Ecological Applications

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Evidence to inform spatiotemporal management of a western Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine fishery	73
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The effect of mechanical canopy reduction on big sagebrush plant communities	67
The role of bison ( Bison bison ) herbivory in the function of semi‐arid grasslands of Arizona	66
Food‐web dynamics of a floodplain mosaic overshadow the effects of engineered logjams for Pacific salmon and steelhead	59
Joint species distribution modeling reveals a changing prey landscape for North Pacific right whales on the Bering shelf	55
Mowing increased community stability in semiarid grasslands more than either fencing or grazing	53
Functional diversity of ground beetles improved aphid control but did not increase crop yields on European farms	49
Combining co‐introduction with patch‐size optimization as a novel strategy to maximize seagrass restoration	47
Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture–savanna mosaics of western India	45
Invasive blackberry outcompetes the endemic Galapagos tree daisy Scalesiapedunculata	45
Novel associations among insect herbivores and trees: Patterns of occurrence and damage on pines and eucalypts	41
Leveraging local species data, a global database, and an occupancy model to explore bee–plant interactions	37
Support for an area–heterogeneity tradeoff for biodiversity in croplands	36
Multidecadal vegetation transformations of a New Mexico ponderosa pine landscape after severe fires and aerial seeding	36
Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California	36
Alien insect dispersal mediated by the global movement of commodities	36
The national Fire and Fire Surrogates study at twenty years	36
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Predicting vulnerability of forest patches to invasion by non‐native plants for landscape scale management	34
Flowering time advances since the 1970s in a sagebrush steppe community: Implications for management and restoration	34
Historical ecology identifies long‐term rewilding strategy for conservingMediterranean mountain forests in southItaly	34

Conserving ecosystem integrity: Ecological theory as a guide for marine protected area monitoring	32
Noise, light pollution, and human presence predict forest habitat degradation: A key agent in biodiversity decline	32
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Using social‐ecological models to explore stream connectivity outcomes for stakeholders and Yellowstone cutthroat trout	32
Biotic resistance across a nutrient gradient in experimental wetland mesocosms	31
Indigenous‐led conservation: Pathways to recovery for the nearly extirpatedKlinse‐Zamountain caribou	31
Predation thresholds for reintroduction of native avifauna following suppression of invasive Brown Treesnakes on Guam	30
Parasites indicate trophic complexity and faunal succession in restored oyster reefs over a 22‐year period	30
Ecological success of no‐take marine protected areas: Using population dynamics theory to inform a global meta‐analysis	30
Diverging restoration pathways for overstory and understory communities in a Mediterranean‐climate riparian ecosystem	30
Tree diversity across the Minneapolis‐St. Paul Metropolitan Area in relation to climate and social vulnerability	29
Lakeshore residential development as a driver of aquatic habitat and littoral fish communities: A cross‐system study	29
Advanced leaf emergence partially mitigated the negative effect of plant size on biomass under warming	29
Counting the Capital's cats: Estimating drivers of abundance of free‐roaming cats with a novel hierarchical model	29
Biodiversity effects on seedling growth are modified by light environment across functional groups	28
Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes	28
Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces	28
Divergent responses of native predators to severe wildfire and biological invasion are mediated by life history	28
Tipping the balance: The role of seed density, abiotic filters, and priority effects in seed‐based wetland restoration	27
Floodplain inundation and lateral connectivity promote productivity in a managed river ecosystem	27
Making outdoor field experiences more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community	27
Terrestrial land use signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers	27
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Differential impacts of grazing on grassland plant diversity, biomass, soil C, and soil N across an elevation gradient	27
Global dynamics of functional composition in CITES ‐traded reptiles	27
Vegetation complexity and nesting resource availability predict bee diversity and functional traits in community gardens	27
An integrated population modeling workflow for supporting mesopredator management	26
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Restoration goals: Insights from antiquity and dynamics of forest–savanna mosaics in Central India during the Holocene	26
Forest restoration treatments increased growth and did not change survival of ponderosa pines in severe drought, Arizona	26
Perspectives of invasive alien species management in China	26
Soil animal communities demonstrate simplification without homogenization along an urban gradient	25
Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators	25
Quantifying vulnerability to plant invasion across global ecosystems	25
Urban soil quality deteriorates even with low heavy metal levels: An arthropod‐based multi‐indices approach	25
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Linking aquatic vegetation structure with ecosystem metabolism throughout the Klamath River, California, USA	24
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Integration of aerial surveys and resource selection analysis indicates human land use supports boreal deer expansion	24
Seasonal asynchrony and harvest diversification contribute to demersal finfish fisheries stability in Chesapeake Bay	24
Passive acoustic monitoring can provide insights into occupancy dynamics and impacts of disturbance for at‐risk species	23
Evaluating environmental drivers and synchrony of Arctic shorebird demographic rates to inform conservation management	23
Demographic effects of sanitary policies on European vulture population dynamics: A retrospective modeling approach	23
Introducing desirable patches to initiate ecosystem transitions and accelerate ecosystem restoration	23
Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities	23
Hydrophone placement yields high variability in detection of Epinephelus striatus calls at a spawning site	23
Migratory connectivity of North American waterfowl across administrative flyways	22
Assessing the variability and vulnerability of carbon function in coastal soft sediment ecosystems to inform protection	22
Does experimental seaweed cultivation affect benthic communities and shorebirds? Applications for extensive aquaculture	22
Integrating climate and anthropogenic dynamics can inform multifaceted management for declining mule deer populations	22

Estimating the population size of a mountain galliform in the context of multi‐stakeholder adaptive management	21
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Long‐term livestock exclusion increases plant richness and reproductive capacity in arid woodlands	21
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Recommendations to enhance breeding bird diversity in managed plantation forests determined using LiDAR	21
Relative effects of sample size, detection probability, and study duration on estimation in integrated population models	21
Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management–disturbance interactions	20
Investigating the demography and dynamics of a low‐density tiger population in Southeast Asia: What limits recovery?	20
Designing a large‐scale track‐based monitoring program to detect changes in species distributions in arid Australia	20
Tidal channel meanders serve as stepping‐stones to facilitate cordgrass landward spread by creating invasion windows	20
Reactive persistence, spatial management, and conservation of metapopulations: An application to seagrass restoration	20
Linking remote sensing data to the estimation of pollination services in agroecosystems	19
Landscape heterogeneity and pesticide reduction favor predation, but also grape infestation by Lobesia botrana	19
Orchards and paddy differentially impact rock outcrop amphibians: Insights from community‐ and species‐level responses	19
Long‐term macrophyte and snail community responses to population declines of invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus)	19
Opposite effects of nutrient enrichment and an invasive snail on the growth of invasive and native macrophytes	19
Avian species richness and tropical urbanization gradients: Effects of woodland retention and human disturbance	19
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Fall and rise of a threatened raptor: Unraveling long‐term population dynamics with spatially explicit integrated models	18
Increased lead and glucocorticoid concentrations reduce reproductive success in house sparrows along an urban gradient	18
Indigenous knowledge, forest landscape modeling, and the cumulative effects of environmental changes	18
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Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century	18
Divergent plant and nematode community responses to long‐term nitrogen enrichment in a meadow steppe	18
The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods	18
An efficient method of evaluating multiple concurrent management actions on invasive populations	18
Virus distributions in wild bees are associated with floral communities at local to landscape scales	18
Inferring population connectivity in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistruruscatenatus) using landscape genetics	17
Threshold responses of birds to agricultural intensification in Mediterranean olive groves	17
Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska	17
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Towards a continent‐wide ecological site condition database using calibrated expert evaluations	17
Nucleation sites and forest recovery under high shrub competition	17
Linking changes in landscape structure to insect herbivory in forest edges and interiors of Atlantic Forest remnants	17
Modeling cheatgrass distribution, abundance, and response to climate change as a function of soil microclimate	17
Testing a generalized leaf mass estimation method for diverse tree species and climates of the continental United States	17
Unveiling the effects of landscape–fire interactions on functional diversity in a Southern European mountain	17
Archetype models upscale understanding of natural pest control response to land‐use change	16
Functional diversity regulates the effects of habitat degradation on biocrust phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities	16
Early channel evolution relates to fish community resource use in the Gulf Coastal Plains of North America	16
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Forest restoration treatments indirectly diversify pollination networks via floral‐ and temperature‐mediated effects	16
Centering Amah Mutsun voices in the analysis of a culturally important, fire‐managed coastal grassland	16
Cyanobacterial mats as benthic reservoirs and vectors for coral black band disease pathogens	16
Root functional traits are important predictors for plant resource acquisition strategies in subtropical forests	16
Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore	16
Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species	16
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Native generalist natural enemies and an introduced specialist parasitoid together control an invasive forest insect	16
Differential recruitment drives pathogen‐mediated competition between species in an amphibian chytridiomycosis system	16
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Site‐specific biogeochemical responses to livestock grazing and climate change	16
Remote sensing and foraging data illustrate landscape‐scale considerations for coastal restoration and avian management	16
Sharing land via keystone structure: Retaining naturally regenerated trees may efficiently benefit birds in plantations	16
Landscape‐scale floral resource discontinuity decreases bumble bee occurrence and alters community composition	16
Effects of free‐ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community	16
Non‐native prey availability and over‐compensatory density dependence drive population dynamics of a native fish predator	15
Simulations of historical impacts of climate change and atmospheric chemistry on a northeastern U.S. forest ecosystem	15
Bird occurrence and trophic interactions vary across gradients of tree diversity and microclimate in a planted forest	15
Positive feedback between wind‐eroded patch size, plant recruitment failure, and desertification in semiarid sandlands	15
Disease and weather induce rapid shifts in a rangeland ecosystem mediated by a keystone species (Cynomys ludovicianus)	15
Atmospheric dryness dominates diurnal carbon–water coupling in mid‐latitude forests	15
Transgenerational plasticity in morphological characteristics and biomass of the invasive plant Xanthium strumarium	15
Food webs can deliver win–win strategies for tropical agroforestry and biodiversity conservation	15
Objective risk assessment of bark and ambrosia beetles non‐indigenous to North America	15
An approach to defining and achieving restoration targets for a threatened plant community	15
The impact of plant‐derived fire management prescriptions on fire‐responsive bird species	14
Long‐term exclusion of invasive ungulates alters tree recruitment and functional traits but not total forest carbon	14
Higher spatial than seasonal variation of microbial communities in long‐term reclaimed water headwater urban stream	14
Bird species responses to rangeland management in relation to their traits: Rio de la Plata Grasslands as a case study	14
Introduction of non‐native Douglas fir reduces leaf damage on beech saplings and mature trees in European beech forests	14
Impacts of forest fragmentation on interactions between plants and their insect herbivores and fungal pathogens	14
Vegetation zones as indicators of denitrification potential in salt marshes	14
The impact of urbanization on genetic connectivity of 10 mammal species in New Jersey	14
Temporal shift and climate drivers of vegetation resilience in a high‐altitude national park of China	14
A newly invasive species may promote dissimilarity of pest populations between organic and conventional farming systems	14
High densities of hatchery‐origin white sturgeon suppress somatic growth rates of an endangered wild population	14
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Restoration maintains high soil carbon stocks in Asia's largest tropical grassland	14

Blending Indigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in Karuk Aboriginal Territory	14
Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring	14
Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls	14
Landscape‐wide pulse events predict trait‐based responses among wetland birds in perennial channels of a dryland wetland	14
Bee diversity decreases rapidly with time since harvest in intensively managed conifer forests	14
A metric‐based framework for climate‐smart conservation planning	14
Roles of riverine wetlands in diffusive greenhouse gas emissions: Comparing before and after wetland destruction	14
Long‐term frequent fire and cattle grazing alter dry forest understory vegetation	14
Coastal squeeze on temperate reefs: Long‐term shifts in salinity, water quality, and oyster‐associated communities	14
Eastern Canadian boreal forest soil and foliar chemistry show evidence of resilience to long‐term nitrogen addition	13
Unraveling multipredator impacts in salmon‐bearing rivers using quantitative DNA metabarcoding	13
Wildflower plantings enhance nesting opportunities for soil‐nesting bees	13
Experimental water hyacinth invasion and destructive management increase human schistosome transmission potential	13
Urban habitat restoration increases native bird diversity in the Midwestern United States	13
Community‐ecosystem interactions control plant biodiversity change before and after mangrove restoration	13
Multi‐Factor Coral Disease Risk: A new product for early warning and management	13
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Restoration based on cost–benefit optimization: A grasslands pilot study	13
Disentangling the role of environmental filtering and biotic resistance on alien invasions in a reservoir area	13
At the intersection of soundscapes and roads: Quantifying anthrophony's influence on wildlife crossing structure use	13
White‐tailed deer population dynamics in a multipredator landscape shaped by humans	13
Short‐ and long‐term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest	13
Invasion timing affects multiple scales, metrics, and facets of biodiversity outcomes in ecological restoration experiments	13
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories	13
Forest stand characteristics drive the macronutrient composition of Vaccinium winter forage for cervids	13
Structural characteristics mediate forest mitigation potential against climate change and biodiversity loss	13
Large, prolonged flooding and pool persistence promote floodplain fish diversity in a threatened river	12
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Successful recovery of native plants post‐invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features	12
The potential for synthesized invasive plant biochar with hydroxyapatite to mitigate allelopathy of Solidagocanadensis	12
Predator niche overlap predicts effects on aphid vectors and a vector‐borne virus	12
Changes in reproduction mediate the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant population dynamics	12
Active restoration increases tree species richness and recruitment of large‐seeded taxa after 16–18 years	12
A new tool to quantify biodiversity change under landscape transformation	12
Microbes in reconstructive restoration: Divergence in constructed and natural tree island soil fungi affects tree growth	12
Smaller and bolder fish enhance ecosystem‐scale primary production around artificial reefs in seagrass beds	12
Independent effects of tree diversity on aboveground and soil carbon pools after six years of experimental afforestation	12
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Influence of vessel disturbance on Pacific harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena vomerina) echolocation	12
Replacing native grazers with livestock influences arthropods to have implications for ecosystem functions and disease	12
Comparing the efficacy of control strategies for infectious disease outbreaks using field and simulation studies	12
Improving coral cover using an integrated pest management framework	12
Pathways for accidental biocontrol: The human‐mediated dispersal of insect predators and parasitoids	12