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Functional Ecology
Editors: Lara Ferry, Katie Field, Dustin Marshall, Enrico Rezende and Emma Sayer
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Large changes in vegetation composition seen over the last 50 years in British limestone pavementsoa
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Plant and frugivore species characteristics drive frugivore contributions to seed dispersal effectiveness in a hyperdiverse communityoa
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Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole-plant perspective on growth, nutrient-use and sizeoa
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Reduced predation and energy flux in soil food webs by introduced tree species: Bottom-up control of multitrophic biodiversity across size compartmentsoa
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Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire—A comment on Zylstra et al.'s modelfree
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Reply to: Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south-western Australian forested ecosystem—A comment on Zylstra et al.'s modeloa
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Nitrogen deposition and heathland management cause multi-element stoichiometric mismatches, reducing insect fitnessoa
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Seed dispersal mechanisms modulate Janzen-Connell effects in Mediterranean forests through antagonists and mutualistsoa
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Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forestsoa
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Large invasive herbaceous plants decrease the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds via their reproductive traitsoa
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Temporal host–symbiont dynamics in community contexts: Impacts of host fitness and vertical transmission efficiency on symbiosis prevalenceoa
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New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate wintersoa
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Thermal conditions alter the mating behaviour of males in a polygynous systemoa
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Self-organised pattern formation promotes consumer coexistence by fluctuation-dependent mechanismsoa
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The combination of high leaf hydraulic safety and water use efficiency allows alpine shrubs to adapt to high-altitude habitatsoa
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Two alpine shrub species in the Qilian Mountains include Caragana jubata and Salix gilashanica, among which S. gilashanica has obvious death at an altitude of 3650 m. (Credit: Guang-Qian Yao).
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Effects of warming and parasitism on root traits and the root economics spaceoa
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Microplastic additions modulate intraspecific variability in root traits and mycorrhizal responses across root-life history strategiesoa
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Soil fungi lead to stronger ‘diminishing returns’ in fine-root length versus mass allometry towards earlier successional tropical forestsoa
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Higher phosphorus and water use efficiencies and leaf stoichiometry contribute to legume success in drylandsoa
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Below-ground traits, rare species and environmental stress regulate the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationshipoa
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