Functional Ecology

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Deepened snow cover mitigates soil carbon loss from intensive land‐use in a semi‐arid temperate grassland	155
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Stoichiometric imbalances between soil microorganisms and their resources regulate litter decomposition	120
Blowing in the wind: Experimental assessment of clinging performance and behaviour in Anolis lizards during hurricane‐force winds	112
Plant functional types and tissue stoichiometry explain nutrient transfer in common arbuscular mycorrhizal networks of temperate grasslands	100
Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities	78
Plant traits determine seed retention times in frugivorous birds: Implications for long‐distance seed dispersal	74
Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	72
Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species	67
Foliar phosphorus concentration modulates the defensive mutualism of an endophytic fungus in a perennial host grass	64
Rooting for the little guy: Below‐ground traits predict juvenile grass demography in microsites	63
Relative contribution of high and low elevation soil microbes and nematodes to ecosystem functioning	62
Consistent pattern of higher lability of leaves from high latitudes for both native Phragmites australis and exotic Spartina alterniflora	58
Nitrogen availability and plant–plant interactions drive leaf silicon concentration in wheat genotypes	52
Enhanced plant litter impacts nematode communities and carbon use efficiency in a mixed forest	51
Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates	48
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Predicting the effects of body size, temperature and diet on animal feeding rates	44
Fruit bat migration matches green wave in seasonal landscapes	43
Asymmetric responses of abundance and diversity of N‐cycling genes to altered precipitation in arid grasslands	42
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Exposure and susceptibility: The Twin Pillars of infection	39
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Pigment molecular composition reveals significant information for visual communication	39
Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	37

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	36
Different dynamics and controls of enzyme activities of leaf and root litter during decomposition	36
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Assessing the effect of tissue and fire‐response traits on plant growth rates post‐disturbance in eastern Australia	33
Reduced predation and energy flux in soil food webs by introduced tree species: Bottom‐up control of multitrophic biodiversity across size compartments	33
Why there are more species in several small patches versus few large patches: A multispecies modelling approach	32
Circadian fruit phenology: An overlooked crucial aspect of plant‐frugivore interactions	30
Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	30
FE Spotlight: Friend or foe? The complex relationships within trophic cascades (FE Spotlight on Cuny et al. ‘The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend: Negative effects of carnivorous arthropods o	29
Host evolutionary history rather than avian functional traits drives the Plasmodium regional assembly in the Atlantic Forest	29
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Methods of species pool determination as predictors of survival in seeding and transplanting experiments	28
Disentangling the relative contributions of factors determining seed physical defence: A global‐scale data synthesis	28
Homogeneous microenvironmental conditions under nurses promote facilitation	28
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To lose is to win: Long‐term co‐occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor	28
Species diversity and biological trait function: Effectiveness of ant–plant mutualism decreases as ant species diversity increases	27
Mother–offspring conflict and body temperature regulation during gestation and lactation in a wild primate	27
The ecological function of insect egg micropyles	26
Do leaf nitrogen resorption dynamics align with the slow‐fast continuum? A test at the intraspecific level	26
Neighbour‐detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition	26
Resource limitation, intra‐group aggression and brain neuropeptide expression in a social wasp	26
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Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	25
Covariations and trade‐offs of phosphorus (P) acquisition strategies in dioecious Populus euphratica as affected by soil water availability	25
Additive effects of developmental acclimation and physiological syndromes on lifetime metabolic and water loss rates of a dry‐skinned ectotherm	24
The combination of high leaf hydraulic safety and water use efficiency allows alpine shrubs to adapt to high‐altitude habitats	24
The influence of roots on mycorrhizal fungi, saprotrophic microbes and carbon dynamics in a low‐phosphorus Eucalyptus forest under elevated CO2	24
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	24
Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider	24
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Competitive consequences determined by phenotypic but not genetic distance: A study with asexual water flea genotypes	23
Hybrid networks reveal contrasting effects of agricultural intensification on antagonistic and mutualistic motifs	23
Spatial and temporal variation in phenotypes and fitness in response to developmental thermal environments	23
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	23
Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests	23
Freshwater mussels promote functional redundancy in sediment microbial communities under different nutrient regimes	22
High‐speed terrestrial substrate transitions: How a fleeing cursorial day gecko copes with compliance changes that are experienced in nature	22
Temperature‐dependent scaling of fitness traits with body size in hydra	22
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Brain‐infecting parasites leave lasting effects on behaviour even in resistant hosts	22
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Do seed dispersal strategies reflect adaptation to environmental variability?	21
Hanging out at the club: Breeding status and territoriality affect individual space use, multi‐species overlap and pathogen transmission risk at a seabird colony	21
Quality over quantity: Trophic cascades in a warming world	21
Trait‐based approaches as ecological time machines: Developing tools for reconstructing long‐term variation in ecosystems	21
Functional redundancy dampens precipitation change impacts on species‐rich invertebrate communities across the Neotropics	21
Divergent microbial phosphorous acquisition strategies between active layer and permafrost deposits on the Tibetan Plateau	20

Acclimation in ants: Interference of communication and waterproofing through cuticular hydrocarbons in a multifunctional trait	20
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	20
Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	20
Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian‐enhanced thermal tolerance landscape approach	20
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The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	19
Simulated winter warming negatively impacts survival of Antarctica's only endemic insect	19
Thermal plasticity in development and diapause strategy in a temperate butterfly across a latitudinal gradient	19
Trouble follows the needy: More severe leaf herbivory in the resource‐poor temperate oak forest than in the birch forest	19
Vegetation composition regulates the interaction of warming and nitrogen deposition on net carbon dioxide uptake in a boreal peatland	19
The effect of moisture, nutrients and disturbance on storage organ size and persistence in temperate herbs	19
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	19
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	19
Enhanced parasitisation of caterpillars and aphids on field‐grown Brassica oleracea plants upon soil amendment with insect exuviae	19
The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	19
Precipitation predictability drives evolution of drought strategies in the common poppy, Papaver rhoeas	19
Why are some invasive plant species so successful in nutrient‐impoverished habitats in south‐western Australia: A perspective based on their phosphorus‐acquisition strategies	19
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Plant sex changes the outcome of ant–plant interactions in a facultative myrmecophytic cactus	18
Cumulative effects of spruce budworm and moose herbivory on boreal forest ecosystems	18
Pollinator intraspecific body size variation and sociality influence their interactions with plants	18
Leaf silicification provides herbivore defence regardless of the extensive impacts of water stress	18
Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb	18
Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage	18
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Intraspecific correlations between growth and defence vary with resource availability and differ within and among populations	17
Beyond trait distances: Functional distinctiveness captures the outcome of plant competition	17
Ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: Varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum	17
Physiological costs of facultative endosymbionts in aphids assessed from energy metabolism	17
Nutrient balance and energy‐acquisition effectiveness: Do birds adjust their fruit diet to achieve intake targets?	17
Nutrient‐induced changes in root respiration in 10 woody plant species	17
Using functional traits to identify conservation priorities for the world's crocodylians	17
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	17
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Ecologically relevant radiation exposure triggers elevated metabolic rate and nectar consumption in bumblebees	17
Imprint of tree species mycorrhizal association on microbial‐mediated enzyme activity and stoichiometry	17
Disconnection between plant–microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes	17
Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects	17
Dividing up the bill: Interactions between how parasitoids manipulate host behaviour and who pays the cost	17
Trait‐based mechanistic approach highlights global patterns and losses of herbivore biomass functional diversity	16
Covariation among reproductive traits in flowering plants shapes their interactions with pollinators	16
Experimental designs for testing the interactive effects of temperature and light in ecology: The problem of periodicity	16
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate	16
Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dactylostalix orchids	16
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	15
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Functional traits and size interact to influence growth and carbon sequestration among trees in urban greenspaces	15
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Repeatability of migratory behaviour suggests trade‐off between size and survival in a wild iteroparous salmonid	15
The role of cell size in shaping responses to oxygen and temperature in fruit flies	15
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	15
Diversity, species coexistence and functional composition patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forests invaded by non‐native trees	15
Acceleration as a proxy for energy expenditure in a facultative‐soaring bird: Comparing dynamic body acceleration and time‐energy budgets to heart rate	15
The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend: Negative effects of carnivorous arthropods on plants	15
Parasitic trophic mode of plant host affects the extent of colonization, but does not induce systematic shifts in the composition of foliar endophytic assemblages in temperate meadow ecosystems	15
Fruit‐feeding butterflies depend on adult food for reproduction: Evidence from longitudinal body mass and abundance data	15
Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	15
Assessing hybrid vigour using the thermal sensitivity of physiological trade‐offs in tiger salamanders	15
Patterns of constitutive and induced herbivore defence are complex, but share a common genetic basis in annual and perennial monkeyflower	15
Foliar herbivory on plants creates soil legacy effects that impact future insect herbivore growth via changes in plant community biomass allocation	15
Plant invasion modifies isohydricity in Mediterranean tree species	15
Exotics are more complementary over time in tree biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments	15
Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen	15
Extended epiphenotypes: Integrating epigenotypes into host behavioural manipulation by parasites	14
Tree mycorrhizal type mediates the responses of foliar stoichiometry and tree growth to functionally dissimilar neighbours in a subtropical forest experiment	14
Biodegradable microplastics can cause more serious loss of soil organic carbon by priming effect than conventional microplastics in farmland shelterbelts	14
Water loss, not overheating, limits the activity period of an endothermic Sonoran Desert bee	14
Community‐wide trait adaptation, but not plasticity, explains ant community structure in extreme environments	14
Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland	14
Competition–colonisation trade‐offs are found among but not within wind‐dispersed Pinus species	14
Coral reef fish visual adaptations to a changing world	14
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Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests	14
Alteration of the tree–soil microbial system triggers a feedback loop that boosts holm oak decline	14
Active regulation of ultraviolet light exposure overrides thermal preference behaviour in eastern fence lizards	14
The ghosts of ecosystem engineers: Legacy effects of biogenic modifications	14
Skill rather than beak kinematics affects seed handling performance in a granivorous songbird	14
The joint effect of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration success	14
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire—A comment on Zylstra et al.'s model	14
Tree species mixing causes a shift in fine‐root soil exploitation strategies across European forests	14

Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	14
Temperature dependence and genetic variation in resource acquisition strategies in a model freshwater plant	14
Mutually exclusive feeding yields Holling type III functional response	14
Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	13
Your best buds are worth protecting: Variation in bud protection in a fire‐prone cerrado system	13
Root traits of grasslands rapidly respond to climate change, while community biomass mainly depends on functional composition	13
Water availability influences thermal safety margins for leaves	13
Towards a modular theory of trophic interactions	13
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Global resorption efficiencies of trace elements in leaves of terrestrial plants	13
Correction to: Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems	13
Age matters: Older Alnus viridis ssp. fruticosa are more sensitive to summer temperatures in the Alaskan Arctic	13
Helminth‐associated changes in host immune phenotype connect top‐down and bottom‐up interactions during co‐infection	13
Root traits reveal safety and efficiency differences in grasses and shrubs exposed to different fire regimes	13
Differential tree demography mediated by water stress and functional traits in a moist tropical forest	13
Marine heatwaves amplify benthic community metabolism and solute flux in a seafloor heating experiment	13
Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta‐analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic	13
Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain	13
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability	13
Subterranean morphology modulates the degree of mycoheterotrophy in a green orchid Calypso bulbosa exploiting wood‐decaying fungi	13
Trade‐offs in rooting strategy dimensions along an edaphic gradient in a grassland ecosystem	13
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	13
Longer and warmer prewinter periods reduce post‐winter fitness in a diapausing insect	12
Nitrogen addition suppresses soil positive priming effect in temperate plantations: Evidence from an 8‐year in situ field experiment	12
Hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) of polyunsaturated fatty acids track bioconversion by zooplankton	12
Tripartite symbioses regulate plant–soil feedback in alder	12
Nitrogen loading enhances phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with implications for soil carbon cycling	12
Phytoplankton diversity affects biomass and energy production differently during community development	12
Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands	12
Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants	12
Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants	12
Macro‐nutritional balancing in a circumpolar boreal ruminant under winter conditions	12
Genetic variation in leaf traits and gas exchange responses to vapour pressure deficit in contrasting conifer species	12
Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees	12
Seed dispersal by frugivores without seed swallowing: Evaluating the contributions of stomatochoric seed dispersers	12
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	12
Trophic plasticity of mixotrophic corals under contrasting environments	12
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	12
Rapid niche shifts in bacteria following conditioning in novel soil environments	11
Leaf economics in a three‐dimensional environment: Testing leaf trait responses in vascular epiphytes to land use, climate and tree zone	11
Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation	11
Maternal effects of climate warming and nitrogen deposition vary with home and introduced ranges	11
Potential drivers of differences in breeding phenology as a component of life history strategies among coexisting species	11
Body mass and triglycerides predict departure of free‐living nomadic pine siskins	11
Silicon enrichment alters functional traits in legumes depending on plant genotype and symbiosis with nitrogen‐fixing bacteria	11
Forest canopy nitrogen uptake can supply entire foliar demand	11
A fine‐scale analysis reveals microgeographic hotspots maximizing infection rate between a parasite and its fish host	11
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Root traits and soil legacies drive species competition outcomes	11
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	11
Variable relationships between trait diversity and avian ecological functions in agroecosystems	11
Defoliated trees die below a critical threshold of stored carbon	11
Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions	11
Evolutionary history constrains heat tolerance of native and exotic tropical Zingiberales	11
Convergent remodelling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long‐distance migration	11
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Seasonal precipitation distribution determines ecosystem CO2 and H2O exchange by regulating spring soil water–salt dynamics in a brackish wetland	11
Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions	11
Overyielding is accounted for partly by plasticity and dissimilarity of crop root traits in maize/legume intercropping systems	11
Potential of undersown species identity versus diversity to manage disease in crops	10
Dung beetles drive direct and indirect changes in ecosystem multifunctionality	10
The wood economics spectrum modulates the positive effects of termite foraging intensity on deadwood invertebrate diversity	10
Nitrogen addition and experimental drought simplified arthropod network in temperate grassland	10
Environmental change legacies attenuate disturbance response of desert soil microbiome and multifunctionality	10
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CO2‐fertilisation enhances resilience to browsing in the recruitment phase of an encroaching savanna tree	10
A range‐expanding butterfly is susceptible to cold and long winters but shows no signs of local adaptation to winter conditions	10
Experimental evidence of rapid heritable adaptation in the absence of initial standing genetic variation	10
When is warmer better? Disentangling within‐ and between‐generation effects of thermal history on early survival	10
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Functional diversity buffers biomass production across variable rainfall conditions through different processes above‐ versus below‐ground	10
Alteration of cleaner wrasse cognition and brain morphology under marine heatwaves	10
Microbial function regulates the effect of vegetation restoration on the contribution of biocrusts to soil respiration in drylands	10
Growth‐chemical defence‐metabolomic expression trade‐off is relaxed as soil nutrient availability increases for a tropical passion vine	10
Ecological variation drives morphological differentiation in a highly social vertebrate	10
Non‐native fish facilitate non‐native snails and alter food web structure in experimental pond communities	10
Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane	10
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Woodland wildfire enables fungal colonization of encroaching Douglas‐fir	10
Environmental filtering drives biodiversity–spatial stability relationships in a large temperate forest region	10
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The core microbiota as a predictor of soil functional traits promotes soil nutrient cycling and wheat production in dryland farming	10
Evolution of predator–prey interactions during range expansion in an aquatic insect predator	10
Nutrient cycling and self‐regulation determine food web stability	10
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Quantifying phenotypic plasticity: A call for consistency	10
Does the temperature–size rule apply to marine protozoans?	10
Factors driving the within‐plant patterns of resource exploitation in a herbivore	9
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Not just candy: A herbivore‐induced defence‐related plant protein in honeydew enhances natural enemy fitness	9
Natural selection favours drought escape and an acquisitive resource‐use strategy in semi‐arid Mediterranean shrubs	9
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Ant handling changes myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi	9
Drying, more than warming, alters ecosystem functioning in streams with different energy pathways	9
Ecosystem connectivity and configuration can mediate instability at a distance in metaecosystems	9