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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assortative Mating in Hybrid Zones Is Remarkably Ineffective in Promoting Speciation75
Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification54
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling47
Patterns, Predictors, and Consequences of Dominance in Hybrids43
Survival Benefits of Group Living in a Fluctuating Environment36
Frequency of Occurrence and Population-Dynamic Consequences of Different Forms of Density-Dependent Emigration33
Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence32
The Genetic Architecture of Fitness Drives Population Viability during Rapid Environmental Change31
Timing Metabolic Depression: Predicting Thermal Stress in Extreme Intertidal Environments31
Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild30
The Origin and Spread of Locally Adaptive Seasonal Camouflage in Snowshoe Hares29
Australian Rodents Reveal Conserved Cranial Evolutionary Allometry across 10 Million Years of Murid Evolution26
The Benefits of Help in Cooperative Birds: Nonexistent or Difficult to Detect?26
Selection and Constraints in the Ecomorphological Adaptive Evolution of the Skull of Living Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)26
Where Is Natural History in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Science?24
Dispersal Predicts Hybrid Zone Widths across Animal Diversity: Implications for Species Borders under Incomplete Reproductive Isolation24
Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays24
The Minimum Environmental Perturbation Principle: A New Perspective on Niche Theory24
How Long Does It Take to Fix a Favorable Mutation, and Why Should We Care?24
Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient23
The Ecology of Individual Differences Empirically Applied to Space-Use and Movement Tactics23
Ecology and Evolution of Blood Oxygen-Carrying Capacity in Birds23
Effect of Stressors on the Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations23
Miniaturization, Genome Size, and Biological Size in a Diverse Clade of Salamanders23
Pathogens and Mutualists as Joint Drivers of Host Species Coexistence and Turnover: Implications for Plant Competition and Succession23
Daily Nest Predation Rates Decrease with Body Size in Passerine Birds22
Movement and Seasonal Energetics Mediate Vulnerability to Disturbance in Marine Mammal Populations22
Rethinking Gloger’s Rule: Climate, Light Environments, and Color in a Large Family of Tropical Birds (Furnariidae)21
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity21
Reinforcement Learning Theory Reveals the Cognitive Requirements for Solving the Cleaner Fish Market Task21
Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits21
Microgeography, Not Just Latitude, Drives Climate Overlap on Mountains from Tropical to Polar Ecosystems21
The Contribution of Genetic and Environmental Effects to Bergmann’s Rule and Allen’s Rule in House Mice21
Complex Relationship between Tunneling Patterns and Individual Behaviors in Termites21
Identifying “Useful” Fitness Models: Balancing the Benefits of Added Complexity with Realistic Data Requirements in Models of Individual Plant Fitness21
Moving beyond the “Diversity Paradox”: The Limitations of Competition-Based Frameworks in Understanding Species Diversity21
Janzen-Connell Effects Are a Weak Impediment to Competitive Exclusion20
Amphibian Speciation Rates Support a General Role of Mountains as Biodiversity Pumps20
Multiple Environmental Stressors Induce an Adaptive Maternal Effect20
Flies Exploit Predictable Perspectives and Backgrounds to Enhance Iridescent Signal Salience and Mating Success20
Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites20
Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline19
Climate Change and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Activity Time in Mammals19
Observed Ecological Communities Are Formed by Species Combinations That Are among the Most Likely to Persist under Changing Environments19
Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues18
Hybridization and the Coexistence of Species18
Phenotypic Plasticity for Desiccation Resistance, Climate Change, and Future Species Distributions: Will Plasticity Have Much Impact?18
Aging and Senescence across Reproductive Traits and Survival in Superb Fairy-Wrens (Malurus cyaneus)18
The Complexity of Social Complexity: A Quantitative Multidimensional Approach for Studies of Social Organization17
When and Where We Can Expect to See Early Warning Signals in Multispecies Systems Approaching Tipping Points: Insights from Theory17
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps17
Relative Brain Size Is Predicted by the Intensity of Intrasexual Competition in Frogs17
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists17
Adaptation and Latitudinal Gradients in Species Interactions: Nest Predation in Birds17
Revisiting the Role of Hyperparasitism in the Evolution of Virulence17
Infection Status as the Basis for Habitat Choices in a Wild Amphibian16
Positively and Negatively Autocorrelated Environmental Fluctuations Have Opposing Effects on Species Coexistence16
Maintenance of Fertility in the Face of Meiotic Drive16
When Do Individuals Maximize Their Inclusive Fitness?16
Fitness Costs of Parasites Explain Multiple Life-History Trade-Offs in a Wild Mammal16
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)16
Niche Theory for Mutualism: A Graphical Approach to Plant-Pollinator Network Dynamics16
Models for Eco-Evolutionary Extinction Vortices under Balancing Selection16
Frugivory Specialization in Birds and Fruit Chemistry Structure Mutualistic Networks across the Neotropics16
The Effect of the Recombination Rate between Adaptive Loci on the Capacity of a Population to Expand Its Range15
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum15
Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation15
Deconstructing the Impact of Malaria Vector Diversity on Disease Risk15
Ecological Transitions in Grouping Benefits Explain the Paradox of Environmental Quality and Sociality15
Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence15
State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry14
Mechanisms for Color Convergence in a Mimetic Radiation of Poison Frogs14
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores14
Ecological Drivers of Carnivoran Body Shape Evolution14
Understanding the Social Dynamics of Breeding Phenology: Indirect Genetic Effects and Assortative Mating in a Long-Distance Migrant14
Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success14
Prey Exploits the Auditory Illusions of Eavesdropping Predators14
Oxidative Stress Experienced during Early Development Influences the Offspring Phenotype14
Fledging Mass Is Color Morph Specific and Affects Local Recruitment in a Wild Bird14
Temperature-Dependent Competitive Outcomes between the Fruit FliesDrosophila santomeaandDrosophila yakuba14
Life-History Plasticity and Water-Use Trade-Offs Associated with Drought Resistance in a Clade of California Jewelflowers14
Selection for Rhythm as a Trigger for Recursive Evolution in the Elaborate Display System of Woodpeckers13
A Common Endocrine Signature Marks the Convergent Evolution of an Elaborate Dance Display in Frogs13
Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions13
Repeated Genetic and Adaptive Phenotypic Divergence across Tidal Elevation in a Foundation Plant Species13
Virulent Disease Epidemics Can Increase Host Density by Depressing Foraging of Hosts13
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere13
Within Reach? Habitat Availability as a Function of Individual Mobility and Spatial Structuring13
An Empiricist’s Guide to Using Ecological Theory13
The Context-Dependent Effects of Host Competence, Competition, and Pathogen Transmission Mode on Disease Prevalence13
Disentangling Niche Theory and Beta Diversity Change13
Magnitude and Predictability of pH Fluctuations Shape Plastic Responses to Ocean Acidification13
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality13
The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning13
Sexual Dichromatism Is Decoupled from Diversification over Deep Time in Fishes12
Defensive Symbiosis and the Evolution of Virulence12
Burying Beetle Parents Adaptively Manipulate Information Broadcast from a Microbial Community12
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny12
Transformational Mimicry in a Myrmecomorphic Spider12
Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts12
Fish, People, and Systems of Power: Understanding and Disrupting Feedback between Colonialism and Fisheries Science12
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators12
Evolutionary Pathways to Communal and Cooperative Breeding in Carnivores12
Accelerated Brain Shape Evolution Is Associated with Rapid Diversification in an Avian Radiation12
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids12
Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments11
Individual-Level Memory Is Sufficient to Create Spatial Segregation among Neighboring Colonies of Central Place Foragers11
Demographic History, Not Mating System, Explains Signatures of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression in a Large Outbred Population11
Climate Change–Driven Regime Shifts in a Planktonic Food Web11
Experimental Hybridization Studies Suggest That Pleiotropic Alleles Commonly Underlie Adaptive Divergence between Natural Populations11
Soil Microbes Generate Stronger Fitness Differences than Stabilization among California Annual Plants11
Parental Population Range Expansion before Secondary Contact Promotes Heterosis11
Rapid Range Expansion of a Marine Ectotherm Reveals the Demographic and Ecological Consequences of Short-Term Variability in Seawater Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen11
The Allometry of Sound Frequency Bandwidth in Songbirds11
The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy’s Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites11
Virulence Evolution of Pathogens That Can Grow in Reservoir Environments11
The Shapes of Birds’ Eggs: Evolutionary Constraints and Adaptations11
Natural Selection and the Evolution of Asynchronous Aging11
Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities11
The Use and Underuse of Model Systems in Infectious Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Biology10
Environmental Change, If Unaccounted, Prevents Detection of Cryptic Evolution in a Wild Population10
Reproductive Character Displacement in Genital Morphology in Ohomopterus Ground Beetles10
Ant Collective Behavior Is Heritable and Shaped by Selection10
Predicting Multivariate Responses of Sexual Dimorphism to Direct and Indirect Selection10
Is Evolution in Response to Extreme Events Good for Population Persistence?10
Partner Fidelity and Asymmetric Specialization in Ecological Networks10
Parasitism Risk and Infection Alter Host Dispersal10
Shifts in Reproductive Investment in Response to Competitors Lower Male Reproductive Success10
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors10
Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity10
Did Mammals Bring the First Mistletoes into the Treetops?9
Revisiting a Landmark Study System: No Evidence for a Punctuated Mode of Evolution inMetrarabdotos9
High Preservation Potential of Paleogeographic Range Size Distributions in Deep Time9
More or Less? The Effect of Symbiont Density in Protective Mutualisms9
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths9
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion9
Dispersal Alters the Nature and Scope of Sexually Antagonistic Variation9
Proximate Causes of Infertility and Embryo Mortality in Captive Zebra Finches9
Pollinator-Mediated Indirect Effects on Plant Fecundity Revealed by Network Indices9
Individual Specialization and Multihost Epidemics: Disease Spread in Plant-Pollinator Networks9
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy9
Trade-Offs with Growth Limit Host Range in Complex Life-Cycle Helminths9
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery9
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota9
Combining Climatic and Genomic Data Improves Range-Wide Tree Height Growth Prediction in a Forest Tree8
Thermal Variability and Plasticity Drive the Outcome of a Host-Pathogen Interaction8
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities ofClarkiaSpecies: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement8
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities8
Elder Barn Owl Nestlings Flexibly Redistribute Parental Food according to Siblings’ Need or in Return for Allopreening8
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny8
Coping with Danger and Deception: Lessons from Signal Detection Theory8
Mating Preference for Novel Phenotypes Can Be Explained by General Neophilia in Female Guppies8
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change8
Correlated Evolution of Sex Allocation and Mating System in Wrasses and Parrotfishes8
Investigating the Dynamics of Elk Population Size and Body Mass in a Seasonal Environment Using a Mechanistic Integral Projection Model8
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants8
Floral Trait Evolution of Angiosperms on Pacific Islands8
Holobiont Evolution: Population Theory for the Hologenome8
Increased Levels of Perceived Competition Decrease Juvenile Kin-Shoaling Preferences in a Cichlid Fish8
Conservation and Convergence of Genetic Architecture in the Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards8
Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a Path to Complex Multicellularity8
Civil War Is Associated with Longer Escape Distances among Sri Lankan Birds8
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change8
Looking for Mimicry in a Snake Assemblage Using Deep Learning8
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data8
Plantagospp. as Models for Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Species Interactions across Environmental Gradients7
Competitive Exclusion and Evolution: Convergence Almost Never Produces Ecologically Equivalent Species7
The Effect of Habitat Choice on Evolutionary Rescue in Subdivided Populations7
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output7
Diversification or Collapse of Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes as a Rescue Process7
Experimental Evidence That Phenotypic Evolution but Not Plasticity Occurs along Genetic Lines of Least Resistance in Homogeneous Environments7
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence7
Rethinking Habitat Occupancy Modeling and the Role of Diel Activity in an Anthropogenic World7
A Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly7
Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape7
Evolution of Anisogamy in Organisms with Parthenogenetic Gametes7
Reproductive Character Displacement Drives Diversification of Male Courtship Songs in Drosophila7
Selection of Floral Traits by Pollinators and Seed Predators during Sequential Life History Stages7
Cheating in Mutualisms Promotes Diversity and Complexity7
Can Sensory Drive Explain the Evolution of Visual Signal Diversity in Terrestrial Species? A Test with Anolis Lizards7
Climate Shapes the Geographic Distribution and Introgressive Spread of Color Ornamentation in Common Wall Lizards7
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies7
Maternal and Paternal Age Effects on Male Antler Flies: A Field Experiment7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution7
Caching in or Falling Back at the Sevilleta: The Effects of Body Size and Seasonal Uncertainty on Desert Rodent Foraging7
Coevolutionary Arms Races and the Conditions for the Maintenance of Mutualism7
An Empirical Test of the Role of Small-Scale Transmission in Large-Scale Disease Dynamics7
Fish Avoid Visually Noisy Environments Where Prey Targeting Is Reduced7
Pulse and Press Disturbances Have Different Effects on Transient Community Dynamics7
Host Plant Choice Determined by Reproductive Interference between Closely Related Butterflies7
Density-Dependent and Species-Specific Effects on Self-Organization Modulate the Resistance of Mussel Bed Ecosystems to Hydrodynamic Stress7
Snared in an Evil Time: How Age-Dependent Environmental and Demographic Variability Contribute to Variance in Lifetime Outcomes7
Emergent Shapes of Trait-Based Competition Functions from Resource-Based Models: A Gaussian Is Not Normal in Plant Communities7
Annual Schedule Adjustment by a Long-Distance Migratory Bird7
Comparison of Categorical Color Perception in Two Estrildid Finches7
Maintenance of Metabolic Plasticity despite Relaxed Selection in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli7
Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped This Special Section7
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations7
Common Field Data Limitations Can Substantially Bias Sexual Selection Metrics7
A Comparative Test for Divergent Adaptation: Inferring Speciation Drivers from Functional Trait Divergence7
Infanticide by Females Is a Leading Source of Juvenile Mortality in a Large Social Carnivore7
Genetic and Ecogeographic Controls on Species Cohesion in Australia’s Most Diverse Lizard Radiation6
On Male Harm: How It Is Measured and How It Evolves in Different Environments6
Adaptive Maternal Investment in the Wild? Links between Maternal Growth Trajectory and Offspring Size, Growth, and Survival in Contrasting Environments6
Body Size, Light Intensity, and Nutrient Supply Determine Plankton Stoichiometry in Mixotrophic Plankton Food Webs6
Mammal Community Structure through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum6
Consumer Responses to Experimental Pulsed Subsidies in Isolated versus Connected Habitats6
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris)6
Pathogen Dynamics across the Diversity of Aging6
Fluctuating Dynamics of Mate Availability Promote the Evolution of Flexible Choosiness in Both Sexes6
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat6
The Adaptive Geometry of Trees Revisited6
Comparing the Indirect Effects between Exploiters in Predator-Prey and Host-Pathogen Systems6
Kin Recognition in Guppies Uses Self-Referencing Based on Olfactory Cues6
The Temporal Dimension of Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions: Mechanisms Promoting Feedback between Generations6
Simultaneous Wing Molt as a Catalyst for the Evolution of Flightlessness in Birds6
Drivers and Cascading Ecological Consequences of Gambusia affinis Trait Variation6
Experimental Amelioration of Harsh Weather Speeds Growth and Development in a Tropical Montane Songbird6
Hybridization Outcomes Have Strong Genomic and Environmental Contingencies6
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition6
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)6
Emigrating Together but Not Establishing Together: A Cockroach Rides Ants and Leaves6
Asymmetric Evolvability Leads to Specialization without Trade-Offs6
The Potential Beneficial Effects of Vaccination on Antigenically Evolving Pathogens6
Dispersal Decreases Survival but Increases Reproductive Opportunities for Subordinates in a Cooperative Breeder6
Discussions of the “Not So Fit”: How Ableism Limits Diverse Thought and Investigative Potential in Evolutionary Biology6
Game Theory in Biology: Moving beyond Functional Accounts6
Monarch Butterfly Migration as an Integrative Model of Complex Trait Evolution6
Sex-Specific Variance in Fitness and the Efficacy of Selection6
Factors That Can Affect the Spatial Positioning of Large and Small Individuals in Clusters of Sit-and-Wait Predators6
Ecological Filtering and Exaptation in the Evolution of Marine Snakes6
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals6
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?6
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community6
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities5
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits5
How to Model Optimal Group Size in Social Carnivores5
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors5
The Difficulty of Predicting Evolutionary Change in Response to Novel Ecological Interactions: A Field Experiment with Anolis Lizards5
Exploring Conditions That Strengthen or Weaken the Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Phenological Synchrony5
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps5
Plasticity versus Evolutionary Divergence: What Causes Habitat Partitioning in Urban-Adapted Birds?5
Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine5
Niche Packing and Local Coexistence in a Megadiverse Guild of Frugivorous Birds Are Mediated by Fruit Dependence and Shifts in Interaction Frequencies5
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting5
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense5
Fluctuations in Density-Dependent Selection Drive the Evolution of a Pace-of-Life Syndrome Within and Between Populations5
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly5
Evolutionary and Plastic Phenotypic Change Can Be Just as Fast as Changes in Population Densities5
Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System5
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