Ecological Applications

Article	Citations
A room with a green view: the importance of nearby nature for mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic	218
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests	190
Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions	162
Management of cover crops in temperate climates influences soil organic carbon stocks: a meta‐analysis	120
Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management	120
Conceptual and methodological advances in habitat‐selection modeling: guidelines for ecology and evolution	88
Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments	80
Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape driven by sea‐level rise and extreme events	65
Landscape‐scale differences among cities alter common species’ responses to urbanization	65
Worldwide border interceptions provide a window into human‐mediated global insect movement	64
Mapping supply of and demand for ecosystem services to assess environmental justice in New York City	54
Large‐scale variation in wave attenuation of oyster reef living shorelines and the influence of inundation duration	48
Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a useful tool for evaluating terrestrial mammal diversity in tropical forests	47
Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration	44
Water storage decisions will determine the distribution and persistence of imperiled river fishes	42
Climate and species stress resistance modulate the higher survival of large seedlings in forest restorations worldwide	41
Residential yard management and landscape cover affect urban bird community diversity across the continental USA	40
Combining DNA metabarcoding and ecological networks to inform conservation biocontrol by small vertebrate predators	37
The wildland–urban interface in the United States based on 125 million building locations	37
Increasing taxonomic diversity and spatial resolution clarifies opportunities for protecting US imperiled species	37
Indigenous plants promote insect biodiversity in urban greenspaces	35
Bridging the gap between commercial fisheries and survey data to model the spatiotemporal dynamics of marine species	35
Microclimate predicts kelp forest extinction in the face of direct and indirect marine heatwave effects	34
All is fish that comes to the net: metabarcoding for rapid fisheries catch assessment	34
Data integration methods to account for spatial niche truncation effects in regional projections of species distribution	33

Opportunities to reduce pollination deficits and address production shortfalls in an important insect‐pollinated crop	33
Leaf traits and canopy structure together explain canopy functional diversity: an airborne remote sensing approach	31
Prediction of regional wildfire activity in the probabilistic Bayesian framework of Firelihood	31
A fish tale: a century of museum specimens reveal increasing microplastic concentrations in freshwater fish	31
Age‐specific survival rates, causes of death, and allowable take of golden eagles in the western United States	31
Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpatedKlinse‐Zamountain caribou	31
Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California	31
Modeling an aspirational connected network of protected areas across North America	30
Impacts of COVID‐19 on ecology and evolutionary biology faculty in the United States	29
Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification‐derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems	29
Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest management in Europe	28
Increased adoption of best practices in ecological forecasting enables comparisons of forecastability	28
Landscape analyses using eDNA metabarcoding and Earth observation predict community biodiversity in California	27
Developing the ecological scientist mindset among underrepresented students in ecology fields	27
Optimizing bat bioacoustic surveys in human‐modified Neotropical landscapes	26
Microplastic leachates induce species‐specific trait strengthening in intertidal mussels	26
Crop–weed relationships are context‐dependent and cannot fully explain the positive effects of intercropping on yield	26
Land‐use drives the temporal stability and magnitude of soil microbial functions and modulates climate effects	25
Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners	25
“No‐regrets” pathways for navigating climate change: planning for connectivity with land use, topography, and climate	25
Restoration of biogeomorphic systems by creating windows of opportunity to support natural establishment processes	24
Multiple co‐occurrent alien invaders constrain aquatic biodiversity in rivers	23
Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees	23
Large size (>100‐μm) microplastics are not biomagnifying in coastal marine food webs of British Columbia, Canada	23
A general deep learning model for bird detection in high‐resolution airborne imagery	23
Local connections and the larval competency strongly influence marine metapopulation persistence	23
Tracking an invasion front with environmental DNA	22
Stand‐scale climate change impacts on forests over large areas: transient responses and projection uncertainties	22
Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity	22
Exotic species drive patterns of plant species diversity in 93 restored tallgrass prairies	21
Evaluation of camera trap‐based abundance estimators for unmarked populations	21
Clonal functional traits favor the invasive success of alien plants into native communities	21
Tracking rates of postfire conifer regeneration vs. deciduous vegetation recovery across the western United States	21
Finding the right mix: a framework for selecting seeding rates for cover crop mixtures	21
Partial and complete dependency among data sets has minimal consequence on estimates from integrated population models	21
Application of plant–soil feedbacks in the selection of crop rotation sequences	21
Improving area of occupancy estimates for parapatric species using distribution models and support vector machines	21
Satellite data and machine learning reveal the incidence of late frost defoliations on Iberian beech forests	21
Reducing persecution is more effective for restoring large carnivores than restoring their prey	20
Chemical diversity rather than cultivar diversity predicts natural enemy control of herbivore pests	20
Evaluating a trait‐based approach to compare natural enemy and pest communities in agroforestry vs. arable systems	20
Multidecadal effects of fire in a grassland biodiversity hotspot: Does pyrodiversity enhance plant diversity?	20
Managing propagule pressure to prevent invasive species establishments: propagule size, number, and risk–release curve	20
Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining	20
Living in the concrete jungle: carnivore spatial ecology in urban parks	20
Gains or losses? A quantitative estimation of environmental and economic effects of an ecological compensation policy	19
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities	19
Age structure affects population productivity in an exploited fish species	19
Meta‐analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill	19
Response of lion demography and dynamics to the loss of preferred larger prey	19

Stasis in forest regeneration following deer exclusion and understory gap creation: A 10‐year experiment	19
A global review of socioeconomic and environmental impacts of ants reveals new insights for risk assessment	19
Socio‐ecological drivers of public conservation voting: Restoring gray wolves to Colorado, USA	18
Rapid enhancement of multiple ecosystem services following the restoration of a coastal foundation species	18
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring	18
Urban biotic homogenization: Approaches and knowledge gaps	18
A general model of the thermal constraints on the world’s most destructive locust,Schistocerca gregaria	18
Post‐restoration grassland management overrides the effects of restoration methods in propagule‐rich landscapes	18
Recent bark beetle outbreaks influence wildfire severity in mixed‐conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA	18
The effect of species, size, and fire intensity on tree mortality within a catastrophic bushfire complex	18
Finding Liebig’s law of the minimum	18
Evaluating long‐term success in grassland restoration: an ecosystem multifunctionality approach	17
Natural regeneration in urban forests is limited by early‐establishment dynamics: implications for management	17
Assessing pesticides exposure effects on the reproductive performance of a declining aerial insectivore	17
Demographic responses of nearly extirpated endangered mountain caribou to recovery actions in Central British Columbia	17
Developing fine‐grained nationwide predictions of valuable forests using biodiversity indicator bird species	17
Combining photoperiod and thermal responses to predict phenological mismatch for introduced insects	17
Genetic data improves niche model discrimination and alters the direction and magnitude of climate change forecasts	17
Climate change mitigation and improvement of water quality from the restoration of a subtropical coastal wetland	17
Microhabitats associated with solar energy development alter demography of two desert annuals	16
High accuracy tracking reveals how small conservation areas can protect marine megafauna	16
Long‐term demographic dynamics of a keystone scavenger disrupted by human‐induced shifts in food availability	16
Drivers of distributions and niches of North American cold‐adapted amphibians: evaluating both climate and land use	16
Woody‐plant encroachment: Precipitation, herbivory, and grass‐competition interact to affect shrub recruitment	16
Air temperatures over‐predict changes to stream fish assemblages with climate warming compared with water temperatures	16
Fire‐driven vegetation type conversion in Southern California	16
Demographic risk assessment for a harvested species threatened by climate change: polar bears in the Chukchi Sea	16
Are stable isotope ratios suitable for describing niche partitioning and individual specialization?	16
Context‐dependent carryover effects of hypoxia and warming in a coastal ecosystem engineer	16
Demographic modeling to fine‐tune conservation targets: importance of pre‐adults for the decline of an endangered raptor	16
Near‐term phytoplankton forecasts reveal the effects of model time step and forecast horizon on predictability	16
Increased reliance on insecticide applications inCanada linked to simplified agricultural landscapes	16
Disturbance‐accelerated succession increases the production of a temperate forest	16
Spring understory herbs flower later in intensively managed forests	16
Widespread agrochemicals differentially affect zooplankton biomass and community structure	16
The economic tradeoffs and ecological impacts associated with a potential mesopelagic fishery in the California Current	16
Spatially explicit removal strategies increase the efficiency of invasive plant species control	16
Tree growth response to drought partially explains regional‐scale growth and mortality patterns in Iberian forests	16
Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability	16
Predicting the population consequences of acoustic disturbance, with application to an endangered gray whale population	15
Advancing estuarine ecological forecasts: seasonal hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay	15
Native forest cover safeguards stream water quality under a changing climate	15
Identifying managerial legacies within conservation corridors using remote sensing and grasshoppers as bioindicators	15
Resilience of reptiles to megafires	15
Cyanobacterial mats as benthic reservoirs and vectors for coral black band disease pathogens	15
Increasing fire frequency and severity will increase habitat loss for a boreal forest indicator species	15
Contrasting effects of tree origin and urbanization on invertebrate abundance and tree phenology	15
Rapid ant community reassembly in a Neotropical forest: Recovery dynamics and land‐use legacy	15
A recovery network leads to the natural recolonization of an archipelago and a potential trailing edge refuge	15
Extinction of biotic interactions due to habitat loss could accelerate the current biodiversity crisis	14
Regard and protect ground‐nesting pollinators as part of soil biodiversity	14
Restoring function: Positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows	14
Continental‐scale dynamics of avian influenza in U.S. waterfowl are driven by demography, migration, and temperature	14
Using plant traits to understand the contribution of biodiversity effects to annual crop community productivity	14
Predicting spatial‐temporal patterns of diet quality and large herbivore performance using satellite time series	14
Satellite‐based habitat monitoring reveals long‐term dynamics of deer habitat in response to forest disturbances	14
Estimating individual‐level plant traits at scale	14
Interacting effects of cold snaps, rain, and agriculture on the fledging success of a declining aerial insectivore	14
Early‐season plant cover supports more effective pest control than insecticide applications	14
Canopy reflectance models illustrate varying NDVI responses to change in high latitude ecosystems	14
Can restoration of fire‐dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick‐borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?	14
Identifying and protecting macroalgae detritus sinks toward climate change mitigation	14
Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes	14
Evaluating and integrating spatial capture–recapture models with data of variable individual identifiability	14
Tropical forest loss impoverishes arboreal mammal assemblages by increasing tree canopy openness	14
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens	14
Evaluating natural experiments in ecology: using synthetic controls in assessments of remotely sensed land treatments	14
Wild, tamed, and domesticated: Three fire macroregimes for global pyrogeography in the Anthropocene	14
Nutrient enrichment promotes invasion success of alien plants via increased growth and suppression of chemical defenses	13
Long‐term trends indicate that invasive plants are pervasive and increasing in eastern national parks	13
Disturbance and management effects on forest soil organic carbon stocks in the Pacific Northwest	13
Crop‐pollinating Diptera have diverse diets and habitat needs in both larval and adult stages	13
Land‐use change alters associations between personality and microhabitat selection	13
Conspecific and congeneric interactions shape increasing rates of breeding dispersal of northern spotted owls	13
Effects of free‐ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community	13
Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems	13
Effects of snake fungal disease on short‐term survival, behavior, and movement in free‐ranging snakes	13
Distribution and transport of microplastic and fine particulate organic matter in urban streams	13
Integrating data types to estimate spatial patterns of avian migration across the Western Hemisphere	13
Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests	13

Classic indicators and diel dissolved oxygen versus trend analysis in assessing eutrophication of potable‐water reservoirs	13
Modeling the evolution of herbicide resistance in weed species with a complex life cycle	13
Latitudinal gradients in population growth do not reflect demographic responses to climate	13
Rapidly declining body size in an insectivorous bat is associated with increased precipitation and decreased survival	13
Assessing the potential for demographic restoration and assisted evolution to build climate resilience in coral reefs	13
Strong impact of management regimes on rhizome biomass across Central European temperate grasslands	13
Successful biological control of winter moth, Operophtera brumata, in the northeastern United States	13
Approaches for estimating benefits and costs of interventions in plant biosecurity across invasion phases	13
Snapshot Wisconsin: networking community scientists and remote sensing to improve ecological monitoring and management	12
Species traits explain public perceptions of human–bird interactions	12
Limited shifts in the distribution of migratory bird breeding habitat density in response to future changes in climate	12
Postfire futures in southwestern forests: Climate and landscape influences on trajectories of recovery and conversion	12
Fishing and habitat condition differentially affect size spectra slopes of coral reef fishes	12
Repairing recruitment processes with sound technology to accelerate habitat restoration	12
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories	12
Positive long‐term impacts of restoration on soils in an experimental urban forest	12
Recovered frog populations coexist with endemic Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis despite load‐dependent mortality	12
Limitations to coral recovery along an environmental stress gradient	12
Changes in plant community assembly from patchy degradation of grasslands and grazing by different‐sized herbivores	12
Why did the chicken not cross the road? Anthropogenic development influences the movement of a grassland bird	12
Plant effects on and response to soil microbes in native and non‐nativePhragmites australis	12
Modeling impacts of drought‐induced salinity intrusion on carbon dynamics in tidal freshwater forested wetlands	12
A structured seabird population model reveals how alternative forage fish control rules benefit seabirds and fisheries	12
Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change	12
Precipitation change accentuates or reverses temperature effects on aphid dispersal	12
Time‐to‐detection occupancy methods: performance and utility for improving efficiency of surveys	12
Forest restoration and fuels reduction work: Different pathways for achieving success in theSierraNevada	11
Inferring pesticide toxicity to honey bees from a field‐based feeding study using a colony model and Bayesian inference	11
An eco‐epidemiological modeling approach to investigate dilution effect in two different tick‐borne pathosystems	11
Long‐term marine protection enhances kelp forest ecosystem stability	11
Empirically validated drought vulnerability mapping in the mixed conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada	11
Integrated species distribution models reveal spatiotemporal patterns of human–wildlife conflict	11
Low resource availability drives feeding niche partitioning between wild bees and honeybees in a European city	11
Interacting lethal and nonlethal human activities shape complex risk tolerance behaviors in a mountain herbivore	11
Opportunities for forest sector emissions reductions: a state‐level analysis	11
Resistance and resilience of pelagic and littoral fishes to drought in the San Francisco Estuary	11
EVIandNDVIas proxies for multifaceted avian diversity in urban areas	11
Predator–prey landscapes of large sharks and game fishes in the Florida Keys	11
Ecosystem restoration and belowground multifunctionality: A network view	11
Birds and bats enhance cacao yield despite suppressing arthropod mesopredation	11
Wilderness areas in a changing landscape: changes in land use, land cover, and climate	11
Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea‐level rise and saltwater intrusion	11
Functional diversity of farmland bees across rural–urban landscapes in a tropical megacity	11
Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations	11
Host contribution to parasite persistence is consistent between parasites and over time, but varies spatially	11
Trophic cascade in a marine protected area with artificial reefs: spiny lobster predation mitigates urchin barrens	11
EcoDiet: A hierarchical Bayesian model to combine stomach, biotracer, and literature data into diet matrix estimation	11
Does large dam removal restore downstream riparian vegetation diversity? Testing predictions on the Elwha River, Washington, USA	11
The climate change mitigation potential of annual grasslands under future climates	11
Does the legacy of historical thinning treatments foster resilience to bark beetle outbreaks in subalpine forests?	11
Experimental evaluation of spatial capture–recapture study design	11
Experimental validation of taxon‐specific mini‐barcode primers for metabarcoding of zooplankton	10
Landscape‐scale restoration minimizes tree growth vulnerability to 21stcentury drought in a dry forest	10
Land use and management effects on soil carbon in U.S. Lake States, with emphasis on forestry, fire, and reforestation	10
Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators	10
A metric‐based framework for climate‐smart conservation planning	10
Disentangling direct and indirect effects of landscape structure on urban bird richness and functional diversity	10
High summer macrophyte cover increases abundance, growth, and feeding of juvenile Atlantic salmon	10
eDNA‐based detection reveals invasion risks of a biofouling bivalve in the world's largest water diversion project	10
P is for persistence: Soil phosphorus remains elevated for more than a decade after old field restoration	10
Effects of stand structure and ungulates on understory vegetation in managed and unmanaged forests	10
Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions	10
Forest phenoclusters for Argentina based on vegetation phenology and climate	10
Urban soil quality deteriorates even with low heavy metal levels: An arthropod‐based multi‐indices approach	10
Fractal dimension of tree crowns explains species functional‐trait responses to urban environments at different scales	10
Landscape composition mediates the relationship between predator body size and pest control	10
Precision and bias of spatial capture–recapture estimates: A multi‐site, multi‐year Utah black bear case study	10
Distribution models calibrated with independent field data predict two million ancient and veteran trees in England	10
Light controls alpine meadow community assembly during succession by affecting species recruitment from the seed bank	10
Spatial optimization of invasive species control informed by management practices	10
Woody encroachment happens via intensification, not extensification, of species ranges in an African savanna	10
Risky business: How an herbivore navigates spatiotemporal aspects of risk from competitors and predators	10
Long‐term response of wetland plant communities to management intensity, grazing abandonment, and prescribed fire	10
Managing ecosystems in a sea of uncertainty: invasive species management and assisted colonizations	10
Model responses to CO2 and warming are underestimated without explicit representation of Arctic small‐mammal grazing	10
Assessing temperature‐dependent competition between two invasive mosquito species	10
Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore	10
A tale of two reef systems: Local conditions, disturbances, coral life histories, and the climate catastrophe	10
Elephant rewilding affects landscape openness and fauna habitat across a 92‐year period	10