Journal of Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Ecology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction80
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods78
Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”74
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities66
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Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling57
The eco‐evolutionary dynamics of prior selfing rates promote coexistence without niche partitioning under conditions of reproductive interference49
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate48
Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest47
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs47
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach46
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests45
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation45
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow44
Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens44
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Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology41
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Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions40
Local adaptation is highly dependent on common garden conditions where seeds were propagated: Evidence from a 7‐year study on a dominant alpine meadow species38
Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment38
Root‐associated fungi not tree density influences stand nitrogen dynamics at the larch forest–tundra ecotone38
Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity37
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis37
Phenotypic plasticity versus ecotypic differentiation under recurrent summer drought in two drought‐tolerant pine species37
Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms36
Life on a leaf: The development of spatial structure in epiphyll communities36
Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention36
Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest36
Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna35
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs35
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant,Spartina alterniflora, are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress gradients34
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition34
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations34
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species33
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest32
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The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits32
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil32
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants31
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models31
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions31
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities30
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems30
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla29
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive28
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands28
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction28
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients28
Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands28
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models28
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities28
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Geranium pratense28
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems27
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species26
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Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition26
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Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario26
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures26
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks26
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas25
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions25
Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type24
Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands24
International Biological Flora:Ginkgo biloba24
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb24
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime24
Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification24
Contrasting nitrogen cycling between herbaceous wetland and terrestrial ecosystems inferred from plant and soil nitrogen isotopes across China23
Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions23
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa23
Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers22
Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales22
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth22
Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna22
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions22
Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States22
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora22
Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits22
The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network21
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Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient21
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity21
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution21
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Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation20
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure20
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance20
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species20
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change20
Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder20
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions20
Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition20
Influence of species functional strategy on leaf stoichiometric responses to fertilizer in a Bornean heath forest20
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes20
Plant foliar nutrient response to active layer and water table depth in warming permafrost soils20
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk20
How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter‐ and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?19
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest19
The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon‐use efficiency in semi‐arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West19
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability19
Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader19
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection19
Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate19
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history19
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests19
Local climate adaptations in two ubiquitous Mojave Desert shrub species, Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata19
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ13C and δ15N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems18
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science18
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges18
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ15N patterns18
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Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation18
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest18
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species17
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest17
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth17
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey17
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion17
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate17
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences17
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction17
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Salvia pratensis17
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests17
Disease influences host population growth rates in a natural wild plant–pathogen association over a 30‐year period17
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion17
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Knautia arvensis17
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Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment16
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India16
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Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers16
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Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability16
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The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling16
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function15
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition15
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia15
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes15
Pollen‐chemistry variations along elevation gradients and their implications for a proxy for UV‐B radiation in the plant‐fossil record15
What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience15
Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests15
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics15
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks15
Scale‐dependent shifts in functional and phylogenetic structure of Mediterranean island plant communities over two centuries15
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands15
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective15
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure15
Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen15
International Biological Flora:Ceratonia siliqua15
Long‐term empirical evidence shows post‐disturbance climate controls post‐fire regeneration15
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress15
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients14
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna14
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No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau14
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets14
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe14
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach14
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification14
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests14
Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic14
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Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions14
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales14
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest14
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species13
Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores13
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands13
Herbivore‐induced branching increases sapling survival in temperate forest canopy gaps13
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework13
Autogenic regulation and resilience in tropical dry forest13
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen13
Long‐term cross‐scale comparison of grazing and mowing on plant diversity and community composition in a salt‐marsh system13
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment13
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient12
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment12
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate12
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types12
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate12
Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world12
Nutrient enrichment shifts peak water‐use efficiency to wetter conditions in an alpine meadow12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective12
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests12
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species12
Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century12
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”12
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Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias12
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools12
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests12
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels12
Recovery of a cultivation grazer: A mechanism for compensatory growth of Thalassia testudinum in a Caribbean seagrass meadow grazed by green turtles12
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought12
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments12
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae12
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae12
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment12
Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees12
Density dependence of seed dispersal and fecundity profoundly alters the spread dynamics of plant populations12
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system12
Legacy effects of seed dispersal mechanisms shape the spatial interaction network of plant species in Mediterranean forests12
Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments11
Mechanistic approaches to investigate soil microbe‐mediated plant competition11
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Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose (Alces alces) across the boreal forest biome11
More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity11
Quantifying the effect of competition on the functional assembly of bryophyte and lichen communities: A process‐based model analysis11
Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America11
Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands11
Large‐scale facilitative effects for a single nurse shrub: Impact of the rainfall gradient, plant community and distribution across a geographical barrier11
Forage quality in tundra grasslands under herbivory: Silicon‐based defences, nutrients and their ratios in grasses11
Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors11
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Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory11
Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions11
Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway11
Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture11
Loss of nitrogen fixing capacity in a montane lichen is linked to increased nitrogen deposition11
Defaunated and invaded insular tropical rainforests will not recover alone: Recruitment limitation factors disentangled by hierarchical models of spontaneous and assisted regeneration11
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity peaks do not coincide along a compositional gradient in forest‐grassland mosaics11
Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants11
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Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought11
The effects of environmental heterogeneity within a city on the evolution of clines11
Decoupling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon release from fine and coarse roots during 7 years of decomposition11
Variation in biotic interactions mediates the effects of masting and rainfall fluctuations on seedling demography in a subtropical rainforest11
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Phenotypic plasticity accounts for changes in plant phosphorus‐acquisition strategies from mining to scavenging along a gradient of soil phosphorus availability in South American Campos grassla10
Deconstructing precipitation variability: Rainfall event size and timing uniquely alter ecosystem dynamics10
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Inbreeding depression, functional traits and phenotypic plasticity in an endangered tree species with a mixed mating system10
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Tolerance of organisms composing an Arctic kelp community to ocean warming and marine heatwaves10
Zooming in on the temporal dimensions of plant–soil feedback: Plant sensitivity and microbial dynamics10
Endogenous rhythmic growth and ectomycorrhizal fungi modulate priming of antiherbivore defences in subsequently formed new leaves of oak trees10
CO2‐stimulation of savanna tree seedling growth depends on interactions with local drivers10
Plant life‐history traits rather than soil legacies determine colonisation of soil patches in a multi‐species grassland10
The more microplastic types pollute the soil, the stronger the growth suppression of invasive alien and native plants10
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