Global Ecology and Biogeography

Article	Citations
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change	106
Global root traits (GRooT) database	98
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests	92
The vertical distribution and control of microbial necromass carbon in forest soils	90
Handling missing values in trait data	90
The edaphic control of plant diversity	83
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems	76
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming	74
Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates	68
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness	64
Soil dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: Global budget, spatial distribution and controls	63
The global abundance of tree palms	62
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment	61
Microbial macroecology: In search of mechanisms governing microbial biogeographic patterns	60
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors	59
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China	59
A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures	59
A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests	59
Simulating forest resilience: A review	58
Carbon accumulation in agroforestry systems is affected by tree species diversity, age and regional climate: A global meta‐analysis	56
Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence	56
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	54
Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities	53
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network	52
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	52

What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities?	49
Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China	49
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?	49
Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate	49
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions	48
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes	48
Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau	47
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation	47
Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene	46
Towards a systematics of ecodiversity: The EcoSyst framework	46
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity	46
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions	45
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity	45
Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales	44
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	44
Relative impacts of land‐use and climate change on grasshopper range shifts have changed over time	44
Deforestation leakage undermines conservation value of tropical and subtropical forest protected areas	44
Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism	43
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests	43
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia	43
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?	41
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area	39
Large‐scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe	38
Arthropods as vertebrate predators: A review of global patterns	38
Elevated CO2 shifts soil microbial communities from K‐ to r‐strategists	38
Large geographic variability in the resistance of corals to thermal stress	38
The Global Urban Tree Inventory: A database of the diverse tree flora that inhabits the world’s cities	38
Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa	37
Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests	37
Global analysis of fish growth rates shows weaker responses to temperature than metabolic predictions	37
Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis	37
Only habitat specialists become smaller with advancing urbanization	37
Microclimate‐based species distribution models in complex forested terrain indicate widespread cryptic refugia under climate change	36
A global test of Allen’s rule in rodents	36
Evaluating the potential of full‐waveform lidar for mapping pan‐tropical tree species richness	36
A cross‐scale assessment of productivity–diversity relationships	36
Functional and phylogenetic diversity promote litter decomposition across terrestrial ecosystems	34
A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base	34
Amazon fires in the 21st century: The year of 2020 in evidence	33
Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA	33
Global responses of fine root biomass and traits to plant species mixtures in terrestrial ecosystems	33
The climatic debt is growing in the understorey of temperate forests: Stand characteristics matter	32
Biological traits of seabirds predict extinction risk and vulnerability to anthropogenic threats	32
Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: From fishing for populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics	31
RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems	31
Global soil microbial biomass decreases with aridity and land‐use intensification	31
Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae	30
Climate‐driven conifer mortality in Siberia	30
Land use and land cover changes in coastal and inland wetlands cause soil carbon and nitrogen loss	30
Climate change reshapes the eco‐evolutionary dynamics of a Neotropical seed dispersal system	30

Climatic niche shifts in 815 introduced plant species affect their predicted distributions	30
Continent‐wide gradients in open‐habitat insectivorous bird declines track spatial patterns in agricultural intensity across Europe	30
Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology	30
Windstorm‐induced canopy openings accelerate temperate forest adaptation to global warming	30
Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China	29
Large scale patterns of marine diatom richness: Drivers and trends in a changing ocean	29
Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data	29
Woody plant encroachment enhanced global vegetation greening and ecosystem water‐use efficiency	29
Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry	29
Global patterns in leaf stoichiometry across coastal wetlands	28
Biodiversity models need to represent land‐use intensity more comprehensively	28
Freshwater insects CONUS: A database of freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States	28
Pitfalls of ignoring trait resolution when drawing conclusions about ecological processes	28
Population density estimates for terrestrial mammal species	28
Multiple‐scale negative impacts of warming on ecosystem carbon use efficiency across the Tibetan Plateau grasslands	28
Evolutionary time best explains the latitudinal diversity gradient of living freshwater fish diversity	27
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China	27
Plant spectral diversity as a surrogate for species, functional and phylogenetic diversity across a hyper‐diverse biogeographic region	27
Landscape composition and life‐history traits influence bat movement and space use: Analysis of 30 years of published telemetry data	27
Geographic structuring of Antarctic penguin populations	27
Around the world in 500 years: Inter‐regional spread of alien species over recent centuries	26
Correlations between spatial sampling biases and environmental niches affect species distribution models	26
Megafauna extinctions have reduced biotic connectivity worldwide	26
The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low‐fecundity species to extinction	26
Spatial asynchrony matters more than alpha stability in stabilizing ecosystem productivity in a large temperate forest region	26
Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover	25
Community and structural constraints on the complexity of eastern North American forests	25
Drivers of native and non‐native freshwater fish richness across North America: Disentangling the roles of environmental, historical and anthropogenic factors	25
Global geographical and latitudinal variation in butterfly species richness captured through a comprehensive country‐level occurrence database	25
Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence‐only species distribution models	25
Current distributions and future climate‐driven changes in diatoms, insects and fish in U.S. streams	25
The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians	25
Using centroids of spatial units in ecological niche modelling: Effects on model performance in the context of environmental data grain size	24
Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands	24
Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non‐photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe	24
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions	24
Atmospheric brightening counteracts warming‐induced delays in autumn phenology of temperate trees in Europe	24
Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning	24
From zero to infinity: Minimum to maximum diversity of the planet by spatio‐parametric Rao’s quadratic entropy	23
Mountains act as museums and cradles for hemipteran insects in China: Evidence from patterns of richness and phylogenetic structure	23
Current climate, but also long‐term climate changes and human impacts, determine the geographic distribution of European mammal diversity	23
ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys	23
Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species	23
Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change	23
Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures	23
Global quantitative synthesis of effects of biotic and abiotic factors on stemflow production in woody ecosystems	22
The macroecology and evolution of avian competence for Borrelia burgdorferi	22
Local community assembly processes shape β‐diversity of soil phoD‐harbouring communities in the Northern Hemisphere steppes	22
Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests	22
Global distribution and drivers of forest biome foliar nitrogen to phosphorus ratios (N:P)	22
Human stabilization of river flows is linked with fish invasions across the USA	22
Old growth Afrotropical forests critical for maintaining forest carbon	22
Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance	22
Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate	22
Widespread recent changes in morphology of Old World birds, global warming the immediate suspect	21
The multidimensionality of soil macroecology	21
Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals	21
Global soil microbiomes: A new frontline of biome‐ecology research	21
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments	21
Climate‐driven impacts of exotic species on marine ecosystems	21
Deconstructing the abundance–suitability relationship in species distribution modelling	21
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	21
Climate change drives spatial mismatch and threatens the biotic interactions of the Brazil nut	21
The global biogeography of soil priming effect intensity	20
The global contribution of roots to total soil respiration	20
Ectothermy and the macroecology of home range scaling in snakes	20
Long‐term drivers of vegetation turnover in Southern Hemisphere temperate ecosystems	20
Asymmetric responses of terrestrial C:N:P stoichiometry to precipitation change	20
Geographic variation in the robustness of pollination networks is mediated by modularity	20
Patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure of pteridophytes in China	20
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies	20
Broad‐scale distribution of diazotrophic communities is driven more by aridity index and temperature than by soil properties across various forests	20
Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities	19
A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates	19
A trait space at an overarching scale yields more conclusive macroecological patterns of functional diversity	19
Latitudinal gradient of termite diversity indicates higher diversification and narrower thermal niches in the tropics	19
Synthesis reveals that island species–area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling	19
CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets	19
A latitudinal gradient of microbial β‐diversity in continental paddy soils	19
Environmental filters of freshwater fish community assembly along elevation and latitudinal gradients	19

High plasticity in germination and establishment success in the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica across Europe	19
Darwin’s preadaptation hypothesis and the phylogenetic structure of native and alien regional plant assemblages across North America	19
A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles	19
Responses of soil bacterial community structure and function to dry–wet cycles more stable in paddy than in dryland agricultural ecosystems	19
Pyrogeography across the western Palaearctic: A diversity of fire regimes	18
Body stoichiometry of heterotrophs: Assessing drivers of interspecific variations in elemental composition	18
Global macroecology of nitrogen‐fixing plants	18
Fast, scalable, and automated identification of articles for biodiversity and macroecological datasets	18
Identifying global and local drivers of change in mangrove cover and the implications for management	18
Search for top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe	18
Continental United States may lose 1.8 petagrams of soil organic carbon under climate change by 2100	18
Plant community dynamics and carbon sequestration in Sphagnum‐dominated peatlands in the era of global change	18
Taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity of freshwater fish assemblages in relationship to geographical and climatic determinants in North America	18
Disturbance indicator values for European plants	18
Rainfall continentality, via the winter Gams angle, provides a new dimension to biogeographical distributions in the western United States	18
Asymmetry of thermal sensitivity and the thermal risk of climate change	18
The macroecology of fish migration	18
Evolutionary and environmental drivers of species richness in poeciliid fishes across the Americas	17
Divergent responses of autumn vegetation phenology to climate extremes over northern middle and high latitudes	17
Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status	17
Global patterns of functional trait variation along aridity gradients in bats	17
Multiple diversity facets of crucial microbial groups in biological soil crusts promote soil multifunctionality	17
Climate mediates the relationship between plant biodiversity and forest structure across the United States	17
An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post‐fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019–2020 Australian fire season	17
A global assessment of human influence on niche shifts and risk predictions of bird invasions	17
Globally limited individual and combined effects of multiple global change factors on allometric biomass partitioning	17
Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods	17
Plant–plant interactions determine taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in severe ecosystems	17
Incongruent latitudinal patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveal different drivers of caddisfly community assembly across spatial scales	17
Mycorrhizal associations of tree species influence soil nitrogen dynamics via effects on soil acid–base chemistry	17
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data	16
Addressing the problem of scale that emerges with habitat fragmentation	16
Small scale environmental variation modulates plant defence syndromes of understorey plants in deciduous forests of Europe	16
How well do species distribution models predict occurrences in exotic ranges?	16
The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests	16
Including imprecisely georeferenced specimens improves accuracy of species distribution models and estimates of niche breadth	16
Temporal biodiversity change following disturbance varies along an environmental gradient	16
Towards mapping biodiversity from above: Can fusing lidar and hyperspectral remote sensing predict taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic tree diversity in temperate forests?	16
Blowin’ in the wind: Wind directionality affects wetland invertebrate metacommunities in Patagonia	16
Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups	16
Contemporary environment and historical legacy explain functional diversity of freshwater fishes in the world rivers	15
Interactions between local and global drivers determine long‐term trends in boreal forest understorey vegetation	15
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate	15
Effects of evolutionary time, speciation rates and local abiotic conditions on the origin and maintenance of amphibian montane diversity	15
Increasing pollen production at high latitudes across animal‐pollinated flowering plants	15
Dispersal syndromes drive the formation of biogeographical regions, illustrated by the case of Wallace’s Line	15
Climate warming extends growing season but not reproductive phase of terrestrial plants	15
Diversification and community assembly of the world’s largest tropical island	15
Integrating climate and host richness as drivers of global parasite diversity	15
A global analysis of enemy release and its variation with latitude	15