Ecography

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecography is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Freshwater fish functional diversity shows diverse responses to human activities, but consistently declines in the tropics244
Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future206
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?94
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions75
Estimating the extended and hidden species diversity from environmental DNA in hyper‐diverse regions69
Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species66
(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions62
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird58
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras56
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle56
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species53
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship51
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Disentangling the interrelations of body mass, egg deposition site, climate and microhabitat use in frogs and salamanders49
Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants46
Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate43
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Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests39
Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US38
Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest37
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years37
Informed dispersal based on prospecting impacts the rate and shape of range expansions36
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index34
Untangling the plant reproductive success of changing community composition and pollinator foraging choices34
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps33
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient32
Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems32
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales31
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records31
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution30
The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology29
Spatio‐temporal Usutu virus model explains Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula population trends28
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand28
The role of climate and species interactions in determining the distribution of two elevationally segregated species of small mammals through time27
Can we accurately predict the distribution of soil microorganism presence and relative abundance?27
Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?27
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions26
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils26
Synthesis of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in South America: amphibian species under risk and areas to focus research and disease mitigation25
Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide25
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands25
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian25
The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes24
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs24
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems23
Shared temporal increases in bill size among songbirds of the San Francisco Bay Area provide evidence for different seasonal selective pressures23
A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar23
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground23
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Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks23
Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays23
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comspat: an R package to analyze within‐community spatial organization using species combinations22
Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?22
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Megafrugivores as fading shadows of the past: extant frugivores and the abiotic environment as the most important determinants of the distribution of palms in Madagascar21
Historical and contemporary climate jointly determine angiosperm plant diversity patterns across east Eurasia21
Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees20
Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion20
Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts20
Lagged climate‐driven range shifts at species' leading, but not trailing, range edges revealed by multispecies seed addition experiment20
Global comparison of habitat intactness models for predicting extinction risk in terrestrial mammals20
Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species20
Trends in functional composition of small mammal communities across millennial time scales19
Long‐term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest19
KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R19
wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions19
Supporting the restoration of complex ecosystems requires long‐term and multi‐scale perspectives18
Flood regimes alter the role of landform and topographic constraint on functional diversity of floodplain forests18
divraster : an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters18
The latitudinal gradient of functional diversity of Miocene marine mollusks from Chile18
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Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach17
Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography17
Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change17
Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape17
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring17
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids17
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources17
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The effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy are stronger and more positive in a landscape with a higher quality and more homogeneous matrix17
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services17
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness16
Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub‐Arctic ecosystem16
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks16
Non‐reproductive dispersal: an important driver of migratory range dynamics and connectivity16
Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change16
Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming16
Relics of beavers past: time and population density drive scale‐dependent patterns of ecosystem engineering15
Tree biomass does not correlate with soil carbon stocks in forest‐tundra ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal gradient in Norway15
Food web structure and community composition: a comparison across space and time in the North Sea15
The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal15
‘FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package15
Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate‐driven range shifts14
Quantifying landscape‐level biodiversity change in an island ecosystem: a 50‐year assessment of shifts in the Hawaiian avian community14
GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications14
Evolutionary trajectories of multiple defense traits across phylogenetic and geographic scales in Vitis14
Biotic pressures and environmental heterogeneity shape beta‐diversity of seedling communities in tropical montane forests14
Long‐term homogenization of Fennoscandian heathland and tundra vegetation is connected to the expansion of an allelopathic dwarf shrub14
Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape14
Predicting fine‐scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations14
Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic14
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size13
Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests13
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice13
Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool13
Global phylogenetic and functional structure of rodent assemblages13
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions13
Climatic resilience after extreme drought in Mediterranean shrubland plant communities12
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management12
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More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory12
Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola12
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas12
The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)12
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Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios12
pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions12
Network‐based bioregionalization of demersal fish in continental shelf seas12
Scale‐dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics12
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Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America12
People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore12
Performance of Cerrado lizards: a test of the center–periphery hypothesis11
Spatially‐nested hierarchical species distribution models to overcome niche truncation in national‐scale studies11
Insights into natal origins of migratory Nearctic hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): new evidence from stable isotope (δ 2 H) assignment analyses11
Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured11
Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data?11
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Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results11
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 sizes11
Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States11
Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago11
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts11
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest11
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence11
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Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models11
Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change11
Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests10
A test of the abundant‐center hypothesis for stream fishes10
Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance10
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species10
Long‐term changes in taxonomic and functional composition of European marine fish communities10
Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems10
Spatial patterns and life histories of Macrotermes michaelseni termite mounds reflect intraspecific competition: insights of a temporal comparison spanni10
Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover10
Divergent litter traits of riparian plant species between humid and drier biomes within the tropics10
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity10
An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins10
Telomeres in a spatial context: a tool for understanding ageing pattern variation in wild populations10
Using historical catch data to evaluate predicted changes in fish relative abundance in response to a warming climate10
Revisiting long‐distance dispersal in a coastal marine fish10
Data integration improves species distribution forecasts under novel ocean conditions10
Most young leaves pale in comparison to mature leaves: delayed greening is neither binary nor tropical10
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities10
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks10
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments10
To the top or into the dark? Relationships between elevational and canopy cover distribution shifts in mountain forests10
Integrating fine‐scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration10
Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions10
Biogeography of larches in eastern Siberia – using single nucleotide polymorphisms derived by genotyping by sequencing9
Effects of phytoplankton species distribution on particulate organic carbon dynamics along a coastal gradient9
The role of phylogenetic relatedness on success of non‐native plants crossing the naturalization–invasion transition in North America9
Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness9
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Most mammals do not wander: few species escape continental endemism9
‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics9
mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity9
Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests9
Both source‐ and recipient‐range phylogenetic community structure can predict the outcome of avian introductions9
Identifying barriers to gene flow and hierarchical conservation units from seascape genomics: a modelling framework applied to a marine predator9
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants9
Rapid diversification of the Australian Amitermes group during late Cenozoic climate change9
Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion9
Integrating host condition into spatiotemporal multiscale models improves virus shedding predictions9
Generalised bumblebee–flower interactions demonstrate weak floral niche partitioning despite a high bee diversity9
Variations in risk‐taking behaviour mediate matrix mortality's impact on biodiversity under fragmentation9
Variable impacts on reproductive energetics may render oviparous squamates more vulnerable to climate warming than viviparous species9
Climate‐competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains9
First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake9
Norwegian lemmings, Lemmus lemmus: a case for a strong herbivore–plant interaction9
Non‐stationary forest responses to hotter droughts: a temporal perspective considering the role of past legacies8
Resource redistribution mediated by hydrological connectivity modulates vegetation response to aridification in drylands8
Acaulescence promotes speciation and shapes the distribution patterns of palms in Neotropical seasonally dry habitats8
The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores8
Global maps of lake surface water temperatures reveal pitfalls of air‐for‐water substitutions in ecological prediction8
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The time of acquisition of multispectral predictors matters: the role of seasonality in bird species distribution models8
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use8
Estimating a physiological threshold to oxygen and temperature from marine monitoring data reveals challenges and opportunities for forecasting distribution shifts8
Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization8
Synthesising the multiple impacts of climatic variability on community responses to climate change8
Historical data reveal contrasting habitat amount relationships with plant biodiversity8
The best of two worlds: toward large‐scale monitoring of biodiversity combining COI metabarcoding and optimized parataxonomic validation8
Macro‐ and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes8
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Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records8
Life history diversity in terrestrial animals is associated with metabolic response to seasonally fluctuating resources8
Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity8
Testing the core–periphery hypothesis: a standardised multi‐phylum assessment of genetic diversity of marine coastal species7
Anthropogenic habitat modification causes nonlinear multiscale bird diversity declines7
Testing the assumption of environmental equilibrium in an invasive plant species over a 130 year history7
The importance of history in understanding large tree mortality in African savannas7
Living in the edge: demographic responses driven by density‐dependence and pulsed resources in a hibernating mammal7
Urbanization affects oak–pathogen interactions across spatial scales7
Multi‐colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean‐basin scale7
Coupling in situ and remote sensing data to assess α‐ and β‐diversity over biogeographic gradients7
Scale‐dependent effects of landscape structure on pollinator traits, species interactions and pollination success7
Temperature sensitivity of tree recruitment at alpine treelines increases along latitudinal gradients7
Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models7
Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination7
Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation7
Human activity drives establishment, but not invasion, of non‐native plants on islands7
Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time7
Ecosystem indicators: predicting population responses to combined climate and anthropogenic changes in shallow seas7
Trends in animal translocation research7
Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient7
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern7
European colonial empires accelerated ant invasions7
Individual contribution to niche expansion in amphibians: a test of the niche variation hypothesis7
Landscape connectivity for the invisibles7
Macroecological patterns of rodent population dynamics shaped by bioclimatic gradients6
chelsa‐cmip6 1.0: a python package to create high resolution bioclimatic variables based on CHELSA ver. 2.1 and CMIP6 data6
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Vegetation cover and biodiversity reduce parasite infection in wild hosts across ecological levels and scales6
‘RISDM‘: species distribution modelling from multiple data sources in R6
Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation6
The predictive performance of process‐explicit range change models remains largely untested6
What controls forest litter decomposition? A coordinated distributed teabag experiment across ten mountains6
Coupling eco‐evolutionary mechanisms with deep‐time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns6
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population6
Remotely sensed tree height and density explain global gliding vertebrate richness6
Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines6
Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies6
Climatic variability, spatial heterogeneity and the presence of multiple hosts drive the population structure of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum and th6
Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat6
Climate and microbial community composition drive shifts in ecosystem function along three parallel elevational gradients6
Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide6
Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season6
Are trapping data suited for home‐range estimation?6
CDMetaPOP 2: a multispecies, eco‐evolutionary simulation framework for landscape demogenetics and connectivity6
Making better use of tracking data can reveal the spatiotemporal and intraspecific variability of species distributions6
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling6
Evaluating the predictors of habitat use and successful reproduction in a model bird species using a large‐scale automated acoustic array5
Fauxcurrence: simulating multi‐species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography5
The geography of connectivity shapes plant endemism hotspots5
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