American Naturalist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Naturalist is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling112
Patterns, Predictors, and Consequences of Dominance in Hybrids49
The Genetic Architecture of Fitness Drives Population Viability during Rapid Environmental Change35
Moving beyond the “Diversity Paradox”: The Limitations of Competition-Based Frameworks in Understanding Species Diversity33
Australian Rodents Reveal Conserved Cranial Evolutionary Allometry across 10 Million Years of Murid Evolution29
Microgeography, Not Just Latitude, Drives Climate Overlap on Mountains from Tropical to Polar Ecosystems26
Movement and Seasonal Energetics Mediate Vulnerability to Disturbance in Marine Mammal Populations26
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity25
The Contribution of Genetic and Environmental Effects to Bergmann’s Rule and Allen’s Rule in House Mice25
Miniaturization, Genome Size, and Biological Size in a Diverse Clade of Salamanders24
Amphibian Speciation Rates Support a General Role of Mountains as Biodiversity Pumps24
Fitness Costs of Parasites Explain Multiple Life-History Trade-Offs in a Wild Mammal24
Fish, People, and Systems of Power: Understanding and Disrupting Feedback between Colonialism and Fisheries Science24
Rethinking Gloger’s Rule: Climate, Light Environments, and Color in a Large Family of Tropical Birds (Furnariidae)24
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps23
Complex Relationship between Tunneling Patterns and Individual Behaviors in Termites23
Janzen-Connell Effects Are a Weak Impediment to Competitive Exclusion22
Identifying “Useful” Fitness Models: Balancing the Benefits of Added Complexity with Realistic Data Requirements in Models of Individual Plant Fitness22
Daily Nest Predation Rates Decrease with Body Size in Passerine Birds22
Observed Ecological Communities Are Formed by Species Combinations That Are among the Most Likely to Persist under Changing Environments22
Infection Status as the Basis for Habitat Choices in a Wild Amphibian21
Hybridization and the Coexistence of Species21
Aging and Senescence across Reproductive Traits and Survival in Superb Fairy-Wrens (Malurus cyaneus)20
Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline20
Frugivory Specialization in Birds and Fruit Chemistry Structure Mutualistic Networks across the Neotropics20
The Complexity of Social Complexity: A Quantitative Multidimensional Approach for Studies of Social Organization20
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)20
Adaptation and Latitudinal Gradients in Species Interactions: Nest Predation in Birds19
When and Where We Can Expect to See Early Warning Signals in Multispecies Systems Approaching Tipping Points: Insights from Theory19
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum19
An Empiricist’s Guide to Using Ecological Theory19
Niche Theory for Mutualism: A Graphical Approach to Plant-Pollinator Network Dynamics18
Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success18
Understanding the Social Dynamics of Breeding Phenology: Indirect Genetic Effects and Assortative Mating in a Long-Distance Migrant18
Revisiting the Role of Hyperparasitism in the Evolution of Virulence18
Models for Eco-Evolutionary Extinction Vortices under Balancing Selection18
The Context-Dependent Effects of Host Competence, Competition, and Pathogen Transmission Mode on Disease Prevalence18
Soil Microbes Generate Stronger Fitness Differences than Stabilization among California Annual Plants17
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny17
Magnitude and Predictability of pH Fluctuations Shape Plastic Responses to Ocean Acidification17
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists17
Positively and Negatively Autocorrelated Environmental Fluctuations Have Opposing Effects on Species Coexistence16
Temperature-Dependent Competitive Outcomes between the Fruit FliesDrosophila santomeaandDrosophila yakuba16
Holobiont Evolution: Population Theory for the Hologenome16
Burying Beetle Parents Adaptively Manipulate Information Broadcast from a Microbial Community16
Ecological Drivers of Carnivoran Body Shape Evolution16
Virulence Evolution of Pathogens That Can Grow in Reservoir Environments16
Conservation and Convergence of Genetic Architecture in the Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards15
Repeated Genetic and Adaptive Phenotypic Divergence across Tidal Elevation in a Foundation Plant Species15
Virulent Disease Epidemics Can Increase Host Density by Depressing Foraging of Hosts15
Sexual Dichromatism Is Decoupled from Diversification over Deep Time in Fishes15
A Common Endocrine Signature Marks the Convergent Evolution of an Elaborate Dance Display in Frogs15
Demographic History, Not Mating System, Explains Signatures of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression in a Large Outbred Population15
The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning15
The Effect of the Recombination Rate between Adaptive Loci on the Capacity of a Population to Expand Its Range15
Oxidative Stress Experienced during Early Development Influences the Offspring Phenotype15
Fledging Mass Is Color Morph Specific and Affects Local Recruitment in a Wild Bird15
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality15
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores15
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators15
State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry15
Disentangling Niche Theory and Beta Diversity Change14
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy14
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere14
Accelerated Brain Shape Evolution Is Associated with Rapid Diversification in an Avian Radiation14
The Shapes of Birds’ Eggs: Evolutionary Constraints and Adaptations14
Reproductive Character Displacement in Genital Morphology in Ohomopterus Ground Beetles13
Rapid Range Expansion of a Marine Ectotherm Reveals the Demographic and Ecological Consequences of Short-Term Variability in Seawater Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen13
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors13
Parental Population Range Expansion before Secondary Contact Promotes Heterosis13
Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a Path to Complex Multicellularity13
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids13
Individual-Level Memory Is Sufficient to Create Spatial Segregation among Neighboring Colonies of Central Place Foragers13
Natural Selection and the Evolution of Asynchronous Aging13
The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy’s Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites13
The Allometry of Sound Frequency Bandwidth in Songbirds12
Climate Change–Driven Regime Shifts in a Planktonic Food Web12
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery12
Ant Collective Behavior Is Heritable and Shaped by Selection11
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution11
Proximate Causes of Infertility and Embryo Mortality in Captive Zebra Finches11
Rethinking Habitat Occupancy Modeling and the Role of Diel Activity in an Anthropogenic World11
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence11
Is Evolution in Response to Extreme Events Good for Population Persistence?11
The Use and Underuse of Model Systems in Infectious Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Biology11
Environmental Change, If Unaccounted, Prevents Detection of Cryptic Evolution in a Wild Population11
Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped This Special Section11
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota11
Selection of Floral Traits by Pollinators and Seed Predators during Sequential Life History Stages10
Combining Climatic and Genomic Data Improves Range-Wide Tree Height Growth Prediction in a Forest Tree10
Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape10
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)10
Pollinator-Mediated Indirect Effects on Plant Fecundity Revealed by Network Indices10
Plantagospp. as Models for Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Species Interactions across Environmental Gradients10
The Temporal Dimension of Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions: Mechanisms Promoting Feedback between Generations10
Climate Shapes the Geographic Distribution and Introgressive Spread of Color Ornamentation in Common Wall Lizards10
Coevolutionary Arms Races and the Conditions for the Maintenance of Mutualism10
More or Less? The Effect of Symbiont Density in Protective Mutualisms10
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths10
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients10
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion10
Trade-Offs with Growth Limit Host Range in Complex Life-Cycle Helminths10
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities9
Emergent Shapes of Trait-Based Competition Functions from Resource-Based Models: A Gaussian Is Not Normal in Plant Communities9
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies9
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals9
Infanticide by Females Is a Leading Source of Juvenile Mortality in a Large Social Carnivore9
Diversification or Collapse of Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes as a Rescue Process9
Annual Schedule Adjustment by a Long-Distance Migratory Bird9
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change9
Did Mammals Bring the First Mistletoes into the Treetops?9
Discussions of the “Not So Fit”: How Ableism Limits Diverse Thought and Investigative Potential in Evolutionary Biology9
Dispersal Alters the Nature and Scope of Sexually Antagonistic Variation9
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?9
Can Sensory Drive Explain the Evolution of Visual Signal Diversity in Terrestrial Species? A Test with Anolis Lizards8
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change8
Effects of Warming on Intraguild Predator Communities with Ontogenetic Diet Shifts8
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities8
Hybridization Outcomes Have Strong Genomic and Environmental Contingencies8
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress8
Fish Avoid Visually Noisy Environments Where Prey Targeting Is Reduced8
Coping with Danger and Deception: Lessons from Signal Detection Theory8
The Effect of Habitat Choice on Evolutionary Rescue in Subdivided Populations8
Dispersal Decreases Survival but Increases Reproductive Opportunities for Subordinates in a Cooperative Breeder8
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output8
Snared in an Evil Time: How Age-Dependent Environmental and Demographic Variability Contribute to Variance in Lifetime Outcomes8
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations8
Experimental Evidence That Phenotypic Evolution but Not Plasticity Occurs along Genetic Lines of Least Resistance in Homogeneous Environments8
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities ofClarkiaSpecies: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement8
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities8
Reproductive Character Displacement Drives Diversification of Male Courtship Songs in Drosophila8
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny8
Cheating in Mutualisms Promotes Diversity and Complexity8
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data8
Social Behavior, Ovary Size, and Population of Origin Influence Cuticular Hydrocarbons in the Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma8
Comparison of Categorical Color Perception in Two Estrildid Finches8
Maternal and Paternal Age Effects on Male Antler Flies: A Field Experiment8
A Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly8
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris)8
Civil War Is Associated with Longer Escape Distances among Sri Lankan Birds8
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat8
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants8
Kin Recognition in Guppies Uses Self-Referencing Based on Olfactory Cues8
The Potential Beneficial Effects of Vaccination on Antigenically Evolving Pathogens7
A Unifying Framework for Estimating Generation Time in Age-Structured Populations: Implications for Phylogenetics and Conservation Biology7
The Genomic Consistency of the Loss of Anadromy in an Arctic Fish (Salvelinus alpinus)7
Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits7
Maintenance of Metabolic Plasticity despite Relaxed Selection in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli7
Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials7
Niche Packing and Local Coexistence in a Megadiverse Guild of Frugivorous Birds Are Mediated by Fruit Dependence and Shifts in Interaction Frequencies7
Comparing the Indirect Effects between Exploiters in Predator-Prey and Host-Pathogen Systems7
Pulse and Press Disturbances Have Different Effects on Transient Community Dynamics7
Density-Dependent and Species-Specific Effects on Self-Organization Modulate the Resistance of Mussel Bed Ecosystems to Hydrodynamic Stress7
Monarch Butterfly Migration as an Integrative Model of Complex Trait Evolution7
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect7
Opposing Patterns of Altitude-Driven Pollinator Turnover in the Tropical and Temperate Americas7
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits7
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations7
Evolution of Anisogamy in Organisms with Parthenogenetic Gametes7
Arthropod Predation of Vertebrates Structures Trophic Dynamics in Island Ecosystems7
On Male Harm: How It Is Measured and How It Evolves in Different Environments7
The Evolution of Plasmid Transfer Rate in Bacteria and Its Effect on Plasmid Persistence7
Drivers and Cascading Ecological Consequences of Gambusia affinis Trait Variation7
Sex-Specific Variance in Fitness and the Efficacy of Selection7
Ecological Filtering and Exaptation in the Evolution of Marine Snakes7
Fluctuating Dynamics of Mate Availability Promote the Evolution of Flexible Choosiness in Both Sexes7
The Evolution of Competitive Ability7
Desiccation Stress Acts as Cause as well as Cost of Dispersal in Drosophila melanogaster7
Game Theory in Biology: Moving beyond Functional Accounts6
Warning Coloration, Body Size, and the Evolution of Gregarious Behavior in Butterfly Larvae6
How Neanderthals Became White: The Introgression of Race into Contemporary Human Evolutionary Genetics6
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps6
Evolution of Social Organization: Phylogenetic Analyses of Ecology and Sexual Selection in Weavers6
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks6
Pathogen Dynamics across the Diversity of Aging6
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation6
Emigrating Together but Not Establishing Together: A Cockroach Rides Ants and Leaves6
Dimensionality and Modularity of Adaptive Variation: Divergence in Threespine Stickleback from Diverse Environments6
Genetic and Ecogeographic Controls on Species Cohesion in Australia’s Most Diverse Lizard Radiation6
Density-Dependent Adaptive Topography in a Small Passerine Bird, the Collared Flycatcher6
Dilution of Epidemic Potential of Environmentally Transmitted Infectious Diseases for Species with Partially Overlapping Habitats6
Exploring Conditions That Strengthen or Weaken the Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Phenological Synchrony6
How to Model Optimal Group Size in Social Carnivores6
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition6
Warming Rates Alter Sequence of Disassembly in Experimental Communities6
Strolling through a Century: Replicating Historical Bird Surveys to Explore 100 Years of Change in an Urban Bird Community6
Asymmetric Evolvability Leads to Specialization without Trade-Offs6
Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine6
Ecology and the Origin of Nonephemeral Species6
Simultaneous Wing Molt as a Catalyst for the Evolution of Flightlessness in Birds6
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense6
Relaxed Feeding Constraints Facilitate the Evolution of Mouthbrooding in Neotropical Cichlids6
Species Interactions Limit the Predictability of Community Responses to Environmental Change6
Plasticity versus Evolutionary Divergence: What Causes Habitat Partitioning in Urban-Adapted Birds?6
Age Structure Eliminates the Impact of Coinfection on Epidemic Dynamics in a Freshwater Zooplankton System6
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly6
The Difficulty of Predicting Evolutionary Change in Response to Novel Ecological Interactions: A Field Experiment with Anolis Lizards6
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community6
Spite and the Geometry of Negative Relatedness6
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting5
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness5
Fluctuations in Density-Dependent Selection Drive the Evolution of a Pace-of-Life Syndrome Within and Between Populations5
Resource Availability, Sex, and Individual Differences in Exploration Drive Individual Diet Specialization5
Scaling of Activity Space in Marine Organisms across Latitudinal Gradients5
Mechanisms of Male-Male Interference during Dispersal of Orchid Pollen5
Neotropical Birds Respond Innately to Unfamiliar Acoustic Signals5
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors5
Divergent Pathways of Nitrogen-Fixing Trees through Succession Depend on Starting Nitrogen Supply and Priority Effects5
Litter, Plant Competition, and Ecosystem Dynamics: A Theoretical Perspective5
On Being a Monkey’s Uncle: Germline Chimerism in the Callitrichinae and the Evolution of Sibling Rivalry5
Repeated Evolution of Unorthodox Feeding Styles Drives a Negative Correlation between Foot Size and Bill Length in Hummingbirds5
Context-Dependent Benefits of Aphids for Bacteria in the Phyllosphere5
Ecological Consequences of Intraspecific Variation in Coevolutionary Systems5
Analyzing Time-Energy Constraints to Understand the Links between Environmental Change and Local Extinctions in Terrestrial Ectotherms5
Periodic Environmental Disturbance Drives Repeated Ecomorphological Diversification in an Adaptive Radiation of Antarctic Fishes5
The Evolution of Resource Provisioning in Pollination Mutualisms5
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations5
Dispersal Increases Spatial Synchrony of Populations but Has Weak Effects on Population Variability: A Meta-analysis5
Shifts in Mutation Bias Promote Mutators by Altering the Distribution of Fitness Effects5
Male Adaptive Plasticity Can Explain the Evolution of Sexual Perception Costs5
Host Sex Modulates the Energetics of Pathogen Proliferation and Its Dependence on Environmental Resources5
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna5
Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution5
Evolutionary and Plastic Phenotypic Change Can Be Just as Fast as Changes in Population Densities5
Novel Genomic Insights into Body Size Evolution in Cetaceans and a Resolution of Peto’s Paradox5
Blood Variation Implicates Respiratory Limits on Elevational Ranges of Andean Birds5
The Potential for Alternative Stable States in Food Webs Depends on Feedback Mechanism and Trait Diversity5
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons5
Coexistence under Hierarchical Resource Exploitation: The Role of the R*-Preemption Trade-Off5
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes5
Light Environment Interacts with Visual Displays in a Species-Specific Manner in Multimodal-Signaling Wolf Spiders5
Unprecedented Biting Performance in Herbivorous Fish: How the Complex Biting System of Pomacentridae Circumvents Performance Trade-Offs5
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers5
Dynamic Changes in Begging Signal Short-Term Information on Hunger and Need5
Inverse Lansing Effect: Maternal Age and Provisioning Affecting Daughters’ Longevity and Male Offspring Production5
When Do Opposites Attract? A Model Uncovering the Evolution of Disassortative Mating5
How Female-Female Competition Affects Male-Male Competition: Insights into Postcopulatory Sexual Selection from Socially Polyandrous Species5
Performance Trade-Offs and Resource Availability Drive Variation in Reproductive Isolation between Sympatrically Diverging Crossbills5
Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System5
Environmental Conditions during Development Affect Sexual Selection through Trait-Fitness Relationships5
Evolved Phenological Cueing Strategies Show Variable Responses to Climate Change5
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish5
Long-Term Measures of Climate Unpredictability Shape the Avian Endocrine Stress Axis5
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates4
Large Mammals Have More Powerful Antibacterial Defenses Than Expected from Their Metabolic Rates4
Transforming Restoration Science: Multiple Knowledges and Community Research Cogeneration in the Klamath and Duwamish Rivers4
Nestling Begging Calls Resemble Maternal Vocal Signatures When Mothers Call Slowly to Embryos4
The Effect of Mating Complexity on Gene Drive Dynamics4
Individual Dietary Specialization in a Generalist Bee Varies across Populations but Has No Effect on the Richness of Associated Microbial Communities4
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