Ecological Processes

Article	Citations
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils	66
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	52
Formal response to “Sophisticated modelling with inaccurate data: a comment on Steiner & Huettmann (2025)” by Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany	38
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices	37
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study	37
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?	36
Fine-scale decomposition of China’s underdeveloped regional CO2 emissions peaking targets: a case study of Gansu Province	35
Enhancements of soil priming effect and carbon sequestration in degraded alpine meadows via supplementation: a comparative study of Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) exc	33
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes	30
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers	27
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	26
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management	26
How resilience signals abrupt declines in vegetation productivity: globally uneven yet predictable	25
Changes in fish resources 5 years after implementation of the 10-year fishing ban in the Chishui River, the first river with a complete fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin	24
How does provincial virtual cropland mobility influence ecological compensation in China?	24
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe	23
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain	22
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China	22
Adaptive vegetation change as a pathway to sustain wetland nitrogen cycling	22
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping	22
Tree species mixing causes shifts in nitrogen acquisition and utilization strategies of Mongolian pine and Simon poplar	21
Wisdom of the crowd: evidence for density-dependent species fitness in Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.	21
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species	21
Forage offering and seasonal intake comparisons to evaluate European rabbit threat in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia	20
Linking vulnerability and resilience for climate change adaptation: a GeoAI-integrated assessment across Europe	20

Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China	19
Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	19
Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China	19
Nitrogen deposition enhances the competitive advantage of invasive plant species over common native species through improved resource acquisition and absorption	18
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	18
Temporal dynamics of animal vocal behavior affect semi-automatic identifications	18
Divergent impact of long-term anthropogenic nitrogen inputs on global particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon	18
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue	18
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics	17
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation	17
Soil and forest floor respiration already acclimated to increasing temperatures in a mixed deciduous forest	17
The conversion of natural wetlands to paddy fields affects net ecosystem carbon fluxes by restructuring the coupling between soil microbial communities and physicochemical properties	16
Progress on the world’s primate hotspots and coldspots: modeling ensemble super SDMs in cloud-computers based on digital citizen-science big data and 200+ predictors for more sustainable conservation	16
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability	16
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review	16
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient	16
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas	16
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems	15
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	15
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper	15
Soil bacterial network complexity drives ecosystem service multifunctionality in Inner Mongolian steppes	14
Divergence in the sensitivity of woody leaf unfolding phenology to daytime and nighttime temperatures	14
Temporal niche partitioning of bacterial communities shaped by hydrologic fluctuations and drought regimes in karst caves	14
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?	13
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland	13
Nature-based recreation for the elderly in urban areas: assessing opportunities and demand as planning support	13
Effects of nighttime warming and changing precipitation on soil microclimate in three temperate steppes along a precipitation gradient	13
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed	13
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates	13
Habitat suitability dynamics of the Ethiopian endemic multipurpose Millettia ferruginea subspecies under current and future climate change scenarios	13
Prolonged alkali water irrigation: impacts of treatment strategies on soil health and microbial dynamics	13
Mariculture and seagrass restoration influence water nutrients and community assembly processes in seagrass ecosystems	13
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters	12
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina	12
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	12
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment	12
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow	12
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking	12
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	11
Towards smart soil carbon pool management of grassland: a bibliometric overview from past to future	11
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration	11
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors	11
Local topographic and biotic neighborhood factors influence tree survival in a tropical dry forest, western Thailand	11
Integrating environmental and LULC drivers of groundwater droughts in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: a machine learning (XGBoost)-SEM analysis with ecosystem implications	11
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate	11
Rainfall timing and intensity jointly affect the survival and growth of seedling and juvenile Poa crymophila in alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	10
Predicting the invasion potential of two alien plant species (Parthenium hysterophorus L., Asteraceae and Salvia tiliifolia Vahl, Lamiaceae) under the current and future climate change scenarios in Et	10
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type	10
Physicochemical properties of soils drive floristic richness of pastures in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	10
Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA	10

Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	10
Application of pressure–state–response approach for developing criteria and indicators of ecological health assessment of wetlands: a multi-temporal study in Ichhamati floodplains, India	10
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis	10
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China	10
Trait-mediated community assembly and species responses to environmental gradients in alpine plant communities across contrasting regional species pools	10
Effects of litter inputs on soil aggregate C turnover and flow differ among three natural forest ecosystems along a climate gradient in China	10
Changes in soil fertility and microbial communities following cultivation of native grassland in Horqin Sandy Land, China: a 60-year chronosequence	9
Is environmental regulation conducive to the reduction of residents’ health costs? – evidence from the Chinese Family Panel Survey	9
Facilitation by an endemic shrub as a nature-based approach to conserve taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities of high-value plants in the Himalayas	9
The effects of multiple environmental factors on global carbon allocation	9
Incidence of controlled water restriction on density and chemical profiles in tree rings of Araucaria araucana seedlings	9
Hunting of hunted: an ensemble modeling approach to evaluate suitable habitats for caracals in India	9
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China	9
Lake microbiome composition determines community adaptability to warming perturbations	9
The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado	9
Unraveling the effect of environment and decomposer diversity on deadwood decomposition: lessons from a large-scale experiment	9
Construction and optimization of ecological spatial network in typical mining cities of the Yellow River Basin: the case study of Shenmu City, Shaanxi	9
Plant–pollinator metanetworks in fragmented landscapes: a simulation study	9
Effect of complex hydraulic variables and physicochemical factors on freshwater mussel density in the largest floodplain lake, China	8
Phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. across diverse rangelands in northeastern Ethiopia	8
Fuzzy evaluation and obstacle factors of urban ecological health changes in the Wei River Basin, northwest China	8
Soil drought thresholds of alpine grassland deceased rapidly under the influence of extreme low temperature in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	8
Sophisticated modelling with inaccurate data: a comment on Steiner & Huettmann (2025)	8
Unveiling woody species diversity and carbon storage potential of agroforestry systems in Southeast Ethiopia	8
Dispersal-based processes as drivers of fish communities and species distributions in the Yangtze River–Poyang Lake riverine floodplain of China	8
Influence of tree species on soil microbial residue accumulation and distribution among soil aggregates in subtropical plantations of China	8
Consecutive annual mowing reduces soil respiration and increases the proportion of autotrophic component in a meadow steppe	8
Rhizosphere fungal community assembly varied across functional guilds in a temperate forest	8
Effects of nitrogen addition and drought on the relationship between nitrogen- and water-use efficiency in a temperate grassland	8
A review of landscape ecology experiments to understand ecological processes	8
Spartina alterniflora invasion exacerbates soil microbial carbon and phosphorus co-limitations and alters microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiency in the coastal wetlands of eastern China	8
Evaluating the applicability of the growth rate hypothesis in successional tree stands: evidence from temperate forests in Northeast China	8
High adaptability of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica to drought-induced soil nutrient deficiency	8
Changes in albedo and its radiative forcing of grasslands in East Asia drylands	7
Understory bamboo removal impacts on woody seedling regeneration in forest ecosystems: a meta-analysis	7
Comparisons of oxbow lake fish assemblages in relation to bigheaded carp establishment in the lower White River, Arkansas	7
A global analysis of the introduction pathways and characteristics associated with non-native fish species introduction, establishment, and impacts	7
Time lag effect of vegetation response to seasonal precipitation in the Mara River Basin	7
Warming and elevated nitrogen deposition accelerate the invasion process of Solidago canadensis L.	7
Influence of night-time light pollution on the photosynthesis and physiological characteristics of the urban plants Euonymus japonicus and Rosa hybrida	7
Correction: An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	7
Species richness is not a good predictor for above-ground biomass in a warm temperate deciduous broadleaf forest	7
Assessment of spongy moth infestation impacts on forest productivity and carbon loss using the Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing and eddy covariance flux data	7
Fixing active sand dune by native grasses in the desert of Northwest China	7
Contrasting responses of an invasive plant to herbivory of native and introduced insects	7
Sediment phosphorus mobility in a semi-arid wetland with highly fluctuating hydrology	6
Exploring the impacts of agricultural emissions from natural gas on ecological footprint	6
Light grazing alleviates aeolian erosion–deposition effects on microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland	6
Fungi stimulate organic phosphorus fraction transformation in subtropical masson pine plantation soils after nine years of thinning and understory removal	6
Long-term monitoring reveals the effect of precipitation and silviculture on Nothofagus regeneration in Northern Patagonia mixed forests	6
Interspecific variation in seed traits facilitates divergent pre-dispersal seed predation among five stone oak species	6
Biodiversity effects of the Russia–Ukraine War and the Kakhovka Dam destruction: ecological consequences and predictions for marine, estuarine, and freshwater communities in the northern Black Sea	6
Exploring the multi-scale drivers of predation on artificial caterpillars by insectivorous birds in a Central European montane forest region	6
Quantifying the impacts of spatiotemporal land use and land cover changes on soil loss across agroecologies and slope categories using GIS and RUSLE model in Zoa watershed, southwest Ethiopia	6
Retraction Note: Lichens reveal the quality of indoor air in Selangor, Malaysia	6
Functional and phylogenetic structure of mammals along elevational gradients in the Central and East Himalayas	6
Stem CH4 emissions from the reclaimed forests: magnitude, drivers, and contribution	6
Evaluating the dynamics of carbon accumulation in extensive argan orchard ecosystems in arid regions	6
Will fire-smart landscape management buffer the effects of climate and land-use changes on fire regimes?	6
Fluctuating saline conditions favor competition of Bolboschoenus planiculmis, a dominant species in inland salt marshes	6
Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on C-cycling functional genes and microbial communities in salt marsh wetlands during cold season	6
The contributions of soil biota to litter mass loss and home-field advantage in temperate forests	5
Spatio-temporal variations of drought in the Welmel watershed, southeast of Ethiopia using the vegetation condition index and standardized precipitation index	5
Differential responses to cadmium stress and competition in Alternanthera philoxeroides and Trifolium repens: stress resistance and adaptive strategies	5
Process analysis and mitigation strategies for wetland degradation caused by increasing agricultural water demand: an ecology–economy nexus perspective	5
Nitrogen addition changes the nitrogen conversion process in forest steppe ecotone by increasing enzyme activity	5
Rapid recovery of desert shrubs is attributed to imbalance of water supply to demand after disturbance in Northwest China	5
Enrichment and toxic effects of triclosan on aquatic macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes and Hydrilla verticillata exposed to triclosan in sediments	5
Grazing exclusion promotes soil organic carbon accumulation in Tibetan grasslands with lower temperatures	5
Application of jasmonic acid boosts accelerative effects of silicon addition on rice defense against invasion of apple snails (Ampullariidae)	5
Artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution alters bat lunar chronobiology: insights from broad-scale long-term acoustic monitoring	5
Reproductive patterns in Araucaria araucana forests in the Andean range, Chile	5
Contrasting diurnal impacts of vapor pressure deficit on water use efficiency in two semiarid steppe ecosystems	5
Passivation remediation of weakly alkaline Cd-contaminated soils using combined treatments of biochar and sepiolite	5
Analyses of fin ray types to detect strontium markers in juvenile blunt-snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala	5
Soil seed banks after Acacia dealbata Link invasion and removal: implications for restoration	5
Environmental drivers of tree species richness in the southernmost portion of the Paranaense forests	5
Habitat filtering masks the detection of phylogenetic and functional density dependence on seedling survival across seasons in a subtropical forest, Southwestern China	4
Morphological characterization and habitat suitability modeling of the goat population of Benin under climate change scenarios	4
Spatial patterns of causality in temperate silvopastoral systems: a perspective on nitrification stability in response to flooding	4

Warming and altered precipitation rarely alter N addition effects on soil greenhouse gas fluxes: a meta-analysis	4
Interregional eco-compensation: towards equity between emitting and greening in China	4
A large carbon sink induced by the implementation of the largest afforestation program on Earth	4
Priority effects of forbs arriving early: the role of root interaction and asymmetric competition	4
Autumn sunlight promotes aboveground carbon loss in a temperate mixed forest	4
Root-order-associated variations in fine-root decomposition and their effects on soil in a subtropical evergreen forest	4
Urban tree arrangement and health influence infestation by invasive leaf-mining and sap-sucking insects	4
Contributions of source populations, habitat suitability and trait overlap to benthic invertebrate community assembly in restored urban streams	4
Urban land use optimization for improving carbon storage and mitigating surface runoff: a case study of Busan	4
Examining global warming factors using self-organizing map and Granger causality network: a case from South Korea	4
Effect of shifting cultivation and fallow on soil quality index in Mokokchung district, Nagaland, India	4
Variations in diversity, composition, and species interactions of soil microbial community in response to increased N deposition and precipitation intensity in a temperate grassland	4
Carbon pool dynamics after variable retention harvesting in Nothofagus pumilio forests of Tierra del Fuego	4
Water quality and habitat drive phytoplankton taxonomic and functional group patterns in the Yangtze River	4
Linking soil organic carbon mineralization to soil physicochemical properties and bacterial alpha diversity at different depths following land use changes	4
Body size induced changes in metabolic carbon of soil nematodes under N deposition and precipitation regime change in a temperate grassland	4
Hydraulic effects of vessel-induced waves on early life stages of lake macrophytes	4
Evolution of seasonal land surface temperature trend in pond-breeding newt (Neurergus derjugini) in western Iran and eastern Iraq	4
Trends in species distribution modelling in context of rare and endemic plants: a systematic review	4
Foliar nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry should not be assumed to diagnose nutrient limitation	4
Ecological drivers shaping mainstem and tributary fish communities in the upper Jinsha River, southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	4
Effects of fertilization on radial growth of Pinus pinea explored hourly using dendrometers	4
Heavy grazing intensifies antagonistic effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on the water use efficiency of grasslands in Inner Mongolia	4