Journal of Ecology

Article	Citations
Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology	97
Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species	95
Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming	71
Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession	58
Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition	55
Local‐scale climatic refugia offer sanctuary for a habitat‐forming species during a marine heatwave	54
Facilitation and the invasibility of plant communities	52
Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology	51
Evolution and biogeography of actinorhizal plants and legumes: A comparison	51
Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes	49
The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation	48
Remote sensing of phenology: Towards the comprehensive indicators of plant community dynamics from species to regional scales	47
Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands	47
Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities	47
Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability	45
Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem	43
Life after recovery: Increased resolution of forest resilience assessment sheds new light on post‐drought compensatory growth and recovery dynamics	42
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?	41
Biomass partitioning in response to intraspecific competition depends on nutrients and species characteristics: A study of 43 plant species	41
Fast invasives fastly become faster: Invasive plants align largely with the fast side of the plant economics spectrum	41
Multi‐dimensionality as a path forward in plant‐soil feedback research	40
Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification	40
Litter decomposition and nutrient release from monospecific and mixed litters: Comparisons of litter quality, fauna and decomposition site effects	39
Allometry rather than abiotic drivers explains biomass allocation among leaves, stems and roots of Artemisia across a large environmental gradient in China	38
Long‐term empirical evidence, early warning signals and multiple drivers of regime shifts in a lake ecosystem	38

Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savannah grassland precipitation gradient	38
Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits	36
Crown‐fire severity is more important than ground‐fire severity in determining soil fungal community development in the boreal forest	35
Functional diversity and trait composition of vascular plant and Sphagnum moss communities during peatland succession across land uplift regions	35
Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands	35
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species	35
The experimental manipulation of atmospheric drought: Teasing out the role of microclimate in biodiversity experiments	34
Ecological resilience and vegetation transition in the face of two successive large wildfires	34
Functional diversity of decomposers modulates litter decomposition affected by plant invasion along a climate gradient	33
Environment regimes play an important role in structuring trait‐ and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms	33
The shape of trees: Reimagining forest ecology in three dimensions with remote sensing	32
The evolution, complexity and diversity of models of long‐term forest dynamics	31
Thermal remote sensing for plant ecology from leaf to globe	31
The timing of leaf senescence relates to flowering phenology and functional traits in 17 herbaceous species along elevational gradients	31
Rapid thermophilization of understorey plant communities in a 9 year‐long temperate forest experiment	31
Intraspecific trait variation in alpine plants relates to their elevational distribution	30
Deconstructing precipitation variability: Rainfall event size and timing uniquely alter ecosystem dynamics	30
Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges	30
Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds	29
Functional traits shape tree species distribution in the Himalayas	29
The intraspecific variation of functional traits modulates drought resilience of European beech and pubescent oak	29
Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century	29
Soil microbes alter competition between native and invasive plants	28
Physiological responses to light explain competition and facilitation in a tree diversity experiment	28
Tree growth in Switzerland is increasingly constrained by rising evaporative demand	28
Root economics spectrum and construction costs in Mediterranean woody plants: The role of symbiotic associations and the environment	28
Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments	28
Species abundance fluctuations over 31 years are associated with plant–soil feedback in a species‐rich mountain meadow	27
Leaf morphological traits as adaptations to multiple climate gradients	27
Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change	27
The contribution of the edaphic factor as a driver of recent plant diversification in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot	27
Sympatric pairings of dryland grass populations, mycorrhizal fungi and associated soil biota enhance mutualism and ameliorate drought stress	27
Mechanistic links between biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and stability in a multi‐site grassland experiment	26
What drives biodiversity patterns? Using long‐term multidisciplinary data to discern centennial‐scale change	26
Biomass responses of widely and less‐widely naturalized alien plants to artificial light at night	26
Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines	26
Lianas have more acquisitive traits than trees in a dry but not in a wet forest	26
Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges	26
The soil seed bank can buffer long‐term compositional changes in annual plant communities	25
The role of plant–pollinator interactions in structuring nectar microbial communities	25
Rapid evolution of a floral trait following acquisition of novel pollinators	25
Increasing rates of subalpine tree mortality linked to warmer and drier summers	25
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	25
A synthesis of local adaptation to climate through reciprocal common gardens	25
Phenological changes offset the warming effects on biomass production in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	25
Spatial patterns of weed dispersal by wintering gulls within and beyond an agricultural landscape	25
Tree diversity reduces the risk of bark beetle infestation for preferred conifer species, but increases the risk for less preferred hosts	25
Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map	24
Differences between flower and leaf phenological responses to environmental variation drive shifts in spring phenological sequences of temperate woody plants	24
Relationships between above‐ground plant traits and carbon cycling in tundra plant communities	24

International Biological Flora:Ginkgo biloba	24
Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter	24
Timing and duration of drought modulate tree growth response in pure and mixed stands of Scots pine and Norway spruce	23
Unraveling the relative role of light and water competition between lianas and trees in tropical forests: A vegetation model analysis	23
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ13C and δ15N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	23
Biodiversity maintains soil multifunctionality and soil organic carbon in novel urban ecosystems	23
Individual‐based plant–pollinator networks are structured by phenotypic and microsite plant traits	23
Trade‐offs in above‐ and below‐ground biomass allocation influencing seedling growth in a tropical forest	23
Plant spectra as integrative measures of plant phenotypes	23
What common‐garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants	23
The resilience of coastal ecosystems: A functional trait‐based perspective	22
Critical seed transfer distances for selected tree species in eastern North America	22
Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen	22
Mosses reduce soil nitrogen availability in a subarctic birch forest via effects on soil thermal regime and sequestration of deposited nitrogen	22
Are complementarity effects of species richness on productivity the strongest in species‐rich communities?	22
Tree growth increases through opposing above‐ground and below‐ground resource strategies	22
Unravelling the relationship between plant diversity and vegetation structural complexity: A review and theoretical framework	22
The role of browsers in maintaining the openness of savanna grazing lawns	21
Revising the trait‐based filtering framework to include interacting filters: Lessons from grassland restoration	21
Common‐garden experiment reveals clinal trends of bud phenology in black spruce populations from a latitudinal gradient in the boreal forest	21
Role of species richness and human impacts in resisting invasive species in tropical forests	21
High‐level rather than low‐level warming destabilizes plant community biomass production	21
Impacts of recurrent dry and wet years alter long‐term tree growth trajectories	21
Intraspecific trait changes have large impacts on community functional composition but do not affect ecosystem function	21
Soil fauna accelerate litter mixture decomposition globally, especially in dry environments	21
Coordination between water uptake depth and the leaf economic spectrum in a Mediterranean shrubland	21
Tree species richness differentially affects the chemical composition of leaves, roots and root exudates in four subtropical tree species	21
Changes in forest structure drive temperature preferences of boreal understorey plant communities	20
Functional traits predict species responses to environmental variation in a California grassland annual plant community	20
Steering the soil microbiome by repeated litter addition	20
Forest resilience to global warming is strongly modulated by local‐scale topographic, microclimatic and biotic conditions	20
Land‐use history alters the diversity, community composition and interaction networks of ectomycorrhizal fungi in beech forests	20
Citizen science across two centuries reveals phenological change among plant species and functional groups in the Northeastern US	19
Forest disturbance and growth processes are reflected in the geographical distribution of large canopy gaps across the Brazilian Amazon	19
Experimental evidence of strong relationships between soil microbial communities and plant germination	19
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	19
Spatial mapping of root systems reveals diverse strategies of soil exploration and resource contest in grassland plants	19
Primary succession in an Atlantic salt marsh: From intertidal flats to mid‐marsh platform in 35 years	19
Fungal root endophytes influence plants in a species‐specific manner that depends on plant's growth stage	19
Closing the life cycle of forest trees: The difficult dynamics of seedling‐to‐sapling transitions in a subtropical rainforest	19
Combining conservation status and species distribution models for planning assisted colonisation under climate change	19
Alternative biome states challenge the modelling of species' niche shifts under climate change	19
Linking rhizosphere soil microbial activity and plant resource acquisition strategy	19
Climate warming prolongs the time interval between leaf‐out and flowering in temperate trees: Effects of chilling, forcing and photoperiod	19
Sex‐specific strategies of nutrient resorption associated with leaf economics in Populus euphratica	18
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures	18
Adaptive trait syndromes along multiple economic spectra define cold and warm adapted ecotypes in a widely distributed foundation tree species	18
Phenotypes ofPinus sylvestrisare more coordinated under local harsher conditions across Europe	18
Plant litter chemistry controls coarse‐textured soil carbon dynamics	18
Overyielding in young tree communities does not support the stress‐gradient hypothesis and is favoured by functional diversity and higher water availability	18
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests	18
A general hypothesis of forest invasions by woody plants based on whole‐plant carbon economics	18
Biogeochemical and ecosystem properties in three adjacent semi‐arid grasslands are resistant to nitrogen deposition but sensitive to edaphic variability	18
Plant and microbial impacts of an invasive species vary across an environmental gradient	18
Multiple global changes drive grassland productivity and stability: A meta‐analysis	18
More diverse tree communities promote foliar fungal pathogen diversity, but decrease infestation rates per tree species, in a subtropical biodiversity experiment	17
Experimental drought re‐ordered assemblages of root‐associated fungi across North American grasslands	17
Reallocation of nitrogen and phosphorus from roots drives regrowth of grasses and sedges after defoliation under deficit irrigation and nitrogen enrichment	17
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods	17
Mowing does not redress the negative effect of nutrient addition on alpha and beta diversity in a temperate grassland	17
The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network	17
Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success	17
Pathways of savannization in a mesic African savanna–forest mosaic following an extreme fire	17
Facilitation and biodiversity jointly drive mutualistic networks	17
Short‐ and long‐term effects of nutrient enrichment on salt marsh plant production and microbial community structure	17
Divergent nitrogen and phosphorus allocation strategies in terrestrial plant leaves and fine roots: A global meta‐analysis	17
Worlds apart: Location above‐ or below‐ground determines plant litter decomposition in a semi‐arid Patagonian steppe	17
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach	17
Dispersal and coastal geomorphology limit potential for mangrove range expansion under climate change	16
Trait functional diversity explains mixture effects on litter decomposition at the arid end of a climate gradient	16
Multi‐year drought alters plant species composition more than productivity across northern temperate grasslands	16
Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic	16
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest	16
Tree species mixing reduces biomass but increases length of absorptive fine roots in European forests	16
Competitive drivers of interspecific deviations of crown morphology from theoretical predictions measured with Terrestrial Laser Scanning	16
Mycorrhizal symbiosis alleviates plant water deficit within and across generations via phenotypic plasticity	16
Litter quality controls tradeoffs in soil carbon decomposition and replenishment in a subtropical forest	16
Permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands is rapidly altering forest community composition	16
The invasion paradox dissolves when using phylogenetic and temporal perspectives	16
Simulated Indigenous fire stewardship increases the population growth rate of an understorey herb	16

Structural and compositional dimensions of phytochemical diversity in the genus Piper reflect distinct ecological modes of action	16
Nitrogen increases early‐stage and slows late‐stage decomposition across diverse grasslands	16
Contribution of microbial photosynthesis to peatland carbon uptake along a latitudinal gradient	16
The role of plant secondary metabolites in shaping regional and local plant community assembly	16
Mycorrhizal tree impacts on topsoil biogeochemical properties in tropical forests	16
A distinct ecotonal tree community exists at central African forest–savanna transitions	16
Taking climate change into account: Non‐stationarity in climate drivers of ecological response	15
From canopy complementarity to asymmetric competition: The negative relationship between structural diversity and productivity during succession	15
Niche differences, not fitness differences, explain predicted coexistence across ecological groups	15
Effects of pigment richness and size variation on coexistence, richness and function in light‐limited phytoplankton	15
How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter‐ and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?	15
Recovery of a cultivation grazer: A mechanism for compensatory growth of Thalassia testudinum in a Caribbean seagrass meadow grazed by green turtles	15
Legacy effects of seed dispersal mechanisms shape the spatial interaction network of plant species in Mediterranean forests	15
Functionally dissimilar neighbours increase tree water use efficiency through enhancement of leaf phosphorus concentration	15
Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses	15
Networks of epiphytic lichens and host trees along elevation gradients: Climate change implications in mountain ranges	15
Consistency of demographic trade‐offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests	15
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels	15
Introduced plants induce outbreaks of a native pest and facilitate invasion in the plants' native range: Evidence from the emerald ash borer	15
Growth resilience of conifer species decreases with early, long‐lasting and intense droughts but cannot be explained by hydraulic traits	14
Getting the measure of the biodiversity crisis in Mediterranean coastal habitats	14
How changes in spring and autumn phenology translate into growth‐experimental evidence of asymmetric effects	14
Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant–pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients	14
UV radiation doubles microbial degradation of standing litter in a subtropical forest	14
Inferring community assembly processes from functional seed trait variation along elevation gradient	14
Warmer temperatures are linked to widespread phenological mismatch among native and non‐native forest plants	14
Variation in biomass allocation and root functional parameters in response to fire history in Brazilian savannas	14
Demographic differentiation among pioneer tree species during secondary succession of a Neotropical rainforest	14
Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands	14
Little trace of floristic homogenization in peri‐urban Andean secondary forests despite high anthropogenic transformation	14
Nonlinear thresholds in the effects of island area on functional diversity in woody plant communities	14
The effect of community‐wide phytochemical diversity on herbivory reverses from low to high elevation	14
New insights into the drivers of moss‐associated nitrogen fixation and cyanobacterial biomass in the eastern Canadian boreal forest	14
Soil fauna modulates the effect of experimental drought on litter decomposition in forests invaded by an exotic pathogen	14
Elevated CO2 alleviates adverse effects of drought on plant water relations and photosynthesis: A global meta‐analysis	14
Long‐term effects of colonization–extinction dynamics of generalist versus specialist wood‐decaying fungi	14
Species stress tolerance and community competitive effects drive differences in species composition between calcareous and siliceous plant communities	14
Resilience impacts of a secondary disturbance: Meta‐analysis of salvage logging effects on tree regeneration	14
Mycorrhizal effects on decomposition and soil CO2 flux depend on changes in nitrogen availability during forest succession	13
Why forest fails to recover after repeated wildfires in Amazonian floodplains? Experimental evidence on tree recruitment limitation	13
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands	13
A graphical null model for scaling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships	13
Siliceous and non‐nutritious: Nitrogen limitation increases anti‐herbivore silicon defences in a model grass	13
Long‐term impacts of insect herbivores on plant populations and communities	13
Great granny still ruling from the grave: Phenotypical response of plant performance and seed functional traits to salt stress affects multiple generations of a halophyte	13
Intra‐annual precipitation effects on annual grassland productivity and phenology are moderated by community responses	13
Benefit versus cost trade‐offs of masting across seed‐to‐seedling transition for a dominant subtropical forest species	13
Extant fruit‐eating birds promote genetically diverse seed rain, but disperse to fewer sites in defaunated tropical forests	13
Roles of leaf functional traits in fungal endophyte colonization: Potential implications for host–pathogen interactions	13
Browsing is a strong filter for savanna tree seedlings in their first growing season	12
Both diversity and functional composition affect productivity and water use efficiency in experimental temperate grasslands	12
Strong non‐growing season N uptake by deciduous trees in a temperate forest: A 15N isotopic experiment	12
Plant and microbial community composition jointly determine moorland multifunctionality	12
Functional complementarity of seed dispersal services provided by birds and mammals in an alpine ecosystem	12
Canopy gaps facilitate upslope shifts in montane conifers but not in temperate deciduous trees in the Northeastern United States	12
Complex trait‒environment relationships underlie the structure of forest plant communities	12
Variation in resource allocation strategies and environmental driving factors for different life‐forms of aquatic plants in cold temperate zones	12
Above‐ground net primary productivity in regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest: Contributions of rainfall, forest age and soil	12
Negative density dependence in the mortality and growth of tropical tree seedlings is strong, and primarily caused by fungal pathogens	12
Tree recruitment failure in old‐growth forest patches across human‐modified rainforests	12
Bioclimatic drivers of fire severity across the Australian geographical range of giantEucalyptusforests	12
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil	12
Effects of warming temperatures on germination responses and trade‐offs between seed traits in an alpine plant	12
Predicting the structure and functions of peatland microbial communities from Sphagnum phylogeny, anatomical and morphological traits and metabolites	12
Dynamic feedbacks among tree functional traits, termite populations and deadwood turnover	12
Some neighbours are better than others: Variation in associational effects among plants in an old field community	12
Biodiversity facets affect community surface temperature via 3D canopy structure in grassland communities	12
Biodiversity–productivity relationships in a natural grassland community vary under diversity loss scenarios	12
Deciphering the interactions between plant species and their main fungal root pathogens in mixed grassland communities	12
Exposing wind stress as a driver of fine‐scale variation in plant communities	12
Habitat fragmentation and food security in crop pollination systems	11
Limited sink but large storage: Biomass dynamics in naturally developing beech (Fagus sylvatica) and oak (Quercus robur,Quercus petraea) forests of north‐western Germany	11
Parallel local adaptation to an alpine environment in Arabidopsis arenosa	11
Contrasting responses of different functional groups stabilize community responses to a dominant shrub under global change	11
Polyploidy promotes divergent evolution across the leaf economics spectrum and plant edaphic niche in the Dianthus broteri complex	11
Long‐term cross‐scale comparison of grazing and mowing on plant diversity and community composition in a salt‐marsh system	11
Macroclimate drives growth of hair lichens in boreal forest canopies	11
The dark side of rocks: An underestimated high‐quality food resource in river ecosystems	11
The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon‐use efficiency in semi‐arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West	11
Common garden experiments to study local adaptation need to account for population structure	11
Reciprocal facilitation between annual plants and burrowing crabs: Implications for the restoration of degraded saltmarshes	11
High tree diversity enhances light interception in tropical forests	11
Unveil the unseen: Using LiDAR to capture time‐lag dynamics in the herbaceous layer of European temperate forests	11
Climate and mycorrhizae mediate the relationship of tree species diversity and carbon stocks in subtropical forests	11
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities	11
Interactive effects of shading and disturbance on plant invasion in an arid shrubland: Assembly processes and CSR‐strategies	11
The use of photos to investigate ecological change	11
A habitat‐based assessment of the role of competition in plant invasions	11
Environmental stoichiometry mediates phytoplankton diversity effects on communities' resource use efficiency and biomass	11
Direct and insect‐mediated effects of pathogens on plant growth and fitness	11
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario	11
Plant translocations in Europe and the Mediterranean: Geographical and climatic directions and distances from source to host sites	11
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest	11
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress	11
Differences in trait–environment relationships: Implications for community weighted means tests	11