Journal of Ecology

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Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction	91
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Weed‐suppressive ability and species dominance in intercropping: A meta‐regression	76
Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens	66
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests	61
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach	57
Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling	57
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Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”	51
Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest	51
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation	50
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate	50
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs	49
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow	47
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities	45
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods	44
Multidimensional diversity recovery following invasive species removal: Roles of colonization, extinction and abundance shifts	43
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Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment	41
The duration of high spring light for understorey plants: Contrasting responses to spatial and temporal temperature variation	40
Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity	39
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant,Spartina alterniflora, are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress gradients	39
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone	39
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis	37
Local adaptation is highly dependent on common garden conditions where seeds were propagated: Evidence from a 7‐year study on a dominant alpine meadow species	37

The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits	36
Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms	34
Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density	34
Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest	34
Root‐associated fungi not tree density influences stand nitrogen dynamics at the larch forest–tundra ecotone	34
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions	34
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil	33
Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna	33
Life on a leaf: The development of spatial structure in epiphyll communities	33
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition	32
Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology	31
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest	31
Phenotypic plasticity versus ecotypic differentiation under recurrent summer drought in two drought‐tolerant pine species	30
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs	30
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations	30
Dominant species rather than plant biodiversity shape grassland resistance and recovery in response to heatwaves and mowing	29
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species	29
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models	28
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction	28
Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies	28
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Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures	28
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models	27
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities	27
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive	27
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients	27
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions	26
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Geranium pratense	26
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species	26
Native plant species exhibit consistent drought advantage over introduced species until additional global change drivers are included: A grassland meta‐analysis	26
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities	26
Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands	25
Insect herbivores and soil fertility drive variation in density‐dependent seedling dynamics across a fragmented landscape	25
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario	25
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants	25
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks	24
Contrasting nitrogen cycling between herbaceous wetland and terrestrial ecosystems inferred from plant and soil nitrogen isotopes across China	24
Climate change is associated with a higher extinction risk of a subshrub in anthropogenic landscapes	24
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems	24
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Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers	24
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla†	24
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands	24
Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales	24
Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions	24
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems	24
The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network	23
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa	23
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb	23
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions	23

Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands	23
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Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type	23
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime	23
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora‡	22
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions	22
Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century	22
Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient	22
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas	22
Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective	22
International Biological Flora:Ginkgo biloba	22
Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits	22
Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna	22
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity	22
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth	22
Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States	21
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution	21
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest	20
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests	20
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change	20
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk	20
Local climate adaptations in two ubiquitous Mojave Desert shrub species, Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata	20
Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader	20
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Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder	20
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure	20
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions	20
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How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter‐ and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?	19
Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition	19
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history	19
Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate	19
Asynchronous phenological responses to warming affect biomass production contrastingly in flowering functional groups	19
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance	19
Plant foliar nutrient response to active layer and water table depth in warming permafrost soils	19
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Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection	18
Foliar herbivory pushes plant individuals towards the periphery of a plant–floral visitor interaction network	18
Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation	18
Influence of species functional strategy on leaf stoichiometric responses to fertilizer in a Bornean heath forest	18
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species	18
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability	18
Elevated CO2 and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species richness most at small spatial scales in a grassland experiment	18
The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon‐use efficiency in semi‐arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West	18
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes	18
Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions	18
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Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India	17
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Knautia arvensis	17
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges	17
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Salvia pratensis	17
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate	17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences	17
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation	17
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ15N patterns	17
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey	17
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion	17
Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability	17
Soil and litter legacy effects of pine invasion on subsequent reinvasion and secondary invasion	16
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction	16
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest	16
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth	16
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests	16
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter	16
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species	15
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ13C and δ15N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	15
Disease influences host population growth rates in a natural wild plant–pathogen association over a 30‐year period	15
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Resolving the effects of functional traits on tree growth rates: The influence of temporal dynamics and divergent strategies by leaf habit	15
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science	15
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Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest	15
Density dependence of tree growth varies with temperature gradient and mycorrhizal type	15
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion	15
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Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia	14
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Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective	14
Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment	14

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Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers	14
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure	14
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition	14
Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests	14
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The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling	14
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes	14
Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	14
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics	14
Long‐term empirical evidence shows post‐disturbance climate controls post‐fire regeneration	13
Cross‐scale effects of multi‐strata plant diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality in temperate forests	13
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients	13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions	13
No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	13
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest	13
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks	13
Herbivore‐induced branching increases sapling survival in temperate forest canopy gaps	13
Functional traits and soil water availability shape competitive interactions in a diploid–polyploid complex	13
Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments	13
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment	13
Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores	13
International Biological Flora:Ceratonia siliqua	13
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species	13
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands	13
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets	13
What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience	13
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Corrigendum	13
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification	13
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress	13
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales	13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework	12
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen	12
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment	12
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Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species	12
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory	12
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient	12
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types	12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system	12
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands	12
Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic	12
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients	12
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming	12
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests	12
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests	12
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools	12
Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias	12
Nutrient enrichment shifts peak water‐use efficiency to wetter conditions in an alpine meadow	12
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach	12
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe	12
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment	12
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna	12
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”	12
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests	12
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought	12
Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world	12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective	12
How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO2 fertilization effects on tree seedling performance? A global meta‐analysis	11
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae	11
Density dependence of seed dispersal and fecundity profoundly alters the spread dynamics of plant populations	11
Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose (Alces alces) across the boreal forest biome	11
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Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants	11
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 grassla	11
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate	11
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels	11
Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees	11
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Wood density variation across an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevational gradient	11
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate	11
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland	11
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments	11
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae	11
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Large‐scale facilitative effects for a single nurse shrub: Impact of the rainfall gradient, plant community and distribution across a geographical barrier	11
Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture	10
Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands	10
Decoupling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon release from fine and coarse roots during 7 years of decomposition	10
Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought	10
Tolerance of organisms composing an Arctic kelp community to ocean warming and marine heatwaves	10
Nitrogen enrichment threatens non‐N mineral nutrition and nutritional stability of forage due to biodiversity loss	10
Defaunated and invaded insular tropical rainforests will not recover alone: Recruitment limitation factors disentangled by hierarchical models of spontaneous and assisted regeneration	10
CO2‐stimulation of savanna tree seedling growth depends on interactions with local drivers	10
Mechanistic approaches to investigate soil microbe‐mediated plant competition	10
Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America	10
Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions	10
Variation in biotic interactions mediates the effects of masting and rainfall fluctuations on seedling demography in a subtropical rainforest	10
Co‐occurrence patterns at four spatial scales implicate reproductive processes in shaping community assembly in clovers	10
More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity	10
Endogenous rhythmic growth and ectomycorrhizal fungi modulate priming of antiherbivore defences in subsequently formed new leaves of oak trees	10
Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway	10
Where consumers control plant reproduction in coastal wetlands: The environmental stress model in plants' versus consumers' perspectives	10