American Naturalist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Naturalist is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Front and Back Matter370
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Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change40
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse39
Front and Back Matter32
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations30
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History30
Inbreeding and Competitor’s Genetic Relatedness Affect Dynamic Male Color Ornament Expression in a Cichlid Fish27
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna27
When Does the Probability of Evolutionary Rescue Increase with the Strength of Selection despite a Potential Demographic Cost?26
Front and Back Matter24
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy23
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models23
Maintenance and breakdown: how population dynamics determine the evolutionary fate of Batesian mimicry22
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey21
Front and Back Matter21
Milking It: Repeated Postweaning Suckling Events in Galápagos Sea Lions ( Zalophus wollebaeki )20
Front and Back Matter20
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms20
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations20
Not all sexual monomorphisms evolve equally: female and male ornamentation in Tyranni passerines20
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density19
From Fear to Feast: Rattlesnakes Navigate the Landscape of Fear to Optimize Foraging18
A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence18
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs18
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish17
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)17
Linking Genomic Offset Statistics to the Shape of Selection Gradients17
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes17
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness17
On Pachycephalosaurs, Trade-Offs, and the Historical Genesis of Sociosexual Display Structures17
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies17
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites16
Rethinking Tipping Points in Spatial Ecosystems16
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps16
Front and Back Matter15
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet15
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds15
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice15
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees15
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift15
Front and Back Matter15
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor14
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard14
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities14
Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change14
Pollinator and Flower Morphology Interact to Affect Pollen Receipt14
Deconstructing the Morphological Basis of Ecogeographic Variation in the Hand-Wing Index, a Widely Used Proxy for Avian Mobility, in the Yellow Warbler ( Setophaga petechia 14
Longevity Hinders Evolutionary Rescue through Slower Growth but Not Necessarily Slower Adaptation14
Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive14
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males13
The Geometry of Macroevolution: Phenotypic Evolution on Non-Euclidean Manifolds13
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities13
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network13
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards13
Front and Back Matter13
Positional Intraclutch Variation in Egg Shape Associated with Maternal Guarding in a Shield Bug12
Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist12
The Evolution of Mate Attachment12
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization12
The Contributions of Microbial Interactions to Abrupt Ecosystem Changes during the Late Quaternary12
Sex Allocation and Reproductive Success in a Perennial Hermaphroditic Herb: Both Size and Timing Matter12
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors12
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales12
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants12
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism12
How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms12
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments12
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog12
Shielded by the Dead: How Killed Bacteria Shape the Dynamics and Evolution of Innate Immunity12
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish12
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks12
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers12
Corrigendum12
Physiological Color Change in the Neotropical Tree Frog ( Pithecopus hypochondrialis ) as a Potential Mechanism of Nocturnal Camouflage12
An origin for the allometric scaling of mammalian fat reflects populations living on the edge12
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes11
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes11
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird11
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality11
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited11
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission11
Bargain to Be Dominant11
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window11
Traffic Reduction during COVID-19 Lockdowns Benefited Species Already Tolerant of Noise Pollution: An Acoustic Analysis11
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection11
Secretary’s Report, 202311
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories11
Front and Back Matter10
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology10
Raptor Perception of Mismatch in Seasonally Polyphenic Prey10
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects10
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate10
Genome Composition Predicts Physiological Responses to Temperature in Polyploid Salamanders10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities10
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory10
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms10
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation10
Relict Savanna or Degraded Forest? Reinterpreting Open Woodlands in Sierra de Gredos (Central Spain)10
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix10
Rensch’s Rule Is Not Supported by a Mammals-Wide Analysis9
Front and Back Matter9
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods9
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees9
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster9
The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future9
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss9
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish9
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains9
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons ( Papio cynocephalus )9
Front and Back Matter9
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations9
Front and Back Matter9
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes9
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny9
The Evolution of Dependence and Cohesion in Incipient Endosymbioses9
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation8
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists8
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics8
No Evidence for Paternal Age Effects on Sons or Daughters When Accounting for Paternal Sperm Storage8
Demographic consequences of partner diversity and turnover in a multispecies ant-plant mutualism8
A Variance Partitioning Approach Identifies the Absence of Mate Choice and the Lack of Forced Copulation in the Water Strider Gerris gracilicornis8
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition8
The Characteristics of Inducible Defenses Influence Predator-Prey Dynamics8
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance8
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) Range Expansion8
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers8
Harnessing gene knockouts to study selection and aid conservation8
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance8
Front and Back Matter8
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce8
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis8
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons8
When Correcting for Regression to the Mean Is Worse Than No Correction at All8
Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation8
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming8
Secretary’s Report, 20258
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio8
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test8
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations8
Perspective: Intransitive Eco-Evolutionary Feedback Loops Maintain Coexistence8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change8
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars8
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids8
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense8
Front and Back Matter8
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