Ecography

Article	Citations
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world	253
ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography	214
Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations	123
mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity	112
Modelling species presence‐only data with random forests	107
Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models	81
A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes	62
A quantitative review of abundance‐based species distribution models	54
Diatoms define a novel freshwater biogeography of the Antarctic	48
Dispersal–niche continuum index: a new quantitative metric for assessing the relative importance of dispersal versus niche processes in community assembly	47
Ecological drivers of avian community assembly along a tropical elevation gradient	45
Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: how human activities change equilibria of species richness	43
Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales	43
RangeShifter 2.0: an extended and enhanced platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes	42
Warming‐induced shrubline advance stalled by moisture limitation on the Tibetan Plateau	41
Spatially explicit models for decision‐making in animal conservation and restoration	40
wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions	39
Phenology in freshwaters: a review and recommendations for future research	38
A complete inventory of North American butterfly occurrence data: narrowing data gaps, but increasing bias	38
Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records	38
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness	37
Elevational patterns of bird functional and phylogenetic structure in the central Himalaya	36
Comprehensive estimation of spatial and temporal migratory connectivity across the annual cycle to direct conservation efforts	36
Multi‐taxa colonisation along the foreland of a vanishing equatorial glacier	36
From species sorting to mass effects: spatial network structure mediates the shift between metacommunity archetypes	35

A protocol for reproducible functional diversity analyses	35
Resolution in species distribution models shapes spatial patterns of plant multifaceted diversity	34
A global perspective on the functional responses of stream communities to flow intermittence	34
Species interactions: next‐level citizen science	33
Soil fauna diversity and chemical stressors: a review of knowledge gaps and roadmap for future research	32
Using maps of biogeographical ignorance to reveal the uncertainty in distributional data hidden in species distribution models	31
The undetectability of global biodiversity trends using local species richness	30
Testing Bergmann's rule in marine copepods	30
Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models	29
Impact of landscape fragmentation and climate change on body size variation of bumblebees during the last century	29
Accounting for species interactions is necessary for predicting how arctic arthropod communities respond to climate change	28
Species out of sight: elucidating the determinants of research effort in global reptiles	26
Extreme winter weather disrupts bird occurrence and abundance patterns at geographic scales	25
Exposure of mammal genetic diversity to mid‐21st century global change	25
Improving estimates of species distribution change by incorporating local trends	25
β diversity among ant communities on fragmented habitat islands: the roles of species trait, phylogeny and abundance	25
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions	25
megaSDM: integrating dispersal and time‐step analyses into species distribution models	24
Functional traits are key to understanding orchid diversity on islands	24
When is variable importance estimation in species distribution modelling affected by spatial correlation?	23
Elevation and body size drive convergent variation in thermo‐insulative feather structure of Himalayan birds	23
Human‐induced reduction in mammalian movements impacts seed dispersal in the tropics	23
The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation	22
Coupling eco‐evolutionary mechanisms with deep‐time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns	22
Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap	22
Host specificity and species colouration mediate the regional decline of nocturnal moths in central European forests	22
Transferability of trait‐based species distribution models	22
Life history consequences of climate change in hibernating mammals: a review	22
The importance of intraspecific trait variability in promoting functional niche dimensionality	22
Landscape drivers of pests and pathogens abundance in arable crops	22
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions	21
Megaherbivore impacts on ecosystem and Earth system functioning: the current state of the science	21
Landscape connectivity for the invisibles	21
The climate envelope of Alaska's northern treelines: implications for controlling factors and future treeline advance	21
Warming threatens habitat suitability and breeding occupancy of rear‐edge alpine bird specialists	20
Climate extreme variables generated using monthly time‐series data improve predicted distributions of plant species	20
Climatic aridity increases temporal nestedness of invertebrate communities in naturally drying rivers	20
Modeling the rarest of the rare: a comparison between multi‐species distribution models, ensembles of small models, and single‐species models at extremely low sample sizes	20
Defining and quantifying effective connectivity of landscapes for species' movements	19
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services	19
Telomeres in a spatial context: a tool for understanding ageing pattern variation in wild populations	19
Exploring timescales of predictability in species distributions	19
Drivers of change in the realised climatic niche of terrestrial mammals	19
iucn_sim: a new program to simulate future extinctions based on IUCN threat status	19
Impacts of beekeeping on wild bee diversity and pollination networks in the Aegean Archipelago	19
Universality in biodiversity patterns: variation in species–temperature and species–productivity relationships reveals a prominent role of productivity in diversity gradients	19
Metacommunity resilience against simulated gradients of wildfire: disturbance intensity and species dispersal ability determine landscape recover capacity	19
The value of considering demographic contributions to connectivity: a review	19
Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat	18
Invasion success and tolerance to urbanization in birds	18

Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities	18
Expert‐based assessment of rewilding indicates progress at site‐level, yet challenges for upscaling	18
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index	18
Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin	18
Crowd‐sourced plant occurrence data provide a reliable description of macroecological gradients	18
Resource selection functions based on hierarchical generalized additive models provide new insights into individual animal variation and species distributions	18
NicheMapR – an R package for biophysical modelling: the endotherm model	18
What defines insularity for plants in edaphic islands?	18
Relics of beavers past: time and population density drive scale‐dependent patterns of ecosystem engineering	17
The ODMAP protocol: a new tool for standardized reporting that could revolutionize species distribution modeling	17
Forecasting community reassembly using climate‐linked spatio‐temporal ecosystem models	17
The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia	17
Continental‐scale 1 km hummingbird diversity derived from fusing point records with lateral and elevational expert information	17
Molecular analyses reveal consistent food web structure with elevation in rainforestDrosophila– parasitoid communities	17
Accounting for imperfect detection in data from museums and herbaria when modeling species distributions: combining and contrasting data‐level versus model‐level bias correction	17
Climate and land‐use driven reorganisation of structure and function in river macroinvertebrate communities	16
Elevation filters seed traits and germination strategies in the eastern Tibetan Plateau	16
Spatially varying coefficients can improve parsimony and descriptive power for species distribution models	16
Latitudinal patterns in intertidal ecosystem structure in West Greenland suggest resilience to climate change	16
Latitudinal gradients in genetic diversity and natural selection at a highly adaptive gene in terrestrial mammals	16
An ecoregion‐based approach to restoring the world's intact large mammal assemblages	16
What factors increase the vulnerability of native birds to the impacts of alien birds?	16
Testing the assumption of environmental equilibrium in an invasive plant species over a 130 year history	15
The importance of including phenology when modelling species ecological niche	15
Integration of presence‐only data from several sources: a case study on dolphins' spatial distribution	15
Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach	15
Biogeography of telomere dynamics in a vertebrate	15
Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data?	15
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size	15
Portfolio effect and asynchrony as drivers of stability in plant–pollinator communities along a gradient of landscape heterogeneity	15
Drivers of global pre‐industrial patterns of species turnover in planktonic foraminifera	15
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?	15
An RShiny app for modelling environmental DNA data: accounting for false positive and false negative observation error	14
Niche differentiation within a cryptic pathogen complex: climatic drivers and hyperparasitism at multiple spatial scales	14
Noctuid and geometrid moth assemblages show divergent elevational gradients in body size and color lightness	14
fundiversity: a modular R package to compute functional diversity indices	14
Patterns and drivers of plant diversity across Australia	14
The environmental drivers of tree cover and forest–savanna mosaics in Southeast Asia	14
Macroclimatic structuring of spatial phylogenetic turnover in liverworts	14
Efficient use of harvest data: a size‐class‐structured integrated population model for exploited populations	14
Plant species richness on the Tibetan Plateau: patterns and determinants	14
RangeShiftR: an R package for individual‐based simulation of spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes	14
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern	14
Elevational and local climate variability predicts thermal breadth of mountain tropical tadpoles	14
Linking range wide energetic tradeoffs to breeding performance in a long‐distance migrant	14
Participatory scenarios for restoring European landscapes show a plurality of nature values	14
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources	13
Food web structure and community composition: a comparison across space and time in the North Sea	13
A methodological framework to predict the individual and population‐level distributions from tracking data	13
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales	13
Resource pulses influence the spatio‐temporal dynamics of a large carnivore population	13
Bayesian species distribution models integrate presence‐only and presence–absence data to predict deer distribution and relative abundance	13
Characteristics of the naturalized flora of Southern Africa largely reflect the non‐random introduction of alien species for cultivation	13
Variable strength of predator‐mediated effects on species occurrence in an arctic terrestrial vertebrate community	13
The role of functional strategies in global plant distribution	13
Functional identity regulates aboveground biomass better than trait diversity along abiotic conditions in global forest metacommunities	13
Contrasting seasonal patterns of relative temperature and thermal heterogeneity and their influence on breeding and winter bird richness patterns across the conterminous United States	13
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling	13
Complex relationships between beta diversity and dispersal in meta‐community models	13
Surprising roles of climate in regulating flowering phenology in a subtropical ecosystem	12
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian	12
The Amazon river is a suture zone for a polyphyletic group of co‐mimetic heliconiine butterflies	12
The spatial scaling of food web structure across European biogeographical regions	12
N‐SDM: a high‐performance computing pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling	12
Joint analysis of species and genetic variation to quantify the role of dispersal and environmental constraints in community turnover	12
Local distribution patterns of fleshy‐fruited woody plants – testing the orchard hypothesis	12
Spatial patterns and climatic drivers of phylogenetic structure for ferns along the longest elevational gradient in the world	12
The contribution of phenotypic traits, their plasticity, and rapid evolution to invasion success: insights from an extraordinary natural experiment	12
Characterizing energy flow in kelp forest food webs: a geochemical review and call for additional research	12
Climate‐informed models benefit hindcasting but present challenges when forecasting species–habitat associations	12
Trends in animal translocation research	12
Biotic homogenization increases with human intervention: implications for mangrove wetland restoration	11
Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion	11
GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information	11
Combining species distribution models and population genomics underlines the determinants of range limitation in an emerging parasite	11
Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub‐Arctic ecosystem	11
Trophic rewilding benefits a tropical community through direct and indirect network effects	11
Connectivity and edge effects increase bee colonization in an experimentally fragmented landscape	11
Life‐history dimensions indicate non‐random assembly processes in tropical island tree communities	11
Predicting species abundance by implementing the ecological niche theory	11

Synthesising the multiple impacts of climatic variability on community responses to climate change	11
Amphibian diversity in the Amazonian floating meadows: a Hanski core‐satellite species system	11
Evaluating predictive performance of statistical models explaining wild bee abundance in a mass‐flowering crop	11
Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide	11
Predicting the magnitude of residual spatial autocorrelation in geographical ecology	10
Using recent baselines as benchmarks for megafauna restoration places an unfair burden on the Global South	10
Determinism and stochasticity in the spatial–temporal continuum of ecological communities: the case of tropical mountains	10
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps	10
Individual fitness is decoupled from coarse‐scale probability of occurrence in North American trees	10
Human‐mediated dispersal redefines mangrove biogeography in the Anthropocene	10
Divergent occurrences of juvenile and adult trees are explained by both environmental change and ontogenetic effects	10
The functional trait distinctiveness of plant species is scale dependent	10
Biogeography of bird and mammal trophic structures	10
Seasonality, niche management and vertical migration in landscapes of relief	10
Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks	10
Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America	10
Occupancy‐based diversity profiles: capturing biodiversity complexities while accounting for imperfect detection.	10
A general meta‐ecosystem model to predict ecosystem functions at landscape extents	10
Trait‐similarity and trait‐hierarchy jointly determine fine‐scale spatial associations of resident and invasive ant species	9
Proximity and abundance of mother trees affects recruitment patterns in a long‐term tropical forest restoration study	9
Niche separation of wetland birds revealed from airborne laser scanning	9
A sparse observation model to quantify species distributions and their overlap in space and time	9
Populations of high‐value predators reflect the traits of their prey	9
Environmental and biological drivers of white plague disease on shallow and mesophotic coral reefs	9
Urbanization affects oak–pathogen interactions across spatial scales	9
Spatial scaling properties of coral reef benthic communities	9
Disturbance‐driven alteration of patch connectivity determines local biodiversity recovery within metacommunities	9
Phylogenetic niche conservatism and variations in species diversity–climate relationships	9
All that changes is not shift: methodological choices influence niche shift detection in freshwater invasive species	9
Chameleon biogeographic dispersal is associated with extreme life history strategies	9
Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation	9
Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes	9
rtrees: an R package to assemble phylogenetic trees from megatrees	9
Identifying barriers to gene flow and hierarchical conservation units from seascape genomics: a modelling framework applied to a marine predator	9
Large‐scale long‐term passive‐acoustic monitoring reveals spatio‐temporal activity patterns of boreal bats	9
Diversity and phylogenetic community structure across elevation during climate change in a family of hyperdiverse neotropical beetles (Staphylinidae)	9
Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies	9
Top ten hazards to avoid when modeling species distributions: a didactic guide of assumptions, problems, and recommendations	8
Where we've been and where we're going: the importance of source communities in predicting establishment success from phylogenetic relationships	8
Biodiversity dynamics in landscapes with fluctuating connectivity	8
Inferred seasonal interaction rewiring of a freshwater stream fish network	8
Evaluating alternative study designs for optimal sampling of species' climatic niches	8
Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization	8
Changes in seed predation along a 2300‐m elevational gradient on a tropical mountain in Myanmar: a standardized test with 32 non‐native plant species	8
Ecological and biological indicators of the accuracy of species distribution models: lessons from European bryophytes	8
Biogeographic deconstruction of phylogenetic and functional diversity provides insights into the formation of regional assemblages	8
IUCN Red List protects avian genetic diversity	8
Spatial confounding in Bayesian species distribution modeling	8
Long‐term coastal macrobenthic Community Trajectory Analysis reveals habitat‐dependent stability patterns	8
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems	8
Spatial variation in early‐winter snow cover determines local dynamics in a network of alpine butterfly populations	8
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions	8
Seeing the locust in the swarm: accounting for spatiotemporal hierarchy improves ecological models of insect populations	8
GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications	8
A global synthesis of the small‐island effect in amphibians and reptiles	8
How and why species are rare: towards an understanding of the ecological causes of rarity	8
SSP: an R package to estimate sampling effort in studies of ecological communities	8
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice	8
occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets	7
chelsa‐cmip6 1.0: a python package to create high resolution bioclimatic variables based on CHELSA ver. 2.1 and CMIP6 data	7
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest	7
canaper: Categorical analysis of neo‐ and paleo‐endemism in R	7
Global maps of lake surface water temperatures reveal pitfalls of air‐for‐water substitutions in ecological prediction	7
Megafrugivores as fading shadows of the past: extant frugivores and the abiotic environment as the most important determinants of the distribution of palms in Madagascar	7
Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ2H) assignment analyses	7
The role of extreme rain events in driving tree growth across a continental‐scale climatic range in Australia	7
Edaphic specialization and vegetation zones define elevational range‐sizes for Mt Kinabalu regional flora	7
The impact of empirically unverified taxonomic concepts on ecological assemblage patterns across multiple spatial scales	7
Net loss statistics underestimate carbon emissions from mangrove land use and land cover change	7
Rapid diversification of the Australian Amitermes group during late Cenozoic climate change	7
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments	7
Too hot for the devil? Did climate change cause the mid‐Holocene extinction of the Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii from mainland Australia?	7
Functional connectivity in a continuously distributed, migratory species as revealed by landscape genomics	7
Altitudinal dispersal process drives community assembly of montane small mammals	7
Long‐term changes in flowering synchrony reflect climatic changes across an elevational gradient	7
Testing the causes of richness patterns in the paleotropics: time and diversification in cycads (Cycadaceae)	7
Temporal change in the contribution of immigration to population growth in a wild seabird experiencing rapid population decline	7
Climate‐linked increasing vegetation fires in global high mountains	6
Sahul's megafauna were vulnerable to plant‐community changes due to their position in the trophic network	6
RSDB: an easy to deploy open‐source web platform for remote sensing raster and point cloud data management, exploration and processing	6
Towards an understanding of the latitudinal patterns in thermal tolerance and vulnerability of woody plants under climate warming	6
Unique and shared effects of local and catchment predictors over distribution of hyporheic organisms: does the valley rule the stream?	6
Land use change through the lens of macroecology: insights from Azorean arthropods and the maximum entropy theory of ecology	6
Community assembly processes and drivers shaping marine fish community structure in the North Sea	6
Dispersal evolution in currents: spatial sorting promotes philopatry in upstream patches	6
Fauxcurrence: simulating multi‐species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography	6
Phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness	6
Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover	6
Improving landscape‐scale productivity estimates by integrating trait‐based models and remotely‐sensed foliar‐trait and canopy‐structural data	6
‘LandsatTS': an R package to facilitate retrieval, cleaning, cross‐calibration, and phenological modeling of Landsat time series data	6
Predator–prey overlap in three dimensions: cod benefit from capelin coming near the seafloor	6
Creating virtual species to test species distribution models: the importance of landscape structure, dispersal and population processes	6
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of temporal variation in dispersal	6
Origin of the central European steppe flora: insights from palaeodistribution modelling and migration simulations	6
The importance of history in understanding large tree mortality in African savannas	6