Ecological Applications

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecological Applications is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Evidence to inform spatiotemporal management of a western Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery74
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The effect of mechanical canopy reduction on big sagebrush plant communities60
Food‐web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead54
Joint species distribution modeling reveals a changing prey landscape for North Pacific right whales on the Bering shelf53
Functional diversity of ground beetles improved aphid control but did not increase crop yields on European farms52
Support for an area–heterogeneity tradeoff for biodiversity in croplands42
The national Fire and Fire Surrogates study at twenty years41
Combining co‐introduction with patch‐size optimization as a novel strategy to maximize seagrass restoration39
Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding38
Leveraging local species data, a global database, and an occupancy model to explore bee–plant interactions38
The outcomes of integrating biological interactions into rebuilding plans depend on prey specialization36
Microsite creation increases native plant density and biomass in a semiarid grassland restoration36
Invasive blackberry outcompetes the endemic Galapagos tree daisy Scalesiapedunculata35
The role of bison ( Bison bison ) herbivory in the function of semi‐arid grasslands of Arizona35
Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing34
Novel associations among insect herbivores and trees: Patterns of occurrence and damage on pines and eucalypts34
Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California33
Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture–savanna mosaics of western India33
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities33
Using social‐ecological models to explore stream connectivity outcomes for stakeholders and Yellowstone cutthroat trout32
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Predicting vulnerability of forest patches to invasion by non‐native plants for landscape scale management32
Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces31
Ecological success of no‐take marine protected areas: Using population dynamics theory to inform a global meta‐analysis31
Biotic resistance across a nutrient gradient in experimental wetland mesocosms31
Tree diversity across the Minneapolis‐St. Paul Metropolitan Area in relation to climate and social vulnerability30
Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups30
Advanced leaf emergence partially mitigated the negative effect of plant size on biomass under warming29
Lakeshore residential development as a driver of aquatic habitat and littoral fish communities: A cross‐system study28
Noise, light pollution, and human presence predict forest habitat degradation: A key agent in biodiversity decline28
Divergent responses of native predators to severe wildfire and biological invasion are mediated by life history28
Historical ecology identifies long‐term rewilding strategy for conservingMediterranean mountain forests in southItaly27
Conserving ecosystem integrity: Ecological theory as a guide for marine protected area monitoring27
First evidence of correlated ecosystem service and food web robustness in a sub‐Antarctic marine protected area27
Making outdoor field experiences more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community26
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens26
Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes26
Parasites indicate trophic complexity and faunal succession in restored oyster reefs over a 22‐year period25
Floodplain inundation and lateral connectivity promote productivity in a managed river ecosystem25
Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model25
Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers25
Diverging restoration pathways for overstory and understory communities in a Mediterranean‐climate riparian ecosystem25
Predation thresholds for reintroduction of native avifauna following suppression of invasive Brown Treesnakes on Guam25
Quantifying avian resilience to habitat change to support conservation decision‐making24
Tipping the balance: The role of seed density, abiotic filters, and priority effects in seed‐based wetland restoration23
Urban soil quality deteriorates even with low heavy metal levels: An arthropod‐based multi‐indices approach23
Perspectives of invasive alien species management in China23
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Forest restoration treatments increased growth and did not change survival of ponderosa pines in severe drought, Arizona23
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Differential impacts of grazing on grassland plant diversity, biomass, soil C, and soil N across an elevation gradient22
Restoration goals: Insights from antiquity and dynamics of forest–savanna mosaics in Central India during the Holocene22
An integrated population modeling workflow for supporting mesopredator management22
Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators22
Soil animal communities demonstrate simplification without homogenization along an urban gradient22
Global dynamics of functional composition in CITES ‐traded reptiles22
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An experimental test of trait‐based restoration to achieve drought tolerance and invasion resistance in two grasslands21
Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay21
Integrating climate and anthropogenic dynamics can inform multifaceted management for declining mule deer populations21
Quantifying vulnerability to plant invasion across global ecosystems21
Passive acoustic monitoring can provide insights into occupancy dynamics and impacts of disturbance for at‐risk species20
Demographic effects of sanitary policies on European vulture population dynamics: A retrospective modeling approach20
Hydrophone placement yields high variability in detection of Epinephelus striatus calls at a spawning site19
Integration of aerial surveys and resource selection analysis indicates human land use supports boreal deer expansion19
Considerations for the management of hatchery salmon: Stream characteristics associated with attractiveness to strays19
Linking aquatic vegetation structure with ecosystem metabolism throughout the Klamath River, California, USA19
Fire lines adjacent to aspen are unlikely to hold during extreme burning conditions in southern Rocky Mountain forests19
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities19
Long‐term livestock exclusion increases plant richness and reproductive capacity in arid woodlands19
Does experimental seaweed cultivation affect benthic communities and shorebirds? Applications for extensive aquaculture19
Assessing the variability and vulnerability of carbon function in coastal soft sediment ecosystems to inform protection19
Migratory connectivity of North American waterfowl across administrative flyways19
Estimating the population size of a mountain galliform in the context of multi‐stakeholder adaptive management19
Evaluating environmental drivers and synchrony of Arctic shorebird demographic rates to inform conservation management19
Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration18
Barn owls exert top‐down effects on the abundance and behavior of rodent pests18
Long‐term macrophyte and snail community responses to population declines of invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus)18
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Designing a large‐scale track‐based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia18
Erratum for “Quantifying large carnivore predation relative to human harvest on moose in an intensively managed boreal ecosystem”18
Opposite effects of nutrient enrichment and an invasive snail on the growth of invasive and native macrophytes18
Indigenous knowledge, forest landscape modeling, and the cumulative effects of environmental changes17
Tidal channel meanders serve as stepping‐stones to facilitate cordgrass landward spread by creating invasion windows17
Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century17
Divergent plant and nematode community responses to long‐term nitrogen enrichment in a meadow steppe17
Fall and rise of a threatened raptor: Unraveling long‐term population dynamics with spatially explicit integrated models17
Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community‐ and species‐level responses17
Landscape heterogeneity and pesticide reduction favor predation, but also grape infestation by Lobesia botrana17
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The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods16
Recommendations to enhance breeding bird diversity in managed plantation forests determined using LiDAR16
Inferring population connectivity in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistruruscatenatus) using landscape genetics16
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Investigating the demography and dynamics of a low‐density tiger population in Southeast Asia: What limits recovery?16
Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions16
Towards a continent‐wide ecological site condition database using calibrated expert evaluations16
Reactive persistence, spatial management, and conservation of metapopulations: An application to seagrass restoration16
Virus distributions in wild bees are associated with floral communities at local to landscape scales16
Native generalist natural enemies and an introduced specialist parasitoid together control an invasive forest insect15
Landscape‐scale floral resource discontinuity decreases bumble bee occurrence and alters community composition15
Sharing land via keystone structure: Retaining naturally regenerated trees may efficiently benefit birds in plantations15
Understory frog communities recover quickly during tropical forest regeneration15
Site‐specific biogeochemical responses to livestock grazing and climate change15
Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska15
Centering Amah Mutsun voices in the analysis of a culturally important, fire‐managed coastal grassland15
Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species15
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Nucleation sites and forest recovery under high shrub competition15
Remote sensing and foraging data illustrate landscape‐scale considerations for coastal restoration and avian management15
Threshold responses of birds to agricultural intensification in Mediterranean olive groves15
Differential recruitment drives pathogen‐mediated competition between species in an amphibian chytridiomycosis system15
Early channel evolution relates to fish community resource use in the Gulf Coastal Plains of North America15
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Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change15
Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate14
Unveiling the effects of landscape–fire interactions on functional diversity in a Southern European mountain14
Atmospheric dryness dominates diurnal carbon–water coupling in mid‐latitude forests14
Objective risk assessment of bark and ambrosia beetles non‐indigenous to North America14
Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore14
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Positive feedback between wind‐eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure, and desertification in semiarid sandlands14
Linking changes in landscape structure to insect herbivory in forest edges and interiors of Atlantic Forest remnants14
Root functional traits are important predictors for plant resource acquisition strategies in subtropical forests14
Simulations of historical impacts of climate change and atmospheric chemistry on a northeastern U.S. forest ecosystem14
Non‐native prey availability and over‐compensatory density dependence drive population dynamics of a native fish predator14
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring13
Disease and weather induce rapid shifts in a rangeland ecosystem mediated by a keystone species (Cynomys ludovicianus)13
Food webs can deliver win–win strategies for tropical agroforestry and biodiversity conservation13
Bird species responses to rangeland management in relation to their traits: Rio de la Plata Grasslands as a case study13
Erratum for “Developing custom computer vision models with Njobvu‐ AI : A collaborative, user‐friendly platform for ecological research”13
Tree regeneration trends in forests of the northeastern USA and their implications for resilience and restoration13
A metric‐based framework for climate‐smart conservation planning13
The impact of plant‐derived fire management prescriptions on fire‐responsive bird species13
Impacts of forest fragmentation on interactions between plants and their insect herbivores and fungal pathogens13
Erratum for “Evaluating sources of bias in pedigree‐based estimates of breeding population size”13
Forest restoration treatments indirectly diversify pollination networks via floral‐ and temperature‐mediated effects13
High densities of hatchery‐origin white sturgeon suppress somatic growth rates of an endangered wild population13
Bird occurrence and trophic interactions vary across gradients of tree diversity and microclimate in a planted forest13
The impact of urbanization on genetic connectivity of 10 mammal species in New Jersey13
Benthic habitat structure explains broad‐scale patterns in reef fish communities13
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Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests13
Roles of riverine wetlands in diffusive greenhouse gas emissions: Comparing before and after wetland destruction13
Transgenerational plasticity in morphological characteristics and biomass of the invasive plant Xanthium strumarium13
Temporal shift and climate drivers of vegetation resilience in a high‐altitude national park of China13
Introduction of non‐native Douglas fir reduces leaf damage on beech saplings and mature trees in European beech forests13
Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory13
Long‐term frequent fire and cattle grazing alter dry forest understory vegetation13
Restoration maintains high soil carbon stocks in Asia's largest tropical grassland13
Community‐ecosystem interactions control plant biodiversity change before and after mangrove restoration12
Structural characteristics mediate forest mitigation potential against climate change and biodiversity loss12
At the intersection of soundscapes and roads: Quantifying anthrophony's influence on wildlife crossing structure use12
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Multi‐Factor Coral Disease Risk: A new product for early warning and management12
Experimental water hyacinth invasion and destructive management increase human schistosome transmission potential12
White‐tailed deer population dynamics in a multipredator landscape shaped by humans12
Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon‐bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding12
Large, prolonged flooding and pool persistence promote floodplain fish diversity in a threatened river12
Urban habitat restoration increases native bird diversity in the Midwestern United States12
Forest stand characteristics drive the macronutrient composition of Vaccinium winter forage for cervids12
Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls12
Eastern Canadian boreal forest soil and foliar chemistry show evidence of resilience to long‐term nitrogen addition11
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Higher spatial than seasonal variation of microbial communities in long‐term reclaimed water headwater urban stream11
Pathways for accidental biocontrol: The human‐mediated dispersal of insect predators and parasitoids11
Spatially explicit power analysis reveals challenges for a long‐term threatened species monitoring program in Australia11
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Restoration based on cost–benefit optimization: A grasslands pilot study11
Predator niche overlap predicts effects on aphid vectors and a vector‐borne virus11
Long‐term exclusion of invasive ungulates alters tree recruitment and functional traits but not total forest carbon11
A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation11
Landscape‐wide pulse events predict trait‐based responses among wetland birds in perennial channels of a dryland wetland11
Disentangling the role of environmental filtering and biotic resistance on alien invasions in a reservoir area11
Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees11
Independent effects of tree diversity on aboveground and soil carbon pools after six years of experimental afforestation11
Active restoration increases tree species richness and recruitment of large‐seeded taxa after 16–18 years11
Invasion timing affects multiple scales, metrics, and facets of biodiversity outcomes in ecological restoration experiments11
Human access constrains optimal foraging and habitat availability in an avian generalist10
Changes in reproduction mediate the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant population dynamics10
Influence of vessel disturbance on Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) echolocation10
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A utilization distribution for the global population of Cape Vultures (Gypscoprotheres) to guide wind energy development10
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Replacing native grazers with livestock influences arthropods to have implications for ecosystem functions and disease10
Microbes in reconstructive restoration: Divergence in constructed and natural tree island soil fungi affects tree growth10
Improving coral cover using an integrated pest management framework10
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Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea‐level rise and saltwater intrusion10
Recolonization of secondary forests by a locally extinct Caribbean anole through the lens of range expansion theory10
The potential for synthesized invasive plant biochar with hydroxyapatite to mitigate allelopathy of Solidagocanadensis10
Smaller and bolder fish enhance ecosystem‐scale primary production around artificial reefs in seagrass beds10
Successful recovery of native plants post‐invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features10
Secondary production of the central rangeland region of the United States10
Besides aridity, plant communities are a non‐negligible factor in determining soil bacterial and fungal diversity10
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