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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
   

Top-cited articles:

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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