Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Meta-analysis Reveals Different Competition Effects on Tree Growth Resistance and Resilience to Drought	54
Temperature and Moisture Modulate the Contribution of Soil Fauna to Litter Decomposition via Different Pathways	43
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain	40
Global Warming Potential Is Not an Ecosystem Property	31
Long-Term Responses of Mediterranean Mountain Forests to Climate Change, Fire and Human Activities in the Northern Apennines (Italy)	30
White-Sand Savannas Expand at the Core of the Amazon After Forest Wildfires	30
Seeing the System from Above: The Use and Potential of Remote Sensing for Studying Ecosystem Dynamics	29
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience	29
Divergent Controls on Stream Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Across a Land-Use Gradient	27
Wetter is Better: Rewetting of Minerotrophic Peatlands Increases Plant Production and Moves Them Towards Carbon Sinks in a Dry Year	26
Dwarf Shrubs Impact Tundra Soils: Drier, Colder, and Less Organic Carbon	26
Fire Recurrence and Time Since Last Fire Interact to Determine the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services by Mediterranean Forests	25
Water Hyacinth’s Effect on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: A Field Study in a Wide Variety of Tropical Water Bodies	22
Assessing the Risk of Losing Forest Ecosystem Services Due to Wildfires	22
Trade-offs Between Light and Nutrient Availability Across Gradients of Dissolved Organic Carbon Lead to Spatially and Temporally Variable Responses of Lake Phytoplankton Biomass to Browning	22
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect	21
Estimating Benthic Light Regimes Improves Predictions of Primary Production and constrains Light-Use Efficiency in Streams and Rivers	20
Increased Water Use Efficiency in China and Its Drivers During 2000–2016	20
Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?	19
Fine Root and Soil Organic Carbon Depth Distributions are Inversely Related Across Fertility and Rainfall Gradients in Lowland Tropical Forests	19
Ongoing Fen–Bog Transition in a Boreal Aapa Mire Inferred from Repeated Field Sampling, Aerial Images, and Landsat Data	19
Plant–Environment Interactions in the Low Arctic Torngat Mountains of Labrador	19
Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland	19
Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond	19
Impact of Ocean Acidification on Ecosystem Functioning and Services in Habitat-Forming Species and Marine Ecosystems	19

Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective	18
Shade-Tree Rehabilitation in Vanilla Agroforests is Yield Neutral and May Translate into Landscape-Scale Canopy Cover Gains	18
Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps	17
Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion	17
Greenhouse Gas Balance of Sphagnum Farming on Highly Decomposed Peat at Former Peat Extraction Sites	17
Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog	17
Soil Stoichiometry Mediates Links Between Tree Functional Diversity and Soil Microbial Diversity in a Temperate Forest	16
Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake	16
Tree-Related Microhabitats Follow Similar Patterns but are More Diverse in Primary Compared to Managed Temperate Mountain Forests	16
Warming Stimulates Iron-Mediated Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mineral-Poor Peatlands	16
The Metabolic Regimes at the Scale of an Entire Stream Network Unveiled Through Sensor Data and Machine Learning	16
Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes	16
Canopy Disturbances Catalyse Tree Species Shifts in Swiss Forests	15
An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science	15
Responses of Temperate Forests to Nitrogen Deposition: Testing the Explanatory Power of Modeled Deposition Datasets for Vegetation Gradients	15
The Interplay of the Tree and Stand-Level Processes Mediate Drought-Induced Forest Dieback: Evidence from Complementary Remote Sensing and Tree-Ring Approaches	14
Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon	14
Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization Across a Climate Transect of Mesic Boreal Forests Is Explained by Air Temperature and Snowpack Duration	14
Canopy Cover Loss of Mediterranean Oak Woodlands: Long-term Effects of Management and Climate	14
A View From Both Ends: Shifts in Herbivore Assemblages Impact Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes on Coral Reefs	14
Effects of Soil Abiotic and Biotic Factors on Tree Seedling Regeneration Following a Boreal Forest Wildfire	14
Loss of Key Riparian Plant Species Impacts Stream Ecosystem Functioning	14
Fauna Community Convergence During Decomposition of Deadwood Across Tree Species and Forests	14
Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene	13
Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland	13
How Are Greenhouse Gases Coupled Across Seasons in a Large Temperate River with Differential Land Use?	13
Recent Lateral Expansion of Sphagnum Bogs Over Central Fen Areas of Boreal Aapa Mire Complexes	13
Sclerophyllous Forest Tree Growth Under the Influence of a Historic Megadrought in the Mediterranean Ecoregion of Chile	12
Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition	12
Disentangling the Legacies of Climate and Management on Tree Growth	12
Stream Macroinvertebrates and Carbon Cycling in Tangled Food Webs	12
Large-Scale Quantification and Correlates of Ungulate Carrion Production in the Anthropocene	12
Ecosystem Processes Show Uniform Sensitivity to Winter Soil Temperature Change Across a Gradient from Central to Cold Marginal Stands of a Major Temperate Forest Tree	12
The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh	12
Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem	11
Tree Foliage is a Methane Sink in Upland Temperate Forests	11
Reforestations of Tropical Forests Alter Interactions Between Web-Building Spiders and Their Prey	11
Pulse, Shunt and Storage: Hydrological Contraction Shapes Processing and Export of Particulate Organic Matter in River Networks	11
Penguins and Seals Transport Limiting Nutrients Between Offshore Pelagic and Coastal Regions of Antarctica Under Changing Sea Ice	11
Azorella Cushion Plants and Aridity are Important Drivers of Soil Microbial Communities in Andean Ecosystems	11
Tracking the Rates and Mechanisms of Canopy Damage and Recovery Following Hurricane Maria Using Multitemporal Lidar Data	10
Skid Trail Effects on Soil Methane and Carbon Dioxide Flux in a Selection-Managed Northern Hardwood Forest	10
Climate Records, Isotopes, and C:N Stoichiometry Reveal Carbon and Nitrogen Flux Dynamics Differ Between Functional Groups of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi	10
Increased Above- and Belowground Plant Input Can Both Trigger Microbial Nitrogen Mining in Subarctic Tundra Soils	10
Post-fire Regeneration Traits of Understorey Shrub Species Modulate Successional Responses to High Severity Fire in Mediterranean Pine Forests	10
Deadwood Reduces the Variation in Soil Microbial Communities Caused by Experimental Forest Gaps	10
Variability in Tree-ring Width and NDVI Responses to Climate at a Landscape Level	10
Evidence of the Significant Contribution of Heterotrophic Diazotrophs to Nitrogen Fixation in the Eastern Indian Ocean During Pre-Southwest Monsoon Period	10
Precipitation Pattern Regulates Soil Carbon Flux Responses to Nitrogen Addition in a Temperate Forest	10
Romans Shape Today’s Vegetation and Soils: Two Millennia of Land-Use Legacy Dynamics in Mediterranean Grasslands	10

Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Across a Vertical Gradient on a Temperate Wetland Seascape Including Salt Marshes, Seagrass Meadows and Rhizophytic Macroalgae Beds	10
Resolving the Drivers of Algal Nutrient Limitation from Boreal to Arctic Lakes and Streams	10
Inundation, Hydrodynamics and Vegetation Influence Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Amazon Floodplain Lakes	10
Are Northern Lakes in Relatively Intact Temperate Forests Showing Signs of Increasing Phytoplankton Biomass?	10
Submerged Rootless Macrophytes Sustain a Stable State Against Free-Floating Plants	10
Risk Assessment for Key Socio-Economic and Ecological Species in a Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystem Under Combined Ocean Acidification and Warming	9
Spatially Continuous Land-Cover Reconstructions Through the Holocene in Southern Sweden	9
Recovery from Severe Mistletoe Infection After Heat- and Drought-Induced Mistletoe Death	9
Evaluating Drought Impact on Postfire Recovery of Chaparral Across Southern California	9
Identifying Carbon-Degrading Enzyme Activities in Association with Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation Under Land-Use Changes	9
Fine Wood Decomposition Rates Decline with the Age of Tropical Successional Forests in Southern Mexico: Implications to Ecosystem Carbon Storage	9
Consequences of Piñon-Juniper Woodland Fuel Reduction: Prescribed Fire Increases Soil Erosion While Mastication Does Not	9
Fire Severity and Post-fire Hydrology Drive Nutrient Cycling and Plant Community Recovery in Intermittent Wetlands	9
Terrestrial Nitrogen Inputs Affect the Export of Unprocessed Atmospheric Nitrate to Surface Waters: Insights from Triple Oxygen Isotopes of Nitrate	9
Exploring the Role of Cryptic Nitrogen Fixers in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Frontier in Nitrogen Cycling Research	9
Soil Nutrient Depletion and Tree Functional Composition Shift Following Repeated Clearing in Secondary Forests of the Congo Basin	9
Precipitation Intensification Increases Shrub Dominance in Arid, Not Mesic, Ecosystems	8
A Global Synthesis of the Effects of Livestock Activity on Hydrological Processes	8
Mistletoes Facilitate a Desert Herbivore by Improving the Quality of Shade	8
Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning	8
A Trait-Based Approach for Understanding Changes in Carbon Sequestration in Semi-Arid Grassland During Succession	8
Predicting Dissolved Organic Matter Lability and Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Freshwater Ecosystems	8
Mapping the Delivery of Ecological Functions Combining Field Collected Data and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)	8
A Classification Framework to Assess Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrologic Synchrony and Asynchrony	8
Soil Fungi Promote Biodiversity–Productivity Relationships in Experimental Communities of Young Trees	8
Ectomycorrhizal Stands Accelerate Decomposition to a Greater Extent than Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Stands in a Northern Deciduous Forest	8
Is Zooplankton Body Size an Indicator of Water Quality in (Sub)tropical Reservoirs in China?	8
Modelling Marine Predator Habitat Using the Abundance of Its Pelagic Prey in the Tropical South-Western Pacific	8
Fine Root Growth Increases in Response to Nitrogen Addition in Phosphorus-limited Northern Hardwood Forests	8
The Role of Epiphytic Algae and Grazing Snails in Stable States of Submerged and of Free-Floating Plants	8
Diverse Effects of Climate, Land Use, and Insects on Dung and Carrion Decomposition	7
Early Tree Diversity and Composition Effects on Topsoil Chemistry in Young Forest Plantations Depend on Site Context	7
Hurricane-Induced Massive Nutrient Return via Tropical Dry Forest Litterfall: Has Forest Biogeochemistry Resilience Changed?	7
Foliar Stoichiometry is Marginally Sensitive to Soil Phosphorus Across a Lowland Tropical Rainforest	7
Natural Disturbances are Essential Determinants of Tree-Related Microhabitat Availability in Temperate Forests	7
Changes in Ecosystem Nitrogen and Carbon Allocation with Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Encroachment into Spartina alterniflora Salt Marsh	7
Significant Pico- and Nanoplankton Contributions to Biogenic Silica Standing Stocks and Production Rates in the Oligotrophic Eastern Indian Ocean	7
Ecosystem-Scale Oxygen Manipulations Alter Terminal Electron Acceptor Pathways in a Eutrophic Reservoir	7
Impacts of Canopy and Understory Nitrogen Additions on Stomatal Conductance and Carbon Assimilation of Dominant Tree Species in a Temperate Broadleaved Deciduous Forest	7
Global Positive Effects of Litter Inputs on Soil Nitrogen Pools and Fluxes	7
Three Decades of Changing Nutrient Stoichiometry from Source to Sea on the Swedish West Coast	7
Stressors Increase the Impacts of Coastal Macrofauna Biodiversity Loss on Ecosystem Multifunctionality	7
Local Environmental Context Structures Animal-Habitat Associations Across Biogeographic Regions	7
A Regional Assessment of Changes in Plant–Plant Interactions Along Topography Gradients in Tunisian Sebkhas	7
Early Warning Signals for Rate-induced Critical Transitions in Salt Marsh Ecosystems	6
Landscape-Scale Forest Reorganization Following Insect Invasion and Harvest Under Future Climate Change Scenarios	6
BVOC Emissions From a Subarctic Ecosystem, as Controlled by Insect Herbivore Pressure and Temperature	6
Forest Management Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Riparian Soils Along Headwater Streams	6
Agricultural Landscape Transformation Needed to Meet Water Quality Goals in the Yahara River Watershed of Southern Wisconsin	6
Impacts of Riparian and Non-riparian Woody Encroachment on Tallgrass Prairie Ecohydrology	6
Ecological Memory of Historical Contamination Influences the Response of Phytoplankton Communities	6
Is Oxygenation Related to the Decomposition of Organic Matter in Cryoconite Holes?	6
Prevalence of Autotrophy in Non-humic African Lakes	6
Sensitivity of Canopy Phenology to Local Urban Environmental Characteristics in a Tropical City	6
Effects of Habitat-Specific Primary Production on Fish Size, Biomass, and Production in Northern Oligotrophic Lakes	6
Very Low Stocks and Inputs of Necromass in Wind-affected Tropical Forests	6
Does a Trawl Ban Benefit Commercially Important Decapoda and Stomatopoda in Hong Kong?	6
Unexpected Negative Effect of Available Water Capacity Detected on Recent Conifer Forest Growth Trends Across Wide Environmental Gradients	6
Local and Regional Effects of Land-Use Intensity on Aboveground Biomass and Tree Diversity in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests	6
Decreased Soil Microbial Nitrogen Under Vegetation ‘Shrubification’ in the Subarctic Forest–Tundra Ecotone: The Potential Role of Increasing Nutrient Competition Between Plants and Soil Microorganisms	6
Herbivore Dung Promotes Plant Litter Decomposition Rate in a Semi-arid Grassland Ecosystem	6
Synergistic Effects of Rooted Aquatic Vegetation and Drift Wrack on Ecosystem Multifunctionality	6
Landscape Controls on Nutrient Stoichiometry Regulate Lake Primary Production at the Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet	6
Nitrogen Addition Increases Freeze Resistance in Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Shrubs in a Temperate-Tropical Ecotone	6
Variability in Stem Methane Emissions and Wood Methane Production of Different Tree Species in a Cold Temperate Mountain Forest	6
Litter Decomposition Rates of Biocrust-Forming Lichens Are Similar to Those of Vascular Plants and Are Affected by Warming	5
The Relationship Between Phytoplankton Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning Changes with Disturbance Regimes in Tropical Reservoirs	5
Differential Resilience of Soil Microbes and Ecosystem Functions Following Cessation of Long-Term Fertilization	5
Tree Diversity, Initial Litter Quality, and Site Conditions Drive Early-Stage Fine-Root Decomposition in European Forests	5
Methane Concentration in the Heartwood of Living Trees and Estimated Methane Emission on Stems in Upland Forests	5
No Signs of Long-term Greening Trend in Western Mongolian Grasslands	5
From Marine Metacommunities to Meta-ecosystems: Examining the Nature, Scale and Significance of Resource Flows in Benthic Marine Environments	5
Material Legacies and Environmental Constraints Underlie Fire Resilience of a Dominant Boreal Forest Type	5
Nitrogen Addition in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow Increases Intraspecific Variability in Nitrogen Uptake, Leading to Increased Community-level Nitrogen Uptake	5
Contrasting Effects of Grazing vs Browsing Herbivores Determine Changes in Soil Fertility in an East African Savanna	5
Frequent Fire Reduces the Magnitude of Positive Interactions Between an Invasive Grass and Soil Microbes in Temperate Forests	5
Two Mechanisms Drive Changes in Boreal Peatland Photosynthesis Following Long-Term Water Level Drawdown: Species Turnover and Altered Photosynthetic Capacity	5
Positive Effects of Legumes on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks Disappear at High Legume Proportions Across Natural Grasslands in the Pyrenees	5
A Cross-System Analysis of Litter Chemical Dynamics Throughout Decomposition	5
Flow is more Important than Temperature in Driving Patterns of Organic Matter Storage and Stoichiometry in Stream Ecosystems	5

Watershed-scale Land Use Change Increases Ecosystem Metabolism in an Agricultural Stream	5
Elevated Allochthony in Stream Food Webs as a Result of Longitudinal Cumulative Effects of Forest Management	5
Seafloor Terrain Shapes the Three-dimensional Nursery Value of Mangrove and Seagrass Habitats	5
Hydrologic Setting Dictates the Sensitivity of Ecosystem Metabolism to Climate Variability in Lakes	5
Time Scales of Ecosystem Impacts and Recovery Under Individual and Serial Invasions	5
Sensitive Groups of Bacteria Dictate Microbial Functional Responses to Short-term Warming and N Input in a Semiarid Grassland	5
Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Lakes	5
Species Diversity and Stability of Dominant Species Dominate the Stability of Community Biomass in an Alpine Meadow Under Variable Precipitation	5
Incorporating Shrub Neighborhood Dynamics to Predict Forest Succession Trajectories in an Altered Fire Regime	4
Seasonal Mass Migration of Water Boatmen (Hemiptera: Corixidae) as a Wetland–River Linkage and Dietary Subsidy to Riverine Fish	4
Biophysical Heterogeneity, Hydrologic Connectivity, and Productivity of a Montane Floodplain Forest	4
The Predominance of Nongrowing Season Emissions to the Annual Methane Budget of a Semiarid Alpine Meadow on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	4
Decomposition in Mixed Beech Forests in the South-Western Alps Under Severe Summer Drought	4
Frost-Associated Defoliation in Populus tremuloides Causes Repeated Growth Reductions Over 185 years	4
Ecological Networks in the Scotia Sea: Structural Changes Across Latitude and Depth	4
Plant Traits and Phylogeny Predict Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mediterranean Mixed Forests	4
Animal-Driven Nutrient Supply Declines Relative to Ecosystem Nutrient Demand Along a Pond Hydroperiod Gradient	4
Nitrogen Reduction Causes Shifts in Winter and Spring Phytoplankton Composition and Resource Use Efficiency in a Large Subtropical Lake in China	4
Exploring the Frequency and Distribution of Ecological Non-monotonicity in Associations among Ecosystem Constituents	4
Multi-Scale Temporal Patterns in Stream Biogeochemistry Indicate Linked Permafrost and Ecological Dynamics of Boreal Catchments	4
Sea-Level Rise and the Persistence of Tree Islands in Coastal Landscapes	4
From Intra-plant to Regional Scale: June Temperatures and Regional Climates Directly and Indirectly Control Betula nana Growth in Arctic Alaska	4
Fishers' Knowledge Reveals Ecological Interactions Between Fish and Plants in High Diverse Tropical Rivers	4
Nutrients Alter Methane Production and Oxidation in a Thawing Permafrost Mire	4
Impact of Sediment Bioturbation on Microphytobenthic Primary Producers: Importance of Macrobenthic Functional Traits	4
Long-Term Phosphorus Addition Strongly Weakens the Carbon Sink Function of a Temperate Peatland	4
Hydrological Regime and Plant Functional Traits Jointly Mediate the Influence of Salix spp. on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in a High Arctic Tundra	4
A Severe Hurricane Increases Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes and Triples Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Tropical Forest	4
Ecosystem Functioning Influences Species Fitness at Upper Trophic Levels	4
Plant Functional Types Differ in Their Long-term Nutrient Response to eCO2 in an Extensive Grassland	4
Grasslands Maintain Stability in Productivity Through Compensatory Effects and Dominant Species Stability Under Extreme Precipitation Patterns	4
Contrasting Dynamics in the Fine Root Mass of Angiosperm and Gymnosperm Forests on the Global Scale	4
Divergent Controls on Leaf and Root Litter Decay Linking to Soil C, N, and P Pools Under a Subtropical Land-use Change	4
Depth-Dependent Controls Over Soil Organic Carbon Stock across Chinese Shrublands	4
Stream Water Chemistry in Mixed-Conifer Headwater Basins: Role of Water Sources, Seasonality, Watershed Characteristics, and Disturbances	4
Land Use History Mediates Soil Biogeochemical Responses to Drought in Temperate Forest Ecosystems	4
Pyric Herbivory and the Nexus Between Forage, Fire and Native and Introduced Large Grazing Herbivores in Australian Tropical Savannas	4
Herbaceous Layer Net Primary Production of Oak-Hornbeam Forest: Comparing Six Methods of Assessment Based on the Seasonal Dynamics of Biomass Increments	4