Journal of Ecology

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Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest	109
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Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs	79
Correction to “Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes–Amazon elevation gradient”	68
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow	65
Multidimensional diversity recovery following invasive species removal: Roles of colonization, extinction and abundance shifts	62
Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction	62
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach	61
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate	56
Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling	55
Weed‐suppressive ability and species dominance in intercropping: A meta‐regression	52
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests	52
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities	49
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods	47
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation	46
Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens	46
The golden threat— Solidago invasion alters native plant–pollinator interactions by vegetative crowding	43
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	43
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species	42
Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment	41
The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits	40
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Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest	38
Dominant species rather than plant biodiversity shape grassland resistance and recovery in response to heatwaves and mowing	37

Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density	37
Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms	37
Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology	37
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone	37
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations	36
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant, Spartina alterniflora , are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress	36
The duration of high spring light for understorey plants: Contrasting responses to spatial and temporal temperature variation	35
Root‐associated fungi not tree density influences stand nitrogen dynamics at the larch forest–tundra ecotone	35
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition	34
Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna	34
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest	33
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions	32
Diversity modulates above‐ground productivity in response to disturbances: The case of Iberian forests	32
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil	32
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs	31
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis	31
Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity	31
Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies	31
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems	30
Insect herbivores and soil fertility drive variation in density‐dependent seedling dynamics across a fragmented landscape	30
Native plant species exhibit consistent drought advantage over introduced species until additional global change drivers are included: A grassland meta‐analysis	30
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium pratense	29
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario	29
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures	29
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive	29
Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service across abiotic stress gradients	29
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla †	29
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands	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
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities	28
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems	28
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models	28
Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands	27
Flower–leaf sequence shapes plant phenological sensitivity to warming	27
Plant litter effects on soil carbon stabilization and nitrogen availability: A trade‐off and some versatile species	27
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities	27
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions	27
Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species	27
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants	27
Contrasting nitrogen cycling between herbaceous wetland and terrestrial ecosystems inferred from plant and soil nitrogen isotopes across China	26
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime	26
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Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity	26
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Wood traits explain microbial but not termite‐driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna	25
Effects of cold water and aridity on Baja California mangrove survival and ecophysiological traits	25
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas	25
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa	25
Unveiling the role of foliar fungi in mediating leaf photosynthesis under global change	25

Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth	24
Sustainable nature‐based solutions require establishment and maintenance of keystone plant‐pollinator interactions	24
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks	24
Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type	24
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions	24
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora ‡	23
Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States	23
Landscape patterns of shrubification in the Siberian Low Arctic: A machine learning perspective	23
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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	22
Macroalgae maintain growth outside their observed distributions: Implications for biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning at landscape scales	22
Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient	22
International Biological Flora:Ginkgo biloba	22
Climate change is associated with a higher extinction risk of a subshrub in anthropogenic landscapes	22
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions	22
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution	22
Trends in background mortality in unmanaged forests across Europe over the last century	22
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb	21
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The importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity in studies of plant competition and coexistence	21
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Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest	20
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species	20
Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader	20
Intra‐annual growth dynamics of forest understorey herbaceous plant species in response to global change	20
Temperature and precipitation explain species‐specific phenological patterns in five native California milkweed species ( Asclepias spp.)	20
Foliar herbivory pushes plant individuals towards the periphery of a plant–floral visitor interaction network	20
Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests	19
Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation	19
Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder	19
Elevated CO 2 and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species rich	19
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change	19
Nectar sugar concentration contributes to structuring bumblebee and plant interactions	19
Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate	19
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions	19
Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance	19
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes	18
Asynchronous phenological responses to warming affect biomass production contrastingly in flowering functional groups	18
Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition	18
Plant foliar nutrient response to active layer and water table depth in warming permafrost soils	18
Influence of species functional strategy on leaf stoichiometric responses to fertilizer in a Bornean heath forest	18
Growth–survival trade‐off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late‐successional stages	18
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Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure	18
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The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history	17
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection	17
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability	17
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk	17
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion	16
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter	16
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation	16
Soil carbon sequestration: Facilitated effect of extrafloral nectary trees in a diverse subtropical forest	16
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey	16
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science	16
Density dependence of tree growth varies with temperature gradient and mycorrhizal type	16
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ 15 N patte	16
Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability	16
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest	16
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests	15
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ 13 C and δ 15 N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater eco	15
Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges	15
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate	15
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Soil and litter legacy effects of pine invasion on subsequent reinvasion and secondary invasion	15
Resolving the effects of functional traits on tree growth rates: The influence of temporal dynamics and divergent strategies by leaf habit	15
Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India	15
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences	15
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth	15
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Knautia arvensis	15
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion	15
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species	15
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction	15
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Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	14
International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua	14
Disentangling seed availability and establishment filters at alpine treelines through a decade‐long field manipulation	14
The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling	14
Cross‐scale effects of multi‐strata plant diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality in temperate forests	14
Functional traits and soil water availability shape competitive interactions in a diploid–polyploid complex	14
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress	14
What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience	14
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks	14
Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers	14
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective	14
Grime's CSR theory revisited: A whole‐plant view of vascular plant functioning across contrasting environments	14
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics	14
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands	14
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes	14
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia	14
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition	14
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment	13
Herbivore‐induced branching increases sapling survival in temperate forest canopy gaps	13
Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests	13
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming	13
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure	13
Effects of nitrogen addition and elevated carbon dioxide on microclimate vapour pressure deficit in a semi‐arid grassland	13
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification	13
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients	13
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment	13
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach	13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions	13
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest	13
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Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic	13
Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment	13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen	13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework	13
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets	13
Reassembly dynamics of tropical secondary succession: Evidence from Atlantic forests	13
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe	13
Bryophyte assembly rules across scales	13
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No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	13
Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests	13
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients	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
Beyond species richness: Grazing and fertilisation shape temperate grassland stability through distinct diversity effects	12
Nutrient enrichment shifts peak water‐use efficiency to wetter conditions in an alpine meadow	12
Linking animal behaviour and tree recruitment: Caching decisions by a scatter‐hoarder corvid determine seed fate in a Mediterranean agroforestry system	12
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments	12
Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose ( Alces alces ) across the boreal forest biome	12
Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”	12
Intraspecific trait variation shows the predominant influence of functional divergence on species co‐occurrence in a metacommunity	12
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools	12
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species	12
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands	12
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland	12
Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees	12
Density dependence of seed dispersal and fecundity profoundly alters the spread dynamics of plant populations	12
How do drought and elevated temperatures influence CO 2 fertilization ef	12
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna	12
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Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels	11
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought	11
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae	11
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests	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
Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants	11
Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions	11
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Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world	11
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate	11
No evidence for fractal scaling in canopy surfaces across a diverse range of forest types	11
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae	11
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Where consumers control plant reproduction in coastal wetlands: The environmental stress model in plants' versus consumers' perspectives	11
Tolerance of organisms composing an Arctic kelp community to ocean warming and marine heatwaves	11
Quantifying the effect of competition on the functional assembly of bryophyte and lichen communities: A process‐based model analysis	11
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Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient	11
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory	11
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate	11
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective	11
Exotic success following disturbance explained by weak native resilience and ruderal exotic bias	11
Defaunated and invaded insular tropical rainforests will not recover alone: Recruitment limitation factors disentangled by hierarchical models of spontaneous and assisted regeneration	11
Some neighbours are better than others: Variation in associational effects among plants in an old field community	11
Mechanistic approaches to investigate soil microbe‐mediated plant competition	11
Nitrogen enrichment threatens non‐N mineral nutrition and nutritional stability of forage due to biodiversity loss	11
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests	11