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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Using imaging spectroscopy and elevation in machine learning to estimate soil salinity in intermittently tidal wetlands77
Online citizen science in higher education courses77
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Within‐site difference in nitrogen status between mixed forests and larch plantations: Evidence from multiple indicators64
Habitat associations of six‐lined racerunners in longleaf pine managed with a short fire rotation for northern bobwhites63
A novel method for mapping high‐precision animal locations using high‐resolution imagery59
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Identifying drivers of population dynamics for a stream breeding amphibian using time series of egg mass counts49
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Alternative lifestyles: A plague persistence hypothesis48
Evaluating the effects of nest management on a recovering raptor using integrated population modeling47
Individual patterns of anadromy determine the cost of salmon lice exposure in brown trout44
Localized carry‐over effects of pond drying on survival, growth, and pathogen defenses in amphibians40
Understanding the effects of livestock grazing on dryland plant communities within the context of abiotic variability39
Mechanisms linking river flow regime and riparian hardwood establishment38
Sugar diet affects Culex pipiens early‐life mortality, biochemical parameters, and immunocompetence37
Shifts in grasses diversity patterns between two contrasting 40‐year climate periods in tropical dry islands37
Resilience of riparian vegetation productivity to early 21st century drought in northern California, USA36
Carryover effects of environmental stressors influence the life performance of brown trout36
Shedding the cloak of neutrality: A guide for reflexive practices to make the sciences more inclusive and just35
High‐speed sand‐shoveling nesting behavior in the Saharan silver ant32
Comparison of three global canopy height maps and their applicability to biodiversity modeling: Accuracy issues revealed31
Wide recreational trails are semi‐barriers to deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) in small forest preserves31
Estimating golden eagle carrying capacity and wind power impacts through species distribution modeling31
Radiation use and understory aboveground net primary production in a temperate dryland30
Differential responses of bacteria and fungi in the rhizoplane and endosphere of aerial roots of Cissus verticillata30
Integrating climate data and river modeling to reveal Chinook salmon habitat conditions in subarctic river basins30
Mountain goat declines in a protected, interior, native population30
Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly30
Modeling the effects of water regulation on the population viability of a threatened amphibian29
A novel method for fine‐scale retrospective isotope analysis in mammals using eye lenses29
Agroecological measures in meadows promote honey bee colony development and winter survival28
Fear, concealment, and time of day interactively predict group size of a common ungulate28
Modeling the drivers of eutrophication in Finland with a machine learning approach28
Move, migrate, or tolerate: Quantifying three tactics for cold‐water fish coping with warm summers in a large river28
Using phenology to unravel differential soil water use and productivity in a semiarid savanna28
Aquatic vegetation types identified during early and late phases of vegetation recovery in the Upper Mississippi River26
Farming practice affects rice field animal biota during cultivation but not fallow periods in Taiwan26
Synergies and trade‐offs between ecosystem services and economics in dryland cover crop systems26
Demographic rates and diversity vary with tree stature and ontogenetic stage in an African tropical rainforest26
Zone Matcher: A climate‐based web application for deployment and assisted migration of forest trees25
The influence of postfire recovery and environmental conditions on boreal vegetation25
Wildfire disturbance reveals evidence of ecosystem resilience and precariousness in a forest–grassland mosaic25
Plant functional traits affect competitive vigor of pasture grasses during drought and following recovery25
Network topology mediates freshwater fish metacommunity response to loss of connectivity25
Grazing intensity effects on herbaceous community composition in burned sagebrush steppe25
The influence of inherent soil factors and agricultural management on soil organic matter24
Competition and soil microbe‐mediated interactions following dieback of a dominant wetland plant24
Approximation of ice phenology of Maine lakes using Aqua MODIS surface temperature data24
Notes from the past show how local variability can stymie urchins and the rise of the reds in the Gulf of Maine24
Estimating wolf (Canislupus) densities using video camera traps and spatial capture–recapture analysis24
Metapopulation‐scale resilience to disease‐induced mass mortality in a keystone predator: From stasis to instability24
Effect of the Asian monsoon on the northward migration of the brown planthopper to northern South China24
Observations of nectarivorous birds and potential biological control agents in berry orchards24
Deciphering the spectra of flowers to map landscape‐scale blooming dynamics23
Species assemblages and their drivers differ between trees and lianas in a seasonal evergreen forest in Thailand23
Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science23
Remote sensing and geospatial analysis for the study of plant community regeneration in human‐modified landscapes23
Persistence of sub‐clinical infections caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in stream anurans in South Asia23
Linking ecological processes and animal movements to inform timing of long‐term surveys of a migratory game bird23
Removing invasive stream macrofauna shifts nontarget invertebrate mesofauna through facilitation23
Focused aquifer regeneration produced outsized gains for a threatened fish in a populated, dryland watershed23
Researcher effects on the biological structure and edaphic conditions of field sites and implications for management23
Delineating wildfire burns and regrowth using satellite imagery to assess moose (Alces alces) spatial responses to burns22
Environmental watering elevates chytrid infection probability in frogs22
Competition between pink muhly grass and native plant species: Is it really a harmful invasive species?22
The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion22
Temperature is positively associated with tree mortality in California subalpine forests containing whitebark pine21
Evidence of reduced abundance, density, and survival of coyotes under federal management for red wolf recovery21
Geographic drivers more important than landscape composition in predicting bee beta diversity and community structure21
Heat wave impacts on crop‐pest dynamics are dependent upon insect ontogeny and plant resistance21
Variable spatiotemporal ungulate behavioral response to predation risk21
Climatic history, constraints, and the plasticity of phytochemical traits under water stress21
Responses of a large herbivore to predation risk are modulated by intrinsic and extrinsic factors21
Geologic, geomorphic, and edaphic underpinnings of dryland ecosystems: Colorado Plateau landscapes in a changing world21
Trait plasticity enables trees and shrubs to live as epiphytes throughout the coast redwood canopy20
Climate, topography, or fuels? Top‐down versus bottom‐up controls on fire refugia across British Columbia, Canada20
Suppression of Australian savanna ants shows “the little rulers” do not rule over spider or beetle assemblages20
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
Future exposure of forest ecosystems to multi‐year drought in the United States20
Evidence of negative density‐dependent dispersal in an invasive forest pest20
Hydrology and trophic flexibility structure alpine stream food webs in the Teton Range, Wyoming, USA20
A model‐based instructional approach in a socio‐ecological course‐based undergraduate research experience (CURE)20
A model‐based assessment of anthropogenic disturbance on lotic macroinvertebrate assemblages20
Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent population structure19
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Early successional changes in coniferous forest small mammal communities following a high‐severity summer wildfire19
First record of antipredator behavior in the gall‐forming aphid Mordwilkoja vagabunda19
Nutrient inputs in mesocosms of an oligotrophic lake fail to sustain an algal bloom19
Video of rusty‐spotted genets consuming bats and other prey: Behaviors observed and eco‐epidemiological considerations18
Stochastic metapopulation dynamics of a threatened amphibian to improve water delivery18
Nutrient resorption responses of plant life forms to nitrogen addition in temperate shrublands18
Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity18
Dynamic environments generate geographic fluctuations in population structure of an inland shorebird18
Effects of solar energy development on ants in the Mojave Desert18
Mammal responses to predator scents across multiple study areas18
Journal reflections shed light on challenges students face in an introductory field biology course18
Similar population dynamics before and after a chytridiomycosis outbreak in a tropical riparian amphibian species18
Invasive annual grasses destabilize plant communities in a northern mixed‐grass prairie18
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Wayfinding, knowledge, perspective, and engagement: Preparing tribal liaisons for stewardship of Indigenous lands18
Landscape composition and orchard management effects on bat assemblages and bat foraging activity in apple crops18
Growing‐season climate as an explanation of spatial variations in temperature sensitivity of green‐up on Tibetan Plateau18
White‐tailed deer preferentially use areas with greater anthropogenic development in a suburban metropark system18
Landscape features and seasonal habitat predict lek site selection and lek size of a Tympanuchus grouse18
Advance, steadfast, retreat? Growth and establishment of white spruce seedlings at treelines in Alaska18
Hydrology drives facilitative and competitive strategies in freshwater macrophyte and microbial communities18
The relationship between thermal spatial variability and mean temperature alters movement and population dynamics18
Rapid shifts in migration routes and breeding latitude in North American bluebirds17
Estimating the distribution of Oryzomys palustris, a potential key host in expanding rickettsial tick‐borne disease risk17
Impact and control of feral cats preying on wandering albatrosses: Insights from a field experiment17
Wildfire influences individual growth and breeding dispersal, but not survival and recruitment in a montane amphibian17
Exploratory modeling of social‐ecological systems17
Distributed urban forest patch sampling detects edge effects and woodland condition for monitoring and management16
Substantial intraspecific trait variation across a hydrological gradient in northern Australian fishes16
Nitrogen dynamics of grassland soils with differing habitat quality: high temporal resolution captures the details16
Are all copepods the same? Variation in copepod stoichiometry with taxonomy, ontogeny, latitude, and habitat16
Using masking metrics as a means to quantify effect and guide mitigation measures of underwater anthropogenic noise16
A multiscale landscape approach for prioritizing river and stream protection and restoration actions16
Nitrogen is unlikely to consistently limit primary productivity in most tropical lakes16
Emergency‐line calls as an indicator to assess human–wildlife interaction in urban areas16
Spatial Bayesian models project shifts in suitable habitat for Pacific Northwest tree species under climate change16
Landscape, demographic, and dispersal parameters influence the spread and establishment of an aquatic biological invasion16
Changing fire regimes in the Great Basin USA16
Nonsignificant elevational trends of soil microbial respiration and temperature sensitivity in a subtropical forest15
Parsing spatial and temporal variation in stream ecosystem functioning15
Multigenerational emergence trends of Brood X Magicicada spp. across habitat types in southwestern Ohio15
Beyond predator and prey: First evidence of an association between ocelot and opossum individuals15
An accurate and efficient semiautomated approach to counting birds: Estimating Northern Gannet colony size in Canada15
Amphibian abundance is associated with reduced mosquito presence in human‐modified landscapes15
Professional social connections are associated with student science identity in a research‐based field biology course15
Revealing large‐scale parasite ranges: An integrated spatiotemporal database and multisource analysis of the winter tick15
Landscape of exposure: Metapopulation dynamics and local environment structure pathogen exposure in desert bighorn sheep15
You can't go home again: Changes in trophic niche following extinction and recolonization of the New Zealand sea lion15
Dead tree removal after drought mortality increases understory plant diversity in a mixed conifer forest15
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Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi‐arid cropland‐to‐grassland restoration15
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Interacting effects of invasion and soil microbes on Douglas‐fir seedling response to drought15
Multistate modeling of Florida scrub‐jay adult survival and breeding transitions15
Can seasonal fire management reduce the risk of carbon loss from wildfires in a protected Guinea savanna?15
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Ecological thresholds and transformations due to climate change: The role of abiotic stress15
Atypical winter coat coloration of snowshoe hares near the southern extent of their range15
Decoupled shifts of dominant and rarer fish species as a response to warming and extreme events in a large estuary15
Divergent growth‐differentiation balance strategies and resource competition shape mortality patterns in ponderosa pine15
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Temporal variation in habitat quality shapes the distribution–abundance relationship in waterbirds at landscape scale15
Growth and age dynamics of juvenile plants of a dominant shrub in North American drylands15
Effect of increasing temperature and temperature fluctuations on alfalfa and orchardgrass in the establishment year14
Living in fear: How experience shapes caribou responses to predation risk14
An omnivore's options: Altered predator behavior during periods of overlapping resource pulses14
Pseudogymnoascus destructans environmental reservoir decreases 11 years after an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome14
It's all about food: Environmental factors cause species‐specific dispersal14
Plant silicon content as a proxy for understanding plant community properties and ecosystem structure14
Effects of interactions among primary and secondary foundation species on biodiversity and associated community structure14
Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus14
Complex trajectories of tree growth in the southwestern United States after severe drought14
Floodplain land use gradients have a stronger effect on soil microbial enzyme activity than spatiotemporal variability14
Negative effects of forest harvest on coastal tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) emerge after a decade‐long experiment14
Species richness, composition, and dominance of core and climate relicts of African miombo woodlands14
Local and landscape factors differentially influence predatory arthropods in urban agroecosystems14
Contrasted effects of temperate forest closure on snake demography14
Evaluating the foraging performance of individual honey bees in different environments with automated field RFID systems14
Predation on a pygmy shrew, Sorex minutus, by the noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis14
Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting sites to erosion and inundation: A decision support framework to maximize conservation14
Turning observations into biodiversity data: Broadscale spatial biases in community science13
Land use change converts temperate dryland landscape into a net methane source13
Ecological service‐learning positively impacts classroom climate and empowers undergraduates for environmental action13
Moss and underlying soil bacterial community structures are linked to moss functional traits13
Elevated CO2 and drought modify plant–plant and plant–mycorrhizal interactions in two codominant grasses13
Terrestrial wildlife shows limited response in spatiotemporal activity to logging13
Characterizing suburban soil and microbial properties along a soil age chronosequence13
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Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives13
Recovery of metabolites via subnivean photosynthesis in Arctic tundra plants: Implications for climate change13
Space‐use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears13
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Multiple stressors mediate the effects of warming on leaf decomposition in a large regulated river13
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The temporal scale of energy maximization explains allometric variations in movement decisions of large herbivores13
Divergent responses of insectivorous bats and flying insects to experimental LED illumination of different spectra13
Movement ecology of exotic nilgai antelope: A threat to the re‐emergence of cattle fever ticks in the southern USA13
Net carbon sequestration implications of intensified timber harvest in Northeastern U.S. forests13
Consequences of drought for grassland songbird reproduction13
Investigating changes to food web structure after fish removal using size spectra analysis13
A statistical population reconstruction model for wildlife populations: A case study with white‐tailed deer and fisher12
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Functional but not taxonomic diversity increases productivity of Populus in the southeastern United States12
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Spatiotemporal interactions facilitate sympatry in a diverse mammalian community12
Keep mowing: Predictions show that successful grassland restoration depends on post‐restoration management12
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Marine animal forest formed by gorgonians Subergorgia on near‐shore mesophotic ecosystems in Reunion Island12
Warm places, warm years, and warm seasons increase parasitizing of moose by winter ticks12
Snag decomposition following stand‐replacing wildfires alters wildlife habitat use and surface woody fuels through time12
Microbial functional guilds and genes are key to explaining soil nutrient cycling alongside soil and plant variables12
Intra‐species differences in impacts of climate change: A case study of the hooded seal ( Cystophora cristata )12
Recycled by leaf inhabitants: Terrestrial bacteria drive the mineralization of organic matter in lake water12
Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multiyear effects on plant species composition12
Ecological restoration using intertidal foundation species: Considerations and potential for rockweed restoration12
Predation risk and personality influence seed predation and dispersal by a scatter‐hoarding small mammal12
Effects of landscape position on perennial biomass and food crop performance in buffer areas12
Using the red‐imported fire ant to study invasive species removal and reinvasion12
Restoration of an Indigenous aquaculture system can increase reef fish density and fisheries harvest in Hawaii12
Characterizing low‐lying coastal upland forests to predict future landward marsh expansion12
Stratified vertical sediment profiles increase burrowing crab effects on salt marsh edaphic conditions12
Winter tick sharing between ungulates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and implications for apparent competition12
Monitoring of long‐term vegetation dynamics and responses to droughts of various timescales in Inner Mongolia12
Linking permafrost to the abundance, biomass, and energy density of fish in Arctic headwater streams12
Climate change consequences for differential adult survival and the mating system of a temperate breeding shorebird12
Idiosyncrasy and predictability in intraspecific trait–climate relationships of grasses12
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Dispersing across habitat boundaries: Uncovering the demographic fates of populations in unsuitable habitat12
Diet of schistosome vectors influences infection outcomes12
Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape12
MarINvaders: A web toolkit of marine species for use in environmental assessments12
Fence types influence pronghorn movement responses11
Migration strategy and constraint in migration behavior vary among shorebird species with different life histories11
Just street trees? Street trees increase local biodiversity and biomass in higher income, denser neighborhoods11
Gene flow of small mammals is inhibited by highways and the urbanized habitat matrix in a large urban forest fragment11
A comparison of density estimation methods for monitoring marked and unmarked animal populations11
Intraspecific size shifts in generalist bumblebees and flowers lead to low functional consequences11
Navigating novel resources: A field test of the effects of small mammal personality on dispersal of Quercus seeds11
Long‐term analysis of body condition reveals species coupling and the impacts of an invasion11
Ephemeral flows and vegetation productivity: Insights for desert conservation11
Seasonal growth potential of Oncorhynchus mykiss in streams with contrasting prey phenology and streamflow11
An inverse latitudinal gradient in intraspecific genetic diversity of a dominant ant in the neotropical savanna11
Predicting spatiotemporal persistence of rare species: An example with North Atlantic right whales11
Handheld lidar sensors can accurately measure aboveground biomass11
Grassland bird population declines at three Breeding Bird Survey spatial scales in contrast to a large native prairie11
Repeated hurricane disturbance has minimal impact on shallow coastal infaunal communities11
Traditional harvest systems as models for advancing understanding of dynamics and resilience in socio‐ecological systems11
Hunting habits die hard: Conserved prey preferences in army ants across two distant neotropical rainforests11
Differential responses of coolwater fishes to a whole‐lake reduction of a warmwater thermal guild11
Sex‐dependent habitat selection modulates risk management by meadow voles11
Pygoscelis penguins prefer different oceanographic and terrestrial habitats during the austral summer11
Unintended indirect effects limit elk productivity from supplemental feeding in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem11
Chronic and punctuated changes in subtropical reef fish assemblages11
Colder temperatures augment viability of an indirectly transmitted songbird pathogen on bird feeders11
Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild11
Spatial and temporal patterns of mammalian roadkill across subtropical protected areas in Nepal11
Geographic distribution of feather δ 34 S in Europ11
Integrating microclimatic variation in phenological responses to climate change: A 28‐year study in a hibernating mammal11
The influence of climate and management on transpiration of residential trees during a bark beetle infestation11
Interactive effects of dragonfly larvae and Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis on mosquito oviposition and survival11
Resistance of groundwater invertebrates to droughts: Two new cases in planarians and isopods11
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