Journal of Ecology

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Multidimensional diversity recovery following invasive species removal: Roles of colonization, extinction and abundance shifts	88
Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”	88
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach	75
Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction	74
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs	72
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Polygonatum multiflorum *	62
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation	62
Defence‐related traits drive leaf litter decomposition more than growth‐related or size and shape traits in a subtropical climate	60
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Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow	49
Environmental filtering drives mycorrhizal tree dominance across a soil fertility gradient in a temperate forest	49
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate	46
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities	46
Weed‐suppressive ability and species dominance in intercropping: A meta‐regression	44
Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology	44
Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling	44
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations	43
The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits	42
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone	41
Integrated demographic strategies are more strongly associated with variation in conspecific density dependence than single traits in tropical tree seedlings	40
The golden threat— Solidago invasion alters native plant–pollinator interactions by vegetative crowding	40
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	40
Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies	39
Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density	39

Seed germination traits reveal naturalization potential: Global insights from temperate European herbaceous species	39
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition	39
RETRACTED: Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms	38
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species	36
Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment	36
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant, Spartina alterniflora , are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress	36
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs	36
Dominant species rather than plant biodiversity shape grassland resistance and recovery in response to heatwaves and mowing	35
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis	35
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions	35
Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest	35
The duration of high spring light for understorey plants: Contrasting responses to spatial and temporal temperature variation	35
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species	34
Diversity modulates above‐ground productivity in response to disturbances: The case of Iberian forests	34
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants	34
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models	34
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands	33
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive	33
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems	33
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities	33
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models	32
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium pratense	32
Plant litter effects on soil carbon stabilization and nitrogen availability: A trade‐off and some versatile species	31
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities	31
Flower–leaf sequence shapes plant phenological sensitivity to warming	30
Effects of reduced precipitation and advanced spring phenology on intra‐ and interspecific competition between beech, oak and linden saplings	29
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems	29
Native plant species exhibit consistent drought advantage over introduced species until additional global change drivers are included: A grassland meta‐analysis	29
Insect herbivores and soil fertility drive variation in density‐dependent seedling dynamics across a fragmented landscape	29
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction	29
Shifts in plant ecological strategies drive divergent soil organic carbon stock in alpine ecosystems	28
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario	28
The impact of warming on peak‐season ecosystem carbon uptake is influenced by dominant species in warmer sites	28
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients	28
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures	27
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla †	27
Intraspecific competition drives orthogonal variation in root exudate metabolic and functional traits in seedlings of a dominant species	27
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Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions	26
Mowing, not phosphorus addition, mitigates negative effects of nitrogen enrichment on legumes: Evidence from a 17‐year successional grassland	26
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa	25
Climate change is associated with a higher extinction risk of a subshrub in anthropogenic landscapes	25
The importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity in studies of plant competition and coexistence	25
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora ‡	25
Unveiling the role of foliar fungi in mediating leaf photosynthesis under global change	24
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity	24
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions	24
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth	24
Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna	24
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks	24

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Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective	24
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Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb	23
Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales	23
Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient	23
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions	23
Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States	23
Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century	22
Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type	22
Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits	22
Positive effects of species mixing on soil carbon sequestration and water retention in global forest plantations	22
Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers	22
Grazing intensity shifts plant–microbe competition for ammonium and nitrate in temperate grasslands	21
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime	21
Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions	21
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution	21
Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate	20
Asynchronous phenological responses to warming affect biomass production contrastingly in flowering functional groups	20
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk	20
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas	20
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes	20
Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions	20
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Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder	20
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change	20
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability	19
Intra‐annual growth dynamics of forest understorey herbaceous plant species in response to global change	19
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection	19
Foliar herbivory pushes plant individuals towards the periphery of a plant–floral visitor interaction network	19
Latitudinal patterns and processes shaping temperate forest stability	19
Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation	19
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Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions	19
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure	19
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest	19
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests	19
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history	19
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Temperature and precipitation explain species‐specific phenological patterns in five native California milkweed species ( Asclepias spp.)	19
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance	19
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species	18
Growth–survival trade‐off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late‐successional stages	18
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Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader	18
Elevated CO 2 and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species rich	18
Density dependence of tree growth varies with temperature gradient and mycorrhizal type	18
Temporal changes in the foliar chemical composition of forest trees after fire	18
High climatic niche stability across life stages in Swiss forest tree species	18
Beech decline reshapes fine root traits, microbial composition and soil carbon–nutrient cycling	18
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth	17
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests	17
Positive association regulates divergent diversity patterns of co‐occurring growth forms	17
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation	17
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion	17
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate	17
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science	17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences	17
Legacy effects under an emerging novel disturbance regime: A memory‐based framework to quantify tree growth responses	17
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter	17
Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability	17
Soil and litter legacy effects of pine invasion on subsequent reinvasion and secondary invasion	17
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Knautia arvensis	17
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey	17
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India	17
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species	17
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest	17
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges	17
Resolving the effects of functional traits on tree growth rates: The influence of temporal dynamics and divergent strategies by leaf habit	17
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion	16
Correction to “Novel high‐resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide”	16
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Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction	16
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest	16
The role of the bole: Constraints on the remobilization of stem non‐structural carbohydrates under experimental carbon limitation	16
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Grassland bud and shoot demography depend on both amount and frequency of nitrogen addition	16
Enhanced below‐ground functioning is associated with higher plant resistance against drought: Implications for ecosystem functions	16
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Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ 15 N patte	16
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands	15
Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests	15
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics	15
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes	15
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Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests	15
Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers	15
What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience	15
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition	15
International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua	15
Disentangling seed availability and establishment filters at alpine treelines through a decade‐long field manipulation	15
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure	15
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Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment	14
Functional traits and soil water availability shape competitive interactions in a diploid–polyploid complex	14
Cross‐scale effects of multi‐strata plant diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality in temperate forests	14
No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	14
Ontogenetic divergences in soil nutrient preferences between arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees regulate community assembly in subtropical forests	14
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia	14
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks	14
Novel high‐resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide	14
Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments	14
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Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification	14
The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling	14
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress	14
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective	14
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	14
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales	14
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients	14
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets	13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen	13
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment	13
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment	13
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna	13
Effects of nitrogen addition and elevated carbon dioxide on microclimate vapour pressure deficit in a semi‐arid grassland	13
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests	13
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming	13
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Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores	13
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment	13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions	13
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients	13
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe	13
Seasonal timing and preceding moisture regime mediate impacts of heavy rainfall events on High Arctic plant growth	13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework	13
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”	12
Intraspecific trait variation shows the predominant influence of functional divergence on species co‐occurrence in a metacommunity	12
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought	12
Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees	12
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species	12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system	12
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory	12
Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world	12
Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose ( Alces alces ) across the boreal forest biome	12
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types	12
Nutrient enrichment shifts peak water‐use efficiency to wetter conditions in an alpine meadow	12
Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation	12
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient	12
Beyond species richness: Grazing and fertilisation shape temperate grassland stability through distinct diversity effects	12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective	12
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments	12
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae	12
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland	12
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Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture	11
How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO 2 fertilization ef	11
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
Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors	11
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests	11
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae	11
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels	11
Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants	11
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate	11
Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient	11
Are diverse forests thirstier? A meta‐analysis reveals no evidence for a consistent effect of species or functional diversity on tree transpiration	11
Disentangling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship mechanisms in woody‐herbaceous communities: The importance of facilitation	11
The effects of environmental heterogeneity within a city on the evolution of clines	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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Decoupling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon release from fine and coarse roots during 7 years of decomposition	11
Loss of nitrogen fixing capacity in a montane lichen is linked to increased nitrogen deposition	11
Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands	11
Where consumers control plant reproduction in coastal wetlands: The environmental stress model in plants' versus consumers' perspectives	11
Phenotypic plasticity masks evolutionary change in grassland plant traits in response to land use abandonment	11
Some neighbours are better than others: Variation in associational effects among plants in an old field community	11
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate	11
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools	11
Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias	11
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum *	11