Global Ecology and Biogeography

Article	Citations
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change	122
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests	107
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems	92
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming	79
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment	69
Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities	67
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors	67
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China	67
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness	66
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?	62
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	61
Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence	60
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network	59
Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales	58
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia	56
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	55
Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China	55
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity	55
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation	54
What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities?	54
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions	52
Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau	50
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity	50
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?	49
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes	49

Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene	49
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests	47
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions	46
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	46
Large‐scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe	45
Elevated CO2 shifts soil microbial communities from K‐ to r‐strategists	44
Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis	44
Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests	41
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China	41
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area	41
Microclimate‐based species distribution models in complex forested terrain indicate widespread cryptic refugia under climate change	39
Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa	38
Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China	38
Global responses of fine root biomass and traits to plant species mixtures in terrestrial ecosystems	37
The climatic debt is growing in the understorey of temperate forests: Stand characteristics matter	36
A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base	36
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss	34
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA	34
Biodiversity models need to represent land‐use intensity more comprehensively	34
Global patterns in leaf stoichiometry across coastal wetlands	34
Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: Fromfishingfor populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics	33
RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems	33
Climate change reshapes the eco‐evolutionary dynamics of a Neotropical seed dispersal system	33
Amazon fires in the 21st century: The year of 2020 in evidence	33
Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae	33
Biological traits of seabirds predict extinction risk and vulnerability to anthropogenic threats	33
Global soil microbial biomass decreases with aridity and land‐use intensification	33
Woody plant encroachment enhanced global vegetation greening and ecosystem water‐use efficiency	32
Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry	32
Population density estimates for terrestrial mammal species	32
Climate‐driven conifer mortality in Siberia	32
Climatic niche shifts in 815 introduced plant species affect their predicted distributions	31
Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region	30
Multiple‐scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands	30
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe	29
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region	29
Around the world in 500 years: Inter‐regional spread of alien species over recent centuries	29
Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States	29
Evolutionary time best explains the latitudinal diversity gradient of living freshwater fish diversity	29
Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence‐only species distribution models	29
From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy	28
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models	28
Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data	28
Pitfalls of ignoring trait resolution when drawing conclusions about ecological processes	28
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover	27
Mountains act as museums and cradles for hemipteran insects in China: Evidence from patterns of richness and phylogenetic structure	27
Drivers of native and non‐native freshwater fish richness across North America: Disentangling the roles of environmental, historical and anthropogenic factors	26
A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates	26
The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low‐fecundity species to extinction	26
Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate	26

The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians	26
Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands	26
Patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure of pteridophytes in China	25
Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change	25
Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species	25
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions	25
Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning	25
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database	25
ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys	25
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures	25
Alterations in soil pH emerge as a key driver of the impact of global change on soil microbial nitrogen cycling: Evidence from a global meta‐analysis	25
Using centroids of spatial units in ecological niche modelling: Effects on model performance in the context of environmental data grain size	24
Climate‐driven impacts of exotic species on marine ecosystems	24
Global quantitative synthesis of effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production in woody ecosystems	24
Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals	24
Divergent responses of autumn vegetation phenology to climate extremes over northern middle and high latitudes	24
Local community assembly processes shape β‐diversity of soil phoD‐harbouring communities in the Northern Hemisphere steppes	24
Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests	24
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)	24
Disturbance indicator values for European plants	24
Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients	23
Human stabilization of river flows is linked with fish invasions across the USA	23
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies	23
Geographic variation in the robustness of pollination networks is mediated by modularity	23
The macroecology and evolution of avian competence forBorrelia burgdorferi	23
The global biogeography of soil priming effect intensity	22
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration	22
Global soil microbiomes: A new frontline of biome‐ecology research	22
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models	22
Asymmetric responses of terrestrial C:N:P stoichiometry to precipitation change	22
Including imprecisely georeferenced specimens improves accuracy of species distribution models and estimates of niche breadth	22
Climate change drives spatial mismatch and threatens the biotic interactions of the Brazil nut	22
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data	21
Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old World birds, global warming the immediate suspect	21
CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets	21
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments	21
Pyrogeography across the western Palaearctic: A diversity of fire regimes	21
High plasticity in germination and establishment success in the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica across Europe	21
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales	21
Deconstructing the abundance–suitability relationship in species distribution modelling	21
The multidimensionality of soil macroecology	21
Ectothermy and the macroecology of home range scaling in snakes	21
Continental United States may lose 1.8 petagrams of soil organic carbon under climate change by 2100	20
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems	20
A latitudinal gradient of microbial β‐diversity in continental paddy soils	20
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity	20
Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling	20
Darwin’s preadaptation hypothesis and the phylogenetic structure of native and alien regional plant assemblages across North America	20
Taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity of freshwater fish assemblages in relationship to geographical and climatic determinants in North America	20
Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities	19
A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles	19
Long‐term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems	19
Identifying global and local drivers of change in mangrove cover and the implications for management	19
Body stoichiometry of heterotrophs: Assessing drivers of interspecific variations in elemental composition	19
Global macroecology of nitrogen‐fixing plants	19
Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets	19
How well do species distribution models predict occurrences in exotic ranges?	19
An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season	19
Multiple diversity facets of crucial microbial groups in biological soil crusts promote soil multifunctionality	19
Globally limited individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors on allometric biomass partitioning	19
Towards mapping biodiversity from above: Can fusing lidar and hyperspectral remote sensing predict taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic tree diversity in temperate forests?	18
Climate mediates the relationship between plant biodiversity and forest structure across the United States	18
Mycorrhizal associations of tree species influence soil nitrogen dynamics via effects on soil acid–base chemistry	18
Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change	18
Search for top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe	18
Rainfall continentality, via the winter Gams angle, provides a new dimension to biogeographical distributions in the western United States	18
Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status	18
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods	18
Plant–plant interactions determine taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in severe ecosystems	18
Addressing the problem of scale that emerges with habitat fragmentation	18
Evolutionary and environmental drivers of species richness in poeciliid fishes across the Americas	18
Why do parasites exhibit reverse latitudinal diversity gradients? Testing the roles of host diversity, habitat and climate	17
Global patterns of functional trait variation along aridity gradients in bats	17
ECOSTRESS reveals pre‐fire vegetation controls on burn severity for Southern California wildfires of 2020	17
The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests	17
Fire‐related threats and transformational change in Australian ecosystems	17
Biogeography and phenology of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in southern European seas	17
Blowin’ in the wind: Wind directionality affects wetland invertebrate metacommunities in Patagonia	17
Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups	17
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate	17

Climate warming extends growing season but not reproductive phase of terrestrial plants	16
Seed dispersal distance classes and dispersal modes for the European flora	16
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue	16
Non‐native species outperform natives in coastal marine ecosystems subjected to warming and freshening events	16
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island	16
Divergent trends of ecosystem‐scale photosynthetic efficiency between arid and humid lands across the globe	16
Temporal biodiversity change following disturbance varies along an environmental gradient	16
A global analysis of enemy release and its variation with latitude	16
Uncertainty analysis of multiple terrestrial gross primary productivity products	16
Interactions between local and global drivers determine long‐term trends in boreal forest understorey vegetation	16
Small scale environmental variation modulates plant defence syndromes of understorey plants in deciduous forests of Europe	16
Effects of evolutionary time, speciation rates and local abiotic conditions on the origin and maintenance of amphibian montane diversity	15
Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change	15
Weak but consistent abundance–occupancy relationships across taxa, space and time	15
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants	15
Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil	15
Regionwide temporal gradients of carbon allocation allow for shoot growth and latewood formation in boreal black spruce	15
Contemporary environment and historical legacy explain functional diversity of freshwater fishes in the world rivers	15
Global patterns of rainfall partitioning by invasive woody plants	15
Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity	15
Increasing pollen production at high latitudes across animal‐pollinated flowering plants	15
Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line	15
Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance	14
Local anthropogenic stress does not exacerbate coral bleaching under global climate change	14
Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants	14
Biologically meaningful distribution models highlight the benefits of the Paris Agreement for demersal fishing targets in the North Atlantic Ocean	14
Climate and land‐use change severity alter trait‐based responses to habitat conversion	14
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds	14
The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands	14
Diversity patterns and drivers of methanotrophic gene distributions in forest soils across a large latitudinal gradient	14
Multiscale drivers of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in small European woodlands	14
Fire severity and its local extent are key to assessing impacts of Australian mega‐fires on koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) density	14
Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands	14
Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests	14
Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate	13
The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in Europe	13
Phylogenetic structure of alien and native species in regional plant assemblages across China: Testing niche conservatism hypothesis versus niche convergence hypothesis	13
Compound impact of land use and extreme climate on the 2020 fire record of the Brazilian Pantanal	13
Global patterns and predictors of trophic position, body size and jaw size in fishes	13
Sampling strategy matters to accurately estimate response curves' parameters in species distribution models	13
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean	13
Growth of marine ectotherms is regionally constrained and asymmetric with latitude	13
Late‐Quaternary megafauna extinctions have strongly reduced mammalian vegetation consumption	12
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes	12
Mean annual temperature and carbon availability respectively controlled the contributions of bacterial and fungal residues to organic carbon accumulation in topsoil across China's forests	12
A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate	12
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna	12
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus	12
Continental‐scale biomass redistribution by migratory birds in response to seasonal variation in productivity	12
Emergent global biogeography of marine fish food webs	12
Designing countrywide and regional microclimate networks	12
The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall’s Cave	12
Urbanization delays plant leaf senescence and extends growing season length in cold but not in warm areas of the Northern Hemisphere	12
Variations of carbon allocation and turnover time across tropical forests	12
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America	12
A demographic framework for understanding fire‐driven reptile declines in the ‘land of the lizards'	12
Macroecological trend of increasing values of intraspecific genetic diversity and population structure from temperate to tropical streams	12
Combined effects of bird extinctions and introductions in oceanic islands: Decreased functional diversity despite increased species richness	11
Seasonal drought regulates species distributions and assembly of tree communities across a tropical wet forest region	11
Compositional shifts of alpine plant communities across the high Andes	11
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen	11
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems	11
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research	11
Spatial interactions among short‐interval fires reshape forest landscapes	11
Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates	11
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle	11
Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific	11
Rensch’s rule—Definitions and statistics	11
A deep‐learning‐based experiment for benchmarking the performance of global terrestrial vegetation phenology models	11
Ecological and biogeographical predictors of taxonomic discord across the world’s birds	11
Global raster dataset on historical coastline positions and shelf sea extents since the Last Glacial Maximum	11
Botanic gardens play key roles in the regional distribution of first records of alien plants in China	11
Rarity, geography, and plant exposure to global change in the California Floristic Province	10
Global depth distribution of belowground net primary productivity and its drivers	10
Assessing the combined threats of artificial light at night and air pollution for the world’s nocturnally migrating birds	10
Global patterns and predictors of avian population density	10
Fine‐scale mapping of deep‐sea habitat‐forming species densities reveals taxonomic specific environmental drivers	10
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity	10
Individual and interactive responses of woody plants' biomass and leaf traits to drought and shade	10
Assessing taxonomic and functional change in British breeding bird assemblages over time	10
The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim	10
Exceptions to the rule: Relative roles of time, diversification rates and regional energy in shaping the inverse latitudinal diversity gradient	10
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns	10
Conditional love? Co‐occurrence patterns of drought‐sensitive species in European grasslands are consistent with the stress‐gradient hypothesis	10
Phylogenetic relatedness drives protist assembly in marine and terrestrial environments	10
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity	10
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography	10
Climate change and fishing are pulling the functional diversity of the world's largest marine fisheries to opposite extremes	10
Model‐based decomposition of environmental, spatial and species‐interaction effects on the community structure of common fish species in 772 European lakes	10
Environmental correlates of morphological diversity in Australian geckos	10
Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions	10
The utility of climatic water balance for ecological inference depends on vegetation physiology assumptions	10
Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally	10
Megafruit and megafauna diversity are positively associated, while megafruit traits are related to abiotic factors, in tropical Asia	10
Distribution and protection of avian specialization in Europe	10