Ecography

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecography is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants315
Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle179
Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species161
Climatic filtering and temporal instability shape the phylogenetic diversity of European alpine floras152
Habitats as predictors in species distribution models: Shall we use continuous or binary data?78
A global perspective on the functional responses of stream communities to flow intermittence63
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship59
(Sub‐)Antarctic endemic cyanobacteria from benthic mats are rare and have restricted geographic distributions59
Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions58
Estimating the extended and hidden species diversity from environmental DNA in hyper‐diverse regions55
Direct evidence for intercontinental dispersal of a snail via a bird54
Contrasting influence of seascape, space and marine reserves on genomic variation in multiple species51
Integration of presence‐only data from several sources: a case study on dolphins' spatial distribution48
Complex relationships between beta diversity and dispersal in meta‐community models47
Informed dispersal based on prospecting impacts the rate and shape of range expansions45
Environmental heterogeneity, rather than stability, explains spider assemblage differences between ecosystems45
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years43
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Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes40
Spatio‐temporal Usutu virus model explains Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula population trends40
The what, how, and why of trait‐based analyses in ecology39
Advancing statistical models to reveal the effect of dissolved oxygen on the spatial distribution of marine taxa using thresholds and a physiologically based index38
Competitive interactions modify the direct effects of climate37
Pronounced changes of subterranean biodiversity patterns along a Late Pleistocene glaciation gradient35
Untangling the plant reproductive success of changing community composition and pollinator foraging choices34
Dissecting earthworm diversity in tropical rainforests34
Ranking ecological contingencies from high‐order factorial data demonstrate tidy control of biodiversity from facilitation cascades in estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand34
Shallow coverage in shallow waters: the incompleteness of intertidal species inventories in biodiversity database records33
Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest32
Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps32
Herbarium specimens provide reliable estimates of phenological responses to climate at unparalleled taxonomic and spatiotemporal scales32
Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?31
Limited impact of microtopography on alpine plant distribution31
The evolutionary history of Sinopoda spiders (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae): out of the Himalayas and down the mountain slopes31
Can we accurately predict the distribution of soil microorganism presence and relative abundance?31
Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils28
Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks28
Circum‐Arctic distribution of chemical anti‐herbivore compounds suggests biome‐wide trade‐off in defence strategies in Arctic shrubs28
Plant functional group interactions intensify with warming in alpine grasslands27
Neutral processes related to regional bee commonness and dispersal distances are important predictors of plant–pollinator networks along gradients of climate and landscape conditions27
Synthesis ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisinfection in South America: amphibian species under risk and areas to focus research and disease mitigation27
Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground27
The role of climate and species interactions in determining the distribution of two elevationally segregated species of small mammals through time26
Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non‐agricultural habitats worldwide26
Remotely‐sensed slowing down in spatially patterned dryland ecosystems26
Integrating physiology into correlative models can alter projections of habitat suitability under climate change for a threatened amphibian25
Hump‐shaped relationship between aggregation tendency and body size within fish populations25
Towards an understanding of the latitudinal patterns in thermal tolerance and vulnerability of woody plants under climate warming25
Lagged climate‐driven range shifts at species' leading, but not trailing, range edges revealed by multispecies seed addition experiment24
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Comprehensive analytical approaches reveal species‐specific search strategies in sympatric apex predatory sharks23
Do marine planktonic ciliates follow Bergmann's rule?23
Surprising roles of climate in regulating flowering phenology in a subtropical ecosystem23
A zoogeographic model for the evolution of diversity and endemism in Madagascar23
Historical and contemporary climate jointly determine angiosperm plant diversity patterns across east Eurasia23
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Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts22
Calculating functional diversity metrics using neighbor‐joining trees22
Expert‐based assessment of rewilding indicates progress at site‐level, yet challenges for upscaling22
Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion22
comspat: an R package to analyze within‐community spatial organization using species combinations22
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Herbarium data accurately predict the timing and duration of population‐level flowering displays21
Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography21
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
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Supporting the restoration of complex ecosystems requires long‐term and multi‐scale perspectives20
The effects of fragmentation per se on patch occupancy are stronger and more positive in a landscape with a higher quality and more homogeneous matrix20
The latitudinal gradient of functional diversity of Miocene marine mollusks from Chile20
KBAscope: key biodiversity area identification in R20
Cross‐validation matters in species distribution models: a case study with goatfish species20
Trends in functional composition of small mammal communities across millennial time scales20
divraster: an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters19
wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions19
Exploring mechanisms of spatial segregation between body size groups within fish populations under environmental change19
Midpoint attractor models resolve the mid‐elevation peak in Himalayan plant species richness19
Long‐term drought triggers severe declines in carabid beetles in a temperate forest19
Spatially explicit models for decision‐making in animal conservation and restoration19
Global benthic biogeographical regions and macroecological drivers for ophiuroids19
Flood regimes alter the role of landform and topographic constraint on functional diversity of floodplain forests19
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Macroclimatic structuring of spatial phylogenetic turnover in liverworts18
Food web structure and community composition: a comparison across space and time in the North Sea18
Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change18
Non‐reproductive dispersal: an important driver of migratory range dynamics and connectivity18
Relics of beavers past: time and population density drive scale‐dependent patterns of ecosystem engineering18
Reliability of presence‐only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming18
Tree biomass does not correlate with soil carbon stocks in forest‐tundra ecotones along a 1100 km latitudinal gradient in Norway17
Predicting fine‐scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations17
Estimating the number of species shared by incompletely sampled communities17
The differential contribution of coyotes and passerines on future biotic carbon storage through juniper seed dispersal17
Biotic pressures and environmental heterogeneity shape beta‐diversity of seedling communities in tropical montane forests17
Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub‐Arctic ecosystem16
Pollinator competition and the structure of floral resources16
‘FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package16
Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness16
Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate‐driven range shifts16
Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape16
Species interactions: next‐level citizen science16
Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach16
Huge spring migrations of insects from the Middle East to Europe: quantifying the migratory assemblage and ecosystem services16
Impacts of beekeeping on wild bee diversity and pollination networks in the Aegean Archipelago15
Megaherbivore impacts on ecosystem and Earth system functioning: the current state of the science15
The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size15
Latitudinal patterns and climatic drivers of Laurasian and Gondwanan angiosperm tree distributions in forests of the Americas15
Habitat suitability models reveal the spatial signal of environmental DNA in riverine networks15
Temporal variation in spider trophic interactions is explained by the influence of weather on prey communities, web building and prey choice15
Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool15
Genetic structure and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea in Scandinavia: implications for conservation and management15
Invasion success and tolerance to urbanization in birds15
Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape15
GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications15
Niche conservation in copepods between ocean basins15
Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests14
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GARPTools: R software for data preparation and model evaluation of GARP models14
Global phylogenetic and functional structure of rodent assemblages14
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Complex phylogenetic origin and geographic isolation drive reef fishes response to environmental variability in oceanic islands of the southwestern Atlantic14
A temperature‐driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer–resource interactions14
Millennial‐scale change on a Caribbean reef system that experiences hypoxia13
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pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions13
Big data, big problems? How to circumvent problems in biodiversity mapping and ensure meaningful results13
The swash zone selects functionally specialized assemblages of beach interstitial meiofauna (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata)13
Changes in the climate suitability and growth rates of trees in eastern North America13
Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change13
Environmental and biological drivers of white plague disease on shallow and mesophotic coral reefs13
People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore13
High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts13
Colonizing polar environments: thermal niche evolution in Collembola13
Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios12
More than what they eat: uncoupled biophysical constraints underlie geographic patterns of herbivory12
Evaluating the influence of neighborhood connectivity and habitat effects in dynamic occupancy species distribution models12
Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover12
RangeShiftR: an R package for individual‐based simulation of spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes12
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An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins12
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest12
Regional processes shape the structure of rumen microbial co‐occurrence networks12
Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States12
Marcescence and prostrate growth in tree ferns are adaptations to cold tolerance11
Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured11
Using recent baselines as benchmarks for megafauna restoration places an unfair burden on the Global South11
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 (δ2H) assignment analyses11
Divergent litter traits of riparian plant species between humid and drier biomes within the tropics11
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SiteOpt: an open‐source R‐package for site selection and portfolio optimization11
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities11
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Integrating fine‐scale behaviour and microclimate data into biophysical models highlights the risk of lethal hyperthermia and dehydration10
Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests10
Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago10
The geography of parasite local adaptation to host communities10
To the top or into the dark? Relationships between elevational and canopy cover distribution shifts in mountain forests10
Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity10
Telomeres in a spatial context: a tool for understanding ageing pattern variation in wild populations10
Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization10
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world10
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence10
Revisiting long‐distance dispersal in a coastal marine fish10
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species10
Transient amplification enhances the persistence of tropicalising coral assemblages in marginal high‐latitude environments10
Environmental range per unit space determines a unimodal pattern of species richness along a heterogeneity gradient10
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 sizes10
Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data?10
occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets10
First genomic snapshots of recolonising lineages following a devastating earthquake9
Prey responses to foxes are not determined by nativeness9
Characteristics of the naturalized flora of Southern Africa largely reflect the non‐random introduction of alien species for cultivation9
Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions9
Spatial patterns and life histories of Macrotermes michaelseni termite mounds reflect intraspecific competition: insights of a temporal comparison spanning 12 years9
Variable impacts on reproductive energetics may render oviparous squamates more vulnerable to climate warming than viviparous species9
Using historical catch data to evaluate predicted changes in fish relative abundance in response to a warming climate9
Variations in risk‐taking behaviour mediate matrix mortality's impact on biodiversity under fragmentation9
Long‐term changes in taxonomic and functional composition of European marine fish communities9
Macroecological patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity vary between ground and arboreal assemblages in Neotropical savanna ants9
Both source‐ and recipient‐range phylogenetic community structure can predict the outcome of avian introductions9
Efficient use of harvest data: a size‐class‐structured integrated population model for exploited populations9
Identifying barriers to gene flow and hierarchical conservation units from seascape genomics: a modelling framework applied to a marine predator8
‘Euclimatch': an R package for climate matching with Euclidean distance metrics8
The role of phylogenetic relatedness on success of non‐native plants crossing the naturalization–invasion transition in North America8
The climate envelope of Alaska's northern treelines: implications for controlling factors and future treeline advance8
Life history diversity in terrestrial animals is associated with metabolic response to seasonally fluctuating resources8
The use of insect life tables in optimizing invasive pest distributional models8
Seed dispersal by waterbirds: a mechanistic understanding by simulating avian digestion8
Norwegian lemmings, Lemmus lemmus: a case for a strong herbivore–plant interaction8
Biogeography of larches in eastern Siberia – using single nucleotide polymorphisms derived by genotyping by sequencing8
Acaulescence promotes speciation and shapes the distribution patterns of palms in Neotropical seasonally dry habitats8
Scale‐dependent effects of landscape structure on pollinator traits, species interactions and pollination success8
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Historical data reveal contrasting habitat amount relationships with plant biodiversity8
Climate‐competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains8
mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity8
Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests8
The drivers of plant turnover change across spatial scales in the Azores8
Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient8
Global maps of lake surface water temperatures reveal pitfalls of air‐for‐water substitutions in ecological prediction8
Testing the assumption of environmental equilibrium in an invasive plant species over a 130 year history8
Rapid diversification of the Australian Amitermes group during late Cenozoic climate change8
The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia7
Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization7
Synthesising the multiple impacts of climatic variability on community responses to climate change7
Individual contribution to niche expansion in amphibians: a test of the niche variation hypothesis7
Urbanization affects oak–pathogen interactions across spatial scales7
Landscape connectivity for the invisibles7
Human activity drives establishment, but not invasion, of non‐native plants on islands7
Temperature sensitivity of tree recruitment at alpine treelines increases along latitudinal gradients7
Estimating a physiological threshold to oxygen and temperature from marine monitoring data reveals challenges and opportunities for forecasting distribution shifts7
Trends in animal translocation research7
Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity7
Resource redistribution mediated by hydrological connectivity modulates vegetation response to aridification in drylands7
Anthropogenic habitat modification causes nonlinear multiscale bird diversity declines7
Modelling species presence‐only data with random forests7
Abundant‐core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant‐center distribution pattern7
Multi‐colony tracking of two pelagic seabirds with contrasting flight capability illustrates how windscapes shape migratory movements at an ocean‐basin scale7
Ecological scales of effect vary across space and time7
Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records7
The best of two worlds: toward large‐scale monitoring of biodiversity combining COI metabarcoding and optimized parataxonomic validation7
Ecosystem indicators: predicting population responses to combined climate and anthropogenic changes in shallow seas7
Coupling in situ and remote sensing data to assess α‐ and β‐diversity over biogeographic gradients7
Interspecific territoriality has facilitated recent increases in the breeding habitat overlap of North American passerines7
Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models7
The importance of history in understanding large tree mortality in African savannas7
Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination7
Living in the edge: demographic responses driven by density‐dependence and pulsed resources in a hibernating mammal6
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Determinism and stochasticity in the spatial–temporal continuum of ecological communities: the case of tropical mountains6
Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation6
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Continental‐scale shifts in termite diversity and nesting and feeding strategies6
The value of considering demographic contributions to connectivity: a review6
Four steps to strengthen connectivity modeling6
Trait overdispersion in dragonflies reveals the role and drivers of competition in community assembly across space and season6
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
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Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat6
The predictive performance of process‐explicit range change models remains largely untested6
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
Consequences of repeated sarcoptic mange outbreaks in an endangered mammal population6
Climatic variability, spatial heterogeneity and the presence of multiple hosts drive the population structure of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum and the epidemiology of Sudden Oak Death6
Are trapping data suited for home‐range estimation?6
Remotely sensed tree height and density explain global gliding vertebrate richness6
Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide5
Fauxcurrence: simulating multi‐species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography5
Limitations to fungal diversity in forest soil during secondary succession5
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