Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 11. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species76
Land‐Use Impacts on Plant Functional Diversity Throughout Europe76
Rising Atmospheric CO2 Alleviates Drought Impact on Autumn Leaf Senescence Over Northern Mid‐High Latitudes74
Continental‐scale parameterization and prediction of leaf phenology for the North American forests72
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures71
Niche unfilling dominates the naturalization of species from intercontinentally disjunct genera70
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Biogeographic pattern of living vegetation carbon turnover time in mature forests across continents60
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects59
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa53
CoralBleachRisk—Global Projections of Coral Bleaching Risk in the 21st Century51
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The biome inventory – Standardizing global biogeographical land units48
Phylogenetic structure of alien and native species in regional plant assemblages across China: Testing niche conservatism hypothesis versus niche convergence hypothesis47
Insularity promotes plant persistence strategies in edaphic island systems46
Spatial genetic differentiation correlates with species assemblage turnover across tropical reef fish lineages46
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment46
Does island ontogeny dictate the accumulation of both species richness and functional diversity?41
Body size variation in polyplacophoran molluscs: Geographical clines and community structure along the south‐eastern Pacific41
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Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive—A new database of plant community composition and environmental conditions38
Three‐dimensional distribution of mesoplankton assemblages in the Central Atlantic38
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Contrasting effects of host or local specialization: Widespread haemosporidians are host generalist, whereas local specialists are locally abundant37
The carbon cost of the 2019–20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type36
Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts34
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities33
Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions33
Geometric effects of fragmentation are likely to mitigate diversity loss following habitat destruction in real‐world landscapes33
Human food use increases plant geographical ranges in the Sonoran Desert33
A null model for quantifying the geometric effect of habitat subdivision on species diversity33
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Earthquake disturbance shifts metabolic energy use and partitioning in a monodominant forest32
Open habitats increase vulnerability of amphibian tadpoles to climate warming across latitude32
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data31
Increasing winter temperatures explain body size decrease in wintering bird populations of Northern Europe—But response patterns vary along the spatioclimatic gradient31
Co‐occurrence of herbivorous fish functional groups correlates with enhanced coral reef benthic state31
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition31
Reinterpreting two regime shifts in North Sea plankton communities through the lens of functional traits30
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Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families30
Biomass and trait biogeography of cephalopods on the European and North American continental shelves29
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Macroecological trend of increasing values of intraspecific genetic diversity and population structure from temperate to tropical streams29
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Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review28
Salinity plays a limited role in determining rates of size evolution in fishes globally across multiple scales28
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods28
Human‐induced behavioural changes of global threatened terrestrial mammals27
Testing the deep‐sea glacial disturbance hypothesis as a cause of low, present‐day Norwegian Sea diversity and resulting steep latitudinal diversity gradient, using fossil records26
Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning26
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Wind dispersed tree species have greater maximum height26
Geographic context is a key driver of spatial variation of bird species richness during migration25
Widespread latitudinal asymmetry in the performance of marginal populations: A meta‐analysis25
Fine‐scale mapping of deep‐sea habitat‐forming species densities reveals taxonomic specific environmental drivers25
Extreme temperatures help in identifying thresholds in phenological responses25
Identifying global and local drivers of change in mangrove cover and the implications for management25
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation25
Regionwide temporal gradients of carbon allocation allow for shoot growth and latewood formation in boreal black spruce25
A roadmap for future research on insularity effects on plant–herbivore interactions25
Geographical variation in community‐wide herbivory matches patterns of intraspecific variation instead of species turnover25
Phylogenetic relatedness drives protist assembly in marine and terrestrial environments25
Evaluating models for estimating introduction rates of alien species from discovery records24
Designing countrywide and regional microclimate networks24
ReptIslands: Mediterranean islands and the distribution of their reptile fauna24
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe24
Skeletal mineralogy of marine calcifying organisms shaped by seawater temperature and evolutionary history—A case study of cheilostome bryozoans24
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents24
Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)24
Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling24
Reduced climate adaptation at range edges in North American Arabidopsis lyrata23
Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands23
Long‐term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications23
Global soil microbial biomass decreases with aridity and land‐use intensification23
Three major mesoplanktonic communities resolved by in situ imaging in the upper 500 m of the global ocean23
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not22
The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall’s Cave22
Winter conditions structure extratropical patterns of species richness of amphibians, birds and mammals globally22
AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their Traits21
Diversity of Mycorrhizal Types Along Altitudinal Gradients in the Tropical Andes21
Niche conservatism over deep timescales and diverse niche axes in land vertebrates21
Border Interceptions Reveal Variable Bridgehead Use in the Global Dispersal of Insects21
Disentangling ecological drivers of interspecific achromatic plumage variation in birds20
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change20
Hindcasted Body Temperatures Reveal Underestimated Thermal Stress Faced by Intertidal Species20
Bioclimatic context of species' populations determines community stability20
Climate and ecosystem type affect the correlated evolution of body size and trophic position in fishes20
Climatic Predictors of Long‐Distance Migratory Birds Breeding Productivity Across Europe20
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Hydrothermal Conditions Modulate the Impact of Climate Extremes on Vegetation Growth in the Northern Hemisphere20
Local community assembly processes shape β‐diversity of soil phoD‐harbouring communities in the Northern Hemisphere steppes20
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests19
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia19
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity19
Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions19
A global synthesis and conceptualization of the magnitude and duration of soil carbon losses in response to forest disturbances19
The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon19
Botanic gardens play key roles in the regional distribution of first records of alien plants in China19
Elevational shift in seed plant distributions in China's mountains over the last 70 years18
Trait dimensions of abiotic stress tolerance in woody plants of the Northern Hemisphere18
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison18
No strong evidence that modularity, specialization or nestedness are linked to seasonal climatic variability in bipartite networks18
Taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity of freshwater fish assemblages in relationship to geographical and climatic determinants in North America18
Restricted power: Can microorganisms maintain soil organic matter stability under warming exceeding 2 degrees?18
Climate‐driven impacts of exotic species on marine ecosystems18
Higher temperature sensitivity of flowering than leaf‐out alters the time between phenophases across temperate tree species18
Global patterns and drivers of leaf photosynthetic capacity: The relative importance of environmental factors and evolutionary history18
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Power laws and plant trait variation in spatio‐temporally heterogeneous environments17
Nutrients and seabird biogeography: Feather elements differ among oceanic basins in the Southern Hemisphere, reflecting bird size, foraging range and nutrient availability in seawater17
Correction to “Global patterns and predictors of avian population density”17
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment17
Asymmetric responses of terrestrial C:N:P stoichiometry to precipitation change17
Global phylogeography of hyperdiverse lanternfishes indicates sympatric speciation in the deep sea17
Local compositional change and regional stability across 3000 years of coral reef development16
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Island Mammal Extinctions are Determined by Interactive Effects of Life History, Island Biogeography, Mesopredator Suppression16
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Mammalian body size evolution was shaped by habitat transitions as an indirect effect of climate change16
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Proximate and evolutionary sources of variation in offspring energy expenditure in songbirds15
Strong phylogenetic signals in global plant bioclimatic envelopes15
Soil seed bank responses to edge effects in temperate European forests15
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere15
Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients15
The utility of climatic water balance for ecological inference depends on vegetation physiology assumptions15
Geographical homogenization but little net change in the local richness of Canadian butterflies15
Examining the diversity, stability and functioning of marine fish communities across a latitudinal gradient15
Non‐native species outperform natives in coastal marine ecosystems subjected to warming and freshening events15
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occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data14
CaPTrends: A database of large carnivoran population trends from around the world14
Climate and socio‐economic factors explain differences between observed and expected naturalization patterns of European plants around the world14
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models14
Species‐specific acclimatization capacity of key traits explains global vertical distribution of seagrass species14
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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots14
Dominant temperate and subalpine Japanese trees have variable photosynthetic thermal optima according to site mean annual temperature14
Pitfalls of ignoring trait resolution when drawing conclusions about ecological processes14
The global biogeography of reef morphology14
Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour13
Multi‐decade tree mortality in temperate old‐growth forests of Europe and North America: Non‐equilibrial dynamics and species‐individualistic response to disturbance13
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests13
Lianas and trees exhibit divergent intrinsic water‐use efficiency along elevational gradients in South American and African tropical forests13
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions13
A hierarchical approach to understanding physiological associations with climate13
Increasing global ecosystem respiration between 1982 and 2015 from Earth observation‐based modelling13
Harvest and dispersal syndromes influence the probability of tree seedling establishment in the eastern United States13
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach12
Overexploitation and decline in kelp forests inflate the bioenergetic costs of fisheries12
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity12
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems12
Spatial patterns of unburned refugia in Siberian larch forests during the exceptional 2020 fire season12
Population density and genetic diversity are positively correlated in wild felids globally12
Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals12
Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis12
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Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions12
Optimal pooling of data for the reliable estimation of trait probability distributions12
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors12
Emerging palaeoecological frameworks for elucidating plant dynamics in response to fire and other disturbance12
Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change11
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?11
Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change11
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia11
Mountains act as museums and cradles for hemipteran insects in China: Evidence from patterns of richness and phylogenetic structure11
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA11
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires11
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats11
Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees11
Dispersal limitation shapes distance‐decay patterns of European spiders at the continental scale11
Emergent global biogeography of marine fish food webs11
A demographic framework for understanding fire‐driven reptile declines in the ‘land of the lizards'11
Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests11
Ecological but Not Biological Traits of European Riverine Invertebrates Respond Consistently to Anthropogenic Impacts11
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators11
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