Addressing context dependence in ecology

Plant functional traits reflect different dimensions of species invasiveness

(2021) Estibaliz Palma et al.   ECOLOGY

Mechanistic reconciliation of community and invasion ecology

(2021) Guillaume Latombe et al.   Ecosphere

Latitudinal variation in the diversity–disturbance relationship demonstrates the context dependence of disturbance impacts

(2021) Sally A. Bracewell et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology

(2021) Koenraad Van Meerbeek et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Traits explain invasion of alien plants into tropical rainforests

(2021) Decky I. Junaedi et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Applying the stress‐gradient hypothesis to curb the spread of invasive bamboo

(2021) Rebecca Spake et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Invasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management

(2020) Ana Novoa et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Towards a framework for understanding the context dependence of impacts of non‐native tree species

(2020) Sarah J. Sapsford et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Community diversity outweighs effect of warming on plant colonization

(2020) Jane A. Catford et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity

(2020) Annabel L. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Towards a Probabilistic Understanding About the Context-Dependency of Species Interactions

(2020) Chuliang Song et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity conservation through the lens of metacommunity ecology

(2020) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network

(2020) Martin Enders et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines

(2020) James A. Orr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of replication studies in ecology

(2020) Hannah Fraser et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Testing Darwin’s naturalization conundrum based on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of vascular plants

(2020) Jesús N. Pinto‐Ledezma et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

(2020) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

adiv: An r package to analyse biodiversity in ecology

(2020) Sandrine Pavoine   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change

(2020) Vigdis Vandvik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions

(2020) Petr Pyšek et al.   NeoBiota

Context-dependent trait covariances: how plasticity shapes behavioral syndromes

(2020) David J Mitchell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Uncovering patterns of freshwater positive interactions using meta‐analysis: Identifying the roles of common participants, invasive species and environmental context

(2020) Lindsey K. Albertson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences

(2020) Rebecca Spake et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Correlation of native and exotic species richness: a global meta-analysis finds no invasion paradox across scales

(2019) Shijia Peng et al.   ECOLOGY

Occupancy models for citizen‐science data

(2019) Res Altwegg et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

(2019) Valentin Amrhein et al.   NATURE

Resolving the invasion paradox: pervasive scale and study dependence in the native‐alien species richness relationship

(2019) Federico Tomasetto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Traits linked with species invasiveness and community invasibility vary with time, stage and indicator of invasion in a long-term grassland experiment

(2019) Jane A. Catford et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Context‐dependent biotic interactions predict plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients

(2019) Joshua S. Lynn et al.   ECOGRAPHY

To replicate, or not to replicate – that should not be a question

(2019) David R. Chalcraft   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Apex Predators Decouple Population Dynamics Between Mesopredators and Their Prey

(2019) Benjamin Feit et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Rate and success of study replication in ecology and evolution

(2019) Clint D. Kelly   PeerJ

Context dependence of local adaptation to abiotic and biotic environments: a quantitative and qualitative synthesis

(2019) Ryan Briscoe Runquist et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Context Dependence of Pollinator-Mediated Selection in Natural Populations

(2019) Nina Sletvold   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity

(2019) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   SCIENCE

Biotic resistance to invasion is ubiquitous across ecosystems of the United States

(2019) Evelyn M. Beaury et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Higher-Order Interaction between Species Inhibits Bacterial Invasion of a Phototroph-Predator Microbial Community

(2019) Harry Mickalide et al.   Cell Systems

Towards common ground in the biodiversity–disease debate

(2019) Jason R. Rohr et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species-area relationship from small samples

(2018) William E. Kunin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Advancing understanding and prediction in multiple stressor research through a mechanistic basis for null models

(2018) Ralf B. Schäfer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experimental strategies to assess the biological ramifications of multiple drivers of global ocean change-A review

(2018) Philip W. Boyd et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Understanding Context Dependence in Glucocorticoid–Fitness Relationships: The Role of the Nature of the Challenge, the Intensity and Frequency of Stressors, and Life History

(2018) Laura A Schoenle et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

A tale of two studies: Detection and attribution of the impacts of invasive plants in observational surveys

(2018) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Context-dependency and anthropogenic effects on individual plant-frugivore networks

(2018) M. Florencia Miguel et al.   OIKOS

Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution

(2018) Hannah Fraser et al.   PLoS One

Physical Stress, Consumer Control, and New Theory in Ecology

(2018) Brian R. Silliman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Improving the transparency of statistical reporting in Conservation Letters

(2018) Fiona Fidler et al.   Conservation Letters

Empowering peer reviewers with a checklist to improve transparency

(2018) Timothy H. Parker et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Accounting for misidentification and heterogeneity in occupancy studies using hidden Markov models

(2018) Julie Louvrier et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

To replicate, or not to replicate - that is the question: how to tackle nonlinear responses in ecological experiments

(2018) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

(2018) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Observer and relocation errors matter in resurveys of historical vegetation plots

(2018) Kris Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Traits influence detection of exotic plant species in tropical forests

(2018) Decky I. Junaedi et al.   PLoS One

Methods used in the spatial analysis of tuberculosis epidemiology: a systematic review

(2018) Debebe Shaweno et al.   BMC Medicine

Confounding and collinearity in regression analysis: a cautionary tale and an alternative procedure, illustrated by studies of British voting behaviour

(2017) Ron Johnston et al.   QUALITY & QUANTITY

Higher-order interactions capture unexplained complexity in diverse communities

(2017) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Underappreciated problems of low replication in ecological field studies

(2016) Nathan P. Lemoine et al.   ECOLOGY

Disentangling the four demographic dimensions of species invasiveness

(2016) Jane A. Catford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

(2016) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   NATURE

Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology

(2016) Bill Shipley et al.   OECOLOGIA

Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation

(2016) Isabelle M. Côté et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transparency in Ecology and Evolution: Real Problems, Real Solutions

(2016) Timothy H. Parker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The effects of phylogenetic relatedness on invasion success and impact: deconstructing Darwin's naturalisation conundrum

(2015) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does the biogeographic origin of species matter? Ecological effects of native and non-native species and the use of origin to guide management

(2015) Yvonne M. Buckley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How context dependent are species interactions?

(2014) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rising complexity and falling explanatory power in ecology

(2014) Etienne Low-Décarie et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Disentangling the drivers of context-dependent plant-animal interactions

(2014) John L. Maron et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Should we adjust for a confounder if empirical and theoretical criteria yield contradictory results? A simulation study

(2014) Paul H. Lee   Scientific Reports

On the definition of a confounder

(2013) Tyler J. VanderWeele et al.   ANNALS OF STATISTICS

Do invasive species perform better in their new ranges?

(2013) John D. Parker et al.   ECOLOGY

Is a Cutoff of 10% Appropriate for the Change-in-Estimate Criterion of Confounder Identification?

(2013) Paul H. Lee   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Delivering on a promise: integrating species traits to transform descriptive community ecology into a predictive science

(2013) W. C. E. P. Verberk et al.   Freshwater Science

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Statistical Inference and Decision Making in Conservation Biology

(2012) David Saltz   Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution

The influence of abundance on detectability

(2012) Michael A. McCarthy et al.   OIKOS

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Improving occupancy estimation when two types of observational error occur: non-detection and species misidentification

(2011) David A. Miller et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying levels of biological invasion: towards the objective classification of invaded and invasible ecosystems

(2011) Jane A. Catford et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem service and biodiversity trade-offs in two woody successions

(2011) Ian A. Dickie et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea

(2011) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dietary overlap and prey selectivity among sympatric carnivores: Could dingoes suppress foxes through competition for prey?

(2011) Jacqueline B. Cupples et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Importance versus intensity of ecological effects: why context matters

(2011) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Estimating detection–effort curves for plants using search experiments

(2010) Joslin L. Moore et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Unmodeled observation error induces bias when inferring patterns and dynamics of species occurrence via aural detections

(2010) Brett T. McClintock et al.   ECOLOGY

Observer bias and the detection of low-density populations

(2009) Matthew C. Fitzpatrick et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Reducing redundancy in invasion ecology by integrating hypotheses into a single theoretical framework

(2008) Jane A. Catford et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The structure of tradeoffs in model building

(2008) John Matthewson et al.   SYNTHESE