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Changes in Plant Biomass Are Driven by Persisting Plant Species, but Species Gains Drive Nematode Carbon Dynamics Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-17 Anning Zhang, Shuyan Chen, Ziyang Liu, Jingwei Chen, Hongxian Song, Hanwen Cui, Zi Yang, Sa Xiao, Lizhe An, Mark A. Genung
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Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Rebecca Schalkowski, Katja R. Kasimatis, Megan A. Greischar, Asher D. Cutter
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Seasonal Shifts in Trophic Interaction Strength Drive Stability of Natural Food Webs Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Ursula Gaedke, Xiaoxiao Li, Christian Guill, Lia Hemerik, Peter C. de Ruiter
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Intraspecific Diversity in Thermal Performance Determines Phytoplankton Ecological Niche Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Arianna I. Krinos, Sara K. Shapiro, Weixuan Li, Sheean T. Haley, Sonya T. Dyhrman, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Michael J. Follows, Harriet Alexander
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A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 François Duchenne, Elisa Barreto, Esteban A. Guevara, Holger Beck, Carolina Bello, Rafaela Bobato, Daniela Bôlla, Emanuel Brenes, Nicole Büttner, Ana P. Caron, Nelson Chaves‐Elizondo, María J. Gavilanes, Alejandro Restrepo‐González, Jose Alejandro Castro, Miriam Kaehler, Tiago Machado‐de‐Souza, Miguel Machnicki‐Reis, Andrés Sebastián F. Marcayata, Cauã G. de Menezes, Andrea Nieto, Rafael de Oliveira
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A Non‐Equilibrium Species Distribution Model Reveals Unprecedented Depth of Time Lag Responses to Past Environmental Change Trajectories Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Etienne Lalechère, Ronan Marrec, Jonathan Lenoir
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Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Laura E. Dee
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Correction to “The importance of neutral over niche processes in structuring Ediacaran early animal communities” Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21
Mitchell, E. G., Harris, S., Kenchington, C. G., Vixseboxse, P., Roberts, L., Clark, C., Dennis, A., Liu, A. G., & Wilby, P. R. 2019. “ The importance of neutral over niche processes in structuring Ediacaran early animal communities.” Ecology letters 22: 2028–2038. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13383. In the above published article, the authors have spotted an error in Table 2: the Mean number in the
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A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Lisa Buche, Lauren G. Shoemaker, Lauren M. Hallett, Ignasi Bartomeus, Peter Vesk, Christopher Weiss‐Lehman, Margaret Mayfield, Oscar Godoy
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Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Katherine Siegel, Laura E. Dee
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Trees First Inhibit Then Promote Litter Decomposition in the Subarctic Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Micael Jonsson, Karina E. Clemmensen, Carles Castaño, Thomas C. Parker
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Weaker Plant‐Frugivore Trait Matching Towards the Tropics and on Islands Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Xiao Huang, Bo Dalsgaard, Si‐Chong Chen
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Continuous Abrupt Vegetation Shifts in the Global Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Maohong Wei, Shengpeng Li, Lin Zhu, Xueqiang Lu, Hongyuan Li, Jianfeng Feng
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Impacts of Weather Anomalies and Climate on Plant Disease Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Devin Kirk, Jeremy M. Cohen, Vianda Nguyen, Marissa L. Childs, Johannah E. Farner, T. Jonathan Davies, S. Luke Flory, Jason R. Rohr, Mary I. O'Connor, Erin A. Mordecai
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High Capacity for Physiological Plasticity Occurs at a Slow Rate in Ectotherms Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Tim Burton, Sigurd Einum
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Additive Effects of Multiple Global Change Factors on Plant Invasions Are Common Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Xiong Shi, Yanjie Liu, Mark van Kleunen
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Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Alissar Cheaib, Elizabeth F. Waring, Risa McNellis, Evan A. Perkowski, Jason P. Martina, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Ning Dong, Iain Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, Sally A. Power, Erika I. Hersch‐Green, Anita C. Risch, Maria C. Caldeira, Carla Nogueira, Qingqing Chen, Nicholas G. Smith
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Reconciling Variability in Multiple Stressor Effects Using Environmental Performance Curves Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Hebe Carmichael, Ruth Warfield, Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher
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A Global Relationship Between Genome Size and Encoded Carbon Metabolic Strategies of Soil Bacteria Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Xingjie Wu, Jingjing Peng, Ashish Anil Malik, Ziheng Peng, Yu Luo, Fenliang Fan, Yahai Lu, Gehong Wei, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Werner Liesack, Shuo Jiao
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Elevated Temperature Diminishes Reciprocal Selection in an Experimental Plant‐Pollinator‐Herbivore System Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-14 Quint Rusman, Juan Traine, Florian P. Schiestl
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Leaf Dry Matter Content Is Phylogenetically Conserved and Related to Environmental Conditions, Especially Wildfire Activity Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-05 Dachuan Dai, Dongli Yu, Wuchao Gao, George L. W. Perry, Adrian M. Paterson, Chengming You, Shixing Zhou, Zhenfeng Xu, Congde Huang, Dongyu Cao, Timothy J. Curran, Xinglei Cui
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A Natural Disaster Exacerbates and Redistributes Disease Risk Among Free-Ranging Macaques by Altering Social Structure Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Gregory F. Albery, Josue E. Negron-Del Valle, Daniel Philips, , Michael L. Platt, Lauren J. N. Brent, Camille Testard
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Evidence for bottom‐up effects of moth abundance on forest birds in the north‐boreal zone alone Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Mahtab Yazdanian, Tuomas Kankaanpää, Thomas Merckx, Ida‐Maria Huikkonen, Juhani Itämies, Jukka Jokimäki, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Reima Leinonen, Juha Pöyry, Pasi Sihvonen, Anna Suuronen, Panu Välimäki, Sami M. Kivelä
Insect declines are raising alarms regarding cascading effects on ecosystems, especially as many insectivorous bird populations are also declining. Here, we leveraged long‐term monitoring datasets across Finland to investigate trophic dynamics between functional groups of moths and birds in forested habitats. We reveal a positive association between the biomass of adult‐ or egg‐overwintering moths
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Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated With Trait Similarity and Climate Across North America Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Jalene M. LaMontagne, David F. Greene, E. Penelope Holland, Jill F. Johnstone, Mark Schulze, Jess K. Zimmerman, Nicholas J. Lyon, Angel Chen, Tom E. X. Miller, Katherine M. Nigro, Rebecca S. Snell, Jessica H. Barton, V. Bala Chaudhary, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Elizabeth E. Crone, Walter D. Koenig, Diana Macias, Ian S. Pearse, Miranda D. Redmond
Mast seeding, the synchronous and highly variable production of seed crops by perennial plants, is a population‐level phenomenon and has cascading effects in ecosystems. Mast seeding studies are typically conducted at the population/species level. Much less is known about synchrony in mast seeding between species because the necessary long‐term data are rarely available. To investigate synchrony between
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Past and future effects of climate on the metapopulation dynamics of a Northeast Atlantic seabird across two centuries Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Jana W. E. Jeglinski, Holly I. Niven, Sarah Wanless, Robert T. Barrett, Mike P. Harris, Jochen Dierschke, Jason Matthiopoulos
Forecasting population responses to rapidly changing marine ecosystems requires mechanistic models integrating complex demographic processes, fitted to long time series, across large spatial scales. We used a Bayesian metapopulation model fit to colony census data and climatic covariates spanning 1900–2100 for all Northeast Atlantic colonies of an exemplar seabird, the Northern gannet (Morus bassanus)
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The Demographic Basis of Population Growth: A 32‐Year Transient Life Table Response Experiment Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 F. Stephen Dobson, David N. Koons, Claire Saraux, Anouch Tamian, Madan K. Oli, Vincent A. Viblanc
It has recently been recognised that populations are rarely in demographic equilibrium, but rather in a ‘transient’ state. To examine how transient dynamics influence our empirical understanding of the links between changes in demographic rates and population growth, we conducted a 32‐year study of Columbian ground squirrels. The population increased rapidly for 10 years, followed by a 2‐year crash
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Coefficients in Taylor's law increase with the time scale of water clarity measurements in a global suite of lakes Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Max R. Glines, Renata C. H. Amancio, Mikkel René Andersen, Helen Baulch, Ludmila S. Brighenti, Hannah E. Chmiel, Joel E. Cohen, Elvira de Eyto, Oxana Erina, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Giovanna Flaim, Andrea Giudici, David P. Hamilton, Yannick Huot, Michael R. Kelly, Seán Kelly, Alo Laas, Christopher McBride, Camille Minaudo, Jose Fernandes Bezerra Neto, Katy Nugent, César Ordóñez, Marie‐Elodie Perga, Brian
Identifying the scaling rules describing ecological patterns across time and space is a central challenge in ecology. Taylor's law of fluctuation scaling, which states that the variance of a population's size or density is proportional to a positive power of the mean size or density, has been widely observed in population dynamics and characterizes variability in multiple scientific domains. However
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Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Sarah Schwieger, Ellen Dorrepaal, Matteo Petit Bon, Vigdis Vandvik, Elizabeth le Roux, Maria Strack, Yan Yang, Susanna Venn, Johan van den Hoogen, Fernando Valiño, Haydn J. D. Thomas, Mariska te Beest, Satoshi Suzuki, Alessandro Petraglia, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Tariq Muhammad Munir, Anders Michelsen, Jørn Olav Løkken, Qi Li, Takayoshi Koike, Kari Klanderud, Ellen Haakonsen Karr, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir
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Environment‐Organism Feedbacks Drive Changes in Ecological Interactions Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Oliver J. Meacock, Sara Mitri
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Central Taxa Are Keystone Microbes During Early Succession Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Amanda H. Rawstern, Damian J. Hernandez, Michelle E. Afkhami
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Temporal Changes in the Role of Species Sorting and Evolution Determine Community Dynamics Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Julius Hoffmann, Shane Hogle, Teppo Hiltunen, Lutz Becks
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Calibrated Ecosystem Models Cannot Predict the Consequences of Conservation Management Decisions Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Larissa Lubiana Botelho, Cailan Jeynes‐Smith, Sarah A. Vollert, Michael Bode
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A Functional Response in Resource Selection Links Multiscale Responses of a Large Carnivore to Human Mortality Risk Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Kyle D. Dougherty, Justin A. Dellinger, Bogdan Cristescu, Daniel J. Gammons, David K. Garcelon, J. Mark Higley, Quinton E. Martins, Seth P. D. Riley, Jeff A. Sikich, Thomas R. Stephenson, T. Winston Vickers, Greta M. Wengert, Christopher C. Wilmers, Heiko U. Wittmer, John F. Benson
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Pollination Across the Diel Cycle: A Global Meta‐Analysis Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Liam Kendall, Charlie C. Nicholson
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Habitat Restorations in an Urban Landscape Rapidly Assemble Diverse Pollinator Communities That Persist Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Jens Ulrich, Risa D. Sargent
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Identifying the Knowledge and Capacity Gaps in Southeast Asian Insect Conservation Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Xin Rui Ong, Belle Tan, Charlotte H. Chang, Nalini Puniamoorthy, Eleanor M. Slade
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Increasing Aridity May Threaten the Maintenance of a Plant Defence Polymorphism Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Lauren N. Carley, Tom Mitchell‐Olds, William F. Morris
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Non‐Analog Behaviour of Eastern African Herbivore Communities During the Last Glacial Period Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Kaedan O'Brien, Lilian Ashioya, J. Tyler Faith
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modelRxiv: A Platform for the Dissemination and Interactive Display of Models Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Keith D. Harris, Guy Hadari, Gili Greenbaum
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Hidden Causes of Variation in Offspring Reproductive Value: Negative Effects of Maternal Breeding Age on Offspring Telomere Length Persist Undiminished Across Multiple Generations Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Valeria Marasco, Winnie Boner, Kate Griffiths, Shirley Raveh, Pat Monaghan
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Large Differences in Herbivore Performance Emerge From Simple Herbivore Behaviours and Fine‐Scale Spatial Heterogeneity in Phytochemistry Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Vincent S. Pan, Enakshi Ghosh, Paul J. Ode, William C. Wetzel, Kadeem J. Gilbert, Ian S. Pearse
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Seasonal Assembly of Nectar Microbial Communities Across Angiosperm Plant Species: Assessing Contributions of Climate and Plant Traits Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Jacob M. Cecala, Leta Landucci, Rachel L. Vannette
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An Experimental Validation Test of Ecological Coexistence Theory to Forecast Extinction Under Rising Temperatures Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 J. Christopher D. Terry
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Global Biases in Ecology and Conservation Research: Insight From Pollinator Studies Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Oksana Skaldina, James D. Blande
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Current and Historical Resource Nitrogen Supply Affects the Eco‐Physiological Traits and the Ionome of a Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Nicole D. Wagner, Clay Prater, Caleb J. Robbins, Felicia S. Osburn, Jingyu Wang, Punidan D. Jeyasingh, J. Thad Scott
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Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on the Fertility of Aquatic Animals Using a Meta‐Analytic Approach Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Amber Chatten, Isobel Grieve, Eirini Meligoniti, Claudia Hayward, Natalie Pilakouta
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Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Justus Hennecke, Leonardo Bassi, Cynthia Albracht, Angelos Amyntas, Joana Bergmann, Nico Eisenhauer, Aaron Fox, Lea Heimbold, Anna Heintz‐Buschart, Thomas W. Kuyper, Markus Lange, Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza, Akanksha Rai, Marcel Dominik Solbach, Liesje Mommer, Alexandra Weigelt
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The Metapopulation Bridge to Macroevolutionary Speciation Rates: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Test Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Matheus Januario, Malin L. Pinsky, Daniel L. Rabosky
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Getting better with age: Lessons from the Kenya Long‐term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE) Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Corinna Riginos, Duncan M. Kimuyu, Kari E. Veblen, Lauren M. Porensky, Wilfred O. Odadi, Ryan L. Sensenig, Harry B. M. Wells, Truman P. Young
The Kenya long‐term exclosure experiment (KLEE) was established in 1995 in semi‐arid savanna rangeland to examine the separate and combined effects of livestock, wildlife and megaherbivores on their shared environment. The long‐term nature of this experiment has allowed us to measure these effects and address questions of stability and resilience in the context of multiple drought‐rainy cycles. Here
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Density dependence maintains long‐term stability despite increased isolation and inbreeding in the Florida Scrub‐Jay Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Jeremy Summers, Elissa J. Cosgrove, Reed Bowman, John W. Fitzpatrick, Nancy Chen
Isolation caused by anthropogenic habitat fragmentation can destabilize populations. Populations relying on the inflow of immigrants can face reduced fitness due to inbreeding depression as fewer new individuals arrive. Empirical studies of the demographic consequences of isolation are critical to understand how populations persist through changing conditions. We used a 34‐year demographic and environmental
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Multi‐Trophic Level Responses to Marine Heatwave Disturbances in the California Current Ecosystem Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Tz‐Chian Chen, Mati Kahru, Michael R. Landry, Mark D. Ohman, Andrew R. Thompson, Michael R. Stukel
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) caused by multiple phenomena with days to months duration are increasingly common disturbances in ocean ecosystems. We investigated the impacts of MHWs on pelagic communities using spatially resolved time‐series of multiple trophic levels from the Southern California Current Ecosystem. Indices of phytoplankton biomass mostly declined during MHWs because of reduced nutrient supply
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Long‐term data reveal widespread phenological change across major US estuarine food webs Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Robert J. Fournier, Denise D. Colombano, Robert J. Latour, Stephanie M. Carlson, Albert Ruhi
Climate change is shifting the timing of organismal life‐history events. Although consequential food‐web mismatches can emerge if predators and prey shift at different rates, research on phenological shifts has traditionally focused on single trophic levels. Here, we analysed >2000 long‐term, monthly time series of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish abundance or biomass for the San Francisco, Chesapeake
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Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic? Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Miranda B. Zammarelli, Matthew P. Ayres, Hannah M. ter Hofstede, David A. Lutz, Richard T. Holmes
Relations among territoriality, abundance and habitat suitability are fundamental to the ecology of many animal populations. Theory suggests two classes of possible responses to increasing abundance in territorial species: (1) the ideal free distribution (IFD), which predicts smaller territory sizes and decreased fitness as individuals adaptively pack into suitable habitats, and (2) the ideal despotic
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Causes and consequences of divorce in a long‐lived socially monogamous bird Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Frigg J. D. Speelman, Terry Burke, Jan Komdeur, David S. Richardson, Hannah L. Dugdale
In socially monogamous species, sexual selection not only depends on initial mate choice but also mate switching. To date, studies lack assessment of (1) differences between passive (widowhood) and active (divorce) mate switching, (2) longer term fitness consequences (beyond the season post‐divorce) and (3) how age masks reproductive costs and benefits of divorce. We investigated causes and short‐
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Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Nicholas A. J. Graham, Shaun K. Wilson, Cassandra E. Benkwitt, Rodney Bonne, Rodney Govinden, James P. W. Robinson
Ecosystems are substantially changing in response to ongoing climate change. For example, coral reefs have declined in coral dominance, with some reefs undergoing regime shifts to non‐coral states. However, reef responses may vary through multiple heat stress events, with the rarity of long‐term ecological datasets rendering such understanding uncertain. Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles
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Inheritance of Material Wealth in a Natural Population Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Murielle Ålund, S. Eryn McFarlane, Arild Husby, Jonas Knape, Tomas Pärt, Päivi Sirkiä, Franz J. Weissing, David Wheatcroft, Yishu Zhu, Anna Qvarnström
Evolutionary adaptation occurs when individuals vary in access to fitness‐relevant resources and these differences in ‘material wealth’ are heritable. It is typically assumed that the inheritance of material wealth reflects heritable variation in the phenotypic abilities needed to acquire material wealth. We scrutinise this assumption by investigating additional mechanisms underlying the inheritance
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Editorial: The Critical Role of Very Long‐Term Studies in Ecology and Evolution Ecol. Lett. (IF 7.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-31 Stéphane Blanc, Peter H. Thrall