American Naturalist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Naturalist is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assortative Mating in Hybrid Zones Is Remarkably Ineffective in Promoting Speciation75
Local Adaptation to Biotic Interactions: A Meta-analysis across Latitudes57
Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification54
Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis53
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling44
Patterns, Predictors, and Consequences of Dominance in Hybrids41
Gene Flow Limits Adaptation along Steep Environmental Gradients37
Survival Benefits of Group Living in a Fluctuating Environment36
Frequency of Occurrence and Population-Dynamic Consequences of Different Forms of Density-Dependent Emigration33
Timing Metabolic Depression: Predicting Thermal Stress in Extreme Intertidal Environments31
Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence31
The Genetic Architecture of Fitness Drives Population Viability during Rapid Environmental Change31
Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild29
The Origin and Spread of Locally Adaptive Seasonal Camouflage in Snowshoe Hares29
Selection and Constraints in the Ecomorphological Adaptive Evolution of the Skull of Living Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)26
Australian Rodents Reveal Conserved Cranial Evolutionary Allometry across 10 Million Years of Murid Evolution25
Dispersal Predicts Hybrid Zone Widths across Animal Diversity: Implications for Species Borders under Incomplete Reproductive Isolation24
Where Is Natural History in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Science?24
The Benefits of Help in Cooperative Birds: Nonexistent or Difficult to Detect?24
The Ecology of Individual Differences Empirically Applied to Space-Use and Movement Tactics23
Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays23
How Long Does It Take to Fix a Favorable Mutation, and Why Should We Care?23
Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient22
Pathogens and Mutualists as Joint Drivers of Host Species Coexistence and Turnover: Implications for Plant Competition and Succession22
Ecology and Evolution of Blood Oxygen-Carrying Capacity in Birds22
The Minimum Environmental Perturbation Principle: A New Perspective on Niche Theory22
Developmental Constraints Do Not Influence Long-Term Phenotypic Evolution of Marsupial Forelimbs as Revealed by Interspecific Disparity and Integration Patterns22
Effect of Stressors on the Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations22
Miniaturization, Genome Size, and Biological Size in a Diverse Clade of Salamanders22
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
Complex Relationship between Tunneling Patterns and Individual Behaviors in Termites21
Microgeography, Not Just Latitude, Drives Climate Overlap on Mountains from Tropical to Polar Ecosystems21
Reinforcement Learning Theory Reveals the Cognitive Requirements for Solving the Cleaner Fish Market Task21
Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits21
Identifying “Useful” Fitness Models: Balancing the Benefits of Added Complexity with Realistic Data Requirements in Models of Individual Plant Fitness21
Janzen-Connell Effects Are a Weak Impediment to Competitive Exclusion20
Evolution Transforms Pushed Waves into Pulled Waves20
Moving beyond the “Diversity Paradox”: The Limitations of Competition-Based Frameworks in Understanding Species Diversity20
Flies Exploit Predictable Perspectives and Backgrounds to Enhance Iridescent Signal Salience and Mating Success20
Amphibian Speciation Rates Support a General Role of Mountains as Biodiversity Pumps20
The Contribution of Genetic and Environmental Effects to Bergmann’s Rule and Allen’s Rule in House Mice19
Observed Ecological Communities Are Formed by Species Combinations That Are among the Most Likely to Persist under Changing Environments19
Multiple Environmental Stressors Induce an Adaptive Maternal Effect18
Hybridization and the Coexistence of Species18
Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites18
Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline18
Climate Change and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Activity Time in Mammals18
Phenotypic Plasticity for Desiccation Resistance, Climate Change, and Future Species Distributions: Will Plasticity Have Much Impact?18
Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues18
Adaptation and Latitudinal Gradients in Species Interactions: Nest Predation in Birds17
Relative Brain Size Is Predicted by the Intensity of Intrasexual Competition in Frogs17
Aging and Senescence across Reproductive Traits and Survival in Superb Fairy-Wrens (Malurus cyaneus)17
Maintenance of Fertility in the Face of Meiotic Drive17
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
Fitness Costs of Parasites Explain Multiple Life-History Trade-Offs in a Wild Mammal16
Niche Theory for Mutualism: A Graphical Approach to Plant-Pollinator Network Dynamics16
Models for Eco-Evolutionary Extinction Vortices under Balancing Selection16
When Do Individuals Maximize Their Inclusive Fitness?16
Positively and Negatively Autocorrelated Environmental Fluctuations Have Opposing Effects on Species Coexistence16
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists16
Infection Status as the Basis for Habitat Choices in a Wild Amphibian16
Frugivory Specialization in Birds and Fruit Chemistry Structure Mutualistic Networks across the Neotropics15
Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation15
The Effect of the Recombination Rate between Adaptive Loci on the Capacity of a Population to Expand Its Range15
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps15
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum15
Ecological Transitions in Grouping Benefits Explain the Paradox of Environmental Quality and Sociality15
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)15
Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence15
Revisiting the Role of Hyperparasitism in the Evolution of Virulence15
State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry14
Mechanisms for Color Convergence in a Mimetic Radiation of Poison Frogs14
Ecological Drivers of Carnivoran Body Shape Evolution14
Fledging Mass Is Color Morph Specific and Affects Local Recruitment in a Wild Bird14
Understanding the Social Dynamics of Breeding Phenology: Indirect Genetic Effects and Assortative Mating in a Long-Distance Migrant14
Oxidative Stress Experienced during Early Development Influences the Offspring Phenotype14
Deconstructing the Impact of Malaria Vector Diversity on Disease Risk13
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores13
Prey Exploits the Auditory Illusions of Eavesdropping Predators13
Magnitude and Predictability of pH Fluctuations Shape Plastic Responses to Ocean Acidification13
Within Reach? Habitat Availability as a Function of Individual Mobility and Spatial Structuring13
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
Selection for Rhythm as a Trigger for Recursive Evolution in the Elaborate Display System of Woodpeckers13
Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions13
An Empiricist’s Guide to Using Ecological Theory13
Temperature-Dependent Competitive Outcomes between the Fruit FliesDrosophila santomeaandDrosophila yakuba13
The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning13
A Common Endocrine Signature Marks the Convergent Evolution of an Elaborate Dance Display in Frogs13
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere12
Sexual Dichromatism Is Decoupled from Diversification over Deep Time in Fishes12
Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts12
Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success12
Life-History Plasticity and Water-Use Trade-Offs Associated with Drought Resistance in a Clade of California Jewelflowers12
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators12
Nonlinear Effects of Intraspecific Competition Alter Landscape-Wide Scaling Up of Ecosystem Function12
Accelerated Brain Shape Evolution Is Associated with Rapid Diversification in an Avian Radiation12
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny12
Fish, People, and Systems of Power: Understanding and Disrupting Feedback between Colonialism and Fisheries Science12
Disentangling Niche Theory and Beta Diversity Change12
Transformational Mimicry in a Myrmecomorphic Spider12
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality12
Burying Beetle Parents Adaptively Manipulate Information Broadcast from a Microbial Community12
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids12
The Context-Dependent Effects of Host Competence, Competition, and Pathogen Transmission Mode on Disease Prevalence11
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
Defensive Symbiosis and the Evolution of Virulence11
Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities11
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
Evolutionary Pathways to Communal and Cooperative Breeding in Carnivores11
Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments10
Soil Microbes Generate Stronger Fitness Differences than Stabilization among California Annual Plants10
Predicting Multivariate Responses of Sexual Dimorphism to Direct and Indirect Selection10
Dispersal Alters the Nature and Scope of Sexually Antagonistic Variation10
Is Evolution in Response to Extreme Events Good for Population Persistence?10
Reproductive Character Displacement in Genital Morphology in Ohomopterus Ground Beetles10
Parasitism Risk and Infection Alter Host Dispersal10
Shifts in Reproductive Investment in Response to Competitors Lower Male Reproductive Success10
Does Evolutionary History Correlate with Contemporary Extinction Risk by Influencing Range Size Dynamics?10
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors10
Partner Fidelity and Asymmetric Specialization in Ecological Networks10
Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity10
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
Experimental Hybridization Studies Suggest That Pleiotropic Alleles Commonly Underlie Adaptive Divergence between Natural Populations10
Natural Selection and the Evolution of Asynchronous Aging9
Trade-Offs with Growth Limit Host Range in Complex Life-Cycle Helminths9
Pollinator-Mediated Indirect Effects on Plant Fecundity Revealed by Network Indices9
Revisiting a Landmark Study System: No Evidence for a Punctuated Mode of Evolution inMetrarabdotos9
Climate Change–Driven Regime Shifts in a Planktonic Food Web9
High Preservation Potential of Paleogeographic Range Size Distributions in Deep Time9
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota9
Did Mammals Bring the First Mistletoes into the Treetops?9
Stochasticity and Infectious Disease Dynamics: Density and Weather Effects on a Fungal Insect Pathogen9
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery9
More or Less? The Effect of Symbiont Density in Protective Mutualisms9
Ant Collective Behavior Is Heritable and Shaped by Selection9
Floral Trait Evolution of Angiosperms on Pacific Islands8
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths8
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data8
Increased Levels of Perceived Competition Decrease Juvenile Kin-Shoaling Preferences in a Cichlid Fish8
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy8
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities ofClarkiaSpecies: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement8
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants8
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities8
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny8
Looking for Mimicry in a Snake Assemblage Using Deep Learning8
A General Model for Seed and Seedling Respiratory Metabolism8
Thermal Variability and Plasticity Drive the Outcome of a Host-Pathogen Interaction8
Correlated Evolution of Sex Allocation and Mating System in Wrasses and Parrotfishes8
Proximate Causes of Infertility and Embryo Mortality in Captive Zebra Finches8
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change8
Individual Specialization and Multihost Epidemics: Disease Spread in Plant-Pollinator Networks8
Coping with Danger and Deception: Lessons from Signal Detection Theory8
Mating Preference for Novel Phenotypes Can Be Explained by General Neophilia in Female Guppies8
Combining Climatic and Genomic Data Improves Range-Wide Tree Height Growth Prediction in a Forest Tree8
Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a Path to Complex Multicellularity8
Investigating the Dynamics of Elk Population Size and Body Mass in a Seasonal Environment Using a Mechanistic Integral Projection Model8
Elder Barn Owl Nestlings Flexibly Redistribute Parental Food according to Siblings’ Need or in Return for Allopreening8
Maternal and Paternal Age Effects on Male Antler Flies: A Field Experiment7
A Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly7
Civil War Is Associated with Longer Escape Distances among Sri Lankan Birds7
Infanticide by Females Is a Leading Source of Juvenile Mortality in a Large Social Carnivore7
Competitive Exclusion and Evolution: Convergence Almost Never Produces Ecologically Equivalent Species7
The Effect of Habitat Choice on Evolutionary Rescue in Subdivided Populations7
Diversification or Collapse of Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes as a Rescue Process7
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion7
Rethinking Habitat Occupancy Modeling and the Role of Diel Activity in an Anthropogenic World7
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations7
Coevolutionary Arms Races and the Conditions for the Maintenance of Mutualism7
A Comparative Test for Divergent Adaptation: Inferring Speciation Drivers from Functional Trait Divergence7
Reproductive Character Displacement Drives Diversification of Male Courtship Songs in Drosophila7
Host Plant Choice Determined by Reproductive Interference between Closely Related Butterflies7
Holobiont Evolution: Population Theory for the Hologenome7
Climate Shapes the Geographic Distribution and Introgressive Spread of Color Ornamentation in Common Wall Lizards7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution7
Maintenance of Metabolic Plasticity despite Relaxed Selection in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli7
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies7
Comparison of Categorical Color Perception in Two Estrildid Finches7
Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape7
An Empirical Test of the Role of Small-Scale Transmission in Large-Scale Disease Dynamics7
Evolution of Anisogamy in Organisms with Parthenogenetic Gametes7
Selection of Floral Traits by Pollinators and Seed Predators during Sequential Life History Stages7
Cheating in Mutualisms Promotes Diversity and Complexity7
Emergent Shapes of Trait-Based Competition Functions from Resource-Based Models: A Gaussian Is Not Normal in Plant Communities7
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change7
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence7
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