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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Using imaging spectroscopy and elevation in machine learning to estimate soil salinity in intermittently tidal wetlands103
Online citizen science in higher education courses71
Resilience of riparian vegetation productivity to early 21st century drought in northern California, USA66
A novel method for fine‐scale retrospective isotope analysis in mammals using eye lenses66
Carryover effects of environmental stressors influence the life performance of brown trout62
Synergies and trade‐offs between ecosystem services and economics in dryland cover crop systems61
Aquatic vegetation types identified during early and late phases of vegetation recovery in the Upper Mississippi River53
Network topology mediates freshwater fish metacommunity response to loss of connectivity51
Modeling the drivers of eutrophication in Finland with a machine learning approach50
Mechanisms linking river flow regime and riparian hardwood establishment49
Demographic rates and diversity vary with tree stature and ontogenetic stage in an African tropical rainforest44
Understanding the effects of livestock grazing on dryland plant communities within the context of abiotic variability40
Grazing intensity effects on herbaceous community composition in burned sagebrush steppe40
Wildfire disturbance reveals evidence of ecosystem resilience and precariousness in a forest–grassland mosaic37
Move, migrate, or tolerate: Quantifying three tactics for cold‐water fish coping with warm summers in a large river37
Floral turnover and climate drive seasonal bee diversity along a tropical elevation gradient37
Comparison of three global canopy height maps and their applicability to biodiversity modeling: Accuracy issues revealed36
Effects of future climate change on the forests of Madagascar35
Applying and testing a novel method to estimate animal density from motion‐triggered cameras34
Within‐site difference in nitrogen status between mixed forests and larch plantations: Evidence from multiple indicators34
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A novel method for mapping high‐precision animal locations using high‐resolution imagery32
Habitat associations of six‐lined racerunners in longleaf pine managed with a short fire rotation for northern bobwhites32
Sugar diet affects Culex pipiens early‐life mortality, biochemical parameters, and immunocompetence32
Individual patterns of anadromy determine the cost of salmon lice exposure in brown trout32
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Identifying drivers of population dynamics for a stream breeding amphibian using time series of egg mass counts31
Shedding the cloak of neutrality: A guide for reflexive practices to make the sciences more inclusive and just31
Shifts in grasses diversity patterns between two contrasting 40‐year climate periods in tropical dry islands29
Alternative lifestyles: A plague persistence hypothesis29
Functional trait complementarity and dominance both determine benthic secondary production in temperate seagrass beds29
Multi‐scale patterns in the occurrence of an ephemeral pool‐breeding amphibian29
Fear, concealment, and time of day interactively predict group size of a common ungulate29
Plant functional traits affect competitive vigor of pasture grasses during drought and following recovery28
Agroecological measures in meadows promote honey bee colony development and winter survival27
Evaluating the effects of nest management on a recovering raptor using integrated population modeling27
Localized carry‐over effects of pond drying on survival, growth, and pathogen defenses in amphibians27
Diverging conditions of current and potential future urban forest patches27
Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly27
Farming practice affects rice field animal biota during cultivation but not fallow periods in Taiwan27
The influence of postfire recovery and environmental conditions on boreal vegetation26
Linking ecological processes and animal movements to inform timing of long‐term surveys of a migratory game bird25
Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine25
Modeling the effects of water regulation on the population viability of a threatened amphibian25
Researcher effects on the biological structure and edaphic conditions of field sites and implications for management25
Using phenology to unravel differential soil water use and productivity in a semiarid savanna25
Observations of nectarivorous birds and potential biological control agents in berry orchards24
Deciphering the spectra of flowers to map landscape‐scale blooming dynamics23
Competition between pink muhly grass and native plant species: Is it really a harmful invasive species?23
Geographic drivers more important than landscape composition in predicting bee beta diversity and community structure23
Suppression of Australian savanna ants shows “the little rulers” do not rule over spider or beetle assemblages23
Age‐ and sex‐specific survival of the Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)23
A model‐based instructional approach in a socio‐ecological course‐based undergraduate research experience (CURE)23
Long‐term ecological research and the COVID‐19 anthropause: A window to understanding social–ecological disturbance23
The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion23
On Daphnia’s path: a semi‐automatic system to analyze three‐dimensional movement patterns23
Approximation of ice phenology of Maine lakes using Aqua MODIS surface temperature data23
Future exposure of forest ecosystems to multi‐year drought in the United States22
Focused aquifer regeneration produced outsized gains for a threatened fish in a populated, dryland watershed22
Evidence of reduced abundance, density, and survival of coyotes under federal management for red wolf recovery22
Climate, topography, or fuels? Top‐down versus bottom‐up controls on fire refugia across British Columbia, Canada22
Climatic history, constraints, and the plasticity of phytochemical traits under water stress22
Species assemblages and their drivers differ between trees and lianas in a seasonal evergreen forest in Thailand22
Geologic, geomorphic, and edaphic underpinnings of dryland ecosystems: Colorado Plateau landscapes in a changing world21
Temperature is positively associated with tree mortality in California subalpine forests containing whitebark pine21
Metapopulation‐scale resilience to disease‐induced mass mortality in a keystone predator: From stasis to instability21
Responses of a large herbivore to predation risk are modulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors21
Effect of the Asian monsoon on the northward migration of the brown planthopper to northern South China21
Delineating wildfire burns and regrowth using satellite imagery to assess moose (Alces alces) spatial responses to burns21
Competition and soil microbe‐mediated interactions following dieback of a dominant wetland plant21
Variable spatiotemporal ungulate behavioral response to predation risk21
Estimating wolf (Canislupus) densities using video camera traps and spatial capture–recapture analysis21
Hydrology and trophic flexibility structure alpine stream food webs in the Teton Range, Wyoming, USA21
A model‐based assessment of anthropogenic disturbance on lotic macroinvertebrate assemblages21
Heat wave impacts on crop‐pest dynamics are dependent upon insect ontogeny and plant resistance20
Early successional changes in coniferous forest small mammal communities following a high‐severity summer wildfire20
Are all copepods the same? Variation in copepod stoichiometry with taxonomy, ontogeny, latitude, and habitat20
The influence of inherent soil factors and agricultural management on soil organic matter20
Nutrient inputs in mesocosms of an oligotrophic lake fail to sustain an algal bloom20
Nitrogen dynamics of grassland soils with differing habitat quality: high temporal resolution captures the details20
Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent population structure20
Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research20
Asymmetric competition among stream fishes: Do food web pathways affect competitive outcomes?20
Assessing impacts of climate change on selected foundation species and ecosystem services in the South‐Central USA20
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Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science20
An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada19
The relationship between thermal spatial variability and mean temperature alters movement and population dynamics19
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Estimating the distribution of Oryzomys palustris, a potential key host in expanding rickettsial tick‐borne disease risk19
Rapid shifts in migration routes and breeding latitude in North American bluebirds19
Impact and control of feral cats preying on wandering albatrosses: Insights from a field experiment19
First record of antipredator behavior in the gall‐forming aphid Mordwilkoja vagabunda19
Landscape, demographic, and dispersal parameters influence the spread and establishment of an aquatic biological invasion18
Growing‐season climate as an explanation of spatial variations in temperature sensitivity of green‐up on Tibetan Plateau18
Intentional mentoring should increase inclusivity in ecology18
Dynamic environments generate geographic fluctuations in population structure of an inland shorebird18
Effects of solar energy development on ants in the Mojave Desert18
Nitrogen is unlikely to consistently limit primary productivity in most tropical lakes18
Distributed urban forest patch sampling detects edge effects and woodland condition for monitoring and management18
Using masking metrics as a means to quantify effect and guide mitigation measures of underwater anthropogenic noise18
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Decoupled shifts of dominant and rarer fish species as a response to warming and extreme events in a large estuary18
Amphibian abundance is associated with reduced mosquito presence in human‐modified landscapes18
Hydrology drives facilitative and competitive strategies in freshwater macrophyte and microbial communities18
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Advance, steadfast, retreat? Growth and establishment of white spruce seedlings at treelines in Alaska18
Wayfinding, knowledge, perspective, and engagement: Preparing tribal liaisons for stewardship of Indigenous lands18
Spatial Bayesian models project shifts in suitable habitat for Pacific Northwest tree species under climate change17
Exploratory modeling of social‐ecological systems17
Landscape composition and orchard management effects on bat assemblages and bat foraging activity in apple crops17
Professional social connections are associated with student science identity in a research‐based field biology course17
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
Nutrient resorption responses of plant life forms to nitrogen addition in temperate shrublands17
Substantial intraspecific trait variation across a hydrological gradient in northern Australian fishes17
Changing fire regimes in the Great Basin USA17
Wildfire influences individual growth and breeding dispersal, but not survival and recruitment in a montane amphibian17
Habitat partitioning by mobile intertidal invertebrates of sandy beaches shifts with the tides17
Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity17
Boreal tree species change as a climate mitigation strategy: impact on ecosystem C and N stocks and soil nutrient levels16
Modeling persistence of coarse woody debris residuals in boreal forests as an ecological property16
Temporal variation in habitat quality shapes the distribution–abundance relationship in waterbirds at landscape scale16
Beyond predator and prey: First evidence of an association between ocelot and opossum individuals16
Journal reflections shed light on challenges students face in an introductory field biology course16
A multiscale landscape approach for prioritizing river and stream protection and restoration actions16
Mammal responses to predator scents across multiple study areas16
Constant gardeners: Endozoochory promotes repeated seedling recruitment in clonal plants16
Predation on a pygmy shrew, Sorex minutus, by the noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis16
Stochastic metapopulation dynamics of a threatened amphibian to improve water delivery16
Asclepiasdynamics on US rangelands: implications for conservation of monarch butterflies and other insects16
Video of rusty‐spotted genets consuming bats and other prey: Behaviors observed and eco‐epidemiological considerations16
Atypical winter coat coloration of snowshoe hares near the southern extent of their range16
Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi‐arid cropland‐to‐grassland restoration16
Multigenerational emergence trends of Brood X Magicicada spp. across habitat types in southwestern Ohio16
Climate change impacts on ecosystems and adaptation options in nine countries in southern Africa: What do we know?16
Divergent growth‐differentiation balance strategies and resource competition shape mortality patterns in ponderosa pine16
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Dead tree removal after drought mortality increases understory plant diversity in a mixed conifer forest15
Can seasonal fire management reduce the risk of carbon loss from wildfires in a protected Guinea savanna?15
Floodplain land use gradients have a stronger effect on soil microbial enzyme activity than spatiotemporal variability15
Plant silicon content as a proxy for understanding plant community properties and ecosystem structure15
Soil enzymes illustrate the effects of alder nitrogen fixation on soil carbon processes in arctic and boreal ecosystems15
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Effect of increasing temperature and temperature fluctuations on alfalfa and orchardgrass in the establishment year15
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Facilitation differentially affects competitive responses of aspen and subalpine fir through stages of stand development15
Net carbon sequestration implications of intensified timber harvest in Northeastern U.S. forests15
Evaluating the foraging performance of individual honey bees in different environments with automated field RFID systems15
Local and landscape factors differentially influence predatory arthropods in urban agroecosystems15
Multistate modeling of Florida scrub‐jay adult survival and breeding transitions15
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You can't go home again: Changes in trophic niche following extinction and recolonization of the New Zealand sea lion15
Space‐use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears15
Ecological service‐learning positively impacts classroom climate and empowers undergraduates for environmental action15
Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting sites to erosion and inundation: A decision support framework to maximize conservation15
Multiple stressors mediate the effects of warming on leaf decomposition in a large regulated river15
Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus14
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Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives14
Revealing large‐scale parasite ranges: An integrated spatiotemporal database and multisource analysis of the winter tick14
Navigating the trade‐offs between environmental DNA and conventional field surveys for improved amphibian monitoring14
Turning observations into biodiversity data: Broadscale spatial biases in community science14
Interacting effects of invasion and soil microbes on Douglas‐fir seedling response to drought14
Novel disease state model finds most juvenile green turtles develop and recover from fibropapillomatosis14
Investigating changes to food web structure after fish removal using size spectra analysis14
Negative effects of forest harvest on coastal tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) emerge after a decade‐long experiment14
Characterizing suburban soil and microbial properties along a soil age chronosequence14
Parsing spatial and temporal variation in stream ecosystem functioning14
Spatiotemporal interactions facilitate sympatry in a diverse mammalian community14
Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk14
Nonsignificant elevational trends of soil microbial respiration and temperature sensitivity in a subtropical forest14
Idiosyncrasy and predictability in intraspecific trait–climate relationships of grasses14
An ecological and methodological assessment of benthic gross primary production in northern lakes14
Ecological thresholds and transformations due to climate change: The role of abiotic stress14
Elevated CO2 and drought modify plant–plant and plant–mycorrhizal interactions in two codominant grasses14
Effects of interactions among primary and secondary foundation species on biodiversity and associated community structure14
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It's all about food: Environmental factors cause species‐specific dispersal14
Pseudogymnoascus destructans environmental reservoir decreases 11 years after an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome14
Divergent responses of insectivorous bats and flying insects to experimental LED illumination of different spectra14
Linking permafrost to the abundance, biomass, and energy density of fish in Arctic headwater streams14
Disturbance reduces fungal white‐rot litter mat cover in a wet subtropical forest13
Recycled by leaf inhabitants: Terrestrial bacteria drive the mineralization of organic matter in lake water13
Predation risk and personality influence seed predation and dispersal by a scatter‐hoarding small mammal13
Monitoring of long‐term vegetation dynamics and responses to droughts of various timescales in Inner Mongolia13
Recovery of metabolites via subnivean photosynthesis in Arctic tundra plants: Implications for climate change13
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Terrestrial wildlife shows limited response in spatiotemporal activity to logging13
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Moss and underlying soil bacterial community structures are linked to moss functional traits13
Warm places, warm years, and warm seasons increase parasitizing of moose by winter ticks13
Consequences of drought for grassland songbird reproduction13
Marine animal forest formed by gorgonians Subergorgia on near‐shore mesophotic ecosystems in Reunion Island13
Functional but not taxonomic diversity increases productivity of Populus in the southeastern United States13
Stratified vertical sediment profiles increase burrowing crab effects on salt marsh edaphic conditions13
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Restoration of an Indigenous aquaculture system can increase reef fish density and fisheries harvest in Hawaii13
A statistical population reconstruction model for wildlife populations: A case study with white‐tailed deer and fisher13
Snag decomposition following stand‐replacing wildfires alters wildlife habitat use and surface woody fuels through time13
Land use change converts temperate dryland landscape into a net methane source13
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The influence of climate and management on transpiration of residential trees during a bark beetle infestation12
Gene flow of small mammals is inhibited by highways and the urbanized habitat matrix in a large urban forest fragment12
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Grassland bird population declines at three Breeding Bird Survey spatial scales in contrast to a large native prairie12
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Characterizing low‐lying coastal upland forests to predict future landward marsh expansion12
Climate change consequences for differential adult survival and the mating system of a temperate breeding shorebird12
Diet of schistosome vectors influences infection outcomes12
Using the red‐imported fire ant to study invasive species removal and reinvasion12
Spatial and temporal patterns of mammalian roadkill across subtropical protected areas in Nepal12
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Movement ecology of exotic nilgai antelope: A threat to the re‐emergence of cattle fever ticks in the southern USA12
Ecological restoration using intertidal foundation species: Considerations and potential for rockweed restoration12
The invasive species Rangia cuneata: A new food source for herring gull (Larus argentatus)?12
Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition12
MarINvaders: A web toolkit of marine species for use in environmental assessments12
Deciphering the composite morphological diversity ofLophelia pertusa, a cosmopolitan deep‐water ecosystem engineer12
Different topographic and climatic contexts associated carbon hotspots in a carbon‐dense ecoregion12
Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape12
Integrating multi‐method surveys and recovery trajectories into occupancy models12
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Effects of landscape position on perennial biomass and food crop performance in buffer areas12
Dispersing across habitat boundaries: Uncovering the demographic fates of populations in unsuitable habitat12
The temporal scale of energy maximization explains allometric variations in movement decisions of large herbivores12
Winter tick sharing between ungulates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and implications for apparent competition12
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Unexpected stability in faunal population abundances following an estuary‐wide collapse of oysters11
Pygoscelis penguins prefer different oceanographic and terrestrial habitats during the austral summer11
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
Temperature and barometric pressure affect the activity intensity and movement of an endangered thermoconforming lizard11
Geographic distribution of feather δ34S in Europe11
Edge effects on decomposition in Sphagnum bogs: Implications for carbon storage11
Migration strategy and constraint in migration behavior vary among shorebird species with different life histories11
Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods11
Sex‐dependent habitat selection modulates risk management by meadow voles11
Fence types influence pronghorn movement responses11
Interactive effects of dragonfly larvae and Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis on mosquito oviposition and survival11
Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild11
Intraspecific size shifts in generalist bumblebees and flowers lead to low functional consequences11
Hunting habits die hard: Conserved prey preferences in army ants across two distant neotropical rainforests11
Ephemeral flows and vegetation productivity: Insights for desert conservation11
Ecological scenarios: Embracing ecological uncertainty in an era of global change11
Determining potential drivers of vegetation change in a Mediterranean environment11
Effects of long‐term nitrogen addition on water use by Cunninghamia lanceolate in a subtropical plantation11
Bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision making11
Long‐term analysis of body condition reveals species coupling and the impacts of an invasion11
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