Journal of Ecology

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Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction	86
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Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens	76
Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest	63
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests	58
Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”	55
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation	51
The eco‐evolutionary dynamics of prior selfing rates promote coexistence without niche partitioning under conditions of reproductive interference	51
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods	50
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Weed‐suppressive ability and species dominance in intercropping: A meta‐regression	47
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach	46
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow	46
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate	45
Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling	44
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs	43
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities	41
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Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment	39
Dominant species rather than plant biodiversity shape grassland resistance and recovery in response to heatwaves and mowing	39
Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity	38
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil	38
Local adaptation is highly dependent on common garden conditions where seeds were propagated: Evidence from a 7‐year study on a dominant alpine meadow species	37
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis	37
Phenotypic plasticity versus ecotypic differentiation under recurrent summer drought in two drought‐tolerant pine species	37

Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs	36
The duration of high spring light for understorey plants: Contrasting responses to spatial and temporal temperature variation	34
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone	34
The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits	34
Root‐associated fungi not tree density influences stand nitrogen dynamics at the larch forest–tundra ecotone	34
Life on a leaf: The development of spatial structure in epiphyll communities	33
Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies	33
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition	32
Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna	32
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest	31
Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology	31
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions	30
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations	30
Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest	29
Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density	29
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant,Spartina alterniflora, are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress gradients	29
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species	28
Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms	28
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International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla†	27
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities	27
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Geranium pratense	27
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models	27
Insect herbivores and soil fertility drive variation in density‐dependent seedling dynamics across a fragmented landscape	26
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants	26
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species	26
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities	26
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems	26
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems	26
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models	25
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands	25
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures	25
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Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario	24
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction	24
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive	24
Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective	24
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Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands	24
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients	24
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions	24
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks	24
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions	24
Native plant species exhibit consistent drought advantage over introduced species until additional global change drivers are included: A grassland meta‐analysis	24
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa	23
Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers	23
Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna	22
Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits	22
Contrasting nitrogen cycling between herbaceous wetland and terrestrial ecosystems inferred from plant and soil nitrogen isotopes across China	22
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora‡	22

Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States	22
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime	22
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth	22
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions	22
Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands	21
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution	21
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity	21
Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions	21
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb	21
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas	21
Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century	21
International Biological Flora:Ginkgo biloba	21
Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales	21
Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder	20
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests	20
The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network	20
Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation	20
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Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient	20
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest	20
Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type	20
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk	20
Elevated CO2 and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species richness most at small spatial scales in a grassland experiment	19
Foliar herbivory pushes plant individuals towards the periphery of a plant–floral visitor interaction network	19
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance	19
Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate	19
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions	19
Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions	19
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Plant foliar nutrient response to active layer and water table depth in warming permafrost soils	19
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes	18
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure	18
Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader	18
Influence of species functional strategy on leaf stoichiometric responses to fertilizer in a Bornean heath forest	18
Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition	18
How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter‐ and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?	18
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history	18
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India	18
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change	18
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species	18
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection	18
The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon‐use efficiency in semi‐arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West	18
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Local climate adaptations in two ubiquitous Mojave Desert shrub species, Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata	18
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability	18
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The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate	17
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Knautia arvensis	17
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion	17
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation	17
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey	17
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion	17
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges	17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences	17
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ13C and δ15N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
Soil and litter legacy effects of pine invasion on subsequent reinvasion and secondary invasion	17
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ15N patterns	17
Disease influences host population growth rates in a natural wild plant–pathogen association over a 30‐year period	17
Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability	16
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest	16
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter	16
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests	16
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth	16
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest	16
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Salvia pratensis	16
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction	16
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Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests	15
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Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science	15
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Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species	15
The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling	14
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia	14
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics	14
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure	14

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What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience	14
Functional traits and soil water availability shape competitive interactions in a diploid–polyploid complex	14
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective	14
Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers	14
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes	14
Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment	14
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition	14
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress	13
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients	13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions	13
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales	13
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming	13
Long‐term empirical evidence shows post‐disturbance climate controls post‐fire regeneration	13
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands	13
Herbivore‐induced branching increases sapling survival in temperate forest canopy gaps	13
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No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	13
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Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	13
International Biological Flora:Ceratonia siliqua	13
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment	13
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest	13
Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores	13
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks	13
Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments	13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen	12
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate	12
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How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO2 fertilization effects on tree seedling performance? A global meta‐analysis	12
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools	12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective	12
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species	12
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification	12
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests	12
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients	12
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands	12
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species	12
Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees	12
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate	12
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels	12
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets	12
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna	12
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment	12
Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic	12
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types	12
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae	12
Nutrient enrichment shifts peak water‐use efficiency to wetter conditions in an alpine meadow	12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system	12
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”	12
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe	12
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach	12
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment	12
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework	12
Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose (Alces alces) across the boreal forest biome	11
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought	11
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests	11
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Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants	11
More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity	11
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory	11
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments	11
Density dependence of seed dispersal and fecundity profoundly alters the spread dynamics of plant populations	11
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests	11
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Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae	11
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland	11
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient	11
Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world	11
Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias	11
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Large‐scale facilitative effects for a single nurse shrub: Impact of the rainfall gradient, plant community and distribution across a geographical barrier	11
Forage quality in tundra grasslands under herbivory: Silicon‐based defences, nutrients and their ratios in grasses	10
Co‐occurrence patterns at four spatial scales implicate reproductive processes in shaping community assembly in clovers	10
Quantifying the effect of competition on the functional assembly of bryophyte and lichen communities: A process‐based model analysis	10
Defaunated and invaded insular tropical rainforests will not recover alone: Recruitment limitation factors disentangled by hierarchical models of spontaneous and assisted regeneration	10
Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands	10
Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought	10
Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway	10
Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient	10
Plant life‐history traits rather than soil legacies determine colonisation of soil patches in a multi‐species grassland	10
Where consumers control plant reproduction in coastal wetlands: The environmental stress model in plants' versus consumers' perspectives	10
Variation in biotic interactions mediates the effects of masting and rainfall fluctuations on seedling demography in a subtropical rainforest	10
Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions	10
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Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America	10
Nitrogen enrichment threatens non‐N mineral nutrition and nutritional stability of forage due to biodiversity loss	10
Interacting effects of fire and hydroclimate on oak and beech community prevalence in the southern Great Lakes region	10
Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture	10
CO2‐stimulation of savanna tree seedling growth depends on interactions with local drivers	10
Mechanistic approaches to investigate soil microbe‐mediated plant competition	10
Tolerance of organisms composing an Arctic kelp community to ocean warming and marine heatwaves	10
Decoupling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon release from fine and coarse roots during 7 years of decomposition	10
The niche through time: Considering phenology and demographic stages in plant distribution models	9