Ecology Letters

Article	Citations
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Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	110
Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	108
Neighbourhood Tree Competition Promotes Microbial Diversity in Phyllosphere	104
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	103
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	103
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	97
Recent and Rapid Assembly of an Island Species–Area Relationship Threatened by Human Disturbance	94
SEED : A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	89
Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	89
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	82
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	78
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	76
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	75
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	71
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	66
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	66
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	65
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	64
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	62
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	61

Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	61
Correction to ‘Biodiversity Modulates the Cross‐Community Scaling Relationship in Changing Environments’	60
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	60
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	58
Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change	56
Evolution in Response to an Abiotic Stress Shapes Species Coexistence	54
Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	54
Corrigendum	53
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	53
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	51
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The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	51
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	51
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	50
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	50
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	50
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	49
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments	49
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Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	47
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	47
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	47
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	46
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	46
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	45
Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	44
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How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	43
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	43
Multispecies Coexistence Emerges From Pairwise Exclusions in Communities With Competitive Hierarchy	42
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	42
Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	42
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	41
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	41
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	41
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	41
Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	40
Beyond Habitat: Memory Versus Environment in Shaping Animal Space Use	39
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	39
Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	39
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	38
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	38
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	38
Elevated CO 2 and N Gradually Weaken the Influence of Diversity on Ecosy	38
The functional form of specialised predation affects whether Janzen–Connell effects can prevent competitive exclusion	37
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	37
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	37
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	37
Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude	36
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	36

Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	35
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	35
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	35
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	35
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	34
Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	34
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Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	33
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 4, April 2022	32
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Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	31
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	31
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Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	30
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	30
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	30
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	30
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	29
Geographic, Taxonomic and Metric Gaps in Biodiversity Research Limit Evidence‐Based Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: An Umbrella Review	29
The Roles of Space and Food‐Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery	29
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
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	28
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	28
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	28
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	28
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	28
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	28
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	28
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	28
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	27
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	27
Plant Invasion Decreases the Likelihood of Community Persistence Through Asymmetric Competition	27
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	27
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	27
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	27
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	27
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	27
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	26
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Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	26
Experimental Evidence for the Desynchronization of Ecosystem Dynamics by Global Change	26
Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	26
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	26
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	26
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	26
Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	26
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	25
Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity	25
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	25
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA !	25
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	25
Plant Genome Size Mediates Species and Community Responses to Precipitation Change and Nitrogen Enrichment in Grasslands	24
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	24
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	24
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	24
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	24
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	24
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Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	24
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	24
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	24
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The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis	23
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	23
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	23
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	23
modelRxiv : A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	23
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	23
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	23
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	23
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	23
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	22
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	22
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	22
Four ways to define the growing season	22
Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure	22
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	22
MoveTraits —A Database for Integrating Animal Behaviour Into Trait‐Based Ecology	22

Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	22
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	22
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	21
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Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species	21
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 7, July 2023	21
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	21
The Equilibrium Conundrum	21
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Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	20
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	20
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	20
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	20
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	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
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	20
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	20
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	20
Biodiversity Consistently Promotes Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Multiple Temporal Scales in an Aquatic Microbial Community	20
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	19
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	19
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	19
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	19
A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives	19
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	19
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	19
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	19
No Refuge at the Edge for European Beech as Climate Warming Disproportionately Reduces Masting at Colder Margins	19
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	19
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Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	19
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	18
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	18
Sequential Thresholds Shape Drylands' Multitrophic Response to Aridification	18
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	18
Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events	18
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	18
A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science	18
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	18
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	18
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	18
Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can	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
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	18
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Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	18
Contrasting 50‐Year Trends of Moth Communities Depending on Elevation and Species Traits	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	18
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	17
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	17
Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	17
Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free‐living ruminant population	17
Competition for water and species coexistence in phenologically structured annual plant communities	17
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	17
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Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	17
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	17
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	17
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	17
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	17
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	17
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	17
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally	17
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Size exclusion experiment in a grassland field unravels top–down control of the soil fauna on microbial community assembly	16
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation	16
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	16
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	16
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Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period	16
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	16
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	16
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	16
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Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	16
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	16
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	16
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	16
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Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas	15
Phylogenomic Evidence of Fire Regime Changes: The Case of a Resprouting Juniper	15
Synthesis of Nature's Extravaganza: An Augmented Meta‐Meta‐Analysis on (Putative) Sexual Signals	15
The Range‐Resident Logistic Model: A New Framework to Formalise the Population‐Dynamics Consequences of Range Residency	15
Hydraulic variability of tropical forests is largely independent of water availability	15
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The Effect of Temperature Variability on Biological Responses of Ectothermic Animals—A Meta‐Analysis	15
The gut microbiome reflects ancestry despite dietary shifts across a hybrid zone	15
Eco‐evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: The role of timescales and rate modulators	15