Ecological Processes

Article	Citations
Recovery of bird communities following the construction of a large-scale hydroelectric dam	91
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils	77
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?	64
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study	61
Effects of different forms of nitrogen addition on microbial extracellular enzyme activity in temperate grassland soil	41
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	40
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	39
Enhancements of soil priming effect and carbon sequestration in degraded alpine meadows via supplementation: a comparative study of Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) exc	39
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes	35
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management	34
Ecological implications of twentieth century reforestation programs for the urban forests of São Paulo, Brazil: a study based on litterfall and nutrient cycling	32
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers	31
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China	30
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe	30
Changes in fish resources 5 years after implementation of the 10-year fishing ban in the Chishui River, the first river with a complete fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin	29
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain	27
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping	26
The effect of landscape structure on the evolution of two alternative dispersal strategies	26
Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China	25
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	25
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species	25
Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China	23
Forage offering and seasonal intake comparisons to evaluate European rabbit threat in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia	21
Tree species mixing causes shifts in nitrogen acquisition and utilization strategies of Mongolian pine and Simon poplar	20
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper	19

Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	19
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas	19
Nitrogen deposition enhances the competitive advantage of invasive plant species over common native species through improved resource acquisition and absorption	19
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics	18
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue	18
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient	17
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability	16
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review	16
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation	16
The effects of biodiversity gradient on plant mass and metabolism of individual submerged macrophytes	16
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	16
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?	16
Country-level land carbon sink and its causing components by the middle of the twenty-first century	15
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed	14
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems	14
Prolonged alkali water irrigation: impacts of treatment strategies on soil health and microbial dynamics	14
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates	13
The impact of tropical land-use change on downstream riverine and estuarine water properties and biogeochemical cycles: a review	13
Nature-based recreation for the elderly in urban areas: assessing opportunities and demand as planning support	13
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina	12
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking	12
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters	12
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment	12
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland	11
Effects of fire history on animal communities: a systematic review	11
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors	11
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	11
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration	11
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis	11
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate	11
Niche breadth and overlap of spotted deer and domestic cattle with swamp deer in tropical region of Nepal	11
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	11
Application of pressure–state–response approach for developing criteria and indicators of ecological health assessment of wetlands: a multi-temporal study in Ichhamati floodplains, India	11
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow	11
Hydrological alteration and biodiversity change along the river network caused by anthropogenic activities and climate variability	10
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China	10
Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	10
Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA	10
Species richness, phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic structure patterns of exotic and native plants along an elevational gradient in the Himalaya	10
Disentangling land model uncertainty via Matrix-based Ensemble Model Inter-comparison Platform (MEMIP)	10
Effects of sulfuric, nitric, and mixed acid rain on the decomposition of fine root litter in Southern China	10
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type	10
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China	10
Changes in soil fertility and microbial communities following cultivation of native grassland in Horqin Sandy Land, China: a 60-year chronosequence	10
Sustainable urban systems: from landscape to ecological processes	10
Hunting of hunted: an ensemble modeling approach to evaluate suitable habitats for caracals in India	9
Using “management mosaics” to mitigate the impacts from extreme wildfires	9
The effects of multiple environmental factors on global carbon allocation	9
Plant–pollinator metanetworks in fragmented landscapes: a simulation study	9
Incidence of controlled water restriction on density and chemical profiles in tree rings of Araucaria araucana seedlings	9

The importance of large-diameter trees to the creation of snag and deadwood biomass	9
Spatial point-pattern analysis as a powerful tool in identifying pattern-process relationships in plant ecology: an updated review	9
Lake microbiome composition determines community adaptability to warming perturbations	9
Is environmental regulation conducive to the reduction of residents’ health costs? – evidence from the Chinese Family Panel Survey	9
The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Construction and optimization of ecological spatial network in typical mining cities of the Yellow River Basin: the case study of Shenmu City, Shaanxi	8
Consecutive annual mowing reduces soil respiration and increases the proportion of autotrophic component in a meadow steppe	8
Dispersal-based processes as drivers of fish communities and species distributions in the Yangtze River–Poyang Lake riverine floodplain of China	8
N2O emission and its influencing factors in subtropical streams, China	8
Phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. across diverse rangelands in northeastern Ethiopia	8
Complex effects of different types of acid rain on root growth of Quercus acutissima and Cunninghamia lanceolata saplings	8
Spatially explicit estimation of soil organic carbon stock of an estuarine mangrove wetland of eastern India using elemental analysis and very-fine resolution satellite data	8
Influence of tree species on soil microbial residue accumulation and distribution among soil aggregates in subtropical plantations of China	8
High adaptability of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica to drought-induced soil nutrient deficiency	7
Nitrogen use efficiency of terrestrial plants in China: geographic patterns, evolution, and determinants	7
Effect of complex hydraulic variables and physicochemical factors on freshwater mussel density in the largest floodplain lake, China	7
Fuzzy evaluation and obstacle factors of urban ecological health changes in the Wei River Basin, northwest China	7
Uncovering current pyroregions in Italy using wildfire metrics	7
Species richness is not a good predictor for above-ground biomass in a warm temperate deciduous broadleaf forest	7
Effects of nitrogen addition and drought on the relationship between nitrogen- and water-use efficiency in a temperate grassland	7
A review of landscape ecology experiments to understand ecological processes	7
Rhizosphere fungal community assembly varied across functional guilds in a temperate forest	7
Influence of night-time light pollution on the photosynthesis and physiological characteristics of the urban plants Euonymus japonicus and Rosa hybrida	7
Using machine learning to predict habitat suitability of sloth bears at multiple spatial scales	6
Assessment of spongy moth infestation impacts on forest productivity and carbon loss using the Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing and eddy covariance flux data	6
Effects of stand density on soil respiration and labile organic carbon in different aged Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations	6
Time lag effect of vegetation response to seasonal precipitation in the Mara River Basin	6
Changes in albedo and its radiative forcing of grasslands in East Asia drylands	6
Biology and resource acquisition of mistletoes, and the defense responses of host plants	6
Correction: An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	6
Soil drought thresholds of alpine grassland deceased rapidly under the influence of extreme low temperature in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	6
Warming and elevated nitrogen deposition accelerate the invasion process of Solidago canadensis L.	6
Comparisons of oxbow lake fish assemblages in relation to bigheaded carp establishment in the lower White River, Arkansas	6
Congruent responses of vascular plant and ant communities to pastoral land-use abandonment in mountain areas throughout different biogeographic regions	5
Long-term monitoring reveals the effect of precipitation and silviculture on Nothofagus regeneration in Northern Patagonia mixed forests	5
Nitrogen addition reduced carbon mineralization of aggregates in forest soils but enhanced in paddy soils in South China	5
Understory bamboo removal impacts on woody seedling regeneration in forest ecosystems: a meta-analysis	5
Trajectories in nitrogen availability during forest secondary succession: illustrated by foliar δ15N	5
Image analysis of Moroccan carob seeds (Ceratonia siliqua L.) revealed substantial intraspecific variations depending on climate and geographic origin	5
Light grazing alleviates aeolian erosion–deposition effects on microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland	5
Exploring the impacts of agricultural emissions from natural gas on ecological footprint	5
A global analysis of the introduction pathways and characteristics associated with non-native fish species introduction, establishment, and impacts	5
Fixing active sand dune by native grasses in the desert of Northwest China	5
Retraction Note: Lichens reveal the quality of indoor air in Selangor, Malaysia	5
Biodiversity effects of the Russia–Ukraine War and the Kakhovka Dam destruction: ecological consequences and predictions for marine, estuarine, and freshwater communities in the northern Black Sea	5
Will fire-smart landscape management buffer the effects of climate and land-use changes on fire regimes?	5
Comparison of soil chemical and microbial properties in monoculture larch and mixed plantations in a temperate forest ecosystem in Northeast China	5
Rainfall amount determines annual herb controls over soil seed bank and its similarity with vegetation in the Tengger Desert	5
Functional and phylogenetic structure of mammals along elevational gradients in the Central and East Himalayas	5
Quantifying the impacts of spatiotemporal land use and land cover changes on soil loss across agroecologies and slope categories using GIS and RUSLE model in Zoa watershed, southwest Ethiopia	5
Contrasting responses of an invasive plant to herbivory of native and introduced insects	5
Fungi stimulate organic phosphorus fraction transformation in subtropical masson pine plantation soils after nine years of thinning and understory removal	5
Interspecific variation in seed traits facilitates divergent pre-dispersal seed predation among five stone oak species	5
Gender plasticity uncovers multiple sexual morphs in natural populations of Cedrus deodara (Roxb.) G. Don	5
Influence of urban air pollution on the population in the Klang Valley, Malaysia: a spatial approach	4
Rare earth element geochemistry in soils along arid and semiarid grasslands in northern China	4
Soil seed banks after Acacia dealbata Link invasion and removal: implications for restoration	4
A large carbon sink induced by the implementation of the largest afforestation program on Earth	4
Nitrogen addition changes the nitrogen conversion process in forest steppe ecotone by increasing enzyme activity	4
Spatio-temporal variations of drought in the Welmel watershed, southeast of Ethiopia using the vegetation condition index and standardized precipitation index	4
Grazing exclusion promotes soil organic carbon accumulation in Tibetan grasslands with lower temperatures	4
Analyses of fin ray types to detect strontium markers in juvenile blunt-snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala	4
Rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate variability and extremes: a livelihood zone-based approach in the Northeastern Highlands of Ethiopia	4
Application of jasmonic acid boosts accelerative effects of silicon addition on rice defense against invasion of apple snails (Ampullariidae)	4
Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes	4
Trends in species distribution modelling in context of rare and endemic plants: a systematic review	4
Reproductive patterns in Araucaria araucana forests in the Andean range, Chile	4
Enrichment and toxic effects of triclosan on aquatic macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes and Hydrilla verticillata exposed to triclosan in sediments	4
Rapid recovery of desert shrubs is attributed to imbalance of water supply to demand after disturbance in Northwest China	4
Changes in ecosystem service values strongly influenced by human activities in contrasting agro-ecological environments	4
Linking changes of forage production and digestibility with grassland community assembly under nitrogen enrichment	4
Environmental drivers of tree species richness in the southernmost portion of the Paranaense forests	4
Artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution alters bat lunar chronobiology: insights from broad-scale long-term acoustic monitoring	4
Stem CH4 emissions from the reclaimed forests: magnitude, drivers, and contribution	4
Passivation remediation of weakly alkaline Cd-contaminated soils using combined treatments of biochar and sepiolite	4
Ecological drivers shaping mainstem and tributary fish communities in the upper Jinsha River, southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	3
Effect of shifting cultivation and fallow on soil quality index in Mokokchung district, Nagaland, India	3
Process analysis and mitigation strategies for wetland degradation caused by increasing agricultural water demand: an ecology–economy nexus perspective	3
Effects of floods on macroinvertebrate communities in the Zarin Gol River of northern Iran: implications for water quality monitoring and biological assessment	3
Cascading effects of top predator changes in a seagrass bed under selective fishing	3

Distribution of organic carbon fractions in soil aggregates in Chinese fir plantations with different stand ages	3
Carbon pool dynamics after variable retention harvesting in Nothofagus pumilio forests of Tierra del Fuego	3
Spatial patterns of causality in temperate silvopastoral systems: a perspective on nitrification stability in response to flooding	3
Evolution of seasonal land surface temperature trend in pond-breeding newt (Neurergus derjugini) in western Iran and eastern Iraq	3
Effects of fertilization on radial growth of Pinus pinea explored hourly using dendrometers	3
Foliar nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry should not be assumed to diagnose nutrient limitation	3
Root-order-associated variations in fine-root decomposition and their effects on soil in a subtropical evergreen forest	3
Priority effects of forbs arriving early: the role of root interaction and asymmetric competition	3
Linking soil organic carbon mineralization to soil physicochemical properties and bacterial alpha diversity at different depths following land use changes	3
Body size induced changes in metabolic carbon of soil nematodes under N deposition and precipitation regime change in a temperate grassland	3
Morphological characterization and habitat suitability modeling of the goat population of Benin under climate change scenarios	3
Autumn sunlight promotes aboveground carbon loss in a temperate mixed forest	3
Warming and altered precipitation rarely alter N addition effects on soil greenhouse gas fluxes: a meta-analysis	3
Variations in diversity, composition, and species interactions of soil microbial community in response to increased N deposition and precipitation intensity in a temperate grassland	3
Examining global warming factors using self-organizing map and Granger causality network: a case from South Korea	3
Assessing the migratory histories, trophic positions, and conditions of lake sturgeon in the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers using fin ray microchemistry, stable isotopes, and fatty acid profiles	3
Contributions of source populations, habitat suitability and trait overlap to benthic invertebrate community assembly in restored urban streams	3
Is the response of plant root systems to precipitation primarily driven by the rhizosphere soil?	3
Impact of human disturbances on soil cyanobacteria diversity and distribution in suburban arid area of Marrakesh, Morocco	3