Ecosphere

Article	Citations
Does functional redundancy affect ecological stability and resilience? A review and meta‐analysis	174
The relative performance of sampling methods for native bees: an empirical test and review of the literature	101
Drought stress alters floral volatiles and reduces floral rewards, pollinator activity, and seed set in a global plant	58
What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID‐19 global shutdown?	50
Comparing sample bias correction methods for species distribution modeling using virtual species	41
Factors shaping alternate successional trajectories in burned black spruce forests of Alaska	39
Wildfire impacts on forest microclimate vary with biophysical context	36
Intra‐ and inter‐annual variation in gray whale body condition on a foraging ground	36
Western bumble bee: declines in the continental United States and range‐wide information gaps	36
Wildfire and drought moderate the spatial elements of tree mortality	35
The Kroof experiment: realization and efficacy of a recurrent drought experiment plus recovery in a beech/spruce forest	35
Human activity influences wildlife populations and activity patterns: implications for spatial and temporal refuges	35
Stable isotopes of amino acids indicate that soil decomposer microarthropods predominantly feed on saprotrophic fungi	33
High‐severity and short‐interval wildfires limit forest recovery in the Central Cascade Range	33
Plant genome size influences stress tolerance of invasive and native plants via plasticity	32
Application of multidimensional structural characterization to detect and describe moderate forest disturbance	32
Pond ecology and conservation: research priorities and knowledge gaps	32
Characterizing the floral resources of a North American metropolis using a honey bee foraging assay	31
Choosing priors in Bayesian ecological models by simulating from the prior predictive distribution	30
Biodiversity, climate change, and adaptation in the Mediterranean	28
Climate change drives habitat contraction of a nocturnal arboreal marsupial at its physiological limits	27
Simulated solar panels create altered microhabitats in desert landforms	27
Prior disturbance legacy effects on plant recovery post‐high‐severity wildfire	26
Dissimilarity of species interaction networks: how to partition rewiring and species turnover components	26
Efficient estimation of large‐scale spatial capture–recapture models	26

Settlement‐era forest structure and composition in the Klamath Mountains: reconstructing a historical baseline	25
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network	25
A framework for understanding how biodiversity patterns unfold across multiple spatial scales in urban ecosystems	24
Reframing tropical savannization: linking changes in canopy structure to energy balance alterations that impact climate	24
High‐density camera trap grid reveals lack of consistency in detection and capture rates across space and time	24
Fine‐scale fire patterns mediate forest structure in frequent‐fire ecosystems	24
Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA	23
Metabarcoding of fecal DNA shows dietary diversification in wolves substitutes for ungulates in an island archipelago	23
Disentangling local, metapopulation, and cross‐community sources of stabilization and asynchrony in metacommunities	23
A framework for soil microbial ecology in urban ecosystems	23
Do forest fuel reduction treatments confer resistance to beetle infestation and drought mortality?	23
Navigating the trade‐offs between environmental DNA and conventional field surveys for improved amphibian monitoring	22
A coherent, representative, and bioregional marine reserve network shows consistent change in rocky reef fish assemblages	22
Disturbances drive changes in coral community assemblages and coral calcification capacity	22
Big data–model integration and AI for vector‐borne disease prediction	22
Fitting functional response surfaces to data: a best practice guide	22
Estimating animal abundance and effort–precision relationship with camera trap distance sampling	22
Mechanistic reconciliation of community and invasion ecology	21
Major impacts and societal costs of seagrass loss on sediment carbon and nitrogen stocks	21
Seasonal grassland productivity forecast for the U.S. Great Plains using Grass‐Cast	21
Parasite and pathogen effects on ecosystem processes: A quantitative review	21
Potential natural vegetation and NPP responses to future climates in the U.S. Great Plains	21
Fish predation on a landscape scale	21
Empirical analyses of the factors influencing fire severity in southeastern Australia	21
Rethinking fire‐adapted species in an altered fire regime	21
Seasonal variation in habitat selection for a Neotropical migratory songbird using high‐resolution GPS tracking	21
Pika burrow and zokor mound density and their relationship with grazing management and sheep production in alpine meadow	20
Survival of the fattest: linking body condition to prey availability and survivorship of killer whales	20
Forest landscape structure influences the cyclic‐eruptive spatial dynamics of forest tent caterpillar outbreaks	20
Spatial heterogeneity of soil organic carbon in a karst region under different land use patterns	20
Vegetation structural complexity and biodiversity in the Great Smoky Mountains	20
Drought legacies mediated by trait trade‐offs in soil microbiomes	20
Thermal traits predict the winners and losers under climate change: an example from North American ant communities	20
Using seabird and whale distribution models to estimate spatial consumption of krill to inform fishery management	19
Tree mortality in western U.S. forests forecasted using forest inventory and Random Forest classification	19
Teaching R in the undergraduate ecology classroom: approaches, lessons learned, and recommendations	19
Better boundaries: identifying the upper extent of fish distributions in forested streams using eDNA and electrofishing	19
Stable generalist species anchor a dynamic pollination network	19
Contributions from terrestrial and marine resources stabilize predator populations in a rapidly changing climate	19
Drivers of fire severity shift as landscapes transition to an active fire regime, Klamath Mountains, USA	18
Individual and population fitness consequences associated with large carnivore use of residential development	18
A case for beta regression in the natural sciences	18
Does hot and dry equal more wildfire? Contrasting short‐ and long‐term climate effects on fire in the Sierra Nevada, CA	18
Neighborhood context mediates probability of host tree mortality in a severe bark beetle outbreak	18
Sensitivity of productivity to precipitation amount and pattern varies by topographic position in a semiarid grassland	18
Repeated fire altered succession and increased fire behavior in basin big sagebrush–native perennial grasslands	18
Occupancy‐based monitoring of ungulate prey species in Thailand indicates population stability, but limited recovery	18
Harnessing knowledge of animal behavior to improve habitat restoration outcomes	18
Reversing tree expansion in sagebrush steppe yields population‐level benefit for imperiled grouse	18
Making predictive modelling ART: accurate, reliable, and transparent	17

Weed species, not mulching, affect web‐building spiders and their prey in organic fruit orchards in South Africa	17
Agricultural lands offer seasonal habitats to tigers in a human‐dominated and fragmented landscape in India	17
Plant functional groups and species contribute to ecological resilience a decade after woodland expansion treatments	17
Migration efficiency sustains connectivity across agroecological networks supporting sandhill crane migration	17
Permafrost thaw stimulates primary producers but has a moderate effect on primary consumers in subarctic ponds	17
The value of local habitat heterogeneity and productivity when estimating avian species richness and species of concern	17
Pollinator declines and the stability of plant–pollinator networks	17
Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long‐term forest regeneration	17
Carcass provisioning for scavenger conservation in a temperate forest ecosystem	17
Vanilla distribution modeling for conservation and sustainable cultivation in a joint land sparing/sharing concept	17
Pitfalls during in silico prediction of primer specificity for eDNA surveillance	17
Fungal community response to long‐term soil warming with potential implications for soil carbon dynamics	17
Demographic and potential biological removal models identify raptor species sensitive to current and future wind energy	17
Reproductive maturity and cone abundance vary with tree size and stand basal area for two widely distributed conifers	17
Assessing population‐level consequences of anthropogenic stressors for terrestrial wildlife	16
Fitting ecological principles of artificial reefs into the ocean planning puzzle	16
Increasing concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids in browning boreal lakes is driven by nuisance alga Gonyostomum	16
Conspecific negative density dependence and why its study should not be abandoned	16
Individual consumer movement mediates food web coupling across a coastal ecosystem	16
Compounding effects of white pine blister rust, mountain pine beetle, and fire threaten four white pine species	16
Windows of opportunity for salt marsh establishment: the importance for salt marsh restoration in the Yangtze Estuary	16
Humans rather than Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) shape ungulate browsing patterns in a temperate forest	16
Effects of camera‐trap placement and number on detection of members of a mammalian assemblage	16
Effects of harvesting on subtidal kelp forests (Lessonia trabeculata) in central Chile	16
Does the type of silvicultural practice influence spruce budworm defoliation of seedlings?	16
Options for reducing uncertainty in impact classification for alien species	16
Capturing ecological processes in dynamic forest models: why there is no silver bullet to cope with complexity	16
Exploration of the 2016 Yellowstone River fish kill and proliferative kidney disease in wild fish populations	16
Time lags: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network	16
Effects of short‐interval disturbances continue to accumulate, overwhelming variability in local resilience	16
Seasonal temperature–moisture interactions limit seedling establishment at upper treeline in the Southern Rockies	15
Linking surface and subterranean climate: implications for the study of hibernating bats and other cave dwellers	15
Potential wildfire and carbon stability in frequent‐fire forests in the Sierra Nevada: trade‐offs from a long‐term study	15
Indolic glucosinolate pathway provides resistance to mycorrhizal fungal colonization in a non‐host Brassicaceae	15
Detecting changes in statistical indicators of resilience prior to algal blooms in shallow eutrophic lakes	15
Long‐term trends in marine turtle size at maturity at an important Atlantic rookery	15
Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data‐capable community	15
Multiple‐trophic patterns of primary succession following retreat of a high‐elevation glacier	15
Resistance, resilience, and vulnerability of social‐ecological systems to hurricanes in Puerto Rico	15
Biodiversity loss leads to reductions in community‐wide trophic complexity	15
“New” cyanobacterial blooms are not new: two centuries of lake production are related to ice cover and land use	15
Estimating abundance with interruptions in data collection using open population spatial capture–recapture models	14
Woody encroachment in grassland elicits complex changes in the functional structure of above‐ and belowground biota	14
White‐tailed deer neonate survival in the absence of predators	14
A new variance ratio metric to detect the timescale of compensatory dynamics	14
Size‐, species‐, and site‐specific tree growth responses to climate variability in old‐growth subalpine forests	14
Effects of elevation and selective disturbance on soil climate and vegetation in big sagebrush communities	14
Abundance of a cryptic generalist parasite reflects degradation of an ecosystem	14
Long‐term accumulation of macro‐ and secondary elements in subtropical treatment wetlands	14
Impacts of climate change on multiple use management of Bureau of Land Management land in the Intermountain West, USA	14
Dietary sodium levels affect grasshopper growth and performance	14
Leading‐edge disequilibrium in alder and spruce populations across the forest–tundra ecotone	14
The effect of urbanization on spatiotemporal interactions between gray foxes and coyotes	14
Night lighting and anthropogenic noise alter the activity and body condition of pinyon mice (Peromyscus truei)	14
Risk for overexploiting a seemingly stable seal population: influence of multiple stressors and hunting	14
Zooplankton invasion on a grand scale: insights from a 20‐yr time series across 38 Northeast Pacific estuaries	14
A trait‐based framework for assessing the vulnerability of marine species to human impacts	14
Expanding the feasibility of fish and wildlife assessments with close‐kin mark–recapture	14
Large‐scale patterns of green turtle trophic ecology in the eastern Pacific Ocean	14
Bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision making	14
Disentangling spatial and environmental effects: Flexible methods for community ecology and macroecology	14
Density‐dependent marine survival of hatchery‐origin Chinook salmon may be associated with pink salmon	14
Long‐term effects of tree expansion and reduction on soil climate in a semiarid ecosystem	14
Droughty times in mesic places: factors associated with forest mortality vary by scale in a temperate subalpine region	14
Fishing, environment, and the erosion of a population portfolio	14
Recovery of the herbaceous component of degraded sagebrush steppe is unimpeded by 75 years of moderate cattle grazing	13
Impact of seasonal hydrological variation on tropical fish assemblages: abrupt shift following an extreme flood event	13
Estimating arthropod survival probability from field counts: a case study with monarch butterflies	13
Demographic performance of a large herbivore: effects of winter nutrition and weather	13
Coupled ecological and management connectivity across administrative boundaries in undeveloped landscapes	13
Density estimates for Canada lynx vary among estimation methods	13
Human well‐being and per capita energy use	13
Grazing regime alters plant community structure via patch‐scale diversity in semiarid grasslands	13
Thermal conditions during embryogenesis influence metabolic rates of juvenile brown trout Salmo trutta	13
Impact of water development on river flows and the catch of a commercial marine fishery	13
Plant functional traits as measures of ecosystem service provision	13
Plant damage in urban agroecosystems varies with local and landscape factors	13
Contrasting effects of land cover on nesting habitat use and reproductive output for bumble bees	13
Fuel reduction treatments reduce modeled fire intensity in the sagebrush steppe	13
A framework for sustainable management of ecosystem services and disservices in perennial grassland agroecosystems	13

Move, migrate, or tolerate: Quantifying three tactics for cold‐water fish coping with warm summers in a large river	13
Spatial conservation prioritization for the Amur tiger in Northeast China	13
Using coverage‐based rarefaction to infer non‐random species distributions	13
Advancing plant phenology causes an increasing trophic mismatch in an income breeder across a wide elevational range	13
Future dominance by quaking aspen expected following short‐interval, compounded disturbance interaction	12
Elevational variability in and controls on the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in alpine forests	12
Long‐term study reveals top‐down effect of crabs on a California salt marsh	12
Ten‐year ecological responses to fuel treatments within semiarid Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems	12
Carbon storage in vegetation and soil in Chinese ecosystems estimated by carbon transfer rate method	12
Nonnative old‐field species inhabit early season phenological niches and exhibit unique sensitivity to climate	12
Ecological niche models of biotic interactions predict increasing pest risk to olive cultivars with changing climate	12
A multidimensional stability framework enhances interpretation and comparison of carbon cycling response to disturbance	12
Management of remnant tallgrass prairie by grazing or fire: effects on plant communities and soil properties	12
Ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa population response to living shoreline design and ecosystem development	12
Enzootic plague reduces survival of Mexican woodrats (Neotoma mexicana) in Colorado	12
Exploring the links between secondary metabolites and leaf spectral reflectance in a diverse genus of Amazonian trees	12
Quantifying behavior and life‐history events of an Arctic ungulate from year‐long continuous accelerometer data	12
Abundance of spring‐ and winter‐active arthropods declines with warming	12
The different impacts of the daytime and nighttime land surface temperatures on the alpine grassland phenology	12
Spatial turnover of multiple ecosystem functions is more associated with plant than soil microbial β‐diversity	12
Potential for ecological nonlinearities and thresholds to inform Pacific salmon management	12
Metapopulation dynamics of oysters: sources, sinks, and implications for conservation and restoration	12
The costs and benefits of sunflower pollen diet on bumble bee colony disease and health	12
High aqueous salinity does not preclude germination of invasive Iris pseudacorus from estuarine populations	12
Complex interactions among stressors evolve over time to drive shifts from short turfs to macroalgae on tropical reefs	12
Spotted owls and forest fire: Comment	12
An accumulation of climatic stress events has led to years of reduced growth for sugar maple in southern Quebec, Canada	12
Pasture management, grazing, and fire interact to determine wetland provisioning in a subtropical agroecosystem	12
Phylo‐biogeographical distribution of whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Insecta: Aleyrodidae) mitotypes in Ecuador	12
Ecometabolomics of plant–herbivore and plant–fungi interactions: a synthesis study	12
Divergent responses to permafrost and precipitation reveal mechanisms for the spatial variation of two sympatric spruce	12
Operationalizing forest‐assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: Examples from the eastern USA	12
Biomass allocation in response to salinity and competition in native and invasive species	12
Grappling with uncertainty in ecological projections: a case study using the migratory monarch butterfly	11
An ecological and methodological assessment of benthic gross primary production in northern lakes	11
Treatment longevity and changes in surface fuel loads after pinyon–juniper mastication	11
Utility of environmental DNA analysis for effective monitoring of invasive fish species in reservoirs	11
Testing the effects of anthropogenic pressures on a diverse African herbivore community	11
Expansion of elevational range in a forest pest: Can parasitoids track their hosts?	11
Rain‐shadow forest margins resilient to low‐severity fire and climate change but not high‐severity fire	11
Seasonal associations with light pollution trends for nocturnally migrating bird populations	11
Ribbonized sap flow: an emerging technology for the integration of sap flow sensor components onto a single platform	11
Elevational gradients strongly mediate habitat selection patterns in a nocturnal predator	11
Human augmentation of historical red pine fire regimes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness	11
Exposure to a common antidepressant alters crayfish behavior and has potential subsequent ecosystem impacts	11
Weather affects post‐fire recovery of sagebrush‐steppe communities and model transferability among sites	11
Enzootic maintenance of sylvatic plague in Canada's threatened black‐tailed prairie dog ecosystem	11
Estimating the survival of unobservable life stages for a declining frog with a complex life history	11
Role of carryover effects in conservation of wild Pacific salmon migrating regulated rivers	11
Resilience in coastal dune grasslands: pH and soil organic matter effects on P nutrition, plant strategies, and soil communities	11
Resilience: insights from the U.S. LongTerm Ecological Research Network	11
Caribbean mangrove forests act as coral refugia by reducing light stress and increasing coral richness	11
Natural history of the relict marsupial Monito del Monte at the most extreme altitudinal and latitudinal location	11
Geo‐ecological functions provided by coral reef fishes vary among regions and impact reef carbonate cycling regimes	11
Content, composition, and transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acids in an Arctic lake food web	11
Gradient of microbial communities around seagrass roots was mediated by sediment grain size	11
Comparison of mechanical sorting and DNA metabarcoding for diet analysis with fresh and degraded wolf scats	11
Temporal stability of grassland metacommunities is regulated more by community functional traits than species diversity	11
Contrasting growth response of evergreen and deciduous arctic‐alpine shrub species to climate variability	11
Over three decades, a classic winner starts to lose in a Caribbean coral community	11
Pumas’ fear of humans precipitates changes in plant architecture	11
Applying deep neural networks to predict incidence and phenology of plant pests and diseases	11
Effects of future climate change on the forests of Madagascar	11
Soil‐associated drivers of plant traits and functional composition in Atlantic Forest coastal tree communities	10
Woody plant encroachment of grassland and the reversibility of shrub dominance: Erosion, fire, and feedback processes	10
Six central questions about biological invasions to which NEON data science is poised to contribute	10
Warming effects on arctic tundra biogeochemistry are limited but habitat‐dependent: a meta‐analysis	10
Fire threatens the diversity and structure of tropical gallery forests	10
Effects of salinity and temperature on tuber sprouting and growth of Schoenoplectus nipponicus	10
Spatial ecology of invasive Burmese pythons in southwestern Florida	10
Shifts in amphibian population dynamics in response to a change in the predator community	10
Taxonomic error rates affect interpretations of a national‐scale ground beetle monitoring program at National Ecological Observatory Network	10
Magnesium and zinc stable isotopes as a new tool to understand Mg and Zn sources in stream food webs	10
Reconstructing continental‐scale variation in soil δ15N: a machine learning approach in South America	10
Soil fertility status controls the decomposition of litter mixture residues	10
Effects of nitrogen addition on leaf nutrient stoichiometry in an old‐growth boreal forest	10
Gray wolf habitat use in response to visitor activity along roadways in Yellowstone National Park	10
What is it about coral reefs? Translation of ecosystem goods and services relevant to people and their well‐being	10
Space use and interactions of two introduced mesopredators, European red fox and feral cat, in an arid landscape	10
An introduction to event history analyses for ecologists	10
Decades of warming alters maturation and reproductive investment in fish	10
Beyond blight: Phytophthora root rot under climate change limits populations of reintroduced American chestnut	10
Frame‐by‐frame annotation of video recordings using deep neural networks	10
Effects of sea ice decline and summer land use on polar bear home range size in the Beaufort Sea	10
Examining boreal forest resilience to temperature variability using bryophytes: forest type matters	10
Nonlinear survival of imperiled fish informs managed flows in a highly modified river	10
Extreme drought and adaptive resource selection by a desert mammal	10
Impacts of a drought and hurricane on tropical bird and frog distributions	10
Vegetation dynamics models: a comprehensive set for natural resource assessment and planning in the United States	10
Historic declines in growth portend trembling aspen death during a contemporary leaf miner outbreak in Alaska	10
Variable effects of wind‐energy development on seasonal habitat selection of pronghorn	10
Understanding community assembly rules in managed floodplain food webs	10
Management‐mediated predation rate in the caribou–moose–wolf system: spatial configuration of logging activities matters	10
Hippopotamus movements structure the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active anthrax outbreak	10
Cereal rye mulch biomass and crop density affect weed suppression and community assembly in no‐till planted soybean	10