Global Ecology and Biogeography

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Linking multiple hypotheses to a unifying framework of range‐size variation: A case study with American oaks (Quercus spp.)84
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition82
Plant and Soil Function Increase With Larger and Older Coarse Woody Debris78
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity75
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa71
Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates68
Environmental correlates of body size influence range size and extinction risk: A global study in rodents67
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions65
Ectomycorrhizal fungi are influenced by ecoregion boundaries across Europe63
Phosphorus Limitation Constrains Global Forest Productivity Directly and Indirectly via Forest Community Structural Attributes: Meta‐Analysis62
Recent Abundance Changes at Species' Range Limits in the North and Central American Avifaunas61
Bridging Macroecology and Temporal Dynamics to Better Attribute Global Change Impacts on Biodiversity60
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities59
The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data54
Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities50
Consequences of the Megafauna Extinction: Changes in Food Web Networks on the Edwards Plateau Across the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition48
The Performance and Potential of Deep Learning for Predicting Species Distributions46
Future Climate and Land Use Change Will Equally Impact Global Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity46
Micro‐Refuges or Ecological Traps: Context‐Dependent Effects of Rock Pools on Intertidal Biodiversity Across Latitudes45
The Phylogenetic Structure Patterns of Angiosperm Species and Their Determinants in East Eurasia44
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate44
Joint Influence of Seed Dormancy and Dispersal Syndrome on Dispersal Distance and Range Size Across Two Climate Regions42
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Variations in Soil Available Nitrogen Rather Than Nitrogen Functional Gene Abundances Dominate Terrestrial Soil N2O Emissions Under Mineral Nitrogen Addition and Warming41
Diverse strategies for tracking seasonal environmental niches at hemispheric scale40
Testing machine learning algorithms on a binary classification phenological model40
occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data39
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Accelerated invasion through the evolution of dispersal behaviour37
Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators37
The legacy of human use in Amazonian palm communities along environmental and accessibility gradients36
Integrated species distribution models to account for sampling biases and improve range‐wide occurrence predictions36
tinyVAST : R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Te36
27 Years of Freshwater Fish and Invertebrate Assemblage Data in the United States36
Coordination of economics spectra in leaf, stem and root within the genus Artemisia along a large environmental gradient in China35
Post‐glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio‐temporally explicit modelling approach35
Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions35
Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models35
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Global Distribution of Mammalian Cradles and Museums is Driven by Past Climate Dynamics and Present Water–Energy Balance33
Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean33
Size‐Based Effects of Anthropogenic Pressures and Elephant Activity on Tropical Forest Carbon Stocks33
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands33
GNNSDM : A Graph Neural Network‐Based Framework Integrating Complex Landscape Patterns Into Species Distribution Mo33
Emergent Properties and Robustness of Species–Habitat Networks for Global Terrestrial Vertebrates33
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Macroecological constraints on species' ‘movement profiles’: Body mass does not explain it all32
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Correction to "Dispersal, Climate Anomaly and Contemporary Climate Shape the Latitudinal Patterns of β‐Diversity of Angiosperm Trees"31
Correction to Cold and Dark Captivity: Drivers of Amphibian Longevity31
Latitudinal Beta‐Diversity Gradient of Riverine Macroinvertebrate: Interplays of Climatic and Land Use Factors30
Native and Alien Ungulates in North America: Potential for Restoring Herbivore Diversity and Functions30
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change30
Global‐Scale Analysis Reveals Importance of Environment and Species Traits in Spatial Patterns of Riparian Plants' Genetic Diversity29
Climate Predicts Tree Dispersal Strategies Across Brazil's Ecosystems29
Continental Connections: Changing Temperature, Wind and Precipitation Advance the Postbreeding Roosting Phenology of Avian Aerial Insectivores29
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
The biogeography of host‐associated bacterial microbiomes: Revisiting classic biodiversity patterns27
Simulating and Analysing Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least‐Cost Path Modelling and Machine Learning27
Coherence of terrestrial vertebrate species richness with external drivers across scales and taxonomic groups25
Joint effects of species traits and environmental preferences on range edge shifts of British birds24
Two Decades of Community Responses Reveal a Consistent Increase in Species Occurrences in South‐Eastern Pacific Rocky Shores24
Generating Spatialised and Seasonal Deep‐Time Palaeoclimatic Information: Integration Into an Environmental‐Dependent Diversification Model24
The coordination of green–brown food webs and their disruption by anthropogenic nutrient inputs24
The Interplay of Climate Change, Urbanisation, and Species Traits Shapes European Butterfly Population Trends24
Indirect Effects of Temperature Drive Gradients in Fish Food Web Properties24
Himalayan birds that show the greatest elevational shifts remain within the narrowest thermal regimes23
Temperature Predicts Relative Mass but Not Size in Passerines23
Variation in Environmental Conditions and Biodiversity Between Contrasting Intertidal Habitats Across Multiple Spatial Scales on European Rocky Shores23
Temperature legacies predict microbial metabolic quotient across forest biomes23
Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals23
Environmental Filtering Weakens Latitudinal Diversity Gradients in Soil Biodiversity Worldwide22
Invariant properties of mycobiont‐photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens22
Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms22
Human Footprint Halves Tail Loss Rates in Geckos Worldwide22
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Guidelines for the use of spatially varying coefficients in species distribution models22
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The effects of human population density on trophic interactions are contingent upon latitude21
Bergmann patterns in planktivorous fishes: A light‐size or zooplankton community‐size rule is just as valid explanation as the temperature‐size rule21
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography21
Beta‐diversity within coral atolls: Terrestrial species turnover increases with cyclone frequencies21
Latitudinal patterns of egg size and maternal investment trade‐offs in reef corals21
Global arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and abundance decreases with soil available phosphorus21
Coral reef state influences resilience to acute climate‐mediated disturbances21
Spatial and Seasonal Variation in Avian Dietary Strategies21
What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis21
Correction to EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)20
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Nitrogen Availability Regulates Tree Mixture Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Forests: Insights From a Meta‐Analysis and Long‐Term Experiment20
Plant Trait Matching Occurs in Facilitative Interactions Across Global Drylands20
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Soil Depth Matters: Divergent Drivers of Ecosystem Productivity in Alpine Ecosystems20
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Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography20
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Skin Resistance to Dehydration: A Theory‐Informed Trait Gradient in Anurans20
Long‐term climatic means affect the magnitude of short‐term variability in population growth rates19
A generalized framework to expand incomplete phylogenies using non‐molecular phylogenetic information19
Latitudinal patterns of aquatic insect emergence driven by climate19
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns19
Global Marine Flyways Identified for Long‐Distance Migrating Seabirds From Tracking Data19
Mass elevation effect and continentality have a stronger impact on global treelines than spatial isolation19
Rodents show darker and redder coloration in warm and rainy environments19
Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research18
Continental‐Scale Invertebrate Distributions Are Mainly Associated With Climate but Modulated by Soil and Land‐Use Gradients18
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data18
Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that ‘mountain passes are not higher in the tropics’18
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Potential effects of future climate change on global reptile distributions and diversity18
Global Enhancers and Constraints of Alien Range Size in Mammals: The Roles of Species Attributes, Invasion History and Ecological Contexts18
A Bias‐Robust Framework for Quantifying Community Responses to the Climate Change Using the Occurrence Data17
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Correction to “The Interplay of Climate Change, Urbanisation, and Species Traits Shapes European Butterfly Population Trends”17
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species17
Boreal Tree Growth May Be More Tolerant to Warming Than Previously Considered: Implications for Future Modelling Studies17
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Patterns of functional diversity along latitudinal gradients of species richness in eleven fish families17
Warm or Dry Springs (Still) Boost the Reproduction of Most Temperate Songbirds16
Contrasting Drivers of Genetic Diversity in Plants Across Previously Glaciated Northern Hemisphere Landscapes16
Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross‐continental comparison16
Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient16
Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation16
Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change16
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The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes16
Do global change variables alter mangrove decomposition? A systematic review15
Niche breadth explains the range size of European‐centred butterflies, but dispersal ability does not15
Global Patterns and Drivers of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Response to Plant Invasion: A Meta‐Analysis15
Increased Atmospheric CO 2 Adversely Affects Large Pollinators, but Bene15
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The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon15
Beyond the Trail—Understanding Non‐Native Plant Invasions in Mountain Ecosystems15
The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects15
Defaunation Maps for Tropical Mammals and Birds15
DiVert : A Global Database of Land Use and Management Effects on Local Vertebrate Abundance and Diversity15
Both the selection and complementarity effects underpin the effect of structural diversity on aboveground biomass in tropical forests15
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High‐Integrity Forests Are Critical for Forest Specialist Birds15
Macroevolutionary Processes Driving the Asymmetric Latitudinal Diversity Pattern of Polyplacophorans Along the Eastern Pacific Coast14
Diet Evolution and Body Temperature in Tetrapods: Cool Old Carnivores and Hot Young Herbivores14
Intercontinental dispersal and niche fidelity drive 50 million years of global diversification in Vertigo land snails14
Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?14
Large‐Bodied and Wide‐Beaked Avian Frugivores Show Greater Specialisation in Tropical Seed Dispersal Networks14
LandFrag: A Dataset to Investigate the Effects of Forest Loss and Fragmentation on Biodiversity14
Predation, Climate and Species Traits Interact to Shape Global Patterns of Avian Nest Architecture14
Patterns and drivers of prokaryotic communities in thermokarst lake water across Northern Hemisphere14
A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen14
An Urgent Need to Reassess Phylogenetic Imputation of Macroecological Trait Datasets14
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A Quantitative Classification of the Geography of Non‐Native Flora in the United States14
Niche Structure Explains Amphibians' Responses to Habitat Alteration14
Wide climatic niche breadth and traits associated with climatic tolerance facilitate eucalypt occurrence in cities worldwide14
Warming Enhances the Effects of Acidification on Aquatic Biota: A Global Meta‐Analysis14
Plants dispersed by a non‐frugivorous migrant change throughout the annual cycle13
Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees13
Increased signal of fishing pressure on community life‐history traits at larger spatial scales13
Predicting Landscape Conversion Impact on Small Mammal Occurrence and the Transmission of Parasites in the Atlantic Forest13
Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe13
The atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palaearctic butterflies13
Zooplankton assemblage structure and diversity since pre‐industrial times in relation to land use13
High‐Quality Human Activity Intensity Maps in China From 2000 to 202013
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EGCop: An Expert‐Curated Occurrence Dataset of European Groundwater‐Dwelling Copepods (Crustacea: Copepoda)13
Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them13
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Correction to ‘A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates’13
A mesoplankton biomass decline in the Central Atlantic coupled with an increase of surface temperature and an expansion of low‐productive zones13
Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?12
Novel Estimates of Bird Migration Traffic at the Continental Scale Using Participatory Science Data12
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally12
TetraDENSITY 2.0—A Database of Population Density Estimates in Tetrapods12
Tree diversity across multiple scales and environmental heterogeneity promote ecosystem multifunctionality in a large temperate forest region12
The Phylogenetic Architecture of Recruitment Networks12
Global Patterns and Determinants of Multiple Facets of Freshwater Fishes Beta Diversity12
The Key Role of Vicariance for Soil Animal Biogeography in a Biodiversity Hotspot Region12
Variation in Ectotherm Thermal Tolerances With Elevation and Temperature Across Biological Scales12
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