Functional Ecology

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Deepened snow cover mitigates soil carbon loss from intensive land‐use in a semi‐arid temperate grassland	135
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Blowing in the wind: Experimental assessment of clinging performance and behaviour in Anolis lizards during hurricane‐force winds	96
Stoichiometric imbalances between soil microorganisms and their resources regulate litter decomposition	96
Circadian fruit phenology: An overlooked crucial aspect of plant‐frugivore interactions	80
Why there are more species in several small patches versus few large patches: A multispecies modelling approach	68
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Assessing the effect of tissue and fire‐response traits on plant growth rates post‐disturbance in eastern Australia	55
Reduced predation and energy flux in soil food webs by introduced tree species: Bottom‐up control of multitrophic biodiversity across size compartments	54
Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dactylostalix orchids	53
Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	52
Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions	51
Beyond forest succession: A gap model to study ecosystem functioning and tree community composition under climate change	50
Plant functional types and tissue stoichiometry explain nutrient transfer in common arbuscular mycorrhizal networks of temperate grasslands	48
Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities	48
Plant traits determine seed retention times in frugivorous birds: Implications for long‐distance seed dispersal	47
Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species	47
Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	47
Foliar phosphorus concentration modulates the defensive mutualism of an endophytic fungus in a perennial host grass	43
Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria	39
Relative contribution of high and low elevation soil microbes and nematodes to ecosystem functioning	38
Longer and warmer prewinter periods reduce post‐winter fitness in a diapausing insect	36
Fruit bat migration matches green wave in seasonal landscapes	34
Predicting the effects of body size, temperature and diet on animal feeding rates	34
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Root traits reveal safety and efficiency differences in grasses and shrubs exposed to different fire regimes	33
Pigment molecular composition reveals significant information for visual communication	32
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Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	29
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Different dynamics and controls of enzyme activities of leaf and root litter during decomposition	29
Nitrogen availability and plant–plant interactions drive leaf silicon concentration in wheat genotypes	28
Host evolutionary history rather than avian functional traits drives the Plasmodium regional assembly in the Atlantic Forest	28
FE Spotlight: Friend or foe? The complex relationships within trophic cascades (FE Spotlight on Cuny et al. ‘The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend: Negative effects of carnivorous arthropods o	27
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Genetic variation in leaf traits and gas exchange responses to vapour pressure deficit in contrasting conifer species	26
Homogeneous microenvironmental conditions under nurses promote facilitation	25
Alteration of the tree–soil microbial system triggers a feedback loop that boosts holm oak decline	25
Mother–offspring conflict and body temperature regulation during gestation and lactation in a wild primate	25
Methods of species pool determination as predictors of survival in seeding and transplanting experiments	25
Disentangling the relative contributions of factors determining seed physical defence: A global‐scale data synthesis	25
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Vegetation composition regulates the interaction of warming and nitrogen deposition on net carbon dioxide uptake in a boreal peatland	25
Nitrogen addition suppresses soil positive priming effect in temperate plantations: Evidence from an 8‐year in situ field experiment	25
To lose is to win: Long‐term co‐occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor	25
Variable relationships between trait diversity and avian ecological functions in agroecosystems	24
Do leaf nitrogen resorption dynamics align with the slow‐fast continuum? A test at the intraspecific level	24
Species diversity and biological trait function: Effectiveness of ant–plant mutualism decreases as ant species diversity increases	24
Phytoplankton diversity affects biomass and energy production differently during community development	24
Resource limitation, intra‐group aggression and brain neuropeptide expression in a social wasp	24
Rapid niche shifts in bacteria following conditioning in novel soil environments	23
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Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees	23
Associations between testosterone and immune activity in alligators depend on bacteria species and temperature	22
The influence of roots on mycorrhizal fungi, saprotrophic microbes and carbon dynamics in a low‐phosphorus Eucalyptus forest under elevated CO2	22
Additive effects of developmental acclimation and physiological syndromes on lifetime metabolic and water loss rates of a dry‐skinned ectotherm	22
Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider	21
Spatial and temporal variation in phenotypes and fitness in response to developmental thermal environments	21
Hybrid networks reveal contrasting effects of agricultural intensification on antagonistic and mutualistic motifs	21
Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests	21
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	21
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability	21
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High‐speed terrestrial substrate transitions: How a fleeing cursorial day gecko copes with compliance changes that are experienced in nature	20
Body size and environment influence both intraspecific and interspecific variation in daily torpor use across hummingbirds	20
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Competitive consequences determined by phenotypic but not genetic distance: A study with asexual water flea genotypes	20
Temperature‐dependent scaling of fitness traits with body size in hydra	20
Freshwater mussels promote functional redundancy in sediment microbial communities under different nutrient regimes	20
Quality over quantity: Trophic cascades in a warming world	20
Hanging out at the club: Breeding status and territoriality affect individual space use, multi‐species overlap and pathogen transmission risk at a seabird colony	19
Differential tree demography mediated by water stress and functional traits in a moist tropical forest	19
Enhanced plant litter impacts nematode communities and carbon use efficiency in a mixed forest	19

Do seed dispersal strategies reflect adaptation to environmental variability?	19
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Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian‐enhanced thermal tolerance landscape approach	19
Functional redundancy dampens precipitation change impacts on species‐rich invertebrate communities across the Neotropics	19
Trait‐based approaches as ecological time machines: Developing tools for reconstructing long‐term variation in ecosystems	19
Divergent microbial phosphorous acquisition strategies between active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau	19
Acclimation in ants: Interference of communication and waterproofing through cuticular hydrocarbons in a multifunctional trait	18
Precipitation predictability drives evolution of drought strategies in the common poppy, Papaver rhoeas	18
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	18
Seed dispersal by frugivores without seed swallowing: Evaluating the contributions of stomatochoric seed dispersers	18
Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	18
Root traits of grasslands rapidly respond to climate change, while community biomass mainly depends on functional composition	18
Enhanced parasitisation of caterpillars and aphids on field‐grown Brassica oleracea plants upon soil amendment with insect exuviae	18
Brain‐infecting parasites leave lasting effects on behaviour even in resistant hosts	17
Plant sex changes the outcome of ant–plant interactions in a facultative myrmecophytic cactus	17
Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb	17
Leaf economics in a three‐dimensional environment: Testing leaf trait responses in vascular epiphytes to land use, climate and tree zone	17
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Pollinator intraspecific body size variation and sociality influence their interactions with plants	17
Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates	17
Leaf silicification provides herbivore defence regardless of the extensive impacts of water stress	17
Cumulative effects of spruce budworm and moose herbivory on boreal forest ecosystems	17
Ecologically relevant radiation exposure triggers elevated metabolic rate and nectar consumption in bumblebees	17
Thermal plasticity in development and diapause strategy in a temperate butterfly across a latitudinal gradient	17
Active regulation of ultraviolet light exposure overrides thermal preference behaviour in eastern fence lizards	17
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Skill rather than beak kinematics affects seed handling performance in a granivorous songbird	17
Community‐wide trait adaptation, but not plasticity, explains ant community structure in extreme environments	17
Tripartite symbioses regulate plant–soil feedback in alder	16
Covariations and trade‐offs of phosphorus (P) acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica as affected by soil water availability	16
Using functional traits to identify conservation priorities for the world's crocodylians	16
Intraspecific correlations between growth and defence vary with resource availability and differ within and among populations	16
Helminth‐associated changes in host immune phenotype connect top‐down and bottom‐up interactions during co‐infection	16
Trade‐offs in rooting strategy dimensions along an edaphic gradient in a grassland ecosystem	16
Disconnection between plant–microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes	16
Why are some invasive plant species so successful in nutrient‐impoverished habitats in south‐western Australia: A perspective based on their phosphorus‐acquisition strategies	15
Convergent remodelling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long‐distance migration	15
Nutrient balance and energy‐acquisition effectiveness: Do birds adjust their fruit diet to achieve intake targets?	15
Experimental designs for testing the interactive effects of temperature and light in ecology: The problem of periodicity	15
Ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: Varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum	15
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	15
Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects	15
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Physiological costs of facultative endosymbionts in aphids assessed from energy metabolism	15
Dividing up the bill: Interactions between how parasitoids manipulate host behaviour and who pays the cost	15
Body mass and triglycerides predict departure of free‐living nomadic pine siskins	15
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	15
Aggregated filter‐feeders govern the flux and stoichiometry of locally available energy and nutrients in rivers	15
Trait‐based mechanistic approach highlights global patterns and losses of herbivore biomass functional diversity	14
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Functional traits and size interact to influence growth and carbon sequestration among trees in urban greenspaces	14
Tree species mixing causes a shift in fine‐root soil exploitation strategies across European forests	14
A fine‐scale analysis reveals microgeographic hotspots maximizing infection rate between a parasite and its fish host	14
Plant invasion modifies isohydricity in Mediterranean tree species	14
Exotics are more complementary over time in tree biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments	14
Foliar herbivory on plants creates soil legacy effects that impact future insect herbivore growth via changes in plant community biomass allocation	14
Fruit‐feeding butterflies depend on adult food for reproduction: Evidence from longitudinal body mass and abundance data	14
Parasitic trophic mode of plant host affects the extent of colonization, but does not induce systematic shifts in the composition of foliar endophytic assemblages in temperate meadow ecosystems	14
The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend: Negative effects of carnivorous arthropods on plants	14
Acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure in a facultative‐soaring bird: Comparing dynamic body acceleration and time‐energy budgets to heart rate	14
Competition–colonisation trade‐offs are found among but not within wind‐dispersed Pinus species	14
Can body mass and skull morphology predict seed and fruit ingestion potential for mammal species? A test using extant species and its application to extinct species	13
Macro‐nutritional balancing in a circumpolar boreal ruminant under winter conditions	13
Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen	13
The ecological function of insect egg micropyles	13
Defoliated trees die below a critical threshold of stored carbon	13
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Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	13
The role of cell size in shaping responses to oxygen and temperature in fruit flies	13
Diversity, species coexistence and functional composition patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forests invaded by non‐native trees	13
Repeatability of migratory behaviour suggests trade‐off between size and survival in a wild iteroparous salmonid	13
Evolutionary history constrains heat tolerance of native and exotic tropical Zingiberales	13
Patterns of constitutive and induced herbivore defence are complex, but share a common genetic basis in annual and perennial monkeyflower	13
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	13
Subterranean morphology modulates the degree of mycoheterotrophy in a green orchid Calypso bulbosa exploiting wood‐decaying fungi	13
Assessing hybrid vigour using the thermal sensitivity of physiological trade‐offs in tiger salamanders	13
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	13
Neighbour‐detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition	13
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	13

The joint effect of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration success	12
Biodegradable microplastics can cause more serious loss of soil organic carbon by priming effect than conventional microplastics in farmland shelterbelts	12
The combination of high leaf hydraulic safety and water use efficiency allows alpine shrubs to adapt to high‐altitude habitats	12
Hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) of polyunsaturated fatty acids track bioconversion by zooplankton	12
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	12
Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland	12
Imprint of tree species mycorrhizal association on microbial‐mediated enzyme activity and stoichiometry	12
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Tree mycorrhizal type mediates the responses of foliar stoichiometry and tree growth to functionally dissimilar neighbours in a subtropical forest experiment	12
Extended epiphenotypes: Integrating epigenotypes into host behavioural manipulation by parasites	12
Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	12
Covariation among reproductive traits in flowering plants shapes their interactions with pollinators	12
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	12
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire—A comment on Zylstra et al.'s model	12
Coral reef fish visual adaptations to a changing world	12
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate	12
Temperature dependence and genetic variation in resource acquisition strategies in a model freshwater plant	12
Consistent pattern of higher lability of leaves from high latitudes for both native Phragmites australis and exotic Spartina alterniflora	11
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	11
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	11
Your best buds are worth protecting: Variation in bud protection in a fire‐prone cerrado system	11
Nitrogen loading enhances phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with implications for soil carbon cycling	11
Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants	11
Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants	11
The effect of moisture, nutrients and disturbance on storage organ size and persistence in temperate herbs	11
Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands	11
The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	11
The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	11
Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation	11
Overyielding is accounted for partly by plasticity and dissimilarity of crop root traits in maize/legume intercropping systems	11
Exposure and susceptibility: The Twin Pillars of infection	11
Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions	11
Asymmetric responses of abundance and diversity of N‐cycling genes to altered precipitation in arid grasslands	11
Trophic plasticity of mixotrophic corals under contrasting environments	11
The ghosts of ecosystem engineers: Legacy effects of biogenic modifications	11
Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain	11
The PhenObs initiative: A standardised protocol for monitoring phenological responses to climate change using herbaceous plant species in botanical gardens	11
Beyond trait distances: Functional distinctiveness captures the outcome of plant competition	11
Simulated winter warming negatively impacts survival of Antarctica's only endemic insect	11
Age matters: Older Alnus viridis ssp. fruticosa are more sensitive to summer temperatures in the Alaskan Arctic	10
Forest canopy nitrogen uptake can supply entire foliar demand	10
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Grazing and nitrogen addition restructure the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activities	10
Microbe‐induced plant resistance against insect pests depends on timing of inoculation but is consistent across climatic conditions	10
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Environmental filtering drives biodiversity–spatial stability relationships in a large temperate forest region	10
The influence of pre‐exposure to marine heatwaves on the critical thermal maxima (CTmax) of marine foundation species	10
The role of fishes as food: A functional perspective on predator–prey interactions	10
Do departure and flight route decisions correlate with immune parameters in migratory songbirds?	10
Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	10
Global resorption efficiencies of trace elements in leaves of terrestrial plants	10
Mutually exclusive feeding yields Holling type III functional response	10
Water availability influences thermal safety margins for leaves	10
Coordination of hydraulic and morphological traits across dominant grasses in eastern Australia	10
The multidimensional (and contrasting) effects of environmental warming on a group of montane tropical lizards	10
Potentially peat‐forming biomass of fen sedges increases with increasing nutrient levels	10
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Nitrogen addition and experimental drought simplified arthropod network in temperate grassland	10
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	10
Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta‐analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic	10
Correction to: Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems	10
Water loss, not overheating, limits the activity period of an endothermic Sonoran Desert bee	10
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Soil microbial gene abundance rather than diversity and network complexity predominantly determines soil multifunctionality in Tibetan alpine grasslands along a precipitation gradient	10
Does the temperature–size rule apply to marine protozoans?	10
Woodland wildfire enables fungal colonization of encroaching Douglas‐fir	10
Confronting assumptions about prey selection by lunge‐feeding whales using a process‐based model	10
An aerodynamic perspective on hurricane‐induced selection on Anolis lizards	10
Towards a modular theory of trophic interactions	10
Monitoring and modelling the effects of ecosystem engineers on ecosystem functioning	9
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Investment in regeneration versus asexual reproduction is resource‐dependent in a freshwater annelid	9
Evolution of predator–prey interactions during range expansion in an aquatic insect predator	9
Plant pests influence the movement of plant‐fixed carbon and fungal‐acquired nutrients through arbuscular mycorrhizal networks	9
Behavioural co‐option of plant secondary compounds by a cavity‐nesting bird is an adaptation against competition and predation	9
Functional traits of a plant species fingerprint ecosystem productivity along broad elevational gradients in the Himalayas	9
Ecological variation drives morphological differentiation in a highly social vertebrate	9
Individual behaviour shapes patterns of bird‐mediated seed dispersal	9
Temperature drives the coordination between above‐ground nutrient conservation and below‐ground nutrient acquisition in alpine coniferous forests	9
Towards an animal economics spectrum for ecosystem research	9
Environmental change legacies attenuate disturbance response of desert soil microbiome and multifunctionality	9
Multiple mating rescues offspring sex ratio but not productivity in a haplodiploid exposed to developmental heat stress	9
Soil microbial relative resource limitation exhibited contrasting seasonal patterns along an elevational gradient in Yulong Snow Mountain	9
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	9
Excessive nutrient input induces an ecological cost for aphids by modifying their attractiveness towards mutualist ants	9
Plant traits modulate grassland stability during drought and post‐drought periods	9
Indirect effects of trophic interactions govern carbon circulation in two beech forest soil ecosystems	9
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Seasonal community stability increased with water addition and shrub removal but reduced with nitrogen addition in semi‐arid grassland	9
Growth‐chemical defence‐metabolomic expression trade‐off is relaxed as soil nutrient availability increases for a tropical passion vine	9
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Clinging performance on natural substrates predicts habitat use in anoles and geckos	9
Aphidophagous ladybird beetles adapt to an aphid symbiont	9
Below‐ground net primary productivity stability in response to a nitrogen addition gradient in an alpine meadow	9
Seasonal precipitation distribution determines ecosystem CO2 and H2O exchange by regulating spring soil water–salt dynamics in a brackish wetland	9