Ecology Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Ecology Letters is 46. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Cover Image157
Issue Information125
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change107
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Comparative approaches in social network ecology101
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity100
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum99
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade96
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance94
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory92
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations89
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts86
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography85
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model82
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity79
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory72
Recent and Rapid Assembly of an Island Species–Area Relationship Threatened by Human Disturbance71
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance67
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges67
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics67
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature65
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data64
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal64
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests63
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 202262
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish61
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history59
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering56
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands56
Corrigendum55
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients54
Issue Information54
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process52
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies52
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The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait51
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds50
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection49
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands49
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide49
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity47
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction47
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology47
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism46
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments46
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii46
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