Ecological Processes

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecological Processes is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?86
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study53
Effects of different forms of nitrogen addition on microbial extracellular enzyme activity in temperate grassland soil45
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community44
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices40
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils39
Enhancements of soil priming effect and carbon sequestration in degraded alpine meadows via supplementation: a comparative study of Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) exc36
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management33
Fine-scale decomposition of China’s underdeveloped regional CO2 emissions peaking targets: a case study of Gansu Province33
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes31
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China26
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers26
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping24
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe23
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China23
The effect of landscape structure on the evolution of two alternative dispersal strategies23
Changes in fish resources 5 years after implementation of the 10-year fishing ban in the Chishui River, the first river with a complete fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin21
Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China20
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain20
Forage offering and seasonal intake comparisons to evaluate European rabbit threat in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia19
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom19
Tree species mixing causes shifts in nitrogen acquisition and utilization strategies of Mongolian pine and Simon poplar19
Nitrogen deposition enhances the competitive advantage of invasive plant species over common native species through improved resource acquisition and absorption18
Wisdom of the crowd: evidence for density-dependent species fitness in Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.18
Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China18
Divergent impact of long-term anthropogenic nitrogen inputs on global particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon18
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species17
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas17
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue17
Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China17
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient17
Progress on the world’s primate hotspots and coldspots: modeling ensemble super SDMs in cloud-computers based on digital citizen-science big data and 200+ predictors for more sustainable conservation 15
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper15
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability15
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation14
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics14
Prolonged alkali water irrigation: impacts of treatment strategies on soil health and microbial dynamics14
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia14
Soil and forest floor respiration already acclimated to increasing temperatures in a mixed deciduous forest14
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems14
Nature-based recreation for the elderly in urban areas: assessing opportunities and demand as planning support14
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review14
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?14
Temporal niche partitioning of bacterial communities shaped by hydrologic fluctuations and drought regimes in karst caves14
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland13
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters13
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates13
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow13
Niche breadth and overlap of spotted deer and domestic cattle with swamp deer in tropical region of Nepal13
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking13
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed13
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment12
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate12
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina12
Integrating environmental and LULC drivers of groundwater droughts in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: a machine learning (XGBoost)-SEM analysis with ecosystem implications12
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data12
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration12
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors12
Effects of fire history on animal communities: a systematic review11
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type11
Application of pressure–state–response approach for developing criteria and indicators of ecological health assessment of wetlands: a multi-temporal study in Ichhamati floodplains, India11
Towards smart soil carbon pool management of grassland: a bibliometric overview from past to future11
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis11
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China11
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations11
Hydrological alteration and biodiversity change along the river network caused by anthropogenic activities and climate variability11
Sustainable urban systems: from landscape to ecological processes11
Plant–pollinator metanetworks in fragmented landscapes: a simulation study10
Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA10
Predicting the invasion potential of two alien plant species (Parthenium hysterophorus L., Asteraceae and Salvia tiliifolia Vahl, Lamiaceae) under the current and future climate change scenarios in Et10
Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry10
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China10
Changes in soil fertility and microbial communities following cultivation of native grassland in Horqin Sandy Land, China: a 60-year chronosequence10
Disentangling land model uncertainty via Matrix-based Ensemble Model Inter-comparison Platform (MEMIP)10
The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado9
Dispersal-based processes as drivers of fish communities and species distributions in the Yangtze River–Poyang Lake riverine floodplain of China9
Construction and optimization of ecological spatial network in typical mining cities of the Yellow River Basin: the case study of Shenmu City, Shaanxi9
Is environmental regulation conducive to the reduction of residents’ health costs? – evidence from the Chinese Family Panel Survey9
Incidence of controlled water restriction on density and chemical profiles in tree rings of Araucaria araucana seedlings9
Spartina alterniflora invasion exacerbates soil microbial carbon and phosphorus co-limitations and alters microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiency in the coastal wetlands of eastern China8
Fuzzy evaluation and obstacle factors of urban ecological health changes in the Wei River Basin, northwest China8
Spatially explicit estimation of soil organic carbon stock of an estuarine mangrove wetland of eastern India using elemental analysis and very-fine resolution satellite data8
Lake microbiome composition determines community adaptability to warming perturbations8
The effects of multiple environmental factors on global carbon allocation8
Consecutive annual mowing reduces soil respiration and increases the proportion of autotrophic component in a meadow steppe8
Influence of tree species on soil microbial residue accumulation and distribution among soil aggregates in subtropical plantations of China8
Hunting of hunted: an ensemble modeling approach to evaluate suitable habitats for caracals in India8
Phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. across diverse rangelands in northeastern Ethiopia8
Complex effects of different types of acid rain on root growth of Quercus acutissima and Cunninghamia lanceolata saplings8
A review of landscape ecology experiments to understand ecological processes8
Unraveling the effect of environment and decomposer diversity on deadwood decomposition: lessons from a large-scale experiment8
Effects of nitrogen addition and drought on the relationship between nitrogen- and water-use efficiency in a temperate grassland7
Time lag effect of vegetation response to seasonal precipitation in the Mara River Basin7
Comparisons of oxbow lake fish assemblages in relation to bigheaded carp establishment in the lower White River, Arkansas7
Changes in albedo and its radiative forcing of grasslands in East Asia drylands7
Evaluating the applicability of the growth rate hypothesis in successional tree stands: evidence from temperate forests in Northeast China7
Uncovering current pyroregions in Italy using wildfire metrics7
Soil drought thresholds of alpine grassland deceased rapidly under the influence of extreme low temperature in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau7
Warming and elevated nitrogen deposition accelerate the invasion process of Solidago canadensis L.7
Biology and resource acquisition of mistletoes, and the defense responses of host plants7
Contrasting responses of an invasive plant to herbivory of native and introduced insects7
Nitrogen use efficiency of terrestrial plants in China: geographic patterns, evolution, and determinants7
Assessment of spongy moth infestation impacts on forest productivity and carbon loss using the Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing and eddy covariance flux data7
Effect of complex hydraulic variables and physicochemical factors on freshwater mussel density in the largest floodplain lake, China7
Species richness is not a good predictor for above-ground biomass in a warm temperate deciduous broadleaf forest7
Correction: An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom7
Understory bamboo removal impacts on woody seedling regeneration in forest ecosystems: a meta-analysis7
Rhizosphere fungal community assembly varied across functional guilds in a temperate forest7
High adaptability of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica to drought-induced soil nutrient deficiency7
Influence of night-time light pollution on the photosynthesis and physiological characteristics of the urban plants Euonymus japonicus and Rosa hybrida7
A global analysis of the introduction pathways and characteristics associated with non-native fish species introduction, establishment, and impacts6
Fluctuating saline conditions favor competition of Bolboschoenus planiculmis, a dominant species in inland salt marshes6
Trajectories in nitrogen availability during forest secondary succession: illustrated by foliar δ15N6
Fixing active sand dune by native grasses in the desert of Northwest China6
Rainfall amount determines annual herb controls over soil seed bank and its similarity with vegetation in the Tengger Desert6
Long-term monitoring reveals the effect of precipitation and silviculture on Nothofagus regeneration in Northern Patagonia mixed forests6
Fungi stimulate organic phosphorus fraction transformation in subtropical masson pine plantation soils after nine years of thinning and understory removal6
Quantifying the impacts of spatiotemporal land use and land cover changes on soil loss across agroecologies and slope categories using GIS and RUSLE model in Zoa watershed, southwest Ethiopia6
Retraction Note: Lichens reveal the quality of indoor air in Selangor, Malaysia6
Contrasting diurnal impacts of vapor pressure deficit on water use efficiency in two semiarid steppe ecosystems5
Enrichment and toxic effects of triclosan on aquatic macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes and Hydrilla verticillata exposed to triclosan in sediments5
Analyses of fin ray types to detect strontium markers in juvenile blunt-snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala5
Influence of urban air pollution on the population in the Klang Valley, Malaysia: a spatial approach5
Soil seed banks after Acacia dealbata Link invasion and removal: implications for restoration5
Stem CH4 emissions from the reclaimed forests: magnitude, drivers, and contribution5
Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on C-cycling functional genes and microbial communities in salt marsh wetlands during cold season5
Interspecific variation in seed traits facilitates divergent pre-dispersal seed predation among five stone oak species5
Sediment phosphorus mobility in a semi-arid wetland with highly fluctuating hydrology5
Congruent responses of vascular plant and ant communities to pastoral land-use abandonment in mountain areas throughout different biogeographic regions5
Comparison of soil chemical and microbial properties in monoculture larch and mixed plantations in a temperate forest ecosystem in Northeast China5
Reproductive patterns in Araucaria araucana forests in the Andean range, Chile5
Environmental drivers of tree species richness in the southernmost portion of the Paranaense forests5
Grazing exclusion promotes soil organic carbon accumulation in Tibetan grasslands with lower temperatures5
Exploring the impacts of agricultural emissions from natural gas on ecological footprint5
Will fire-smart landscape management buffer the effects of climate and land-use changes on fire regimes?5
Exploring the multi-scale drivers of predation on artificial caterpillars by insectivorous birds in a Central European montane forest region5
Functional and phylogenetic structure of mammals along elevational gradients in the Central and East Himalayas5
Rapid recovery of desert shrubs is attributed to imbalance of water supply to demand after disturbance in Northwest China5
Passivation remediation of weakly alkaline Cd-contaminated soils using combined treatments of biochar and sepiolite5
Rare earth element geochemistry in soils along arid and semiarid grasslands in northern China5
Nitrogen addition changes the nitrogen conversion process in forest steppe ecotone by increasing enzyme activity5
Spatio-temporal variations of drought in the Welmel watershed, southeast of Ethiopia using the vegetation condition index and standardized precipitation index5
Light grazing alleviates aeolian erosion–deposition effects on microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland5
Biodiversity effects of the Russia–Ukraine War and the Kakhovka Dam destruction: ecological consequences and predictions for marine, estuarine, and freshwater communities in the northern Black Sea5
Image analysis of Moroccan carob seeds (Ceratonia siliqua L.) revealed substantial intraspecific variations depending on climate and geographic origin5
Application of jasmonic acid boosts accelerative effects of silicon addition on rice defense against invasion of apple snails (Ampullariidae)4
Variations in diversity, composition, and species interactions of soil microbial community in response to increased N deposition and precipitation intensity in a temperate grassland4
Trends in species distribution modelling in context of rare and endemic plants: a systematic review4
Examining global warming factors using self-organizing map and Granger causality network: a case from South Korea4
Evolution of seasonal land surface temperature trend in pond-breeding newt (Neurergus derjugini) in western Iran and eastern Iraq4
Hydraulic effects of vessel-induced waves on early life stages of lake macrophytes4
Process analysis and mitigation strategies for wetland degradation caused by increasing agricultural water demand: an ecology–economy nexus perspective4
Artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution alters bat lunar chronobiology: insights from broad-scale long-term acoustic monitoring4
Priority effects of forbs arriving early: the role of root interaction and asymmetric competition4
Warming and altered precipitation rarely alter N addition effects on soil greenhouse gas fluxes: a meta-analysis4
Ecological drivers shaping mainstem and tributary fish communities in the upper Jinsha River, southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau4
Body size induced changes in metabolic carbon of soil nematodes under N deposition and precipitation regime change in a temperate grassland4
Foliar nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry should not be assumed to diagnose nutrient limitation4
A large carbon sink induced by the implementation of the largest afforestation program on Earth4
Effect of shifting cultivation and fallow on soil quality index in Mokokchung district, Nagaland, India4
Autumn sunlight promotes aboveground carbon loss in a temperate mixed forest4
Interregional eco-compensation: towards equity between emitting and greening in China4
Effects of fertilization on radial growth of Pinus pinea explored hourly using dendrometers4
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