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Functional Ecology papers downloaded most in Wiley Online Library in 2012 are listed below...

• Bimodal root diameter distributions in Serengeti grasses exhibit plasticity in response to defoliation and soil texture: implications for nitrogen uptake
  T. M. Anderson, W. T. Starmer, M. Thorne
• Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail
  S. Lavorel, E. Garnier
• Adaptive versus non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments
  C. K. Ghalambor, J. K. McKay, S. P. Carroll, D. N. Reznick
• Differences in growth patterns between co-occurring forest and savanna trees affect the forest-savanna boundary
  Davi Rodrigo Rossatto, William Arthur Hoffmann, Augusto César Franco
• Species-level effects more important than functional group-level responses to elevated CO2: evidence from simulated turves
  M. E. Hanley, S. Trofimov, G. Taylor
• Traits of recalcitrant seeds in a semi-deciduous tropical forest in Panamá: some ecological implication
  M. I. Daws, N. C. Garwood, H. W. Pritchard
• Asymmetric competition between plant species
  R. P. Freckleton, A. R. Watkinson  
• Impact of red : far red ratios on germination of temperate forest herbs in relation to shade tolerance, seed mass and persistence in the soil
  M. Jankowska-Blaszczuk, M. I. Daws
• Don't bite the hand that feeds: assessing ecological impacts of provisioning ecotourism on an apex marine predator
  Neil Hammerschlag, Austin J. Gallagher, Julia Wester, Jiangang Luo, Jerald S. Ault
• Why does metabolism scale with temperature?
  A. Clarke, K. P. P. Fraser

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Functional Ecology papers published in 2011 that have generated the most citations so far this year are listed below...

• Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence
  Anurag A. Agrawal
• Estimating the adaptive potential of critical thermal limits: methodological problems and evolutionary implications
  Enrico L. Rezende, Miguel Tejedo and Mauro Santos
• The ecology and evolution of induced resistance against herbivores
  Richard Karban
• The multiple faces of indirect defences and their agents of natural selection
  André Kessler and Martin Heil
• The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis
  María-José Endara and Phyllis D. Coley
• Ecological and evolutionary implications of plant tolerance to herbivory
  Juan Fornoni
• Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores
  Diego Carmona, Marc J. Lajeunesse and Marc T.J. Johnson
• Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations
  Dana M. Hawley and Sonia M. Altize
• Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology
  Andrea L. Graham, David M. Shuker, Laura C. Pollitt, Stuart K. J. R. Auld, Alastair J. Wilson and Tom J. Little
• Assessing the evidence for latitudinal gradients in plant defence and herbivory
  Angela T. Moles, Stephen P. Bonser, Alistair G.B. Poore, Ian R. Wallis and William J. Foley
• Differences in fine root productivity between mixed- and single-species stands
  Brian W. Brassard, Han Y. H. Chen, Yves Bergeron and David Paré
• Chemical ecology of tannins and other phenolics: we need a change in approach
  Juha-Pekka Salminen and Maarit Karonen
• Outdoor immunology: methodological considerations for ecologists
  Raoul K. Boughton, Gerrit Joop and Sophie A.O. Armitag
• Absorption efficiencies and basal turnover of C, N and fatty acids in a marine Calanoid copepod
  Daniel J. Mayor, Kathryn Cook, Barry Thornton, Pamela Walsham, Ursula F. M. Witte, Alain F. Zuur and Thomas R. Anderson
• Hypometabolism and basking: the strategies of Alpine ibex to endure harsh over-wintering conditions
  Claudio Signer, Thomas Ruf, Walter Arnold
• Energy use, diapause behaviour and northern range expansion potential in the invasive Colorado potato beetle
  Saija Piiroinen, Tarmo Ketola, Anne Lyytinen and Leena Lindström
• Critical windows of disease risk: amphibian pathology driven by developmental changes in host resistance and tolerance
  Pieter T. J. Johnson, Esra Kellermanns and Jay Bowerman
• The role of constraints and limitation in driving individual variation in immune response
  Daniel R. Ardia, Henk K. Parmentier and Laura A. Vogel
• Trade-off between growth and immune function: a meta-analysis of selection experiments
  Peter J. van der Most, Berber de Jong, Henk K. Parmentier and Simon Verhulst
• Multispecies comparison reveals that invasive and native plants differ in their traits but not in their plasticity
  Oscar Godoy, Fernando Valladares and Pilar Castro-Díez

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