Basic and Applied Ecology

Article	Citations
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	108
Short-term response of ground-dwelling arthropods to storm-related disturbances is mediated by topography and dispersal	75
Social predation by ants as a mortality source for an arboreal gregarious forest pest	68
Testing standard growth substrates for establishing native dry sandy grassland species on extensive green roofs in Northern Germany	52
Using spatially-explicit plant competition models to optimise crop productivity in intercropped systems	42
Short-term fate of nitrogen fixed by moss-cyanobacteria associations under different rainfall regimes	37
Non-crop habitats concurrently drive crop colonization by the millet head miner and regulation by natural enemies	35
Reprint of: Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: the role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	35
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	34
Nematode dynamics in an African dolomite cave: What is the role of environmental filtering in spatial and temporal distribution?	33
Tracking sucking herbivory with nitrogen isotope labelling: Lessons from an individual trait-based approach	32
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	31
Moving north under the eye of the public: The dispersal ecology of the Nosferatu spider, documented by citizen scientists	30
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	28
Artificial light at night increases the nighttime feeding of monarch butterfly caterpillars without affecting host plant quality	27
Semi-natural habitats are key to breeding bird diversity in intensified vineyard landscapes across Europe	27
Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	27
Abundance and trait-matching both shape interaction frequencies between plants and birds in seed-dispersal networks	27
A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation	26
An observational assessment of winter human-nature interaction in urban parks	25
Editorial Board	24
Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation	24
Testimonials to reconstruct past abundances of wildlife populations	23
Temporal changes of biodiversity in urban running waters – Results of a twelve-year monitoring study	23
Does weed suppression by high crop density depend on crop spatial pattern and soil water availability?	22

Biodiversity in urban blue space – increasing knowledge and species richness	22
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the Worlds First National Park. Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler and Daniel R. MacNulty. 339 pages, London: University of Chicago Press [2020]	21
Effects of perennial wildflower strips and landscape structure on birds in intensively farmed agricultural landscapes	21
Exploring relationships between time of day and pollinator activity in the context of pesticide use	21
Are alien plant species superior to natives, and is this determined by performance measure and study design? A meta-analysis	21
Simply the green: Urban refuges	21
Non-additive effects of multiple predators alter the biological control of the coffee leaf miner (Leucoptera coffeella)	21
Where do hamsters go after cereal harvest? A case study.	20
Comparing the performance of two camera trap-based methods to survey small mustelids	20
Floristic composition and plant functional type diversity of the basalt cliffs of Western Ghats, India	20
Book Review	19
Distance- and density-dependent recruitment of common ragwort is not driven by plant-soil feedbacks	19
Towards sustainable agricultural landscapes: Lessons from an interdisciplinary research-based framework applied to the Saint Lawrence floodplain	19
Editorial Board	19
Herbivore-herbivore interactions complicate links between soil fertility and pest resistance	19
Changes in weed vegetation across transects in maize fields	19
How cushion plant communities structure nival soil biodiversity: A metabarcoding study in the French Alps	18
Editorial Board	18
Foraging risk in scavenging ecology: A study of scavenger behavior and patterns of bacterial growth	18
Plant functional composition as an effective surrogate for biodiversity conservation	18
Corrigendum to “Drought response and urban-pollinator attractiveness of ornamental plant species” [Basic and Applied Ecology Volume 78, August 2024, Pages 1–13]	18
Editorial Board	18
Decreasing nitrogen deposition rates: Good news for oligotrophic grassland species?	17
Contrasting effects of street light shapes and LED color temperatures on nocturnal insects and bats	17
Extensive vegetation management and semi-natural habitats increase plant alpha and gamma diversity in European vineyards	17
The role of non-volatile chemicals of floral rewards in plant-pollinator interactions	17
Bottom-up and top-down drivers of herbivory on Arabica coffee along an environmental and management gradient	17
Recent technological developments allow for passive acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) in research and conservation across a broad range of temporal and spatial scales	17
Viticulture abandonment benefits the bird community of the French Mediterranean	16
Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe	16
Seedling recruitment of small-seeded and large-seeded species in forests and pastures in southern Ecuador	16
Soundscape for urban ecological security evaluation	16
Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients	16
A review of global trends in the study types used to investigate bee nesting biology	16
Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities	15
Impacts of coastal realignment on biodiversity. A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Plant species diversity affects plant nutrient pools by affecting plant biomass and nutrient concentrations in high-nitrogen ecosystems	15
A meta-analysis of biocontrol potential and herbivore pressure in olive crops: Does integrated pest management make a difference?	15
Urbanisation reduced body size but potentially improved flight performance in bees and wasps	15
Sown wildflower areas for biodiversity conservation and multifunctional agricultural landscapes	14
Plant diversity on islands in the Anthropocene: Integrating the effects of the theory of island biogeography and human activities	14
Temporal resource partitioning mediates vertebrate coexistence at carcasses: The role of competitive and facilitative interactions	14
Changing assembly rules during secondary succession: evidence for non-random patterns	14
Vascular plant and ground beetle diversity on wet arable land versus conventional crop fields	14
WITHDRAWN: Sown wildflower areas for biodiversity conservation and multifunctional agricultural landscapes	14
Towards an effective in-situ biodiversity assessment in European forests	13
Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities along a gradient of crop management intensity	13
Larger cities host richer bee faunas, but are no refuge for species with concerning conservation status: Empirical evidence from Western Europe	13
Cliffs support lichen communities unique from nearby forests	13
Bees and pollination in grassland habitats in Helsinki (Finland) are diverse but dominated by polylectic species	13

Distribution, behavior and diet of the Asiatic black bear in human modified landscapes	12
Quantifying the mutualism-antagonism continuum for seed removal by a granivorous disperser	12
Irrigation decreases flower cover and beneficial arthropod abundances in Mediterranean vineyards	12
Does crop genetic diversity support positive biodiversity effects under experimental drought?	12
Can novel seed mixes provide a more diverse, abundant, earlier, and longer-lasting floral resource for bees than current mixes?	12
Challenges and opportunities when studying movement ecology in science and practical conservation	12
A global assessment of the species composition and effectiveness of watermelon pollinators and the management strategies to inform effective pollination service delivery	12
Reprint of: Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	12
BOOK REVIEW	12
Positive association between foliar silicon and extrafloral nectar in Vicia faba with application of methyl jasmonate	11
Intraspecific interactions in the annual legume Medicago minima are shaped by both genetic variation for competitive ability and reduced competition among kin	11
Asynchrony between solitary bee emergence and flower availability reduces flower visitation rate and may affect offspring size	11
Soil nutrients and variation in biomass rather than native species richness influence introduced plant richness in a semi-arid grassland	11
Olive grove intensification negatively affects wintering bird communities in central Spain	11
Carnivores cross irrigation canals more often through overpasses than through culverts	11
Bumblebee workers avoid foraging in road verges along busy roads	11
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	11
Ant taxonomic and functional beta-diversity respond differently to changes in forest cover and spatial distance	11
What plant–pollinator network structure tells us about the mechanisms underlying the bidirectional biodiversity productivity relationship?	11
BOOK REVIEW	11
Editorial Board	11
Crop gains induced by diversification exceed crop losses to diseases and weeds in a low-input rice cultivation system	11
Warming enhances the effects of nitrogen addition on fungal but not on bacterial diversity in an alpine meadow	10
Mulching has negative impact on fungal and plant diversity in Slovak oligotrophic grasslands	10
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	10
Predator and pollinator? An invasive hornet alters the pollination dynamics of a native plant	10
Long-term data shows increasing dominance of Bombus terrestris with climate warming	10
Hand pollination of global crops – A systematic review	10
Recovery of local dragonfly diversity following restoration of an artificial lake in an urban area near Buenos Aires	10
Proglacial slopes are protected against erosion by trait diverse and dense plant communities associated with specific microbial communities	10
Climate and soil factors drive the functional and phylogenetic assembly of Qinghai-Tibetan grassland communities via multiple paths	10
Making the best of a hard job: A response to Nakashima (2022)	10
Unpacking the fitness consequences of a warmer spring on an overwintering butterfly	10
Climate and human influence shape the interactive role of the honeybee in pollination networks beyond its native distributional range	10
Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Côte d'Ivoire)	10
The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning	10
Habitat heterogeneity promotes bird diversity in agricultural landscapes: Insights from remote sensing data	9
Survival patterns and population stability of cliff plants suggest high resistance to climatic variability	9
Effects of land-use and climate change on grasshopper assemblages differ between protected and unprotected grasslands	9
Environmentally-friendly and organic management practices enable complementary diversification of plant–bumblebee food webs	9
Smelling danger: Lady beetle odors affect aphid population abundance and feeding, but not movement between plants	9
Drought response and urban-pollinator attractiveness of ornamental plant species	9
Pollen load, pollen species diversity and conspecific pollen carried by pollinators across 24-hour cycles	9
Bumblebee pollination ensures the stability of both yield and quality of the woody oil crop Paeonia ostii ‘Fengdan’	9
Editorial Board	9
The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity–stability relationships	9
BOOK REVIEW	9
Nectar microbes may indirectly change fruit consumption by seed-dispersing birds	9
Threats and benefits of invasive alien plant species on pollinators	9
Effects of phylogenetic associations on environmental and temporal niche partitioning among sympatric mammals	9
Editorial Board	9
Environmental complexity and predator density mediate a stable earwig-woolly apple aphid interaction	8
Scale-dependent effectiveness of on-field vs. off-field agri-environmental measures for wild bees	8
Evaluating the potential of agri-environmental measures (AEM) in mitigating biodiversity loss due to land consolidation in China: Understanding the function of linear habitats	8
Hoverfly assemblages in urban farms compared to urban parks in the city of Geneva	8
Seasonal variability of scavenger visitations is independent of carrion predictability	8
Global patterns and mechanisms shaping dimensionality diversity in sharks	8
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses	8
Species ecological strategy and soil phosphorus supply interactively affect plant biomass and phosphorus concentration	8
The extended role of carrion: Insect consumption and hair taking at fox carcasses	7
Radar remote sensing as a novel tool to assess the performance of an agri-environment scheme in coastal grasslands	7
Shrub anti-herbivore defenses exhibit non-linear and varied responses to increased herbivore density	7
Prevalence of major pests and diseases in wild and cultivated coffee in Ethiopia	7
The activity of a subterranean small mammal alters Afroalpine vegetation patterns and is positively affected by livestock grazing	7
Within-bloom shift in abundance of a wild pollinator mediates pollen deposition rates to blueberry	7
Cucurbit plant defenses against aboveground or belowground insect herbivores are distinct and shaped by eco-evolutionary factors	7
Prescribed fire has slight influence on Roosevelt elk population dynamics	7
Response of honeybee colony size to flower strips in agricultural landscapes depends on areal proportion, spatial distribution and plant composition	7
Putative roles of bacteria in the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a tropical peat swamp forest	7
Native flower strips increase visitation by non-bee insects to avocado flowers and promote yield	7
Unravelling the multi-scale structure of vertebrate scavenger communities: The role of beta-diversity in livestock carcass consumption	7
The effects of climate change on boreal plant-pollinator interactions are largely neglected by science	7
Abiotic and biotic drivers of strawberry productivity across a rural-urban gradient	7
Hydrological dynamics, wetland morphology and vegetation structure determine riparian arthropod communities in constructed wetlands	7
Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity	7
Providing evidence for the conservation of a rare forest butterfly: Results from a three-year capture-mark-recapture study	7
Resource availability and competition shape pollinator trophic specialization in longleaf pine savannas	6
The risk of invasion by angiosperms peaks at intermediate levels of human influence	6
Nutrient status not secondary metabolites drives herbivory and pathogen infestation across differently mycorrhized tree monocultures and mixtures	6
An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient	6

Enhanced invertebrate activity-densities and weed seed predation in an integrated cropping system	6
Editorial Board	6
Effects of plant functional group removal on caterpillars (Gynaephora alpherakii) performance and plant production in an alpine meadow	6
Hedgerow structural diversity is key to promoting biodiversity and ecosystem services: A systematic review of Central European studies	6
Evolutionary Agroecology: Individual fitness, population yield and resource availability in wheat	6
Genomic patterns and the evolutionary origin of an invasive fungal pathogen (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) in Europe	6
Exogenous application of plant defense hormones alters the effects of live soils on plant performance	6
Ungulate herbivory reduces abundance and fluctuations of herbivorous insects in a boreal old-growth forest	6
Distance decay effects predominantly shape spider but not carabid community composition in crop fields in north-western Europe	6
Drivers of cultivated and wild plant pollination in urban agroecosystems	5
Agricultural intensification affects birds' trait diversity across Europe	5
Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society, J. Ollerton. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, UK (2021). 286 pp., €31 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-1-78427-228-9	5
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	5
The impact of maize-bean intercropping on insect biodiversity	5
Floral resource distribution and fitness consequences for two solitary bee species in agricultural landscapes	5
Nature-based solutions to increase sustainability and resilience of vineyard-dominated landscapes	5
Mycorrhizal fungi improve growth of Juniperus communis but only at sufficiently high soil element concentrations	5
The influence of habitat properties on sex determination in cavity-nesting Hymenoptera	5
Impact of an extreme drought event on clonal reproduction and the acclimation capacity of the succulent plant Sempervivum tectorum L.	5
Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South	5
Comparison of the pollination efficiency of Apis cerana with wild bees in oil-seed camellia fields	5
Glyphosate reduces the biodiversity of soil macrofauna and benefits exotic over native species in a tropical agroecosystem	5
From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	5
Editorial Board	5
BOOK REVIEW	5
Soil microbial biomass and enzyme kinetics for the assessment of temporal diversification in agroecosystems	5
High soil moisture promotes the emergence of ground beetles and spiders from soils in wheat fields	5
Vegetation-based ecosystem service delivery in urban landscapes: A systematic review	4
Species and functional responses of ants to inter-row tillage and vegetation in organic Mediterranean vineyards	4
Humid grassland fallows promote spider diversity in a traditionally managed landscape	4
Niche differentiation of arthropods and plants along small-scale gradients in temporary wetlands (kettle holes)	4
A call to action for inventorying and monitoring of cliff ecosystems to support conservation	4
Agricultural drivers of field margin plant communities are scale-dependent	4
A spotlight on the phytobiome: Plant-mediated interactions in an illuminated world	4
Spatio-temporal modelling of the effect of environmental and land-use factors on species-rich calcareous grasslands	4
WITHDRAWN: Sown wildflower areas for biodiversity conservation and multifunctional agricultural landscapes	4
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards	4
Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Edited by Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin. Island Press, Washington DC (2020). 536 pages. ISBN: 978-1610919661; 37,35 €	4
Editorial Board	4
Cross-disciplinary approaches for better research: The case of birds and bats	4
Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success	4
No changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen following long-term prescribed burning and livestock exclusion in the Sudan-savanna woodlands of Burkina Faso	4
Experimental manipulation of biotic and abiotic parameters changes the outcome of insect-plant interactions	4
Grassland plant and invertebrate species richness increases from mowing are mediated by impacts on soil chemistry	4
Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines	4
Testing a highly replicable and standardized method to rapidly assess seed removal probabilities	4
Book Review	4
Positive effects of ants on host trees are critical in years of low reproduction and not influenced by liana presence	4
Game Theory in Biology: Concepts and Frontiers, J. M. McNamara, O. Leimar, Oxford University Press (2020). 352pp., £70.00 (Hardback), £34.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780198815778 (Hardback), 9780198815785	4
Better red than dead: Plasticine moths are attacked less under HPS streetlights than LEDs	3
Functional diversity, functional composition and functional β diversity drive aboveground biomass across different bioclimatic rangelands	3
The importance of shrubland and local agroecological practices for pumpkin production in sub-Saharan smallholdings	3
Comparing scavenging in marine and terrestrial ecosystems: a case study with fish and gull carcasses in a small Mediterranean island	3
Cliff nesting birds provide nutrient inputs to cliff ecosystems	3
Reprint of: Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	3
Mammal Mia: A review on how ecological and human dimension research on urban wild mammals can benefit future biophilic cities	3
Human-Wildlife Conflicts Management: Prevention and Problem Solving, 2nd ed., Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland (2022). 272 pp., ISBN 978-1421445250, US$89.	3
Editorial Board	3
Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China	3
Limited honeybee hive placement balances the trade-off between biodiversity conservation and crop yield of buckwheat cultivation	3
The global conservation status of plants growing on cliffs and rocky outcrops	3
Species-genetic diversity correlation in a metacommunity of urban pond invertebrates	3
Ecological traits and landscape characteristics predicting bird sensitivity to urbanization in city parks	3
Special issue: Urban ecosystems: potentials, challenges, and solutions	3
Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest	3
Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change	3
Editorial Board	3
River dike grasslands can reconcile biodiversity and different ecosystem services to provide multifunctionality	3
Editorial Board	3
On the edge: Conservation genomics of the critically endangered dwarf mountain pine Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii	3