Ecological Entomology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Entomology is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review124
Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities98
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation70
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline61
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction58
Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?57
Some considerations on the terminology applied to dung beetle functional groups32
Potential range expansion and niche shift of the invasive Hyphantria cunea between native and invasive countries28
Low moisture stress influences plant volatile emissions affecting herbivore interactions in tomato, Solanum lycopersicum23
Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions20
Functional resin use in solitary bees17
Reciprocal microbiome transplants differentially rescue fitness in two syntopic dung beetle sister species (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus)15
The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel environment15
Ivermectin impacts on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions in two distinct Brazilian ecosystems15
Changes in land use affect dung beetle communities but do not affect ecosystem services in the Cerrado of Central Brazil14
Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behaviour of ants13
Gallers as leaf rollers: ecosystem engineering in a tropical system and its effects on arthropod biodiversity13
Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles13
Evaluating intraspecific variation in insect trait analysis12
Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem12
Is elevation a strong environmental filter? Combining taxonomy, functional traits and phylogeny of butterflies in a tropical mountain12
Invasive paper wasps have strong cascading effects on the host plant of monarch butterflies12
Dung beetle trophic ecology: are we misunderstanding resources attraction?12
Low‐temperature tolerance in coprophagic beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): implications for ecological services11
Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long‐term insect declines11
Insect predation reduces the abundance of a nidicolous ectoparasite10
Floral resource continuity boosts bumble bee colony performance relative to variable floral resources10
Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration10
Largest on earth: Discovery of a new type of fairy circle in Angola supports a termite origin10
Species associations in arthropod ectoparasite infracommunities are spatially and temporally variable and affected by environmental factors10
Summer drought affects abundance of grassland grasshoppers differently along an elevation gradient10
Wild bee functional diversity and plant associations in native and conventional plant nurseries10
How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid10
Research networks should improve connectivity for halting freshwater insect extinctions9
Between locality variations in the seasonal patterns of dung beetles: the role of phenology in mitigating global warming effects9
Bottom‐up and top‐down forces in plant‐gall relationships: testing the hypotheses of resource concentration, associational resistance, and host fitness reduction9
Short‐term positive effects of wildfire on diurnal insects and pollen transport in a Mediterranean ecosystem8
Agonistic responses to potential co‐foundresses in a cooperatively brooding quasi‐social parasitoid8
The puzzle of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and their association with plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids8
Dung or carrion? Sex and age determine resource attraction in dung beetles8
Role of ants as dispersers of native and exotic seeds in an understudied dryland8
Differential flight responses of two ambrosia beetles to ethanol as indicators of invasion biology: the case with Kuroshio shot hole borer (Euwallacea kuroshio) and fruit‐tree pinhole borer (8
Do Apis and non‐Apis bees provide a similar contribution to crop production with different levels of pollination dependency? A review using meta‐analysis8
Metabolic cost of holding nuptial food gifts for male spiders8
Microclimate in hollow trees and how it affects an inhabiting beetle species,Osmoderma eremita8
Increasing temperature reduces cuticular melanism and immunity to fungal infection in a migratory insect8
Phenological imbalance in the supply and demand of floral resources: Half the pollen and nectar produced by the main autumn food source, Hedera helix, is uncollected by insects8
Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant‐plant interaction networks: A global overview8
Correlates of Odonata species composition in Amazonian streams depend on dissimilarity coefficient and oviposition strategy8
Parasitoid pressure does not elicit defensive polyphenism in the green peach aphid7
Friend and foe? The effects of grassland management on global patterns of spider diversity7
Adult monarch butterflies show high tolerance to neonicotinoid insecticides7
Ant attendance does not necessarily imply protection of aphids from their arthropod natural enemies7
Probing the role of propagule pressure, stochasticity, and Allee effects on invasion success using experimental introductions of a biological control agent7
Differing non‐linear, lagged effects of temperature and precipitation on an insect herbivore and its host plant7
On the role of direct sunlight for egg‐laying behaviour: lessons and ideas from the Speckled wood7
Host patch quality increases parasitoid locomotor activity despite risk of egg limitation7
Carabid adaptation to a collembolan diet: hunting efficiency and nutritional value7
Bee‐associated fungi mediate effects of fungicides on bumble bees7
Movements and occurrence in two closely related fritillary species7
Individual‐resource network between Xylocopa bees and plant resources: generalist species, specialist individuals?7
Effects of light and nutrients on intraspecific competition among midges from a shallow eutrophic lake7
Trait‐based characterisation of parasitoid wasp communities in natural and agricultural areas7
Towards more intimacy: moderate elevation of temperature drives increases in foraging and mutualistic interactions between Lasius niger and Aphis fabae7
Quantifying the post‐fire recovery of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in the Brazilian Pantanal7
Heatwaves increase larval mortality and delay development of a solitary bee7
Pollen analysis of cavity‐nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) and their food webs in a city6
Ratios rather than concentrations of nutritionally important elements may shape honey bee preferences for ‘dirty water’6
Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants6
A test of the competitive ability–cold tolerance trade‐off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles6
Consistent shift in nutritional ecology of ants reveals trophic flexibility across alpine tree‐line ecotones6
Light alters activity but does not disturb tandem coordination of termite mating pairs6
Aridity could have driven the local extinction of a common and multivoltine butterfly6
Massive spider web aggregations in South American grasslands after flooding6
Dung beetles can sow: the potential of secondary seed dispersers to assist ecological restoration6
Eating versus heating: a study of the allocation of workers between foraging and nest incubation in bumble bees6
Trophic ecology of the arboreal and ground ant communities in forests and savannas of central Brazil6
The effect of urbanisation and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts6
Core‐marginal dynamics interact with sex and temperature to influence morphology of the rapidly expanding invasive kudzu bug (Megacopta cribraria)6
Testing the migration syndrome: Comparative fecundity of migratory and non‐migratory nymphaline butterflies6
High temperature and soil moisture reduce host‐plant quality for an insect herbivore6
Diverging facets of grassland ant diversity along a Mediterranean elevational gradient6
Developmental temperature predicts body size, flight, and pollen load in a widespread butterfly6
Aestivation as a response to climate change: the Great Banded Grayling Brintesia circe in Central Europe6
Re‐evaluation of a method used to study nutritional effects on bumble bees6
More than meets the eye: decrypting diversity reveals hidden interaction specificity between frogs and frog‐biting midges6
Response of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity to livestock grazing in an arid ecosystem6
Body size, metabolic rate and diapause in the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), in two extreme climatic regions6
Variability in activity differs between castes in the ant Linepithema humile6
Multi‐species occupancy models: an effective and flexible framework for studies of insect communities5
The specialist of a specialist: the natural history of the predispersal seed predator weevil Hemicolpus abdominalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)5
Propagule pressure rather than population growth determines colonisation ability: a case study using two phytophagous mite species differing in their invasive potential5
Differential ecophysiological syndromes explain the partition of the thermal niche resource in coexisting Eucraniini dung beetles5
Environmental and evolutionary factors favouring the coexistence of sarcosaprophagous Calliphoridae species competing for animal necromass5
Warming is here: using locomotor performance to infer thermal parameters and vulnerability for an endemic Argentinean tarantula Grammostola vachoni5
Insect‐plant‐fungus interactions in mycorrhizal associations, with a focus on spittlebugs and ectomycorrhizal host plants5
The effect of temperature and behaviour on the interaction between two dragonfly larvae species within the native and expanded range5
Proboscis curling in a pollinator causes extensive pollen movement and loss5
Ant nest distribution and richness have opposite effects on a Neotropical plant with extrafloral nectaries5
Dynamic distribution modelling of the swamp tigertail dragonflySynthemis eustalacta(Odonata: Anisoptera: Synthemistidae) over a 20‐year bushfire regime5
Invasive intraguild predators: Evidence of their effects, not assumptions5
Strong impact of temperature and resource specialisation on patterns of voltinism within an oak‐associated insect community5
Homing ability in a tropical Asian stingless bee is influenced by interaction between release distances and urbanisation5
Discordant pattern between realised and fundamental saline niches in two supralittoral Ochthebius species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)5
Ant preference for seeds without awns increases removal of exotic relative to native grass seeds5
The population dynamics of the yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a tropical island in Malaysia5
Differential survival and dispersal of avian feather mites with contrasting host specificities5
Cold tolerance and winter survival of seasonally‐acclimatised second‐instar larvae of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana5
Assessment of pupal mortality in Hypena opulenta: An obstacle for establishment of a classical biological control agent against invasive swallow‐worts4
Elevational boundaries influence richness patterns at large spatial scales evinced by madicolous insects of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest4
Sexual conflict and the evolution of monandry: The case of the damselfly Ischnura hastata (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in the Galápagos Islands4
Blacklegged tick population synchrony between oak forest and non‐oak forest4
On the influence of environmental factors on the oviposition activity of necrophagous flies4
Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint4
Contrasting effects of nitrogen fertiliser application on the performance of closely related grasshoppers through changes in plant nutrient concentrations4
The introduced oak Quercus rubra and acorn‐associated arthropods in Europe: An opportunity for both carpophagous insects and their ant predators4
Assessing how changes in temporal resource quality influence the reproductive performance of the dung beetleOnthophagus binodis4
No water, no eggs: insights from a warming outdoor mesocosm experiment4
A higher taxonomic richness does not ensure the functional resilience of saproxylic beetle communities in evergreenQuercusforests4
Not all matrix habitat is created equal for rare bee species in forest habitat4
Experimental viral spillover can harmBombus terrestrisworkers under field conditions4
Microclimatic edge effects in a fragmented forest: disentangling the drivers of ecological processes in plant‐leafminer‐parasitoid food webs4
The thermal ecology of burying beetles: temperature influences reproduction and daily activity in Nicrophorus marginatus4
Bloodmeal‐stealing in wild‐caught Mepraia spinolai (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a sylvatic vector of Trypanosoma cruzi4
Pollen specialisation is associated with later phenology in Osmia bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)4
Exploring the power of moth samples to reveal community patterns along shallow ecological gradients4
Wariness to colour patterns: birds versus European red‐and‐black insects4
Where to overwinter: burrows of medium‐sized carnivores as winter places for invertebrates in temperate environment4
Contrasting patterns of food and macronutrient limitation in the field among co‐existing omnivorous carnivores4
Testing three hypotheses of rarity among the Buprestidae species of a tropical dry forest4
The structure and importance of nest mounds in a tropical ant Diacamma indicum4
Environmental drivers of ant dominance in a tropical rainforest canopy at different spatial scales4
Microbial volatiles and succession of beetles on small carrion4
Centris pallida(Hymenoptera: Apidae) male body size decreases across five decades4
A citizen science project reveals contrasting latitudinal gradients of wing deformity and parasite infection of monarch butterflies in New Zealand4
Longer daylengths associated with poleward range shifts accelerate aphid extinction by parasitoid wasps4
Differential thermal tolerance across life stages under extreme high temperatures crossed with feeding status in corn leaf aphid4
Carry‐over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar‐feeding butterfly4
Population and movement ecology of two life‐history contrasting dung beetle species in a tropical human‐modified landscape4
Diet‐mediated immune response to parasitoid attacks on a caterpillar with a broad diet breadth3
Dinner with the roommates: trophic niche differentiation and competition in a mutualistic ant‐ant association3
Fast species diversification among dragonflies (Anisoptera: Odonata: Insecta) inhabiting lentic environments regardless of wing pigmentation3
Cuticular hydrocarbon variation among Rhagoletis fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): implications for premating reproductive isolation and ecological speciation3
A complex landscape favours the abundance and species richness of syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae) in olive groves3
Temperature and host plant species affect the performance and immunocompetence of an outbreak defoliator in northwestern Patagonia3
Forest and grassland habitats support pollinator diversity more than wildflowers and sunflower monoculture3
Psyllid honeydew as a Bombus food source in the boreal landscape3
Using stable isotopes (δ2H, δ13C) to identify natal origins and larval host plant use by western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Le3
Parallel host‐plant‐associated differences in an extended phenotype between populations of six species of gall‐forming insects3
Diurnal and nocturnal foraging specialisation in Neotropical army ants3
Predation promotes diversification in the mean and variance of antipredator traits3
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mediate how plant herbivory history influences herbivore performance3
Impact of body size on critical thermal maxima in female solitary desert bees3
Invasion of the coccinellid community associated with a tropical annual agroecosystem3
Specialization and performance trade‐offs across hosts in cactophilic Drosophila species3
Chronic sublethal pesticide exposure affects brood production, morphology and endosymbionts, but not immunity in the ant, Cardiocondyla obscurior3
Interspecific competition drives gall‐inducing insect species distribution on leaves of Matayba guianensis Aubl. (Sapindaceae)3
Gregarious caterpillars shorten their larval development time in response to simulated predation threat3
Inferring insect feeding patterns from sugar profiles: a comparison of statistical methods3
Mechanisms of succession between two Silphidae, Necrophila japonica and Nicrophorus concolor on small vertebrate carcasses3
Endosymbionts mediate the effects of antibiotic exposure in the tramp ant Cardiocondyla obscurior3
Gut content metabarcoding of three widespread Iberian ant‐eating spiders reveals specialisation on the same abundant harvester ants3
Environmental stressors alter multiple determinants of individual reproductive output in the acid‐tolerant mayfly Leptophlebia vespertina3
Living in an urban pod: Seed predation and parasitism of bruchid beetles in a native tree species3
Elevational variation in voltinism demonstrates climatic adaptation in the dark bush‐cricket3
Parasitoids affect plant responses through their host Pieris brassicae, but not for the benefit of their own performance3
Increase in humidity widens heat tolerance range of tropical Ceratosolen fig wasps3
The response to fire by two eusocial bee species3
Insect extinction: introduction to special issue3
Identifying environmental factors affecting the production of pea aphid dispersal morphs in field populations3
Host‐choice by a specialist folivore reflects trade‐offs between foliage quality and parasitism risks3
Ant species but not trait diversity increases at the edges: insights from a micro‐scale gradient in a semi‐natural Mediterranean ecosystem3
Community structure and antifungal activity of actinobacteria in a fungus‐growing termite3
Social but not solitary bee abundance tracks pollen protein accumulation in forest canopy gaps2
Geographic variation in Culex oviposition habitat selection responses to a predator, Notonecta irrorata2
Local factors and bionomic characteristics determining the occurrence of semiaquatic bugs in streams of Central Amazonia2
Host expansion in a specialist herbivore is facilitated by whole‐genome duplication in the host plant2
Predator densities alter the influence of non‐consumptive effects on the population dynamics of an agricultural pest2
Fire affects galling insect communities through vegetation changes in a subtropical seasonally semiarid forest2
Geographic variation in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in Pacific field crickets2
Female investment in terminal reproduction or somatic maintenance depends on infection dose2
Debunking wasp pollination: Wasps are comparable to bees in terms of plant interactions, body pollen and single‐visit pollen deposition2
Diverging effects of geographic distance and local habitat quality on the genetic characteristics of three butterfly species2
Early social experience, rather than kinship affecting aggression in an egg parasitoid wasp, Anastatus disparis (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae), that exhibits extreme male–male combat behaviour2
Variations in calling behaviour of wing dimorphic male crickets2
Exploring spatial and temporal patterns of viral infection across populations of the Melissa blue butterfly2
Effects of oviposition in a non‐host species on foraging behaviour of the parasitoid Cotesia glomerata2
Lava crickets (Caconemobius spp.) on Hawai'i Island: first colonisers or persisters in extreme habitats?2
Comparative assessment of heat tolerance in weevils associated with a fire‐prone ecosystem2
Assumed effects of invasive intraguild predators and how to avoid the snowball effect of unsupported expectations2
Effect of the presence of predatory cues and hunger on cannibalistic behaviour of ladybird beetle,Menochilus sexmaculatusFabricius (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)2
Big in the tropics–Are there thermal advantages of large body size for carpenter bees in hot climates?2
Larvae and adults exhibit contrasting patterns of immune gene expression and infection resistance in wild flour beetle populations2
Sources of prey availability data alter interpretation of outputs from prey choice null networks2
Myrmecochorous plants and their ant seed dispersers through successional stages in temperate cove forests2
Strong influence of leaf tie formation and corresponding weak effect of leaf quality on herbivory in eight species of Quercus2
Background substrate and nest semiochemicals mediate ant aggression towards a parasitic beetle2
Species‐specific responses to warming alter community composition2
Vicariance and ecological adaptation drive genetic and morphological diversification of a widely distributed bug,Carbula crassiventris(Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), in South China2
Effects of hillside aspect, landscape features, and kleptoparasitism on the reproductive success of the solitary bee Osmia caerulescens2
Aggregative oviposition varies with density in processionary moths—Implications for insect outbreak propensity2
Hiding among holes: mechanisms underlying the evolution of masquerade in flea beetles (Chrysomelidae)2
Plant silicon defences reduce the performance of a chewing insect herbivore which benefits a contemporaneous sap‐feeding insect2
Dietary protein and sodium co‐limit cockroach growth and reproduction2
Mechanisms driving component Allee effects during invasions: using a biological control agent as model invader2
The effect of habitat amount on flight‐related traits in the butterflyHamadryas februais sex‐dependent2
Foraging for the fungus: why do Acromyrmex subterraneus (Formicidae) queens need to forage during the nest foundation phase?2
Testing optimal defence theory in a social insect: Increased risk is correlated with increased venom investment2
Reproductive phenology and female mating frequency of the praying mantidTenodera angustipennisin western Japan2
Micro‐climate correlations and conserved sexual dimorphism of cuticular hydrocarbons in European populations of the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis2
Benefit of actively mixing prey in a plant‐inhabiting predatory mite2
Plant‐caterpillar food web: Integrating leaf stoichiometry and phylogeny2
Body setae of a carnivorous caterpillar are an antagonistic trait against a defensive trait of prey: A case study of the aphidophagous larvae of Taraka hamada (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)1
Ecosystem functions and functional traits for the study of phytophagous scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)1
The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies1
Exploring the males' terminal investment strategy: Impact of the dose of stress and the time lapse between stress and mating1
A simple technique to assess resource use in dung beetle breeding studies1
How does the solitary beeCentris(Heterocentris)analis(Fabricius) find its nest?1
Can pollinators track plant expansions? A case study on the genetic structure of a host‐dependent pollinating wasp1
Stridulation is unimportant for effective parental care in two species of burying beetle1
Why are antlion larvae rare under the leaf litter? Testing the hypothesis of improper trap maintenance1
Description of the herbivore and natural enemy community associated with the seeds of an invasive plant in Brazil1
Host condition and pathogen identity influence bacterial infection survival in the common eastern firefly,Photinus pyralis1
Substantial niche overlap in carrion beetle habitat and vegetation use1
Movement of nest‐searching bumblebee queens reflects nesting habitat quality1
Seasonal and landscape effects on the biotic resistance of forest communities to experimental insect introductions1
Digging out intersexual and meteorological effects on cicada emergence using 10‐year citizen monitoring1
Ecological responses of epigaeic beetle composition to a volcanic eruption across temperate mountains featuring a forest‐steppe transition1
Developmental niche construction in necrophagous larval societies: Feeding facilitation can offset the costs of low ambient temperature1
No specialist pheromone‐ignoring ants in Lasius niger1
Spatio‐temporal species aggregations do not rule out interspecific competition in tree hollow spider assemblages1
Contrasting responses to microhabitat and temperature determine breeding habitat differentiation between two Viola‐feeding butterflies1
Previous infestation by conspecifics leads to a transient increase of the performance of Sitobion avenae aphids on wheat leaves1
Territorial ants delay carrion decomposition by depressing Diptera larvae in a Tibetan alpine meadow1
Divergent effects of leaf‐cutting ant herbivory and soil engineering on the reproductive success of plants in a Caatinga dry forest1
In plateaus, land cover replaced climate as the vital environmental factor on the spatial composition of bumblebees with the altitude rising1
From forest to forestry: Reassembly of spider communities after native forest replacement by pine monocultures1
Oviposition fluids from adult wasps mediate interspecific competition between parasitoid larvae1
Digging and burying of hosts by a pupal parasitoid1
The role of host plant usage and the accumulation of toxic secondary chemical compounds across the life cycle of a passion vine specialist butterfly1
Changes in seed abundance driven by overgrazing and rainfall variability trigger variations in the diet of a small harvester ant1
Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic mosquito abundance1
Female mate choice is affected by male condition but not female condition in an assassin bug1
DNA metabarcoding of light trap samples vs. morphological species identification1
Non‐native stinging ant interactions with native anurans1
The impact of wildfire and mammal carcasses on beetle emergence from heathland soils1
Phenotypic plasticity in Acanthoscelides quadridentatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its effect on the seed fate of Mimosa setosa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae)1
Carrion type and extent of breeding success together influence subsequent carrion choice by adult burying beetles1
Arthropods and ultraviolet radiation: Survival, growth and development1
Changes in pollinators' flower visits and activities potentially drive a diurnal turnover of plant‐pollinator interactions1
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