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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)96
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications96
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems86
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition80
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna80
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates79
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities79
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe75
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa69
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities65
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents63
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Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity63
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity62
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas59
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis59
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment57
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions57
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data56
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures55
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China54
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model50
tinyVAST: R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Temporal Models49
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models47
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia47
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions46
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration46
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA46
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions45
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Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season43
Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N2O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming43
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)43
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate42
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data40
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach40
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators38
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients36
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour36
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale36
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires36
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Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems35
Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all34
Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance33
Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity33
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning33
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Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change32
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Stronger niche than dispersal effects on α‐ and β‐diversity of stream algae, insects, and fish across latitudes in the United States31
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands31
Surface chlorophyll concentration as a mesoplankton biomass assessment tool in the Southern Ocean region31
Correction to Cold and Dark Captivity: Drivers of Amphibian Longevity31
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region31
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates30
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns30
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean29
Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores29
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Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue28
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms28
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups28
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments28
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database28
Ecological traits underlying interspecific variation in climate matching of birds27
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes27
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants27
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes27
Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models26
A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire26
Origin of the tropical–polar biodiversity contrast26
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds26
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals26
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms25
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model25
Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes25
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs24
Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties24
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island23
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Elevational diversity patterns of rodents differ between wet and arid mountains23
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The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude23
Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire22
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in tropical ecosystems following fire22
What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis22
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals22
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens22
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule22
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies22
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography22
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances21
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’21
Parasite species richness and host range are not spatially conserved21
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus21
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information21
Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities21
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover21
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Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography21
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates20
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data20
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Nitrogen Availability Regulates Tree Mixture Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Forests: Insights From a Meta‐Analysis and Long‐Term Experiment19
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns19
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation19
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)19
Global Enhancers and Constraints of Alien Range Size in Mammals: The Roles of Species Attributes, Invasion History and Ecological Contexts19
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds19
Soil Depth Matters: Divergent Drivers of Ecosystem Productivity in Alpine Ecosystems19
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments19
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe19
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity18
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research18
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Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data18
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Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis18
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate18
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Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not18
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation17
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison17
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects17
Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally17
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies17
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Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression17
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Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review17
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity17
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests16
Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient16
Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families16
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment16
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change16
Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems16
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species16
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon16
Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds15
Warming Enhances the Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota: A Global Meta‐Analysis15
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen15
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere15
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores15
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?15
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A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States15
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails15
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models15
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity14
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Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China14
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales14
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration14
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?14
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle14
Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’14
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks14
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests14
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide14
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies14
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods14
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe14
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones13
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use13
Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America13
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?13
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Diet influences latitudinal gradients in life‐history traits, but not reproductive output, in ectotherms13
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Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America13
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region13
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Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest13
EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)13
The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region13
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees13
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally13
Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
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Compound impact of land use and extreme climate on the 2020 fire record of the Brazilian Pantanal12
Traits, Threats, and Popularity Explain Extinction Risk of Birds Globally12
Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies12
Remote sensing biodiversity monitoring in Latin America: Emerging need for sustained local research and regional collaboration to achieve global goals12
Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate12
The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds12
Uncertainty analysis of multiple terrestrial gross primary productivity products12
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Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change12
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The role of refuges in biological invasions: A systematic review12
Hydraulic adaptability promotes tree life spans under climate dryness12
Range and extinction dynamics of the steppe bison in Siberia: A pattern‐oriented modelling approach11
Evaluating expert‐based habitat suitability information of terrestrial mammals with GPS‐tracking data11
Dispersal Limitation Governs Bacterial Community Assembly in the Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) at the Continental Scale11
Regional species gains outpace losses across North American continental shelf regions11
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Spatial Variation in Upper Limits of Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef11
Global leaf‐trait mapping based on optimality theory11
Unveiling the environmental drivers of intraspecific body size variation in terrestrial vertebrates11
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales11
Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present11
A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater‐Dependent Ecosystems11
Completing the Speciation Cycle: Ecological Niches and Traits Predict Local Species Coexistence in Birds Across the Globe11
Biodiversity Within and Beyond the Native Distribution of Tree Species: The Case of Pinus nigra Forests in Europe11
Fine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Patterns11
Phenology Across Scales: An Intercontinental Analysis of Leaf‐Out Dates in Temperate Deciduous Tree Communities11
Global patterns and drivers of raptor phylogenetic and functional diversity11
EstablishMed, a dataset of transition probabilities for woody plant establishment in the Mediterranean Region11
Bird lineages colonizing urban habitats have diversified at high rates across deep time11
Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in the distribution of genetic diversity of marine forests at the global scale11
Power law in species–area relationship overestimates bacterial diversity in grassland soils at larger scales11
Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Exhibit Thermal Response Thresholds at Which Carbon–Climate Feedback Changes11
Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data11
Disentangling thermal from alternative drivers of reflectance in jewel beetles: A macroecological study10
Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data10
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Large‐Scale Variation in Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) Relationships in Aquatic Metacommunities on Terrestrial Islands10
Forest Productivity Decreases in Response to Recent Changes in Vegetation Structure and Climate in the Latitudinal Extremes of the European Continent10
Contemporizing island biogeography theory with anthropogenic drivers of species richness10
Pre‐adaptation and adaptation shape trait‐environment matching in the Neotropics10
Contrasting global patterns and trait controls of major mineral elements in leaf10
Tropicalization of temperate reef fish communities facilitated by urchin grazing and diversity of thermal affinities10
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China10
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A New Dawn for Protist Biogeography10
Increased frequency of extreme climatic events weakens the community stability of natural grassland under directional climate changes by reducing resilience9
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss9
Sampling strategy matters to accurately estimate response curves' parameters in species distribution models9
Correction to EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks9
Soil fertility shapes fire activity across Mediterranean‐type climate regions9
Climate Underlies Variation in Plant Disease Severity by Altering Grassland Plant Communities9
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests9
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