Functional Ecology

Article	Citations
Concepts and applications in functional diversity	89
Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation	70
The dispersal syndrome hypothesis: How animals shaped fruit traits, and how they did not	67
Patterns in intraspecific variation in root traits are species‐specific along an elevation gradient	67
What are you actually measuring? A review of techniques that integrate the stress response on distinct time‐scales	66
Root trait responses to drought are more heterogeneous than leaf trait responses	64
Nitrogen loading enhances phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with implications for soil carbon cycling	56
‘Aerobic scope protection’ reduces ectotherm growth under warming	56
Deconstructing the microbial necromass continuum to inform soil carbon sequestration	55
Global distribution, formation and fate of mineral‐associated soil organic matter under a changing climate: A trait‐based perspective	54
Structural complexity and large‐sized trees explain shifting species richness and carbon relationship across vegetation types	50
A meta‐analysis of effects of physiological integration in clonal plants under homogeneous vs. heterogeneous environments	49
Severe coral loss shifts energetic dynamics on a coral reef	49
Photosynthetic heat tolerances and extreme leaf temperatures	48
Soil enzymes in response to climate warming: Mechanisms and feedbacks	45
The legacy of stress: Coral bleaching impacts reproduction years later	44
A unifying, eco‐physiological framework for animal dormancy	44
Impacts of global environmental change drivers on non‐structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants	43
Harsh environmental regimes increase the functional significance of intraspecific variation in plant communities	41
Mangrove diversity enhances plant biomass production and carbon storage in Hainan island, China	41
The response of the soil bacterial community and function to forest succession caused by forest disease	41
Agriculture intensification reduces plant taxonomic and functional diversity across European arable systems	40
Animal personalities and seed dispersal: A conceptual review	39
Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models	38
Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands	37

Keystone species affect the relationship between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem function under land use change in subtropical China	37
Multidimensional trait morphology predicts ecology across ant lineages	35
Contrasting patterns in biomass allocation, root morphology and mycorrhizal symbiosis for phosphorus acquisition among 20 chickpea genotypes with different amounts of rhizosheath carboxylates	35
Longevity, body dimension and reproductive mode drive differences in aquatic versus terrestrial life‐history strategies	35
Predator‐scale spatial analysis of intra‐patch prey distribution reveals the energetic drivers of rorqual whale super‐group formation	35
Chemical structure predicts the effect of plant‐derived low‐molecular weight compounds on soil microbiome structure and pathogen suppression	33
Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling	33
An empirical attack tolerance test alters the structure and species richness of plant–pollinator networks	32
Cell size as driver and sentinel of phytoplankton community structure and functioning	32
Regularly drinking desert birds have greater evaporative cooling capacity and higher heat tolerance limits than non‐drinking species	31
Decomposition disentangled: A test of the multiple mechanisms by which nitrogen enrichment alters litter decomposition	31
Heat tolerances of temperate and tropical birds and their implications for susceptibility to climate warming	31
Is it time to include legumes in plant silicon research?	31
Thermal flight performance reveals impact of warming on bumblebee foraging potential	31
Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests	31
Livestock overgrazing disrupts the positive associations between soil biodiversity and nitrogen availability	30
Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants	30
Mating under climate change: Impact of simulated heatwaves on the reproduction of model pollinators	30
Sexual (in)equality? A meta‐analysis of sex differences in thermal acclimation capacity across ectotherms	29
The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait‐matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird–plant networks	29
Soil fungi and fine root biomass mediate drought‐induced reductions in soil respiration	29
Global pattern and drivers of nitrogen saturation threshold of grassland productivity	29
Do visual traits honestly signal floral rewards at community level?	28
Double‐blind peer review affects reviewer ratings and editor decisions at an ecology journal	28
Morphological diversity in the sensory system of phyllostomid bats: Implications for acoustic and dietary ecology	27
Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls in characterizing plant water‐use strategies	27
Niche partitioning between river shark species is driven by seasonal fluctuations in environmental salinity	27
Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle	27
Water availability influences thermal safety margins for leaves	27
Seed traits determine species' responses to fire under varying soil heating scenarios	27
Localised climate change defines ant communities in human‐modified tropical landscapes	27
Metabolic adaptation to warm water in fish	26
Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change	26
Competitive exclusion amongst endophytes determines shoot blight severity on pine	26
Plant neighbours shape fungal assemblages associated with plant roots: A new understanding of niche‐partitioning in plant communities	26
Stomping in silence: Conceptualizing trampling effects on soils in polar tundra	25
Large home range scavengers support higher rates of carcass removal	25
Positive feedback loop between earthworms, humus form and soil pH reinforces earthworm abundance in European forests	24
Shifting baselines: Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves	24
Temperature modulates compensatory responses to food limitation at metamorphosis in a marine invertebrate	24
Differences in oxidative status explain variation in thermal acclimation capacity between individual mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)	24
Diatom defence: Grazer induction and cost of shell‐thickening	24
Biogeographical distributions of nitrogen‐cycling functional genes in a subtropical estuary	23
Narrow oviposition preference of an insect herbivore risks survival under conditions of severe drought	23
The PhenObs initiative: A standardised protocol for monitoring phenological responses to climate change using herbaceous plant species in botanical gardens	23
Low predictability of energy balance traits and leaf temperature metrics in desert, montane and alpine plant communities	23
Nutrient limitation, bioenergetics and stoichiometry: A new model to predict elemental fluxes mediated by fishes	23
Hunters versus hunted: New perspectives on the energetic costs of survival at the top of the food chain	23
The significance of biofilms to human, animal, plant and ecosystem health	23
Body size determines the thermal coupling between insects and plant surfaces	23

Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems	22
Interactions among global change pressures act in a non‐additive way on bumblebee individuals and colonies	22
Flowering phenology of a widespread perennial herb shows contrasting responses to global warming between humid and non‐humid regions	22
Risky roots and careful herbivores: Sustained herbivory by a root‐feeding herbivore attenuates indirect plant defences	22
Invasive crayfish alter the long‐term functional biodiversity of lotic macroinvertebrate communities	22
Geographical bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts	22
Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions	21
Tree phylogenetic diversity structures multitrophic communities	21
Topography strongly affects drought stress and xylem embolism resistance in woody plants from a karst forest in Southwest China	21
Short‐term resistance that persists: Rapidly induced silicon anti‐herbivore defence affects carbon‐based plant defences	21
Resource availability drives microevolutionary patterns of plant defences	20
Functional traits of avian frugivores have shifted following species extinction and introduction in the Hawaiian Islands	20
The influence of the global COVID‐19 pandemic on manuscript submissions and editor and reviewer performance at six ecology journals	20
Synchronization of seasonal acclimatization and short‐term heat hardening improves physiological resilience in a changing climate	20
Climate and soil micro‐organisms drive soil phosphorus fractions in coastal dune systems	20
To grow or survive: Which are the strategies of a perennial grass to face severe seasonal stress?	20
A brain‐infecting parasite impacts host metabolism both during exposure and after infection is established	20
Stronger effect of litter quality than micro‐organisms on leaf and root litter C and N loss at different decomposition stages following a subtropical land use change	20
Cascading effects of N fertilization activate biologically driven mechanisms promoting P availability in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem	20
Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche	20
Differing thermal sensitivities in a host–parasitoid interaction: High, fluctuating developmental temperatures produce dead wasps and giant caterpillars	19
Tree species mixing causes a shift in fine‐root soil exploitation strategies across European forests	19
Forest soil acidification consistently reduces litter decomposition irrespective of nutrient availability and litter type	19
Climate change legacies contrastingly affect the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities and multifunctionality to extreme drought	19
Longer and warmer prewinter periods reduce post‐winter fitness in a diapausing insect	19
Fine‐scale spatial patterns of wildlife disease are common and understudied	19
Global resorption efficiencies of trace elements in leaves of terrestrial plants	19
Nocturnal dispersal flight of crickets: Behavioural and physiological responses to cool environmental temperatures	18
Species responses to changing precipitation depend on trait plasticity rather than trait means and intraspecific variation	18
Body temperature, heart rate, and activity patterns of two boreal homeotherms in winter: Homeostasis, allostasis, and ecological coexistence	18
Variation in plant carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus contents across the drylands of China	18
More drought leads to a greater significance of biocrusts to soil multifunctionality	18
Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	18
Between predators and parasitoids: Complex interactions among shelter traits, predation and parasitism in a shelter‐building caterpillar community	18
Resource allocation to a structural biomaterial: Induced production of byssal threads decreases growth of a marine mussel	18
Beyond forest succession: A gap model to study ecosystem functioning and tree community composition under climate change	18
Overyielding is accounted for partly by plasticity and dissimilarity of crop root traits in maize/legume intercropping systems	18
The shape of the predator biomass distribution affects biological pest control services in agricultural landscapes	18
Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands?	17
Spring phenological escape is critical for the survival of temperate tree seedlings	17
High variation in hydraulic efficiency but not xylem safety between roots and branches in four temperate broad‐leaved tree species	17
The forgotten fauna: Native vertebrate seed predators on islands	17
Trait filtering during exotic plant invasion of tropical rainforest remnants along a disturbance gradient	17
Contrasting biomass allocation responses across ontogeny and stress gradients reveal plant adaptations to drought and cold	17
Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen	17
Extreme climate shifts pest dominance hierarchy through thermal evolution and transgenerational plasticity	17
A dormant amoeba species can selectively sense and predate on different soil bacteria	17
Does pH matter for ecosystem multifunctionality? An empirical test in a semi‐arid grassland on the Loess Plateau	17
Changes in above‐/below‐ground biodiversity and plant functional composition mediate soil respiration response to nitrogen input	17
How the effects of latitude on daylight availability may have influenced the evolution of migration and photoperiodism	17
Phosphorus allocation to and resorption from leaves regulate the residence time of phosphorus in above‐ground forest biomass on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo	17
Are leaf, stem and hydraulic traits good predictors of individual tree growth?	17
Tropicalization unlocks novel trophic pathways and enhances secondary productivity in temperate reefs	17
Food web properties vary with climate and land use in South African streams	17
Eusociality and the transition from biparental to alloparental care in termites	17
Specialists and generalists fulfil important and complementary functional roles in ecological processes	17
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	17
Hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) of polyunsaturated fatty acids track bioconversion by zooplankton	17
Plant litter influences the temporal stability of plant community biomass in an alpine meadow by altering the stability and asynchrony of plant functional groups	16
Defoliated trees die below a critical threshold of stored carbon	16
Multitrophic richness enhances ecosystem multifunctionality of tropical shallow lakes	16
Intraspecific correlations between growth and defence vary with resource availability and differ within and among populations	16
The inducible defences of large mammals to human lethality	16
Root herbivory controls the effects of water availability on the partitioning between above‐ and below‐ground grass biomass	16
Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands	15
Terrestrial laser scanning reveals convergence of tree architecture with increasingly dominant crown canopy position	15
Cyclic thermal fluctuations can be burden or relief for an ectotherm depending on fluctuations’ average and amplitude	15
The mating system affects the temperature sensitivity of male and female fertility	15
Interspecific trait integration increases with environmental harshness: A case study along a metal toxicity gradient	15
Above‐ and below‐ground complementarity rather than selection drive tree diversity–productivity relationships in European forests	15
The important role of sponges in carbon and nitrogen cycling in a deep‐sea biological hotspot	15
Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems	15
Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling	15
Dark septate endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Paris‐morphotype) affect the stable isotope composition of ‘classically’ non‐mycorrhizal plants	15
How to cope with drought and not die trying: Drought acclimation across tree species with contrasting niche breadth	14
Developmental nutrition modulates metabolic responses to projected climate change	14
Efficient light‐harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits	14
Climate change‐induced deprivation of dietary essential fatty acids can reduce growth and mitochondrial efficiency of wild juvenile salmon	14
Microhabitat temperature variation combines with physiological variation to enhance thermal resilience of the intertidal musselMytilisepta virgata	14
Physiological and behavioural effects of anemone bleaching on symbiont anemonefish in the wild	14

Nighttime warming enhances ecosystem carbon‐use efficiency in a temperate steppe	14
Environmental predictability drives adaptive within‐ and transgenerational plasticity of heat tolerance across life stages and climatic regions	14
Different facets of bacterial and fungal communities drive soil multifunctionality in grasslands spanning a 3500 km transect	14
Water availability rather than temperature control soil fauna community structure and prey–predator interactions	14
Body size and shape responses to warming and resource competition	14
Repeatability of migratory behaviour suggests trade‐off between size and survival in a wild iteroparous salmonid	14
Proxy problems: Why a calibration is essential for interpreting quantified changes in energy expenditure from biologging data	14
A multidimensional approach to the expression of phenotypic plasticity	14
Effects of elk and bison carcasses on soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions in Yellowstone, USA	14
Thermal tolerance of early development predicts the realized thermal niche in marine ectotherms	14
Lianas explore the forest canopy more effectively than trees under drier conditions	14
Isotope analyses of amino acids in fungi and fungal feeding Diptera larvae allow differentiating ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi‐based food chains	14
Functional diversity response to geographic and experimental precipitation gradients varies with plant community type	13
Vascular epiphytes show low physiological resistance and high recovery capacity to episodic, short‐term drought in Monteverde, Costa Rica	13
The response of carbon assimilation and storage to long‐term drought in tropical trees is dependent on light availability	13
Amino acid δ13C fingerprints of nearshore marine autotrophs are consistent across broad spatiotemporal scales: An intercontinental isotopic dataset and likely biochemical drivers	13
Range‐extending tropical herbivores increase diversity, intensity and extent of herbivory functions in temperate marine ecosystems	13
Experimental heatwaves disrupt bumblebee foraging through direct heat effects and reduced nectar production	13
Ontogenetic trait shifts: Seedlings display high trait variability during early stages of development	13
Differential resistance and acclimation of two coral species to chronic nutrient enrichment reflect life‐history traits	13
Interactions between below‐ground traits and rhizosheath fungal and bacterial communities for phosphorus acquisition	13
Body size and environment influence both intraspecific and interspecific variation in daily torpor use across hummingbirds	13
Effects of plant hydraulic traits on the flammability of live fine canopy fuels	13
Evaluating the roles of microbial functional breadth and home‐field advantage in leaf litter decomposition	13
Variation in thermal traits describing sex determination and development in Western Australian sea turtle populations	13
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	13
Strangers in a strange land: Globally unusual thermal tolerance in Collembola from the Cape Floristic Region	13
Distinct carbon fractions drive a generalisable two‐pool model of fungal necromass decomposition	13
Toxin or medication? Immunotherapeutic effects of nicotine on a specialist caterpillar	13
Exaggerated sexually selected weapons maintained with disproportionately low metabolic costs in a single species with extreme size variation	13
To bee or not to bee: The ‘raison d'être’ of toxic secondary compounds in the pollen of Boraginaceae	12
Multiple abiotic and biotic drivers of long‐term wood decomposition within and among species in the semi‐arid inland dunes: A dual role for stem diameter	12
Moderate climate warming scenarios during embryonic and post‐embryonic stages benefit a cold‐climate lizard	12
Ecological variation drives morphological differentiation in a highly social vertebrate	12
Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests	12
Interpreting plant root responses to nutrients, neighbours and pot volume depends on researchers’ assumptions	12
Plant functional types regulate non‐additive responses of soil respiration to 5‐year warming and nitrogen addition in a semi‐arid grassland	12
Mycorrhizal fungi alter root exudation to cultivate a beneficial microbiome for plant growth	12
Mucilage binding to ground protects seeds of many plants from harvester ants: A functional investigation	12
The analysis of plant root responses to nutrient concentration, soil volume and neighbour presence: Different statistical approaches reflect different underlying basic questions	12
Trophic plasticity of mixotrophic corals under contrasting environments	12
Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates	12
Spatiotemporal variation in drivers of parasitism in a wild wood mouse population	12
Functional diversity and trait filtering of insectivorous bats on forest islands created by an Amazonian mega dam	12
Resilience of rhizosphere microbial predators and their prey communities after an extreme heat event	12
Oxidative stress mediates rapid compensatory growth and its costs	12
Grazing and nitrogen addition restructure the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activities	12
Aggregated filter‐feeders govern the flux and stoichiometry of locally available energy and nutrients in rivers	12
Covariations and trade‐offs of phosphorus (P) acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica as affected by soil water availability	12
Physical adaptations of butterfly proboscises enable feeding from narrow floral tubes	11
Individual variation in seasonal acclimation by sympatric amphibians: A climate change perspective	11
Asymmetrical effects of temperature on stage‐structured predator–prey interactions	11
Forest canopy nitrogen uptake can supply entire foliar demand	11
Quantifying prey availability using the foraging plasticity of a marine predator, the little penguin	11
Savannas are not old fields: Functional trajectories of forest expansion in a fire‐suppressed Brazilian savanna are driven by habitat generalists	11
Patterns of phenotypic plasticity along a thermal gradient differ by trait type in an alpine plant	11
Biophysical models unravel associations between glucocorticoids and thermoregulatory costs across avian species	11
True site fidelity in pollen‐feeding butterflies	11
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	11
Foraging tactics in dynamic sea‐ice habitats affect individual state in a long‐ranging seabird	11
Ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: Varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum	11
Animal personality drives individual dietary specialisation across multiple dimensions in a mammalian herbivore	11
Acoustic signature reveals blue whales tune life‐history transitions to oceanographic conditions	11
Incubation temperature as a constraint on clutch size evolution	11
In utero accumulated steroids predict neonate anti‐predator response in a wild mammal	11
Relative reproductive phenology and synchrony affect neonate survival in a nonprecocial ungulate	11
Thermal constraints on energy balance, behaviour and spatial distribution of grizzly bears	11
Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds	11
Biodiversity components mediate the response to forest loss and the effect on ecological processes of plant–frugivore assemblages	11
Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco‐evolutionary community dynamics and patterns	11
Parasitism dramatically alters the ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels	11
Climate affects neighbour‐induced changes in leaf chemical defences and tree diversity–herbivory relationships	11
High rates of carbon and dinitrogen fixation suggest a critical role of benthic pioneer communities in the energy and nutrient dynamics of coral reefs	11
Patterns of pollination interactions at the community level are related to the type and quantity of floral resources	10
High‐resolution 3D forest structure explains ecomorphological trait variation in assemblages of saproxylic beetles	10
Bird extinctions threaten to cause disproportionate reductions of functional diversity and uniqueness	10
Glucocorticoids link forest type to local abundance in tropical birds	10
Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria	10
Exposure and susceptibility: The Twin Pillars of infection	10
Application of a trait‐based species screening framework for vegetation restoration in a tropical coral island of China	10
On the fate of dead coral colonies	10
Testing the role of functional trait expression in plant–plant facilitation	10
Ants adjust their tool use strategy in response to foraging risk	10
Functional traits of a plant species fingerprint ecosystem productivity along broad elevational gradients in the Himalayas	10
Environment, taxonomy and morphology constrain insect thermal physiology along tropical mountains	10
Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants	10
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	10
Detritus decorations as the extended phenotype deflect avian predator attack in an orb‐web spider	10
Flower colour and flowering phenology mediate plant–pollinator interaction assembly in a diverse co‐flowering community	10
Interactive effects of tree species mixture and climate on foliar and woody trait variation in a widely distributed deciduous tree	10
Olfactory perception of herbivore‐induced plant volatiles elicits counter‐defences in larvae of the tobacco cutworm	10
Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider	10
They like it cold, but only in winter: Climate‐mediated effects on a hibernator	10
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	10
Climate change and defoliation interact to affect root length across northern temperate grasslands	10