Journal of Applied Ecology

Article	Citations
Controlling invasive plant species in ecological restoration: A global review	154
Guidance for successful tree planting initiatives	139
Effects of microplastics and drought on soil ecosystem functions and multifunctionality	122
Thresholds of freshwater biodiversity in response to riparian vegetation loss in the Neotropical region	96
Time to integrate global climate change and biodiversity science‐policy agendas	74
Crop diversity benefits carabid and pollinator communities in landscapes with semi‐natural habitats	68
Working with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in large‐scale ecological assessments: Reviewing the experience of the IPBES Global Assessment	67
Greening of grey infrastructure should not be used as a Trojan horse to facilitate coastal development	61
Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant–bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success	60
Chronic anthropogenic disturbance on Caatinga dry forest fragments	56
Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands	55
Applied nucleation facilitates tropical forest recovery: Lessons learned from a 15‐year study	53
Artificial reefs increase fish abundance in habitat‐limited estuaries	53
Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumble bees	53
Larger pollinators deposit more pollen on stigmas across multiple plant species—A meta‐analysis	50
Informing decision‐making with Indigenous and local knowledge and science	50
Assessing the camera trap methodologies used to estimate density of unmarked populations	50
Collateral diseases: Aquaculture impacts on wildlife infections	48
Soil microbial legacy drives crop diversity advantage: Linking ecological plant–soil feedback with agricultural intercropping	48
Science to inform policy: Linking population dynamics to habitat for a threatened species in Canada	48
Abruptly and irreversibly changing Arctic freshwaters urgently require standardized monitoring	48
Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation	43
Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe	42
Forest damage by deer depends on cross‐scale interactions between climate, deer density and landscape structure	41
Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi‐arid forests	41

Optimizing enrichment of deadwood for biodiversity by varying sun exposure and tree species: An experimental approach	39
Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself	39
Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration	38
Citizen science versus professional data collection: Comparison of approaches to mosquito monitoring in Germany	38
Can multi‐taxa diversity in European beech forest landscapes be increased by combining different management systems?	38
Strategies for global rangeland stewardship: Assessment through the lens of the equilibrium–non‐equilibrium debate	38
Characterizing multispecies connectivity across a transfrontier conservation landscape	37
Plant diversity enhanced yield and mitigated drought impacts in intensively managed grassland communities	37
Fruit traits of pioneer trees structure seed dispersal across distances on tropical deforested landscapes: Implications for restoration	36
Agri‐environment schemes enhance pollinator richness and abundance but bumblebee reproduction depends on field size	36
Knowledge co‐production with traditional herders on cattle grazing behaviour for better management of species‐rich grasslands	36
How international journals can support ecology from the Global South	36
Shark movement strategies influence poaching risk and can guide enforcement decisions in a large, remote marine protected area	36
Shifts from complementarity to selection effects maintain high productivity in maize/legume intercropping systems	35
Targeted policy proposals for managing spontaneous forest expansion in the Mediterranean	35
European bird declines: Do we need to rethink approaches to the management of abundant generalist predators?	35
Evaluating the potential for bird‐habitat models to support biodiversity‐friendly urban planning	35
An ecosystem ecology perspective on artificial reef production	35
Diversity for Restoration (D4R): Guiding the selection of tree species and seed sources for climate‐resilient restoration of tropical forest landscapes	33
Nitrogen fixation and crop productivity enhancements co‐driven by intercrop root exudates and key rhizosphere bacteria	33
Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco	33
Selective effects of small barriers on river‐resident fish	32
Microbial diversity regulates ecosystem multifunctionality during natural secondary succession	32
Co‐introduction of native mycorrhizal fungi and plant seeds accelerates restoration of post‐mining landscapes	32
Pest control potential of adjacent agri‐environment schemes varies with crop type and is shaped by landscape context and within‐field position	31
Wildflower strips enhance wild bee reproductive success	31
Long‐term surveys support declines in early season forest plants used by bumblebees	31
Unravelling the dispersal dynamics and ecological drivers of the African swine fever outbreak in Belgium	31
The influence of landscape composition and configuration on crop yield resilience	30
Spatiotemporal patterns of rhizosphere microbiome assembly: From ecological theory to agricultural application	30
Agricultural intensification erodes taxonomic and functional diversity in Mediterranean olive groves by filtering out rare species	30
Exploring a natural baseline for large‐herbivore biomass in ecological restoration	30
Flowers as dirty doorknobs: Deformed wing virus transmitted between Apis mellifera and Bombus impatiens through shared flowers	30
Selection of indicators for assessing and managing the impacts of bottom trawling on seabed habitats	29
Crop pollination services: Complementary resource use by social vs solitary bees facing crops with contrasting flower supply	29
Degradation of Southeast Asian tropical peatlands and integrated strategies for their better management and restoration	29
Changes in ecosystem properties after post‐fire management strategies in wildfire‐affected Mediterranean forests	28
Eagle fatalities are reduced by automated curtailment of wind turbines	28
Barrier Behaviour Analysis (BaBA) reveals extensive effects of fencing on wide‐ranging ungulates	28
The potential contribution of terrestrial nature‐based solutions to a national ‘net zero’ climate target	28
Railways redistribute plant species in mountain landscapes	27
Diet diversity and pesticide risk mediate the negative effects of land use change on solitary bee offspring production	26
Impacts of multiple pollutants on pollinator activity in road verges	26
Conservation in post‐industrial cities: How does vacant land management and landscape configuration influence urban bees?	26
Strip intercropping of wheat and oilseed rape enhances biodiversity and biological pest control in a conventionally managed farm scenario	26
Riparian buffers act as microclimatic refugia in oil palm landscapes	26
Flower plantings support wild bee reproduction and may also mitigate pesticide exposure effects	25
Forest cover and proximity decrease herbivory and increase crop yield via enhanced natural enemies in soybean fields	25
The impact of logging on vertical canopy structure across a gradient of tropical forest degradation intensity in Borneo	25
Management‐dependent effects of pollinator functional diversity on apple pollination services: A response–effect trait approach	25

Understorey removal effects on tree regeneration in temperate forests: A meta‐analysis	25
Functional groups of wild bees respond differently to faba bean Vicia faba L. cultivation at landscape scale	25
The sound of recovery: Coral reef restoration success is detectable in the soundscape	24
Self‐compatible blueberry cultivars require fewer floral visits to maximize fruit production than a partially self‐incompatible cultivar	24
Prioritizing conservation actions for Pacific salmon in Canada	24
Timing is everything: Survival of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar postsmolts during events of high salmon lice densities	24
Bringing together approaches to reporting on within species genetic diversity	24
A meta‐analysis of the influence of anthropogenic noise on terrestrial wildlife communication strategies	24
Forest regeneration can positively contribute to local hydrological ecosystem services: Implications for forest landscape restoration	24
RestoreNet: An emerging restoration network reveals controls on seeding success across dryland ecosystems	23
Primary forest loss and degradation reduces biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A global meta‐analysis using dung beetles as an indicator taxon	23
Quantifying crop pollinator dependence and its heterogeneity using multi‐level meta‐analysis	23
A review of existing and potential blue carbon contributions to climate change mitigation in the Anthropocene	23
The long‐term impacts of deer herbivory in determining temperate forest stand and canopy structural complexity	23
Enhancing ecosystem services in apple orchards: Nest boxes increase pest control by insectivorous birds	23
Limited biomass recovery from gold mining in Amazonian forests	22
Evolutionary trait‐based approaches for predicting future global impacts of plant pathogens in the genus Phytophthora	22
Advances in metabarcoding techniques bring us closer to reliable monitoring of the marine benthos	22
Facebook groups as citizen science tools for plant species monitoring	22
Best‐practice forestry management delivers diminishing returns for coral reefs with increased land‐clearing	22
Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes	22
Tree mortality response to drought‐density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance	22
A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage	22
Least‐cost path analysis for urban greenways planning: A test with moths and birds across two habitats and two cities	22
Local and landscape‐scale environmental filters drive the functional diversity and taxonomic composition of spiders across urban greenspaces	22
Floral resource diversity drives bee community diversity in prairie restorations along an agricultural landscape gradient	22
Factors influencing the rate of formation of tree‐related microhabitats and implications for biodiversity conservation and forest management	22
Complex biotic interactions mediated by shrubs: Revisiting the stress‐gradient hypothesis and consequences for tree seedling survival	22
Conservation of woody species in China under future climate and land‐cover changes	22
Identifying plant mixes for multiple ecosystem service provision in agricultural systems using ecological networks	22
Urban heavy metal contamination limits bumblebee colony growth	21
Aridity exacerbates grazing‐induced rangeland degradation: A population approach for dominant grasses	21
Plant diversity enhances the reclamation of degraded lands by stimulating plant–soil feedbacks	21
What is better for animal conservation translocation programmes: Soft‐ or hard‐release? A phylogenetic meta‐analytical approach	21
Legacy effect of grazing intensity mediates the bottom‐up controls of resource addition on soil food webs	21
Extreme weather affects colonization–extinction dynamics and the persistence of a threatened butterfly	21
Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field: Native mycorrhizae advance plant succession and improve native plant restoration	21
Using genomics to design and evaluate the performance of underwater forest restoration	21
Mass‐migrating bumblebees: An overlooked phenomenon with potential far‐reaching implications for bumblebee conservation	20
Contrasting responses of nitrogen: Phosphorus stoichiometry in plants and soils under grazing: A global meta‐analysis	20
Multifaceted functional diversity for multifaceted crop yield: Towards ecological assembly rules for varietal mixtures	20
Species distribution modelling is needed to support ecological impact assessments	20
Parasites and pesticides act antagonistically on honey bee health	20
Agricultural intensification heightens food safety risks posed by wild birds	20
Synergism between local‐ and landscape‐level pesticides reduces wild bee floral visitation in pollinator‐dependent crops	20
Phylodynamic analysis of an emergent Mycobacterium bovis outbreak in an area with no previously known wildlife infections	20
Soil organic carbon accumulation modes between pioneer and old‐growth forest ecosystems	20
Global meta‐analysis reveals incomplete recovery of soil conditions and invertebrate assemblages after ecological restoration in agricultural landscapes	19
Plant provenance affects pollinator network: Implications for ecological restoration	19
Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis increases phosphorus uptake and productivity of mixtures of maize varieties compared to monocultures	19
The disproportionate value of ‘weeds’ to pollinators and biodiversity	19
City climate and landscape structure shape pollinators, nectar and transported pollen along a gradient of urbanization	19
Restoration of plant diversity in permanent grassland by seeding: Assessing the limiting factors along land‐use gradients	19
Conservation planning for adaptive and neutral evolutionary processes	19
Bumblebee colony density on farmland is influenced by late‐summer nectar supply and garden cover	19
Decreasing predation rates and shifting predator compositions along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar's vanilla landscapes	18
Life cycle informed restoration: Engineering settlement substrate material characteristics and structural complexity for reef formation	18
Variation in abundances of common bird species associated with roads	18
Evaluating spatially explicit sharing‐sparing scenarios for multiple environmental outcomes	18
Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes	18
Tree species mixing can amplify microclimate offsets in young forest plantations	18
Invasive species influence macroinvertebrate biomonitoring tools and functional diversity in British rivers	18
Bigger juveniles and smaller adults: Changes in fish size correlate with warming seas	18
Past, present and future distributions of bumblebees in South America: Identifying priority species and areas for conservation	18
Unburnt habitat patches are critical for survival and in situ population recovery in a small mammal after fire	18
Declining invasive grey squirrel populations may persist in refugia as native predator recovery reverses squirrel species replacement	18
Connectivity and succession of open structures as a key to sustaining light‐demanding biodiversity in deciduous forests	18
Tropical riparian forests in danger from large savanna wildfires	18
How wild bees find a way in European cities: Pollen metabarcoding unravels multiple feeding strategies and their effects on distribution patterns in four wild bee species	18
Wild guanacos as scapegoat for continued overgrazing by livestock across southern Patagonia	18
Organic management and landscape heterogeneity combine to sustain multifunctional bird communities in European vineyards	17
A novel ‘triple drawdown’ method highlights deficiencies in invasive alien crayfish survey and control techniques	17
Roads and forest edges facilitate yellow fever virus dispersion	17
Leveraging functional traits of cover crops to coordinate crop productivity and soil health	17
Multi‐species restoration accelerates recovery of extinguished oyster reefs	17
Biocontrol of a prickly pear cactus in South Africa: Reinterpreting the analogous, renowned case in Australia	17
Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect	17
Conceptual ambiguity hinders measurement and management of ecosystem disservices	17
Restoration‐oriented forest management affects community assembly patterns of deadwood‐dependent organisms	17
Promoting self‐facilitating feedback processes in coastal ecosystem engineers to increase restoration success: Testing engineering measures	17

Citizen science involving farmers as a means to document temporal trends in farmland biodiversity and relate them to agricultural practices	17
Conservation planning across realms: Enhancing connectivity for multi‐realm species	16
Climate change and vessel traffic create networks of invasion in marine protected areas	16
A methodological guide to observe local‐scale geodiversity for biodiversity research and management	16
Behavioural state‐dependent habitat selection and implications for animal translocations	16
Reintroduction modelling: A guide to choosing and combining models for species reintroductions	16
Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen enrichment and grazing on grassland productivity through intraspecific trait variability	16
Tracking data and the conservation of the high seas: Opportunities and challenges	16
An integrated approach to measure hunting intensity and assess its impacts on mammal populations	16
Wildlife roadkill and COVID‐19: A biologically significant, but heterogeneous, reduction	16
A feeding guild indicator to assess environmental change impacts on marine ecosystem structure and functioning	15
Disturbances as opportunities: Learning from disturbance‐response parallels in social and ecological systems to better adapt to climate change	15
The costs and benefits of restoring a continent's terrestrial ecosystems	15
Across borders: External factors and prior behaviour influence North Pacific albatross associations with fishing vessels	15
Disentangling interactions among mercury, immunity and infection in a Neotropical bat community	15
Experimental comparison of fish mortality and injuries at innovative and conventional small hydropower plants	15
Functional diversity of macroinvertebrates as a tool to evaluate wetland restoration	15
Low‐intensity land‐use enhances soil microbial activity, biomass and fungal‐to‐bacterial ratio in current and future climates	15
The value of time‐series data for conservation planning	15
Waterfowl use of wetland habitats informs wetland restoration designs for multi‐species benefits	15
Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity	15
Triennial migration and philopatry in the critically endangered soupfin shark Galeorhinus galeus	15
Forest thinning in the seaward fringe speeds up surface elevation increment and carbon accumulation in managed mangrove forests	15
Sustainable landscape, soil and crop management practices enhance biodiversity and yield in conventional cereal systems	15
Organic farming benefits birds most in regions with more intensive agriculture	14
The relative importance of green infrastructure as refuge habitat for pollinators increases with local land‐use intensity	14
Activity of forest specialist bats decreases towards wind turbines at forest sites	14
Bird communities in African cocoa agroforestry are diverse but lack specialized insectivores	14
Effects of Spartina invasion on the soil organic carbon content in salt marsh and mangrove ecosystems in China	14
A metacommunity approach for detecting species influenced by mass effect	14
Comparing biocontrol and herbicide for managing an invasive non‐native plant species: Efficacy, non‐target effects and secondary invasion	14
Shifts in plant composition mediate grazing effects on carbon cycling in grasslands	14
Temporal dynamics and drivers of landscape‐level spread by emerald ash borer	14
Tree species richness promotes an early increase of stand structural complexity in young subtropical plantations	14
Can we manage marine mammal bycatch effectively in low‐data environments?	14
Pollination services in a macadamia cultivar depend on across‐orchard transport of cross pollen	14
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management works—How switching from mobile to static fishing gear improves populations of fished and non‐fished species inside a marine‐protected area	14
Crop functional diversity drives multiple ecosystem functions during early agroforestry succession	14
A pathway for citizen science data to inform policy: A case study using eBird data for defining low‐risk collision areas for wind energy development	14
Synthesis on the effectiveness of soil translocation for plant community restoration	14
Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration	14
Factors affecting carcass detection at wind farms using dogs and human searchers	14
Populations restored using regional seed are genetically diverse and similar to natural populations in the region	14
Resistance–recovery trade‐off of soil microbial communities under altered rain regimes: An experimental test across European agroecosystems	14
Highways associated with expansion of boreal scavengers into the alpine tundra of Fennoscandia	14
Restoration promotes recovery of woodland birds in agricultural environments: A comparison of ‘revegetation’ and ‘remnant’ landscapes	14
Capturing threshold responses of marine benthos along gradients of natural and anthropogenic change	14
Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland ecosystems?	14
Pesticide effects on soil fauna communities—A meta‐analysis	14
Functional traits driving pollinator and predator responses to newly established grassland strips in agricultural landscapes	13
Manipulating plant community composition to steer efficient N‐cycling in intensively managed grasslands	13
The impacts of tropical agriculture on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis	13
Grazing and climate change have site‐dependent interactive effects on vegetation in Asian montane rangelands	13
The changes in species composition mediate direct effects of climate change on future fire regimes of boreal forests in northeastern China	13
Roads pose a significant barrier to bee movement, mediated by road size, traffic and bee identity	13
A predictive model for improving placement of wind turbines to minimise collision risk potential for a large soaring raptor	13
Functional diversity and redundancy of tropical forests shift with elevation and forest‐use intensity	13
Hotspots in the grid: Avian sensitivity and vulnerability to collision risk from energy infrastructure interactions in Europe and North Africa	13
Local‐scale tree and shrub diversity improves pollination services to shea trees in tropical West African parklands	13
Seascape connectivity of temperate fishes between estuarine nursery areas and open coastal reefs	13
Long‐term effects of antibiotic treatments on honeybee colony fitness: A modelling approach	13
Bird strikes at commercial airports explained by citizen science and weather radar data	13
Predator control may not increase ungulate populations in the future: A formal meta‐analysis	13
Predicting the global invasion of Drosophila suzukii to improve Australian biosecurity preparedness	13
Plant community flood resilience in intensively managed grasslands and the role of the plant economic spectrum	13
Leaf traits and phylogeny explain plant survival and community dynamics in response to extreme drought in a restored coastal grassland	13
Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of semi‐natural habitat, but not crop diversity, is correlated with landscape pollinator richness	13
Turnover in floral composition explains species diversity and temporal stability in the nectar supply of urban residential gardens	13
Preserving wintering frugivorous birds in agro‐ecosystems under land use change: Lessons from intensive and super‐intensive olive orchards	13
Decrease in soil pH has greater effects than increase in above‐ground carbon inputs on soil organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems of China under nitrogen enrichment	13
Seasonal progression and differences in major floral resource use by bees and hoverflies in a diverse horticultural and agricultural landscape revealed by DNA metabarcoding	13
Negative effects of neonicotinoids on male honeybee survival, behaviour and physiology in the field	13
The last moves: The effect of hunting and culling on the risk of disease spread from a population of reindeer	13
Portfolio simplification arising from a century of change in salmon population diversity and artificial production	13
Detecting the population dynamics of an autosomal sex ratio distorter transgene in malaria vector mosquitoes	13
Woodland, cropland and hedgerows promote pollinator abundance in intensive grassland landscapes, with saturating benefits of flower cover	13
Predicting meiofauna abundance to define preservation and impact zones in a deep‐sea mining context using random forest modelling	12
Plant traits, biotopes and urbanization dynamics explain the survival of endangered urban plant populations	12
Ecological memory and regional context influence performance of adaptation plantings in northeastern US temperate forests	12
Using habitat suitability and landscape connectivity in the spatial prioritization of public outreach and management during carnivore recolonization	12
Estimating marine protected area network benefits for reef sharks	12
Dancing bees evaluate central urban forage resources as superior to agricultural land	12
Implications of overfishing of frugivorous fishes for cryptic function loss in a Neotropical floodplain	12
Payoff of the Grain for Green policy	12
Mixing tree species at different spatial scales: The effect of alpha, beta and gamma diversity on disturbance impacts under climate change	12
A framework to diagnose the causes of river ecosystem deterioration using biological symptoms	12
Functional diversity enhances tree growth and reduces herbivory damage in secondary broadleaf forests, but does not influence resilience to drought	12
Co‐designed management scenarios shape the responses of seasonally dry forests to changing climate and fire regimes	12
Semi‐natural habitat surrounding farms promotes multifunctionality in avian ecosystem services	12
Positive forest cover effects on coffee yields are consistent across regions	12
Effects of herbivore assemblage on the spatial heterogeneity of soil nitrogen in eastern Eurasian steppe	12
Uncovered pathways: Modelling dispersal dynamics of ship‐mediated marine introduced species	12
Flowering fields, organic farming and edge habitats promote diversity of plants and arthropods on arable land	12
Organic fertilisation enhances generalist predators and suppresses aphid growth in the absence of specialist predators	12
Fisheries management influences phytoplankton biomass of Amazonian floodplain lakes	12