Functional Ecology

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Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	94
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Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	81
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	77
The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	72
The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	68
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	68
Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	65
Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests	61
Functional divergence drives the prevalence of low‐abundance species in bat assemblages	59
Grazing disrupts the trade‐off between silica‐ and phenol‐based plant defences along an aridity gradient in grasslands	57
Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage	55
Observational and experimental evidence that rapid mass loss is consistent with the flight efficiency hypothesis and not caused by reproductive effort in three passerine species	49
Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	49
Herbivore species and patch heterogeneity modulate grazing‐induced shifts in soil nematode trophic structure and energy flux	46
Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	46
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	43
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	43
Developmental plasticity drives converge nt shifts in phosphorus acquisition strategies towards root phosphatase activity in Moso bamboo under nitrogen addition	41
Contrasting effects of deadwood and gaps on the trophic structure of forest soil microarthropods	39
Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation	38
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	38
Convergent remodelling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long‐distance migration	38

The fingerprint of functional strategies in Mediterranean seagrass fish assemblages	38
Warming modulates soil multifunctionality through assembly processes and co‐occurrence patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in drylands	38
Phylogeny of respiratory adaptations and local temperature extremes shape the thermal vulnerability of intertidal crabs	36
Soil and microbial responses to wild ungulate trampling depend more on ecosystem type than trampling severity	36
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	35
Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	34
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	34
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	34
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CO2‐fertilisation enhances resilience to browsing in the recruitment phase of an encroaching savanna tree	33
N 2 fixation is linked to the ability to encroach in African savanna trees	32
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Has behavioural thermoregulation evolved solely to stay alive in insects, nothing more?	31
Context‐dependent evolution of high trophic position drives functional disparity in subterranean crustaceans	30
Multiple mating rescues offspring sex ratio but not productivity in a haplodiploid exposed to developmental heat stress	30
Local climate and genetic influence on intraspecific variation in torpor physiology of a cave‐roosting bat	30
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Estimates of nectar productivity through a simulation approach differ from the nectar produced in 24 h	30
Woodland wildfire enables fungal colonization of encroaching Douglas‐fir	30
Seasonal community stability increased with water addition and shrub removal but reduced with nitrogen addition in semi‐arid grassland	29
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	29
Ant handling changes myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi	29
Nitrogen deposition does not exacerbate phosphorus limitation of rhizosphere microbes in subalpine forests	29
Diet, phenology and body size shape nutrient release by songbirds	28
Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane	28
Dietary restriction fails to extend life in stressful environments	28
Decreasing water availability reduces productivity in Swiss forests along an altitudinal gradient	28
Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish and North American breeding birds	28
The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands	28
Afforestation mitigates soil nitrogen limitation by enhancing mineralization and lowering denitrification in central China	28
The influence of pre‐exposure to marine heatwaves on the critical thermal maxima (CTmax) of marine foundation species	27
Forest storm resilience depends on the interplay between functional composition and climate—Insights from European‐scale simulations	27
Niche complementarity among plants and animals can alter the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship	27
Soil microbial relative resource limitation exhibited contrasting seasonal patterns along an elevational gradient in Yulong Snow Mountain	26
Temporal dynamics of scent mark composition in field‐experimental lizard populations	26
Seed dormancy revisited: Dormancy‐release pathways and environmental interactions	26
Mycorrhizal identity of neighbouring trees shapes seedling survival and plant–soil feedbacks through trait and light interactions	26
Meta‐analysis and critical review of trophic discrimination factors (Δ13C and Δ15N): Importance of tissue, trophic level and diet source	26
Extending plant water‐use strategies to flowers: Evidence from trait correlations across plant organs	25
Flowering plant communities mediate the effects of habitat composition and configuration on wild pollinator communities	25
Contrasting effects of producer and consumer resource use efficiency on trophic asynchrony and stability of food web under multiple stressors	25
The effect of dead standing (marcescent) biomass on litter decomposition in herbaceous flora is governed by plant functional group	25
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Climate change and coastal wetland salinization: Physiological and ecological consequences for Arctic waterfowl	25
Interactions between protea plants and their animal mutualists and antagonists are structured more by energetic than morphological trait matching	24
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Red fruits exhibit lower colour diversity than red flowers as perceived by birds	24
Experimental transplants demonstrate shifts in predation favour evolution of aggressive behaviours in Trinidadian killifish	24
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Why are vertebrates so big?	23
Foundation species support fauna across multiple trophic levels via trophic and non‐trophic mechanisms	23
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Environmentally induced reconstruction of microbial communities alters particulate carbon flux of deep chlorophyll maxima in the South China sea	23
Establishing cordgrass plants cluster their shoots to avoid ecosystem engineering	23
Naturalized alien plants experience less negative soil‐legacy effects and gain competitive advantages through spatial heterogeneity	23
Snake oil in action: Geographic and seasonal variability in epidermal lipids shape evaporative water loss in snakes	23
The vertebrate bone hypothesis: Understanding the impact of bone on vertebrate stoichiometry	22
The post‐fire recovery of soil seed banks along a fire severity gradient in an Australian threatened mesic forest	22
Higher vascular plant abundance associated with decreased ecosystem respiration after 20 years of warming in the forest–tundra ecotone	22
Scaling the effects of size and temperature on animal consumption rates from individuals to populations in a subtropical reef fish	22
Phenotypic evolution of agricultural crops	21
Nitrogen addition alters adaptive strategies of a dominant plant species in an alpine meadow via shifts in traits and trait coordination	21
The litter C/N ratio governs the dual role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in decomposition and plant nutrition absorption	21
Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats	21
Large leaf hydraulic safety margins limit the risk of drought‐induced leaf hydraulic dysfunction in Neotropical rainforest canopy tree species	21
Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients	21
Plasma insulin‐like growth‐factor 1 ( IGF ‐1) concentrations predict early life‐history traits in a wild mammal	21
Differential root nutrient‐acquisition strategies underlie biogeochemical niche separation between grasses and forbs across grassland biomes	21
Should I breed or should I go? Manipulating individual state during migration influences breeding decisions in a long‐lived bird species	21
High metabolic sensitivity to hot drought in two declining pine species with constrained physiology	21
Coping with change: Interactive effects of anthropogenic change influence the breeding success and survival of a desert‐dwelling cooperative breeder	21
Bromeliad populations perform distinct ecological strategies across a tropical elevation gradient	21
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Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change	20
Below‐ground drivers of rhizosphere functional gene assembly during Moso bamboo expansion	20
Warmer temperatures result in maladaptive learning of sexual preferences	20
The ontogenetic dimension of plant functional ecology	20
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Implication of the myo‐inositol pathway in behavioural alterations of infected threespine sticklebacks	20
Nitrogen‐transforming microorganisms potentially facilitate the invasion of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) into evergreen broadleaf forests	20
Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?	20
Compensation alters estimates of the number of species required to maintain ecosystem functioning across an emersion gradient: A case study with intertidal macroalgae	20
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Functional Ecology is moving to open access	20
Shifts in the fungal community promote soil carbon accumulation in microaggregates during long‐term secondary succession	19
Responses of a widespread pest insect to extreme high temperatures are stage‐dependent and divergent among seasonal cohorts	19
Plant–microbe interactions drive the rhizosphere microbial assembly and nitrogen cycling in a subtropical forest	19
How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?	19
Eusociality and the transition from biparental to alloparental care in termites	19
Intraspecific variability in feather moult extent declines under both low and high constraints	19
Long‐term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem	19
Nonstructural carbohydrates predict survival in saplings of temperate trees under carbon stress	19
Size variation of an herbivorous insect affects host plant damage: Mechanisms behind the effect	19
Altered trait covariances between invasive and native ranges of a global plant invader	19
Effects of warming and parasitism on root traits and the root economics space	19
Using ecological restoration to disentangle the mechanisms and longevity of soil functional legacies	19
Hummingbird interaction niche packing is influenced by species richness and resource availability in the southern tropical Andes	19
Wood anatomical trait correlations with hydraulic efficiency and safety in an aseasonal wet tropical forest	19
Testing trade‐offs in amphibian metamorphic traits: Swimming performance and selection across metamorphic stages in the aquatic frog Xenopus laevis	19
Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism	19
Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole‐plant perspective on growth, nutrient‐use and size	18
Soil fungi lead to stronger ‘diminishing returns’ in fine‐root length versus mass allometry towards earlier successional tropical forests	18
Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data	18
Drought effects on root and shoot traits and their decomposability	18
The nexus of decay and birth: Ecological and evolutionary significance of wood‐decaying fungi in green Calypsoinae orchid germination	18
Drought response in herbaceous plants: A test of the integrated framework of plant form and function	18
At the edge of darkness: A framework for the evolution of visual systems in dim light	18
Spiroacetals and the rise of Campanula specialists: Receptor sensitivity to host‐specific floral scents	18
Mycelium biomass and community composition impact nutrient concentration in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at fine spatial scale	18
The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data	18
Meta‐analysis of effects of common mycorrhizal networks formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant and fungal parameters	18
Context‐dependent relationships between genomic traits and plant performance in temperate grasslands	18
Adaptive immune response selects for postponed maturation and increased body size	17
To stay or to roam? Behavioural type influences trade‐offs in male wild turkey survival	17
ShareTrait : Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms	17
Might termites make us unintentional ‘Carbon Cowboys’?	17
Ecological succession shapes size–density scaling relationships of trees and soil invertebrates	17
Increasing prevalence of severe fires change the structure of arthropod communities: Evidence from a meta‐analysis	17
Riparian forests shape trophic interactions in detrital stream food webs	17
Microplastic additions modulate intraspecific variability in root traits and mycorrhizal responses across root‐life history strategies	17
Niche conservatism and sympatric parallel evolution may help to maintain eight nascent tree taxa along a sharp elevation gradient	17
Soil functions are amplified along increasing planting densities via nutrient trade‐off driven by rhizobacteria in drought‐prone environment	17
Environment‐dependent relationships between corticosterone and energy expenditure during reproduction: Insights from seabirds in the context of climate change	17
Abiotic factors that prompt major ecological transitions: Are fish on land to escape an intolerable aquatic environment?	17
Soil N:P ratio influences species coexistence via nitrogen‐form niche differentiation in alpine grasslands	16
Unravelling the mystery of red flowers in the Mediterranean Basin: How to be conspicuous in a place dominated by hymenopteran pollinators	16
Animal transparency: How should we define form and function?	16
Functional traits explain both seedling and adult plant spatial patterns in gypsum annual species	16
Rooted disruptions: Below‐ground herbivory drives contrasting natural enemy foraging for hosts and prey	16

Variation in a microbial mutualist has transcriptional and phenotypic consequences for host–parasite interactions	16
Drought susceptibility of southern African C4 grasses: Phylogenetically and photosynthetically determined?	16
Female preference for males with lower pattern contrast follows Weber's law of proportional processing in jumping spiders	16
All roads lead to infection: A mechanistic model to assess transmission routes of brucellosis in a wild ungulate population	16
Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests	15
Natural history and ecological effects on the establishment and fate of Florida carpenter ant cadavers infected by the parasitic manipulator Ophiocordyceps camponoti‐floridani	15
Novel climate–fire–vegetation interactions and their influence on forest ecosystems in the westernUSA	15
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Dense afforestation reduces plant–pollinator network diversity and persistence	15
Rapid positive response of young trees growth to warming reverses nitrogen loss from subtropical soil	15
Variation of seedling recruitment in wet meadow species over 6 years: Positive effects of mowing and negative effects of fertilization	15
Depth‐dependent mechanisms regulate accumulation of plant‐ and microbial‐derived residues under long‐term nitrogen addition in a semiarid grassland	15
Coarse woody debris decomposition along an elevation gradient alleviates soil microbial P limitation but intensifies C limitation at Wuyishan National Park	15
Self‐pruning in tree crowns is influenced by functional strategies and neighbourhood interactions	15
How vulnerable are amphibians to climate change? A mechanistic perspective	15
An extended epiphenotype for an extended phenotype inToxoplasma gondiiinfected feral house mice	15
Seasonality of temperature dependence of methane fluxes from natural wetlands	15
We need a multidimensional view of the plant reproduction continuum	15
Tree growth‐forms reveal dominant browsers shaping the vegetation	14
Demographic rate directional change and its determinants reveal how plant species win in a patchy landscape with frequent droughts	14
Temporal community change in stream ecosystems varies by assemblage across US climates	14
Shifts in risk sensitivity and resource availability alter fat stores for a large mammal following extreme winter conditions	14
Multiple signalling increases both prey response and diversity in a carnivorous pitcher plant	14
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The functionality of arbuscular mycorrhizal networks across scales of experimental complexity and ecological relevance	14
Wildfire strengthens the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in subtropical forests	14
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation	14
Host and parasite functional morphology jointly explain parasite specificity	14
Higher phosphorus and water use efficiencies and leaf stoichiometry contribute to legume success in drylands	14
Correction to ‘Cuticular hydrocarbons and collective response to water stress in a desert ant’	14
Environment‐driven plasticity in foraging behaviour: From individual‐level processes to community‐level consequences	14
Differential early‐life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination in a long‐lived reptile	14
The role of insularity: Plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands	14
Ecosystem‐level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland	14
Below‐ground root nutrient‐acquisition strategies are more sensitive to long‐term grazing than above‐ground leaf traits across a soil nutrient gradient	14
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Differential selection on sprint speed and ad libitum feeding behaviour in active vs. sit‐and‐wait foraging spiders	14
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Rooting for the little guy: Below‐ground traits predict juvenile grass demography in microsites	13
Ecosystem engineers shape ecological network structure and stability: A framework and literature review	13
Temperature‐dependent scaling of fitness traits with body size in hydra	13
Luring cannibal: Dishonest sexual signalling in the springbok mantis	13
Synchronous seasonal plasticity in coloration, behaviour and visual gene expression in a wild butterfly population	13
Interactive effects of plant litter type and yak excrement on litter decomposition in a shrub‐encroached alpine meadow	13
Hanging out at the club: Breeding status and territoriality affect individual space use, multi‐species overlap and pathogen transmission risk at a seabird colony	13
Bandwagon effects in a floral market: Early pollinator acquisition offsets colour disadvantages in less attractive flowers	13
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The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to improve soil organic carbon in agricultural ecosystems: A meta‐analytical approach	13
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Extended epiphenotypes: Integrating epigenotypes into host behavioural manipulation by parasites	13
Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta‐analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic	13
Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions	13
Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb	13
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Elevational variations in stem hydraulic efficiency and safety of Abies fabri	13
Do seed dispersal strategies reflect adaptation to environmental variability?	13
Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian‐enhanced thermal tolerance landscape approach	13
To lose is to win: Long‐term co‐occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor	13
Vegetation composition regulates the interaction of warming and nitrogen deposition on net carbon dioxide uptake in a boreal peatland	13
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Rethinking the role of colour in avian fruit choices and foraging mechanisms	12
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Experimental designs for testing the interactive effects of temperature and light in ecology: The problem of periodicity	12
Neighbour‐detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition	12
Mother–offspring conflict and body temperature regulation during gestation and lactation in a wild primate	12
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	12
Excessive nutrient input induces an ecological cost for aphids by modifying their attractiveness towards mutualist ants	12
Significant resource niche overlap between competing parasitoids does not prevent their successful co‐existence	12
Water loss, not overheating, limits the activity period of an endothermic Sonoran Desert bee	12
Correction to ‘Evolutionary constraints in host shifts: Limited adaptation of Plutella xylostella to cardenolide‐defended Erysimum	12
Pigment molecular composition reveals significant information for visual communication	12
Visual ecology in challenging environments: How organisms evolve in extremes of light and adapt to shifting conditions	12
Wild large herbivores promote plant diversity and functional redundancy by reducing dominance	12
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Developing together: The elementome and biogeochemical niche of the mutualistic occupants of a fig microcosm	12
Wind, waves, wing loading and the flight energetics of giant petrels	12
Leaf C:P ratio as a universal indicator of photosynthesis in subtropical woody species: Stoichiometric thresholds and metabolic trade‐offs	12
Disconnection between plant–microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes	12
Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dactylostalix orchids	12
Diversity, species coexistence and functional composition patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forests invaded by non‐native trees	12
Investment in regeneration versus asexual reproduction is resource‐dependent in a freshwater annelid	12
FE spotlight: Testing pollen presentation theory in a buzz‐pollinated plant	11
Correction to Sunflower spines and beyond: Mechanisms and breadth of pollen that reduce gut pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee	11
Nutrient exchange within common mycorrhizal networks is altered in a multispecies environment	11
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Lithology modulates soil priming effect via resource limitations and bacterial community structure	11
Shared leadership can promote success in collaborative research networks in ecology	11
Same mesozooplankton functional groups, different functions in three Arctic marine ecosystems	11
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Soil moisture and competition determine soil biota effects on invasive Centaurea stoebe	11
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Context‐dependent running speed in funnel‐web spiders from divergent populations	11
Species‐specific root–shoot ratios in a diverse grassland community	11
Fertilization influences overyielding through dominance of species with high specific leaf area in young tree mixtures	11
Large invasive herbaceous plants decrease the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds via their reproductive traits	11