in invertebrates19
First measurements of field metabolic rate in wild juvenile fishes show strong thermal sensitivity but variations between sympatric ecotypes19
Aerobic bacteria and archaea tend to have larger and more versatile genomes19
Deriving indicators of biodiversity change from unstructured community‐contributed data19
Individual differences in risk‐taking affect foraging across different landscapes of fear19
A trait‐based approach predicting community assembly and dominance of microbial invasive species19
Incorporating human behaviors into theories of urban community assembly and species coexistence19
Variable dependency on associated yeast communities influences host range in Drosophila species18
Hyaenas and lions: how the largest African carnivores interact at carcasses18
Nectar chemistry is not only a plant's affair: floral visitors affect nectar sugar and amino acid composition18
Microclimatic variability buffers butterfly populations against increased mortality caused by phenological asynchrony between larvae and their host plants18
Fruits, frugivores, and the evolution of phytochemical diversity18
Nectar robbing and plant reproduction: an interplay of positive and negative effects18
How competitive intransitivity and niche overlap affect spatial coexistence17
Polyploidy‐promoted phenolic metabolism confers the increased competitive ability of Solidago canadensis17
Interactions between winter and summer herbivory affect spatial and temporal plant nutrient dynamics in tundra grassland communities17
Migrant birds disperse haemosporidian parasites and affect their transmission in avian communities17
Positive species interactions shape species' range limits17
Soundscapes predict species occurrence in tropical forests17
The effect of inter‐ and intraspecific competition on individual and population niche widths: a four‐decade study on two interacting salmonids17
The commonness of rarity in a deep‐sea taxon16
The stronger, the better – trait hierarchy is driving alien species interaction16
The dual nature of metacommunity variability15
Below‐ and aboveground traits explain local abundance, and regional, continental and global occurrence frequencies of grassland plants15
Diversity mediates the responses of invertebrate density to duration and frequency of rivers' annual drying regime15
Tracking unstable states: ecosystem dynamics in a changing world15
Are we underestimating the ecological and evolutionary effects of warming? Interactions with other environmental drivers may increase species vulnerability to high temperatures15
Predator‐dependent functional responses alter the coexistence and indirect effects among prey that share a predator15
Lineage and latitudinal variation in Phragmites australis tolerance to herbivory: implications for invasion success15
Bacterial phylogeny predicts volatile organic compound composition and olfactory response of an aphid parasitoid15
Positive tree diversity effect on fine root biomass: via density dependence rather than spatial root partitioning15
A seed dispersal effectiveness framework across the mutualism–antagonism continuum14
Climate synchronises shrub growth across a high‐arctic archipelago: contrasting implications of summer and winter warming14
Rewiring of interactions in a changing environment: nettle‐feeding butterflies and their parasitoids14
Agent‐based models to investigate sound impact on marine animals: bridging the gap between effects on individual behaviour and population level consequences14
Substantial plasticity of reproduction and parental care in response to local resource availability in a wild clownfish population14
Intraspecific trait variation in personality‐related movement behavior promotes coexistence14
The limits of demographic buffering in coping with environmental variation14
Dietary availability determines metabolic conversion of long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in spiders: a dual compound‐specific stable isotope approach13
Plant–plant facilitation increases with reduced phylogenetic relatedness along an elevation gradient13
Social information use by predators: expanding the information ecology of prey defences13
Competition and facilitation among fungal plant parasites affect their life‐history traits13
Observing frugivores or collecting scats: a method comparison to construct quantitative seed dispersal networks13
Shifts from pulled to pushed range expansions caused by reduction of landscape connectivity12
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in pollinator communities maintains within‐species floral odour variation12
Meta‐ecosystem dynamics drive the spatial distribution of functional groups in river networks12
Environmental controls on African herbivore responses to landscapes of fear12
Root trait variation along a sub‐arctic tundra elevational gradient12
Thermodynamics of soil organic matter decomposition in semi‐natural oak (Quercus) woodland in southwest Ireland12
Movement with meaning: integrating information into meta‐ecology12
Heterospecific pollen deposition is positively associated with reproductive success in a diverse hummingbird‐pollinated plant community12
Recreation and hunting differentially affect deer behaviour and sapling performance12
Incorporating belowground traits: avenues towards a whole‐tree perspective on performance12
Central place foraging drives niche partitioning in seabirds12
Towards a pragmatic view of theories in ecology12
Evaluating ecological uniqueness over broad spatial extents using species distribution modelling12
Relationships between conifer constitutive and inducible defenses against bark beetles change across levels of biological and ecological scale12
Do positive interactions between marine invaders increase likelihood of invasion into natural and artificial habitats?12
Early predation risk shapes adult learning and cognitive flexibility12
The hidden half of the fine root differentiation in herbs: nonacquisitive belowground organs determine fine‐root traits12
The tradeoff between information and pathogen transmission in animal societies11
Changes in the structure of seed dispersal networks when including interaction outcomes from both plant and animal perspectives11
Shared predators between primate groups and mixed species bird flocks: the potential for forest‐wide eavesdropping networks11
Small invertebrate consumers produce consistent size spectra across reef habitats and climatic zones11
A field experiment reveals seasonal variation in the Daphnia gut microbiome11
Parasite transmission in aquatic ecosystems under temperature change: effects of host activity and elimination of parasite larvae by filter‐feeders11
Understanding behavioural responses to human‐induced rapid environmental change: a meta‐analysis11
Directionality and community‐level selection11
Size‐mediated priority effects are trait‐dependent and consistent across latitudes in a damselfly11
Ecological consequences of urbanization on a legume–rhizobia mutualism11
Facilitation promotes plant invasions and indirect negative interactions11
Seasonal dynamics of competition between honey bees and wild bees in a protected Mediterranean scrubland11
Water the odds? Spring rainfall and emergence‐related seed traits drive plant recruitment11
Scavenging in changing environments: woody encroachment shapes rural scavenger assemblages in Europe11
Host specificity and interaction networks of insects feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests10
Functional traits determine why species belong to the dark diversity in a dry grassland fragmented landscape10
Bird pollination syndrome is the plant's adaptation to ornithophily, but nectarivorous birds are not so selective10
Bridging parametric and nonparametric measures of species interactions unveils new insights of non‐equilibrium dynamics10
Species coexistence in resource‐limited patterned ecosystems is facilitated by the interplay of spatial self‐organisation and intraspecific competition10
Phenotypic plasticity and the leaf economics spectrum: plasticity is positively associated with specific leaf area10
Shift from short‐term competition to facilitation with drought stress is due to a decrease in long‐term facilitation10
Relationship between individual metabolic rate and patch departure behaviour: evidence from aquatic gastropods10
Scale‐dependent effects of conspecific negative density dependence and immigration on biodiversity maintenance10
Temporal consistency in interactions among birds, ants, and plants in a neotropical savanna10
Studying seed dispersal through the lens of movement ecology10
Considerations of varied thermoregulatory expressions in migration theory10
Ecosystem size shapes antipredator trait evolution in estuarine threespine stickleback10
Ontogeny of movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses10
Consistent individual differences in ecto‐parasitism of a long‐lived lizard host10
Maintenance of phenotypic plasticity is linked to oxidative stress in spadefoot toad larvae10
Multi‐taxon inventory reveals highly consistent biodiversity responses to ecospace variation10
The effects of dispersal on spatial synchrony in metapopulations differ by timescale10
Repeated extreme droughts decrease root production, but not the potential for post‐drought recovery of root production, in a mesic grassland10
Fruit abundance and trait matching determine diet type and body condition across frugivorous bird populations10
Marine regime shifts impact synchrony of deep‐sea fish growth in the northeast Atlantic9
Elevational gradients in constitutive and induced oak defences based on individual traits and their correlated expression patterns9
Do natural enemies mediate conspecific negative distance‐ and density‐dependence of trees? A meta‐analysis of exclusion experiments9
Extending the growth rate hypothesis to species development: Can stoichiometric traits help to explain the composition of macroinvertebrate communities?9
Direct and legacy‐mediated drought effects on plant performance are species‐specific and depend on soil community composition9
Sex, competition and mimicry: an eco‐evolutionary model reveals unexpected impacts of ecological interactions on the evolution of phenotypes in sympatry9
Community‐wide seed dispersal distances peak at low levels of specialisation in size‐structured networks9
Mismatches between birds' spatial and temporal dynamics reflect their delayed response to global changes9
Clonal integration enhances performance of an invasive grass9
Nutritional grouping of marine forage species reveals contrasted exposure of high trophic levels to essential micro‐nutrients9
Individual‐based networks reveal the highly skewed interactions of a frugivore mutualist with individual plants in a diverse community9
Context‐dependent specialisation drives temporal dynamics in intra‐ and inter‐individual variation in foraging behaviour within a generalist bird population9
Unifying ecosystem responses to disturbance into a single statistical framework9
Nutritional quality of giant kelp declines due to warming ocean temperatures9
Magnitude and timing of resource pulses interact to affect plant invasion9
Stochastic predation exposes prey to predator pits and local extinction9
Community composition influences ecosystem resistance and production more than species richness or intraspecific diversity9
Predator control alters wolf interactions with prey and competitor species over the diel cycle9
The compound topology of host–parasite networks is explained by the integrative hypothesis of specialization9
Elevational trends of tree fine root traits in species‐rich tropical Andean forests9
Isotopic niches of tropical birds reduced by anthropogenic impacts: a 100‐year perspective9
Inter‐specific aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest9
Divergent terrestrial responses of soil N2O emissions to different levels of elevated CO2 and temperature9
The effects of human‐altered habitat spatial pattern on frugivory and seed dispersal: a global meta‐analysis9
Plasticity and co‐variation of root traits govern differential phosphorus acquisition among 20 wheat genotypes9
Diapause and bet‐hedging strategies in insects: a meta‐analysis of reaction norm shapes9
A trait‐based approach across the native and invaded range to understand plant invasiveness and community impact9
Turning summer into winter: nutrient dynamics, temperature, density dependence and invasive species drive bioenergetic processes and growth of a keystone coldwater fish8
Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry8
The upsizing of the São Tomé seed dispersal network by introduced animals8
The island syndrome hypothesis is only partially validated in two rodent species in an inland–island system8
Suppression of a plant hormone gibberellin reduces growth of invasive plants more than native plants8
Why don't all species overexploit?8
Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community8
Vibrational noise from wind energy‐turbines negatively impacts earthworm abundance8
Temperature and multiple parasites combine to alter host community structure8
Seeing shapes in clouds: the fallacy of deriving ecological hypotheses from statistical distributions8
Seasonal release from competition explains partial migration in European moose8
The influence of provisioning on animal‐mediated seed dispersal8
Data collected by fruit body‐ and DNA‐based survey methods yield consistent species‐to‐species association networks in wood‐inhabiting fungal communities8
Size‐dependent eco‐evolutionary feedbacks in harvested systems8
Assessing short and long‐term variations in diversity, timing and body condition of frugivorous birds8
Intra‐ and inter‐specific variation in root mechanical traits for twelve herbaceous plants and their link with the root economics space8
Floral preferences of mountain bumble bees are constrained by functional traits but flexible through elevation and season8
Effects of soil conditioning, root and shoot litter addition interact to determine the intensity of plant–soil feedback8
Spatial scale, neighbouring plants and variation in plant volatiles interactively determine the strength of host–parasitoid relationships8
Effect of experimental DNA demethylation on phytohormones production and palatability of a clonal plant after induction via jasmonic acid8
Estimating abundance and phenology from transect count data with GLMs8
Does fine scale spatiotemporal variation in seed rain translate into plant population structure?8
Mechanistic models of seed dispersal by animals8
Rewiring of peatland plant–microbe networks outpaces species turnover8
Temporal environmental variation may impose differential selection on both genomic and ecological traits8
Highly mobile seed predators contribute to interisland seed dispersal within an oceanic archipelago8
Host–parasite dynamics set the ecological theatre for the evolution of state‐ and context‐dependent dispersal in hosts8
Environmental variation in sex ratios and sexual dimorphism in three wind‐pollinated dioecious plant species8
The landscape of fear has individual layers: an experimental test of among‐individual differences in perceived predation risk during foraging8
A framework for fine‐root trait syndromes: syndrome coexistence may support phosphorus partitioning in tropical forests8
Understandable multifunctionality measures using Hill numbers8
Catastrophes, connectivity and Allee effects in the design of marine reserve networks8
Comparison of size‐structured and species‐level trophic networks reveals antagonistic effects of temperature on vertical trophic diversity at the population and species level8
The link between body size, colouration and thermoregulation and their integration into ecogeographical rules: a critical appraisal in light of climate change8
Coordination in parental effort decreases with age in a long‐lived seabird8
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