Functional Ecology

Article	Citations
Concepts and applications in functional diversity	118
Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation	90
Global distribution, formation and fate of mineral‐associated soil organic matter under a changing climate: A trait‐based perspective	84
Deconstructing the microbial necromass continuum to inform soil carbon sequestration	81
Patterns in intraspecific variation in root traits are species‐specific along an elevation gradient	76
Nitrogen loading enhances phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with implications for soil carbon cycling	75
‘Aerobic scope protection’ reduces ectotherm growth under warming	64
Soil enzymes in response to climate warming: Mechanisms and feedbacks	62
A unifying, eco‐physiological framework for animal dormancy	60
A meta‐analysis of effects of physiological integration in clonal plants under homogeneous vs. heterogeneous environments	56
Mangrove diversity enhances plant biomass production and carbon storage in Hainan island, China	51
Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands	49
Cell size as driver and sentinel of phytoplankton community structure and functioning	49
Double‐blind peer review affects reviewer ratings and editor decisions at an ecology journal	48
Keystone species affect the relationship between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem function under land use change in subtropical China	47
Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests	46
Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions	46
Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models	44
Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling	43
Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls in characterizing plant water‐use strategies	42
Thermal flight performance reveals impact of warming on bumblebee foraging potential	41
Sexual (in)equality? A meta‐analysis of sex differences in thermal acclimation capacity across ectotherms	39
Predator‐scale spatial analysis of intra‐patch prey distribution reveals the energetic drivers of rorqual whale super‐group formation	38
The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait‐matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird–plant networks	38
Mating under climate change: Impact of simulated heatwaves on the reproduction of model pollinators	34

Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants	34
Biogeographical distributions of nitrogen‐cycling functional genes in a subtropical estuary	33
Water availability influences thermal safety margins for leaves	33
Body size determines the thermal coupling between insects and plant surfaces	32
Localised climate change defines ant communities in human‐modified tropical landscapes	32
Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle	30
Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change	30
Do visual traits honestly signal floral rewards at community level?	30
Stomping in silence: Conceptualizing trampling effects on soils in polar tundra	30
Plant neighbours shape fungal assemblages associated with plant roots: A new understanding of niche‐partitioning in plant communities	29
Shifting baselines: Physiological legacies contribute to the response of reef corals to frequent heatwaves	29
Changes in above‐/below‐ground biodiversity and plant functional composition mediate soil respiration response to nitrogen input	28
Overyielding is accounted for partly by plasticity and dissimilarity of crop root traits in maize/legume intercropping systems	27
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	27
Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems	27
Longer and warmer prewinter periods reduce post‐winter fitness in a diapausing insect	26
Fine‐scale spatial patterns of wildlife disease are common and understudied	26
The significance of biofilms to human, animal, plant and ecosystem health	26
Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling	25
To grow or survive: Which are the strategies of a perennial grass to face severe seasonal stress?	25
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	25
Spring phenological escape is critical for the survival of temperate tree seedlings	25
Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche	25
Variation in plant carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus contents across the drylands of China	25
Synchronization of seasonal acclimatization and short‐term heat hardening improves physiological resilience in a changing climate	25
Interactions among global change pressures act in a non‐additive way on bumblebee individuals and colonies	24
Forest soil acidification consistently reduces litter decomposition irrespective of nutrient availability and litter type	24
Geographical bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts	24
Cascading effects of N fertilization activate biologically driven mechanisms promoting P availability in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem	24
The PhenObs initiative: A standardised protocol for monitoring phenological responses to climate change using herbaceous plant species in botanical gardens	24
Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems	23
Differing thermal sensitivities in a host–parasitoid interaction: High, fluctuating developmental temperatures produce dead wasps and giant caterpillars	23
Tree phylogenetic diversity structures multitrophic communities	23
Specialists and generalists fulfil important and complementary functional roles in ecological processes	23
Global resorption efficiencies of trace elements in leaves of terrestrial plants	22
Does pH matter for ecosystem multifunctionality? An empirical test in a semi‐arid grassland on the Loess Plateau	22
Beyond forest succession: A gap model to study ecosystem functioning and tree community composition under climate change	22
Experimental heatwaves disrupt bumblebee foraging through direct heat effects and reduced nectar production	22
Climate change‐induced deprivation of dietary essential fatty acids can reduce growth and mitochondrial efficiency of wild juvenile salmon	21
The influence of the global COVID‐19 pandemic on manuscript submissions and editor and reviewer performance at six ecology journals	21
Tree species mixing causes a shift in fine‐root soil exploitation strategies across European forests	21
Linking trait network parameters with plant growth across light gradients and seasons	21
Mycorrhizal fungi alter root exudation to cultivate a beneficial microbiome for plant growth	21
More drought leads to a greater significance of biocrusts to soil multifunctionality	21
Different facets of bacterial and fungal communities drive soil multifunctionality in grasslands spanning a 3500 km transect	21
The important role of sponges in carbon and nitrogen cycling in a deep‐sea biological hotspot	21
Topography strongly affects drought stress and xylem embolism resistance in woody plants from a karst forest in Southwest China	21
Extreme climate shifts pest dominance hierarchy through thermal evolution and transgenerational plasticity	20
Climate change legacies contrastingly affect the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities and multifunctionality to extreme drought	20
Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen	20

High variation in hydraulic efficiency but not xylem safety between roots and branches in four temperate broad‐leaved tree species	20
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	20
Multitrophic richness enhances ecosystem multifunctionality of tropical shallow lakes	20
Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	20
Moderate climate warming scenarios during embryonic and post‐embryonic stages benefit a cold‐climate lizard	19
Hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) of polyunsaturated fatty acids track bioconversion by zooplankton	19
A dormant amoeba species can selectively sense and predate on different soil bacteria	19
Functional traits of a plant species fingerprint ecosystem productivity along broad elevational gradients in the Himalayas	19
Intraspecific correlations between growth and defence vary with resource availability and differ within and among populations	19
Above‐ and below‐ground complementarity rather than selection drive tree diversity–productivity relationships in European forests	19
Plant litter influences the temporal stability of plant community biomass in an alpine meadow by altering the stability and asynchrony of plant functional groups	19
Resource allocation to a structural biomaterial: Induced production of byssal threads decreases growth of a marine mussel	19
Ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: Varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum	19
Cyclic thermal fluctuations can be burden or relief for an ectotherm depending on fluctuations’ average and amplitude	19
Evaluating the roles of microbial functional breadth and home‐field advantage in leaf litter decomposition	18
Water availability rather than temperature control soil fauna community structure and prey–predator interactions	18
Defoliated trees die below a critical threshold of stored carbon	18
Efficient light‐harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits	18
Thermal tolerance of early development predicts the realized thermal niche in marine ectotherms	18
Eusociality and the transition from biparental to alloparental care in termites	18
Trophic plasticity of mixotrophic corals under contrasting environments	18
Exposure and susceptibility: The Twin Pillars of infection	17
Tropicalization unlocks novel trophic pathways and enhances secondary productivity in temperate reefs	17
Increased interannual precipitation variability enhances the carbon sink in a semi‐arid grassland	17
The mating system affects the temperature sensitivity of male and female fertility	17
Distinct carbon fractions drive a generalisable two‐pool model of fungal necromass decomposition	17
Plant functional types regulate non‐additive responses of soil respiration to 5‐year warming and nitrogen addition in a semi‐arid grassland	17
Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands?	17
In utero accumulated steroids predict neonate anti‐predator response in a wild mammal	17
Ecological variation drives morphological differentiation in a highly social vertebrate	17
Covariations and trade‐offs of phosphorus (P) acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica as affected by soil water availability	17
Are leaf, stem and hydraulic traits good predictors of individual tree growth?	17
Amino acid δ13C fingerprints of nearshore marine autotrophs are consistent across broad spatiotemporal scales: An intercontinental isotopic dataset and likely biochemical drivers	17
Microhabitat temperature variation combines with physiological variation to enhance thermal resilience of the intertidal musselMytilisepta virgata	17
How to cope with drought and not die trying: Drought acclimation across tree species with contrasting niche breadth	16
Effects of plant hydraulic traits on the flammability of live fine canopy fuels	16
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	16
The ghosts of ecosystem engineers: Legacy effects of biogenic modifications	16
Nitrogen enrichment and warming shift community functional composition via distinct mechanisms: The role of intraspecific trait variability and species turnover	16
Functional diversity response to geographic and experimental precipitation gradients varies with plant community type	16
Environment, taxonomy and morphology constrain insect thermal physiology along tropical mountains	16
Patterns of phenotypic plasticity along a thermal gradient differ by trait type in an alpine plant	16
Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands	16
Physiological and behavioural effects of anemone bleaching on symbiont anemonefish in the wild	16
True site fidelity in pollen‐feeding butterflies	15
Mucilage binding to ground protects seeds of many plants from harvester ants: A functional investigation	15
Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds	15
Aggregated filter‐feeders govern the flux and stoichiometry of locally available energy and nutrients in rivers	15
Ontogenetic trait shifts: Seedlings display high trait variability during early stages of development	15
Exaggerated sexually selected weapons maintained with disproportionately low metabolic costs in a single species with extreme size variation	15
Body size and shape responses to warming and resource competition	15
Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants	15
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	15
Forest canopy nitrogen uptake can supply entire foliar demand	15
Functional diversity and trait filtering of insectivorous bats on forest islands created by an Amazonian mega dam	15
Interactions between below‐ground traits and rhizosheath fungal and bacterial communities for phosphorus acquisition	15
Toxin or medication? Immunotherapeutic effects of nicotine on a specialist caterpillar	15
Lianas explore the forest canopy more effectively than trees under drier conditions	15
Differential resistance and acclimation of two coral species to chronic nutrient enrichment reflect life‐history traits	15
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	15
Repeatability of migratory behaviour suggests trade‐off between size and survival in a wild iteroparous salmonid	15
Proxy problems: Why a calibration is essential for interpreting quantified changes in energy expenditure from biologging data	15
On the fate of dead coral colonies	15
Animal personality drives individual dietary specialisation across multiple dimensions in a mammalian herbivore	14
Physical adaptations of butterfly proboscises enable feeding from narrow floral tubes	14
The intraspecific relationship between wood density, vessel diameter and other traits across environmental gradients	14
Covariation among reproductive traits in flowering plants shapes their interactions with pollinators	14
Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco‐evolutionary community dynamics and patterns	14
Invasive plants have greater growth than co‐occurring natives in live soil subjected to a drought‐rewetting treatment	14
Herbivory may mediate the effects of nutrients on the dominance of alien plants	14
Seed dormancy revisited: Dormancy‐release pathways and environmental interactions	14
Acoustic signature reveals blue whales tune life‐history transitions to oceanographic conditions	14
Biophysical models unravel associations between glucocorticoids and thermoregulatory costs across avian species	14
Uniting the scales of microbial biogeochemistry with trait‐based modelling	14
Bird extinctions threaten to cause disproportionate reductions of functional diversity and uniqueness	14
Widespread controls of leaf nutrient resorption by nutrient limitation and stoichiometry	13
Caves, crevices and cooling capacity: Roost microclimate predicts heat tolerance in bats	13
Grazing and nitrogen addition restructure the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activities	13
Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates	13
Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider	13

Adaptive variation among oaks in wood anatomical properties is shaped by climate of origin and shows limited plasticity across environments	13
Litter decomposition affected by bamboo expansion is modulated by litter‐mixing and microbial composition	13
Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frogs and salamanders	13
Your best buds are worth protecting: Variation in bud protection in a fire‐prone cerrado system	13
Body size and environment influence both intraspecific and interspecific variation in daily torpor use across hummingbirds	13
Spatiotemporal variation in drivers of parasitism in a wild wood mouse population	13
Macronutrient balance has opposing effects on cognition and survival in honey bees	13
Natural selection favours drought escape and an acquisitive resource‐use strategy in semi‐arid Mediterranean shrubs	13
Rare tree species have narrow environmental but not functional niches	13
Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests	13
Facilitation and competition shape a geographical mosaic of flower colour polymorphisms	12
Savannas are not old fields: Functional trajectories of forest expansion in a fire‐suppressed Brazilian savanna are driven by habitat generalists	12
Intraspecific trait changes in response to drought lead to trait convergence between—but not within—species	12
Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?	12
Asymmetrical effects of temperature on stage‐structured predator–prey interactions	12
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	12
Parasitism dramatically alters the ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels	12
Divergent contributions of living roots to turnover of different soil organic carbon pools and their links to plant traits	12
Non‐linear response of productivity to precipitation extremes in the Inner Mongolia grassland	12
Microclimatic variation affects developmental phenology, synchrony and voltinism in an insect population	12
Soil carbon and microbes in the warming tropics	12
Thermal constraints on energy balance, behaviour and spatial distribution of grizzly bears	12
Consistent pattern of higher lability of leaves from high latitudes for both native Phragmites australis and exotic Spartina alterniflora	12
Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees	12
Diet quality and conspecific larval density predict functional trait variation and performance in a polyphagous frugivorous fly	12
History of co‐occurrence shapes predation effects on functional diversity and structure at low latitudes	12
Incubation temperature as a constraint on clutch size evolution	12
Tripartite networks show that keystone species can multitask	12
Meta‐analysis and critical review of trophic discrimination factors (Δ13C and Δ15N): Importance of tissue, trophic level and diet source	12
Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants	12
Towards a modular theory of trophic interactions	12
Interactive effects of tree species mixture and climate on foliar and woody trait variation in a widely distributed deciduous tree	11
Litter facilitates plant development but restricts seedling establishment during vegetation regeneration	11
Imprint of tree species mycorrhizal association on microbial‐mediated enzyme activity and stoichiometry	11
Leaf silicification provides herbivore defence regardless of the extensive impacts of water stress	11
Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria	11
A trade‐off between growth and hydraulic resilience against freezing leads to divergent adaptations among temperate tree species	11
Feedbacks between size and density determine rapid eco‐phenotypic dynamics	11
Every hooked beak is maintained by a prey: Ecological signal in cephalopod beak shape	11
Patterns of pollination interactions at the community level are related to the type and quantity of floral resources	11
Large seeds provide an intrinsic growth advantage that depends on leaf traits and root allocation	11
Olfactory perception of herbivore‐induced plant volatiles elicits counter‐defences in larvae of the tobacco cutworm	11
The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend: Negative effects of carnivorous arthropods on plants	11
Phytoplankton diversity affects biomass and energy production differently during community development	11
Predator abundance drives the association between exploratory personality and foraging habitat risk in a wild marine meso‐predator	11
Spenders versus savers: Climate‐induced carbon allocation trade‐offs in a recently introduced woody plant	11
From performance curves to performance surfaces: Interactive effects of temperature and oxygen availability on aerobic and anaerobic performance in the common wall lizard	11
Food web consequences of thermal asymmetries	11
High‐resolution 3D forest structure explains ecomorphological trait variation in assemblages of saproxylic beetles	11
Do departure and flight route decisions correlate with immune parameters in migratory songbirds?	11
Contrasting responses of plant and lichen carbon‐based secondary compounds across an elevational gradient	11
Disconnection between plant–microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes	11
Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects	11
Patterns and determinants of plant‐derived lignin phenols in coastal wetlands: Implications for organic C accumulation	11
Plant and soil biodiversity is essential for supporting highly multifunctional forests during Mediterranean rewilding	11
Local‐scale temperature gradients driven by human disturbance shape the physiological and morphological traits of dung beetle communities in a Bornean oil palm–forest mosaic	11
Quantifying within‐species trait variation in space and time reveals limits to trait‐mediated drought response	11
Static visual predator recognition in jumping spiders	10
Low‐quality carbon and lack of nutrients result in a stronger fungal than bacterial home‐field advantage during the decomposition of leaf litter	10
Coping with the worst of both worlds: Phenotypic adjustments for cold acclimatization benefit northward migration and arrival in the cold in an Arctic‐breeding songbird	10
Towards an animal economics spectrum for ecosystem research	10
Clinging performance on natural substrates predicts habitat use in anoles and geckos	10
The joint effect of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration success	10
Do leaf nitrogen resorption dynamics align with the slow‐fast continuum? A test at the intraspecific level	10
Leaf trait expression varies with tree size and ecological strategy in a subtropical forest	10
Pollinator behaviour and resource limitation maintain honest floral signalling	10
Thermal evolution ameliorates the long‐term plastic effects of warming, temperature fluctuations and heat waves on predator–prey interaction strength	10
Response of foliar mineral nutrients to long‐term nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a tropical forest	10
Habitat loss increases seasonal interaction rewiring in plant–pollinator networks	10
Craniodental traits predict feeding performance and dietary hardness in a community of Neotropical free‐tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae)	10
Reproducing in hot water: Experimental heatwaves deteriorate multiple reproductive traits in a freshwater ectotherm	10
The role of fishes as food: A functional perspective on predator–prey interactions	10
The multidimensional (and contrasting) effects of environmental warming on a group of montane tropical lizards	10
Using functional traits to identify conservation priorities for the world's crocodylians	10
Evolutionary and ecological factors structure a plant–bumblebee network in a biodiversity hotspot, the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains	10
Sunflower spines and beyond: Mechanisms and breadth of pollen that reduce gut pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee	10
Drought has inconsistent effects on seed trait composition despite their strong association with ecosystem drought sensitivity	10
The influences of progenitor filtering, domestication selection and the boundaries of nature on the domestication of grain crops	10
Longitudinal dynamics and behavioural correlates of telomeres in male wire‐tailed manakins	10
Flower colour and flowering phenology mediate plant–pollinator interaction assembly in a diverse co‐flowering community	10
Acclimation limits for embolism resistance and osmotic adjustment accompany the geographical dry edge of Mediterranean species	10
Potentially peat‐forming biomass of fen sedges increases with increasing nutrient levels	10
Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland	10
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	10
Environmental drivers of body size in North American bats	10
Plant–soil biota interactions explain shifts in plant community composition under global change	10
Survival of the fattest: How body fat and migration influence survival in highly seasonal environments	10
Effect of water availability on volatile‐mediated communication between potato plants in response to insect herbivory	10
Experimental evidence of rapid heritable adaptation in the absence of initial standing genetic variation	9
Trait‐based approaches as ecological time machines: Developing tools for reconstructing long‐term variation in ecosystems	9
Putative resistance and tolerance mechanisms have little impact on disease progression for an emerging salamander pathogen	9
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	9
Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain	9
Long‐term nitrogen enrichment does not increase microbial phosphorus mobilization in a northern coniferous forest	9
Cumulative effects of spruce budworm and moose herbivory on boreal forest ecosystems	9