Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific140
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Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)87
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Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems85
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Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities85
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna83
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe73
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition71
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities70
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment67
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data66
Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa66
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications59
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents59
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures59
Convergent patterns of body size variation in distinct parasite taxa with convergent life cycles55
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients55
Climate and socio‐economic factors explain differences between observed and expected naturalization patterns of European plants around the world54
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models53
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate49
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators48
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots47
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour47
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)47
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model46
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season45
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Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale43
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia43
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occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data41
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach40
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China39
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions39
tinyVAST: R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Temporal Models38
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA38
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires38
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems37
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Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions36
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration36
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change35
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Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region35
Surface chlorophyll concentration as a mesoplankton biomass assessment tool in the Southern Ocean region35
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue35
Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all34
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments34
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region34
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The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns33
Reduced habitat suitability and landscape connectivity in a songbird migratory divide33
Stronger niche than dispersal effects on α‐ and β‐diversity of stream algae, insects, and fish across latitudes in the United States33
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates32
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Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance32
Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity31
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning31
High regional and intrageneric variation in susceptibility to mass bleaching in Indo‐Pacific coral species30
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Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean30
Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes29
Ecological traits underlying interspecific variation in climate matching of birds29
Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models29
Origin of the tropical–polar biodiversity contrast29
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals29
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms29
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups29
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes27
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds27
Global quantitative synthesis of effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production in woody ecosystems27
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model27
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database27
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes26
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs26
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants26
Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil26
A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire26
The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude25
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals25
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances25
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule25
Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire25
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Elevational diversity patterns of rodents differ between wet and arid mountains24
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens24
What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis23
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in tropical ecosystems following fire23
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island23
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies23
Atlas of the vascular flora of the Iberian Peninsula biodiversity hotspot (AFLIBER)23
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus23
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Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover22
Parasite species richness and host range are not spatially conserved22
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates22
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography22
Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities21
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns21
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)21
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments21
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information20
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation20
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds20
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate20
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Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling20
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’20
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data20
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data20
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity20
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe20
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Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography19
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Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research19
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Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally19
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not18
A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species18
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Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression18
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Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation18
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison18
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change18
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects17
Phylogenetic relatedness drives protist assembly in marine and terrestrial environments17
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review17
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests17
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Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies17
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon17
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment17
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity17
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails16
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Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores16
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere16
Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families16
Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds15
Lianas and trees exhibit divergent intrinsic water‐use efficiency along elevational gradients in South American and African tropical forests15
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?15
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen15
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity15
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests15
A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States15
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies15
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?15
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks14
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe14
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide14
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Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees14
Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America14
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use14
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Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence14
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EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)14
Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest14
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally14
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods14
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America14
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models14
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales14
Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’14
Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests14
Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups14
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones14
Diet influences latitudinal gradients in life‐history traits, but not reproductive output, in ectotherms14
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region13
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle13
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Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?13
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Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China13
The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region13
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EstablishMed, a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region13
Global leaf‐trait mapping based on optimality theory12
The role of refuges in biological invasions: A systematic review12
Phenology Across Scales: An Intercontinental Analysis of Leaf‐Out Dates in Temperate Deciduous Tree Communities12
Uncertainty analysis of multiple terrestrial gross primary productivity products12
Hydraulic adaptability promotes tree life spans under climate dryness12
The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds12
Remote sensing biodiversity monitoring in Latin America: Emerging need for sustained local research and regional collaboration to achieve global goals12
Dispersal Limitation Governs Bacterial Community Assembly in the Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) at the Continental Scale12
Compound impact of land use and extreme climate on the 2020 fire record of the Brazilian Pantanal12
Global patterns and drivers of raptor phylogenetic and functional diversity12
Evaluating expert‐based habitat suitability information of terrestrial mammals with GPS‐tracking data12
Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates12
Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate12
Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data12
Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change12
Range and extinction dynamics of the steppe bison in Siberia: A pattern‐oriented modelling approach12
Contrasting global patterns and trait controls of major mineral elements in leaf11
Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales11
Completing the Speciation Cycle: Ecological Niches and Traits Predict Local Species Coexistence in Birds Across the Globe11
Seasonal drought regulates species distributions and assembly of tree communities across a tropical wet forest region11
Tropicalization of temperate reef fish communities facilitated by urchin grazing and diversity of thermal affinities11
Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Exhibit Thermal Response Thresholds at Which Carbon–Climate Feedback Changes11
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Disentangling thermal from alternative drivers of reflectance in jewel beetles: A macroecological study11
Spatial Variation in Upper Limits of Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef11
Fine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Patterns11
Regional species gains outpace losses across North American continental shelf regions11
Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present11
Forest Productivity Decreases in Response to Recent Changes in Vegetation Structure and Climate in the Latitudinal Extremes of the European Continent11
Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in the distribution of genetic diversity of marine forests at the global scale11
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales11
Bird lineages colonizing urban habitats have diversified at high rates across deep time11
Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data11
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China11
A New Dawn for Protist Biogeography11
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High plasticity in germination and establishment success in the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica across Europe10
Geographical trends of soil‐associated biodiversity changes due to tree plantations in South America: Biome and climate constraints revealed through meta‐analysis10
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network10
Contemporary environment and historical legacy explain functional diversity of freshwater fishes in the world rivers10
Disturbance indicator values for European plants10
Contemporizing island biogeography theory with anthropogenic drivers of species richness10
Biodiversity Within and Beyond the Native Distribution of Tree Species: The Case of Pinus nigra Forests in Europe10
The Erosion of Seasonality in Avian Communities10
Correction to EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks10
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss10
Climate Underlies Variation in Plant Disease Severity by Altering Grassland Plant Communities10
Soil fertility shapes fire activity across Mediterranean‐type climate regions10
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Pre‐adaptation and adaptation shape trait‐environment matching in the Neotropics10
Population‐Level Habitat Breadth Varies With Richness in Reef Fishes10
Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old World birds, global warming the immediate suspect10
Individual and interactive responses of woody plants' biomass and leaf traits to drought and shade10
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