Ecosystems

Article	Citations
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	76
Two Mechanisms Drive Changes in Boreal Peatland Photosynthesis Following Long-Term Water Level Drawdown: Species Turnover and Altered Photosynthetic Capacity	52
2022 Reviewer Thank You	40
Tree Diversity, Initial Litter Quality, and Site Conditions Drive Early-Stage Fine-Root Decomposition in European Forests	37
Integrating Reservoirs into the Dissolved Organic Matter Versus Primary Production Paradigm: How Does Chlorophyll-a Change Across Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations in Reservoirs?	36
A Cosmic View of ‘Tundra Gardens’: Satellite Imagery Provides a Landscape-Scale Perspective of Arctic Fox Ecosystem Engineering	29
Mineral-Associated Organic Matter Concentration Beneath Northern Temperate Trees Varies by Mycorrhizal Type and Leaf Habit	28
The Impact of Variable DOC Concentrations on Acidification Assessments	26
Labile Soil Carbon Heterogeneity Driven by Consumer Engineering of Aboveground Structure in a Kenyan Savanna	26
Reassembly of Disturbed Forests Portends Climate Resilience but Diversity Loss	25
Differences in Characteristics of Sample Sites Explain Variable Responses of Soil Microbial Biomass to Nitrogen Addition: A Meta-Analysis	23
Nitrogen Reduction Causes Shifts in Winter and Spring Phytoplankton Composition and Resource Use Efficiency in a Large Subtropical Lake in China	23
Topography Mediates the Response of Soil CO2 Efflux to Precipitation Over Days, Seasons, and Years	22
Soil Fungi Promote Biodiversity–Productivity Relationships in Experimental Communities of Young Trees	22
Integrating Field Data and a Meta-ecosystem Model to Study the Effects of Multiple Terrestrial Disturbances on Small Stream Ecosystem Function	21
Is Oxygenation Related to the Decomposition of Organic Matter in Cryoconite Holes?	20
Invertebrate-Mediated Ecosystem Processes are Resilient to Disturbance Across a Land-Use Gradient in Borneo	20
Anion Exchange Capacity Explains Deep Soil Nitrate Accumulation in Brazilian Amazon Croplands	20
Pyric Herbivory and the Nexus Between Forage, Fire and Native and Introduced Large Grazing Herbivores in Australian Tropical Savannas	19
The Role of Epiphytic Algae and Grazing Snails in Stable States of Submerged and of Free-Floating Plants	19
Contrasting Silicon Dynamics Between Aboveground Vegetation and Soil Along a Secondary Successional Gradient in a Cool-temperate Deciduous Forest	19
Time Scales of Ecosystem Impacts and Recovery Under Individual and Serial Invasions	19
Fuel Profiles and Biomass Carbon Following Bark Beetle Outbreaks: Insights for Disturbance Interactions from a Historical Silvicultural Experiment	18
Climate Effects on Prairie Productivity Partially Ameliorated by Soil Nutrients and Plant Community Responses	18
Contrasted Successional Trajectories in a Mediterranean Wetland Due to Geomorphic- and Human-Induced Perturbations	18

Correction to: Compensatory Mechanisms Absorb Regional Carbon Losses Within a Rapidly Shifting Coastal Mosaic	17
Spatial Distribution of Carbon Stocks Along Protected and Non-protected Coastal Wetland Ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico	17
Drainage-Driven Loss of Carbon Sequestration of a Temperate Peatland in Northeast China	17
Integrating Remote Sensing with Ground-based Observations to Quantify the Effects of an Extreme Freeze Event on Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) at the Landscape Scale	16
How Much Soil Carbon is Derived from Woody Detritus? A Ten-Year Study of 13C Incorporation into Soil Organic Matter	16
Early Differentiation of the Phenotypic Space and Performance of Juniperus thurifera Across Woodland-Expanding Areas	15
Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning	15
Soil Biota Adversely Affect the Resistance and Recovery of Plant Communities Subjected to Drought	15
Consequences of Piñon-Juniper Woodland Fuel Reduction: Prescribed Fire Increases Soil Erosion While Mastication Does Not	15
The Roles of the Moss Layer in Mediating Tree Seedling Environmental Stress, Mercury Exposure, and Regeneration in High-Elevation Conifer Forests	15
Response of Stream Metabolism to Coarse Woody Debris Additions Along a Catchment Disturbance Gradient	15
Changes in How Climate Forces the Vegetation of Southern Africa	14
Shifting Forests and Carbon: Linking Community Composition and Aboveground Carbon Attributes	14
Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem	14
Correction: Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Across a Vertical Gradient on a Temperate Wetland Seascape Including Salt Marshes, Seagrass Meadows and Rhizophytic Macroalgae Beds	14
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Nitrogen Mobilization in Residential Lawns	14
Post-fire Regeneration Traits of Understorey Shrub Species Modulate Successional Responses to High Severity Fire in Mediterranean Pine Forests	13
Soil Organic Carbon Content Decreases in Both Surface and Subsoil Mineral Horizons by Simulated Future Increases in Labile Carbon Inputs in a Temperate Coniferous Forest	13
Response of Boreal Plant Communities and Forest Floor Carbon Fluxes to Experimental Nutrient Additions	13
Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland	13
Combining Techniques to Conceptualise Denitrification Hot Spots and Hot Moments in Estuaries	13
Calculating Nitrogen Uptake Rates in Forests: Which Components Can Be Omitted, Simplified, or Taken from Trait Databases and Which Must Be Measured In Situ?	12
Propagating Uncertainty in Predicting Individuals and Means Illustrated with Foliar Chemistry and Forest Biomass	12
Disentangling Ecosystem Necromass Dynamics for Biodiversity Conservation	12
Hydrological Regime and Plant Functional Traits Jointly Mediate the Influence of Salix spp. on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in a High Arctic Tundra	12
Submerged Rootless Macrophytes Sustain a Stable State Against Free-Floating Plants	11
Correction: Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient	11
Local and Regional Effects of Land-Use Intensity on Aboveground Biomass and Tree Diversity in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests	11
Toward a Multi-stressor Theory for Coral Reefs in a Changing World	11
Turbidity Structures the Controls of Ecosystem Metabolism and Associated Metabolic Process Domains Along a 75-km Segment of a Semiarid Stream	11
Natural Disturbances are Essential Determinants of Tree-Related Microhabitat Availability in Temperate Forests	11
Flexibility in Aquatic Food Web Interactions: Linking Scales and Approaches	10
Combined Effects of Nitrogen Deposition and Climate on Root-to-Shoot Ratios and Root Morphology in Temperate Tree Regeneration	10
Greenhouse Gas Balance of Sphagnum Farming on Highly Decomposed Peat at Former Peat Extraction Sites	10
Carbon Stocks and Total Belowground Carbon Flux Respond to Weather and Grazing in Semiarid Montane Meadows	10
Shifts in Ecological Legacies Support Hysteresis of Stand Type Conversions in Boreal Forests	10
Current Forest–Savanna Transition in Northern South America Departs from Typical Climatic Thresholds	10
Experimental Evidence Supporting the Seasonal Availability of Water Hypothesis in a Mixed C3/C4 Grassland	10
Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps	9
Meta-analysis Reveals Different Competition Effects on Tree Growth Resistance and Resilience to Drought	9
Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient	9
Root Characteristics Vary with Depth Across Four Lowland Seasonal Tropical Forests	9
Alleviation of Nutrient Co-limitation Increases Grassland Biomass Production, But Not Carbon Storage	9
Fine Root Growth Increases in Response to Nitrogen Addition in Phosphorus-limited Northern Hardwood Forests	9
Increased Water Use Efficiency in China and Its Drivers During 2000–2016	9
The Effect of Water Colour on Fish Communities in Boreal lakes	9
Biomass Pyramids of Marine Mesozooplankton Communities as Inferred From Their Integrated Trophic Positions	8
Exploring the Role of Cryptic Nitrogen Fixers in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Frontier in Nitrogen Cycling Research	8
Low Redox Decreases Potential Phosphorus Limitation on Soil Biogeochemical Cycling Along a Tropical Rainfall Gradient	8
Foliar Stoichiometry is Marginally Sensitive to Soil Phosphorus Across a Lowland Tropical Rainforest	8

Hydrologic Setting Dictates the Sensitivity of Ecosystem Metabolism to Climate Variability in Lakes	8
Local Environmental Context Structures Animal-Habitat Associations Across Biogeographic Regions	8
The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh	8
Standing Litter Modifies Top-Down Effects of Large Herbivores on a Grassland Plant Community	8
Global Patterns of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Reproductive and Leaf Litterfall	8
Simulating Soil Atmosphere Exchanges and CO2 Fluxes for an Ongoing Peat Extraction Site	8
Biotic and Abiotic Control Over Diurnal CH4 Fluxes in a Temperate Transitional Poor Fen Ecosystem	7
Abiotic Factors Modify Ponderosa Pine Regeneration Outcomes After High-Severity Fire	7
Stressors Increase the Impacts of Coastal Macrofauna Biodiversity Loss on Ecosystem Multifunctionality	7
Correction to: Elevated Allochthony in Stream Food Webs as a Result of Longitudinal Cumulative Effects of Forest Management	7
Frost-Associated Defoliation in Populus tremuloides Causes Repeated Growth Reductions Over 185 years	7
Macroscale Variation in Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Foliar Carbon, Nitrogen, and Nitrogen Resorption	7
Soil Abiotic Properties Shape Plant Functional Diversity Across Temperate Grassland Plant Communities	7
Exceptions to the Heterotrophic Rule: Prevalence and Drivers of Autotrophy in Streams and Rivers	7
Net Ecosystem Metabolism is Independent of Elevation in Mountain Lakes of the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA	7
Embracing Uncertainty and Probabilistic Outcomes for Ecological Critical Loads	7
Plant Traits and Phylogeny Predict Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mediterranean Mixed Forests	7
Assessing Energetic Pathways and Time Lags in Estuarine Food Webs	7
Bamboo Plantation Establishment Changes Rainfall Partitioning and Chemistry	7
Unexpected Negative Effect of Available Water Capacity Detected on Recent Conifer Forest Growth Trends Across Wide Environmental Gradients	7
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulation of Water Clarity in a Large, Floodplain River Ecosystem	7
Bryosphere Loss Impairs Litter Decomposition Consistently Across Moss Species, Litter Types, and Micro-Arthropod Abundance	7
Hurricane-Induced Massive Nutrient Return via Tropical Dry Forest Litterfall: Has Forest Biogeochemistry Resilience Changed?	6
Impacts of Riparian and Non-riparian Woody Encroachment on Tallgrass Prairie Ecohydrology	6
Are Northern Lakes in Relatively Intact Temperate Forests Showing Signs of Increasing Phytoplankton Biomass?	6
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience	6
Fire Recurrence and Time Since Last Fire Interact to Determine the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services by Mediterranean Forests	6
Snail Mucus Increases the CO2 Efflux of Biological Soil Crusts	6
Anthropogenic Eutrophication Drives Major Food Web Changes in Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria	6
Impact of Sediment Bioturbation on Microphytobenthic Primary Producers: Importance of Macrobenthic Functional Traits	6
Variability in Stem Methane Emissions and Wood Methane Production of Different Tree Species in a Cold Temperate Mountain Forest	6
Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes	6
Plant Multi-element Coupling as an Indicator of Nutritional Mismatches Under Global Change	6
Subsurface Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Losses Offset Surface Carbon Accumulation in Abandoned Agricultural Fields	6
Recovery from Severe Mistletoe Infection After Heat- and Drought-Induced Mistletoe Death	6
Chronic Winds Reduce Tropical Forest Structural Complexity Regardless of Climate, Topography, or Forest Age	6
Nitrogen Addition Increases Freeze Resistance in Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Shrubs in a Temperate-Tropical Ecotone	6
Biophysical Determinants of Shifting Tundra Vegetation Productivity in the Beaufort Delta Region of Canada	6
Glacial Meltwater Increases the Dependence on Marine Subsidies of Fish in Freshwater Ecosystems	5
Soil Seed Bank Density Enhanced at Shrub Patches Due to Grazing in a Shrub-Encroached Grassland	5
Seasonal Mass Migration of Water Boatmen (Hemiptera: Corixidae) as a Wetland–River Linkage and Dietary Subsidy to Riverine Fish	5
Natural Advance Regeneration of Native Tree Species in Pinus radiata Plantations of South-Central Chile Suggests Potential for a Passive Restoration Approach	5
Spatial Heterogeneity of Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Streams	5
Estimating Pelagic Fish Biomass in a Tropical Seascape Using Echosounding and Baited Stereo-Videography	5
Fishers' Knowledge Reveals Ecological Interactions Between Fish and Plants in High Diverse Tropical Rivers	5
The Relationship Between Phytoplankton Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning Changes with Disturbance Regimes in Tropical Reservoirs	5
Warming Stimulates Iron-Mediated Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mineral-Poor Peatlands	5
Landscape Controls on Nutrient Stoichiometry Regulate Lake Primary Production at the Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet	5
Deterioration of the Littoral–Benthic Ecosystem Following Recent Expansion of Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) in the World’s Clearest Large Lake	5
Modelling Marine Predator Habitat Using the Abundance of Its Pelagic Prey in the Tropical South-Western Pacific	5
Temperate Primary Forest Biomass Accumulates over Centuries-Long Time Frames	5
Substantial Organic and Particulate Nitrogen and Phosphorus Export from Geomorphologically Stable African Tropical Forest Landscapes	5
Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog	5
Elevated Allochthony in Stream Food Webs as a Result of Longitudinal Cumulative Effects of Forest Management	5
Sea-Level Rise and the Persistence of Tree Islands in Coastal Landscapes	5
Interplay of Climate, Fires, Floods, and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Peat Formation and Carbon Dynamic of Coastal and Inland Tropical Peatlands in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	5
Modeling the Effects of Increased Hurricane Frequency on the Tropical Forest Carbon Cycle	5
Experimental Evidence that Forest Structure Controls Detrital Decomposition	5
Seafloor Terrain Shapes the Three-dimensional Nursery Value of Mangrove and Seagrass Habitats	5
The Relative Importance of Coarse-Scale Climate and Fine-Scale Nitrogen Availability Contrasts in Driving Home-Field Advantage Effects in Litter Decomposition	5
Grasslands Maintain Stability in Productivity Through Compensatory Effects and Dominant Species Stability Under Extreme Precipitation Patterns	5
Increased Above- and Belowground Plant Input Can Both Trigger Microbial Nitrogen Mining in Subarctic Tundra Soils	5
Environmental Change Drivers Reduce Sapling Layer Diversity in Sugar Maple-Beech Forests of Eastern North America	5
Divergent Controls on Leaf and Root Litter Decay Linking to Soil C, N, and P Pools Under a Subtropical Land-use Change	5
Very Low Stocks and Inputs of Necromass in Wind-affected Tropical Forests	5
Detecting Trajectories of Regime Shifts and Loss of Resilience in Coastal Wetlands using Remote Sensing	5
Herbivores’ Impacts Cascade Through the Brown Food Web in a Dryland	4
Ecosystem Changes Caused by Hydrological Change are Associated with Population Decline in a Formerly-Common Grazing Herbivore	4
Precipitation Determines the Spatial Variability of Vegetation and Topsoil Organic Carbon Densities of Alpine Grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	4
Differential Resilience of Soil Microbes and Ecosystem Functions Following Cessation of Long-Term Fertilization	4
Ecosystem Functioning Influences Species Fitness at Upper Trophic Levels	4
Tree Species Diversity Affects Litter Decomposition via Modification of the Microenvironment	4
Salt Marshes Buffer El Niño Effects on Benthic Secondary Production	4
Climate Records, Isotopes, and C:N Stoichiometry Reveal Carbon and Nitrogen Flux Dynamics Differ Between Functional Groups of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi	4
Species Asynchrony and Large Trees Jointly Drive Community Stability in a Montane Subtropical Forest	4
Disentangling the Legacies of Climate and Management on Tree Growth	4
Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake	4
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain	4
Reburning Before Recovery: Effects of Short-Interval Fire on Subalpine Forest Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes	4
Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective	4

Warming Tends to Promote Nitrogen Conservation but Stimulate N2O Emissions in Mangrove Sediments	4
A Classification Framework to Assess Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrologic Synchrony and Asynchrony	4
Topography and Tree Species Improve Estimates of Spatial Variation in Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Subtropical Forest	4
Shortened Fire Intervals Stimulate Carbon Losses from Heterotrophic Respiration and Reduce Understorey Plant Productivity in Boreal Forests	4
Predation and Biophysical Context Control Long-Term Carcass Nutrient Inputs in an Andean Ecosystem	4
The Predominance of Nongrowing Season Emissions to the Annual Methane Budget of a Semiarid Alpine Meadow on the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	4
Enzymatic Stoichiometry and Vector Characteristics Can Indicate Microbial Resource Limitation: Empirical Evidence from Experiment with Multiple Nutrient Addition	4
Species Climatic Suitability Explains Insect–Host Dynamics in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA	4
Are Ecosystem Engineering Traits Fixed or Flexible: A Study on Clonal Expansion Strategies in Co-occurring Dune Grasses	4
Agricultural Landscape Transformation Needed to Meet Water Quality Goals in the Yahara River Watershed of Southern Wisconsin	4
Exploring the Role of Keystone Species in Marine Ecosystems: A New Perspective Combining Energy Flow and Ecological Network Analysis	4
Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland	4
Trophic Niche Metrics Reveal Long-Term Shift in Florida Bay Food Webs	4
Mapping the Delivery of Ecological Functions Combining Field Collected Data and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)	4
Contrasting Effects of Grazing vs Browsing Herbivores Determine Changes in Soil Fertility in an East African Savanna	4
Exploring the Frequency and Distribution of Ecological Non-monotonicity in Associations among Ecosystem Constituents	4
Integrating Aquatic Metabolism and Net Ecosystem CO2 Balance in Short- and Long-Hydroperiod Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands	4
Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon	4
Seeing the System from Above: The Use and Potential of Remote Sensing for Studying Ecosystem Dynamics	4