Journal of Ecology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Ecology is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”96
Multidimensional diversity recovery following invasive species removal: Roles of colonization, extinction and abundance shifts85
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach84
Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction76
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs72
Defence‐related traits drive leaf litter decomposition more than growth‐related or size and shape traits in a subtropical climate68
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Polygonatum multiflorum *53
Weed‐suppressive ability and species dominance in intercropping: A meta‐regression53
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow51
Environmental filtering drives mycorrhizal tree dominance across a soil fertility gradient in a temperate forest51
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities49
Experimental evidence that seed availability and microsite conditions influence post‐fire seedling recruitment46
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation46
Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling45
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate45
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations44
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone44
The golden threat— Solidago invasion alters native plant–pollinator interactions by vegetative crowding43
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs43
Local adaptation is highly dependent on common garden conditions where seeds were propagated: Evidence from a 7‐year study on a dominant alpine meadow species43
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition43
Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment41
Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest41
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions41
Diversity modulates above‐ground productivity in response to disturbances: The case of Iberian forests41
The duration of high spring light for understorey plants: Contrasting responses to spatial and temporal temperature variation41
Seed germination traits reveal naturalization potential: Global insights from temperate European herbaceous species40
Structural differences in individual pollinator networks across bee species reveal the importance of population‐level processes in the assembly of species interactions40
RETRACTED: Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms39
Dominant species rather than plant biodiversity shape grassland resistance and recovery in response to heatwaves and mowing38
Integrated demographic strategies are more strongly associated with variation in conspecific density dependence than single traits in tropical tree seedlings38
Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology38
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species38
Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density38
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant, Spartina alterniflora , are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress 36
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis36
Induced resistance of plants reduces their negative soil‐legacy effects on natives but not on naturalized aliens35
Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies35
Intraspecific competition drives orthogonal variation in root exudate metabolic and functional traits in seedlings of a dominant species35
Carbon currency mediates AM fungal–microbe interactions35
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures34
The impact of warming on peak‐season ecosystem carbon uptake is influenced by dominant species in warmer sites34
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction34
Shifts in plant ecological strategies drive divergent soil organic carbon stock in alpine ecosystems33
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients32
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems32
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive32
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands30
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium pratense30
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models30
Insect herbivores and soil fertility drive variation in density‐dependent seedling dynamics across a fragmented landscape30
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants29
Flower–leaf sequence shapes plant phenological sensitivity to warming29
Mowing, not phosphorus addition, mitigates negative effects of nitrogen enrichment on legumes: Evidence from a 17‐year successional grassland29
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla 29
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems29
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities28
Native plant species exhibit consistent drought advantage over introduced species until additional global change drivers are included: A grassland meta‐analysis28
Plant litter effects on soil carbon stabilization and nitrogen availability: A trade‐off and some versatile species28
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models28
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario27
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions27
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species27
Plant parental effects on offspring performance: Impacts of clonality27
Effects of reduced precipitation and advanced spring phenology on intra‐ and interspecific competition between beech, oak and linden saplings27
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora 26
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Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type25
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa25
Climate change is associated with a higher extinction risk of a subshrub in anthropogenic landscapes25
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity25
Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective25
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions24
Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States24
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Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits24
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks24
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth24
Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century23
Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient23
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Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales23
The importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity in studies of plant competition and coexistence23
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb23
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas22
Positive effects of species mixing on soil carbon sequestration and water retention in global forest plantations22
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions22
Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers22
Unveiling the role of foliar fungi in mediating leaf photosynthesis under global change22
Grazing intensity shifts plant–microbe competition for ammonium and nitrate in temperate grasslands22
Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna22
Intraspecific trait variation responds consistently to global change drivers and mediates herbivory across unrelated plant species22
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk21
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime21
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes21
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution21
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species21
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Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions21
Growth–survival trade‐off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late‐successional stages20
Foliar herbivory pushes plant individuals towards the periphery of a plant–floral visitor interaction network20
Temporal changes in the foliar chemical composition of forest trees after fire20
High climatic niche stability across life stages in Swiss forest tree species20
Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate20
Elevated CO 2 and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species rich20
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Latitudinal patterns and processes shaping temperate forest stability19
Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader19
Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation19
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history19
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests19
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance19
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure19
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability19
Temperature and precipitation explain species‐specific phenological patterns in five native California milkweed species ( Asclepias spp.)19
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions18
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change18
Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions18
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate18
Asynchronous phenological responses to warming affect biomass production contrastingly in flowering functional groups18
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest18
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Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder18
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection18
Intra‐annual growth dynamics of forest understorey herbaceous plant species in response to global change18
Beech decline reshapes fine root traits, microbial composition and soil carbon–nutrient cycling18
Density dependence of tree growth varies with temperature gradient and mycorrhizal type18
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests17
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest17
The role of the bole: Constraints on the remobilization of stem non‐structural carbohydrates under experimental carbon limitation17
Climate‐induced shifts in plant investment strategies regulate ecosystem carbon cycling across alpine grasslands17
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest17
Correction to “Novel high‐resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide”17
Enhanced below‐ground functioning is associated with higher plant resistance against drought: Implications for ecosystem functions17
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction17
Positive association regulates divergent diversity patterns of co‐occurring growth forms17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences17
Grassland bud and shoot demography depend on both amount and frequency of nitrogen addition17
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ 15 N patte17
Legacy effects under an emerging novel disturbance regime: A memory‐based framework to quantify tree growth responses16
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion16
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation16
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India16
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science16
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges16
Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability16
Resolving the effects of functional traits on tree growth rates: The influence of temporal dynamics and divergent strategies by leaf habit16
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth16
Soil and litter legacy effects of pine invasion on subsequent reinvasion and secondary invasion16
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter16
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey16
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species16
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Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers15
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Geographic variation in diaspore traits and home‐site advantage in ant‐mediated dispersal15
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Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes15
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia15
Generalist passerine birds perform a functional role as pollinators in temperate Europe15
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Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests15
Disentangling seed availability and establishment filters at alpine treelines through a decade‐long field manipulation15
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Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests14
No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau14
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands14
Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment14
Cross‐scale effects of multi‐strata plant diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality in temperate forests14
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics14
Functional traits and soil water availability shape competitive interactions in a diploid–polyploid complex14
Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores14
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification14
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress14
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure14
Ontogenetic divergences in soil nutrient preferences between arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees regulate community assembly in subtropical forests14
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function14
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition14
The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling14
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming14
International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua14
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Tree growth phenology shifts in response to trait‐based neighbourhood effects in a large subtropical forest biodiversity experiment14
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective14
Novel high‐resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide14
Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments14
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests13
Effects of nitrogen addition and elevated carbon dioxide on microclimate vapour pressure deficit in a semi‐arid grassland13
Spatial pattern reveals process in a species‐rich seasonal tropical forest: Insights from a multi‐type point process model13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions13
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales13
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna13
Seasonal timing and preceding moisture regime mediate impacts of heavy rainfall events on High Arctic plant growth13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen13
Decadal drivers of quaking aspen decline across the Western United States13
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets13
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe13
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment13
Above‐ground and below‐ground productivity shows divergent compensatory responses to grazing in an alpine grassland13
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Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients13
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment13
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework13
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment13
Eco‐evolutionary shifts in interactions between a globally invasive plant and below‐ground putative pathogens coincide with shifts in plant performance13
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae13
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests12
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought12
Nutrient enrichment shifts peak water‐use efficiency to wetter conditions in an alpine meadow12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective12
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory12
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate12
Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system12
Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation12
Intraspecific trait variation shows the predominant influence of functional divergence on species co‐occurrence in a metacommunity12
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient12
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate12
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”12
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types12
How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO 2 fertilization ef12
Beyond species richness: Grazing and fertilisation shape temperate grassland stability through distinct diversity effects12
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae12
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests12
More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity11
Endogenous rhythmic growth and ectomycorrhizal fungi modulate priming of antiherbivore defences in subsequently formed new leaves of oak trees11
Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway11
Phenotypic plasticity accounts for changes in plant phosphorus‐acquisition strategies from mining to scavenging along a gradient of soil phosphorus availability in South American <11
Roots or exudates? Rhizosphere enzyme hotspots reveal contrasting nitrogen‐acquisition strategies in maize under nitrogen limitation11
Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands11
Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture11
Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought11
Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants11
Disentangling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship mechanisms in woody‐herbaceous communities: The importance of facilitation11
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species11
Are diverse forests thirstier? A meta‐analysis reveals no evidence for a consistent effect of species or functional diversity on tree transpiration11
Phenotypic plasticity masks evolutionary change in grassland plant traits in response to land use abandonment11
Divergent evolution of traits and plasticity across climate gradients in a widespread tree species11
Decoupling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon release from fine and coarse roots during 7 years of decomposition11
Nitrogen enrichment threatens non‐N mineral nutrition and nutritional stability of forage due to biodiversity loss11
Interacting effects of fire and hydroclimate on oak and beech community prevalence in the southern Great Lakes region11
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Lightning‐caused disturbance frequency and severity varies with topography in an Afromontane forest11
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