Journal of Ecology

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Herbivory resistance in dwarf shrubs combines with simulated warming to shift phenology and decrease reproduction	74
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Reconciling plant and microbial ecological strategies to elucidate cover crop effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling	67
The eco‐evolutionary dynamics of prior selfing rates promote coexistence without niche partitioning under conditions of reproductive interference	66
Extinction, climate change and the ecology of Homo sapiens	65
The plant ecology of nature‐based solutions for people, biodiversity and climate	61
Contrasting responses to climate variability generate seasonal priority effects between native and invasive forest herbs	54
Microclimatic variation in tropical canopies: A glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities	48
Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests	47
The effects of leaf traits on litter rainfall interception with consequences for runoff and soil conservation	46
Different responses of functional groups to N addition increased synchrony and shortened community reproductive duration in an alpine meadow	46
Phylogenetic dependence of plant–soil feedback promotes rare species in a subtropical forest	44
An exotic herbivore reinforces competition between exotic and native plants	43
Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods	43
Disentangling the effects of microalgal diversity and thermal history on freshwater phototrophic biofilms facing heat stress: A thermal dose approach	41
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Diverse associations and proximate effects of weather on Madagascar reproductive phenology	39
Lichens are more tolerant against winter warming stress than vascular and non‐vascular plants: Insights from an alpine field experiment	38
The expression of demographic costs of reproduction varies among coexisting plants with different life history traits	37
Dual drivers of plant invasions: Enemy release and enhanced mutualisms	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
Root‐associated fungi not tree density influences stand nitrogen dynamics at the larch forest–tundra ecotone	36
Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention	36

Long‐term stability of sapling dynamics is regulated by soil phosphorus availability in subtropical forest	36
Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity	35
Large mammalian herbivores modulate plant growth form diversity in a tropical rainforest	35
The effects of natural enemies on herb diversity in a temperate forest depend on species traits and neighbouring tree composition	35
Life on a leaf: The development of spatial structure in epiphyll communities	35
Local adaptation in parapatric and sympatric mosaic coastal habitats through trait divergence of Setaria viridis	34
Ecological consequences of genotypic diversity within a foundation plant,Spartina alterniflora, are pervasive but not universal across multiple stress gradients	34
Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna	33
Phenotypic plasticity versus ecotypic differentiation under recurrent summer drought in two drought‐tolerant pine species	33
Phenotypic diversity influenced by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations	33
Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs	33
Litter and root traits control soil microbial composition and enzyme activities in 28 common subtropical tree species	32
Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type co‐determine multitrophic ecosystem functions	32
Variations in bark structural properties affect both water loss and carbon economics in neotropical savanna trees in the Cerrado region of Brazil	32
Modelling the distribution of plant‐associated microbes with species distribution models	31
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive	31
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Leaf and root economics space in Fraxinus mandshurica: A test of the multidimensional trait framework within species	31
Elevational changes in vegetation and soil geochemistry drive thresholds in bulk soil carbon and its key fractions	31
Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil fungal communities	30
Higher‐latitude spring‐flowering herbs advance their phenology more than trees with warming temperatures	30
Indirect effects of warming via phenology on reproductive success of alpine plants	30
Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition	29
Sensitivity of root production to long‐term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems	28
International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla†	28
Interstage flow matrices: Population statistic derived from matrix population models	28
Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities	27
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Geranium pratense	27
Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands	27
Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction	27
Benefit versus cost trade‐offs of masting across seed‐to‐seedling transition for a dominant subtropical forest species	27
On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems	26
Testing the contribution of vertebrate predators and leaf traits to mainland–island differences in insect herbivory on oaks	26
Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario	26
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands	26
A simple competition model can predict rainforest tree diversity, species abundance and ecosystem functions	25
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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
Habitat fragmentation affects climate adaptation in a forest herb	24
Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type	24
Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution	24
Contrasting nitrogen cycling between herbaceous wetland and terrestrial ecosystems inferred from plant and soil nitrogen isotopes across China	24
Insect herbivory but not plant pathogen infection drive floral volatile‐mediated indirect effects on pollinators and plant fitness in Brassica rapa	24
Remotely sensed environmental data as ecological proxies for ground‐dwelling ant diversity along a subtropical forest succession gradient	23
Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime	23
Tree demographic and neighbourhood responses to regional environmental gradients of the northwestern United States	23
Mechanistic partitioning of species richness in diverse tropical forest tree communities with immigration and temporal environmental stochasticity	23
The competitive effect of neighbouring plants on the growth of two eucalypts is stronger in dry conditions	23

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
The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network	22
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Silene uniflora‡	22
Spatiotemporal variation in the negative effect of neighbourhood crowding on stem growth	22
Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification	22
Hotter drought and trade‐off between fast and slow growth strategies as major drivers of tree‐ring growth variability of global conifers	22
The role of floral traits in community assembly processes at high elevations in the Himalayas	22
Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands	22
Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above‐ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes	21
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Changes in quantity and timing of foliar and reproductive phenology of tropical dry‐forest trees under a warming and drying climate	21
Biodiversity of key soil phylotypes is associated with increased plant richness and productivity following agricultural abandonment and afforestation	21
International Biological Flora:Ginkgo biloba	21
Do plant traits influence primary succession patterns for bryophytes and vascular plants? Evidence from a 33‐year chronosequence on bare chalk	20
Increasing temperature threatens post‐fire auto‐successional dynamics of a Mediterranean obligate seeder	20
Local climate adaptations in two ubiquitous Mojave Desert shrub species, Ambrosia dumosa and Larrea tridentata	20
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Neighbourhood diversity effects on insect herbivory: Plant leaf traits mediate associational resistance	20
Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition	20
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability	20
How detritivores, plant traits and time modulate coupling of leaf versus woody litter decomposition rates across species	20
Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure	19
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Synergistic effects of canopy chemistry and autogenic soil biota on a global invader	19
Influence of species functional strategy on leaf stoichiometric responses to fertilizer in a Bornean heath forest	19
Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection	19
Trait hypervolumes based on natural history collections can detect ecological strategies that are distinct to biogeographic regions	19
Global mycorrhizal status drives leaf δ15N patterns	19
Plant foliar nutrient response to active layer and water table depth in warming permafrost soils	19
The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon‐use efficiency in semi‐arid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West	19
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Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests	19
Contrasting responses of forest phenological guilds to complex floodplain change	19
The diversity and distribution of introduced plant species reflect 8000 years of settlement history	19
Light‐demanding tree species are more susceptible to lianas than shade‐tolerant tree species in a subtropical secondary forest	19
How does spatial heterogeneity affect inter‐ and intraspecific growth patterns in tundra shrubs?	19
Complex environmental control of growth in a dominant Mediterranean‐alpine shrub species	18
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland:Knautia arvensis	18
The implications of seasonal climatic effects for managing disturbance dependent populations under a changing climate	18
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Salvia pratensis	18
Individual and combined effects of non‐native earthworms and native white‐tailed deer on understorey plant survival, growth and reproduction	18
Drought decreases carbon flux but not transport speed of newly fixed carbon from leaves to sinks in a giant bamboo forest	18
Tree species identity shapes the relationship between canopy cover and herb‐layer species in temperate forests	18
Drivers of individual‐based, antagonistic interaction networks during plant range expansion	18
Limited range shifting in biocrusts despite climate warming: A 25‐year resurvey	18
Interplay between native plant performance and environment shapes resistance to aquatic plant invasion	17
Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science	17
Disease influences host population growth rates in a natural wild plant–pathogen association over a 30‐year period	17
Similar trait‐based successional assembly in native and introduced plants despite species pool differences	17
Differences between flower and leaf phenological responses to environmental variation drive shifts in spring phenological sequences of temperate woody plants	17
Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter	17
Variation in resource allocation strategies and environmental driving factors for different life‐forms of aquatic plants in cold temperate zones	17
Modelling pollinator and nonpollinator selection on flower colour variation	17
Assessing the potential of amino acid δ13C and δ15N analysis in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems	17
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Linking individualistic growth stability of trees to the complexity of understorey layers	16
Soil fungal communities contribute to the positive diversity–productivity relationship of tree communities under contrasting water availability	16
Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth	16
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Root trait (multi)functionality in savanna trees: Progress and challenges	16
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Tillage agriculture and afforestation threaten tropical savanna plant communities across a broad rainfall gradient in India	16
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The afterlife effects of leaf and root litter traits on soil N cycling	15
Rapid loss of phenotypic plasticity in the introduced range of the beach daisy, Arctotheca populifolia	15
Scale‐dependent shifts in functional and phylogenetic structure of Mediterranean island plant communities over two centuries	15
Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks	15
Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen	15
No consistencies in abundance–impact relationships across herbaceous invasive species and ecological impact metrics	15
Multiple mechanisms associated with loss of seed bank diversity under nitrogen enrichment	15
International Biological Flora:Ceratonia siliqua	15
Long‐term empirical evidence shows post‐disturbance climate controls post‐fire regeneration	15
The effectiveness of indirect plant defence is dependent on plant competition	15
Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities respond to nutrient enrichment and plant invasion in phosphorus‐limited eucalypt woodlands	15
Sheltered or suppressed? Tree regeneration in unmanaged European forests	15

What does not kill you can make you stronger: Variation in plasticity in response to early temporally heterogeneous hydrological experience	15
Density‐dependent influence of ribbed mussels on salt marsh nitrogen pools and processes	15
Pollen‐chemistry variations along elevation gradients and their implications for a proxy for UV‐B radiation in the plant‐fossil record	15
Experimental evidence root‐associated microbes mediate seagrass response to environmental stress	15
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective	15
Intraspecific variation in plant–soil feedback depends on plant dominance while interspecific variation is unrelated to plant community structure	15
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Bryophyte assembly rules across scales	14
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Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function	14
Shifts in growth light optima among diatom species support their succession during the spring bloom in the Arctic	14
High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients	14
Mechanisms of dietary resource partitioning in large‐herbivore assemblages: A plant‐trait‐based approach	14
Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐Quaternary extinction of megafauna	14
Labile carbon input alleviates nitrogen‐induced community instability in a meadow steppe	14
Frost damage measured by electrolyte leakage in subarctic bryophytes increases with climate warming	13
Exploring intraspecific and interspecific variation of coral reef algae using a novel trait‐based framework	13
Herbivore‐induced branching increases sapling survival in temperate forest canopy gaps	13
Vegetation‐memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands	13
Ungulate herbivores promote beta diversity and drive stochastic plant community assembly by selective defoliation and trampling: From a four‐year simulation experiment	13
Plant species loss reduces rare soil microbes through diversity effects amplified by multitrophic interactions	13
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal and the demo‐genetic configuration across plant colonization gradients	13
Low water availability enhances volatile‐mediated direct defences but disturbs indirect defences against herbivores	13
The scale‐variant interstage flow makes biological insights possible: A response to Hinrichsen	13
Long‐term cross‐scale comparison of grazing and mowing on plant diversity and community composition in a salt‐marsh system	13
Shaded habitats drive higher rates of fern diversification	13
Autogenic regulation and resilience in tropical dry forest	13
Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment	13
Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny and leaf area in eucalypts through a 50‐fold expansion of leaf trait datasets	13
Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment	13
No slowdown of growing season extension with warming in a permafrost‐affected meadow on the Tibetan Plateau	13
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
Recovery of a cultivation grazer: A mechanism for compensatory growth of Thalassia testudinum in a Caribbean seagrass meadow grazed by green turtles	12
Intraspecific adaptation to bioclimatic origins: Intricate interplay of above‐ and below‐ground traits in a cosmopolitan grass species	12
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 bias	12
Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments	12
Gene expression controlling signalling molecules within mutualistic associations of an invasive plant: An evolutionary perspective	12
Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory	12
Functional trait variability supports the use of mean trait values and identifies resistance trade‐offs for marine macroalgae	12
Density dependence of seed dispersal and fecundity profoundly alters the spread dynamics of plant populations	12
A whole‐plant economics spectrum including bark functional traits for 59 subtropical woody plant species	12
Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest	12
Climate‐driven substitution of foundation species causes breakdown of a facilitation cascade with potential implications for higher trophic levels	12
Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient	12
Remote sensing from unoccupied aerial systems: Opportunities to enhance Arctic plant ecology in a changing climate	12
Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose (Alces alces) across the boreal forest biome	12
Light competition affects how tree growth and survival respond to climate	12
Large seeds as a defensive strategy against partial granivory in the Fagaceae	12
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools	12
Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century	11
Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway	11
Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments	11
Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands	11
Defaunated and invaded insular tropical rainforests will not recover alone: Recruitment limitation factors disentangled by hierarchical models of spontaneous and assisted regeneration	11
Variation in biotic interactions mediates the effects of masting and rainfall fluctuations on seedling demography in a subtropical rainforest	11
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Leaf nitrogen affects photosynthesis and water use efficiency similarly in nitrogen‐fixing and non‐fixing trees	11
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity peaks do not coincide along a compositional gradient in forest‐grassland mosaics	11
Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests	11
More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity	11
Where consumers control plant reproduction in coastal wetlands: The environmental stress model in plants' versus consumers' perspectives	11
The effects of environmental heterogeneity within a city on the evolution of clines	11
Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture	11
Loss of nitrogen fixing capacity in a montane lichen is linked to increased nitrogen deposition	11
Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions	11
Biodiversity of soil biota and plants stabilises ecosystem multifunctionality with increasing number of global change factors	11
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Spatial and climatic drivers of β‐diversity in assemblages of angiosperm genera across the world	11
Bottom‐up effects of plant quantity and quality on arthropod diversity across multiple trophic levels in a semi‐arid grassland	11
Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought	11
Deconstructing precipitation variability: Rainfall event size and timing uniquely alter ecosystem dynamics	11
Some neighbours are better than others: Variation in associational effects among plants in an old field community	11
Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America	11
Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought	11
Mechanistic approaches to investigate soil microbe‐mediated plant competition	11
Decoupling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon release from fine and coarse roots during 7 years of decomposition	11
Vulnerability segmentation is vital to hydraulic strategy of tropical–subtropical woody plants	11
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Legacy effects of seed dispersal mechanisms shape the spatial interaction network of plant species in Mediterranean forests	11
Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests	11