Ecological Research

Article	Citations
Complementary combination of multiplex high‐throughput DNA sequencing for molecular phylogeny	83
Ecological impacts of fungal wood decay types: A review of current knowledge and future research directions	43
Elevation and aspect determine the differences in soil properties and plant species diversity on Himalayan mountain summits	27
Compilation of real‐time PCR conditions toward the standardization of environmental DNA methods	17
Risk of misinterpreting the Tea Bag Index: Field observations and a random simulation	16
Illuminating the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of ecological stability across scales	15
The Asia‐Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network: 10‐year achievements and new strategies to 2030	14
Macroalgal and mangrove provenances demonstrate their relevance in contributing to the blue carbon pool of a tropical seagrass meadow	13
Outcrossing syndrome in alpine plants: Implications for flowering phenology and pollination success	13
The forest gardener: A marsupial with a key seed‐dispersing role in the Patagonian temperate forest	12
Animal linguistics: Exploring referentiality and compositionality in bird calls	11
Local adaptation to contrasting climatic conditions in Sakhalin fir (Abies sachalinensis) revealed by long‐term provenance trials	11
Evolutionary bet‐hedging reconsidered: What is the mean–variance trade‐off of fitness?	11
Latitudinal diversity gradients for five taxonomic levels of marine fish in depth zones	11
Carbon sequestration potential in the rehabilitated mangroves in Indonesia	10
Review: Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural forests of Cryptomeria japonica	10
Ecosystem engineering structures facilitate ecological resilience: A coral reef model	9
The invisible enemy: Understanding bird‐window strikes through citizen science in a focal city	8
Wider crown shyness between broad‐leaved tree species than between coniferous tree species in a mixed forest of Castanopsis cuspidata and Chamaecyparis obtusa	8
Intraspecific variation in growth‐related traits—from leaf to whole‐tree—in three provenances of Cryptomeria japonica canopy trees grown in a common garden	8
Architectural plasticity in response to population density in Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae)	8
Red foxes in Japan show adaptability in prey resource according to geography and season: A meta‐analysis	8
Environmental DNA methods for detecting two invasive alien species (American bullfrog and red swamp crayfish) in Japanese ponds	8
Spatial modeling of road collisions of striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in Israel	8
Geographical personality gradient in herbivorous animals: Implications for selective culling to reduce crop damage	7

Why species richness of plants and herbivorous insects do or do not correlate	7
Estimation of fine root production, mortality, and decomposition by using two core methods and litterbag experiments in a mangrove forest	7
Ups and downs of non‐native and native stream‐dwelling salmonids: Lessons from two contrasting rivers	7
Preface: Blue carbon studies in Asia‐Pacific regions: Current status, gaps, and future perspectives	7
Management and landscape of shelterbelts contribute to butterfly and flowering plant diversity in northern Japan	7
Bilberry seed production explains spatiotemporal synchronicity in bank vole population fluctuations in Norway	7
Preface: Functional biogeography in Japanese cedar	7
Evaluation of the baseline carbon sequestration rates of Indo‐Pacific temperate and tropical seagrass meadow sediments	7
Spatiotemporal activity of the pine marten Martes martes: Insights from an island population	7
Estimation of total fine root production using continuous inflow methods in tropical mangrove forest on Pohnpei Island, Micronesia: Fine root necromass accumulation is a substantial contributor to blu	7
Dietary differences between grasshoppers are associated with life history tradeoffs in an alpine meadow	7
Intermediate dispersal hypothesis of species diversity: New insights	7
Livestock‐exclusion duration required for restoring grassland in semiarid, loess region in China: Estimate based on species composition measured from small‐scale vegetation patterns	7
Utility of commercial high‐resolution satellite imagery for monitoring general flowering in Sarawak, Borneo	7
The discovery and global distribution of hyperaccumulator plants: A personal account	7
Understanding rural and urban perceptions of seagrass ecosystem services for their blue carbon conservation strategies in the Philippines	7
Review: Monitoring of land cover changes and plant phenology by remote‐sensing in East Asia	6
Increased grazing intensities induce differentiation of the relationships between functional traits and aboveground plant biomass in shrub‐ and grass‐dominated community in desert steppe	6
Canopy conductance and gas exchange of a Japanese cypress forest after rainfall‐induced wetness	6
Relative importance of host‐dependent versus physical environmental characteristics affecting the distribution of an ectoparasitic copepod infecting the mouth cavity of stream salmonid	6
Contrasting metacommunity patterns of fish and aquatic insects in drainage ditches of paddy fields	6
Ecological niche differentiation of two salamanders (Caudata: Hynobiidae) from Hokkaido Island, Japan	6
Phylogenetic structure of lichen metacommunities in Amazonian and Northeast Brazil	6
High variation of mitochondrial DNA diversity as compared to nuclear microsatellites in mammalian populations	6
Scavenging and carcass caching behavior by European wildcat (Felis silvestris)	6
Quantitative evaluation of species composition dissimilarity within a community and among communities	5
Review: Vegetation history of Cryptomeria japonica in Japan since the last interglacial period	5
Leaf trait variability explains how plant community composition changes under the intense pressure of deer herbivory	5
Low spatial congruence between temporal functional β‐diversity and temporal taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity in British avifauna	5
Comparison of macroinvertebrate assemblages in a stream before and after fine sedimentation by deer‐induced forest floor degradation	5
The effects of functional differences in cultivar of Cryptomeria japonica on nutrient dynamics and soil invertebrates in a common garden	5
Lead isotope ratios in moss for the assessment of transboundary pollutants in the Yatsugatake Mountains, central Japan	5
Phytoplankton species abundance in Tokyo Bay (Japan) from 1998 to 2019	4
Changes in stable nitrogen isotopes of plants, bulk soil and soil dissolved N during ecosystem retrogression in boreal forest	4
Biotic resistance in a stochastic world: Do rodents act as a filter to alien tree invasion in pampean old fields?	4
Vegetation change on mountaintops in northern Sweden: Stable vascular‐plant but reordering of lichen and bryophyte communities	4
Blood trail of expansion? Long‐term patterns of livestock depredation by wolves in Poland	4
Seagrass biomass and sediment carbon in conserved and disturbed seascape	4
Blue carbon stock in sediments of mangroves and seagrass ecosystems at Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia	4
Ecological correlates of the alpha and beta diversity of zooplankton hatchling communities in seasonal subtropical ponds	4
“Mining” the herbarium for hyperaccumulators: Discoveries of nickel and zinc (hyper)accumulation in the genus Noccaea (Brassicaceae) through X‐ray fluorescence herbarium scanning	4
Relation of leaf terpene contents to terpene emission profiles in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)	4
Idea paper: How are ecosystem services related to biodiversity and ecological integrity in each site under climate change?	4
Bee occurrence data collected in citizen science program “Hanamaru‐Maruhana national census” in Japan	4
The symbiotic nitrogen fixation by legumes in a legume‐companion and a legume‐dominant alpine steppe on the central Tibetan Plateau	4
Idea paper: Monitoring and databasing nonnative species to manage establishment debt in aquatic ecosystems	4
Physiological responses of the xero‐halophyte Salsola drummondii to seasonal alterations of environmental conditions in a salt desert	4
Variations in effects of ectosymbiotic microbes on the growth rates among different species and genotypes of Daphnia fed different algal diets	4
Concordant genetic structures of sika deer and Japanese land leeches suggest that the current range expansion of Haemadipsa japonica is dependent on sika deer migration: A case study	4
The significance of building behavior in the evolution of animal architecture	4

Annual variability in the sound acorn production of Quercus serrata is regulated by a seed‐predatory weevil in western Japan	4
Seasonal variations of 137Cs concentration in freshwater charr through uptake and metabolism in 1–2 years after the Fukushima accident	4
Soil respiration response to nitrogen fertilization experiment in tropical grassland	3
Variation of community assembly rules of a whole turtle family (Pelomedusidae) from continental to local scales in Africa	3
Potential persistence of high‐mountain lizards	3
Resource allocation strategies in the reproductive organs of Fagaceae species	3
Soil chemical properties drive the structure of bacterial communities in the cotton soil of arid Northwest China	3
The combined effects of artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise on life history traits in ground crickets	3
Traits database of tidal flat macrobenthos along the Northwest Pacific coast of Japan	3
Geographical and seasonal variation of plant taxa detected in faces of Cervus nippon yakushimae based on plant DNA analysis in Yakushima Island	3
Review: Phytogeography and history of Japanese beech forests: Recent advances and implications for vegetation ecology	3
Ecology with artificial intelligence and machine learning in Asia: A historical perspective and emerging trends	3
Understanding community awareness of seagrass ecosystem services for their blue carbon conservation in marine protected areas: A case study of Karimunjawa National Park	3
Grazing alters seedling emergence number, dynamics, and diversity of herbaceous plants in a semiarid sandy grassland	3
Biodiversity dataset of vascular plants and birds in Chinese urban greenspace	3
New directions for the Tea Bag Index: Alternative teabags and concepts can advance citizen science	3
Increasing habitat complexity enhances crab density: A case study from Thailand	3
Mycorrhizal associates of Cephalanthera falcata (Orchidaceae) in a habitat with giant individuals	3
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on group densities of Thomas' langurs (Presbytis thomasi) within a lowland tropical forest, north Sumatra	3
Findings from long‐term monitoring studies of Micronesian mangrove forests with special reference to carbon sequestration and sea‐level rise	3
Low‐elevation warm‐edge Fagus crenata populations in the core of the species range are glacial relicts with high conservation value	3
Syntaxonomy and gradient analysis of common yew (Taxus baccataL.) communities in eastern Hyrcanian forests, northern Iran	3
Diversity of co‐flowering plants at field margins potentially sustains an abundance of insects visiting buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, in an agricultural landscape	3
Litterfall silicon flux in relation to vegetation differences in old‐growth and logged lowland forests in Borneo	3
Improving performance of species distribution model in mountainous areas with complex topography	2
Seasonal dynamics of floral composition and flower visitors in a subtropical alpine ecosystem in Taiwan	2
Are floral traits good predictors of effective pollinators? A test of pollination syndromes	2
Pollinator predation stabilizes plant–pollinator mutualisms through the modification of pollinator behavior	2
Subtidal benthic communities in Minamata Bay, Japan, approximately 30 years after mercury pollution remediation involving dredging disturbance	2
Differences in the fruit removal patterns of Cleyera japonica by frugivorous birds in two forest stands at different developmental stages in a warm‐temperate region	2
Widespread and ongoing invasion by the ant Technomyrmex brunneus Forel in eastern Asia as elucidated by molecular data	2
Seed ecophysiology of Elephant Apple (Dillenia indica)—An important tree species of the Indomalayan realm	2
Ecological responses to the direct and indirect disturbances by the Great East Japan Earthquake, 2011	2
Long‐term flowering records of herbaceous plants in Tokyo, Japan, during 1994–2015 through citizen science	2
Small farmlands can serve as open habitat for birds in subtropical cities of southern China	2
Cutting propagation of Bornmuellera tymphaea, a nickel hyperaccumulator for use in agromining: Effects of rooting media and auxins on stem cuttings	2
Limited theoretical and empirical evidence that response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change	2
Assessing insect herbivory on broadleaf canopy trees at 19 natural forest sites across Japan	2
Underwater video and still‐image dataset of fishes and other aquatic animals in Lake Biwa, Japan, observed via carp‐mounted video loggers	2
Stand dynamics over 15 years including an outlying population of Fagus crenata at the northern margin of its distribution range in Hokkaido, Japan	2
Native frogs (Rana pirica) do not respond adaptively to alien toads (Bufo japonicus formosus) 100 years after introduction	2
A refined method for estimating the number of earthworm chaetae in carnivore feces	2
Species‐specific foraging behavior and diets of stream salmonids: An implication for negative impacts on native charr by nonnative trout in Japanese mountain streams	2
Composite Brownian walks best explain the movement patterns of Asian black bears, irrespective of sex, seasonality, and food availability	2
A dataset for vascular plant diversity monitoring for the natural World Heritage site on Amami‐Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, and the northern Okinawa Island	2
Forest fragmentation drives liana community structure but not the patterns of liana–tree interaction network in two forest ecosystems in Ghana	2
Leaf phenology and trunk growth of Avicennia alba (Blume) under a seasonally fluctuating saline environment in the tropical monsoon area of eastern Thailand	2
Distribution records of apple snails (Pomacea spp.) in Japan collected during 2017–2019 through a citizen science project for introduced species conducted by the Osaka Museum of Natural History	2
Assessment of plant diversity and foliar chemistry on the Sri Lankan ultramafics reveals inconsistencies in the metal hyperaccumulator trait	2
Evaluating the soil microbe community‐level physiological profile using EcoPlate and soil properties at 33 forest sites across Japan	2
Long‐term monitoring program reveals a mismatch between spatial distribution and reproductive success in an endangered raptor species in the Mediterranean area	2
Diversity begets diversity: Phorophyte and microsite relations of foliicolous lichens in the lowland rain forest at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Veracruz, Mexico)	2
Wild bee surveys across 60 years reveal remarkable reduction of bee abundance in urban green areas in northern Japan	2
Effects of differences in aboveground dead organic matter types on the stand‐scale necromass and CO2 efflux estimates in a subtropical forest in Okinawa Island, Japan	2
Applicability of the source–sink population concept to marine intertidal macro‐invertebrates with planktonic larval stages	2
Genetic diversity of the endangered Japanese golden eagle at neutral and functional loci	2
Growth of the invasive Navua sedge (Cyperus aromaticus) under competitive interaction with pasture species and simulated grazing conditions: Implication for management	2
Contrasting spatial distribution of pioneer versus non‐pioneer saplings in a Taiwanese forest: A multiple scale approach	2
Intra‐crown variation of leaf mass per area of Fagus crenata is driven by light acclimation of leaf thickness and hydraulic acclimation of leaf density	2
Effect of local‐ and landscape‐scale factors on the distribution of the spring‐dependent species Geothelphusa dehaani and larval Anotogaster sieboldii	2
Linking small mammal capture probability with understory structural complexity using a mobile laser scanning‐derived metric: A case study	2
Evolutionary and ecological trends in the Neotropical cycad genus Dioon (Zamiaceae): An example of success of evolutionary stasis	2
Comparison of color‐learning rates among eight species of three insect orders (Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Lepidoptera)	2
Overlap relationship between the priority of land consolidation and the floodplain wetland potential in paddy field	1
Identifying migration hotspots of the potamodromous fish Opsariichthys uncirostris in Lake Biwa tributaries using environmental DNA and visual counts during its reproducti	1
A new species of Odontarrhena (Brassicaceae) endemic to Greek ultramafics: From taxonomy to metal accumulation behavior	1
Morphology of the suckers for hunting behavior in broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus)	1
Herbarium and field studies of nickel hyperaccumulator plants from ultramafic soils in Guatemala	1
Road preference of ants in a Japanese warm temperate forest and its implications for the regeneration of myrmecochorous sedges	1
Variability in methane emissions from stems and buttress roots of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza trees in a subtropical mangrove forest	1
Idea paper: Effects of gonad type and body mass on the time required for sex change in fishes	1
Following the trail of the elusive proboscis monkey in Borneo	1
Spawning season and nest guarding behavior of invasive smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in a Japanese Lake	1
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Are the functional diversity terms functional? The hindrances of functional diversity understanding in the Brazilian scientific community	1
Elemental localization in inflorescences of the hyperaccumulators Noccaea praecox and Noccaea caerulescens (Brassicaceae)	1
Life‐cycle control of 13‐ and 17‐year periodical cicadas: A hypothesis and its implication in the evolutionary process	1
Genetic diversity and population history of the Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) based on the genome‐wide analyses	1
Testing local adaptations of affiliate freshwater pearl mussel, Margaritifera laevis, to its host fish, Oncorhynchus masou masou	1
A biogeochemical model of acidification: MAGIC is alive and well	1

Long‐term changes in stream water chemistry in small forested watersheds in the northern Kanto region	1
Connectivity and short‐term flood interactively affect fish community composition in drainage ditches of paddy fields in an agricultural landscape	1
Idea paper: An envelope model of ecological disturbance	1
Seed beetles as a modern model system of interspecific competition	1
Idea paper: Controlling trait adaptation to decrease population densities for conservation and management	1
Preface: Listen to the voices of local beech forests: An ecological and evolutionary conception of beech under phylogenetic and environmental constraints	1
Spatial and seasonal variations in soil respiration in a subtropical forest in Okinawa, Japan	1
A meta‐analysis of native and non‐native Amur three‐lips (Opsariichthys uncirostris uncirostris) population growth rates in western Japan	1
More effect of ephemeral plant species diversity on aboveground biomass than functional diversity and functional composition	1
Forest tree community ecology and plant–soil feedback: Theory and evidence	1
Effects of climate and acidic deposition on interannual variations of stream water chemistry in forested watersheds in the Shimanto River Basin, southern Japan	1
Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality of different degraded grasslands in alpine meadows of Maqu	1
Latitudinal gradients of reproductive traits in Japanese woody plants	1
Idea paper: Improving forecasts of community composition with lightweight biodiversity monitoring across ecological and anthropogenic disturbance gradients	1
Volcanic ash in soil is a source of strontium in stream water in chert‐bedrock forests in Mount Amamaki, Japan	1
Past biodiversity: Japanese historical monographs document the trans‐Pacific migration of the black turtle, Chelonia mydas agassizii	1
Review: Biogeographic and environmental history of Fagus and beech‐dominant forest in Japan	1
The use of trap‐nests to support crop pollinators in agricultural areas	1
Seasonal patterns of sugar components and their functions in branches of Fagus crenata in association with three reproduction events	1
Exploratory individuals are bolder in Great Tit: Correlation between personality and antipredator behavior	1
Time‐course in attractiveness of pheromone lure on the smaller tea tortrix moth: A generalized additive mixed model approach	1
Scavenging by fishers in relation to season and other scavengers	1
Database of Japanese semi‐natural grassland flora	1
Stem density induces differential effects of litter on native and invasive plants	1
Abundance and biomass of Bdelloid rotifers in the microbial mats from East Antarctica: The ecological relations between microscopic phototrophs and invertebrates	1
Prediction of changing predator–prey interactions under warming: A simulation study using two aphid–ladybird systems	1
Effects of vegetation type and topography on vegetation restoration after pipeline construction in the Northern Shaanxi Loess Plateau, China	1
Interpopulation variation in leaf out phenology of Fagus crenata along topographic variation associated with the late frost regime in the Hakkoda Mountains, northern Japan	1
Relative importance of two bat species as pollinators of Neobuxbaumia tetetzo (Cactaceae): Evidences from morphometric and pollen load analyses	1
Variations in soil nutrient availabilities and foliar nutrient concentrations of trees between temperate monsoon karst and non‐karst forest ecosystems on Mount Ibuki in Japan	1
A comparison of nickel and zinc uptake and translocation in three species of Brassicaceae: The Ni hyperaccumulator Odontarrhena corsica and two non‐hyperaccumulators, Aurinia saxatilis a	1
The type of substrate does not influence the intraspecific population structure of shrub‐tree species in the Brazilian savanna	1
Idea paper: Extended benefits of pollinator‐mediated microbial dispersal among flowers	1
Assisting nickel agromining using sustainable amendments	1
Dietary composition and overlap among small‐ and medium‐sized carnivores in Flanders, Belgium	1
Landscape effects on pollinator abundance differ among taxonomic groups	1
Nutritional ecology of martens (Martes foina and Martes martes) in the western Italian Alps	1
Phenotype‐dependent downstream dispersal under ordinary flow conditions in juvenile white‐spotted char	1
Effects of grazing on underground parts of marsh plants by wintering Middendorf's bean goose Anser fabalis middendorffii: Its role as a keystone species in plant communities	1
Comparison of vegetation patch dynamics after the eruptions of the volcano Mount Usu, northern Japan, in 1977–1978 and 2000, detected by imagery chronosequence	1
Intraspecific allometries reveal hyper‐slender stems in forest gaps and the impact on tree growth from insect herbivores	1
Communities, ecosystem engineers, and functional domains	1
Specific interactions in seed dispersal by the Japanese white‐eye Zosterops japonicus: Factors influencing its preference for two plant species, Aralia elata and Zanthoxylum ailanthoi	1
Reconstructing spatiotemporal dynamics of mixed conifer and broad‐leaved forests with a spatially explicit individual‐based dynamic vegetation model	1
Changes in species, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of Aculeata communities along elevational gradients in the Kyushu Central Mountains of the Japanese archipelago	1
Are Iberian ribbed newts Pleurodeles waltl Michahelles, 1830 negatively affecting the populations of other amphibians?	1
Utility of chloroplast DNA haplotype data for ecological restoration using Fagus crenata seedlings in case of incomplete seed source information availability	1
Eco‐assessment of Değirmendere and Bulaklı streams using diatom indices from different ecoregions	1