Global Ecology and Biogeography

Article	Citations
Negative effects of urbanization on terrestrial arthropod communities: A meta‐analysis	163
Global root traits (GRooT) database	90
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change	89
The edaphic control of plant diversity	82
Handling missing values in trait data	81
The vertical distribution and control of microbial necromass carbon in forest soils	81
Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns	80
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests	76
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems	65
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming	64
Tropical plants do not have narrower temperature tolerances, but are more at risk from warming because they are close to their upper thermal limits	63
Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates	63
The global abundance of tree palms	60
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness	59
Microbial macroecology: In search of mechanisms governing microbial biogeographic patterns	55
Simulating forest resilience: A review	54
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors	54
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment	52
Carbon accumulation in agroforestry systems is affected by tree species diversity, age and regional climate: A global meta‐analysis	52
A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests	52
A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures	50
Soil dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: Global budget, spatial distribution and controls	49
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	49
The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes	48
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China	48

Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence	48
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	45
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes	45
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network	45
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions	44
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity	43
Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China	43
Global‐scale characterization of turning points in arid and semi‐arid ecosystem functioning	43
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation	43
Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene	42
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions	42
Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands	42
Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities	42
Towards a systematics of ecodiversity: The EcoSyst framework	42
What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities?	41
Deforestation leakage undermines conservation value of tropical and subtropical forest protected areas	41
Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate	41
Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau	40
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	39
Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism	39
Relative impacts of land‐use and climate change on grasshopper range shifts have changed over time	39
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia	37
Large geographic variability in the resistance of corals to thermal stress	37
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?	37
Global analysis of fish growth rates shows weaker responses to temperature than metabolic predictions	36
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity	36
Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales	36
The Global Urban Tree Inventory: A database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world’s cities	36
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?	35
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests	35
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area	34
Arthropods as vertebrate predators: A review of global patterns	34
A cross‐scale assessment of productivity–diversity relationships	34
Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanization	34
Elevated CO2 shifts soil microbial communities from K‐ to r‐strategists	33
Thermal diversity of North American ant communities: Cold tolerance but not heat tolerance tracks ecosystem temperature	33
A generalized light‐driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients	33
Global responses of fine root biomass and traits to plant species mixtures in terrestrial ecosystems	33
Evaluating the potential of full‐waveform lidar for mapping pan‐tropical tree species richness	32
Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests	32
Functional and phylogenetic diversity promote litter decomposition across terrestrial ecosystems	32
Large‐scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe	32
Species loss drives ecosystem function in experiments, but in nature the importance of species loss depends on dominance	32
Wealth, water and wildlife: Landscape aridity intensifies the urban luxury effect	32
Climate change impacts on long‐term forest productivity might be driven by species turnover rather than by changes in tree growth	32
Biological traits of seabirds predict extinction risk and vulnerability to anthropogenic threats	31
Microclimate‐based species distribution models in complex forested terrain indicate widespread cryptic refugia under climate change	31
A global test of Allen’s rule in rodents	31
Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis	31
Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa	30

The climatic debt is growing in the understorey of temperate forests: Stand characteristics matter	29
Amazon fires in the 21st century: The year of 2020 in evidence	29
A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base	29
Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: From fishing for populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics	29
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA	28
RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems	28
Global soil microbial biomass decreases with aridity and land‐use intensification	28
Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data	28
Windstorm‐induced canopy openings accelerate temperate forest adaptation to global warming	28
Climate change reshapes the eco‐evolutionary dynamics of a Neotropical seed dispersal system	27
Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology	27
Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry	27
Continent‐wide gradients in open‐habitat insectivorous bird declines track spatial patterns in agricultural intensity across Europe	27
Large scale patterns of marine diatom richness: Drivers and trends in a changing ocean	27
TETRA‐EU 1.0: A species‐level trophic metaweb of European tetrapods	27
Legacy of Amazonian Dark Earth soils on forest structure and species composition	27
Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States	26
Forest canopy height co‐determines taxonomic and functional richness, but not functional dispersion of mammals and birds globally	26
Woody plant encroachment enhanced global vegetation greening and ecosystem water‐use efficiency	26
Climate‐driven conifer mortality in Siberia	26
Geographic structuring of Antarctic penguin populations	26
Evolutionary time best explains the latitudinal diversity gradient of living freshwater fish diversity	26
Climatic niche shifts in 815 introduced plant species affect their predicted distributions	26
Pitfalls of ignoring trait resolution when drawing conclusions about ecological processes	26
Biodiversity models need to represent land‐use intensity more comprehensively	25
Are plant community responses to wildfire contingent upon historical disturbance regimes?	25
Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data	24
Population density estimates for terrestrial mammal species	24
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region	24
Current distributions and future climate‐driven changes in diatoms, insects and fish in U.S. streams	24
Multiple‐scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands	24
Global patterns in leaf stoichiometry across coastal wetlands	24
Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non‐photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe	24
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover	24
Community and structural constraints on the complexity of eastern North American forests	24
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe	23
Megafauna biogeography explains plant functional trait variability in the tropics	23
The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians	23
Human‐induced globalization of insular herpetofaunas	23
Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae	23
ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys	23
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss	23
Drivers of native and non‐native freshwater fish richness across North America: Disentangling the roles of environmental, historical and anthropogenic factors	23
Around the world in 500 years: Inter‐regional spread of alien species over recent centuries	23
Latitudinal gradients and ecological drivers of β‐diversity vary across spatial scales in a temperate forest region	22
The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low‐fecundity species to extinction	22
Biogeography of soil microbial habitats across France	22
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions	22
Human stabilization of river flows is linked with fish invasions across the USA	22
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China	22
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models	22
Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands	22
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database	22
Mountains act as museums and cradles for hemipteran insects in China: Evidence from patterns of richness and phylogenetic structure	22
Megafauna extinctions have reduced biotic connectivity worldwide	21
Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region	21
The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi	21
Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China	21
Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence‐only species distribution models	21
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures	21
Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species	21
Current climate, but also long‐term climate changes and human impacts, determine the geographic distribution of European mammal diversity	21
Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate	21
Untangling the importance of niche breadth and niche position as drivers of tree species abundance and occupancy across biogeographic regions	21
Salty, mild, and low plant biomass grasslands increase top‐heaviness of invertebrate trophic pyramids	20
Using centroids of spatial units in ecological niche modelling: Effects on model performance in the context of environmental data grain size	20
From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy	20
Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals	20
Deconstructing the abundance–suitability relationship in species distribution modelling	20
Ectothermy and the macroecology of home range scaling in snakes	20
Patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure of pteridophytes in China	19
Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change	19
Local community assembly processes shape β‐diversity of soil phoD‐harbouring communities in the Northern Hemisphere steppes	19
Old growth Afrotropical forests critical for maintaining forest carbon	19
Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance	19
Long‐term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems	19
Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning	19
Broad‐scale distribution of diazotrophic communities is driven more by aridity index and temperature than by soil properties across various forests	19
Climate change drives spatial mismatch and threatens the biotic interactions of the Brazil nut	19
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems	19

Global soil microbiomes: A new frontline of biome‐ecology research	19
Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old World birds, global warming the immediate suspect	18
Global quantitative synthesis of effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production in woody ecosystems	18
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies	18
Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities	18
CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets	18
Asymmetric responses of terrestrial C:N:P stoichiometry to precipitation change	18
Geographic variation in the robustness of pollination networks is mediated by modularity	18
A trait space at an overarching scale yields more conclusive macroecological patterns of functional diversity	18
Body stoichiometry of heterotrophs: Assessing drivers of interspecific variations in elemental composition	17
Darwin’s preadaptation hypothesis and the phylogenetic structure of native and alien regional plant assemblages across North America	17
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration	17
Globally limited individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors on allometric biomass partitioning	17
Climate‐driven impacts of exotic species on marine ecosystems	17
The multidimensionality of soil macroecology	17
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments	17
Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients	17
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)	17
Latitudinal gradient of termite diversity indicates higher diversification and narrower thermal niches in the tropics	17
Search for top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe	17
Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests	17
A latitudinal gradient of microbial β‐diversity in continental paddy soils	17
Evolutionary and environmental drivers of species richness in poeciliid fishes across the Americas	17
Identifying global and local drivers of change in mangrove cover and the implications for management	17
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods	17
Global patterns of functional trait variation along aridity gradients in bats	16
Multiple diversity facets of crucial microbial groups in biological soil crusts promote soil multifunctionality	16
Blowin’ in the wind: Wind directionality affects wetland invertebrate metacommunities in Patagonia	16
A global assessment of human influence on niche shifts and risk predictions of bird invasions	16
A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles	16
Taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity of freshwater fish assemblages in relationship to geographical and climatic determinants in North America	16
Rainfall continentality, via the winter Gams angle, provides a new dimension to biogeographical distributions in the western United States	16
Plant community dynamics and carbon sequestration in Sphagnum‐dominated peatlands in the era of global change	16
Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets	16
Continental United States may lose 1.8 petagrams of soil organic carbon under climate change by 2100	16
Global macroecology of nitrogen‐fixing plants	16
Plant–plant interactions determine taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in severe ecosystems	15
Pyrogeography across the western Palaearctic: A diversity of fire regimes	15
Climate mediates the relationship between plant biodiversity and forest structure across the United States	15
The global biogeography of soil priming effect intensity	15
The macroecology of fish migration	15
Divergent responses of autumn vegetation phenology to climate extremes over northern middle and high latitudes	15
The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests	15
How will snow alter exposure of organisms to cold stress under climate warming?	15
Mycorrhizal associations of tree species influence soil nitrogen dynamics via effects on soil acid–base chemistry	15
A global analysis of enemy release and its variation with latitude	15
Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling	15
The role of the Neotropics as a source of world tetrapod biodiversity	15
A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates	15
Temporal biodiversity change following disturbance varies along an environmental gradient	15
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	14
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales	14
Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups	14
Non‐native species outperform natives in coastal marine ecosystems subjected to warming and freshening events	14
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data	14
Effects of evolutionary time, speciation rates and local abiotic conditions on the origin and maintenance of amphibian montane diversity	14
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants	14
An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season	14
Small scale environmental variation modulates plant defence syndromes of understorey plants in deciduous forests of Europe	14
Contemporary environment and historical legacy explain functional diversity of freshwater fishes in the world rivers	14
High plasticity in germination and establishment success in the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica across Europe	14
Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity	14
Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change	14
Interaction of diet and habitat predicts Toxoplasma gondii infection rates in wild birds at a global scale	14
Why do parasites exhibit reverse latitudinal diversity gradients? Testing the roles of host diversity, habitat and climate	14
Climate warming extends growing season but not reproductive phase of terrestrial plants	13
Addressing the problem of scale that emerges with habitat fragmentation	13
Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests	13
Multiscale drivers of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in small European woodlands	13
Thermal tolerances and species interactions determine the elevational distributions of insects	13
Global patterns of rainfall partitioning by invasive woody plants	13
Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants	13
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate	13
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity	13
Phylogenetic structure of alien and native species in regional plant assemblages across China: Testing niche conservatism hypothesis versus niche convergence hypothesis	13
Interactions between local and global drivers determine long‐term trends in boreal forest understorey vegetation	13
Biogeography and phenology of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in southern European seas	13
Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance	13
Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line	13
How well do species distribution models predict occurrences in exotic ranges?	12
Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil	12
A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate	12
Diversity and distribution across a large environmental and spatial gradient: Evaluating the taxonomic and functional turnover, transitions and environmental drivers of benthic diatom communities	12
Fire severity and its local extent are key to assessing impacts of Australian mega‐fires on koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) density	12
Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands	12
Climate and land‐use change severity alter trait‐based responses to habitat conversion	12
Disturbance indicator values for European plants	12
Plumage colouration in gulls responds to their non‐breeding climatic niche	12
Fire‐related threats and transformational change in Australian ecosystems	12
Regionwide temporal gradients of carbon allocation allow for shoot growth and latewood formation in boreal black spruce	12
Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status	11
Community‐level responses to climate change in forests of the eastern United States	11
The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands	11
Diversity patterns and drivers of methanotrophic gene distributions in forest soils across a large latitudinal gradient	11
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems	11