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Journal of Ecology papers downloaded most in Wiley Interscience between January to June 2010 are listed below...
- Matrix projection models meet variation in the real world
Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Hans de Kroon - Plant functional traits in Australian subtropical rain forest: partitioning within-community from cross-landscape variation
Robert Kooyman, Will Cornwell and Mark Westoby - Demographic effects of extreme weather events on a short-lived calcareous grassland species: stochastic life table response experiments
Raziel Davison, Hans Jacquemyn, Dries Adriaens, Olivier Honnay, Hans de Kroon and Shripad Tuljapurkar - Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity
Jennie R. McLaren and Roy Turkington - Measuring the importance of competition: a new formulation of the problem
Christian Damgaard and Adeline Fayolle - Journal of Ecology News
Michael J. Hutchings, Andrea Baier, David J. Gibson, Richard D. Bardgett and Gerwyn Clegg - Influence of plant species and soil conditions on plant–soil feedback in mixed grassland communities
Kathryn A. Harrison and Richard D. Bardgett - Socialism in soil? The importance of mycorrhizal fungal networks for facilitation in natural ecosystems
Marcel G. A. van der Heijden and Thomas R. Horton - The changing global carbon cycle: linking plant–soil carbon dynamics to global consequences
F. Stuart Chapin III, Jack McFarland, A. David McGuire, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Roger W. Ruess and Knut Kielland - Life table response experiment analysis of the stochastic growth rate
Hal Caswell
Top-cited articles:
Journal of Ecology papers published in 2009 that have generated the most citations thus far (as at July 2010) are listed below...
- Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities
Fernando T. Maestre, Ragan M. Callaway, Fernando Valladares and Christopher J. Lortie - Impact of invasive plants on the species richness, diversity and composition of invaded communities
Martin Hejda, Petr Pyšek and VojtÄ›ch Jarošík - A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras
Nicholas S.G. Williams, Mark W. Schwartz, Peter A. Vesk, Michael A. McCarthy, Amy K. Hahs, Steven E. Clemants, Richard T. Corlett, Richard P. Duncan, Briony A. Norton, Ken Thompson and Mark J. McDonnell - Frayed at the edges: selective pressure and adaptive response to abiotic stressors are mismatched in low diversity edge populations
Gareth A. Pearson, Asuncion Lago-Leston and Catarina Mota - Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models
Nicholas J. Ostle, Pete Smith, Rosie Fisher, F. Ian Woodward, Joshua B. Fisher, Jo U. Smith, David Galbraith, Peter Levy, Patrick Meir, Niall P. McNamara and Richard D. Bardgett - Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities
Robert P. Freckleton, Andrew R. Watkinson and Mark Rees - Spore heat resistance plays an important role in disturbance-mediated assemblage shift of ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing Pinus muricata seedlings
Kabir G. Peay, Matteo Garbelotto and Thomas D. Bruns - Evaluation of pollination syndromes in Antillean Gesneriaceae: evidence for bat, hummingbird and generalized flowers
Silvana Martén-Rodríguez, Abel Almarales-Castro and Charles B. Fenster - Vegetation response to a short interval between high-severity wildfires in a mixed-evergreen forest
Daniel C. Donato, Joseph B. Fontaine, W. Douglas Robinson, J. Boone Kauffman and Beverly E. Law - The changing global carbon cycle: linking plant-soil carbon dynamics to global consequences
F. Stuart Chapin III, Jack McFarland, A. David McGuire, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Roger W. Ruess and Knut Kielland - Root exudate is allelopathic in invaded community but not in native community: field evidence for the novel weapons hypothesis
Andrea S. Thorpe, Giles C. Thelen, Alecu Diaconu and Ragan M. Callaway - Release from foliar and floral fungal pathogen species does not explain the geographic spread of naturalized North American plants in Europe
Mark van Kleunen and Markus Fischer - Introduction history and species characteristics partly explain naturalization success of North American woody species in Europe
Anna Bucharova and Mark van Kleunen - On the emergent spatial structure of size-structured populations: when does self-thinning lead to a reduction in clustering?
David J. Murrell - Resources, recruitment limitation and invader species identity determine pattern of spontaneous invasion in experimental grasslands
Christiane Roscher, Holger Beßler, Yvonne Oelmann, Christof Engels, Wolfgang Wilcke and Ernst-Detlef Schulze - Linkages between plant functional composition, fine root processes and potential soil N mineralization rates
Dario A. Fornara, David Tilman and Sarah E. Hobbie - Low recruitment across life stages partly accounts for the slow colonization of forest herbs
Lander Baeten, Hans Jacquemyn, Hans Van Calster, Eric Van Beek, Rebecca Devlaeminck, Kris Verheyen and Martin Hermy - Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms
Eric G. Lamb, Steven W. Kembel and James F. Cahill Jr
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