Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology is 2. 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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Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem39
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest20
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands20
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability14
Strategies in growth and reproduction of the native endangered plant species Scripus mariqueter and the driving factors in a coastal salt marsh wetland, eastern China14
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil13
Fleshy-fruited species increase with elevation for woody lianas but peak in mid-elevations for herbaceous vines in a subtropical forest system13
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?12
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams12
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas11
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration11
The different facets of native bird diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) as predictors of alien birds increasing richness and expanding range in Great Britain11
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape11
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest10
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Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment10
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Traditional rangeland management can conserve insect pollinators in a semi-arid rangeland, northern Tanzania9
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii9
Vulture numbers and densities in a large protected savannah in West Africa8
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland8
Understorey-nesting bird community responses to land use in the Korup National Park, an Afrotropical rainforest in South-Western Cameroon8
Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil8
Greenhouse gas emissions from termite mounds in a transition area between the Cerrado Savanna and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil8
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations8
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)8
Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees8
English Ivy (Hedera helix) is fast, but ash (Fraxinus excelsior) too: Decomposition of English Ivy litter compared to four common host trees - A multisite citizen sciences project8
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs8
How are arthropod communities structured in a modified wetland under different productive activities?7
The effect of soil depth on stoichiometry was greater than that of elevation in Abies georgei var. Smithii forest in Southeastern Tibet, China7
Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed, forested landscape of East Texas7
Soil properties and fine root morphological traits in relation to soil particle-size fractions in a broad-leaved beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forest7
Abiotic controls, but not species richness, shape niche overlap and breadth of ant assemblages along an elevational gradient in central Spain7
How many seeds can birds disperse?: Determining the pattern of seed deposition by frugivorous birds7
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Thermal-metabolic relationships in hatchling snapping turtles during simulated seasonal cooling7
Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot7
A review of seed ecology of poisonous plants in the world's grasslands7
Assessing the fire resilience of the savanna tree component through a functional approach7
The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community7
Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta7
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Is endozoochoric seed dispersal by large herbivores an evolutionary adaptation? Revisiting the Janzen's ‘Foliage is the fruit’ hypothesis6
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on diaspore removal by ants: A meta-analysis6
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Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates6
Morphological and physiological adaptation of a desert shrub, Encelia farinosa, under drought stress6
Seed dispersal mechanism of Erythronium japonicum in Northeast China6
Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest6
What do you mean by “niche”? Modern ecological theories are not coherent on rhetoric about the niche concept6
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the Patagonian genus Onuris (Brassicaceae: Eudemeae) at different phylogenetic scales5
The effects of seasonal changes on the dynamics of a fig tree's pollination5
Influence of soil properties on millipede (Diplopoda) communities in forest stands of various tree species5
The impact of rare and common species on the functional diversity of forest birds in a palm-dominated landscape in the Eastern Amazon5
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The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants5
On the natural selection of body mass allometries5
Ecological relevance of high and low nucleic acid content bacteria in a monsoon influenced tropical estuary: Implications on the β-Glucosidase activity5
A neotropical canid as seed disperser in semiarid areas of Brazil5
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia5
Plant functional traits along an old-field succession in the high tropical andes5
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series5
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada5
Caves’ environmental stability shaping subterranean biodiversity in the neotropics5
A matter of scale: Local biotic differentiation and potential regional homogenization of understory plant communities in a highly fragmented tropical landscape5
Disentangling the determinants of litter decomposition among invaded and uninvaded habitats: A field experiment from the Kashmir Himalaya5
Correlations between leaf economics, hydraulic, and shade-tolerance traits among co-occurring individual trees5
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid5
Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls5
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests4
Effects of phylogeny, traits, and seasonality on invertebrate herbivory damage in a meadow community4
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Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects4
Crown complementarity rather than crown selection contributes to stem complementarity in genetic mixtures of Pinus taeda L4
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile4
Epigeic fauna (with emphasis on ant community) response to land-use change for sugarcane expansion in Brazil4
How steady is the nested pattern in saline grassland true bug communities? Effects of sampling effort and data completeness on nestedness4
Network analysis highlights increased generalisation and evenness of plant-pollinator interactions after conservation measures4
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry4
Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species4
Scale and representation of landscapes in mammal studies in Brazil4
Post-mine succession and short term effects of coal mining in a Guinea savanna ecosystem4
Entomogamy in wildflowers: What level of pollinator biodiversity is required?4
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes4
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought4
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network3
Seasonal patterns of scorpion diversity along a gradient of aridity in Algeria3
Species-area relationship and richness persistence as a proxy of environmental carrying capacity: A case study in a neotropical show cave3
Nitrogen deposition is positively correlated to foliar nitrogen content in Vaccinium myrtillus and other understory species in temperate forests on acidic soil3
Effects of fragmentation per se on slug movement3
Intraspecific pod and seed trait variation of two herbaceous legume seeds in response to competing neighbours and nutrient resource abundance3
How is the community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi composed and ordered in phytophysiognomies in the transition between cerrado (savanna) and amazon biomes?3
Plant richness and vegetation structure drive the topology of plant-herbivore networks in Neotropical savannas3
The effects of river regulation on diet diversity, dietary niche overlap and foraging habitat preferences of two sympatric plover species3
Population trends of four species of amphibians in western France; results from a 15 year time series derived from road mortality counts3
Do the natural dynamics of West Carpathian forests affect the diversity of epiphytic lichens on Norway spruce?3
Diversity partitioning and distance-decay relationship of saprophytic flies (Insecta: Diptera) in the western Brazilian Amazon3
Invasion in the riparian zone: What is the effect of Pteridium arachnoideum on topsoil permeability?3
Soil biodiversity for the sustainability of agroecosystems3
The resilience of heathland ecosystems: A working hypothesis3
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Demography of the dominant perennial grass species of a humid African savanna3
The coexistence of two related fig wasp species sharing the same host fig species across a broad geographical area3
Feeding plasticity and temporal behaviour of the alien American mink in Europe3
Effects of fire on the population structure and abundance of Anogeissus leiocarpa and Vitellaria paradoxa in a West African savanna parkland3
Experimental drought suppresses grass productivity and passive warming promotes tree sapling performance: Insights from African savanna species3
Quantifying responses of dung beetle assemblages to cattle grazing removal over a short-term in introduced Brazilian pastures3
Fast restore of the structure and composition of hemiepiphytes after a heavy-snowfall event in a subtropical forest3
Widespread butterflies follow inconsistent trends in the Bergmann's rule and flight morphometry: Implications for conservation in the Western Himalaya3
Novel diplochory: Native bats and non-native rats disperse seeds of an island tree3
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Floral nectar and insect flower handling time change over the flowering season: Results from an exploratory study3
Seed attachment by epizoochory depends on animal fur, body height, and plant phenology3
Prevalence of stochastic processes in the fire-mediated reassemblage of the soil arthropod community of a pine forest2
Winners and losers: Competition and the invasive grass Bromus inermis2
Soil heterogeneity and species composition jointly affect individual variation of three forage grasses2
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Urban areas are favouring the spread of an alien mud-dauber wasp into climatically non-optimal latitudes2
Factors influencing seed predation in rainforest tree communities of subtropical Australia: Fragmentation, seed size and shifts in vertebrate assemblages2
Impact of the local environmental factors associated to plant-fungi communities on the conservation of Liparis loeselii (L.) Rich. In the French Rhône-Alpes region2
Landscape configuration and composition shape mutualistic and antagonistic interactions among plants, bats, and ectoparasites in human-dominated tropical rainforests2
Isolation and self-regulation processes in simulated postfire microsites promote plant species diversity2
Ecology of morphological fruit types, and fruit and seed colors in 27 Venezuelan plant communities2
Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrients across different shifting cultivation fallows in Montane Subtropical Forest of Mizoram, NE India2
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Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight2
Relationship between beach morphodynamics and body traits in a sand-dwelling wolf spider2
Response of soil microbes to Carex meyeriana meadow degeneration caused by overgrazing in inner Mongolia2
Does the consumption of pioneer-tree seeds from flooded forests by freshwater sardines affect seed germination?2
The role of arthropods in early colonization near melting glaciers: Contradictions between ecological assumptions and recent study results2
Exploring the factors shaping the invertebrate community and habitat selection in a new Hotspot of Subterranean Biodiversity in South America2
Biological soil crusts from the Monte desert affect soil moisture and nutrients, and improve Leptochloa crinita grass development2
Host functional traits affect plant responses to pathogen stress: A meta-analysis2
Removal of diaspores by ants: What factors to evaluate?2
Impact of 25 years of grazing on the forest structure of Pinus cembroides in northeast Mexico2
Rare Pteridophytes are disproportionately frequent in the tropical forest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China2
How to be a fig nematode2
Spillover of avian seed dispersers between secondary forests and degraded areas in a tropical island2
Climate and soil nutrients generate distinct diversity patterns across four elevational gradients within the same region2
Evaluating the relative importance of habitat filtering and niche differentiation in shaping the food web of dung-inhabiting predators2
Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium2
Corrigendum to “How to be a fig nematode” [Acta Oecol. 119 (2023) 103916]2
Selected microhabitat and surface temperatures of two sympatric lizard species2
The importance of the standardizing sampling methodology to detect altitudinal gradients in mountains: A study case for the resident bird community in a hotspot (Atlantic forest) and the Middle Domain2
The influence of growth types on soil properties along an elevation gradient in a semi-arid oak forest2
The effect of desert annual plant decomposition on soil microbial community2
Ant utilization of tree trunks in relation to environmental factors in a temperate forest2
Abiotic factors similarly shape the distribution of fruit, seed and leaf traits in tropical fleshy-fruited tree communities2
Woody biomass-carbon and soil organic carbon stock in subtropical forests of Garhwal Himalaya2
Differences in leaf phenological traits between trees and shrubs are closely related to functional traits in a temperate forest2
Comparison of grassland plant-pollinator networks on dairy farms in three contrasting French landscapes2
Heavy metal pollution is more conducive to the independent invasion of Solidago canadensis L. than the co-invasion of two Asteraceae invasive plants2
Multiple mating does not benefit females of a polyandrous pollinating fig wasp2
Temporal changes in spatial scale and autocorrelation structure of forest openings based on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional turnover2
Genetic reconstruction of potential invasion pathways of Ligustrum lucidum into Argentina2
Herbaceous vegetation under planted woody species on coal mine spoil acts as a source of organic matter2
Keystone species in an urban environment: Do raptors control the Mexican gray squirrel in Mexico City?2
Environmental factors controlling structure, litter productivity, and phenology of mangroves in arid region of the Gulf of California2
The role of seed size in the performance of Ceiba aesculifolia seedlings subjected to foliar damage2
Specialist fig-consuming lepidopterans can inflict costs to plant reproductive success that are mitigated by ant bodyguards2
Anuran assemblages in western Philippines: Unraveling the effects of habitat types, water availability, and elevation2
Benefits to the germination of seeds provided by birds that mandibulate fleshy fruits2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on seed germination under field conditions: A meta-analysis2
Influence of geographic predictors on beta diversity of insular snakes communities2
Differences in mutualistic or predatory interactions between tree and rodent species as revealed by using a double-duplex passive integrated transponder tagging technique2
A new player in the Panamanian fig tree – fig wasp mutualism; a study on the effect of gall midges on Ficus citrifolia2
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