Ecology articles for Australia

Time frame: 1 May 2025 - 30 April 2026
Count: 142

Article ‘Count’ for Ecology.

Journal Count Share
7 1.35
Choice of traits defines the scope for assisted evolution of corals under climate change 0.03
Changes in age-related sexual selection in a humpback whale population recovering from exploitation 0.13
A predicted humpback whale hearing curve based on modified behavioral observation audiometry data 0.67
Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimaeras 0.08
Long-term parasite decline associated with near extinction and conservation of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot 0.20
Rethinking Darwin’s coral reef paradox and the ubiquity of “marine oases” 0.20
The role of holobiont composition and environmental history in thermotolerance of Tropical Eastern Pacific corals 0.04
5 1.72
Environmental Fluctuations Are Insufficient to Explain High Coral Biodiversity: A Test of Five Storage Effect Pathways 0.25
Unravelling Marine Benthic Functioning Shifts Under Ocean Acidification 0.11
Multiple Mechanisms Required to Predict Grass Community Composition 0.41
Warm Edge Kelp Populations Show Elevated Volatility to Marine Heatwaves 0.79
Warming Reduces Parasitoid Success and Narrows Their Diet Breadth 0.17
13 8.80
Polyethylene microplastics enhanced the toxicity of diisobutyl phthalate in saline soil microorganisms 0.11
Modelling land use influence on polymer-specific microplastics abundance and transportation from terrestrial to aquatic environments 0.80
Catchment characteristics and land-use influence on microplastics distribution in freshwater sediments 1.00
Plastic Contamination in Commercially Valuable Decapods Caught Near a Major Australian Urban Centre 1.00
Unravelling the molecular fingerprint of plastic accumulation on blue carbon sediment 0.71
Legacy mercury emissions and releases from colonial-era gold mining in Australia 0.91
Deep learning–driven investigation of nanoplastic impacts on soil protist behavior in soil chips 0.14
Contaminants influence the outcomes of the male-male competition component of sexual selection under field conditions 0.79
Decoding microplastic shedding from cotton/polyester blends: An analysis through fiber identification 1.00
Coastal fronts as indicators for hotspots of floating marine debris 1.00
Cobalt induces the set-up of new structural networks in river biofilms: Impairment of autotrophic-heterotrophic coupling 0.17
Characterization of microbial communities in the rhizosphere and water of a field-scale artificial floating island system for nutrient removal 0.17
Metal lability, sea ice cover, and physicochemical properties of sediments as predictors of benthic communities in Antarctic coastal environments. 1.00
4 1.93
Abrupt Temperature Shifts Alter DOM Composition and Electron Transfer Capacity: Unraveling the Impact of Climate Extremes on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Yangtze River Floodplain Sediments 0.14
Degraded coastal agricultural lands hold significant soil carbon stocks and are potential candidates for blue carbon restoration 1.00
Retention of increased maximum oxyregulation capacity in corals transplanted from an extreme mangrove environment to a reef flat 0.50
Decadal variability and anthropogenic influence on trace element dynamics in the Bay of Bengal: Evidence from high-resolution coral records 0.29
18 8.74
eDNA and AI Identification Reveal Complementary Signals in Phytoplankton Monitoring 0.20
Beyond Metal(loid) Immobilization: Redox-Stratified Biocrusts Shield Humid Mining Regions 0.10
Eutrophic Lake Restoration Requires Multidimensional Approaches to Stressor Management 0.06
Climate Change Amplifies Chronic Ammonia Risks in China’s Freshwater Ecosystems 0.14
Predicting Continental-Scale Soil Mercury Concentrations in Australia to Refine Global Frameworks 1.00
Substantial Limitations of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Calcifiers 0.08
Microplastic Fibers Deteriorate Dewaterability of Waste Activated Sludge through Alteration of Extracellular Proteome and Extracellular Polymeric Substance Structures 0.25
Mechanisms Associated with Lower Methane Emissions from Paddy Soil by Aged Polylactic Acid Microplastics 0.11
Characterizing the Crosswind Structure of Artificial Seawater Droplet Plumes during a Sea Trial on the Great Barrier Reef 1.00
Enhanced Microplastic Burial in China’s Coastal Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Drivers and Potential Roles in Climate Change Mitigation 0.08
Where Have You Been? Backtracking Microplastic to Its Source Using the Biomolecular Composition of the Ecocorona 1.00
Relative to a Common Phthalate, Citrate-Based Plasticizers Exert Minimal Impact on Plastisphere Bacterial Community Composition during Biopolymer Biodegradation 1.00
Size and Structure-Dependent Molecular Fingerprint Transformation of Microplastic-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter in Sunlit Seawater: Implication for Marine Carbon Cycles 0.09
Flexible Wall Permeameters for Research on Microplastic Transport in Soil: Validity, Advantages, and Constraints 1.00
Light and Hydrogen Sulfide Cause Multilevel Disruption of Carbon Metabolism in the Seagrass Halophila ovalis 1.00
Nanoplastics Stimulate Colony Formation and Bloom in Phaeocystis globosa 0.08
The Legacy of Mercury Contamination from Colonial Nonferrous Mining in the Southern Hemisphere 0.54
Textile Recycling’s Hidden Problem: Surface-Modified Fiber Fragments Emitted at Every Stage 1.00
3 1.35
Nitrogen cycling in a high-nutrient tidal river revealed through high-resolution sampling and nitrate isotope mixing models 1.00
Source-specific carbon dioxide production and acetoclastic methanogenesis upon anaerobic degradation of dissolved organic matter 0.27
Strong carbonate buffering in karst cascade river-reservoir systems constrains CO2 production and emissions 0.08
9 5.51
Mesoscale Eddy Currents Reshape the Spatial Distribution of Wave Height in the Southern Ocean 0.38
Projected Global Diversity of Marine Heatwaves in the 21st Century 0.83
Climate Change Will Enhance Hypercapnic Hypoxia Threatening Mangrove Habitats 0.20
Quantifying Suspended Sediment Dynamics Under Energetic Nonlinear Internal Waves of Depression 1.00
Thermal Response of Lakes to Cyclic Environmental Forcing 0.20
Constraining Atmospheric Methanethiol Estimates Over the Southern Ocean 1.00
Global Diversity of Marine Heatwave Evolutions 0.92
Drainage Ditches (“Hot Spots”) and Storms (“Hot Moments”) Define Aquatic Greenhouse Gas (CO2, CH4, N2O) Emissions From the Land-to-Ocean Aquatic Continuum 0.92
Coastal Restoration May Not Necessarily Enhance Blue Carbon Sink 0.07
1 1.00
Image-Based Relocalization and Alignment for Long-Term Monitoring of Dynamic Underwater Environments 1.00
3 0.38
The impact of turbulence induced by spur dikes on the spatial carbon metabolism patterns of epilithic biofilms 0.17
Insights into bridging hydroxyl groups to enhance the efficient-generation of hydroxyl radicals for microplastic decomposition 0.08
Multidimensional characteristics as a clue to tracing pollution and source-specific ecological risk of microplastics in large-scale basin 0.13
1 0.71
Bridging a Gap in Marine Sulfur Cycling: Discovery of a d-Cysteinolic Acid Degradation Pathway 0.71
3 1.95
The natural architecture of oyster reefs maximizes recruit survival 0.86
Spatiotemporal faunal connectivity across global sea floors 0.24
Drivers of the extreme North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023 0.86
2 0.66
Antarctic phytoplankton communities restructure under shifting sea-ice regimes 0.29
Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral 0.38
22 8.03
Global blue carbon losses from salt marshes exceed restoration gains 0.07
Marine heatwaves shift ocean net primary productivity from the tropics toward the poles 0.53
Rapid subsurface warming in the subpolar North Atlantic from freshening 0.79
Acquisitive plants exhibit stronger phenological shifts in response to warming: insights from meta-analysis and long-term monitoring 0.04
Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps 0.71
Over a century of global decline in the growth performance of marine fishes 0.75
Predator-prey temporal niche partitioning under human disturbance: a meta-analysis 0.53
Elevated atmospheric CO decreases methylmercury production in freshwater lakes 0.07
Nitrogen deposition reveals global patterns in plant and animal stoichiometry 0.03
Cosmopolitan marine bacteria facilitate a vast phytoplankton-derived sulfonate-based carbon flow through sulfoquinovosidases 0.08
Environmental change shapes understory plant diversity and dominance in boreal forests 0.05
Microbial aerotrophy enables continuous primary production in diverse cave ecosystems 0.81
Global estimates of seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production 0.68
Near-global spawning strategies of large pelagic fish 0.80
Species abundances surpass richness effects in the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship across marine fishes 0.67
Episodic flooding causes sudden deoxygenation shocks in human-dominated rivers 0.07
Global increase in the endemism of birds from north to south 1.00
Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands 0.10
The global spectrum of tree crown architecture 0.05
Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests 0.04
Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago 0.01
Global seagrass carbon stock variability and emissions from seagrass loss 0.16
3 0.38
Mangrove sediment carbon burial offset by methane emissions from mangrove tree stems 0.17
Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers 0.20
Substantial forest soil carbon accrual from absorptive fine roots over decadal timescales 0.02
1 0.05
Common to rare transfer learning (CORAL) enables inference and prediction for a quarter million rare Malagasy arthropods 0.05
1 0.40
Optical sieve for nanoplastic detection, sizing and counting 0.40
3 1.09
Experimental evidence that penis size, height, and body shape influence assessment of male sexual attractiveness and fighting ability in humans 0.94
Oxygen supersaturation has negligible effects on warming tolerance across diverse aquatic ectotherms 0.12
A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia 0.02
10 2.96
Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling 0.08
Southern Ocean seabird population shifts over the Holocene revealed by peat sequestration of mercury from guano 0.03
Phosphorus enrichment does not enlarge the predicted CO2 fertilization effect on forest carbon sequestration 0.46
Partner preferences for resources adapt to income and gender economic inequality 0.80
Compounded effects on wetland greenhouse gas fluxes from climate change and water management along a saline to freshwater gradient 0.03
Intense solar radiation constrains plant species richness in global grasslands 0.08
The impacts of European arrival on Australian dingoes 0.28
A quantitative risk assessment framework for mortality due to macroplastic ingestion in seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles 0.14
A genomic test of sex-biased dispersal in white sharks 0.06
A unifying principle for multispecies coexistence under resource fluctuations 1.00
14 7.45
Light pollution in the wild affects adult reef fish and has intergenerational and direct impacts on offspring 0.14
Differing temperature regimes have no impact on the heat stress response of shallow and upper-mesophotic populations of a temperate calcareous sponge 0.17
Weak trophic position–body mass relationships undermine simple size-spectrum models for coral reefs 0.07
Diverging carbonate budgets following tropicalization of temperate reefs 0.88
Dietary melatonin supplementation mitigates the negative effects of artificial light at night in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus 1.00
Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance even over small spatial scales 0.38
Behavioural indicators of post-release survival in a deep-sea skate. 1.00
Knocking out genes to reveal drivers of natural selection on phenotypic traits: a study of the fitness consequences of albinism. 0.80
Exclusion of invasive predators triggers succession, competition and habitat diversification in a small mammal community. 1.00
Effects of phylogenetic distance, niche overlap and habitat alteration on spatial co-occurrence patterns in Neotropical bats and birds. 0.75
Disruption of host-associated and benthic microbiota affects reproductive output and settlement of a habitat-forming macroalga. 0.80
Behavioural and neural correlates of social hierarchy formation in a sex-changing fish. 0.25
Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change 0.18
Large differences in the distribution of pelagic biomass as a result of sonar frequency choice. 0.04
2 1.73
Repeated convergent evolution of bradykinin mimics as defensive toxins 0.73
Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) 1.00
3 1.78
Declines of ebony and ivory are inextricably linked in an African rainforest 0.05
Coral thermotolerance retained following year-long exposure to a novel environment 0.73
Connectivity differs by orders of magnitude among co-distributed corals, affecting spatial scales of eco-evolutionary processes 1.00
3 1.83
Ranking distribution reveals opposite shifts in evenness and survival thresholds of phytoplankton under environmental stress 0.13
Chemosynthesis enables microbial communities to flourish in a marine cave ecosystem 1.00
Respiratory quotients of particle-associated microbes track carbon flux attenuation in the mesopelagic Southern Ocean 0.70
11 5.16
Mangrove genera influence bed shear stress and coastal protection ecosystem services 0.93
Decomposition of Aged Sedimentary Organic Matter in a Deep Temperate Lake Under Warming Conditions: An Experimental Approach 0.03
Reactive oxygen species in paddy rice systems: Links with environmental parameters and soil microbial communities 0.20
Investigating the physicochemical parameters that drive geosmin production in benthic cyanobacterial systems 1.00
Mechanisms and factors controlling greenhouse gases production in agricultural drains and ponds 0.79
Data-Driven Insights into Microcystis Dominance: Multi-Lake Analysis for Water Management 0.40
Electrochemical behavior and electro-aging of microplastics: interaction with enrofloxacin and Pb 0.25
Performance of analytical techniques for microplastic and nanoplastic quantification in the presence of clay 1.00
Separating the horizontal advection component from field-measured suspended sediment concentration profiles 0.14
Early warning of harmful cyanobacteria blooms based on high frequency in situ monitoring and intelligible machine learning modelling: The case study of Lake Müggelsee (Germany) 0.25
Rainfall can Significantly Reduce Pond Methane Emissions by Depressing Ebullition 0.17

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