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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front and Back Matter173
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations45
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?40
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy33
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse32
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History32
Front and Back Matter31
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models31
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants28
Front and Back Matter28
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms27
Inbreeding and competitor’s genetic relatedness affect dynamic male color-ornament expression in a cichlid fish26
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey25
When and Where We Can Expect to See Early Warning Signals in Multispecies Systems Approaching Tipping Points: Insights from Theory23
Front and Back Matter23
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations23
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change22
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna22
Front and Back Matter20
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees19
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery18
Front and Back Matter18
The Evolution of Resource Provisioning in Pollination Mutualisms18
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density18
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish17
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice17
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress17
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition17
Front and Back Matter17
Dispersal Alters the Nature and Scope of Sexually Antagonistic Variation17
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes17
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift16
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)16
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs16
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites15
Correction15
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees15
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds15
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps15
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness15
Bending the course of evolution: how mutualistic interactions affect macroevolutionary dynamics of diversification in mimetic Ithomiini butterflies15
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males15
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet15
Front and Back Matter15
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard15
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy15
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence14
Integrating Infection Intensity into Within- and Between-Host Pathogen Dynamics: Implications for Invasion and Virulence Evolution14
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities14
Front and Back Matter14
Correction14
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor14
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities14
Treasurer’s Report, 202013
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments13
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations13
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors13
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards13
Can Conflicting Selection from Pollinators and Nectar-Robbing Antagonists Drive Adaptive Pollen Limitation? A Conceptual Model and Empirical Test13
Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations13
Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits13
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish12
Quantifying phylogenetic and nonphylogenetic patterns in the richness, frequency, and identity of links in a herbivore-parasitoid interaction network12
Context-Dependent Benefits of Aphids for Bacteria in the Phyllosphere12
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales12
Social Behavior, Ovary Size, and Population of Origin Influence Cuticular Hydrocarbons in the Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma12
Monarch Butterfly Migration as an Integrative Model of Complex Trait Evolution12
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog12
The Extension of Foundress Life Span and the Evolution of Eusociality in the Hymenoptera11
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited11
Corrigendum11
The Demographic Consequences of Adaptation: Evidence from Experimental Evolution11
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data11
Demographic Attritions, Elevational Refugia, and the Resilience of Insect Populations to Projected Global Warming11
Density-Dependent and Species-Specific Effects on Self-Organization Modulate the Resistance of Mussel Bed Ecosystems to Hydrodynamic Stress11
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window11
Host Energetics Explain Variation in Parasite Productivity across Hosts and Ecosystems11
Rethinking Gloger’s Rule: Climate, Light Environments, and Color in a Large Family of Tropical Birds (Furnariidae)11
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization11
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection11
Do Interactions among Microbial Symbionts Cause Selection for Greater Pathogen Virulence?11
Nested versus Independent Sampling: Solving the Mystery of Contradictory Species-Area Relationships10
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories10
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism10
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality10
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers10
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes10
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology10
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird10
Bargain to Be Dominant10
The Evolution of Mate Attachment10
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants10
Front and Back Matter10
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes10
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission10
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms9
Asymmetric Evolvability Leads to Specialization without Trade-Offs9
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster9
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation9
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere9
Looking across Scales in Disease Ecology and Evolution9
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating9
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community9
Front and Back Matter9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains9
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities9
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny9
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)9
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix9
Secretary’s Report, 20239
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory9
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)9
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods8
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists8
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes8
The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga8
Front and Back Matter8
Front and Back Matter8
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects8
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates8
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota8
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny8
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)8
Front and Back Matter8
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator8
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees8
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish8
Front and Back Matter8
Polyandry as a Male Strategy? A Game between Aggressive and Tolerant Males, Arbitrated by Females8
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change8
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster8
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations8
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems8
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities8
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes8
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly8
Unprecedented Biting Performance in Herbivorous Fish: How the Complex Biting System of Pomacentridae Circumvents Performance Trade-Offs7
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations7
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes7
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test7
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons7
Frequency-Dependent Hybridization Contributes to Habitat Segregation in Monkeyflowers7
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming7
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance7
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change7
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition7
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce7
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics7
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity7
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect7
Front and Back Matter7
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids7
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars7
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities7
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis7
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss7
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio7
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists7
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance7
Organisms as Complex Structures Wrapped in a Complex Web of Life7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution7
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales7
Accelerated Brain Shape Evolution Is Associated with Rapid Diversification in an Avian Radiation7
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum6
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog6
Null Models for the Opportunity for Selection6
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output6
Front and Back Matter6
Front and Back Matter6
The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model6
Erratum6
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga6
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment6
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation6
Fruit Size in Indo-Malayan Island Plants Is More Strongly Influenced by Filtering than by In Situ Evolution6
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting6
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds6
The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits6
Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution6
Front and Back Matter6
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change6
Alternative States in Plant Communities Driven by a Life-History Trade-Off and Demographic Stochasticity6
Front and Back Matter6
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent6
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers6
Secretary’s Report, 20246
Analyzing Time-Energy Constraints to Understand the Links between Environmental Change and Local Extinctions in Terrestrial Ectotherms6
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense6
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes6
Allee Effects and Coexistence6
Front and Back Matter6
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change6
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales6
On Male Harm: How It Is Measured and How It Evolves in Different Environments6
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion6
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients6
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies6
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates6
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics6
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review6
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids5
Differential Survival and Background Selection in Cryptic Trunk-Dwelling Arthropods in Fire-Prone Environments5
The Genetic Architecture of Fitness Drives Population Viability during Rapid Environmental Change5
Environmental Fluctuations Promote Host Reward Strategies That Maintain Partner Diversity in Multispecies Mutualisms5
Front and Back Matter5
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps5
Novel Genomic Insights into Body Size Evolution in Cetaceans and a Resolution of Peto’s Paradox5
The Use and Underuse of Model Systems in Infectious Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Biology5
Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships5
Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations5
Niche Specificity, Polygeny, and Pleiotropy in Herbivorous Insects5
Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System5
Effects of Phylogenetic Relatedness on Fluctuation-Dependent and Fluctuation-Independent Coexistence Mechanisms in Multispecies Communities5
The Effect of Predator Population Dynamics on Batesian Mimicry Complexes5
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat5
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators5
On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna5
Front and Back Matter5
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling5
Divergent Pathways of Nitrogen-Fixing Trees through Succession Depend on Starting Nitrogen Supply and Priority Effects5
When Do Traits Tell More Than Species about a Metacommunity? A Synthesis across Ecosystems and Scales5
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths5
Thermal Plasticity in Behavioral Traits Mediates Mating and Reproductive Dynamics in an Ectotherm5
Front and Back Matter5
Female Audience Shapes the Complexity and Syntax of Male Courtship Displays in a Lek-Mating Bird5
Sex Allocation in a Monogamous Bird: Advantaged Matrilines and Sons with Silver Spoons5
In Memoriam5
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores5
On the Interpretation of the Operation of Natural Selection in Class-Structured Populations5
Correction5
A New Twist on an Old Story: Pollination and Seed Predation in Jadera haematoloma5
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)5
Larval Density, Sex, and Allocation Hierarchy Affect Life History Trait Covariances in a Bean Beetle5
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks5
Honorary Lifetime Membership Award: Ellen D. Ketterson4
Unequal Reproduction Early in a Social Transition: Insights from Invasive Wasps4
High Juvenile Mortality Overwhelms Benefits of Mating Potential for Reproductive Fitness4
An Evolutionary Game Model of Sex-Dependent Antipredator Signaling4
Differential Stage-Specific Mortality as a Mechanism for Diversification4
Sex Differences in Laterality Are Associated with Reproduction in Threespine Stickleback4
Species Diversity and Habitat Fragmentation Per Se: The Influence of Local Extinctions and Species Clustering4
Correction4
Evolutionary Lability of Sexual Selection and Its Implications for Speciation and Macroevolution4
Long-Term Measures of Climate Unpredictability Shape the Avian Endocrine Stress Axis4
Front and Back Matter4
Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya4
An Elevational Phylogeographic Diversity Gradient in Neotropical Birds Is Decoupled from Speciation Rates4
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