Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 5. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change120
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests103
Global root traits (GRooT) database102
Handling missing values in trait data96
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems89
Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates76
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming75
Soil dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: Global budget, spatial distribution and controls68
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors67
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment67
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China66
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness66
Simulating forest resilience: A review64
Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities62
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?61
A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures60
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots60
Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence60
Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales56
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network55
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires55
Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China54
What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities?54
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity54
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia53
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation52
Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate51
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions51
Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau50
Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene49
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes49
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?48
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity47
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests46
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions46
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment46
Relative impacts of land‐use and climate change on grasshopper range shifts have changed over time45
Large‐scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe44
Elevated CO2 shifts soil microbial communities from K‐ to r‐strategists44
Global analysis of fish growth rates shows weaker responses to temperature than metabolic predictions42
Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis42
Large geographic variability in the resistance of corals to thermal stress41
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area40
Microclimate‐based species distribution models in complex forested terrain indicate widespread cryptic refugia under climate change39
Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests39
Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa38
Global responses of fine root biomass and traits to plant species mixtures in terrestrial ecosystems37
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China36
Functional and phylogenetic diversity promote litter decomposition across terrestrial ecosystems36
The climatic debt is growing in the understorey of temperate forests: Stand characteristics matter36
A global test of Allen’s rule in rodents36
A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base36
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA34
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss34
Climate change reshapes the eco‐evolutionary dynamics of a Neotropical seed dispersal system33
Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data33
Global patterns in leaf stoichiometry across coastal wetlands33
Biological traits of seabirds predict extinction risk and vulnerability to anthropogenic threats33
Amazon fires in the 21st century: The year of 2020 in evidence33
Global soil microbial biomass decreases with aridity and land‐use intensification33
Biodiversity models need to represent land‐use intensity more comprehensively33
Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China33
RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems33
Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry32
Windstorm‐induced canopy openings accelerate temperate forest adaptation to global warming32
Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae32
Woody plant encroachment enhanced global vegetation greening and ecosystem water‐use efficiency31
Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: From fishing for populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics31
Continent‐wide gradients in open‐habitat insectivorous bird declines track spatial patterns in agricultural intensity across Europe31
Climatic niche shifts in 815 introduced plant species affect their predicted distributions31
Population density estimates for terrestrial mammal species31
Multiple‐scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands30
Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region30
Climate‐driven conifer mortality in Siberia30
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region29
Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States29
Evolutionary time best explains the latitudinal diversity gradient of living freshwater fish diversity29
Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence‐only species distribution models29
Around the world in 500 years: Inter‐regional spread of alien species over recent centuries28
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models28
Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data28
Pitfalls of ignoring trait resolution when drawing conclusions about ecological processes28
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe28
From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy28
Current distributions and future climate‐driven changes in diatoms, insects and fish in U.S. streams27
Mountains act as museums and cradles for hemipteran insects in China: Evidence from patterns of richness and phylogenetic structure27
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover27
Megafauna extinctions have reduced biotic connectivity worldwide27
Community and structural constraints on the complexity of eastern North American forests27
Drivers of native and non‐native freshwater fish richness across North America: Disentangling the roles of environmental, historical and anthropogenic factors26
Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate26
The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low‐fecundity species to extinction26
The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians26
Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species25
Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands25
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database25
Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning25
Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non‐photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe25
Patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure of pteridophytes in China25
Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests24
ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys24
Climate‐driven impacts of exotic species on marine ecosystems24
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‐analysis24
Using centroids of spatial units in ecological niche modelling: Effects on model performance in the context of environmental data grain size24
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions24
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures24
Global quantitative synthesis of effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production in woody ecosystems24
A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates24
Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change24
Disturbance indicator values for European plants23
The macroecology and evolution of avian competence forBorrelia burgdorferi23
Local community assembly processes shape β‐diversity of soil phoD‐harbouring communities in the Northern Hemisphere steppes23
Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance23
Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals23
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies23
Human stabilization of river flows is linked with fish invasions across the USA23
Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients22
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration22
Global soil microbiomes: A new frontline of biome‐ecology research22
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)22
Ectothermy and the macroecology of home range scaling in snakes21
Climate change drives spatial mismatch and threatens the biotic interactions of the Brazil nut21
Deconstructing the abundance–suitability relationship in species distribution modelling21
The multidimensionality of soil macroecology21
CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets21
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments21
Asymmetric responses of terrestrial C:N:P stoichiometry to precipitation change21
Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old World birds, global warming the immediate suspect21
Geographic variation in the robustness of pollination networks is mediated by modularity21
The global biogeography of soil priming effect intensity21
Including imprecisely georeferenced specimens improves accuracy of species distribution models and estimates of niche breadth21
Divergent responses of autumn vegetation phenology to climate extremes over northern middle and high latitudes21
Broad‐scale distribution of diazotrophic communities is driven more by aridity index and temperature than by soil properties across various forests21
Pyrogeography across the western Palaearctic: A diversity of fire regimes20
Darwin’s preadaptation hypothesis and the phylogenetic structure of native and alien regional plant assemblages across North America20
High plasticity in germination and establishment success in the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica across Europe20
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models20
Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling20
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales20
Taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity of freshwater fish assemblages in relationship to geographical and climatic determinants in North America20
Global macroecology of nitrogen‐fixing plants19
A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles19
Multiple diversity facets of crucial microbial groups in biological soil crusts promote soil multifunctionality19
Identifying global and local drivers of change in mangrove cover and the implications for management19
Body stoichiometry of heterotrophs: Assessing drivers of interspecific variations in elemental composition19
A latitudinal gradient of microbial β‐diversity in continental paddy soils19
Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets19
Globally limited individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors on allometric biomass partitioning19
The macroecology of fish migration19
Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities19
An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season19
Long‐term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems19
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems19
Mycorrhizal associations of tree species influence soil nitrogen dynamics via effects on soil acid–base chemistry18
Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change18
Plant–plant interactions determine taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in severe ecosystems18
Rainfall continentality, via the winter Gams angle, provides a new dimension to biogeographical distributions in the western United States18
Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status18
Towards mapping biodiversity from above: Can fusing lidar and hyperspectral remote sensing predict taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic tree diversity in temperate forests?18
How well do species distribution models predict occurrences in exotic ranges?18
Addressing the problem of scale that emerges with habitat fragmentation18
Evolutionary and environmental drivers of species richness in poeciliid fishes across the Americas18
Search for top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe18
Continental United States may lose 1.8 petagrams of soil organic carbon under climate change by 210018
Why do parasites exhibit reverse latitudinal diversity gradients? Testing the roles of host diversity, habitat and climate17
Climate mediates the relationship between plant biodiversity and forest structure across the United States17
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods17
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data17
Global patterns of functional trait variation along aridity gradients in bats17
The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests17
Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups17
Temporal biodiversity change following disturbance varies along an environmental gradient16
Blowin’ in the wind: Wind directionality affects wetland invertebrate metacommunities in Patagonia16
Divergent trends of ecosystem‐scale photosynthetic efficiency between arid and humid lands across the globe16
Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity16
Non‐native species outperform natives in coastal marine ecosystems subjected to warming and freshening events16
Small scale environmental variation modulates plant defence syndromes of understorey plants in deciduous forests of Europe16
Climate warming extends growing season but not reproductive phase of terrestrial plants16
Interactions between local and global drivers determine long‐term trends in boreal forest understorey vegetation16
ECOSTRESS reveals pre‐fire vegetation controls on burn severity for Southern California wildfires of 202016
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate16
A global analysis of enemy release and its variation with latitude16
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island16
Seed dispersal distance classes and dispersal modes for the European flora16
Biogeography and phenology of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) in southern European seas16
Contemporary environment and historical legacy explain functional diversity of freshwater fishes in the world rivers15
Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity15
Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change15
Fire‐related threats and transformational change in Australian ecosystems15
Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line15
Global patterns of rainfall partitioning by invasive woody plants15
Projected impacts of climate and land use changes on the habitat of Atlantic Forest plants in Brazil15
Uncertainty analysis of multiple terrestrial gross primary productivity products15
Weak but consistent abundance–occupancy relationships across taxa, space and time15
Effects of evolutionary time, speciation rates and local abiotic conditions on the origin and maintenance of amphibian montane diversity15
Increasing pollen production at high latitudes across animal‐pollinated flowering plants15
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants15
Regionwide temporal gradients of carbon allocation allow for shoot growth and latewood formation in boreal black spruce15
The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands14
Diversity patterns and drivers of methanotrophic gene distributions in forest soils across a large latitudinal gradient14
Multiscale drivers of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in small European woodlands14
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds14
Niche overlap and divergence times support niche conservatism in eastern Asia–eastern North America disjunct plants14
Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests14
Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance14
Fire severity and its local extent are key to assessing impacts of Australian mega‐fires on koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) density14
Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands14
Biologically meaningful distribution models highlight the benefits of the Paris Agreement for demersal fishing targets in the North Atlantic Ocean14
Climate and land‐use change severity alter trait‐based responses to habitat conversion14
Compound impact of land use and extreme climate on the 2020 fire record of the Brazilian Pantanal13
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue13
Global patterns and predictors of trophic position, body size and jaw size in fishes13
Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate13
The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in Europe13
Growth of marine ectotherms is regionally constrained and asymmetric with latitude13
Local anthropogenic stress does not exacerbate coral bleaching under global climate change13
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean13
Phylogenetic structure of alien and native species in regional plant assemblages across China: Testing niche conservatism hypothesis versus niche convergence hypothesis13
Diversity and distribution across a large environmental and spatial gradient: Evaluating the taxonomic and functional turnover, transitions and environmental drivers of benthic diatom communities12
Variations of carbon allocation and turnover time across tropical forests12
Emergent global biogeography of marine fish food webs12
The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall’s Cave12
Sampling strategy matters to accurately estimate response curves' parameters in species distribution models12
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus12
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America12
A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate12
Macroecological trend of increasing values of intraspecific genetic diversity and population structure from temperate to tropical streams12
Urbanization delays plant leaf senescence and extends growing season length in cold but not in warm areas of the Northern Hemisphere12
Late‐Quaternary megafauna extinctions have strongly reduced mammalian vegetation consumption12
Mean annual temperature and carbon availability respectively controlled the contributions of bacterial and fungal residues to organic carbon accumulation in topsoil across China's forests12
Designing countrywide and regional microclimate networks12
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna12
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes11
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen11
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems11
Spatial interactions among short‐interval fires reshape forest landscapes11
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle11
A demographic framework for understanding fire‐driven reptile declines in the ‘land of the lizards'11
Rensch’s rule—Definitions and statistics11
Ecological and biogeographical predictors of taxonomic discord across the world’s birds11
Global raster dataset on historical coastline positions and shelf sea extents since the Last Glacial Maximum11
Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific11
Combined effects of bird extinctions and introductions in oceanic islands: Decreased functional diversity despite increased species richness11
Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions10
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity10
Botanic gardens play key roles in the regional distribution of first records of alien plants in China10
Equilibrium in plant functional trait responses to warming is stronger under higher climate variability during the Holocene10
Fine‐scale mapping of deep‐sea habitat‐forming species densities reveals taxonomic specific environmental drivers10
Phylogenetic relatedness drives protist assembly in marine and terrestrial environments10
Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally10
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