Functional Ecology

Article	Citations
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Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	131
Spatial and temporal variation in phenotypes and fitness in response to developmental thermal environments	127
Active regulation of ultraviolet light exposure overrides thermal preference behaviour in eastern fence lizards	116
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The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	86
The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	82
Species diversity and biological trait function: Effectiveness of ant–plant mutualism decreases as ant species diversity increases	74
Cumulative effects of spruce budworm and moose herbivory on boreal forest ecosystems	73
Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage	65
Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	64
Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities	62
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability	58
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Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	53
Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests	53
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	46
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	45
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	44
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	44
Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	41
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate	41
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	40
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	39
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	38

Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	37
Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	37
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Convergent remodelling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long‐distance migration	36
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	34
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	34
Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	34
Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	34
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	32
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	31
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CO2‐fertilisation enhances resilience to browsing in the recruitment phase of an encroaching savanna tree	30
Forest storm resilience depends on the interplay between functional composition and climate—Insights from European‐scale simulations	30
Woodland wildfire enables fungal colonization of encroaching Douglas‐fir	29
Species provenance and traits mediate establishment and performance in an invaded grassland	29
Has behavioural thermoregulation evolved solely to stay alive in insects, nothing more?	29
Multiple mating rescues offspring sex ratio but not productivity in a haplodiploid exposed to developmental heat stress	28
Estimates of nectar productivity through a simulation approach differ from the nectar produced in 24 h	28
Niche complementarity among plants and animals can alter the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship	28
Ant handling changes myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi	28
Soil microbial relative resource limitation exhibited contrasting seasonal patterns along an elevational gradient in Yulong Snow Mountain	28
Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish and North American breeding birds	28
Dietary restriction fails to extend life in stressful environments	28
Seasonal community stability increased with water addition and shrub removal but reduced with nitrogen addition in semi‐arid grassland	28
Growth enhancements of elevated atmospheric [CO2] are reduced under drought‐like conditions in temperate eucalypts	28
The influence of pre‐exposure to marine heatwaves on the critical thermal maxima (CTmax) of marine foundation species	27
Seed dormancy revisited: Dormancy‐release pathways and environmental interactions	26
Meta‐analysis and critical review of trophic discrimination factors (Δ13C and Δ15N): Importance of tissue, trophic level and diet source	26
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Context‐dependent evolution of high trophic position drives functional disparity in subterranean crustaceans	26
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	26
Elevated temperatures drive the evolution of armour loss in the threespine sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus	25
Interactions between protea plants and their animal mutualists and antagonists are structured more by energetic than morphological trait matching	25
Higher vascular plant abundance associated with decreased ecosystem respiration after 20 years of warming in the forest–tundra ecotone	25
How vigilance shapes the functional response of herbivores	25
Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane	25
Flowering plant communities mediate the effects of habitat composition and configuration on wild pollinator communities	25
Experimental transplants demonstrate shifts in predation favour evolution of aggressive behaviours in Trinidadian killifish	24
Nocturnal dissolved organic matter release by turf algae and its role in the microbialization of reefs	24
Why are vertebrates so big?	24
The vertebrate bone hypothesis: Understanding the impact of bone on vertebrate stoichiometry	23
Naturalized alien plants experience less negative soil‐legacy effects and gain competitive advantages through spatial heterogeneity	23
Differential root nutrient‐acquisition strategies underlie biogeochemical niche separation between grasses and forbs across grassland biomes	23
Temporal dynamics of scent mark composition in field‐experimental lizard populations	22
The ontogenetic dimension of plant functional ecology	22
Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?	22
Water availability rather than temperature control soil fauna community structure and prey–predator interactions	22
The effect of dead standing (marcescent) biomass on litter decomposition in herbaceous flora is governed by plant functional group	22
Establishing cordgrass plants cluster their shoots to avoid ecosystem engineering	22
Bromeliad populations perform distinct ecological strategies across a tropical elevation gradient	22

Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients	22
Conserved responses of nutrient resorption to extreme drought in a grassland: The role of community compositional changes	22
Foundation species support fauna across multiple trophic levels via trophic and non‐trophic mechanisms	22
Large leaf hydraulic safety margins limit the risk of drought‐induced leaf hydraulic dysfunction in Neotropical rainforest canopy tree species	22
Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests	22
Top‐down cascading effects of seed‐feeding beetles and their parasitoids on plants and leaf herbivores	22
Climate change and coastal wetland salinization: Physiological and ecological consequences for Arctic waterfowl	21
Red fruits exhibit lower colour diversity than red flowers as perceived by birds	21
Should I breed or should I go? Manipulating individual state during migration influences breeding decisions in a long‐lived bird species	21
Environmentally induced reconstruction of microbial communities alters particulate carbon flux of deep chlorophyll maxima in the South China sea	21
Caves, crevices and cooling capacity: Roost microclimate predicts heat tolerance in bats	21
Drought effects on root and shoot traits and their decomposability	20
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Patterns of pollination interactions at the community level are related to the type and quantity of floral resources	20
Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats	20
Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants	20
The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data	20
Phenotypic evolution of agricultural crops	20
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Metacommunity dynamics and the detection of species associations in co‐occurrence analyses: Why patch disturbance matters	20
How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?	19
Phenotypic plasticity in floral scent in response to nutrient, but not water, availability in the perennial plant Arabis alpina	19
Root trait shifts towards an avoidance strategy promote productivity and recovery in C3 and C4 pasture grasses under drought	19
Warmer temperatures result in maladaptive learning of sexual preferences	19
Implication of the myo‐inositol pathway in behavioural alterations of infected threespine sticklebacks	19
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Chemical defence effective against multiple enemies: Does the response to conspecifics alleviate the response to predators?	19
Compensation alters estimates of the number of species required to maintain ecosystem functioning across an emersion gradient: A case study with intertidal macroalgae	19
Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism	19
Reciprocal plant‐mediated antagonism between a legume plant virus and soil rhizobia	19
Testing trade‐offs in amphibian metamorphic traits: Swimming performance and selection across metamorphic stages in the aquatic frog Xenopus laevis	19
Plant–microbe interactions drive the rhizosphere microbial assembly and nitrogen cycling in a subtropical forest	19
Functional Ecology is moving to open access	18
Altered trait covariances between invasive and native ranges of a global plant invader	18
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Effects of warming and parasitism on root traits and the root economics space	18
Soil fungi lead to stronger ‘diminishing returns’ in fine‐root length versus mass allometry towards earlier successional tropical forests	18
Impact of long‐term water level drawdown on functional plant trait composition of northern peatlands	18
Nonstructural carbohydrates predict survival in saplings of temperate trees under carbon stress	17
Disentangling the roles of plant functional diversity and plaint traits in regulating plant nitrogen accumulation and denitrification in freshwaters	17
Mycelium biomass and community composition impact nutrient concentration in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at fine spatial scale	17
Drought response in herbaceous plants: A test of the integrated framework of plant form and function	17
Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data	17
Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole‐plant perspective on growth, nutrient‐use and size	17
Eusociality and the transition from biparental to alloparental care in termites	17
It takes a community to maintain a tree hollow: Food web complexity enhances decomposition and wood mould production	17
In utero accumulated steroids predict neonate anti‐predator response in a wild mammal	17
Responses of a widespread pest insect to extreme high temperatures are stage‐dependent and divergent among seasonal cohorts	17
Yeast and fruit fly mutual niche construction and antagonism against mould	17
Adaptive immune response selects for postponed maturation and increased body size	16
Environment‐dependent relationships between corticosterone and energy expenditure during reproduction: Insights from seabirds in the context of climate change	16
Interspecific wood trait variation predicts decreased carbon residence time in changing forests	16
Drought susceptibility of southern African C4 grasses: Phylogenetically and photosynthetically determined?	16
Functional traits explain both seedling and adult plant spatial patterns in gypsum annual species	16
Unravelling the mystery of red flowers in the Mediterranean Basin: How to be conspicuous in a place dominated by hymenopteran pollinators	16
Rapid positive response of young trees growth to warming reverses nitrogen loss from subtropical soil	16
Microplastic additions modulate intraspecific variability in root traits and mycorrhizal responses across root‐life history strategies	16
Ecological succession shapes size–density scaling relationships of trees and soil invertebrates	16
Omnivory in predatory lady beetles is widespread and driven by an appetite for sterols	16
Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems	15
Dense afforestation reduces plant–pollinator network diversity and persistence	15
Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests	15
How melanism affects the sensitivity of lizards to climate change	15
Novel climate–fire–vegetation interactions and their influence on forest ecosystems in the westernUSA	15
Spiroacetals and the rise of Campanula specialists: Receptor sensitivity to host‐specific floral scents	15
Some like it hot: Tropical ant community responses to rainforest modification and conversion are shaped by thermal tolerances	15
Increasing prevalence of severe fires change the structure of arthropod communities: Evidence from a meta‐analysis	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
Biogeographical distributions of nitrogen‐cycling functional genes in a subtropical estuary	15
Female preference for males with lower pattern contrast follows Weber's law of proportional processing in jumping spiders	15
The influences of progenitor filtering, domestication selection and the boundaries of nature on the domestication of grain crops	15
An extended epiphenotype for an extended phenotype inToxoplasma gondiiinfected feral house mice	15
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We need a multidimensional view of the plant reproduction continuum	15
Abiotic factors that prompt major ecological transitions: Are fish on land to escape an intolerable aquatic environment?	15
Riparian forests shape trophic interactions in detrital stream food webs	15
Natural and experimental cold exposure in adulthood increase the sensitivity to future stressors in a free‐living songbird	15
Animal transparency: How should we define form and function?	15
Higher phosphorus and water use efficiencies and leaf stoichiometry contribute to legume success in drylands	15
Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling	15

Below‐ground root nutrient‐acquisition strategies are more sensitive to long‐term grazing than above‐ground leaf traits across a soil nutrient gradient	14
Ecosystem‐level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland	14
A trade‐off between growth and hydraulic resilience against freezing leads to divergent adaptations among temperate tree species	14
Geographical variation in the trait‐based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities	14
Positive heterospecific interactions can increase long‐term diversity of plant communities more than negative conspecific interactions alone	14
Elevational variations in stem hydraulic efficiency and safety of Abies fabri	14
The functionality of arbuscular mycorrhizal networks across scales of experimental complexity and ecological relevance	14
Tree growth‐forms reveal dominant browsers shaping the vegetation	14
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Opposite, but insufficient, phenological responses to climate in two circumpolar seabirds: Relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and selection	14
Ecosystem engineers shape ecological network structure and stability: A framework and literature review	14
Perception of dead conspecifics increases reproductive investment in fruit flies	14
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation	14
Cracks in the mirror hypothesis: High specularity does not reduce detection or predation risk	14
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Host and parasite functional morphology jointly explain parasite specificity	14
Diet quality and conspecific larval density predict functional trait variation and performance in a polyphagous frugivorous fly	14
Differential early‐life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination in a long‐lived reptile	13
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	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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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
To lose is to win: Long‐term co‐occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor	13
Are leaf, stem and hydraulic traits good predictors of individual tree growth?	13
The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to improve soil organic carbon in agricultural ecosystems: A meta‐analytical approach	13
Diversity, species coexistence and functional composition patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forests invaded by non‐native trees	13
Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian‐enhanced thermal tolerance landscape approach	13
Deepened snow cover mitigates soil carbon loss from intensive land‐use in a semi‐arid temperate grassland	13
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Plant invasion modifies isohydricity in Mediterranean tree species	13
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Shifts in risk sensitivity and resource availability alter fat stores for a large mammal following extreme winter conditions	13
Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland	13
Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco‐evolutionary community dynamics and patterns	13
Do seed dispersal strategies reflect adaptation to environmental variability?	13
Mother–offspring conflict and body temperature regulation during gestation and lactation in a wild primate	13
Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria	13
Pigment molecular composition reveals significant information for visual communication	13
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
Extended epiphenotypes: Integrating epigenotypes into host behavioural manipulation by parasites	12
Experimental designs for testing the interactive effects of temperature and light in ecology: The problem of periodicity	12
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	12
Water loss, not overheating, limits the activity period of an endothermic Sonoran Desert bee	12
Rooting for the little guy: Below‐ground traits predict juvenile grass demography in microsites	12
Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions	12
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Neighbour‐detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition	12
Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects	12
Vegetation composition regulates the interaction of warming and nitrogen deposition on net carbon dioxide uptake in a boreal peatland	12
Temperature‐dependent scaling of fitness traits with body size in hydra	12
Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider	12
Intraspecific correlations between growth and defence vary with resource availability and differ within and among populations	12
Tree species mixing causes a shift in fine‐root soil exploitation strategies across European forests	12
Leaf economics in a three‐dimensional environment: Testing leaf trait responses in vascular epiphytes to land use, climate and tree zone	12
Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants	12
Plastic background colour matching in the springbok mantis	11
Quantifying phenotypic plasticity: A call for consistency	11
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Monitoring and modelling the effects of ecosystem engineers on ecosystem functioning	11
Dung beetles drive direct and indirect changes in ecosystem multifunctionality	11
Grazing and nitrogen addition restructure the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activities	11
Plant attributes interact with fungal pathogens and nitrogen addition to drive soil enzymatic activities and their temporal variation	11
Coordination of hydraulic and morphological traits across dominant grasses in eastern Australia	11
Potential of undersown species identity versus diversity to manage disease in crops	11
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Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds	11
Excessive nutrient input induces an ecological cost for aphids by modifying their attractiveness towards mutualist ants	11
Environment, taxonomy and morphology constrain insect thermal physiology along tropical mountains	11
Relative contribution of high and low elevation soil microbes and nematodes to ecosystem functioning	11
Searching while sick: How does disease affect foraging decisions and contact rates?	11
Nitrogen addition and experimental drought simplified arthropod network in temperate grassland	11
Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta‐analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic	11
Individual behaviour shapes patterns of bird‐mediated seed dispersal	11
Predicting plant species climate niches on the basis of mechanistic traits	11
Using ecosystem engineers to enhance multiple ecosystem processes	11
Investment in regeneration versus asexual reproduction is resource‐dependent in a freshwater annelid	11
Indirect effects of trophic interactions govern carbon circulation in two beech forest soil ecosystems	11
Maternal and paternal sugar consumption interact to modify offspring life history and physiology	10
Plasticity and evolution shape the scaling of metabolism and excretion along a geothermal temperature gradient	10
Leaf fluctuating asymmetry is not a reliable indicator of stress	10
Interactions between silicon and alkaloid defences in endophyte‐infected grasses and the consequences for a folivore	10
Fine‐scale plant defence variability increases top‐down control of an herbivore	10
Tree mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between plant and microbial communities and soil organic carbon stocks at local scales in a temperate forest	10
Ontogeny of superorganisms: Social control of queen specialization in ants	10
Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change	10
Nutrient exchange within common mycorrhizal networks is altered in a multispecies environment	10
Loss of fungal symbionts at the arid limit of the distribution range in a native Patagonian grass—Resource eco‐physiological relations	10
Hydrothermal conditions determine soil potential net N mineralization rates in arid and semi‐arid grasslands	10
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata	10
Bird extinctions and introductions are causing taxonomic and functional homogenization in oceanic islands	10
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European oak metabolites shape digestion and fitness of the herbivore Tortrix viridana	10
Thermoregulation enhances survival but not reproduction in a plant‐feeding insect	10
Nitrogen deposition and heathland management cause multi‐element stoichiometric mismatches, reducing insect fitness	10