Ecology Letters

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Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	150
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	141
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Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	118
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	111
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Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	93
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	93
Intraspecific variation in plant‐associated herbivore communities is phylogenetically structured in Brassicaceae	92
Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	90
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	88
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	87
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	86
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	85
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	82
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	78
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	77
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	77
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	74
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	74
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	73
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	69

Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	66
Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	65
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	64
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	64
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	64
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	62
Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands	61
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	59
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	56
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	56
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	56
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	54
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	54
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	53
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	53
Corrigendum	53
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	52
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	52
Persistent soil seed banks promote naturalisation and invasiveness in flowering plants	49
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	49
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	48
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	47
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	46
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	46
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Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	46
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	46
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Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	45
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	45
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	45
Hydraulic prediction of drought‐induced plant dieback and top‐kill depends on leaf habit and growth form	44
Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	42
The functional form of specialised predation affects whether Janzen–Connell effects can prevent competitive exclusion	42
Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	42
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	41
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	41
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Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	40
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	40
Phenotypic plasticity as a cause and consequence of population dynamics	40
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	40
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	39
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Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	39
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	39
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	39
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	38
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	38
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	38

Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences	37
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	37
The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces	37
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	37
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	37
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Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	36
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	36
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	36
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	35
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 4, April 2022	35
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Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	34
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The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	34
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	34
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	34
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	33
Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	33
Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to nitrogen deposition in an old‐growth boreal forest	33
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	33
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	33
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	32
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	32
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	32
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	32
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	31
Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	31
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	31
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Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	31
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	30
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	30
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Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	30
Host phylogenetic diversity predicts the global extent and composition of tree pests	30
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	30
Host defense or parasite cue: Skin secretions mediate interactions between amphibians and their parasites	30
Deep‐time convergent evolution in animal communication presented by shared adaptations for coping with noise in lizards and other animals	30
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	30
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	29
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	29
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA!	29
Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity	29
Stress causes interspecific facilitation within a compost community	29
Scale‐dependent effects of niche specialisation: The disconnect between individual and species ranges	29
Temporal turnover of the soil microbiome composition is guild‐specific	29
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	29
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	29
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	29
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	28
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	28
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	28
Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	28
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	28
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	28
Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	28
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The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	27
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	27
Joint species distributions reveal the combined effects of host plants, abiotic factors and species competition as drivers of species abundances in fruit flies	27
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Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	26
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	26
Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	25
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	25
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	25
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	25
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	25
The kinship matrix: inferring the kinship structure of a population from its demography	25
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	25
modelRxiv: A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	25
Host adaptation to novel pathogen introduction: Predicting conditions that promote evolutionary rescue	25
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	25
Low‐salinity transitions drive abrupt microbial response to sea‐level change	24
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	24
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	24
Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	24
Cover Image: Volume 26 Number 7, July 2023	24
Four ways to define the growing season	24

Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	24
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Habitat covariates do not artificially cause a negative correlation between native and non‐native species richness	23
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	23
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	23
A genetically based ecological trade‐off contributes to setting a geographic range limit	23
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	22
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	22
Corrigendum	22
Pathogen transport amplifies or dilutes disease transmission depending on the host dose‐response relationship	22
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	22
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	22
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Environmental and anthropogenic constraints on animal space use drive extinction risk worldwide	21
Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations	21
Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence	21
A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives	21
A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities	21
Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks	21
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	21
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	21
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	21
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	21
Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient	21
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	20
Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants	20
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	20
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	20
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	20
Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	20
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Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	20
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	20
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	20
A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science	20
Response to Comment on ‘Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales’	20
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	19
Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	19
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	19
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	19
Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone	19
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	19
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	19
Niche types and community assembly	19
Harvesting can stabilise population fluctuations and buffer the impacts of extreme climatic events	19
Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America	19
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Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	18
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	18
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	18
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	18
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Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	18
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	18
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Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	18
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	18
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation	17
Effects of multiple stressors on the dimensionality of ecological stability	17
Resilience or Catastrophe? A possible state change for monarch butterflies in western North America	17
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	17
Trophic downgrading decreases species asynchrony and community stability regardless of climate warming	17
Would that it were so simple: Interactions between multiple traits undermine classical single‐trait‐based predictions of microbial community function and evolution	17
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	17
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	17
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	17
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	17
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	17
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	16
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	16
Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities	16
Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions	16
Linking pollen limitation and seed dispersal effectiveness	16
Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free‐living ruminant population	16
A case for associational resistance: Apparent support for the stress gradient hypothesis varies with study system	16
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought	16
Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	16
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	16
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	16
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	16
Competition for water and species coexistence in phenologically structured annual plant communities	16
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	16
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	16
Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees	16
Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components	16
Impact of climate warming on phenological asynchrony of plankton dynamics across Europe	16
Dietary abundance distributions: Dominance and diversity in vertebrate diets	16
The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification	16