Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Drainage-Driven Loss of Carbon Sequestration of a Temperate Peatland in Northeast China	58
Combined Effects of Nitrogen Deposition and Climate on Root-to-Shoot Ratios and Root Morphology in Temperate Tree Regeneration	40
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	35
Topography Mediates the Response of Soil CO2 Efflux to Precipitation Over Days, Seasons, and Years	32
Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland	31
Response of Stream Metabolism to Coarse Woody Debris Additions Along a Catchment Disturbance Gradient	30
Soil Organic Carbon Content Decreases in Both Surface and Subsoil Mineral Horizons by Simulated Future Increases in Labile Carbon Inputs in a Temperate Coniferous Forest	26
Pyric Herbivory and the Nexus Between Forage, Fire and Native and Introduced Large Grazing Herbivores in Australian Tropical Savannas	25
Methane Concentration in the Heartwood of Living Trees and Estimated Methane Emission on Stems in Upland Forests	24
The Roles of the Moss Layer in Mediating Tree Seedling Environmental Stress, Mercury Exposure, and Regeneration in High-Elevation Conifer Forests	23
The Role of Epiphytic Algae and Grazing Snails in Stable States of Submerged and of Free-Floating Plants	22
Turbidity Structures the Controls of Ecosystem Metabolism and Associated Metabolic Process Domains Along a 75-km Segment of a Semiarid Stream	22
Submerged Rootless Macrophytes Sustain a Stable State Against Free-Floating Plants	20
Post-fire Regeneration Traits of Understorey Shrub Species Modulate Successional Responses to High Severity Fire in Mediterranean Pine Forests	19
Anion Exchange Capacity Explains Deep Soil Nitrate Accumulation in Brazilian Amazon Croplands	19
Changes in How Climate Forces the Vegetation of Southern Africa	19
Integrating Remote Sensing with Ground-based Observations to Quantify the Effects of an Extreme Freeze Event on Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) at the Landscape Scale	19
2022 Reviewer Thank You	18
Soil Biota Adversely Affect the Resistance and Recovery of Plant Communities Subjected to Drought	18
Combining Techniques to Conceptualise Denitrification Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Estuaries	17
Contrasted Successional Trajectories in a Mediterranean Wetland Due to Geomorphic- and Human-Induced Perturbations	17
Ecological Memory of Historical Contamination Influences the Response of Phytoplankton Communities	16
Carbon Stocks and Total Belowground Carbon Flux Respond to Weather and Grazing in Semiarid Montane Meadows	16
Nitrogen Reduction Causes Shifts in Winter and Spring Phytoplankton Composition and Resource Use Efficiency in a Large Subtropical Lake in China	16
Fuel Profiles and Biomass Carbon Following Bark Beetle Outbreaks: Insights for Disturbance Interactions from a Historical Silvicultural Experiment	16

Integrating Reservoirs into the Dissolved Organic Matter Versus Primary Production Paradigm: How Does Chlorophyll-a Change Across Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations in Reservoirs?	16
Experimental Evidence Supporting the Seasonal Availability of Water Hypothesis in a Mixed C3/C4 Grassland	16
Response of Boreal Plant Communities and Forest Floor Carbon Fluxes to Experimental Nutrient Additions	15
Soil Fungi Promote Biodiversity–Productivity Relationships in Experimental Communities of Young Trees	14
Propagating Uncertainty in Predicting Individuals and Means Illustrated with Foliar Chemistry and Forest Biomass	14
Local and Regional Effects of Land-Use Intensity on Aboveground Biomass and Tree Diversity in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests	14
Reforestations of Tropical Forests Alter Interactions Between Web-Building Spiders and Their Prey	14
Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem	14
Shifts in Ecological Legacies Support Hysteresis of Stand Type Conversions in Boreal Forests	14
Two Mechanisms Drive Changes in Boreal Peatland Photosynthesis Following Long-Term Water Level Drawdown: Species Turnover and Altered Photosynthetic Capacity	14
Climate Effects on Prairie Productivity Partially Ameliorated by Soil Nutrients and Plant Community Responses	14
Toward a Multi-stressor Theory for Coral Reefs in a Changing World	13
A Cosmic View of ‘Tundra Gardens’: Satellite Imagery Provides a Landscape-Scale Perspective of Arctic Fox Ecosystem Engineering	13
Disentangling Ecosystem Necromass Dynamics for Biodiversity Conservation	13
Differences in Characteristics of Sample Sites Explain Variable Responses of Soil Microbial Biomass to Nitrogen Addition: A Meta-Analysis	13
Invertebrate-Mediated Ecosystem Processes are Resilient to Disturbance Across a Land-Use Gradient in Borneo	12
How Much Soil Carbon is Derived from Woody Detritus? A Ten-Year Study of 13C Incorporation into Soil Organic Matter	12
Calculating Nitrogen Uptake Rates in Forests: Which Components Can Be Omitted, Simplified, or Taken from Trait Databases and Which Must Be Measured In Situ?	12
Current Forest–Savanna Transition in Northern South America Departs from Typical Climatic Thresholds	12
Contrasting Silicon Dynamics Between Aboveground Vegetation and Soil Along a Secondary Successional Gradient in a Cool-temperate Deciduous Forest	12
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Stocks Along Protected and Non-protected Coastal Wetland Ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico	12
Integrating Field Data and a Meta-ecosystem Model to Study the Effects of Multiple Terrestrial Disturbances on Small Stream Ecosystem Function	12
Mineral-Associated Organic Matter Concentration Beneath Northern Temperate Trees Varies by Mycorrhizal Type and Leaf Habit	11
Labile Soil Carbon Heterogeneity Driven by Consumer Engineering of Aboveground Structure in a Kenyan Savanna	11
The Impact of Variable DOC Concentrations on Acidification Assessments	11
Natural Disturbances are Essential Determinants of Tree-Related Microhabitat Availability in Temperate Forests	11
Tree Diversity, Initial Litter Quality, and Site Conditions Drive Early-Stage Fine-Root Decomposition in European Forests	11
Reassembly of Disturbed Forests Portends Climate Resilience but Diversity Loss	11
Is Oxygenation Related to the Decomposition of Organic Matter in Cryoconite Holes?	11
Greenhouse Gas Balance of Sphagnum Farming on Highly Decomposed Peat at Former Peat Extraction Sites	10
Early Warning Signals for Rate-induced Critical Transitions in Salt Marsh Ecosystems	10
Hydrological Regime and Plant Functional Traits Jointly Mediate the Influence of Salix spp. on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in a High Arctic Tundra	10
Correction: 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
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Nitrogen Mobilization in Residential Lawns	10
Time Scales of Ecosystem Impacts and Recovery Under Individual and Serial Invasions	10
Meta-analysis Reveals Different Competition Effects on Tree Growth Resistance and Resilience to Drought	10
Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning	10
Consequences of Piñon-Juniper Woodland Fuel Reduction: Prescribed Fire Increases Soil Erosion While Mastication Does Not	10
Shifting Forests and Carbon: Linking Community Composition and Aboveground Carbon Attributes	10
Correction: Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient	10
Bamboo Plantation Establishment Changes Rainfall Partitioning and Chemistry	9
Foliar Stoichiometry is Marginally Sensitive to Soil Phosphorus Across a Lowland Tropical Rainforest	9
Standing Litter Modifies Top-Down Effects of Large Herbivores on a Grassland Plant Community	9
Low Redox Decreases Potential Phosphorus Limitation on Soil Biogeochemical Cycling Along a Tropical Rainfall Gradient	9
Early Differentiation of the Phenotypic Space and Performance of Juniperus thurifera Across Woodland-Expanding Areas	9
Correction to: Compensatory Mechanisms Absorb Regional Carbon Losses Within a Rapidly Shifting Coastal Mosaic	9
Estimating Pelagic Fish Biomass in a Tropical Seascape Using Echosounding and Baited Stereo-Videography	9
Stream Macroinvertebrates and Carbon Cycling in Tangled Food Webs	8
Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes	8
Plant Traits and Phylogeny Predict Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mediterranean Mixed Forests	8

Macroscale Variation in Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Foliar Carbon, Nitrogen, and Nitrogen Resorption	8
The Effect of Water Colour on Fish Communities in Boreal lakes	8
Subsurface Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Losses Offset Surface Carbon Accumulation in Abandoned Agricultural Fields	8
Stressors Increase the Impacts of Coastal Macrofauna Biodiversity Loss on Ecosystem Multifunctionality	8
Abiotic Factors Modify Ponderosa Pine Regeneration Outcomes After High-Severity Fire	8
Biotic and Abiotic Control Over Diurnal CH4 Fluxes in a Temperate Transitional Poor Fen Ecosystem	8
Embracing Uncertainty and Probabilistic Outcomes for Ecological Critical Loads	8
Fine Root Growth Increases in Response to Nitrogen Addition in Phosphorus-limited Northern Hardwood Forests	8
Anthropogenic Eutrophication Drives Major Food Web Changes in Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria	8
Frequent Fire Reduces the Magnitude of Positive Interactions Between an Invasive Grass and Soil Microbes in Temperate Forests	7
Recovery from Severe Mistletoe Infection After Heat- and Drought-Induced Mistletoe Death	7
Increased Water Use Efficiency in China and Its Drivers During 2000–2016	7
Alleviation of Nutrient Co-limitation Increases Grassland Biomass Production, But Not Carbon Storage	7
Stream Water Chemistry in Mixed-Conifer Headwater Basins: Role of Water Sources, Seasonality, Watershed Characteristics, and Disturbances	7
Bryosphere Loss Impairs Litter Decomposition Consistently Across Moss Species, Litter Types, and Micro-Arthropod Abundance	7
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience	7
Precipitation Pattern Regulates Soil Carbon Flux Responses to Nitrogen Addition in a Temperate Forest	7
Chronic Winds Reduce Tropical Forest Structural Complexity Regardless of Climate, Topography, or Forest Age	7
Fire Recurrence and Time Since Last Fire Interact to Determine the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services by Mediterranean Forests	7
Impacts of Riparian and Non-riparian Woody Encroachment on Tallgrass Prairie Ecohydrology	7
A View From Both Ends: Shifts in Herbivore Assemblages Impact Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes on Coral Reefs	6
Variability in Stem Methane Emissions and Wood Methane Production of Different Tree Species in a Cold Temperate Mountain Forest	6
Nitrogen Addition Increases Freeze Resistance in Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Shrubs in a Temperate-Tropical Ecotone	6
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulation of Water Clarity in a Large, Floodplain River Ecosystem	6
Exploring the Role of Cryptic Nitrogen Fixers in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Frontier in Nitrogen Cycling Research	6
Hurricane-Induced Massive Nutrient Return via Tropical Dry Forest Litterfall: Has Forest Biogeochemistry Resilience Changed?	6
Hydrologic Setting Dictates the Sensitivity of Ecosystem Metabolism to Climate Variability in Lakes	6
Unexpected Negative Effect of Available Water Capacity Detected on Recent Conifer Forest Growth Trends Across Wide Environmental Gradients	6
The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh	6
Simulating Soil Atmosphere Exchanges and CO2 Fluxes for an Ongoing Peat Extraction Site	6
Soil Abiotic Properties Shape Plant Functional Diversity Across Temperate Grassland Plant Communities	6
Biomass Pyramids of Marine Mesozooplankton Communities as Inferred From Their Integrated Trophic Positions	6
Early Tree Diversity and Composition Effects on Topsoil Chemistry in Young Forest Plantations Depend on Site Context	6
Significant Pico- and Nanoplankton Contributions to Biogenic Silica Standing Stocks and Production Rates in the Oligotrophic Eastern Indian Ocean	6
Plant Multi-element Coupling as an Indicator of Nutritional Mismatches Under Global Change	6
Are Northern Lakes in Relatively Intact Temperate Forests Showing Signs of Increasing Phytoplankton Biomass?	6
Biophysical Determinants of Shifting Tundra Vegetation Productivity in the Beaufort Delta Region of Canada	6
Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps	6
Local Environmental Context Structures Animal-Habitat Associations Across Biogeographic Regions	6
Impact of Sediment Bioturbation on Microphytobenthic Primary Producers: Importance of Macrobenthic Functional Traits	5
Snail Mucus Increases the CO2 Efflux of Biological Soil Crusts	5
Correction to: Elevated Allochthony in Stream Food Webs as a Result of Longitudinal Cumulative Effects of Forest Management	5
The Relative Importance of Coarse-Scale Climate and Fine-Scale Nitrogen Availability Contrasts in Driving Home-Field Advantage Effects in Litter Decomposition	5
Ecosystem Functioning Influences Species Fitness at Upper Trophic Levels	5
Global Patterns of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Reproductive and Leaf Litterfall	5
Exceptions to the Heterotrophic Rule: Prevalence and Drivers of Autotrophy in Streams and Rivers	5
Frost-Associated Defoliation in Populus tremuloides Causes Repeated Growth Reductions Over 185 years	5
Substantial Organic and Particulate Nitrogen and Phosphorus Export from Geomorphologically Stable African Tropical Forest Landscapes	5
Contrasting Patterns of Soil Chemistry and Vegetation Cover Determine Diversity Changes of Soil Phototrophs Along an Afrotropical Elevation Gradient	5
Modelling Marine Predator Habitat Using the Abundance of Its Pelagic Prey in the Tropical South-Western Pacific	5
Differential Resilience of Soil Microbes and Ecosystem Functions Following Cessation of Long-Term Fertilization	5
Root Characteristics Vary with Depth Across Four Lowland Seasonal Tropical Forests	5
Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition	5
Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient	5
Assessing Energetic Pathways and Time Lags in Estuarine Food Webs	5
Salt Marshes Buffer El Niño Effects on Benthic Secondary Production	5
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain	5
Increased Above- and Belowground Plant Input Can Both Trigger Microbial Nitrogen Mining in Subarctic Tundra Soils	5
Net Ecosystem Metabolism is Independent of Elevation in Mountain Lakes of the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA	5
Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon	4
Very Low Stocks and Inputs of Necromass in Wind-affected Tropical Forests	4
Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland	4
The Relationship Between Phytoplankton Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning Changes with Disturbance Regimes in Tropical Reservoirs	4
Sea-Level Rise and the Persistence of Tree Islands in Coastal Landscapes	4
Warming Stimulates Iron-Mediated Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mineral-Poor Peatlands	4
Mapping the Delivery of Ecological Functions Combining Field Collected Data and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)	4
Interplay of Climate, Fires, Floods, and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Peat Formation and Carbon Dynamic of Coastal and Inland Tropical Peatlands in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	4
A Classification Framework to Assess Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrologic Synchrony and Asynchrony	4
Contrasting Effects of Grazing vs Browsing Herbivores Determine Changes in Soil Fertility in an East African Savanna	4
Fishers' Knowledge Reveals Ecological Interactions Between Fish and Plants in High Diverse Tropical Rivers	4
Topography and Tree Species Improve Estimates of Spatial Variation in Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Subtropical Forest	4
Trophic Niche Metrics Reveal Long-Term Shift in Florida Bay Food Webs	4
The Predominance of Nongrowing Season Emissions to the Annual Methane Budget of a Semiarid Alpine Meadow on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	4
Glacial Meltwater Increases the Dependence on Marine Subsidies of Fish in Freshwater Ecosystems	4
Shortened Fire Intervals Stimulate Carbon Losses from Heterotrophic Respiration and Reduce Understorey Plant Productivity in Boreal Forests	4
Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective	4
Species Climatic Suitability Explains Insect–Host Dynamics in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA	4
Warming Tends to Promote Nitrogen Conservation but Stimulate N2O Emissions in Mangrove Sediments	4
Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog	4
Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake	4

Experimental Evidence that Forest Structure Controls Detrital Decomposition	4
Deterioration of the Littoral–Benthic Ecosystem Following Recent Expansion of Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) in the World’s Clearest Large Lake	4
Disentangling the Legacies of Climate and Management on Tree Growth	4
Agricultural Landscape Transformation Needed to Meet Water Quality Goals in the Yahara River Watershed of Southern Wisconsin	4
Inundation, Hydrodynamics and Vegetation Influence Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Amazon Floodplain Lakes	4
Seasonal Mass Migration of Water Boatmen (Hemiptera: Corixidae) as a Wetland–River Linkage and Dietary Subsidy to Riverine Fish	4
Grasslands Maintain Stability in Productivity Through Compensatory Effects and Dominant Species Stability Under Extreme Precipitation Patterns	4
Exploring the Frequency and Distribution of Ecological Non-monotonicity in Associations among Ecosystem Constituents	4
Seafloor Terrain Shapes the Three-dimensional Nursery Value of Mangrove and Seagrass Habitats	4
Herbivores’ Impacts Cascade Through the Brown Food Web in a Dryland	4
Divergent Controls on Leaf and Root Litter Decay Linking to Soil C, N, and P Pools Under a Subtropical Land-use Change	4
Integrating Aquatic Metabolism and Net Ecosystem CO2 Balance in Short- and Long-Hydroperiod Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands	4
Are Ecosystem Engineering Traits Fixed or Flexible: A Study on Clonal Expansion Strategies in Co-occurring Dune Grasses	4
Elevated Allochthony in Stream Food Webs as a Result of Longitudinal Cumulative Effects of Forest Management	3
Exploring the Role of Keystone Species in Marine Ecosystems: A New Perspective Combining Energy Flow and Ecological Network Analysis	3
Landscape Controls on Nutrient Stoichiometry Regulate Lake Primary Production at the Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet	3
Enzymatic Stoichiometry and Vector Characteristics Can Indicate Microbial Resource Limitation: Empirical Evidence from Experiment with Multiple Nutrient Addition	3
Natural Advance Regeneration of Native Tree Species in Pinus radiata Plantations of South-Central Chile Suggests Potential for a Passive Restoration Approach	3
Precipitation Determines the Spatial Variability of Vegetation and Topsoil Organic Carbon Densities of Alpine Grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	3
Predation and Biophysical Context Control Long-Term Carcass Nutrient Inputs in an Andean Ecosystem	3
Detecting Trajectories of Regime Shifts and Loss of Resilience in Coastal Wetlands using Remote Sensing	3
Plant Adaptation and Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Forests: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment	3
Environmental Change Drivers Reduce Sapling Layer Diversity in Sugar Maple-Beech Forests of Eastern North America	3
Ecosystem Changes Caused by Hydrological Change are Associated with Population Decline in a Formerly-Common Grazing Herbivore	3
Tree Species Diversity Affects Litter Decomposition via Modification of the Microenvironment	3
Seeing the System from Above: The Use and Potential of Remote Sensing for Studying Ecosystem Dynamics	3
Impact of Ocean Acidification on Ecosystem Functioning and Services in Habitat-Forming Species and Marine Ecosystems	3
Soil Seed Bank Density Enhanced at Shrub Patches Due to Grazing in a Shrub-Encroached Grassland	3
Increasing Winter Temperatures Stimulate Scots Pine Growth in the North German Lowlands Despite Stationary Sensitivity to Summer Drought	3
Terrestrial Nitrogen Inputs Affect the Export of Unprocessed Atmospheric Nitrate to Surface Waters: Insights from Triple Oxygen Isotopes of Nitrate	3
Reburning Before Recovery: Effects of Short-Interval Fire on Subalpine Forest Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes	3
Modeling the Effects of Increased Hurricane Frequency on the Tropical Forest Carbon Cycle	3
A Global Synthesis of the Effects of Livestock Activity on Hydrological Processes	3
Species Asynchrony and Large Trees Jointly Drive Community Stability in a Montane Subtropical Forest	3
Climate Records, Isotopes, and C:N Stoichiometry Reveal Carbon and Nitrogen Flux Dynamics Differ Between Functional Groups of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi	3
White-Sand Savannas Expand at the Core of the Amazon After Forest Wildfires	3
Temperate Primary Forest Biomass Accumulates over Centuries-Long Time Frames	3