Ecosphere

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecosphere is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Wildfire disturbance reveals evidence of ecosystem resilience and precariousness in a forest–grassland mosaic61
Alternative lifestyles: A plague persistence hypothesis60
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Modeling the drivers of eutrophication in Finland with a machine learning approach59
Identifying drivers of population dynamics for a stream breeding amphibian using time series of egg mass counts56
The influence of postfire recovery and environmental conditions on boreal vegetation54
Grazing intensity effects on herbaceous community composition in burned sagebrush steppe46
Fear, concealment, and time of day interactively predict group size of a common ungulate44
Functional trait complementarity and dominance both determine benthic secondary production in temperate seagrass beds44
Farming practice affects rice field animal biota during cultivation but not fallow periods in Taiwan43
Plant functional traits affect competitive vigor of pasture grasses during drought and following recovery42
Move, migrate, or tolerate: Quantifying three tactics for cold‐water fish coping with warm summers in a large river39
Localized carry‐over effects of pond drying on survival, growth, and pathogen defenses in amphibians36
Understanding the effects of livestock grazing on dryland plant communities within the context of abiotic variability35
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Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly33
Demographic rates and diversity vary with tree stature and ontogenetic stage in an African tropical rainforest33
Comparison of three global canopy height maps and their applicability to biodiversity modeling: Accuracy issues revealed32
Within‐site difference in nitrogen status between mixed forests and larch plantations: Evidence from multiple indicators32
Individual patterns of anadromy determine the cost of salmon lice exposure in brown trout31
A novel method for mapping high‐precision animal locations using high‐resolution imagery30
Habitat associations of six‐lined racerunners in longleaf pine managed with a short fire rotation for northern bobwhites30
Carryover effects of environmental stressors influence the life performance of brown trout30
Sugar diet affects Culex pipiens early‐life mortality, biochemical parameters, and immunocompetence29
Mechanisms linking river flow regime and riparian hardwood establishment28
A novel method for fine‐scale retrospective isotope analysis in mammals using eye lenses28
Modeling the effects of water regulation on the population viability of a threatened amphibian28
Agroecological measures in meadows promote honey bee colony development and winter survival28
Shedding the cloak of neutrality: A guide for reflexive practices to make the sciences more inclusive and just27
Diverging conditions of current and potential future urban forest patches26
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Evaluating the effects of nest management on a recovering raptor using integrated population modeling26
Multi‐scale patterns in the occurrence of an ephemeral pool‐breeding amphibian25
Floral turnover and climate drive seasonal bee diversity along a tropical elevation gradient25
Shifts in grasses diversity patterns between two contrasting 40‐year climate periods in tropical dry islands25
Spatial conservation prioritization for the Amur tiger in Northeast China25
Network topology mediates freshwater fish metacommunity response to loss of connectivity24
Online citizen science in higher education courses24
Using phenology to unravel differential soil water use and productivity in a semiarid savanna24
Effects of future climate change on the forests of Madagascar24
Aquatic vegetation types identified during early and late phases of vegetation recovery in the Upper Mississippi River23
Age‐ and sex‐specific survival of the Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)23
Applying and testing a novel method to estimate animal density from motion‐triggered cameras23
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Resilience of riparian vegetation productivity to early 21st century drought in northern California, USA23
Evidence of reduced abundance, density, and survival of coyotes under federal management for red wolf recovery22
Heat wave impacts on crop‐pest dynamics are dependent upon insect ontogeny and plant resistance22
Approximation of ice phenology of Maine lakes using Aqua MODIS surface temperature data22
Effect of the Asian monsoon on the northward migration of the brown planthopper to northern South China21
Geographic drivers more important than landscape composition in predicting bee beta diversity and community structure21
The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion21
Linking ecological processes and animal movements to inform timing of long‐term surveys of a migratory game bird21
Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes?21
Hydrology and trophic flexibility structure alpine stream food webs in the Teton Range, Wyoming, USA21
Climatic history, constraints, and the plasticity of phytochemical traits under water stress21
On Daphnia’s path: a semi‐automatic system to analyze three‐dimensional movement patterns21
A model‐based instructional approach in a socio‐ecological course‐based undergraduate research experience (CURE)20
Temperature is positively associated with tree mortality in California subalpine forests containing whitebark pine20
Environmental associations of cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) seasonal presence along the U.S. Atlantic Coast20
Competition between pink muhly grass and native plant species: Is it really a harmful invasive species?20
Responses of a large herbivore to predation risk are modulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors20
Observations of nectarivorous birds and potential biological control agents in berry orchards20
Estimating wolf (Canislupus) densities using video camera traps and spatial capture–recapture analysis20
Long‐term ecological research and the COVID‐19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance20
Assessing impacts of climate change on selected foundation species and ecosystem services in the South‐Central USA20
Researcher effects on the biological structure and edaphic conditions of field sites and implications for management20
Assessment and novel application ofN‐mixture models for aerial surveys of wildlife20
Delineating wildfire burns and regrowth using satellite imagery to assess moose (Alces alces) spatial responses to burns19
Future exposure of forest ecosystems to multi‐year drought in the United States19
Habitat‐specific behavior, growth rate, and survival of piping plover chicks in New Jersey, USA19
Survival of the fattest: linking body condition to prey availability and survivorship of killer whales19
Suppression of Australian savanna ants shows “the little rulers” do not rule over spider or beetle assemblages19
Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine19
Variable spatiotemporal ungulate behavioral response to predation risk19
Mammal responses to predator scents across multiple study areas18
Exploratory modeling of social‐ecological systems18
Deciphering the spectra of flowers to map landscape‐scale blooming dynamics18
Species assemblages and their drivers differ between trees and lianas in a seasonal evergreen forest in Thailand18
Nutrient resorption responses of plant life forms to nitrogen addition in temperate shrublands18
Video of rusty‐spotted genets consuming bats and other prey: Behaviors observed and eco‐epidemiological considerations18
The influence of inherent soil factors and agricultural management on soil organic matter18
First record of antipredator behavior in the gall‐forming aphid Mordwilkoja vagabunda18
The relationship between thermal spatial variability and mean temperature alters movement and population dynamics18
Decoupled shifts of dominant and rarer fish species as a response to warming and extreme events in a large estuary18
Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science18
Geologic, geomorphic, and edaphic underpinnings of dryland ecosystems: Colorado Plateau landscapes in a changing world18
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Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research18
Landscape composition and orchard management effects on bat assemblages and bat foraging activity in apple crops17
Nutrient inputs in mesocosms of an oligotrophic lake fail to sustain an algal bloom17
A multiscale landscape approach for prioritizing river and stream protection and restoration actions17
Estimating the distribution of Oryzomys palustris, a potential key host in expanding rickettsial tick‐borne disease risk17
Spatial Bayesian models project shifts in suitable habitat for Pacific Northwest tree species under climate change17
Habitat partitioning by mobile intertidal invertebrates of sandy beaches shifts with the tides17
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Early successional changes in coniferous forest small mammal communities following a high‐severity summer wildfire17
Emergency‐line calls as an indicator to assess human–wildlife interaction in urban areas17
Invasive annual grasses destabilize plant communities in a northern mixed‐grass prairie17
Rapid shifts in migration routes and breeding latitude in North American bluebirds17
Wildfire influences individual growth and breeding dispersal, but not survival and recruitment in a montane amphibian17
Amphibian abundance is associated with reduced mosquito presence in human‐modified landscapes17
Journal reflections shed light on challenges students face in an introductory field biology course17
Intentional mentoring should increase inclusivity in ecology17
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Boreal tree species change as a climate mitigation strategy: impact on ecosystem C and N stocks and soil nutrient levels17
Dynamic environments generate geographic fluctuations in population structure of an inland shorebird17
Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent population structure17
An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada17
Advance, steadfast, retreat? Growth and establishment of white spruce seedlings at treelines in Alaska17
Asclepiasdynamics on US rangelands: implications for conservation of monarch butterflies and other insects17
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Nitrogen dynamics of grassland soils with differing habitat quality: high temporal resolution captures the details17
Experimental confirmation of effects of leaf litter type and light on tadpole performance for two priority amphibians16
Growing‐season climate as an explanation of spatial variations in temperature sensitivity of green‐up on Tibetan Plateau16
Professional social connections are associated with student science identity in a research‐based field biology course16
Effects of solar energy development on ants in the Mojave Desert16
Are all copepods the same? Variation in copepod stoichiometry with taxonomy, ontogeny, latitude, and habitat16
Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity16
Stochastic metapopulation dynamics of a threatened amphibian to improve water delivery16
Evolution and expansion dynamics of a vector‐borne virus: 2004–2006 vesicular stomatitis outbreak in the western USA16
Ecological processes associated with different animal taxa in urban environments16
Ecometabolomics of plant–herbivore and plant–fungi interactions: a synthesis study16
Impact and control of feral cats preying on wandering albatrosses: Insights from a field experiment16
Nitrogen is unlikely to consistently limit primary productivity in most tropical lakes16
Weighing the predictors: host traits and coinfecting species both explain variation in parasitism of Rock Ptarmigan16
Damming salmon fry: evidence for predation by non‐native warmwater fishes in reservoirs16
Multifunctions of fine root phenology in vegetative and reproductive growth in mature beech forest ecosystems16
Landscape, demographic, and dispersal parameters influence the spread and establishment of an aquatic biological invasion15
Substantial intraspecific trait variation across a hydrological gradient in northern Australian fishes15
Soil enzymes illustrate the effects of alder nitrogen fixation on soil carbon processes in arctic and boreal ecosystems15
Facilitation differentially affects competitive responses of aspen and subalpine fir through stages of stand development15
Divergent growth‐differentiation balance strategies and resource competition shape mortality patterns in ponderosa pine15
Wayfinding, knowledge, perspective, and engagement: Preparing tribal liaisons for stewardship of Indigenous lands15
Constant gardeners: Endozoochory promotes repeated seedling recruitment in clonal plants15
Novel disease state model finds most juvenile green turtles develop and recover from fibropapillomatosis15
Distributed urban forest patch sampling detects edge effects and woodland condition for monitoring and management15
Using masking metrics as a means to quantify effect and guide mitigation measures of underwater anthropogenic noise15
Changing fire regimes in the Great Basin USA15
Navigating the trade‐offs between environmental DNA and conventional field surveys for improved amphibian monitoring15
Climate change impacts on ecosystems and adaptation options in nine countries in southern Africa: What do we know?15
Can seasonal fire management reduce the risk of carbon loss from wildfires in a protected Guinea savanna?14
Turning observations into biodiversity data: Broadscale spatial biases in community science14
Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi‐arid cropland‐to‐grassland restoration14
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Local and landscape factors differentially influence predatory arthropods in urban agroecosystems14
Evaluating the foraging performance of individual honey bees in different environments with automated field RFID systems14
Multistate modeling of Florida scrub‐jay adult survival and breeding transitions14
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Effect of increasing temperature and temperature fluctuations on alfalfa and orchardgrass in the establishment year14
Atypical winter coat coloration of snowshoe hares near the southern extent of their range14
Temporal variation in habitat quality shapes the distribution–abundance relationship in waterbirds at landscape scale14
Parsing spatial and temporal variation in stream ecosystem functioning14
It's all about food: Environmental factors cause species‐specific dispersal14
Choosing priors in Bayesian ecological models by simulating from the prior predictive distribution14
Divergent responses of insectivorous bats and flying insects to experimental LED illumination of different spectra14
Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting sites to erosion and inundation: A decision support framework to maximize conservation14
Space‐use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears14
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Ecological service‐learning positively impacts classroom climate and empowers undergraduates for environmental action14
Modeling persistence of coarse woody debris residuals in boreal forests as an ecological property14
Predation on a pygmy shrew, Sorex minutus, by the noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis14
Ecological thresholds and transformations due to climate change: The role of abiotic stress14
Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives14
Pseudogymnoascus destructans environmental reservoir decreases 11 years after an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome14
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A greener future for the Galapagos: forecasting ecosystem productivity by finding climate analogs in time14
A new data‐driven riparian revegetation design method14
Net carbon sequestration implications of intensified timber harvest in Northeastern U.S. forests14
Multiple stressors mediate the effects of warming on leaf decomposition in a large regulated river14
Nonsignificant elevational trends of soil microbial respiration and temperature sensitivity in a subtropical forest14
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Plant silicon content as a proxy for understanding plant community properties and ecosystem structure14
Revealing large‐scale parasite ranges: An integrated spatiotemporal database and multisource analysis of the winter tick14
Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus14
Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk14
Floodplain land use gradients have a stronger effect on soil microbial enzyme activity than spatiotemporal variability13
Dead tree removal after drought mortality increases understory plant diversity in a mixed conifer forest13
Negative effects of forest harvest on coastal tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) emerge after a decade‐long experiment13
Identification of the Gulf of Mexico as an important high‐use habitat for leatherback turtles from Central America13
An ecological and methodological assessment of benthic gross primary production in northern lakes13
Idiosyncrasy and predictability in intraspecific trait–climate relationships of grasses13
MarINvaders: A web toolkit of marine species for use in environmental assessments13
Evaluating the efficacy and decay of lures for improving carnivore detections with camera traps13
Beyond predator and prey: First evidence of an association between ocelot and opossum individuals13
Effects of interactions among primary and secondary foundation species on biodiversity and associated community structure13
Ecological restoration using intertidal foundation species: Considerations and potential for rockweed restoration13
Monitoring of long‐term vegetation dynamics and responses to droughts of various timescales in Inner Mongolia13
Warm places, warm years, and warm seasons increase parasitizing of moose by winter ticks13
Snag decomposition following stand‐replacing wildfires alters wildlife habitat use and surface woody fuels through time13
Consequences of drought for grassland songbird reproduction13
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You can't go home again: Changes in trophic niche following extinction and recolonization of the New Zealand sea lion13
Patterns of depredation in the Hawai‘i deep‐set longline fishery informed by fishery and false killer whale behavior13
Stratified vertical sediment profiles increase burrowing crab effects on salt marsh edaphic conditions13
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The invasive species Rangia cuneata: A new food source for herring gull (Larus argentatus)?13
Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition13
Climate change consequences for differential adult survival and the mating system of a temperate breeding shorebird13
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Deciphering the composite morphological diversity ofLophelia pertusa, a cosmopolitan deep‐water ecosystem engineer12
Effects of landscape position on perennial biomass and food crop performance in buffer areas12
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Characterizing suburban soil and microbial properties along a soil age chronosequence12
Characterizing low‐lying coastal upland forests to predict future landward marsh expansion12
Terrestrial wildlife shows limited response in spatiotemporal activity to logging12
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Investigating changes to food web structure after fish removal using size spectra analysis12
Restoration of an Indigenous aquaculture system can increase reef fish density and fisheries harvest in Hawaii12
Disturbance reduces fungal white‐rot litter mat cover in a wet subtropical forest12
Linking permafrost to the abundance, biomass, and energy density of fish in Arctic headwater streams12
A statistical population reconstruction model for wildlife populations: A case study with white‐tailed deer and fisher12
Recovery of metabolites via subnivean photosynthesis in Arctic tundra plants: Implications for climate change12
Dispersing across habitat boundaries: Uncovering the demographic fates of populations in unsuitable habitat12
Spatiotemporal interactions facilitate sympatry in a diverse mammalian community12
Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape12
The temporal scale of energy maximization explains allometric variations in movement decisions of large herbivores12
Elevated CO2 and drought modify plant–plant and plant–mycorrhizal interactions in two codominant grasses12
Integrating multi‐method surveys and recovery trajectories into occupancy models12
Movement ecology of exotic nilgai antelope: A threat to the re‐emergence of cattle fever ticks in the southern USA12
Using the red‐imported fire ant to study invasive species removal and reinvasion12
Recycled by leaf inhabitants: Terrestrial bacteria drive the mineralization of organic matter in lake water12
Diet of schistosome vectors influences infection outcomes12
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Land use change converts temperate dryland landscape into a net methane source12
Winter tick sharing between ungulates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and implications for apparent competition12
Sex‐dependent habitat selection modulates risk management by meadow voles11
Moss and underlying soil bacterial community structures are linked to moss functional traits11
Integrating microclimatic variation in phenological responses to climate change: A 28‐year study in a hibernating mammal11
Drivers of flea abundance in wild rodents across local and regional scales in the Chihuahuan Desert, northwestern Mexico11
Bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision making11
Migration strategy and constraint in migration behavior vary among shorebird species with different life histories11
Determining potential drivers of vegetation change in a Mediterranean environment11
Full life cycle assessment of insect biomass allows estimation of bioflows across water, air, and land11
Stable isotopes reveal minimal spatial and temporal variation in diet of the wrymouth (Cryptacanthodes maculatus)11
The influence of climate and management on transpiration of residential trees during a bark beetle infestation11
Links between fluctuations in sockeye salmon abundance and riparian forest productivity identified by remote sensing11
Fence types influence pronghorn movement responses11
Accounting for dispersal and local habitat when evaluating tributary use by riverine fishes11
Grassland bird population declines at three Breeding Bird Survey spatial scales in contrast to a large native prairie11
Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild11
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Navigating novel resources: A field test of the effects of small mammal personality on dispersal of Quercus seeds11
Effects of long‐term nitrogen addition on water use by Cunninghamia lanceolate in a subtropical plantation11
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Pygoscelis penguins prefer different oceanographic and terrestrial habitats during the austral summer11
Edge effects on decomposition in Sphagnum bogs: Implications for carbon storage11
Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods11
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