Ecology Letters

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Cover Image	140
Issue Information	135
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Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	130
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	125
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	125
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	122
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	120
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	120
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	115
SEED : A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	99
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Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	89
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	85
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	82
Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought	75
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	74
Neighbourhood Tree Competition Promotes Microbial Diversity in Phyllosphere	72
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	71
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	67
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	66
Recent and Rapid Assembly of an Island Species–Area Relationship Threatened by Human Disturbance	63
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	63
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	62

Drivers of Viral Prevalence in Landscape‐Scale Pollinator Networks Across Europe: Honey Bee Viral Density, Niche Overlap With This Reservoir Host and Network Architecture	62
Accounting for the Influence of Community Turnover Along Environmental Gradients on Compositional Uniqueness	61
Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change	59
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	58
Evolution in Response to an Abiotic Stress Shapes Species Coexistence	57
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Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	57
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Correction to ‘Biodiversity Modulates the Cross‐Community Scaling Relationship in Changing Environments’	55
Corrigendum	55
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	54
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments	54
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	53
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	53
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	50
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	50
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	48
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	48
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	47
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	47
Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	46
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	46
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	46
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	45
Multispecies Coexistence Emerges From Pairwise Exclusions in Communities With Competitive Hierarchy	45
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	44
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	44
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Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	42
Spatial Portfolios in Coral Metapopulations Are Shaped by Spatiotemporal Asynchrony in Environmental Conditions	41
Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	41
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	41
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	39
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	39
Negative Frequency‐Dependent Selection Promotes Strain Structure in a Plant Pathogen	39
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	38
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	38
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	37
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	36
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	36
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	36
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	35
Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	34
Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude	34
Beyond Habitat: Memory Versus Environment in Shaping Animal Space Use	34
Elevated CO 2 and N Gradually Weaken the Influence of Diversity on Ecosy	33
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	33
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	33
Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	33
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	33

Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	32
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Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	32
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	32
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	32
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	31
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	31
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	31
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A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	31
The Roles of Space and Food‐Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery	30
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	30
Geographic, Taxonomic and Metric Gaps in Biodiversity Research Limit Evidence‐Based Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: An Umbrella Review	30
Plant Invasion Decreases the Likelihood of Community Persistence Through Asymmetric Competition	30
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	30
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	29
Chronic Heat Tolerance Reveals Overestimated Thermal Safety Margins and Increased Vulnerability in Marine Fish Populations	29
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	29
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Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	29
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	29
Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear	28
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	28
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	28
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	27
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	27
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	27
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	27
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	27
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	27
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	27
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	27
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	27
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	27
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	27
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Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	26
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	26
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	26
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	26
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	26
Detection of Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics in Communities Using Joint Species Distribution Models	26
Density Dependence During Evolutionary Rescue Increases Extinction Risk but Does Not Prevent Adaptation	26
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	26
Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	26
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	25
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	25
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA !	25
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	25
Experimental Evidence for the Desynchronization of Ecosystem Dynamics by Global Change	25
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	25
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	25
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	25
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	25
Plant Genome Size Mediates Species and Community Responses to Precipitation Change and Nitrogen Enrichment in Grasslands	25
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From pattern to process? Dual travelling waves, with contrasting propagation speeds, best describe a self‐organised spatio‐temporal pattern in population growth of a cyclic rodent	24
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MoveTraits —A Database for Integrating Animal Behaviour Into Trait‐Based Ecology	24
Genetic Diversity Impacts Climate‐Induced Species Range Shifts	24
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	23
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis	23
Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure	23
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	23
modelRxiv : A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	23
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	23
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	23
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	23
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	23
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	22
Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	22
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	22
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	22
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	22
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	22
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	22
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	22
Four ways to define the growing season	22
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	22
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 7, July 2023	21

The Equilibrium Conundrum	21
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	21
Correction to ‘Partitioning Net Biodiversity Effects on Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience’	21
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Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	21
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	21
Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species	21
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	21
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Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	21
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Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	21
No Refuge at the Edge for European Beech as Climate Warming Disproportionately Reduces Masting at Colder Margins	20
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Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	20
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	20
Biodiversity Consistently Promotes Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Multiple Temporal Scales in an Aquatic Microbial Community	20
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	20
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	20
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea	20
Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	20
Converting and Constructing Effect Sizes With the Response Ratio	20
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	20
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	20
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	20
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	20
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	20
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	20
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	20
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	20
Artificial Light at Night Consistently Impacts Avian Physiology and Behaviour: A Meta‐Analysis	19
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	19
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	19
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can	19
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	19
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	19
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	19
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	19
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	19
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	18
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	18
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Contrasting 50‐Year Trends of Moth Communities Depending on Elevation and Species Traits	18
Fluctuating Growth Rates Link Turnover and Unevenness in Species‐Rich Communities	18
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	18
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	18
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Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	18
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	18
Sequential Thresholds Shape Drylands' Multitrophic Response to Aridification	18
Responses of African Savanna Trees to Large Herbivore Extinction and Rewilding	18
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	18
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	18
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	18
Plant Competitive Balance and Intransitivity Shape Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Grasslands Under Drought	18
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	18
No Evidence for Pace of Life Evolution Along Elevational Gradients in Squamate Reptiles	18
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
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Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	17
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	17
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	17
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	17
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally	17
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Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	17
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	17
The Critical Role of Coefficients: Updating Allometric Normalisation Constants for Modern Ecology and Modelling	17
Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	17
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	17
Corrigendum to ‘A Non‐Equilibrium Species Distribution Model Reveals Unprecedented Depth of Time Lag Responses to Past Environmental Change Trajectories’	16
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recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	16
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	16
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Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	16
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Correction to “Causal Effects Versus Causal Mechanisms: Two Traditions With Different Requirements and Contributions Towards Causal Understanding”	16
Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	16
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	16
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	16
Caloric restriction extends lifespan in a clonal plant	15
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Size exclusion experiment in a grassland field unravels top–down control of the soil fauna on microbial community assembly	15
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions	15
Carryover Effects on Reproduction Can Buffer Against Mortality‐Driven Population Declines at Elevated Developmental Temperatures	15
The gut microbiome reflects ancestry despite dietary shifts across a hybrid zone	15
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Hummingbird blood traits track oxygen availability across space and time	15
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