Journal of Ecology

Article	Citations
Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers	268
A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review	113
Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species	78
Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability	70
Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology	67
The diversity of post‐fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer	59
Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming	57
Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna	56
The importance of extreme rainfall events and their timing in a semi‐arid grassland	55
Climate and soil nutrients differentially drive multidimensional fine root traits in ectomycorrhizal‐dominated alpine coniferous forests	51
Local‐scale climatic refugia offer sanctuary for a habitat‐forming species during a marine heatwave	49
Do bark beetle outbreaks amplify or dampen future bark beetle disturbances in Central Europe?	48
Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content	48
Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition	47
Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities	46
Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes	43
Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology	42
Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession	40
Facilitation and the invasibility of plant communities	40
Evolution and biogeography of actinorhizal plants and legumes: A comparison	40
Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands	40
Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities	38
Intraspecific variation in Phragmites australis: Clinal adaption of functional traits and phenotypic plasticity vary with latitude of origin	38
Climate seasonality drives ant–plant–herbivore interactions via plant phenology in an extrafloral nectary‐bearing plant community	37
Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post‐drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics	37

Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability	35
Biomass partitioning in response to intraspecific competition depends on nutrients and species characteristics: A study of 43 plant species	35
Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savannah grassland precipitation gradient	34
Phylogenetic relatedness mediates persistence and density of soil seed banks	34
Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification	34
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?	34
Seasonal succession of functional traits in phytoplankton communities and their interaction with trophic state	34
The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation	33
Multi‐dimensionality as a path forward in plant‐soil feedback research	32
Remote sensing of phenology: Towards the comprehensive indicators of plant community dynamics from species to regional scales	32
Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem	32
Symbiotic soil fungi enhance resistance and resilience of an experimental grassland to drought and nitrogen deposition	32
Functional diversity of decomposers modulates litter decomposition affected by plant invasion along a climate gradient	32
Foliar water uptake by coastal wetland plants: A novel water acquisition mechanism in arid and humid subtropical mangroves	31
Substrate quality drives fungal necromass decay and decomposer community structure under contrasting vegetation types	31
Associational resistance to both insect and pathogen damage in mixed forests is modulated by tree neighbour identity and drought	31
Crown‐fire severity is more important than ground‐fire severity in determining soil fungal community development in the boreal forest	31
Litter decomposition and nutrient release from monospecific and mixed litters: Comparisons of litter quality, fauna and decomposition site effects	30
Root‐niche separation between savanna trees and grasses is greater on sandier soils	30
Competition and demography rather than dispersal limitation slow down upward shifts of trees’ upper elevation limits in the Alps	30
A king and vassals' tale: Molecular signatures of clonal integration in Posidonia oceanica under chronic light shortage	30
Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region	30
Functional diversity and trait composition of vascular plant and Sphagnum moss communities during peatland succession across land uplift regions	29
Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires	29
Long‐term empirical evidence, early warning signals and multiple drivers of regime shifts in a lake ecosystem	29
Optimal Defense Theory in an ant–plant mutualism: Extrafloral nectar as an induced defence is maximized in the most valuable plant structures	29
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species	28
Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits	28
Rapid thermophilization of understorey plant communities in a 9 year‐long temperate forest experiment	28
Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges	28
Below‐ground‐mediated and phase‐dependent processes drive nitrogen‐evoked community changes in grasslands	28
The experimental manipulation of atmospheric drought: Teasing out the role of microclimate in biodiversity experiments	27
Root economics spectrum and construction costs in Mediterranean woody plants: The role of symbiotic associations and the environment	27
Fast invasives fastly become faster: Invasive plants align largely with the fast side of the plant economics spectrum	27
Plant performance and survival across transplant experiments depend upon temperature and precipitation change along elevation	26
Processes at the soil–root interface determine the different responses of nutrient limitation and metal toxicity in forbs and grasses to nitrogen enrichment	26
An alternate vegetation type proves resilient and persists for decades following forest conversion in the North American boreal biome	26
Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands	25
The contribution of the edaphic factor as a driver of recent plant diversification in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot	25
Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments	25
Allometry rather than abiotic drivers explains biomass allocation among leaves, stems and roots of Artemisia across a large environmental gradient in China	25
Temperature is a dominant driver of distinct annual seasonality of leaf litter production of equatorial tropical rain forests	25
The intraspecific variation of functional traits modulates drought resilience of European beech and pubescent oak	25
Increasing rates of subalpine tree mortality linked to warmer and drier summers	24
Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century	24
Community‐scale effects and strain: Facilitation beyond conspicuous patterns	24
Plant dispersal strategies of high tropical alpine communities across the Andes	24
Tree mycorrhizal type mediates the strength of negative density dependence in temperate forests	24
Climate warming drives Himalayan alpine plant growth and recruitment dynamics	24
Temperate deciduous forests embedded across developed landscapes: Younger forests harbour invasive plants and urban forests maintain native plants	24

The timing of leaf senescence relates to flowering phenology and functional traits in 17 herbaceous species along elevational gradients	23
Pollen transfer networks reveal alien species as main heterospecific pollen donors with fitness consequences for natives	23
Above‐ground plant metabolomic responses to plant–soil feedbacks and herbivory	23
Sympatric pairings of dryland grass populations, mycorrhizal fungi and associated soil biota enhance mutualism and ameliorate drought stress	23
Landscape epidemiology of ash dieback	23
Seagrass coastal protection services reduced by invasive species expansion and megaherbivore grazing	23
What drives biodiversity patterns? Using long‐term multidisciplinary data to discern centennial‐scale change	23
Mechanistic links between biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and stability in a multi‐site grassland experiment	23
Deconstructing precipitation variability: Rainfall event size and timing uniquely alter ecosystem dynamics	23
Intraspecific variations in leaf traits, productivity and resource use efficiencies in the dominant species of subalpine evergreen coniferous and deciduous broad‐leaved forests along the altitudinal g	23
Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges	23
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	22
The role of plant–pollinator interactions in structuring nectar microbial communities	22
Species abundance fluctuations over 31 years are associated with plant–soil feedback in a species‐rich mountain meadow	22
Environment regimes play an important role in structuring trait‐ and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms	22
Temporal beta diversity of lake plants is determined by concomitant changes in environmental factors across decades	22
Tree growth in Switzerland is increasingly constrained by rising evaporative demand	22
Lianas have more acquisitive traits than trees in a dry but not in a wet forest	22
Intraspecific trait variation in alpine plants relates to their elevational distribution	21
Asynchrony among species and functional groups and temporal stability under perturbations: Patterns and consequences	21
Thermal remote sensing for plant ecology from leaf to globe	21
Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change	21
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Quercus rubra	21
Relationships between above‐ground plant traits and carbon cycling in tundra plant communities	21
Soil microbes alter competition between native and invasive plants	21
The evolution, complexity and diversity of models of long‐term forest dynamics	21
Physiological responses to light explain competition and facilitation in a tree diversity experiment	21
Scented nectar and the challenge of measuring honest signals in pollination	20
Seaweed functional diversity revisited: Confronting traditional groups with quantitative traits	20
Shifts in taxonomic and functional composition of trees along rainfall and phosphorus gradients in central Panama	20
Spatial patterns of weed dispersal by wintering gulls within and beyond an agricultural landscape	20
Rapid evolution of a floral trait following acquisition of novel pollinators	20
Common‐garden experiment reveals clinal trends of bud phenology in black spruce populations from a latitudinal gradient in the boreal forest	20
Phenological changes offset the warming effects on biomass production in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	20
Tree growth increases through opposing above‐ground and below‐ground resource strategies	20
Long‐term ecological legacies in western Amazonia	20
Good things take time—Diversity effects on tree growth shift from negative to positive during stand development in boreal forests	20
The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns	20
Differential impacts of nitrogen addition on rhizosphere and bulk‐soil carbon sequestration in an alpine shrubland	20
Scale dependence of ecological assembly rules: Insights from empirical datasets and joint species distribution modelling	20
Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines	20
Tree species richness differentially affects the chemical composition of leaves, roots and root exudates in four subtropical tree species	19
Intraspecific trait changes have large impacts on community functional composition but do not affect ecosystem function	19
Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map	19
Tree diversity reduces the risk of bark beetle infestation for preferred conifer species, but increases the risk for less preferred hosts	19
The resilience of coastal ecosystems: A functional trait‐based perspective	19
Biomass responses of widely and less‐widely naturalized alien plants to artificial light at night	19
C4 photosynthesis and the economic spectra of leaf and root traits independently influence growth rates in grasses	19
Are complementarity effects of species richness on productivity the strongest in species‐rich communities?	19
Mosses reduce soil nitrogen availability in a subarctic birch forest via effects on soil thermal regime and sequestration of deposited nitrogen	19
Functional traits shape tree species distribution in the Himalayas	19
Testing trait plasticity over the range of spectral composition of sunlight in forb species differing in shade tolerance	19
Unraveling the relative role of light and water competition between lianas and trees in tropical forests: A vegetation model analysis	19
Trade‐offs in above‐ and below‐ground biomass allocation influencing seedling growth in a tropical forest	18
Impacts of recurrent dry and wet years alter long‐term tree growth trajectories	18
Critical seed transfer distances for selected tree species in eastern North America	18
Adaptive trait syndromes along multiple economic spectra define cold and warm adapted ecotypes in a widely distributed foundation tree species	18
A synthesis of local adaptation to climate through reciprocal common gardens	18
Forest resilience to global warming is strongly modulated by local‐scale topographic, microclimatic and biotic conditions	18
Combining conservation status and species distribution models for planning assisted colonisation under climate change	18
A trait‐based approach to assessing resistance and resilience to wildfire in two iconic North American conifers	18
Individual‐based plant–pollinator networks are structured by phenotypic and microsite plant traits	18
Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen	18
The soil seed bank can buffer long‐term compositional changes in annual plant communities	18
Warming alters plant phylogenetic and functional community structure	18
Leaf morphological traits as adaptations to multiple climate gradients	18
Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter	18
Climate warming prolongs the time interval between leaf‐out and flowering in temperate trees: Effects of chilling, forcing and photoperiod	18
Soil fauna accelerate litter mixture decomposition globally, especially in dry environments	17
Addition of nitrogen to canopy versus understorey has different effects on leaf traits of understorey plants in a subtropical evergreen broad‐leaved forest	17
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ13C and δ15N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
Climate manipulations differentially affect plant population dynamics within versus beyond northern range limits	17
Overyielding in young tree communities does not support the stress‐gradient hypothesis and is favoured by functional diversity and higher water availability	17
Integrating floral trait and flowering time distribution patterns help reveal a more dynamic nature of co‐flowering community assembly processes	17
Experimental drought re‐ordered assemblages of root‐associated fungi across North American grasslands	17
Land‐use history alters the diversity, community composition and interaction networks of ectomycorrhizal fungi in beech forests	17
Latitudinal pattern in community‐wide herbivory does not match the pattern in herbivory averaged across common plant species	17
Alternative biome states challenge the modelling of species' niche shifts under climate change	17
High‐level rather than low‐level warming destabilizes plant community biomass production	16
The shape of trees: Reimagining forest ecology in three dimensions with remote sensing	16

Plant spectra as integrative measures of plant phenotypes	16
Spatial mapping of root systems reveals diverse strategies of soil exploration and resource contest in grassland plants	16
Intraspecific variation in tree growth responses to neighbourhood composition and seasonal drought in a tropical forest	16
What common‐garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants	16
Revising the trait‐based filtering framework to include interacting filters: Lessons from grassland restoration	16
Experimental evidence of strong relationships between soil microbial communities and plant germination	16
Xylomelum occidentale (Proteaceae) accesses relatively mobile soil organic phosphorus without releasing carboxylates	15
Bridging ecology and physics: Australian fairy circles regenerate following model assumptions on ecohydrological feedbacks	15
Mycoheterotrophic plants living on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are generally enriched in 13C, 15N and 2H isotopes	15
Shifts in ectomycorrhizal exploration types parallel leaf and fine root area with forest age	15
Functional traits predict species responses to environmental variation in a California grassland annual plant community	15
Three eco‐physiological strategies of response to drought maintain the form and function of a tropical montane grassland	15
More diverse tree communities promote foliar fungal pathogen diversity, but decrease infestation rates per tree species, in a subtropical biodiversity experiment	15
The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network	15
Recovery of a cultivation grazer: A mechanism for compensatory growth of Thalassia testudinum in a Caribbean seagrass meadow grazed by green turtles	15
Pathways of savannization in a mesic African savanna–forest mosaic following an extreme fire	15
Changes in multiple environmental factors additively enhance the dominance of an exotic plant with a novel trade‐off pattern	15
Phenotypes of Pinus sylvestris are more coordinated under local harsher conditions across Europe	15
Networks of epiphytic lichens and host trees along elevation gradients: Climate change implications in mountain ranges	15
International Biological Flora: Ginkgo biloba	15
Changes in forest structure drive temperature preferences of boreal understorey plant communities	15
Plant ontogeny determines strength and associated plant fitness consequences of plant‐mediated interactions between herbivores and flower visitors	15
Facilitation and biodiversity jointly drive mutualistic networks	15
Multiple trait dimensions mediate stress gradient effects on plant biomass allocation, with implications for coastal ecosystem services	15
Structural and compositional dimensions of phytochemical diversity in the genus Piper reflect distinct ecological modes of action	14
Variation in biomass allocation and root functional parameters in response to fire history in Brazilian savannas	14
Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success	14
Role of species richness and human impacts in resisting invasive species in tropical forests	14
Scale‐dependent changes in tree diversity over more than a century in eastern Canada: Landscape diversification and regional homogenization	14
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	14
Competitive drivers of interspecific deviations of crown morphology from theoretical predictions measured with Terrestrial Laser Scanning	14
Differences between flower and leaf phenological responses to environmental variation drive shifts in spring phenological sequences of temperate woody plants	14
Forest disturbance and growth processes are reflected in the geographical distribution of large canopy gaps across the Brazilian Amazon	14
Steering the soil microbiome by repeated litter addition	14
Limited evidence for a consistent seed mass‐dispersal trade‐off in wind‐dispersed pines	14
A distinct ecotonal tree community exists at central African forest–savanna transitions	14
A mechanistic and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees	14
Coordination between water uptake depth and the leaf economic spectrum in a Mediterranean shrubland	14
Primary succession in an Atlantic salt marsh: From intertidal flats to mid‐marsh platform in 35 years	14
Effects of pigment richness and size variation on coexistence, richness and function in light‐limited phytoplankton	14
The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly	14
Simulated Indigenous fire stewardship increases the population growth rate of an understorey herb	14
Permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands is rapidly altering forest community composition	13
Community‐level interactions between plants and soil biota during range expansion	13
Mowing does not redress the negative effect of nutrient addition on alpha and beta diversity in a temperate grassland	13
Biodiversity maintains soil multifunctionality and soil organic carbon in novel urban ecosystems	13
Soil fauna modulates the effect of experimental drought on litter decomposition in forests invaded by an exotic pathogen	13
Little trace of floristic homogenization in peri‐urban Andean secondary forests despite high anthropogenic transformation	13
Contemporary adaptive divergence of plant competitive traits in urban and rural populations and its implication for weed management	13
Closing the life cycle of forest trees: The difficult dynamics of seedling‐to‐sapling transitions in a subtropical rainforest	13
Nitrogen increases early‐stage and slows late‐stage decomposition across diverse grasslands	13
Plant litter chemistry controls coarse‐textured soil carbon dynamics	13
Divergent nitrogen and phosphorus allocation strategies in terrestrial plant leaves and fine roots: A global meta‐analysis	13
Reallocation of nitrogen and phosphorus from roots drives regrowth of grasses and sedges after defoliation under deficit irrigation and nitrogen enrichment	13
Gene flow effects on populations inhabiting marginal areas: Origin matters	13
Introduced plants induce outbreaks of a native pest and facilitate invasion in the plants' native range: Evidence from the emerald ash borer	13
Sex‐specific strategies of nutrient resorption associated with leaf economics in Populus euphratica	13
Biogeochemical and ecosystem properties in three adjacent semi‐arid grasslands are resistant to nitrogen deposition but sensitive to edaphic variability	13
Restoring functionally diverse communities enhances invasion resistance in a freshwater wetland	13
Wildfire alters the disturbance impacts of an emerging forest disease via changes to host occurrence and demographic structure	13
Dynamic feedbacks among tree functional traits, termite populations and deadwood turnover	12
Local soil legacy effects in a multispecies grassland community are underlain by root foraging and soil nutrient availability	12
Long‐term effects of colonization–extinction dynamics of generalist versus specialist wood‐decaying fungi	12
Facilitation of a tropical seagrass by a chemosymbiotic bivalve increases with environmental stress	12
Resilience impacts of a secondary disturbance: Meta‐analysis of salvage logging effects on tree regeneration	12
Strong self‐regulation and widespread facilitative interactions in phytoplankton communities	12
A general hypothesis of forest invasions by woody plants based on whole‐plant carbon economics	12
Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses	12
Getting the measure of the biodiversity crisis in Mediterranean coastal habitats	12
On mutualism, models, and masting: The effects of seed‐dispersing animals on the plants they disperse	12
Legacy effects of seed dispersal mechanisms shape the spatial interaction network of plant species in Mediterranean forests	12
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands	12
Contrasting species decline but high sensitivity to increasing water stress on a mixed pine–oak ecotone	12
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests	12
Taking climate change into account: Non‐stationarity in climate drivers of ecological response	12
How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter‐ and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?	12
A graphical null model for scaling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships	12
Contribution of microbial photosynthesis to peatland carbon uptake along a latitudinal gradient	12
Why forest fails to recover after repeated wildfires in Amazonian floodplains? Experimental evidence on tree recruitment limitation	12
Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic	12
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach	12
Complex trait‒environment relationships underlie the structure of forest plant communities	12
Initial richness, consumer pressure and soil resources jointly affect plant diversity and resource strategies during a successional field experiment	12
Short‐ and long‐term effects of nutrient enrichment on salt marsh plant production and microbial community structure	12