Functional Ecology

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Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage	135
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Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests	105
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	89
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Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	77
Observational and experimental evidence that rapid mass loss is consistent with the flight efficiency hypothesis and not caused by reproductive effort in three passerine species	75
The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	67
Convergent remodelling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long‐distance migration	67
Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	63
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate	60
Spatial and temporal variation in phenotypes and fitness in response to developmental thermal environments	60
Active regulation of ultraviolet light exposure overrides thermal preference behaviour in eastern fence lizards	56
Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities	54
Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	48
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	47
Species diversity and biological trait function: Effectiveness of ant–plant mutualism decreases as ant species diversity increases	46
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	45
Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	43
Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	41
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability	40
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	40
Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	40

Can body mass and skull morphology predict seed and fruit ingestion potential for mammal species? A test using extant species and its application to extinct species	38
Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	38
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	36
The fingerprint of functional strategies in Mediterranean seagrass fish assemblages	36
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	35
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	35
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	35
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	35
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	33
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The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	32
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	31
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Forest storm resilience depends on the interplay between functional composition and climate—Insights from European‐scale simulations	30
Context‐dependent evolution of high trophic position drives functional disparity in subterranean crustaceans	30
Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane	30
Niche complementarity among plants and animals can alter the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship	30
Growth enhancements of elevated atmospheric [CO2] are reduced under drought‐like conditions in temperate eucalypts	29
Species provenance and traits mediate establishment and performance in an invaded grassland	29
Has behavioural thermoregulation evolved solely to stay alive in insects, nothing more?	29
Woodland wildfire enables fungal colonization of encroaching Douglas‐fir	28
Multiple mating rescues offspring sex ratio but not productivity in a haplodiploid exposed to developmental heat stress	28
Ant handling changes myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi	27
CO2‐fertilisation enhances resilience to browsing in the recruitment phase of an encroaching savanna tree	27
The influence of pre‐exposure to marine heatwaves on the critical thermal maxima (CTmax) of marine foundation species	27
Dietary restriction fails to extend life in stressful environments	27
Estimates of nectar productivity through a simulation approach differ from the nectar produced in 24 h	27
Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish and North American breeding birds	26
Seasonal community stability increased with water addition and shrub removal but reduced with nitrogen addition in semi‐arid grassland	26
Seed dormancy revisited: Dormancy‐release pathways and environmental interactions	26
Meta‐analysis and critical review of trophic discrimination factors (Δ13C and Δ15N): Importance of tissue, trophic level and diet source	26
Soil microbial relative resource limitation exhibited contrasting seasonal patterns along an elevational gradient in Yulong Snow Mountain	26
Foundation species support fauna across multiple trophic levels via trophic and non‐trophic mechanisms	25
Temporal dynamics of scent mark composition in field‐experimental lizard populations	25
Flowering plant communities mediate the effects of habitat composition and configuration on wild pollinator communities	25
Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants	24
Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats	24
Environmentally induced reconstruction of microbial communities alters particulate carbon flux of deep chlorophyll maxima in the South China sea	24
Why are vertebrates so big?	23
Nocturnal dissolved organic matter release by turf algae and its role in the microbialization of reefs	23
Climate change and coastal wetland salinization: Physiological and ecological consequences for Arctic waterfowl	23
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The vertebrate bone hypothesis: Understanding the impact of bone on vertebrate stoichiometry	23
Red fruits exhibit lower colour diversity than red flowers as perceived by birds	23
The effect of dead standing (marcescent) biomass on litter decomposition in herbaceous flora is governed by plant functional group	23
Higher vascular plant abundance associated with decreased ecosystem respiration after 20 years of warming in the forest–tundra ecotone	23
Establishing cordgrass plants cluster their shoots to avoid ecosystem engineering	23
Bromeliad populations perform distinct ecological strategies across a tropical elevation gradient	22
Phenotypic evolution of agricultural crops	22

Top‐down cascading effects of seed‐feeding beetles and their parasitoids on plants and leaf herbivores	22
Interactions between protea plants and their animal mutualists and antagonists are structured more by energetic than morphological trait matching	22
Should I breed or should I go? Manipulating individual state during migration influences breeding decisions in a long‐lived bird species	22
Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients	21
Patterns of pollination interactions at the community level are related to the type and quantity of floral resources	21
Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests	21
Caves, crevices and cooling capacity: Roost microclimate predicts heat tolerance in bats	21
Conserved responses of nutrient resorption to extreme drought in a grassland: The role of community compositional changes	21
Naturalized alien plants experience less negative soil‐legacy effects and gain competitive advantages through spatial heterogeneity	21
Experimental transplants demonstrate shifts in predation favour evolution of aggressive behaviours in Trinidadian killifish	21
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Differential root nutrient‐acquisition strategies underlie biogeochemical niche separation between grasses and forbs across grassland biomes	20
Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole‐plant perspective on growth, nutrient‐use and size	20
Warmer temperatures result in maladaptive learning of sexual preferences	20
Compensation alters estimates of the number of species required to maintain ecosystem functioning across an emersion gradient: A case study with intertidal macroalgae	20
The ontogenetic dimension of plant functional ecology	20
Mycelium biomass and community composition impact nutrient concentration in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at fine spatial scale	20
Large leaf hydraulic safety margins limit the risk of drought‐induced leaf hydraulic dysfunction in Neotropical rainforest canopy tree species	20
Responses of a widespread pest insect to extreme high temperatures are stage‐dependent and divergent among seasonal cohorts	20
Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?	20
Reciprocal plant‐mediated antagonism between a legume plant virus and soil rhizobia	19
Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism	19
Soil fungi lead to stronger ‘diminishing returns’ in fine‐root length versus mass allometry towards earlier successional tropical forests	19
The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data	19
Effects of warming and parasitism on root traits and the root economics space	19
Functional Ecology is moving to open access	19
Implication of the myo‐inositol pathway in behavioural alterations of infected threespine sticklebacks	18
Disentangling the roles of plant functional diversity and plaint traits in regulating plant nitrogen accumulation and denitrification in freshwaters	18
Root trait shifts towards an avoidance strategy promote productivity and recovery in C3 and C4 pasture grasses under drought	18
Chemical defence effective against multiple enemies: Does the response to conspecifics alleviate the response to predators?	18
It takes a community to maintain a tree hollow: Food web complexity enhances decomposition and wood mould production	18
Metacommunity dynamics and the detection of species associations in co‐occurrence analyses: Why patch disturbance matters	18
Phenotypic plasticity in floral scent in response to nutrient, but not water, availability in the perennial plant Arabis alpina	18
How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?	17
Altered trait covariances between invasive and native ranges of a global plant invader	17
Plant–microbe interactions drive the rhizosphere microbial assembly and nitrogen cycling in a subtropical forest	17
Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests	17
We need a multidimensional view of the plant reproduction continuum	17
Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data	17
Drought effects on root and shoot traits and their decomposability	17
Impact of long‐term water level drawdown on functional plant trait composition of northern peatlands	17
Abiotic factors that prompt major ecological transitions: Are fish on land to escape an intolerable aquatic environment?	17
Nonstructural carbohydrates predict survival in saplings of temperate trees under carbon stress	17
Testing trade‐offs in amphibian metamorphic traits: Swimming performance and selection across metamorphic stages in the aquatic frog Xenopus laevis	17
Yeast and fruit fly mutual niche construction and antagonism against mould	17
Eusociality and the transition from biparental to alloparental care in termites	17
Drought response in herbaceous plants: A test of the integrated framework of plant form and function	17
Dense afforestation reduces plant–pollinator network diversity and persistence	17
Functional traits explain both seedling and adult plant spatial patterns in gypsum annual species	16
Natural and experimental cold exposure in adulthood increase the sensitivity to future stressors in a free‐living songbird	16
Riparian forests shape trophic interactions in detrital stream food webs	16
Ecological succession shapes size–density scaling relationships of trees and soil invertebrates	16
Female preference for males with lower pattern contrast follows Weber's law of proportional processing in jumping spiders	16
Microplastic additions modulate intraspecific variability in root traits and mycorrhizal responses across root‐life history strategies	16
Environment‐dependent relationships between corticosterone and energy expenditure during reproduction: Insights from seabirds in the context of climate change	16
Natural history and ecological effects on the establishment and fate of Florida carpenter ant cadavers infected by the parasitic manipulator Ophiocordyceps camponoti‐floridani	16
Rapid positive response of young trees growth to warming reverses nitrogen loss from subtropical soil	16
Spiroacetals and the rise of Campanula specialists: Receptor sensitivity to host‐specific floral scents	16
Biogeographical distributions of nitrogen‐cycling functional genes in a subtropical estuary	16
Adaptive immune response selects for postponed maturation and increased body size	16
Drought susceptibility of southern African C4 grasses: Phylogenetically and photosynthetically determined?	16
Animal transparency: How should we define form and function?	16
Novel climate–fire–vegetation interactions and their influence on forest ecosystems in the westernUSA	16
The influences of progenitor filtering, domestication selection and the boundaries of nature on the domestication of grain crops	16
Omnivory in predatory lady beetles is widespread and driven by an appetite for sterols	16
Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems	16
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The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to improve soil organic carbon in agricultural ecosystems: A meta‐analytical approach	15
Host and parasite functional morphology jointly explain parasite specificity	15
Tree growth‐forms reveal dominant browsers shaping the vegetation	15
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation	15
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Unravelling the mystery of red flowers in the Mediterranean Basin: How to be conspicuous in a place dominated by hymenopteran pollinators	15
Increasing prevalence of severe fires change the structure of arthropod communities: Evidence from a meta‐analysis	15
Positive heterospecific interactions can increase long‐term diversity of plant communities more than negative conspecific interactions alone	15
Higher phosphorus and water use efficiencies and leaf stoichiometry contribute to legume success in drylands	15
Cracks in the mirror hypothesis: High specularity does not reduce detection or predation risk	15
Interspecific wood trait variation predicts decreased carbon residence time in changing forests	15
Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling	15

Variation of seedling recruitment in wet meadow species over 6 years: Positive effects of mowing and negative effects of fertilization	15
Elevational variations in stem hydraulic efficiency and safety of Abies fabri	15
Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco‐evolutionary community dynamics and patterns	15
Diet quality and conspecific larval density predict functional trait variation and performance in a polyphagous frugivorous fly	15
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How melanism affects the sensitivity of lizards to climate change	15
Ecosystem‐level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland	14
Geographical variation in the trait‐based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities	14
A trade‐off between growth and hydraulic resilience against freezing leads to divergent adaptations among temperate tree species	14
Below‐ground root nutrient‐acquisition strategies are more sensitive to long‐term grazing than above‐ground leaf traits across a soil nutrient gradient	14
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An extended epiphenotype for an extended phenotype inToxoplasma gondiiinfected feral house mice	14
Differential early‐life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination in a long‐lived reptile	14
Perception of dead conspecifics increases reproductive investment in fruit flies	14
The role of insularity: Plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands	14
Ecosystem engineers shape ecological network structure and stability: A framework and literature review	14
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Opposite, but insufficient, phenological responses to climate in two circumpolar seabirds: Relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and selection	14
Shifts in risk sensitivity and resource availability alter fat stores for a large mammal following extreme winter conditions	14
The functionality of arbuscular mycorrhizal networks across scales of experimental complexity and ecological relevance	14
Are leaf, stem and hydraulic traits good predictors of individual tree growth?	14
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Extended epiphenotypes: Integrating epigenotypes into host behavioural manipulation by parasites	13
Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria	13
Rooting for the little guy: Below‐ground traits predict juvenile grass demography in microsites	13
Neighbour‐detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition	13
Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta‐analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic	13
Mother–offspring conflict and body temperature regulation during gestation and lactation in a wild primate	13
Do seed dispersal strategies reflect adaptation to environmental variability?	13
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	13
Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider	13
Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects	13
Pigment molecular composition reveals significant information for visual communication	13
Intraspecific correlations between growth and defence vary with resource availability and differ within and among populations	13
Diversity, species coexistence and functional composition patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forests invaded by non‐native trees	13
Experimental designs for testing the interactive effects of temperature and light in ecology: The problem of periodicity	13
Leaf economics in a three‐dimensional environment: Testing leaf trait responses in vascular epiphytes to land use, climate and tree zone	13
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Plant invasion modifies isohydricity in Mediterranean tree species	13
Temperature‐dependent scaling of fitness traits with body size in hydra	13
Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb	13
To lose is to win: Long‐term co‐occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor	13
Hanging out at the club: Breeding status and territoriality affect individual space use, multi‐species overlap and pathogen transmission risk at a seabird colony	13
Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dactylostalix orchids	12
Quantifying phenotypic plasticity: A call for consistency	12
Using ecosystem engineers to enhance multiple ecosystem processes	12
Deepened snow cover mitigates soil carbon loss from intensive land‐use in a semi‐arid temperate grassland	12
Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions	12
Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland	12
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	12
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Excessive nutrient input induces an ecological cost for aphids by modifying their attractiveness towards mutualist ants	12
Vegetation composition regulates the interaction of warming and nitrogen deposition on net carbon dioxide uptake in a boreal peatland	12
Disconnection between plant–microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes	12
Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants	12
Indirect effects of trophic interactions govern carbon circulation in two beech forest soil ecosystems	12
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Relative contribution of high and low elevation soil microbes and nematodes to ecosystem functioning	12
Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian‐enhanced thermal tolerance landscape approach	12
Tree species mixing causes a shift in fine‐root soil exploitation strategies across European forests	12
Water loss, not overheating, limits the activity period of an endothermic Sonoran Desert bee	12
Searching while sick: How does disease affect foraging decisions and contact rates?	11
Dung beetles drive direct and indirect changes in ecosystem multifunctionality	11
Going across taxa in functional ecology: Review and perspectives of an emerging field	11
Environment, taxonomy and morphology constrain insect thermal physiology along tropical mountains	11
Cold adaptations along a range limit in an obligate symbiosis	11
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Large invasive herbaceous plants decrease the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds via their reproductive traits	11
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Fast‐risky versus slow‐safe life histories mediate resprouting among Caribbean tropical dry forest trees	11
Plastic background colour matching in the springbok mantis	11
Nitrogen addition and experimental drought simplified arthropod network in temperate grassland	11
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata	11
Monitoring and modelling the effects of ecosystem engineers on ecosystem functioning	11
Nitrogen deposition and heathland management cause multi‐element stoichiometric mismatches, reducing insect fitness	11
Correction to Sunflower spines and beyond: Mechanisms and breadth of pollen that reduce gut pathogen infection in the common eastern bumble bee	11
Potential of undersown species identity versus diversity to manage disease in crops	11
Individual behaviour shapes patterns of bird‐mediated seed dispersal	11
Coordination of hydraulic and morphological traits across dominant grasses in eastern Australia	11
Predicting plant species climate niches on the basis of mechanistic traits	11
Plant attributes interact with fungal pathogens and nitrogen addition to drive soil enzymatic activities and their temporal variation	11
Investment in regeneration versus asexual reproduction is resource‐dependent in a freshwater annelid	11
Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds	11
Tree mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between plant and microbial communities and soil organic carbon stocks at local scales in a temperate forest	11
Hydrothermal conditions determine soil potential net N mineralization rates in arid and semi‐arid grasslands	11
Grazing and nitrogen addition restructure the spatial heterogeneity of soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activities	11
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Leaf fluctuating asymmetry is not a reliable indicator of stress	10
European oak metabolites shape digestion and fitness of the herbivore Tortrix viridana	10
Limited plasticity but increased variance in physiological rates across ectotherm populations under climate change	10
The significance of biofilms to human, animal, plant and ecosystem health	10
Nutrient exchange within common mycorrhizal networks is altered in a multispecies environment	10
The structure of the thermal landscape determined behavioural and physiological responses to simulated predation risk	10
Same mesozooplankton functional groups, different functions in three Arctic marine ecosystems	10
True site fidelity in pollen‐feeding butterflies	10