Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 13. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity102
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Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications96
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents86
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems82
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis81
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas74
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity73
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities73
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates66
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe65
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa62
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities61
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna60
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures58
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment58
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data56
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition51
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)51
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions49
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour48
Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N2O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming48
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)47
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season46
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions45
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data45
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model45
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators45
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires45
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Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China40
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The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients39
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions37
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration37
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach37
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate37
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia36
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models35
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale34
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems34
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
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA33
tinyVAST: R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Temporal Models33
Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all33
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Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean32
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Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores32
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Correction to Cold and Dark Captivity: Drivers of Amphibian Longevity30
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change30
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands30
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning29
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates29
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments29
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns29
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region28
Origin of the tropical–polar biodiversity contrast28
Surface chlorophyll concentration as a mesoplankton biomass assessment tool in the Southern Ocean region28
Increasing threat of wildfires: the year 2020 in perspective: A Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue28
Stronger niche than dispersal effects on α‐ and β‐diversity of stream algae, insects, and fish across latitudes in the United States28
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes27
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups27
Ecological traits underlying interspecific variation in climate matching of birds27
Spatial compositional turnover varies with trophic level and body size in marine assemblages of micro‐ and macroorganisms27
Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants26
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds26
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model26
Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes25
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals25
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes25
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs24
Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models24
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Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database23
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms23
The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude23
A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire23
Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties23
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Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in tropical ecosystems following fire22
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus22
What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis22
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography22
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island22
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule22
Combining financial costs and statistical power to optimize monitoring to detect recoveries of species after megafire22
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Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies22
Elevational diversity patterns of rodents differ between wet and arid mountains22
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens22
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances22
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals22
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data21
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns21
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation21
Parasite species richness and host range are not spatially conserved21
Soil Depth Matters: Divergent Drivers of Ecosystem Productivity in Alpine Ecosystems21
Global Enhancers and Constraints of Alien Range Size in Mammals: The Roles of Species Attributes, Invasion History and Ecological Contexts21
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates20
Deterministic assembly and anthropogenic extinctions drive convergence of island bird communities20
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data20
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)20
Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity20
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information20
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Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate20
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’19
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research19
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments19
Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography19
Nitrogen Availability Regulates Tree Mixture Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Forests: Insights From a Meta‐Analysis and Long‐Term Experiment19
Spatially explicit risk mapping reveals direct anthropogenic impacts on migratory birds19
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Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families18
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation18
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Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally18
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Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis18
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies17
Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression17
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species17
The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects17
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Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems17
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not16
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment16
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity16
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison16
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Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient16
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests16
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change16
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon16
High‐Integrity Forests Are Critical for Forest Specialist Birds16
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?15
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Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide15
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration15
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores15
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails15
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review15
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models15
Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds15
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A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen15
Warming Enhances the Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota: A Global Meta‐Analysis15
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Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere15
A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States15
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity15
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies15
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The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region14
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use14
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?14
EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)14
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle14
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees14
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Permeability of coastal biogeographic barriers to marine larval dispersal on the east and west coasts of North America14
Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest14
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally14
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Warming effects on grassland productivity depend on plant diversity14
Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen‐fixing plants in North America14
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks13
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales13
Fertilization alters the abundance but not the diversity of soil fauna: A meta‐analysis13
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TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods13
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe13
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region13
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones13
Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’13
Butterfly Diversity Patterns Provide New Insights Into Biodiversity Conservation in China13
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?13
Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them13
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