Plant Ecology

Article	Citations
Plant age affects intraspecific variation in functional traits	22
Functional traits, growth patterns, and litter dynamics of invasive alien and co-occurring native shrub species of chir pine forest in the central Himalaya, India	21
Long-term change in calcareous grassland vegetation and drivers over three time periods between 1970 and 2016	17
Superior performance of invasive grasses over native counterparts will remain problematic under warmer and drier conditions	17
Above- and belowground community linkages in boreal peatlands	16
Effect of leaf water extracts of four Asteraceae alien invasive plants on germination performance of Lactuca sativa L. under acid deposition	16
The effect of fire on seed germination of campo rupestre species in the South American Cerrado	16
Dark septate endophyte improves the drought-stress resistance of Ormosia hosiei seedlings by altering leaf morphology and photosynthetic characteristics	15
Salinity thresholds for understory plants in coastal wetlands	15
Decoupling of nitrogen and phosphorus in dominant grass species in response to long-term nitrogen addition in an Alpine Grassland in Central Asia	14
Herbaceous plant diversity in forest ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and threats	14
Exotic Prosopis juliflora suppresses understory diversity and promotes agricultural weeds more than a native congener	13
Variation in soil microbial communities: elucidating relationships with vegetation and soil properties, and testing sampling effectiveness	12
Climate warming and introduced herbivores disrupt alpine plant community of an oceanic island (Tenerife, Canary Islands)	12
Herbivory by aboveground insects impacts plant root morphological traits	12
The interactions among fire, logging, and climate change have sprung a landscape trap in Victoria’s montane ash forests	12
Rapid and transient changes during 20 years of restoration management in savanna-woodland-prairie habitats threatened by woody plant encroachment	12
A global review and network analysis of phytophagous insect interactions with ferns and lycophytes	11
Continuous grazing disrupts desert grass-soil seed bank composition under variable rainfall	11
Intraspecific competition reduces plant size and quality and damage severity increases defense responses in the herbaceous perennial, Asclepias syriaca	11
Phylogenetic beta diversity in an upper montane Atlantic Forest along an altitudinal gradient	10
Burning grasses, poor seeds: post-fire reproduction of early-flowering Neotropical savanna grasses produces low-quality seeds	10
The global invader Ligustrum lucidum accumulates beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a novel range	10
Reintroduction of large herbivores restored plant species richness in abandoned dry temperate grassland	10
Variation in floristic and trait composition along environmental gradients in the herb layer of temperate forests in the transition zone between Central and SE Europe	10

Linking responses of native and invasive plants to hurricane disturbances: implications for coastal plant community structure	10
Changes in functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities of lowland fens under different vegetation and disturbance levels	10
Climatic and anthropogenic factors affect Ailanthus altissima invasion in a Mediterranean region	10
Enhancement of photosynthetic parameters and growth of Zelkova serrata by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under simulated sulfuric acid rain	9
Drought generates large, long-term changes in tree and liana regeneration in a monodominant Amazon forest	9
Influence of environmental heterogeneity and geographic distance on beta-diversity of woody communities	9
For a few years more: reductions in plant diversity 70 years after the last fire in Mediterranean forests	9
Edaphic characteristics drive functional traits distribution in Amazonian floodplain forests	9
Infection by Plicosepalus curviflorus mistletoe affects the nutritional elements of Acacia species and soil nutrient recycling in an arid rangeland	9
Site factors are more important than management for indicator species in semi-natural grasslands in southern Sweden	9
Structural changes of vegetation and its association with microclimate in a successional gradient of low thorn forest in northeastern Mexico	8
Seasonal dynamics of shoot biomass of dominant clonal herb species in an oak–hornbeam forest herb layer	8
Grass competition is more important than fire for suppressing encroachment of Acacia sieberiana seedlings	8
Factors involved in the biogeography of the honey locust tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) invasion at regional scale: an integrative approach	8
Initial succession after wildfire in dry boreal forests of northwestern North America	8
Plant size of the alpine cushion Thylacospermum caespitosum affects soil amelioration at different elevations	8
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit drought-stressed Salsola laricina	8
Climate change impacts on migration of Pinus koraiensis during the Quaternary using species distribution models	8
Reproductive strategies involving biomass allocation, reproductive phenology and seed production in two Asteraceae herbs growing in karst soil varying in depth and water availability	7
Predicting distribution and range dynamics of Trillium govanianum under climate change and growing human footprint for targeted conservation	7
Drought sensitivity of Empetrum nigrum shrub growth at the species’ southern lowland distribution range margin	7
Spatially structured soil properties and climate explain distribution patterns of herbaceous-shrub species in the Cerrado	7
Effects of grazing on plant communities and successional processes vary along an aridity gradient at a northern temperate grassland	7
Translocations of threatened plants in the Mediterranean Basin: current status and future directions	7
Photosynthetic acclimation of rhododendrons to light intensity in relation to leaf water-related traits	7
Seedling recruitment in response to artificial gaps: predicting the ecological consequence of forest disturbance	7
Leaf functional traits and monodominance in Southern Amazonia tropical forests	7
Nonsampling error in vegetation surveys: understanding error types and recommendations for reducing their occurrence	7
An inconvenient truth about temperature–time data from thermocouples	7
Winners and losers in the predicted impact of climate change on cacti species in Baja California	7
Dominant drivers of plant community assembly vary by soil type and time in reclaimed forests	7
Impacts of moderateness and cobalancedness in seed mass and coat thickness on seed dispersal effectiveness of Quercus variabilis by rodents	7
Historical links between climate and fire on species dispersion and trait evolution	7
The intermediate dispersal hypothesis: seed dispersal is maximized in areas with intermediate usage by hoarders	7
Friend or foe? The role of biotic agents in drought-induced plant mortality	7
Pros and cons of using a standard protocol to test germination of alpine species	7
Invasive fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum (Forssk.) Chiov.) increases its potential area of distribution in Tenerife island under future climatic scenarios	7
Livestock settlement affects shrub abundance via plant functional diversity but not species richness in arid environments	6
Airborne and belowground phytotoxicity of invasive Ageratina adenophora on native species in Nepal	6
Spatio-temporal distribution of broad-leaved Quercus semecarpifolia indicates altitudinal shift in northwestern Himalayas	6
Matrix-level co-occurrence metrics are sensitive to sampling grain: a case study in species-rich shrublands	6
Effect of species environment on host preference of Cuscuta campestris	6
Plant species over-occupancy indicates river valleys are natural corridors for migration	6
Assessment of climate change effects on alpine summit vegetation in the transition of tropical to subtropical humid climate	6
Changes in the resilience of resprouting juvenile tree populations in temperate forests due to coupled severe drought and fire	6
Intraspecific variation in spring leaf phenology and duration of leaf expansion in relation to leaf habit and leaf size of temperate tree species	6
The role of microsite sunlight environment on growth, architecture, and resource allocation in dominant Acacia tree seedlings, in Serengeti, East Africa	6
Fern and lycophyte niche displacement under predicted climate change in Honduras	6
Variations in temperate forest stem biomass ratio along three environmental gradients are dominated by interspecific differences in wood density	6
Stage-dependent plasticity in biomass allocation and allometry in response to population density in Abutilon theophrasti: a step forward to understanding the nature of phenotypic plasticity	5

Different root strategies of perennial native grasses under two contrasting water availability conditions: implications for their spatial distribution in desert dunes	5
Construction of an ecological model of Sambucus javanica blume in China under different climate scenarios based on maxent model	5
Sheep grazing differentially affects the canopy attributes and functional diversity of shrubs and perennial grasses in arid rangelands	5
How common and dispersal limited are ant-dispersed plants in eastern deciduous forests?	5
Reproductive strategies of Xanthium italicum differ from those of native Xanthium sibiricum, and they are key to its invasiveness	5
Exotic insect pollinators and native pollination systems	5
Stigmas arrangement, reproductive system, and maternal reproductive success in two species of Stigmaphyllon (Malpighiaceae): does pollinator size matter?	5
Gender-biased nectar targets different behavioural traits of flower visitors	5
Forever young: arrested succession in communities subjected to recurrent fires in a lowland tropical forest	5
Evidence of interpopulation variation in the germination of Eryngium maritimum L. (Apiaceae)	5
Growth plasticity in response to shading as a potential key to the evolution of angiosperm herbs	5
Effects of warming and nutrient fluctuation on invader Chromolaena odorata and natives in artificial communities	5
Intraspecific and interspecific variation in floral volatiles over time	5
Evaluating the realized niche and plant–water relations of wetland species using experimental transplants	5
Demographic processes underpinning post-fire resilience in California closed-cone pine forests: the importance of fire interval, stand structure, and climate	5
Invasive nitrogen-fixing plants increase nitrogen availability and cycling rates in a montane tropical grassland	5
Impacts of soil disturbance on plant diversity in a dry grassland	5
The role of shrubs in spatially structuring the soil seed bank of perennial species in a semi-arid gypsum plant community	5
Dependence of the dwarf sundew (Drosera brevifolia) on burrowing crayfish disturbance	5
Revegetation technique changes root mycorrhizal colonisation and root fungal communities: the advantage of direct seeding over transplanting tube-stock in riparian ecosystems	5
Drought tolerance increases with seed size in a semiarid grassland from southern Mexico	5
Potential extinction debt due to habitat loss and fragmentation in subalpine moorland ecosystems	5
Herbivore exclusion and water availability improve success across 76 translocations of 50 threatened plant species in a biodiversity hotspot with a Mediterranean climate	5
Understory vegetation response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in northern Colorado lodgepole pine forests	5
Sphagnum and feather moss-associated N2 fixation along a 724-year chronosequence in eastern boreal Canada	5
Colonizing vegetation type drives evolution of organic matter in secondary succession in abandoned vineyards	5
High summer temperatures do not interact with fire to promote germination among seeds of Cistaceae: a reinterpretation of Luna (2020) with extra data on wet/dry conditions*	5
Monitoring time of conservation-driven and mitigation-driven plant translocations in Europe	5
Association of flower color with pollen reward may explain increased bumblebee visitation to the Scotch broom yellow morph	5
One large tree crown can be defined as a local hotspot for plant species diversity in a forest ecosystem: a case study in temperate old-growth forest	4
Salinity responses of inland and coastal neotropical trees species	4
Two low-lying coastal grassland species differ in mechanistic response to saline flooding stress	4
Fire regime and climate determine spatial variation in level of serotiny and population structure in a fire-killed conifer	4
Architecture of remnant trees influences native woody plant recruitment in abandoned Hawaiian pastures	4
Nectar secretion patterns are associated to nectar accessibility in a guild of crepuscular-nocturnal flowering plants	4
Provenance- and life-history stage-specific responses of the dwarf shrub Calluna vulgaris to elevated vapour pressure deficit	4
Close linkages between leaf functional traits and soil and leaf C:N:P stoichiometry under altered precipitation in a desert steppe in northwestern China	4
Soil sterilization and fertility impacts on urease and belowground mass specific phosphatase activity vary among Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera) populations	4
Consequences of tropical dry forest conversion on diaspore fate of Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Fabaceae)	4
Foliar water uptake in the needles of Pinus torreyana	4
Seed bank dynamics of the annual halophyte Salicornia ramosissima: towards a sustainable exploitation of its wild populations	4
How widespread are recruitment bottlenecks in fragmented populations of the savanna tree Banksia marginata (Proteaceae)?	4
Experimental warming and drought treatments reduce physiological activities and increase mortality of Pinus koraiensis seedlings	4
Soil resource availability, plant defense, and herbivory along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest	4
Investigating pollination strategies in disturbed habitats: the case of the narrow-endemic toadflax Linaria tonzigii (Plantaginaceae) on mountain screes	4
Non-native Microstegium vimineum populations collapse with fungal leaf spot disease outbreak	4
The leaf anatomical trade-offs associated with plant ecological strategy variation	4
Toward an understanding of broad-scale patterns of the habitat suitability of fountain grass (Cenchrus setaceus (Forssk.) Morrone, Poaceae)	4
Endangered globose cactus Melocactus lanssensianus P. J. Braun depends on lizards for effective seed dispersal in the Brazilian Caatinga	4
Allelopathic effects of switchgrass on redroot pigweed and crabgrass growth	3
Post-dispersal seed predation in Patagonia temperate forest depends on habitat patchiness and seed species	3
The enemy within: the effects of mistletoe parasitism on infected and uninfected host branches	3
Fire and water: the role of grass competition on juvenile tree growth and survival rates in a mesic savanna	3
Contrasting climate influences on Nothofagus pumilio establishment along elevational gradients	3
Regeneration of threatened alkali steppe vegetation after a heavy disturbance by disk tillage	3
Co-occurrences of tropical trees in eastern South America: disentangling abiotic and biotic forces	3
Canopy cover size and establishment rate determine biotic resistance to Aster pilosus invasion: a priority effect	3
The relevance of plant translocation as a conservation tool in France	3
Mapping risk to plant populations from short fire intervals via relationships between maturation period and environmental productivity	3
Potential effects of domestication on non-native plant invasion risk	3
Decadal dynamics of dry alpine meadows under nitrogen and phosphorus additions	3
Preventing inbreeding depression in Anacamptis coriophora (Orchidaceae) as a model of food-rewarding orchid	3
Granivory in California sage scrub: implications for common plant invaders and ecosystem conservation	3
Leaf trait integration mediates species richness variation in a species-rich neotropical forest domain	3
Is range expansion of introduced Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) in Denmark limited by winter cold tolerance?	3
Nests of the white stork as suitable microsites for the colonisation and establishment of ruderal plants in the agricultural landscape	3
Flowering phenology and reproduction of a forest understorey plant species in response to the local environment	3
Fire season and canopy cover interact to affect reproduction of a pyrogenic bunchgrass, Aristida beyrichiana	3
Multi-cycle synchronous protandry in raceme-like inflorescences of a bumblebee-pollinated herb Aconitum grossedentatum	3
Burn severity in Araucaria araucana forests of northern Patagonia: tree mortality scales up to burn severity at plot scale, mediated by topography and climatic context	3
Editorial: Special thematic issue on applying microbial community research to improve conservation and restoration outcomes	3
Impact of competition on the growth of Pinus tabulaeformis in response to climate on the Loess Plateau of China	3
Variation in plant–soil interactions among temperate forest herbs	3
Seasonal soil moisture variability, not drought, drives differences in photosynthetic physiology of two C4 grass species	3
Climate change might lead to substantial niche displacement in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world	3
Plant performance responds to intraspecific variation in soil inocula from individual Solidago clones	3
Impact of a native invasive weed (Microstegium ciliatum) on regeneration of a tropical forest	3
Response of leaf morphological traits of relict-endemic Symplocos species (S. coccinea and S. speciosa) to elevation and abiotic fluctuations	3
Frequency of flower visitors and achene production increase with rising population size in the self-incompatible herb Centaurea scabiosa (Asteraceae)	3
Understory physical structures reduce browsing damage to palatable shrubs in a dry conifer forest, western North America	3

Selection for floral integration and trait variation in zygomorphic flowers of Aconitum japonicum ssp. subcuneatum (Ranunculaceae)	3
Endemism in recently diverged angiosperms is associated with polyploidy	3
Understorey light environment impacts on seedling establishment and growth in a typhoon-disturbed tropical forest	3
Climate refugia for Pinus spp. in topographic and bioclimatic environments of the Madrean sky islands of México and the United States	3
Fundamental intra-specific differences in plant–water relations in a widespread desert shrub (Artemisia tridentata)	2
Phenological responsiveness and fecundity decline near the southern range limit of Trientalis borealis (Primulaceae)	2
Fugitive road dust alters annual plant physiology but perennial grass growth appears resistant	2
Soil temperature drives elevational patterns of reproductive allometry in a biodiversity hotspot	2
Responses of absorptive root and mycorrhizal colonization of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) to varied environmental conditions	2
Thigmomorphogenic responses of epiphytic bromeliads to mechanically induced stress	2
Wildfires did not ignite boreal forest range expansion into tundra ecosystems in subarctic Yukon, Canada	2
Correction to: Microbial communities associated with distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality in a tropical rainforest	2
Felling the giants: integral projection models indicate adult management to control an exotic invasive palm	2
Site dependence of local variations in taxonomic and functional diversity of plant communities in semi-natural dry grasslands	2
Both weather and resources influence masting in chestnut oak (Quercus montana Willd.) and black oak (Q. velutina Lam.)	2
Impact of local- and regional-scale restoration measures on a vulnerable rich fen in the Naardermeer nature reserve (the Netherlands)	2
Fire effects on diversity patterns of the understory communities of Araucaria-Nothofagus forests	2
Large-diameter trees buffer monsoonal changes to tree biomass over two decades	2
Negative correlation between dispersal investment and canopy openness among populations of the ant-dispersed sedge, Carex lanceolata	2
Does seed dispersal mode matter?	2
Plant behavior and coexistence: stem elongation of the carnivorous subshrub Drosophyllum lusitanicum within xerophytic shrub canopies	2
Applying simple genomic workflows to optimise practical plant translocation outcomes	2
Family legacy: contrasting diversity–elevation relationships on a coastal Atlantic Forest mountain system	2
Fire effects on the vital rates and stochastic population growth rate of the rare shrub Lindera subcoriacea Wofford	2
Water source utilization under differing surface flow regimes in the riparian species Liquidambar styraciflua, in the southern Appalachian foothills, USA	2
The impact of environmental factors on traits of Hedera helix L. vegetative shoots	2
Effects of simulated fire and browsing on the resprouting of subtropical dune thicket shrubs in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	2
Heatwave implications for the future of longleaf pine savanna understory restoration	2
Preparing threatened plants for translocation: does home soil addition and nutrient loading improve growth and flowering?	2
Seed burial depth, seedling emergence, and height as affected by animal trampling in marl soils	2
Effect of soil temperature on the morphological and physiological traits of Kandelia obovata seedlings	2
Environmental characterization of an Amazonian lake for Isoëtes cangae translocation	2
Achieving conservation outcomes in plant mitigation translocations: the need for global standards	2
Intraspecific trait variation and species turnover in successional tropical forests: assessing trait imputation for community-weighted means	2
Intraspecific sexual competition in the clonal gynodioecious herb Glechoma hederacea in response to patchy nutrient distribution	2
Density-dependent impacts of invasive Vincetoxicum rossicum (pale swallowwort) and native Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) on plant traits and competitive interactions	2
Phenological shifts of the invasive annual weed Bidens pilosa var. pilosa in response to warmer temperature	2
Effect of rhizome exposure to contrasting abiotic conditions on the performance of the invasive macrophyte Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig (Zingiberaceae)	2
The contribution of the spatial hydrological niche to species diversity in rare plant communities of English floodplain meadows	2
Biomass partitioning pattern of Rheum tanguticum on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau was affected by water-related factors	2
Can saline preconditioning enhance plant survival in degraded soils? Physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses in Casuarina glauca saplings	2
Implications of seed germination ecology for conservation of Camptotheca acuminata, a rare, endemic, and endangered species in China	2
Abiotic conditions shape the relationship between indigenous and exotic species richness in a montane biodiversity hotspot	2
Strong spatial and temporal limitations in seed arrival as complementary mechanisms for species coexistence in a tropical Atlantic coastal forest	2
The summer-deciduous habit of Daphne pseudomezereum is a response to warm summer as cooling converts it to an evergreen	2
Living in a world of fire: the population dynamics of Mulinum spinosum in Northwestern Patagonia grasslands	2
Multifaceted diversity changes reveal community assembly mechanisms during early stages of post-logging forest succession	2
No evidence for flooding stress memory in saplings of eight hardwood floodplain forest species	2
Male-biased effective sex ratio across populations of the threatened Zamia boliviana (Zamiaceae)	2
Nine decades of major compositional changes in a Central European beech forest protected area	2
Factors affecting germination and establishment success of an endemic cactus of the Chihuahuan Desert	2
Antiherbivore chemicals in emerging and previous-year foliage of balsam fir saplings responding to prior simulated browsing	2
Jackfruit trees as seed attractors and nurses of early recruitment of native plant species in a secondary forest in Brazil	2
All in the timing: how fruit nutritional content influences the timing of fruit consumption of two invasive shrubs	2
Presence of N-fixing neighbors increases leaf N and δ13C in Castilleja applegatei, a root hemiparasite	2
Predicting biomass of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) using rank distribution and root-to-shoot ratio models	2
How do soil resources affect herbivory in tropical plants along environmental gradients? A test using contrasting congeneric species	2
Climbing strategy in herbs does not necessarily lead to lower investments into stem biomass	2
Response of pteridophyte richness to water-energy dynamic hypothesis under climate change in China	2
Native and invasive bunchgrasses have different responses to trail disturbance on California coastal prairies	2
Independent effects of drought and shade on growth, biomass allocation and leaf morphology of a flammable perennial grass Tetrarrhena juncea R.Br	2