Basic and Applied Ecology

Article	Citations
A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation	83
The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning	53
Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring	52
Hand pollination of global crops – A systematic review	39
Insect abundance in managed forests benefits from multi-layered vegetation	37
Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas	33
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	31
Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites	31
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses	31
A new indicator of the effectiveness of urban green infrastructure based on ecosystem services assessment	29
Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	28
Arthropod functional traits shaped by landscape-scale field size, local agri-environment schemes and edge effects	27
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	27
Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success	26
Changes amid constancy: Flower and leaf microbiomes along land use gradients and between bioregions	25
Biotic interactions with mycorrhizal systems as extended nutrient acquisition strategies shaping forest soil communities and functions	25
Landscape heterogeneity and forest cover shape cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities in a multi-scale perspective	24
Bee communities in restored prairies are structured by landscape and management, not local floral resources	23
Response of bats and nocturnal insects to urban green areas in Europe	23
Livestock grazing constrains bird abundance and species richness: A global meta-analysis	23
Forest fragments influence pollination and yield of soybean crops in Chaco landscapes	22
Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities	22
Threats and benefits of invasive alien plant species on pollinators	21
Meta-analysis of tree diversity effects on the abundance, diversity and activity of herbivores' enemies	21
Landscapes with high amounts of mass-flowering fruit crops reduce the reproduction of two solitary bees	21

Landscape and habitat affect frequency of artificial duck nest predation by native species, but not by an alien predator	20
Achieving win-win outcomes for biodiversity and yield through diversified farming	20
Population assessment without individual identification using camera-traps: A comparison of four methods	20
Can't bear the competition: Energetic losses from kleptoparasitism by a dominant scavenger may alter foraging behaviors of an apex predator	20
Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South	20
Intra-specific leaf trait responses to species richness at two different local scales	19
Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China	19
Habitat quality and surrounding landscape structures influence wild bee occurrence in perennial wildflower strips	18
Removing understory vegetation in oil palm agroforestry reduces ground-foraging ant abundance but not species richness	18
Establishment and management of wildflower areas for insect pollinators in commercial orchards	18
Effects of three flower field types on bumblebees and their pollen diets	18
Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe	18
Local plant richness predicts bee abundance and diversity in a study of urban residential yards	17
Long-term data shows increasing dominance of Bombus terrestris with climate warming	17
Temporal resource partitioning mediates vertebrate coexistence at carcasses: The role of competitive and facilitative interactions	17
Urbanization negatively impacts frog diversity at continental, regional, and local scales	16
Temperature affects both the Grinnellian and Eltonian dimensions of ecological niches – A tale of two Arctic wolf spiders	16
Garden pond diversity: Opportunities for urban freshwater conservation	16
Plant-mediated indirect effects of climate change on an insect herbivore	16
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	16
Functional diversity, functional composition and functional β diversity drive aboveground biomass across different bioclimatic rangelands	16
Native flower strips increase visitation by non-bee insects to avocado flowers and promote yield	16
Response of honeybee colony size to flower strips in agricultural landscapes depends on areal proportion, spatial distribution and plant composition	16
Effects of perennial wildflower strips and landscape structure on birds in intensively farmed agricultural landscapes	16
Trends in monthly abundance and species richness of carabids over 33 years at the Kaiserstuhl, southwest Germany	15
Vegetation-based ecosystem service delivery in urban landscapes: A systematic review	15
Key factors influencing forager distribution across macadamia orchards differ among species of managed bees	15
Functional-structural plant models to boost understanding of complementarity in light capture and use in mixed-species forests	15
Can novel seed mixes provide a more diverse, abundant, earlier, and longer-lasting floral resource for bees than current mixes?	15
Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest	15
Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops	15
Habitat heterogeneity promotes bird diversity in agricultural landscapes: Insights from remote sensing data	15
From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	15
A conceptual framework and experimental design for analysing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in agroforestry systems	15
Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity	15
Seasonal variation in the diet of the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus): A high-resolution analysis using DNA metabarcoding	15
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards	15
Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	14
The impact of maize-bean intercropping on insect biodiversity	14
Remote sensing variables improve species distribution models for alpine plant species	14
Insectivorous birds are not effective pest control agents in olive groves	14
Intercropping drives plant phenotypic plasticity and changes in functional trait space	13
Initial floral visitor identity and foraging time strongly influence blueberry reproductive success	13
Plant traits and landscape simplification drive intraspecific trait diversity of Bombus terrestris in wildflower plantings	13
Landscape-scale connectivity and fragment size determine species composition of grassland fragments	13
Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	13
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	13
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles mediate behavioral interactions between a leaf-chewing and a phloem-feeding herbivore	13
Species identity and composition effects on community productivity in a subtropical forest	13
Variations in leaf morphological and chemical traits in response to life stages, plant functional types, and habitat types in an old-growth temperate forest	13

Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines	12
Long-term post-fire resprouting dynamics and reproduction of woody species in a Brazilian savanna	12
Leaf litter age regulates the effect of native and exotic tree species on understory herbaceous vegetation of riparian forests	12
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	12
Taxonomic and functional approaches reveal different responses of ant assemblages to land-use changes	12
Mass-flowering red clover crops have positive effects on bumblebee richness and diversity after bloom	12
A review of global trends in the study types used to investigate bee nesting biology	11
Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change	11
Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities along a gradient of crop management intensity	11
Single large AND several small habitat patches: A community perspective on their importance for biodiversity	11
An interdisciplinary framework to describe and evaluate the functioning of forest ecosystems	11
No consistent diversity patterns in terrestrial mammal assemblages along rural-urban forest gradients	11
An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient	11
Wild bees and natural enemies prefer similar flower species and respond to similar plant traits	11
Plant identity strongly structures the root-associated fungal community in a diverse subtropical forest	11
Temporal changes of biodiversity in urban running waters – Results of a twelve-year monitoring study	11
Farmland in U.S. Conservation Reserve Program has unique floral composition that promotes bee summer foraging	11
Species ecological strategy and soil phosphorus supply interactively affect plant biomass and phosphorus concentration	10
Extensively managed or abandoned urban green spaces and their habitat potential for butterflies	10
The effects of morphology, phylogeny and prey availability on trophic resource partitioning in an anuran community	10
Asynchrony between solitary bee emergence and flower availability reduces flower visitation rate and may affect offspring size	10
Building food networks from molecular data: Bayesian or fixed-number thresholds for including links	10
Contrasting effects of grazing on the early stages of woody encroachment in a Neotropical savanna	10
Comparison of the pollination efficiency of Apis cerana with wild bees in oil-seed camellia fields	10
Grazing and aridity have contrasting effects on the functional and taxonomic diversity of ants	10
Plant productivity is a key driver of soil respiration response to climate change in a nutrient-limited soil.	10
Mulching has negative impact on fungal and plant diversity in Slovak oligotrophic grasslands	10
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	10
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	10
Changing assembly rules during secondary succession: evidence for non-random patterns	9
Landscape composition modifies pollinator densities, foraging behavior and yield formation in faba beans	9
Floral resource distribution and fitness consequences for two solitary bee species in agricultural landscapes	9
Seasonal variation of Drosophilidae communities in viticultural landscapes	9
Causes and consequences of lags in basic and applied research into feral wildlife ecology: the case for feral horses	9
Landscape- and time-dependent benefits of wildflower areas to ground-dwelling arthropods	9
Putative roles of bacteria in the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a tropical peat swamp forest	9
Ant taxonomic and functional beta-diversity respond differently to changes in forest cover and spatial distance	9
An agro-environmental mowing regime favors the number of inflorescences and flower-visiting insects but not ground beetles of herbaceous boundaries of arable fields	9
The activity of a subterranean small mammal alters Afroalpine vegetation patterns and is positively affected by livestock grazing	8
Plant species diversity affects plant nutrient pools by affecting plant biomass and nutrient concentrations in high-nitrogen ecosystems	8
Predator and pollinator? An invasive hornet alters the pollination dynamics of a native plant	8
Climate and human influence shape the interactive role of the honeybee in pollination networks beyond its native distributional range	8
A multi-site experiment to test biocontrol effects of wildflower strips in different French climate zones	8
Macroecological patterns of resource use in resident and migratory hummingbirds	8
Native pollinators increase fruit set while honeybees decrease the quality of mandarins in family farms	8
Climate change and grassland management interactively influence the population dynamics of Bromus erectus (Poaceae)	8
Soil microbial biomass and enzyme kinetics for the assessment of temporal diversification in agroecosystems	8
Water deprivation drives intraspecific variability in lizard heat tolerance	8
Traffic noise induces oxidative stress and phytohormone imbalance in two urban plant species	8
Comparative study of the most tested hypotheses on relationships between biodiversity, productivity, light and nutrients	8
Plant functional traits under cattle grazing and fallow age scenarios in a tropical dry forest of Northwestern Mexico	8
Altering native community assembly history influences the performance of an annual invader	8
Novel physiological data needed for progress in global change ecology	8
Intermediate disturbance promotes diversity and the conservation of dung beetles (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae and Aphodiidae) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	8
Impact of light pollution on moth morphology–A 137-year study in Germany	7
Cross-disciplinary approaches for better research: The case of birds and bats	7
Scattered woody vegetation promotes European brown hare population	7
Exploring relationships between time of day and pollinator activity in the context of pesticide use	7
Exploring trade-offs in agro-ecological landscapes: Using a multi-objective land-use allocation model to support agroforestry research	7
Nutrient status not secondary metabolites drives herbivory and pathogen infestation across differently mycorrhized tree monocultures and mixtures	7
Ecological traits and landscape characteristics predicting bird sensitivity to urbanization in city parks	7
Limited honeybee hive placement balances the trade-off between biodiversity conservation and crop yield of buckwheat cultivation	7
Feeding rate and efficiency in an apex soil predator exposed to short-term temperature changes	7
How has bird biodiversity changed over time? A review across spatio-temporal scales	7
Habitat quality mediates demographic response to climate in a declining large herbivore	7
Red foxes increase reproductive output of white spruce in a non-mast year	7
Competitive dominance mediates the effects of topography on plant richness in a mountain grassland	7
Experimental manipulation of biotic and abiotic parameters changes the outcome of insect-plant interactions	7
Recovery of local dragonfly diversity following restoration of an artificial lake in an urban area near Buenos Aires	7
Using spatially-explicit plant competition models to optimise crop productivity in intercropped systems	7
The importance of intraspecific variation in litter consumption rate of aquatic and terrestrial macro-detritivores	6
Spatial and functional structure of an entire ant assemblage in a lowland Panamanian rainforest	6
Addition of fungal inoculum increases germination of orchid seeds in restored grasslands	6
Contrasting effects of street light shapes and LED color temperatures on nocturnal insects and bats	6
Grassland plant and invertebrate species richness increases from mowing are mediated by impacts on soil chemistry	6
Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation	6
Rhizobial diversity impacts soybean resistance, but not tolerance, to herbivory during drought	6
Landscape attributes shape dung beetle diversity at multiple spatial scales in agricultural drylands	6
A compendium of photopigment peak sensitivities and visual spectral response curves of terrestrial wildlife to guide design of outdoor nighttime lighting	6
Decreasing nitrogen deposition rates: Good news for oligotrophic grassland species?	6

Assemblage-level responses of Neotropical bats to forest loss and fragmentation	6
Silicon application enhances wheat defence against Sitobion avenae F. by regulating plant physiological-biochemical responses	6
Glyphosate reduces the biodiversity of soil macrofauna and benefits exotic over native species in a tropical agroecosystem	6
Assessing ground predation by invertebrates in crops: Camera observations clarify the relevance of aphid cards and coleopteran sentinel prey	6
Carnivores cross irrigation canals more often through overpasses than through culverts	6
Exogenous application of plant defense hormones alters the effects of live soils on plant performance	6
Fire and drought: Shifts in bark investment across a broad geographical scale for Neotropical savanna trees	6
Organic carbon and nutrients drive prokaryote and metazoan communities in a floodplain aquifer	6
Effects of land-use and climate change on grasshopper assemblages differ between protected and unprotected grasslands	6
Environmentally-friendly and organic management practices enable complementary diversification of plant–bumblebee food webs	6
Frog community composition-environment relationships vary over time: Are snapshot studies of metacommunity dynamics useful?	6
Pollen collection by honey bee hives in almond orchards indicate diverse diets	6
“Mixed” occupancy designs: When do additional single-visit data improve the inferences from standard multi-visit models?	6
Does weed suppression by high crop density depend on crop spatial pattern and soil water availability?	6
Bottom-up and top-down drivers of herbivory on Arabica coffee along an environmental and management gradient	5
Soil nutrients and variation in biomass rather than native species richness influence introduced plant richness in a semi-arid grassland	5
Abiotic and biotic drivers of strawberry productivity across a rural-urban gradient	5
Gains and losses in ecosystem services and disservices after converting native forest to agricultural land on an oceanic island	5
Ecological community dynamics: 20 years of moth sampling reveals the importance of generalists for community stability	5
The effect of pollination on the growth and reproduction of oilseed rape (Brassica napus)	5
A spotlight on the phytobiome: Plant-mediated interactions in an illuminated world	5
Abiotic site conditions affect photosynthesis rates by changing leaf functional traits	5
Short-term response of ground-dwelling arthropods to storm-related disturbances is mediated by topography and dispersal	5
Does crop genetic diversity support positive biodiversity effects under experimental drought?	5
Radar remote sensing as a novel tool to assess the performance of an agri-environment scheme in coastal grasslands	5
Impacts of coastal realignment on biodiversity. A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Scale-dependent effectiveness of on-field vs. off-field agri-environmental measures for wild bees	5
Contrasting responses of terrestrial and aquatic consumers in riparian – stream networks to local and landscape level drivers of environmental change	5
Legume plant defenses and nutrients mediate indirect interactions between soil rhizobia and chewing herbivores	5
Spiders in canopy and ground microhabitats are robust to changes in understory vegetation management practices in mature oil palm plantations (Riau, Indonesia)	5
Temporal and spatial niche complementarity in sunflower pollinator communities and pollination function	5
Resolving the identity and breeding habitats of cryptic dipteran cacao flower visitors in a neotropical cacao agroforestry system	4
Bees improve oil quality of oilseed rape	4
Testing standard growth substrates for establishing native dry sandy grassland species on extensive green roofs in Northern Germany	4
Resistance of plant communities to invasion by tall fescue: An experimental study combining species diversity, functional traits and nutrient levels	4
Comparing scavenging in marine and terrestrial ecosystems: a case study with fish and gull carcasses in a small Mediterranean island	4
The potential role of synzoochory in the naturalization of almond tree	4
Nectar microbes may indirectly change fruit consumption by seed-dispersing birds	4
Plant invaders outperform congeneric natives on amino acids	4
Olive grove intensification negatively affects wintering bird communities in central Spain	4
First screening of bacterial communities of Microdon myrmicae and its ant host: do microbes facilitate the invasion of ant colonies by social parasites?	4
Genomic patterns and the evolutionary origin of an invasive fungal pathogen (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) in Europe	4
A global assessment of the species composition and effectiveness of watermelon pollinators and the management strategies to inform effective pollination service delivery	4
Social predation by ants as a mortality source for an arboreal gregarious forest pest	4
Urbanisation reduced body size but potentially improved flight performance in bees and wasps	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
A first assessment of the land management effect on the ecological role of large trees as habitat refuges for desert small mammals	4
Herbivore-herbivore interactions complicate links between soil fertility and pest resistance	4
Changes in partner traits drive variation in plant–nectar robber interactions across habitats	4
Numbers and presence of guarding dogs affect wolf and leopard predation on livestock in northeastern Iran	4
Not only hedgerows, but also flower fields can enhance bat activity in intensively used agricultural landscapes	4
Reprint of: Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	4
Urban threats and conservation measures relating to aquatic arthropods on the iconic Table Mountain, South Africa: A review	4
Abundance and trait-matching both shape interaction frequencies between plants and birds in seed-dispersal networks	4
Plant diversity on islands in the Anthropocene: Integrating the effects of the theory of island biogeography and human activities	4
River dike grasslands can reconcile biodiversity and different ecosystem services to provide multifunctionality	4
Tree diversity and shade rate in complex cocoa-based agroforests affect citrus foot rot disease	4
The role of non-volatile chemicals of floral rewards in plant-pollinator interactions	4
Artificial light at night alters predation on colour-polymorphic camouflaged prey	4
Semiochemicals and habitat manipulation to support green lacewing activity to reduce aphid infestations in agroecosystems	4
What plant–pollinator network structure tells us about the mechanisms underlying the bidirectional biodiversity productivity relationship?	4