Community Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Community Ecology is 0. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Temporal integration analysis of environmental behavior and fish abundance in selected coastal systems of the southern Gulf of Mexico25
Relationships of community diversity with distributions of rare species, non-native plants, and compositional stability in a temperate forest–open habitat landscape21
May we improve trapping of drosophilid species (Insecta, Diptera)? A review of sampling protocols in Brazilian biomes20
Plant diversity and water quality of grassland ponds under different agri-environment schemes13
From tweets to tings: Dissimilarity in recorded species community between social media platforms and implications for resource-limited conservation11
Ecological status estimation of minimally disturbed rivers of the Western Mediterranean Basin (Türkiye) using diatom indices11
Importance of dynamics of acquired phototrophy amongst mixoplankton; a unique example of essential nutrient transmission in community ecology10
Community composition of aboveground ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dripline area of Taxus contorta Griff. in mixed coniferous forests of Northwest Himalaya10
Shells and marine conservation9
Comparison of leaf litter ant fauna in areas under ecological restoration and secondary forest8
Remote sensing supports spatially explicit mapping of arthropod distributions in a heterogeneous mire habitat: A case study of the Apšuciems mire, Latvia8
Tree richness shapes weevil diversity during early post-mining forest regeneration in Eastern Amazonia8
A review of the factors influencing invertebrate community structure in subterranean habitats8
Nicholas Mathevon: The voices of nature: how and why animals communicate8
The distribution of invasive alien plant species in peri-urban areas: a case study from the city of Kolkata7
Small mammals in a mountain ecosystem: the effect of topographic, micrometeorological, and biological correlates on their community structure7
Correction to: Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor7
Structural and functional properties of foundation species (mussels vs. seaweeds) predict functional aspects of the associated communities6
Dan Chapman: A road running southward: following John Muir’s journey through an endangered land6
Mutualistic interactions between plants with extrafloral nectaries and ants: ecological impacts, ant sharing among neighboring plants, and the effects of environmental conditions6
An eroding standard6
Temporal patterns of breeding bird assemblages in small urban parks reveal relatively low stability and asynchrony6
The relationship between the functional diversity, functional redundancy and community stability in mountain rangelands5
Reconstruction and variability of tropical pollination networks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest5
Square-grid sampling to address the vegetation patterns of declined Mediterranean forest ecosystems5
The city in the clouds: vascular epiphytes in Brazil’s highest urban area are highly influenced by the surrounding vegetation5
Paul A. Rees: Key questions in applied ecology and conservation: a study and revision guide5
Copepods of a creek and an inter-tidal beach: perspectives from Sagar Island of Ganges estuary, India5
Minimum variance clustering of plant community data with non-Euclidean distance measures: Ward’s method and PERMANOVA5
The “R-evolution” in ecological research5
Close-to-nature forest management effects on soil nematodes and microbial activity in pine plantations on aeolian sands5
Mapping co-occurrence dynamics between crops and honeybees under climate change in North America5
Joan Maloof: Nature’s temples: A natural history of old-growth forests5
Seasonal dynamics of foliar arthropod communities on Prunus Serotina (Ehrh.) in Mexican temperate forests4
Impact of agricultural land use and monsoon on earthworms and crop production in West Bengal, India4
The increasing stability of large food webs: generation time as a possible explanation4
C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read and Charlotte Wheater: Animals Under Logs and Stones4
From virtuality-to-reality: testing the effects of occurrence-based temporal settings on species distribution modeling prediction4
Twelve-year changes in palm populations from a tropical lowland forest in the Philippines4
“It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place”: a comprehensive overview of marine mammal research provides understanding of their behavioral strategies in the face of environmental c4
The influence of Retama raetam (Fabaceae) and livestock grazing on species composition, yield and soil nutrients in arid environments of south Tunisia4
Community structure of oak gall wasps along an elevational gradient shaped by habitat heterogeneity4
Local contribution to the beta diversity of Odonata assemblages in a subtropical alluvial river stretch3
The limited local efficacy of flowering plants in biocontrol programs: The overriding role of landscape composition and configuration3
Vertical stratification of the soil seed bank in wet grasslands and its implications for restoration3
Landscape connection and patch complexity explain plant community similarity in sandy grasslands better than habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity via network analysis3
Relationship between macrofauna taxonomic and functional diversity and secondary production in estuaries along a freshwater inflow gradient3
John A. Vucetich: The biology and conservation of animal populations3
Comparison of three modelling frameworks for aquatic ecosystems: practical aspects and applicability3
A community under a pulse perturbation experiment: editorial3
Daniel C. Laughlin: Plant Strategies—the demographic consequences of functional traits in changing environments3
How can we incorporate species interactions into SDM-based climate change modelling?3
Temperate hyper-saline ecosystems induce spatial distribution and halo-thermotolerance potential in indigenous cultivable bacterial community3
Crucial factors determining colonisation patterns of bird species on oceanic islands in the Anthropocene3
Coral reef development influences the spatial pattern of echinoderms in the Central Mexican Pacific2
J. Scott Armstrong and Kesten C. Green: The scientific method: A guide to finding useful knowledge2
Effects of post-mining forest restoration and alternative land uses on ground-dwelling arthropods in Ghana2
Chris Thorogood: Field guide to the wild flowers of the Western Mediterranean, second edition2
Edward Struzik: Swampland: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat2
David Grimaldi (Ed): The complete insect: anatomy, physiology, evolution, and ecology2
Thinking like a bee2
Coral diversity and abundance patterns at the West Coast of Sabah: a case study of Kota Kinabalu coral reefs2
Modularity buffers ant-plant network structure following conversion of oak forest to Eucalyptus plantation2
Angela E. Douglas: Insects and their beneficial microbes2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance and seasonality on alpha diversity of ant–plant interaction networks in Mexican temperate forests2
The challenge of life history traits: a small cladoceran, Ceriodaphnia rigaudi2
Differential responses of temporal interaction networks between specialist and generalist hummingbirds and native and alien plants in a Mexican cloud forest2
Safeguarding Sicily’s biodiversity: challenges in monitoring the global asymmetric warming in drying Mediterranean hotspots2
The nature of microbial diversity and assembly in the Nebraska Sandhills depends on organismal identity and habitat type2
Land use increases macrophytes beta diversity in Amazon streams by favoring amphibious life forms species2
Quantifying the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors in landscape-based models of stream fish distributions1
Effect of host tree traits on the abundance of epiphytic lichens in a tropical Atlantic rainforest1
Jeff R. Martin: The tawny owl1
Spatiotemporal dynamics of fish assemblages in relation to hydro-environmental drivers in an anthropogenically stressed tropical river in India1
Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King: Audubon at sea: The coastal and transatlantic adventures of John James Audubon1
When stability defies harshness: terrestrial invertebrate community persistence in a large subterranean hotspot in the Brazilian semi-arid region1
Composition and phylogenetic structure of Pampean grasslands under distinct land use and presence of alien species1
Climate and habitat types drive avian communities of the Anatolian Diagonal1
David Shiffman: Why sharks matter: a deep dive with the world's most misunderstood predator1
Zoom into a twilight zone: a biodiversity survey of the Dohrn Canyon (Mediterranean sea) through environmental DNA metabarcoding1
Steven W. Buskirk: Carnivoran ecology: the evolution and function of communities1
Butterfly community ecology: the effect of seasons and environmental variables in a tropical dry hilly landscape of western India1
Habitat size mediates human impacts on macrophyte diversity and invasion in the tropical floodplain of Barak river basin in India1
Airborne environmental DNA (eDNAir) provides a rapid assessment of terrestrial plant biodiversity in Central Anatolia1
Improved retrieval of phylogenetic signals from normalized foliar reflectance spectra in Neotropical forest gaps1
Precipitation fluctuations control aboveground net primary productivity in desert grassland1
Causal links indicating ecosystem functioning in food webs1
Jonathan B. Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis: National Parks Forever: Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence1
L.S. Kubato, L.L. Knowles (Eds): Species tree inference: a guide to methods and applications1
Correction to: Forest cover positively affects the occurrence of understory insectivorous Passeriformes in bird communities of the Atlantic Forest1
Heterogeneous habitat supports cryptic diversity of the terrestrial mammalian community in a protected forest of Bangladesh1
Co-occurrence network and predicted functions of bacterial community in soil from Brazilian Cerrado under distinct types of vegetation cover1
Body size and prey abundance influence activity patterns in a diverse mesocarnivore community1
Arable plant communities of ultramafic and non-ultramafic soils in Beni Bousera (North Morocco)1
The bed and board services of crinoids to their associated fauna: a case study from the Great Reef of Toliara, SW Madagascar1
Revisiting discrepancies between stochastic agent-based and deterministic models1
Diversity and community structure of terrestrial isopods in Wadi oases of northeastern Algeria0
Diversity and community structure of the agroecosystem avifauna in the Cauvery delta region, South India0
George C. McGavin and Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou: Essential entomology (2nd edition)0
Adaptation to warming alters the competition between three phytoplankton taxa: Microcystis aeruginosa, Desmodesmus armatus and Mayamaea permitis0
Tree diversity, composition, and regeneration status along disturbance gradients in tropical forests of southern Western Ghats, India0
Effects of shining pondweed (Potamogeton lucens) on fungal communities in water and rhizosphere sediments in Nansi Lake, China0
Structure and functioning of the Moroccan Mediterranean marine ecosystem: a trophic perspective0
Martin Stevens: Secret worlds: the extraordinary senses of animals0
Bas Haring: Why biodiversity loss is not a disaster0
Plant community types and species compositional variations of the forest patches in Wolaita zone, Southwest Ethiopia0
Invasive Robinia pseudoacacia vs native Quercus robur: do soil nematode communities vary in tree species-specific forests?0
Ecological responses of tree communities to conservation zonation in a tropical forest of Mizoram, India0
Avian community structure in human dominated landscape in Daudkandi, Bangladesh0
What is hiding within the moss? Assessing the impact of sheep grazing on bryosphere diversity in Icelandic tundra0
Effects of “Atlantification” on ecosystem properties of the Barents Sea investigated through qualitative loop analysis0
Generalism in nature: a community ecology perspective0
Local and species contribution to the beta diversity and rarity of riparian spider community of the Ganga River, India0
Understanding causal linkages in the post-conflict Colombia socio-ecological system0
Phytoplankton morphological traits and biomass outline community dynamics in a coastal ecosystem (Gulf of Trieste, Adriatic Sea)0
Species richness is better predicted by water–energy dynamics and growing season length than by productivity in temperate montane ecosystems0
Assessing the sustainability of Moroccan sardine fisheries: a multi-model evaluation of central and southern Atlantic stocks0
Climatic and biogeographic factors show contrasted effects on continental and volcanic ISARs0
Alexandre Antonelli: The hidden universe: adventures in biodiversity0
Simon Leather: Insects: A very short introduction0
Which factor has greatest influence on the community invasibility under invasion with different species number of invasive plants?0
Conservation status of birds in habitats along a successional gradient from bare ground to forest0
Hans Turin, D. Johan Kotze, Stefan Mueller-Kroehling, Pavel Saska, John Spence, and Theodor Heijerman: Ecology and conservation of the Dutch ground beetle fauna0
Danielle J. Whittaker: The secret perfume of birds: Uncovering the science of avian scent0
Partitioning observed community selection on plant traits into direct selection and selection that is mediated by interspecific interactions0
Éric Baratay: Animal biographies: toward a history of individuals0
Species packing in open communities under continuous biological invasion0
Taxonomic and functional diversity of the amphibian and reptile communities of the state of Durango, Mexico0
DNA metabarcoding Passerine bird feces at tree-line uncovers little intra- and inter-species dietary overlap0
Assessment of plant communities and identification of indicator species under the influence of edaphic and topographic factors; a way forward for forest restoration in Karak region, Pakistan0
Spatial non-stationarity in the distribution of fish species richness of tropical streams0
Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave: The world atlas of trees and forests: exploring earth's forest ecosystems0
Double down on remote sensing for biodiversity estimation: a biological mindset0
Functional trait patterns: investigating variation-covariation relationships and the importance of intraspecific variability along distinct vegetation types0
Wilson Wall and David Morgan: Citizen science in biology: the history and development of public participation in science0
Biodiversity and soil nutrient dynamics in sacred groves of Uttar Dinajpur in relation to cultural heritage and ecological conservation0
Potential drivers of plant diversity and composition in high-altitude alpine regions of Himalaya0
Responses of plant productivity and diversity to drought in Carex schmidtii tussock wetlands, Northeast China0
Robert McCleery, Ara Monadjem, L. Mike Conner, James D. Austin, and Peter J. Taylor: Methods for ecological research on terrestrial small mammals0
Impact of different invasion patterns of omnivorous species on omnivorous food web0
Revisiting functional diversity from a network perspective: regular equivalence-based approach0
Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra and Callan Cohen: Dragonflies and damselflies of Madagascar and the Western Indian Ocean Islands0
Ryan Chenery: Birds of the Lesser Antilles: a photographic guide0
John A. Vucetich: Restoring the balance: What wolves tell us about our relationship with nature0
Inter-specific competition between seeds and seedlings of two confamilial tropical trees0
Similarity between soil seed bank and standing vegetation and their relationship with soil and topographical characteristics in a riparian zone0
Ecosystem shuffle: the neutRal R package to simulate species dance moves0
Diversity of amphibians and squamate reptiles in the upper Napo River basin, Ecuador0
Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) community structure and soil quality along the cashew chronosequence in Côte d’Ivoire0
Assessment of plant community composition and diversity across cemeteries: indicator species of burial sites in Tehsil Samahni, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan0
Contrasting temporal dynamics of edaphic and subterranean-specialized assemblages in the mesovoid shallow substratum of tropical Iron Formations0
Crop-land simplification impacts differently on small mammal communities: evidence from diversity/dominance plots using Barn Owl (Tyto alba) pellets0
Sally Hawkins, Ian Convery, Steve Carver, Rene Beyers (Eds): Routledge handbook of rewilding0
Hidden beneath the arid Patagonian lowlands: ecological and conservation considerations to protect a hotspot of subterranean biodiversity0
Detecting changes induced by industrialization on bird communities: a before–after comparison using diversity/dominance curves0
How do woodpecker communities respond to different forest management regimes outside protected areas in the Eastern Himalaya, India?0
One cave, multiple worlds: cave zonation, habitat selection and conservation of cave-dwelling fauna in a new hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in South America0
Effect of agriculture land use on standard cellulosic substrates breakdown and invertebrates’ community0
Slope aspect of a mountainous grassland landscape shapes the structure of an encroaching shrub (Euryops floribundus N.E. Br): insights from communal grazing sites located at varying distances from rur0
Mapping plant taxonomic diversity and spatial structure of mangrove communities with spaceborne imagery0
Does clonal growth rate vary during old-field succession? A field study of the perennial grassland forb Fragaria viridis Weston0
Gamma diversity partitioning of Pocillopora coral-associated crustaceans in the Mexican Central Pacific0
Optimizing sampling protocols: spider assemblages are robust to pitfall trap spacing in Neotropical savannas0
Complementarity between mist-netting and low-cost acoustic recorders to sample bats in Amazonian rainforests and savannahs0
Strager, Hanne: The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas0
Simon van Noort and Gavin Broad: Wasps of the world: a guide to every family0
S. Andrew Inkpen and W. Ford Doolittle: Can microbial communities regenerate?0
Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis: Pathways to success: taking conservation to scale in complex systems0
Michael Ruse: Understanding natural selection0
Salinity filtering primarily shapes phytoplankton community structure in Yuncheng Salt Lake, with temporal differences0
Trophic and saprobic diatom-based indices are not indicating the same ecological status in a shallow lake, Türkiye0
Native and immigrant bat niches in a city agglomeration: implication for urban landscape planning0
Determinants of bird beta diversity patterns in a landscape with a relict habitat in northern Argentina0
Taxonomic distinctiveness and hotspot areas of amphibians and reptiles across mountain systems in Mexico0
An exploratory study of the immediate and medium-term effects of bench terrace construction on the ground-dwelling arthropod communities in eucalypt plantations0
Wood-pasture abandonment changes bird functional diversity and composition with potential drawbacks to pest regulation0
Effects of anthropogenic pollution on the malacological community structure in the Mediterranean lagoon of Bizerte (northern Tunisia)0
How clustering promotes biodiversity: a solution to the plankton paradox0
Species richness, composition, distribution and conservation status of the amphibians and reptiles of the Cordillera del Cóndor, a region between Ecuador and Peru0
Habitat structure and ornithophilous plants influence the compositional uniqueness of bird communities across slopes in a high Andean biosphere reserve0
Scott H. Butterfield, Rodd T. Kelsley and Abigail K. Hart: Rewilding agricultural landscapes: a California study in rebalancing the needs of people and nature0
Multifunctional high elevation agropastoral ecosystem of Eastern Himalaya complements primary forest in bird conservation0
Influence of the structural complexity of phytal substrates on intertidal meiofaunal community structure in a tropical system (NE Brazil)0
Maxwell V. L. Barclay and Patrice Bouchard: Beetles of the world: A natural history0
The beauty of bees of the world0
Peter Kevan and D. Susan Willis Chan (Eds): Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming0
Camera trapping of forest mammals in Bükk Mountain, Hungary0
Forest cover positively affects the occurrence of understory insectivorous Passeriformes in bird communities of the Atlantic Forest0
Avian diversity and spatiotemporal distribution in the unprotected ecological corridor of Gambella–Omo–Boma National Parks, Southwestern Ethiopia: implication for conservation0
Steven M. Goodman (ed.): The new natural history of Madagascar0
Effects of soil and climatic variables on earthworm community structure at altitude in the Himalayan forest ecosystem0
The environmental interpretation of Pinus yunnanensis community differentiation after the invasion of Ageratina adenophora in Panxi region, China0
Evaluating ecosystem health of estuaries: functional guild and multimetric analysis of fish communities in the Mahanadi and Devi estuaries of Odisha, India0
Eddie John and Christodoulos Makris: Butterflies of Cyprus: a field guide and distribution atlas0
Functional relatedness shapes bee species co-occurrence in a pollinator guild of tropical farmlands0
Tim Blackburn: The jewel box: how moths illuminate nature’s hidden rules0
Uncovering the limits of lying in nature and society0
Relationships between populations synchrony and their functional similarity depend on the timescale and environmental conditions0
Bryan C. Pijanowski: Principles of soundscape ecology: discovering our sonic world0
Heather Campbell and Benjamin Blanchard: Ants: A visual guide0
Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrow associate communities are depauperate in modified landscapes0
Mosquito biodiversity patterns in a region of intense anthropogenic pressure in the Upper Madeira River, Western Amazonia0
David G. James and David J. Lohman: The lives of butterflies: a natural history of our planet’s butterfly life0
Species reordering and turnover shape long-term dynamics of a primeval temperate forest breeding bird assemblage0
Tree canopy shapes and buffers detritivore invertebrate responses to soil temperature variability0
Increased focus on measuring diversity may lead to a crisis in community ecology0
Ecological response of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to contrasting agroecosystem management0
Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor0
Marianne Taylor: How birds live together: colonies and communities in the avian world0
Seed dispersal and germination by yak gut passage in an alpine meadow community on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau0
Michael Hannah: Extinctions—living and dying in the margin of error0
Martin J. Gaywood, John G. Ewen, Peter M. Hollingsworth and Axel Moehrenschlager (eds): Conservation translocations0
Jeff Ollerton: Pollinators & pollination: nature and society0
Distribution patterns of the earthworm community in relation to soil properties and metals in agro-ecosystems in Hebei Province, North China0
Structure of the bivalve (Mollusca) assemblage of Mazatlan bay, Mexico, and its relationship to environmental variables0
A hundred years of food web aggregation: the case study of the Barents Sea0
Wyatt F. Cross, Jonathan P. Benstead, Amy M. Marcarelli & Ryan A. Sponseller (Eds.): Foundations of stream and river ecology: a guide to the classic literature0
Correction to: From tweets to tings: Dissimilarity in recorded species community between social media platforms and implications for resource-limited conservation0
Dietary niche overlap in an understudied Mustelidae community in the subboreal forests of western North America: does body size differentiate dietary niche?0
Boria Sax: Avian illuminations—a cultural history of birds0
Joshua Schimel: Your future on the faculty: how to survive and thrive in academia0
Pia Katila, Carol J Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, Georg Winkel (eds.): Restoring forests and trees for sustainable development0
The role of agroforestry in solving the agricultural landscapes vulnerabilities in the Po Plain district0
A journey into the world of Orthoptera: a song worth preserving0
Edaphic fauna and residue decomposition rate under different management of plant species in no-tillage system0
Mathieu Lihoreau: What do bees think about?0
Frog assemblage patterns in a small-scaled traditional rice paddy (yatsuda) area in Japan0
Spatial dynamics and drivers of recent changes in grass and shrub cover in submontane grassland plant communities0
The Smooth Snake is not a threat to the Meadow Viper: predator–prey interactions of a reptile specialist snake0
Habitat characteristics, ecology and biodiversity drivers of plant communities associated with Cousinia edmondsonii, an endemic and critically endangered species in NE Iran0
Birds on the move0
From marine mixotrophs to natural forest management: papers from the 4th International Conference on Community Ecology (September 2023, Trieste, Italy)0
Karen Bakker: The sounds of life: how digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants0
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