Ecological Research

Article	Citations
Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages	128
Complementary combination of multiplex high‐throughput DNA sequencing for molecular phylogeny	56
Ecological impacts of fungal wood decay types: A review of current knowledge and future research directions	28
Museum specimens: An overlooked and valuable material for conservation genetics	23
Global distribution of coral diversity: Biodiversity knowledge gradients related to spatial resolution	20
Toward a more temporally explicit framework for community ecology	19
Elevation and aspect determine the differences in soil properties and plant species diversity on Himalayan mountain summits	18
Impact of wild boar rooting on small forest‐dwelling rodents	17
Relative importance of soil microbes and litter quality on decomposition and nitrogen cycling in grasslands	16
Illuminating the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of ecological stability across scales	15
Ecological niche modeling for assessing potential distribution of Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. In Ranchi, eastern India	14
Risk of misinterpreting the Tea Bag Index: Field observations and a random simulation	13
Charcoal ecology: Its function as a hub for plant succession and soil nutrient cycling in boreal forests	13
Compilation of real‐time PCR conditions toward the standardization of environmental DNA methods	13
Effects of life history and individual development on community dynamics: A review of counterintuitive consequences	12
Pollination structures plant and nectar‐feeding bird communities in Cape fynbos, South Africa: Implications for the conservation of plant–bird mutualisms	12
The Asia‐Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network: 10‐year achievements and new strategies to 2030	11
How plant–soil feedbacks influence the next generation of plants	11
Relative impact of human harvest and wolf predation on two ungulate species in Central Italy	11
Benthic meiofauna with emphasis on nematode assemblage response to environmental variation in the intertidal zone of the Danshuei River estuary, northwest Taiwan	11
The forest gardener: A marsupial with a key seed‐dispersing role in the Patagonian temperate forest	11
Toward more data publication of long‐term ecological observations	10
Latitudinal diversity gradients for five taxonomic levels of marine fish in depth zones	10
The effects of temporal continuities of grasslands on the diversity and species composition of plants	9
Macrofauna bivalve diversity from the deep northern Gulf of Mexico	9

N, P and K stoichiometry and resorption efficiency of nine dominant shrub species in the deserts of Xinjiang, China	9
Species interaction: Revisiting its terminology and concept	9
Macroalgal and mangrove provenances demonstrate their relevance in contributing to the blue carbon pool of a tropical seagrass meadow	9
Mismatched spatial scales can limit the utility of citizen science data for estimating wildlife‐habitat relationships	8
Evolutionary bet‐hedging reconsidered: What is the mean–variance trade‐off of fitness?	8
The influence of ecological traits and environmental factors on the co‐occurrence patterns of birds on islands worldwide	8
Effective roles of ecological factors on nonmarine Ostracoda (Crustacea) in shallow waters of Malatya (Turkey)	8
Carbon sequestration potential in the rehabilitated mangroves in Indonesia	8
Animal linguistics: Exploring referentiality and compositionality in bird calls	8
Architectural plasticity in response to population density in Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae)	8
Effects of grass competition on tree seedlings growth under different light and nutrient availability conditions in tropical dry forests in India	8
Local adaptation to contrasting climatic conditions in Sakhalin fir (Abies sachalinensis) revealed by long‐term provenance trials	8
Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929	7
Potential risks of Tithonia diversifolia in Yunnan Province under climate change	7
Phytotoxic effect of invasive species Amorpha fruticosa L. on germination and the early growth of forage and agricultural crop plants	7
Ecosystem engineering structures facilitate ecological resilience: A coral reef model	7
Host phenologies and the life history of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha, Gordiida) in a mountain stream in northern Japan	7
Phenological diversity of freshwater migration can prolong assemblage‐level migration period in amphidromous fishes in a temperate river system in Japan	7
Environmental DNA methods for detecting two invasive alien species (American bullfrog and red swamp crayfish) in Japanese ponds	7
Predicting effects of climate change on productivity and persistence of forest trees	7
Outcrossing syndrome in alpine plants: Implications for flowering phenology and pollination success	7
Daily inundation induced seasonal variation in the vertical distribution of soil water salinity in an estuarine mangrove forest under a tropical monsoon climate	7
Idea Paper: Tracking the distribution of accretive reef communities across the Kuroshio region	7
Review: Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural forests of Cryptomeria japonica	7
The invisible enemy: Understanding bird‐window strikes through citizen science in a focal city	7
Estimation of fine root production, mortality, and decomposition by using two core methods and litterbag experiments in a mangrove forest	7
Photographic records of plant phenology and spring river flush timing in a river lowland ecosystem at the taiga–tundra boundary, northeastern Siberia	6
Fine‐scale distribution of tropical seagrass beds in Southeast Asia	6
Geographical personality gradient in herbivorous animals: Implications for selective culling to reduce crop damage	6
Red foxes in Japan show adaptability in prey resource according to geography and season: A meta‐analysis	6
Utility of commercial high‐resolution satellite imagery for monitoring general flowering in Sarawak, Borneo	6
Responses of leaf traits to low temperature in an evergreen oak at its upper limit	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
Livestock‐exclusion duration required for restoring grassland in semiarid, loess region in China: Estimate based on species composition measured from small‐scale vegetation patterns	6
Evaluation of the baseline carbon sequestration rates of Indo‐Pacific temperate and tropical seagrass meadow sediments	6
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	6
Preface: Blue carbon studies in Asia‐Pacific regions: Current status, gaps, and future perspectives	6
Wider crown shyness between broad‐leaved tree species than between coniferous tree species in a mixed forest of Castanopsis cuspidata and Chamaecyparis obtusa	6
Ups and downs of non‐native and native stream‐dwelling salmonids: Lessons from two contrasting rivers	5
Phylogenetic structure of lichen metacommunities in Amazonian and Northeast Brazil	5
Greenhouse gas emissions are affected by land use type in two agroforestry systems: Results from an incubation experiment	5
Spatial modeling of road collisions of striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in Israel	5
Intraspecific variation in growth‐related traits—from leaf to whole‐tree—in three provenances of Cryptomeria japonica canopy trees grown in a common garden	5
Dietary differences between grasshoppers are associated with life history tradeoffs in an alpine meadow	5
Lead isotope ratios in moss for the assessment of transboundary pollutants in the Yatsugatake Mountains, central Japan	5
Preface: Functional biogeography in Japanese cedar	5
Spatiotemporal activity of the pine marten Martes martes: Insights from an island population	5
Scavenging and carcass caching behavior by European wildcat (Felis silvestris)	5
Long‐term monthly climate data at the forest stations of Kyoto University	5
Why species richness of plants and herbivorous insects do or do not correlate	5

Idea paper: Monitoring and databasing nonnative species to manage establishment debt in aquatic ecosystems	4
Bilberry seed production explains spatiotemporal synchronicity in bank vole population fluctuations in Norway	4
Variations in effects of ectosymbiotic microbes on the growth rates among different species and genotypes of Daphnia fed different algal diets	4
Phenology in a community context: Toward a better understanding of the causes and consequences of phenology in seasonal environments	4
Changes in stable nitrogen isotopes of plants, bulk soil and soil dissolved N during ecosystem retrogression in boreal forest	4
Blood trail of expansion? Long‐term patterns of livestock depredation by wolves in Poland	4
The significance of building behavior in the evolution of animal architecture	4
Germination responses to light of four Neotropical forest tree species along an elevational gradient in the southern Central Andes	4
High variation of mitochondrial DNA diversity as compared to nuclear microsatellites in mammalian populations	4
Idea paper: Predicting culturability of microbes from population dynamics under field conditions	4
Idea paper: How are ecosystem services related to biodiversity and ecological integrity in each site under climate change?	4
Effect of root litter addition on nitrogen mineralization rate under laboratory low‐temperature conditions in soil from a Japanese northern hardwood forest	4
Leaf trait variability explains how plant community composition changes under the intense pressure of deer herbivory	4
Idea paper: Incorporating sexual differences in dispersal decision making into metapopulation theory	4
Low spatial congruence between temporal functional β‐diversity and temporal taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity in British avifauna	4
Seagrass biomass and sediment carbon in conserved and disturbed seascape	4
Seasonal variations of 137Cs concentration in freshwater charr through uptake and metabolism in 1–2 years after the Fukushima accident	4
Comparison of macroinvertebrate assemblages in a stream before and after fine sedimentation by deer‐induced forest floor degradation	4
Ecological niche differentiation of two salamanders (Caudata: Hynobiidae) from Hokkaido Island, Japan	4
Physiological responses of the xero‐halophyte Salsola drummondii to seasonal alterations of environmental conditions in a salt desert	4
Cross‐shore distributions of peracarid crustaceans after changes in beach morphology: The importance of suction as a key geoenvironmental variable	4
Large‐scale ecological field data for satellite validation in deciduous forests and grasslands	4
Towards linking species traits to demography and assembly in diverse tree communities: Revisiting the importance of size and allocation	4
Effect of source habitat spatial heterogeneity and species diversity on the temporal stability of aquatic‐to‐terrestrial subsidy by emerging aquatic insects	4
Relative importance of host‐dependent versus physical environmental characteristics affecting the distribution of an ectoparasitic copepod infecting the mouth cavity of stream salmonid	4
Field data for satellite validation and forest structure modeling in a pure and sparse forest of Picea glehnii in northern Hokkaido	4
Understanding rural and urban perceptions of seagrass ecosystem services for their blue carbon conservation strategies in the Philippines	4
Environmental filtering both indirectly and directly drives the Dry Tropical Forest species composition and functional composition	3
Traits database of tidal flat macrobenthos along the Northwest Pacific coast of Japan	3
Review: Phytogeography and history of Japanese beech forests: Recent advances and implications for vegetation ecology	3
Modeling dispersal using capture–recapture data: A comparison of dispersal models	3
Acoustic monitoring data of anuran species inside and outside the evacuation zone of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident	3
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	3
The effects of functional differences in cultivar of Cryptomeria japonica on nutrient dynamics and soil invertebrates in a common garden	3
Review: Monitoring of land cover changes and plant phenology by remote‐sensing in East Asia	3
The symbiotic nitrogen fixation by legumes in a legume‐companion and a legume‐dominant alpine steppe on the central Tibetan Plateau	3
Contrasting metacommunity patterns of fish and aquatic insects in drainage ditches of paddy fields	3
Management and landscape of shelterbelts contribute to butterfly and flowering plant diversity in northern 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
Canopy conductance and gas exchange of a Japanese cypress forest after rainfall‐induced wetness	3
Grazing alters seedling emergence number, dynamics, and diversity of herbaceous plants in a semiarid sandy grassland	3
Quantitative evaluation of species composition dissimilarity within a community and among communities	3
Diversity of co‐flowering plants at field margins potentially sustains an abundance of insects visiting buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, in an agricultural landscape	3
Annual variability in the sound acorn production of Quercus serrata is regulated by a seed‐predatory weevil in western Japan	3
Geographic changes in pollinator species composition affect the corolla tube length of self‐heal (Prunella vulgaris L.): Evidence from three elevational gradients	3
Idea paper: Community‐interaction analyses contribute to improving the performance of microbial fuel cells	3
Quantitative records of habitat‐forming seaweeds found in Japanese temperate and subtropical zones (fucoids and kelps)	3
Variation of community assembly rules of a whole turtle family (Pelomedusidae) from continental to local scales in Africa	3
Relation of leaf terpene contents to terpene emission profiles in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)	3
Mercury spatial distribution characteristics and its exposure of the endangered Jankowski's bunting	3
Biodiversity dataset of vascular plants and birds in Chinese urban greenspace	3
Increasing habitat complexity enhances crab density: A case study from Thailand	2
Resource allocation strategies in the reproductive organs of Fagaceae species	2
Ecological correlates of the alpha and beta diversity of zooplankton hatchling communities in seasonal subtropical ponds	2
Monitoring of seagrass along southern Andaman coast of Thailand	2
Phytoplankton species abundance in Tokyo Bay (Japan) from 1998 to 2019	2
Long‐term observation of fish community in streams inside and outside road construction of Teshio River system, northern Hokkaido, Japan	2
Native frogs (Rana pirica) do not respond adaptively to alien toads (Bufo japonicus formosus) 100 years after introduction	2
Contrasting spatial distribution of pioneer versus non‐pioneer saplings in a Taiwanese forest: A multiple scale approach	2
Subtidal benthic communities in Minamata Bay, Japan, approximately 30 years after mercury pollution remediation involving dredging disturbance	2
Seed size and weight of 129 tree species in Japan	2
Widespread and ongoing invasion by the ant Technomyrmex brunneus Forel in eastern Asia as elucidated by molecular data	2
Songbirds promote connectivity between riparian galleries and adjacent habitats	2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on group densities of Thomas' langurs (Presbytis thomasi) within a lowland tropical forest, north Sumatra	2
Vegetation change on mountaintops in northern Sweden: Stable vascular‐plant but reordering of lichen and bryophyte communities	2
Assessment of plant diversity and foliar chemistry on the Sri Lankan ultramafics reveals inconsistencies in the metal hyperaccumulator trait	2
Spatial hierarchical partitioning of macrobenthic diversity of clam (Ruditapes) fishing grounds over a large geographical range of 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
Idea paper: Elucidation of the long‐term properties of food webs based on the intraspecific genetic diversity of hub species populations	2
Underwater video and still‐image dataset of fishes and other aquatic animals in Lake Biwa, Japan, observed via carp‐mounted video loggers	2
Biotic resistance in a stochastic world: Do rodents act as a filter to alien tree invasion in pampean old fields?	2
Applicability of the source–sink population concept to marine intertidal macro‐invertebrates with planktonic larval stages	2
A refined method for estimating the number of earthworm chaetae in carnivore feces	2
Idea paper: Airport ecology, an environment without predation pressure drives evolution	2
Effect of local‐ and landscape‐scale factors on the distribution of the spring‐dependent species Geothelphusa dehaani and larval Anotogaster sieboldii	2
Systematic forest inventory plots and their contribution to plant distribution and climate change impact studies in Thailand	2
Toxic males: Density‐dependent male mating harassment can explain geographic parthenogenesis	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
Composite Brownian walks best explain the movement patterns of Asian black bears, irrespective of sex, seasonality, and food availability	2
Understanding community awareness of seagrass ecosystem services for their blue carbon conservation in marine protected areas: A case study of Karimunjawa National Park	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
Potential persistence of high‐mountain lizards	2
Review: Vegetation history of Cryptomeria japonica in Japan since the last interglacial period	2
Evaluating the soil microbe community‐level physiological profile using EcoPlate and soil properties at 33 forest sites across Japan	2
Litterfall silicon flux in relation to vegetation differences in old‐growth and logged lowland forests in Borneo	2
Assessing insect herbivory on broadleaf canopy trees at 19 natural forest sites across Japan	2
Mycorrhizal associates of Cephalanthera falcata (Orchidaceae) in a habitat with giant individuals	2
Low‐elevation warm‐edge Fagus crenata populations in the core of the species range are glacial relicts with high conservation value	2
Pollinator predation stabilizes plant–pollinator mutualisms through the modification of pollinator behavior	2
Prospective interspecies interaction between Siberian and Ezo salamander larvae	2
Dataset of forewing length of Japanese and Taiwanese butterfly species	2
Soil chemical properties drive the structure of bacterial communities in the cotton soil of arid Northwest China	2
Genecology and ecophysiology of the maintenance of foliar phenotypic polymorphisms of Leptospermum recurvum (Myrtaceae) under oscillating atmospheric desiccation in the tropical‐subalpine zone	2
Syntaxonomy and gradient analysis of common yew (Taxus baccata L.) communities in eastern Hyrcanian forests, northern Iran	2
Fact database of grassland vegetation in Japan	2
Approaches for general rules of biodiversity patterns in space and time	2
Ecological responses to the direct and indirect disturbances by the Great East Japan Earthquake, 2011	2
Forest fragmentation drives liana community structure but not the patterns of liana–tree interaction network in two forest ecosystems in Ghana	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
Comparison of color‐learning rates among eight species of three insect orders (Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Lepidoptera)	2
Blue carbon stock in sediments of mangroves and seagrass ecosystems at Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia	2
Effects of spatial distances on the assemblage dissimilarity of macroinvertebrates with different dispersal pathways and abilities in southern Brazilian streams	2
Reconstructing spatiotemporal dynamics of mixed conifer and broad‐leaved forests with a spatially explicit individual‐based dynamic vegetation model	1
Time‐course in attractiveness of pheromone lure on the smaller tea tortrix moth: A generalized additive mixed model approach	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
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
Utility of chloroplast DNA haplotype data for ecological restoration using Fagus crenata seedlings in case of incomplete seed source information availability	1
Prediction of changing predator–prey interactions under warming: A simulation study using two aphid–ladybird systems	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 floral traits good predictors of effective pollinators? A test of pollination syndromes	1
Long‐term flowering records of herbaceous plants in Tokyo, Japan, during 1994–2015 through citizen science	1
Findings from long‐term monitoring studies of Micronesian mangrove forests with special reference to carbon sequestration and sea‐level rise	1
Relative importance of two bat species as pollinators of Neobuxbaumia tetetzo (Cactaceae): Evidences from morphometric and pollen load analyses	1
Dietary composition and overlap among small‐ and medium‐sized carnivores in Flanders, Belgium	1
Soil respiration response to nitrogen fertilization experiment in tropical grassland	1
Seasonal dynamics of floral composition and flower visitors in a subtropical alpine ecosystem in Taiwan	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
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
Genetic diversity and population history of the Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) based on the genome‐wide analyses	1
Changes in the community structure of anurans in the Coastal plain forest, southeastern Brazil	1
Stream water quality in relation to watershed‐scale practical forest management in a cool‐temperate natural forest in northern Japan	1
Testing a butterfly commonness hypothesis with data assembled by a citizen science program “Tokyo Butterfly Monitoring”	1
Structure and dynamics of a mountain riparian forest at an upstream valley in central Japan	1
Spatial and seasonal variations in soil respiration in a subtropical forest in Okinawa, Japan	1
Intraspecific allometries reveal hyper‐slender stems in forest gaps and the impact on tree growth from insect herbivores	1
Preface: Listen to the voices of local beech forests: An ecological and evolutionary conception of beech under phylogenetic and environmental constraints	1
Abundance and biomass of Bdelloid rotifers in the microbial mats from East Antarctica: The ecological relations between microscopic phototrophs and invertebrates	1
Eco‐assessment of Değirmendere and Bulaklı streams using diatom indices from different ecoregions	1
Idea paper: Controlling trait adaptation to decrease population densities for conservation and management	1
Species‐specific foraging behavior and diets of stream salmonids: An implication for negative impacts on native charr by nonnative trout in Japanese mountain streams	1
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Idea paper: Effects of gonad type and body mass on the time required for sex change in fishes	1
Idea paper: Extended benefits of pollinator‐mediated microbial dispersal among flowers	1
Promoting the sharing of ideas via “Idea Papers”	1
New directions for the Tea Bag Index: Alternative teabags and concepts can advance citizen science	1
Communities, ecosystem engineers, and functional domains	1
Diversity begets diversity: Phorophyte and microsite relations of foliicolous lichens in the lowland rain forest at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Veracruz, Mexico)	1
Are the functional diversity terms functional? The hindrances of functional diversity understanding in the Brazilian scientific community	1
Improving performance of species distribution model in mountainous areas with complex topography	1
Genetic diversity of the endangered Japanese golden eagle at neutral and functional loci	1
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	1
Idea paper: An envelope model of ecological disturbance	1
Morphology of the suckers for hunting behavior in broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus)	1
Seasonal patterns of sugar components and their functions in branches of Fagus crenata in association with three reproduction events	1
Specimen‐based records and geographic locations of carabid beetles (Coleoptera) collected mainly by Dr. Kazuo Tanaka	1
Seed beetles as a modern model system of interspecific competition	1
Testing local adaptations of affiliate freshwater pearl mussel, Margaritifera laevis, to its host fish, Oncorhynchus masou masou	1
Little direct effect of diurnal temperature amplitude on growing seasonal CO2 fluxes in alpine humid shrubland, Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau	1
Bee occurrence data collected in citizen science program “Hanamaru‐Maruhana national census” in Japan	1
Road preference of ants in a Japanese warm temperate forest and its implications for the regeneration of myrmecochorous sedges	1
Landscape effects on pollinator abundance differ among taxonomic groups	1
Idea paper: Improving forecasts of community composition with lightweight biodiversity monitoring across ecological and anthropogenic disturbance gradients	1
Past biodiversity: Japanese historical monographs document the trans‐Pacific migration of the black turtle, Chelonia mydas agassizii	1
A dataset for vascular plant diversity monitoring for the natural World Heritage site on Amami‐Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, and the northern Okinawa Island	1
Scavenging by fishers in relation to season and other scavengers	1
The combined effects of artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise on life history traits in ground crickets	1
Boccardiella ligerica, an exotic polychaete in a Southwestern Atlantic coastal lagoon: Morphology and abundance variations	1
Review: Biogeographic and environmental history of Fagus and beech‐dominant forest in Japan	1
Exploratory individuals are bolder in Great Tit: Correlation between personality and antipredator behavior	1
Phylogenetic signal in the topographic niche of trees: Current and historical significance of habitat structure on the species arrangement pattern within East Asian rugged forests	1