Journal of Plant Ecology

Journal of Plant Ecology (JPE) is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal of plant ecology.
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Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-08

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Drought may be beneficial to the of Amaranthus spinosus

Core:
1️⃣ competitive advantage;
2️⃣ the activities of soil enzymes under drought

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac001

Differences in the BSI (a) and SII (b) of drought on A. spinosus and A. tricolor in the monocultural or in the co-cultivated conditions (the monocultural A. spinosus, As; the monocultural A. tricolor, At; the co-cultivated A. spinosus, MixAs; the co-cultivated A. tricolor, MixAt) under different levels of drought (light level of drought, yellow bars; heavy level of drought, red bars).
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-08

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Species-specific responses to , and their interactions in Populus euphratica and P. pruinosa seedlings

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa043

(a) Net photosynthetic rate (Pn), (b) total chlorophyll content (TChl ab), (c) stomatal conductance (gs), (d) transpiration (E), (e) RWC and (f) carbon isotope composition (δ 13C) in P. euphratica and P. pruinosa, as affected by drought, salinity and combined stress.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-07

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
-altitude tree growth responses to climate change across the Hindu Kush Himalaya

Experimental samples:
Abies, Juniperus and Picea

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab035

Cluster dendrogram derived from the DTW method.Linear regression coefficients of subregional chronologies with monthly/seasonal climate factors for the western HKH (a and d), central-eastern HKH (b and e) and southeastern TP (c and f), upper panels for monthly/seasonal precipitation (abbreviated as PPT), lower panels for monthly/seasonal mean (Tmean), maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) temperatures.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-07

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Interactive effect of and may shift the dynamics of native and invasive species

Control species:
L. & Artemisia argyi Levl. et Van

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa071

Conceptual framework explaining mechanisms underlying the temperature (T) and nitrogen (N) effects on the plant.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-06

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
The ultraviolet colour component enhances the attractiveness of of a bee-pollinated plant

Core:
1️⃣
2️⃣ Color preference of Bumblebees

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa023

Bumblebee (Bombus friseanus) visiting the human-red flower of Onosma confertum (Boraginaceae) and reflectance spectra of natural, UV+ (coated with only oil substrate) and UV− (coated with sunscreen mixture and oil substrate) flowers (a). Their colour loci were mapped in the colour hexgon model (Chittka 1992) (b) and the RNL model (Vorobyev and Osorio 1998) (c). The relevant region of the coordinates are detailed to show the relative positions of colour loci in more detail.Reflectance curves of the background, training and testing stimuli (cultivated varieties of Camellia japonica) that have been used in colour choice by flower-naïve bumble bees.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-06

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Contrasting responses of native and to soil properties shed new light on the invasion of

🔗Core:
the interplay between , soil salinity and

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa052

Location of the study area in the lagoon of Marano and Grado in the northern Adriatic Sea (a), the barrier islands and 10 sampling areas (b) and an example of 10 points distribution inside each sampling area (San Andrea island) (c).Effects of soil conductivity (a–c), organic carbon content in soil (d–f) and nitrogen content in soil (g–i) on standardized species cover (abundance) between status (native = solid line, alien = dashed line) and within habitats (vertical columns).
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-05

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
of an ( ): a global scale comparison in native and introduced regions

Core:
How the climatic niche shift could contribute to increasing .

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz041

Probability of Ulex europaeus presence predicted by the native and introduced models
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-05

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
increases along a : evidences from leaf stoichiometry and

Core:
1️⃣ N and P concentrations in green leaves and leaf litter for woody species different stages;
2️⃣ and factors.

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac017

Variations in community-level leaf stoichiometry and NuRE along succession.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-04

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Changes in structure and function following degradation in a

Research points:
1️⃣ the effects of different levels of grassland degradation;
2️⃣ influence factor.

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa102

Bacterial function predictions based on the FAPROTAX tool (a) and fungal guilds based on the FUNGuild pipeline (b) for different levels of degradation.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-04

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
📖 affects plant biomass allocation but not allometric relationships among different organs across the

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa100

Allometric relationships among different plant organs assessed using RMA regression at P < 0.05.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-03

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Spatiotemporal variation in and shape in response to climate

Core:
and temporal trends in leaf size

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz053

Temporal changes in leaf size and shape after correcting for collection location
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-03

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
glmm.hp: an R package for computing individual effect of predictors in generalized linear mixed models

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac096

Venn diagram representing the proportions of variance components in a mixed model.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-02

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Sexual differences and of dioecious plants under stressful environments

Research points:
1️⃣
2️⃣ sex-specific responses
3️⃣ sex ratio biases

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab038

Determining factors of secondary sexual dimorphism in dioecious plants (adapted from Juvany and Munné-Bosch 2015).Sexually different tolerances to abiotic stress and biotic stress.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-02

【💡High Cited 2020-2023 】
UAVs as remote sensing platforms in : review of applications and challenges

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab089

Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-01

【💡High Cited 】
regulate the assembly processes of abundant and rare microbial communities in desert soil

Research points:
1️⃣ species composition;
2️⃣ the influence of environmental factors;
3️⃣ the mechanisms underlying assembly.

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad032

Niche breadth of abundant bacteria (a), rare bacteria (b), abundant fungi (c) and rare fungi (d).
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-07-01

【💡High Cited 】
Divergent leaf -useStrategies of coexistent evergreen and deciduous trees in a subtropical forest

Core:
Different for limitation in evergreen and deciduous species

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac093

Relationships between the (a) PNUE and (b) PPUE, (c) N- and (d) P-based rates of respiration in the darkness (Rd,N and Rd,P) and CUE.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-06-30

【💡High Cited 】
structure in under stress

📖 Metrics:
1️⃣ root traits;
2️⃣ rhizosheath formation;
3️⃣ microbial community

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad012

Taxonomic comparison of the microbial community in rhizosheath, rhizosphere and bulk soil under irrigation treatments.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-06-30

【💡High Cited 】
Coculturing with aquatic animals promotes ecological intensification of paddy ecosystem

Core:
a Review of a quantitative analysis of literature on rice–aquatic animal coculture systems. (‼️NEW‼️)

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad014

Conceptual framework for key factors and mechanisms explaining the enhanced ecosystem functions and ecological intensification through coculturing rice with animals.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-06-29

【💡High Cited 】
Effects of land use on soil structure and diversity in the

🔎Core:
the structure and diversity of soil microbial communities ➡️ land use ➡️➡️ main drivers

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac075

Maps and schematic diagram of land use types in the Yellow River floodplain.
Journal of Plant Ecologyjpecol
2025-06-29

【💡High Cited 】
play a leading role in shaping in the northern Tibetan grasslands

♾️Core:
dominant species ➡️ community stability of different ecosystems

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac110

A schematic diagram of underlying stability mechanisms in the studied alpine grasslands.

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