Ecology Letters

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Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous‐time velocity model	113
Experimental evidence of size‐selective harvest and environmental stochasticity effects on population demography, fluctuations and non‐linearity	110
Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data	101
Sampling bias exaggerates a textbook example of a trophic cascade	100
Body Mass–Biomass Scaling Modulates Species Keystone‐Ness to Press Perturbations	99
Climate change impacts plant carbon balance, increasing mean future carbon use efficiency but decreasing total forest extent at dry range edges	95
Behavioural differences underlie toxicity and predation variation in blooms of Prymnesium parvum	93
Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st‐century climate change	92
Continent‐wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography	89
Non‐Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co‐Occurrence Between Native and Non‐Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance	85
SEED: A framework for integrating ecological stoichiometry and eco‐evolutionary dynamics	83
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Urbanization alters the spatiotemporal dynamics of plant–pollinator networks in a tropical megacity	79
Comparative approaches in social network ecology	79
Hotter is not (always) better: Embracing unimodal scaling of biological rates with temperature	78
Contemporary tree growth shows altered climate memory	72
Trade‐offs in non‐native plant herbivore defences enhance performance	71
Microbial Life History Mediates the Drought‐Induced Decrease in Wood Decomposition in Subtropical Forests	70
Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal	68
Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven by frugivory	65

Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts	63
Cover Image: Volume 25 Number 5, May 2022	62
Learning takes time: Biotic resistance by native herbivores increases through the invasion process	61
PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology	59
Microbial redox cycling enhances ecosystem thermodynamic efficiency and productivity	58
Corrigendum	56
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host–microbe theory	55
Reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering	55
Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high‐competition environments in Trinidadian killifish	54
How an Insect Converts Time Into Space: Temporal Niches Aid Coexistence via Modifying the Amount of Habitat Available for Reproduction	54
The causes and ecological context of rapid morphological evolution in birds	53
Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands	51
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history	51
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Thermal limits of survival and reproduction depend on stress duration: A case study of Drosophila suzukii	50
The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait	49
Evolutionary interactions between thermal ecology and sexual selection	49
Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies	49
Unveiling Pervasive Soil Microbial P Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems Worldwide	48
Coevolution of species colonisation rates controls food‐chain length in spatially structured food webs	48
Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands	48
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Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients	48
Smaller adult fish size in warmer water is not explained by elevated metabolism	48
How to publish a ‘Method’ article in Ecology Letters	46
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Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales	44
Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation	44
Intercontinental analysis of temperate steppe stream food webs reveals consistent autochthonous support of fishes	44
Native Plant Diversity Generates Microbial Legacies That Either Promote or Suppress Non‐Natives, Depending on Drought History	44
Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence	44
Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long‐Term Growth	42
Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity	42
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit	41
Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns	41
Sapflow Database Reveals Density‐Dependent Competition Among Woody Plants at Global Scale	41
Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space	41
Species richness increases fitness differences, but does not affect niche differences	40
Variation in Oceanographic Resistance of the World's Coastlines to Invasion by Species With Planktonic Dispersal	40
Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand	39
Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations	39
From Presence‐Only to Abundance Species Distribution Models Using Transfer Learning	38
The functional form of specialised predation affects whether Janzen–Connell effects can prevent competitive exclusion	38
Divergence Across Niche Dimensions Reveals Species' Ecological Roles	38
Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins	38
Microbial Evolution Drives Adaptation of Substrate Degradation on Decadal to Centennial Time Scales Relevant to Global Change	37
Eco‐evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments	37
Elevated CO2 and N Gradually Weaken the Influence of Diversity on Ecosystem Stability	37
Impacts of Changing Winters on Lake Ecosystems Will Increase With Latitude	37
Asymmetric relationships and their effects on coexistence	37

Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown	37
Mycorrhizal Types Regulate Tree Spatial Associations in Temperate Forests: Ectomycorrhizal Trees Might Favour Species Coexistence	37
AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds	36
Feedback loops between 3D vegetation structure and ecological functions of animals	36
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Biodiversity mitigates trade‐offs among species functional traits underpinning multiple ecosystem services	36
Memory drives the formation of animal home ranges: Evidence from a reintroduction	35
Correction to ‘Life history mediates the trade‐offs among different components of demographic resilience’	35
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities	35
A Busse Balloon in the Lagoon: Herbivore Behaviour Generates Spatial Patterns in Coral Reef Ecosystems	35
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Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity	34
Reconciling Pollen Limitation Theories: Insights From Temperate Oak Masting	34
Deadly Decomposers: Distinguishing Life History Strategies on the Parasitism‐Saprotrophy Spectrum	34
Contemporary changes in phenotypic variation, and the potential consequences for eco‐evolutionary dynamics	34
Testing the selective sequestration hypothesis: Monarch butterflies preferentially sequester plant defences that are less toxic to themselves while maintaining potency to others	34
‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet	34
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change	34
Chronic Heat Tolerance Reveals Overestimated Thermal Safety Margins and Increased Vulnerability in Marine Fish Populations	34
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Mean species responses predict effects of environmental change on coexistence	33
Living fast, dying young: Anthropogenic habitat modification influences the fitness and life history traits of a cooperative breeder	33
The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world	33
Noise pollution alters the diet composition of invertebrate consumers both in and beyond a noise‐exposed grassland ecosystem	32
Rarity mediates species‐specific responses of tropical reef fishes to protection	32
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Roots selectively decompose litter to mine nitrogen and build new soil carbon	31
Does spatial variation in insect herbivory match variations in plant quality? A meta‐analysis	31
Thermal adaptation of microbial respiration persists throughout long‐term soil carbon decomposition	31
Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to nitrogen deposition in an old‐growth boreal forest	31
Plant Invasion Decreases the Likelihood of Community Persistence Through Asymmetric Competition	31
Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems	31
Accounting for demographic uncertainty increases predictions for species coexistence: A case study with annual plants	31
Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships	30
Genetic Independence of Naturally Correlated Variation in Resistance to Endemic and Novel Pathogens	29
Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza	29
Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America	29
Climate change increases carbon allocation to leaves in early leaf green‐up	29
Behavioural plasticity compensates for adaptive loss of cricket song	29
Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer diversity differentially across trophic levels	28
Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco‐evolutionary dynamics	28
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Host phylogenetic diversity predicts the global extent and composition of tree pests	28
Towards closer integration between ecology and evolution	27
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts	27
Continent‐Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations	27
Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—A synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon	27
Intransitivity in plant–soil feedbacks is rare but is associated with multispecies coexistence	27
Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities	27
Idiosyncrasies Unveiled: Examining the Pace, Patterns and Predictors of Biotic Diversification in Peninsular India	26
Plant Genome Size Mediates Species and Community Responses to Precipitation Change and Nitrogen Enrichment in Grasslands	26
Seasonal shifts from plant diversity to consumer control of grassland productivity	26
Temporal turnover of the soil microbiome composition is guild‐specific	26
Global patterns of allochthony in stream–riparian meta‐ecosystems	25
The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA!	25
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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities	25
The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk	25
Positive interactions of native species melt invasional meltdown over long‐term plant succession	25
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Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis	25
Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record	24
The dimensionality of infection networks among viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes and bacteria	24
Non‐random sampling measures the occurrence but not the strength of a textbook trophic cascade	24
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community	24
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
modelRxiv: A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models	24
Responses of soil fauna communities to the individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors	24
Climate disequilibrium dominates uncertainty in long‐term projections of primary productivity	23
The kinship matrix: inferring the kinship structure of a population from its demography	23
Climate warming interacts with other global change drivers to influence plant phenology: A meta‐analysis of experimental studies	23
Time is of the essence: A general framework for uncovering temporal structures of communities	23
Studying interactions among anthropogenic stressors in freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review of 2396 multiple‐stressor experiments	22
Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Performance, but Mode of Feeding Is Key	22
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Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment	22
Trophic tug‐of‐war: Coexistence mechanisms within and across trophic levels	22
Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long‐term studies of birds and fish	22
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Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems	22
Four ways to define the growing season	22
Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks	22
Quantitatively Testing Predictions From Mechanistic Models: A Case Study for Island Biodiversity	21
Pathogen transport amplifies or dilutes disease transmission depending on the host dose‐response relationship	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
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries	21
A genetically based ecological trade‐off contributes to setting a geographic range limit	21
Cover Image, Volume 27, Issue 1	21
Corrigendum	21
Low‐salinity transitions drive abrupt microbial response to sea‐level change	21
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Local adaptation to seasonal cues at the fronts of two parallel, climate‐induced butterfly range expansions	21
Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century	20
Environmental and anthropogenic constraints on animal space use drive extinction risk worldwide	20
Long‐term studies should provide structure for inclusive education and professional development	20
Revisiting the growth rate hypothesis: Towards a holistic stoichiometric understanding of growth	20
Specific sequence of arrival promotes coexistence via spatial niche pre‐emption by the weak competitor	20
Biodiversity Consistently Promotes Ecosystem Multifunctionality Across Multiple Temporal Scales in an Aquatic Microbial Community	20
Alternations in the foraging behaviour of a primary consumer drive patch transition dynamics in a temperate rocky reef ecosystem	20
Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm	20
Behavioural Thermoregulation of Flowers via Petal Movement	20
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits	20
Response to Comment on ‘Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales’	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
The importance of worldwide linguistic and cultural diversity for climate change resilience	19
Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations	19
Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass‐loss rate and stabilization	19
Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics	19
No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant–soil feedbacks	19
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables	19
Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity	19
Resource selection by New York City deer reveals the effective interface between wildlife, zoonotic hazards and humans	19
Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats	19
Environmental variables drive spatial patterns of trophic diversity in mammals	19
The reproductive ecology drivers of egg attendance in amphibians	19
Plasticity syndromes in wild vertebrates: Patterns and consequences of individual variation in plasticity across multiple behaviours	19
A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science	19
Decision‐making under uncertainty for species introductions into ecological networks	19
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Changes in vertical and horizontal diversities mediated by the size structure of introduced fish collectively shape food‐web stability	18
Contrasting 50‐Year Trends of Moth Communities Depending on Elevation and Species Traits	18
Investigating the eco‐evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change	18
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Competition for water and species coexistence in phenologically structured annual plant communities	18
Assessing the risk of human‐to‐wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health	18
Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities	18
Leaf angle as a leaf and canopy trait: Rejuvenating its role in ecology with new technology	18
The ecological stage maintains preference differentiation and promotes speciation	18
Niche types and community assembly	18
A general framework to quantify and compare ecological impacts under temporal dynamics	18
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Trophic downgrading decreases species asynchrony and community stability regardless of climate warming	18
Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution	17
Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System	17
Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton	17
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Dietary abundance distributions: Dominance and diversity in vertebrate diets	17
Environmental Gradients Linked to Human Impacts, Not Species Richness, Drive Regional Variation in Community Stability in Coral Reef Fishes	17
Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic	17
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
The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species	17
Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs	16
Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population	16
Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution	16
recolorize: An R package for flexible colour segmentation of biological images	16
Contemporary selection on MHC genes in a free‐living ruminant population	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
Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses	16
Global contribution of invertebrates to forest litter decomposition	16
Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally	16
Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally	16
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research	15
Size exclusion experiment in a grassland field unravels top–down control of the soil fauna on microbial community assembly	15
Leaf Shelters Facilitate the Colonisation of Arthropods and Enhance Microbial Diversity on Plants	15
Phylogenomic Evidence of Fire Regime Changes: The Case of a Resprouting Juniper	15
Linking pollen limitation and seed dispersal effectiveness	15
Hummingbird blood traits track oxygen availability across space and time	15
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The gut microbiome reflects ancestry despite dietary shifts across a hybrid zone	15
The second life of terrestrial and plastic carbon as nutritionally valuable food for aquatic consumers	15
Grazing herbivores reduce herbaceous biomass and fire activity across African savannas	15
The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta‐analysis	15
Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging	15
Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities	15
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Correction to “Causal Effects Versus Causal Mechanisms: Two Traditions With Different Requirements and Contributions Towards Causal Understanding”	15