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Functional Ecology papers downloaded most in Wiley Online Library from July to December 2011 are listed below...
- Evolutionary ecology of plant defences against herbivores
Marc T. J. Johnson - Discontinuous gas exchange: new perspectives on evolutionary origins and ecological implications
Steven L. Chown - Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail
S. Lavorel, E. Garnier - Asymmetric competition between plant species
R. P. Freckleton, A. R. Watkinson - Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence
Anurag A. Agrawal - The ecology and evolution of induced resistance against herbivores
Richard Karban - 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 - Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores
Diego Carmona, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Marc T.J. Johnson - Predator–pathogen interactions: synergy between mortality causes and failure of the healthy herds hypothesis
Kelton D. Welch, James D. Harwood - Eigenvector estimation of phylogenetic and functional diversity
José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Marcus Vinicius Cianciaruso, Thiago Fernando Rangel, Luis Mauricio Bini
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Functional Ecology papers published in 2010 that have generated the most citations thus far (as at August 2011) are listed below...
- Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities
Christopher Baraloto, C. E. Timothy Paine, Sandra Patiño, Damien Bonal, Bruno Hérault, Jerome Chave - Does oxidative stress mediate the trade-off between growth and self-maintenance in structured families?
Margaret E. Hall, Jonathan D. Blount, Scott Forbes, Nick J. Royle - Implications of flexible foraging for interspecific interactions: lessons from simple models
Peter A. Abrams - Body-mass constraints on foraging behaviour determine population and food-web dynamics
Ulrich Brose - Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest
Catherine M. Hulshof, Nathan G. Swenson - Support from the underground: Induced plant resistance depends on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Anne Kempel, Antje K. Schmidt, Roland Brandl, Martin Schädler - Number and colour composition of nest lining feathers predict eggshell bacterial community in barn swallow nests: an experimental study
Juan M. Peralta-Sanchez, Anders P. Møller, Antonio M. Martin-Platero, Juan J. Soler - Food availability and population processes: severity of nutritional stress during reproduction predicts survival of long-lived seabirds
Alexander S. Kitaysky, John F. Piatt, Scott A. Hatch, Evgenia V. Kitaiskaia, Z. Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks, Michael T. Shultz, John C. Wingfield - Associations between over-winter survival and resting metabolic rate in juvenile North American red squirrels
Meghan L. Larivée, Stan Boutin, John R. Speakman, Andrew G. McAdam, Murray M. Humphries - Thermal ramping rate influences evolutionary potential and species differences for upper thermal limits in Drosophila
Katherine A. Mitchell, Ary A. Hoffmann - From molecules to living systems: historical and contemporary issues in oxidative stress and antioxidant ecology
David Costantini, Melissah Rowe, Michael W. Butler, Kevin J. McGraw - Oxidative stress as a life-history constraint: the role of reactive oxygen species in shaping phenotypes from conception to death
Neil B. Metcalfe, Carlos Alonso-Alvarez - Context-dependent running speed in funnel-web spiders from divergent populations
Jonathan N. Pruitt, Jerry F. Husak - Do leaves of plants on phosphorus-impoverished soils contain high concentrations of phenolic defence compounds?
David M. Wright, Greg J. Jordan, William G. Lee, Richard P. Duncan, David M. Forsyth, David A. Coomes - Intraseasonal climate and habitat-specific variability controls the flowering phenology of high alpine plant species
Karl Hülber, Manuela Winkler, Georg Grabherr - Radiotelemetry reveals variation in fever and sickness behaviours with latitude in a free-living passerine
James S. Adelman, Sergio Córdoba-Córdoba, Kamiel Spoelstra, Martin Wikelski, Michaela Hau - Rethinking the value of high wood density
Markku Larjavaara, Helene C. Muller-Landau - Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules
Maud A. Mouchet, Sébastien Villéger, Norman W. H. Mason, David Mouillot - How to measure oxidative stress in an ecological context: methodological and statistical issues
Peeter Hõrak, Alan Cohen - When sea-ice clock is ahead of Adelie penguins' clock
Michaël Beaulieu, Antoine Dervaux, Anne-Mathilde Thierry, David Lazin, Yvon Le Maho, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Marion Spée, Thierry Raclot, André Ancel
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