Ecology Letters

Article	Citations
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	415
Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis	164
Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change	125
Biotic interactions are more often important at species’ warm versus cool range edges	123
Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models	122
Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales	119
Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants	111
A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research	111
A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest	97
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities	95
We should not necessarily expect positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in observational field data	88
Root‐derived inputs are major contributors to soil carbon in temperate forests, but vary by mycorrhizal type	83
A tipping point in carbon storage when forest expands into tundra is related to mycorrhizal recycling of nitrogen	81
Long‐term change in the avifauna of undisturbed Amazonian rainforest: ground‐foraging birds disappear and the baseline shifts	77
Consistently positive effect of species diversity on ecosystem, but not population, temporal stability	75
Global functional and phylogenetic structure of avian assemblages across elevation and latitude	75
Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees	74
Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions	73
The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces	73
Quantifying 25 years of disease‐caused declines in Tasmanian devil populations: host density drives spatial pathogen spread	72
Latitudinal patterns of terrestrial phosphorus limitation over the globe	71
Future climate risks from stress, insects and fire across US forests	71
Dilution effects in disease ecology	70
Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone	68
A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection	68

The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification	68
Towards revealing the global diversity and community assembly of soil eukaryotes	66
Floral resource diversification promotes solitary bee reproduction and may offset insecticide effects – evidence from a semi‐field experiment	65
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	64
Grazing‐induced biodiversity loss impairs grassland ecosystem stability at multiple scales	63
Landscape simplification increases vineyard pest outbreaks and insecticide use	62
Latitudinal gradient in the intensity of biotic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems: Sources of variation and differences from the diversity gradient revealed by meta‐analysis	59
Field‐realistic neonicotinoid exposure has sub‐lethal effects on non‐Apis bees: A meta‐analysis	58
Developmental plasticity in thermal tolerance: Ontogenetic variation, persistence, and future directions	58
Pesticides do not significantly reduce arthropod pest densities in the presence of natural enemies	57
When do Janzen–Connell effects matter? A phylogenetic meta‐analysis of conspecific negative distance and density dependence experiments	56
Temporal changes in spatial variation: partitioning the extinction and colonisation components of beta diversity	56
Climate change transforms the functional identity of Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages	55
Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change	54
Shape matters: the relationship between cell geometry and diversity in phytoplankton	54
Interaction diversity explains the maintenance of phytochemical diversity	53
Insect and plant invasions follow two waves of globalisation	53
Landscape‐scale habitat fragmentation is positively related to biodiversity, despite patch‐scale ecosystem decay	53
Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	52
Plant and soil biodiversity have non‐substitutable stabilising effects on biomass production	51
Measuring habitat complexity and spatial heterogeneity in ecology	51
Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies	51
Historical decrease in agricultural landscape diversity is associated with shifts in bumble bee species occurrence	50
Experimental nitrogen fertilisation globally accelerates, then slows decomposition of leaf litter	50
Soil fungal mycelia have unexpectedly flexible stoichiometric C:N and C:P ratios	50
The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks	48
Microbe‐mediated adaptation in plants	47
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	47
Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie	47
Thermal performance under constant temperatures can accurately predict insect development times across naturally variable microclimates	46
Drivers of local extinction risk in alpine plants under warming climate	46
Why disease ecology needs life‐history theory: a host perspective	45
The allometry of plant height explains species loss under nitrogen addition	44
Universal rules of life: metabolic rates, biological times and the equal fitness paradigm	44
Diverging functional strategies but high sensitivity to an extreme drought in tropical dry forests	44
Predictive models aren't for causal inference	43
Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta‐analysis	43
Leaf trait network architecture shifts with species‐richness and climate across forests at continental scale	43
Combining range and phenology shifts offers a winning strategy for boreal Lepidoptera	43
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	42
How long do population level field experiments need to be? Utilising data from the 40‐year‐old LTER network	42
A place to land: spatiotemporal drivers of stopover habitat use by migrating birds	42
Decay by ectomycorrhizal fungi couples soil organic matter to nitrogen availability	41
Pesticide resistance in arthropods: Ecology matters too	41
Understanding the relationship between dispersal and range size	41
Tractable models of ecological assembly	40
Multiple spatial behaviours govern social network positions in a wild ungulate	40
Four ways to define the growing season	40
Ecophylogenetics redux	40
General statistical scaling laws for stability in ecological systems	39

Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	38
Climate change impacts on seabirds and marine mammals: The importance of study duration, thermal tolerance and generation time	38
Interactive effects of multiple stressors vary with consumer interactions, stressor dynamics and magnitude	38
Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to nitrogen deposition in an old‐growth boreal forest	37
Persistent soil seed banks promote naturalisation and invasiveness in flowering plants	37
A shift from phenol to silica‐based leaf defences during long‐term soil and ecosystem development	37
Hydraulic prediction of drought‐induced plant dieback and top‐kill depends on leaf habit and growth form	37
Reconstructing large interaction networks from empirical time series data	36
The deep sea is a hot spot of fish body shape evolution	35
Making sense of virus size and the tradeoffs shaping viral fitness	35
Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change	35
Biodiversity and yield trade‐offs for organic farming	35
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	35
Landscape modification and nutrient‐driven instability at a distance	34
Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?	34
Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences	34
Systematic bias in studies of consumer functional responses	34
Predicting how climate change threatens the prey base of Arctic marine predators	34
On the sensitivity of food webs to multiple stressors	33
Impacts of invasive plants on animal behaviour	33
Local canopy disturbance as an explanation for long‐term increases in liana abundance	32
Siderophores drive invasion dynamics in bacterial communities through their dual role as public good versus public bad	32
Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience	32
Process‐explicit models reveal pathway to extinction for woolly mammoth using pattern‐oriented validation	32
Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of bacterial carbon use efficiency	32
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	31
Bryophyte C:N:P stoichiometry, biogeochemical niches and elementome plasticity driven by environment and coexistence	31
Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?	31
Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace‐of‐life	31
The influence of vector‐borne disease on human history: socio‐ecological mechanisms	30
Enhanced light interception and light use efficiency explain overyielding in young tree communities	30
Nitrogen enrichment alters multiple dimensions of grassland functional stability via changing compositional stability	30
A plant–pollinator metanetwork along a habitat fragmentation gradient	30
The origins of global biodiversity on land, sea and freshwater	30
A case for associational resistance: Apparent support for the stress gradient hypothesis varies with study system	29
Direct and indirect disturbance impacts in forests	29
The latitudinal gradient in plant community assembly processes: A meta‐analysis	29
The ecological causes and consequences of hard and soft selection	29
Local stressors mask the effects of warming in freshwater ecosystems	29
Cooperative breeding and the emergence of multilevel societies in birds	29
Efficient movement strategies mitigate the energetic cost of dispersal	29
Macrogenetic studies must not ignore limitations of genetic markers and scale	28
Effects of multiple stressors on the dimensionality of ecological stability	28
The effect of insect food availability on songbird reproductive success and chick body condition: Evidence from a systematic review and meta‐analysis	28
Humidity – The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease	28
Forest fire induces short‐term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling	28
A broadscale analysis of host‐symbiont cophylogeny reveals the drivers of phylogenetic congruence	28
Temporal turnover of the soil microbiome composition is guild‐specific	27
Global distribution and evolutionary transitions of angiosperm sexual systems	27
A global meta‐analysis reveals higher variation in breeding phenology in urban birds than in their non‐urban neighbours	27
Sex roles in birds: Phylogenetic analyses of the influence of climate, life histories and social environment	27
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	27
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	27
Dispersers and environment drive global variation in fruit colour syndromes	26
Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities	26
Can I afford to publish? A dilemma for African scholars	26
Species interactions have predictable impacts on diversification	26
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	26
Stress causes interspecific facilitation within a compost community	26
Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions	26
Global plant‐frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history	26
Towards robust statistical inference for complex computer models	26
Three questions about the eco‐physiology of overwintering underground	26
Ecology and evolutionary biology must elevate BIPOC scholars	26
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	26
Environmental and anthropogenic constraints on animal space use drive extinction risk worldwide	26
Towards a more precise – and accurate – view of eco‐evolution	26
Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: A cross‐taxa test of the forage maturation hypothesis	25
Artificial selection of stable rhizosphere microbiota leads to heritable plant phenotype changes	25
Acoustic restoration: Using soundscapes to benchmark and fast‐track recovery of ecological communities	25
Coexistence barriers confine the poleward range of a globally distributed plant	25
Species–habitat networks elucidate landscape effects on habitat specialisation of natural enemies and pollinators	25
No complementarity no gain—Net diversity effects on tree productivity occur once complementarity emerges during early stand development	25
Cascading effects of a disease outbreak in a remote protected area	25
Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	25
Behavioural heat‐stress compensation in a cold‐adapted ungulate: Forage‐mediated responses to warming Alpine summers	25
Climate‐driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species’ distributions	25
Light availability and light demand of plants shape the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in their roots	25
A robust and readily implementable method for the meta‐analysis of response ratios with and without missing standard deviations	25
Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale	25

Global biogeographic patterns of avian morphological diversity	25
A general theory of avian migratory connectivity	24
Soils and topography control natural disturbance rates and thereby forest structure in a lowland tropical landscape	24
Intensive human land uses negatively affect vertebrate functional diversity	24
Trait dimensions in bacteria and archaea compared to vascular plants	24
Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale	24
Phenotypic plasticity masks range‐wide genetic differentiation for vegetative but not reproductive traits in a short‐lived plant	24
Are networks of trophic interactions sufficient for understanding the dynamics of multi‐trophic communities? Analysis of a tri‐trophic insect food‐web time‐series	24
Top predators as biodiversity indicators: A meta‐analysis	24
Uncovering patterns of freshwater positive interactions using meta‐analysis: Identifying the roles of common participants, invasive species and environmental context	23
Hidden layers of density dependence in consumer feeding rates	23
Microbial respiratory thermal adaptation is regulated by r‐/K‐strategy dominance	23
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	23
Species richness and food‐web structure jointly drive community biomass and its temporal stability in fish communities	23
Integrating eco‐evolutionary dynamics and modern coexistence theory	23
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	22
Sexual dimorphism in immune function and oxidative physiology across birds: The role of sexual selection	22
How disturbance history alters invasion success: biotic legacies and regime change	22
Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment	22
Industrial rearing of edible insects could be a major source of new biological invasions	22
Changes in flight period predict trends in abundance of Massachusetts butterflies	22
Diversity and extinction risk are inversely related at a global scale	22
A model for leveraging animal movement to understand spatio‐temporal disease dynamics	21
Forecasting in the face of ecological complexity: Number and strength of species interactions determine forecast skill in ecological communities	21
Multiple Mutualism Effects generate synergistic selection and strengthen fitness alignment in the interaction between legumes, rhizobia and mycorrhizal fungi	21
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	21
Detecting patterns of vertebrate biodiversity across the multidimensional urban landscape	21
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	21
Residence time determines invasiveness and performance of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) in North America	21
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	21
Host traits and environment interact to determine persistence of bat populations impacted by white‐nose syndrome	21
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	21
Soil element coupling is driven by ecological context and atomic mass	21
Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations	20
Intraspecific variation in species interactions promotes the feasibility of mutualistic assemblages	20
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	20
Globally consistent reef size spectra integrating fishes and invertebrates	20
Phylogenetic and functional clustering illustrate the roles of adaptive radiation and dispersal filtering in jointly shaping late‐Quaternary mammal assemblages on oceanic islands	20
Climate warming can reduce biocontrol efficacy and promote plant invasion due to both genetic and transient metabolomic changes	20
Disentangling key species interactions in diverse and heterogeneous communities: A Bayesian sparse modelling approach	20
High‐level nitrogen additions accelerate soil respiration reduction over time in a boreal forest	20
Is habitat selection in the wild shaped by individual‐level cognitive biases in orientation strategy?	20
Elemental and biochemical nutrient limitation of zooplankton: A meta‐analysis	19
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	19
Lack of evidence for the match‐mismatch hypothesis across terrestrial trophic interactions	19
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	19
Demographic consequences of foraging ecology explain genetic diversification in Neotropical bird species	19
Spatiotemporal variation in the role of floral traits in shaping tropical plant‐pollinator interactions	19
Resetting our expectations for parasites and their effects on species interactions: a meta‐analysis	19
Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands	19
The hidden role of multi‐trophic interactions in driving diversity–productivity relationships	19
Rapid evolution promotes fluctuation‐dependent species coexistence	19
Cooperation increases robustness to ecological disturbance in microbial cross‐feeding networks	19
The better, the choosier: A meta‐analysis on interindividual variation of male mate choice	19
Addressing the Eltonian shortfall with trait‐based interaction models	19
Genetic variation reveals individual‐level climate tracking across the annual cycle of a migratory bird	18
Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences	18
Meta‐analysis shows the evidence for context‐dependent mating behaviour is inconsistent or weak across animals	18
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	18
Nest architecture is linked with ecological success in songbirds	18
Climate drivers of adult insect activity are conditioned by life history traits	18
Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands	18
Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants	18
Shrub expansion modulates belowground impacts of changing snow conditions in alpine grasslands	18
Susceptible host availability modulates climate effects on dengue dynamics	18
The mycorrhizal tragedy of the commons	18
Phenology and flowering overlap drive specialisation in plant–pollinator networks	18
Stabilising role of seed banks and the maintenance of bacterial diversity	17
Demystifying individual heterogeneity	17
The impact of rising temperatures on the prevalence of coral diseases and its predictability: A global meta‐analysis	17
An evolutionary trade‐off between parasite virulence and dispersal at experimental invasion fronts	17
Molecular 14C evidence for contrasting turnover and temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter components	17
Resilience or Catastrophe? A possible state change for monarch butterflies in western North America	17
Phenotypic plasticity as a cause and consequence of population dynamics	17
Combining multiple tactics over time for cost‐effective eradication of invading insect populations	17
Sex‐specific inbreeding depression: A meta‐analysis	17
Global change re‐structures alpine plant communities through interacting abiotic and biotic effects	17
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA!	17
Theory of temperature‐dependent consumer–resource interactions	17
A general framework for species‐abundance distributions: Linking traits and dispersal to explain commonness and rarity	17
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	17
Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence	17
Microclimate reveals the true thermal niche of forest plant species	17
Foliar fungi and plant diversity drive ecosystem carbon fluxes in experimental prairies	17
Paternal age negatively affects sperm production of the progeny	17
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	17
Effects of maternal age and stress on offspring quality in a viviparous fly	17
Variation in generation time reveals density regulation as an important driver of pace of life in a bird metapopulation	17
Warming of experimental plant–pollinator communities advances phenologies, alters traits, reduces interactions and depresses reproduction	17