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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”112
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The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate83
Environmental filtering drives mycorrhizal tree dominance across a soil fertility gradient in a temperate forest81
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation72
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods72
Multidimensional diversity recovery following invasive species removal: Roles of colonization, extinction and abundance shifts69
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs61
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach61
Weed‐suppressive ability and species dominance in intercropping: A meta‐regression60
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Polygonatum multiflorum *55
Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction49
Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling48
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities48
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow47
Defence‐related traits drive leaf litter decomposition more than growth‐related or size and shape traits in a subtropical climate45
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions43
The duration of high spring light for understorey plants: Contrasting responses to spatial and temporal temperature variation43
Dominant species rather than plant biodiversity shape grassland resistance and recovery in response to heatwaves and mowing42
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The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition41
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations40
Local adaptation is highly dependent on common garden conditions where seeds were propagated: Evidence from a 7‐year study on a dominant alpine meadow species40
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil40
Diversity modulates above‐ground productivity in response to disturbances: The case of Iberian forests39
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone39
Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology39
The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits39
Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms38
The golden threat— Solidago invasion alters native plant–pollinator interactions by vegetative crowding37
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis37
Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density37
Seed germination traits reveal naturalization potential: Global insights from temperate European herbaceous species36
Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies36
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs36
Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest36
Integrated demographic strategies are more strongly associated with variation in conspecific density dependence than single traits in tropical tree seedlings35
Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment35
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants34
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant, Spartina alterniflora , are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress 34
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models34
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species34
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species34
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems33
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands33
Intraspecific competition drives orthogonal variation in root exudate metabolic and functional traits in seedlings of a dominant species33
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions33
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla 32
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities32
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium pratense32
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive32
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models31
Plant litter effects on soil carbon stabilization and nitrogen availability: A trade‐off and some versatile species31
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients31
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities31
Flower–leaf sequence shapes plant phenological sensitivity to warming30
The impact of warming on peak‐season ecosystem carbon uptake is influenced by dominant species in warmer sites29
Shifts in plant ecological strategies drive divergent soil organic carbon stock in alpine ecosystems29
Effects of reduced precipitation and advanced spring phenology on intra‐ and interspecific competition between beech, oak and linden saplings29
Native plant species exhibit consistent drought advantage over introduced species until additional global change drivers are included: A grassland meta‐analysis28
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems28
Insect herbivores and soil fertility drive variation in density‐dependent seedling dynamics across a fragmented landscape28
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures28
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction27
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora 27
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario27
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Climate change is associated with a higher extinction risk of a subshrub in anthropogenic landscapes26
The importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity in studies of plant competition and coexistence25
Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective25
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa25
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions25
Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits25
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas24
Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions24
Grazing intensity shifts plant–microbe competition for ammonium and nitrate in temperate grasslands24
Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna24
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Unveiling the role of foliar fungi in mediating leaf photosynthesis under global change23
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Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States23
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions23
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime23
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity23
Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers23
Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century23
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks23
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth23
Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient22
Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales22
Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type22
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution22
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history21
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb21
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Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition21
Positive effects of species mixing on soil carbon sequestration and water retention in global forest plantations21
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests20
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
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure20
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance20
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Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation20
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability20
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Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate19
Asynchronous phenological responses to warming affect biomass production contrastingly in flowering functional groups19
Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions19
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest19
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes19
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change19
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk19
Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder19
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions19
Intra‐annual growth dynamics of forest understorey herbaceous plant species in response to global change19
Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader18
Temperature and precipitation explain species‐specific phenological patterns in five native California milkweed species ( Asclepias spp.)18
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Temporal changes in the foliar chemical composition of forest trees after fire18
Elevated CO 2 and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species rich18
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation18
Latitudinal patterns and processes shaping temperate forest stability18
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species18
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection18
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ 15 N patte17
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction17
The role of the bole: Constraints on the remobilization of stem non‐structural carbohydrates under experimental carbon limitation17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences17
Resolving the effects of functional traits on tree growth rates: The influence of temporal dynamics and divergent strategies by leaf habit17
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species17
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges17
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Knautia arvensis17
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey17
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest17
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate17
Grassland bud and shoot demography depend on both amount and frequency of nitrogen addition17
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest17
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion17
Soil and litter legacy effects of pine invasion on subsequent reinvasion and secondary invasion17
Enhanced below‐ground functioning is associated with higher plant resistance against drought: Implications for ecosystem functions16
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion16
Legacy effects under an emerging novel disturbance regime: A memory‐based framework to quantify tree growth responses16
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter16
Positive association regulates divergent diversity patterns of co‐occurring growth forms16
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Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability16
Density dependence of tree growth varies with temperature gradient and mycorrhizal type16
Correction to “Novel high‐resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide”16
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth16
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress16
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Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science16
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India16
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests16
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No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics15
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Novel high‐resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide15
International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua15
Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests15
Disentangling seed availability and establishment filters at alpine treelines through a decade‐long field manipulation15
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia15
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands15
Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests15
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes15
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective15
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure15
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition15
What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience15
Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers15
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment14
Cross‐scale effects of multi‐strata plant diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality in temperate forests14
Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment14
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales14
No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau14
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets14
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients14
Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores14
Functional traits and soil water availability shape competitive interactions in a diploid–polyploid complex14
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The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling14
Effects of nitrogen addition and elevated carbon dioxide on microclimate vapour pressure deficit in a semi‐arid grassland14
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks14
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients14
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function14
Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments14
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming14
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification14
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests14
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions13
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest13
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”13
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen13
Seasonal timing and preceding moisture regime mediate impacts of heavy rainfall events on High Arctic plant growth13
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Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world13
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe13
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework13
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient13
Beyond species richness: Grazing and fertilisation shape temperate grassland stability through distinct diversity effects13
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system12
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate12
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species12
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae12
Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias12
Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation12
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments12
Intraspecific trait variation shows the predominant influence of functional divergence on species co‐occurrence in a metacommunity12
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
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae12
Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose ( Alces alces ) across the boreal forest biome12
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels12
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland12
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools12
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate12
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory12
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests12
Density dependence of seed dispersal and fecundity profoundly alters the spread dynamics of plant populations12
How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO 2 fertilization ef12
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests12
Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees12
Parallel local adaptation to an alpine environment in Arabidopsis arenosa11
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
Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway11
Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America11
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Loss of nitrogen fixing capacity in a montane lichen is linked to increased nitrogen deposition11
Disentangling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship mechanisms in woody‐herbaceous communities: The importance of facilitation11
The effects of environmental heterogeneity within a city on the evolution of clines11
More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity11
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Endogenous rhythmic growth and ectomycorrhizal fungi modulate priming of antiherbivore defences in subsequently formed new leaves of oak trees11
Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors11
Phenotypic plasticity masks evolutionary change in grassland plant traits in response to land use abandonment11
Some neighbours are better than others: Variation in associational effects among plants in an old field community11
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum *11
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