Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Ecology & Evolution is 5. 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
Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence303
Beyond organic farming – harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes272
Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour230
Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant–Soil Interactions191
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics180
Addressing context dependence in ecology161
Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics153
The Temporal Dynamics of Multiple Stressor Effects: From Individuals to Ecosystems152
Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?147
Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world132
The Net Effect of Functional Traits on Fitness122
Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods118
Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring116
Plant phosphorus-acquisition and -use strategies affect soil carbon cycling113
Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle111
Emerging Perspectives on Resource Tracking and Animal Movement Ecology111
Integrating Mitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism into Ecology and Evolution107
On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology98
Environmental RNA: A Revolution in Ecological Resolution?97
Understanding 'Non-genetic' Inheritance: Insights from Molecular-Evolutionary Crosstalk94
Plant–Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity–Productivity Relationships93
Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions91
Evaluating Impact Using Time-Series Data84
Epigenetic inheritance and reproductive mode in plants and animals80
Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency79
Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems79
Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming78
Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs77
Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments76
The cold range limit of trees75
Global trends in aquatic animal tracking with acoustic telemetry75
Making ecology really global74
Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale74
Integrating Behavior in Life-History Theory: Allocation versus Acquisition?73
How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?73
Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk73
The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution71
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses70
A Darwinian Laboratory of Multiple Contact Zones69
Winner–Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes68
Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation66
Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?65
Decoding the Evolution of Melanin in Vertebrates63
Identifying Microbiome-Mediated Behaviour in Wild Vertebrates63
Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate62
COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation58
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors58
Unraveling the Zoonotic Origin and Transmission of SARS-CoV-257
Ecosystem consequences of herbicides: the role of microbiome57
Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats56
The mismeasure of conservation54
Protected areas and the future of insect conservation53
Predictability of Biotic Stress Structures Plant Defence Evolution53
Improving Predictions of Climate Change–Land Use Change Interactions53
The Power of Infochemicals in Mediating Individualized Niches53
Inviting ecologists to delve deeper into traditional ecological knowledge53
What Maintains Flower Colour Variation within Populations?52
Advancing Systematic Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services52
Organic Matter Degradation across Ecosystem Boundaries: The Need for a Unified Conceptualization51
Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution51
What are mycorrhizal traits?50
Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications49
What is domestication?48
Pathways for cross-boundary effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning48
Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks48
The latitudinal taxonomy gradient47
Beyond Infection: Integrating Competence into Reservoir Host Prediction47
Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to understand phenotypic diversity47
The Silver Lining of Extreme Events47
Metamorphosis in an Era of Increasing Climate Variability47
Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer46
The Evolution of ‘Ecological Release’ into the 21st Century45
Demystifying ecological connectivity for actionable spatial conservation planning45
Draining the Swamping Hypothesis: Little Evidence that Gene Flow Reduces Fitness at Range Edges45
Overcoming biotic homogenization in ecological restoration44
Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change44
Life in Deserts: The Genetic Basis of Mammalian Desert Adaptation44
Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments44
Evolutionary Responses to Warming44
Plasticity’s role in adaptive evolution depends on environmental change components43
Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process43
Farm robots: ecological utopia or dystopia?41
Time to Integrate Pollinator Science into Soybean Production41
Scale gaps in landscape phenology: challenges and opportunities41
Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits41
Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature41
Is Variation in Conspecific Negative Density Dependence Driving Tree Diversity Patterns at Large Scales?41
The ecological impacts of discarded cigarette butts40
A 2021 Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues39
Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation39
The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior39
Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues39
Plant litter strengthens positive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships over time39
Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation39
To harness traits for ecology, let’s abandon ‘functionality’39
Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management38
Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy38
On the Origin of Coexisting Species38
The herbarium of the future38
Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security37
Confronting the Modern Gordian Knot of Urban Beekeeping37
Viewing animal migration through a social lens36
A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 202236
Herbivore Impacts on Carbon Cycling in Boreal Forests35
Bias assessments to expand research harnessing biological collections35
Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments35
Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed35
Environmental lead exposure from halide perovskites in solar cells34
Resilience of Tropical Ecosystems to Ocean Deoxygenation34
Molecular ecology meets systematic conservation planning33
Next-generation cophylogeny: unravelling eco-evolutionary processes33
Predation landscapes influence migratory prey ecology and evolution33
Animal Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Quietus33
Evolving spatial conservation prioritization with intraspecific genetic data33
Symbiotic organs: the nexus of host–microbe evolution32
Speciation by sexual selection: 20 years of progress31
Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species31
Nitrogen deposition and climate: an integrated synthesis31
Societal extinction of species31
The ecology and evolution of key innovations31
Reconciling livestock production and wild herbivore conservation: challenges and opportunities31
Evolution of Cellular Differentiation: From Hypotheses to Models31
Daily activity timing in the Anthropocene30
Emerging contaminants and biological effects in Arctic wildlife30
Why do plants silicify?30
A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology30
Evolutionary importance of intraspecific variation in sex pheromones30
Examining Natural History through the Lens of Palaeogenomics30
Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups29
Using optimal foraging theory to infer how groups make collective decisions29
A solution for breaking the language barrier29
Survival of the Systems28
How Field Courses Propel Inclusion and Collective Excellence28
The macroecology of landscape ecology28
A call to reconceptualize lichen symbioses28
Fungal behaviour: a new frontier in behavioural ecology28
Biased Hybridization and Its Impact on Adaptive Introgression27
A holocentric twist to chromosomal speciation?27
Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations27
Extended phenotypes: buffers or amplifiers of climate change?26
Certainty and integration of options in animal movement26
Feedbacks in ecology and evolution26
Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time26
Plant–soil feedback under drought: does history shape the future?25
When Ecology Fails: How Reproductive Interactions Promote Species Coexistence25
Teaching between the Lines: Representation in Science Textbooks25
How to improve scaling from traits to ecosystem processes25
Food intake: an overlooked driver of climate change casualties?25
We need to talk about nonprobability samples25
Avian influenza spread and seabird movements between colonies25
Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations25
Ancient trees: irreplaceable conservation resource for ecosystem restoration25
Uniting niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predicts tropical forest succession25
Linguistic laws in biology24
Toward a general theory of plant carbon economics24
Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics24
Unifying climate change biology across realms and taxa24
Integrating Earth–life systems: a geogenomic approach24
The eco-evolutionary landscape of power relationships between males and females24
The earliest history of eukaryotic life: uncovering an evolutionary story through the integration of biological and geological data24
Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments23
Valuing marine restoration beyond the ‘too small and too expensive’23
New directions in tropical phenology23
Fisheries-induced changes of shoaling behaviour: mechanisms and potential consequences23
The vicious cycle of biophobia23
Digital twins: dynamic model-data fusion for ecology23
Symbiosis and host responses to heating23
Defining the Domestication Syndrome: Comment on Lord et al. 202023
Understanding and overcoming obstacles in adaptive management22
Photogrammetry as a tool to improve ecosystem restoration22
New Approaches to Anticipate the Risk of Reverse Zoonosis22
Redirecting marine antibiofouling innovations from sustainable horizons22
A Metabolic Perspective of Stochastic Community Assembly22
Climate change creates nutritional phenological mismatches22
Acoustic developmental programming: a mechanistic and evolutionary framework21
Into the microbial niche21
Whales in the carbon cycle: can recovery remove carbon dioxide?21
Functional genomic tools for emerging model species21
Ecological radiations of insects in the Mesozoic20
Denisovans and Homo sapiens on the Tibetan Plateau: dispersals and adaptations20
Ant caste evo-devo: it’s not all about size20
The establishment of plants following long-distance dispersal20
Genetic approaches for increasing fitness in endangered species19
The Paradox of Iridescent Signals19
Conceptualizing the 3D niche and vertical space use19
The Scope for Postmating Sexual Selection in Plants19
A global biological conservation horizon scan of issues for 202319
Disentangling compartment functions in sessile marine invertebrates18
Insect pollination in deep time18
Social consequences of rapid environmental change18
Gelatinous larvacean zooplankton can enhance trophic transfer and carbon sequestration18
The role of vital dietary biomolecules in eco-evo-devo dynamics18
The bright side of ecological stressors18
Universal beta-diversity–functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected18
Multilevel Societies in Birds18
Are ectotherm brains vulnerable to global warming?17
Equity in science: advocating for a triple-blind review system17
The Time Machine framework: monitoring and prediction of biodiversity loss17
Transforming terrestrial biodiversity surveys using airborne eDNA17
The Internet of Animals: what it is, what it could be17
Bioaccumulation of Pathogen Exposure in Top Predators17
Climate sensitivity across latitude: scaling physiology to communities17
Integrating agricultural diversification in China’s major policies17
The traditional ecological knowledge conundrum17
Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects16
Quantifying Tropical Plant Diversity Requires an Integrated Technological Approach16
The hierarchy of factors predicting the latitudinal diversity gradient16
Fruit secondary metabolites shape seed dispersal effectiveness16
The contribution of mutualistic interactions to functional and phylogenetic diversity16
Ozone pollution disrupts plant–pollinator systems16
Converting Ecological Currencies: Energy, Material, and Information Flows16
The role of timing in intraspecific trait ecology16
Scale-sensitivity in the measurement and interpretation of environmental niches15
Ecological Dynamics: Integrating Empirical, Statistical, and Analytical Methods15
Fear generalization and behavioral responses to multiple dangers15
The evolution and diversification of sleep15
The origin of bi-dimensionality in plant root traits15
Trait-based approaches to predicting biological control success: challenges and prospects15
Hourglass Model for Developmental Evolution of Ant Castes15
Coevolutionary legacies for plant decomposition15
Recognising the key role of individual recognition in social networks15
The rejection of synthetic pesticides in organic farming has multiple benefits15
Modelling the tempo and mode of lineage dispersal15
The evolution of plasticity at geographic range edges14
Transforming Tropical Agroforestry towards High Socio-Ecological Standards14
Brain Size Does Not Rescue Domestication Syndrome14
Understanding trait diversity: the role of geodiversity14
More diverse but less intensive farming enhances biodiversity14
Citizen science needs a name change14
Contribution of single-cell omics to microbial ecology13
Leveraging AI tools to develop the writer rather than the writing13
‘Small Data’ for big insights in ecology13
Fishers' multidimensional knowledge advances fisheries and aquatic science13
Rewriting results in the language of compatibility13
Assessment during Intergroup Contests13
Demystifying global climate models for use in the life sciences13
Dispersal syndromes can link intraspecific trait variability and meta-ecosystem functioning13
Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics13
A globally integrated structure of taxonomy to support biodiversity science and conservation13
Global Aerial Habitat Conservation Post-COVID-19 Anthropause13
Enhancing the ecological realism of evolutionary mismatch theory13
Savanna fire regimes depend on grass trait diversity13
Beyond specialization: re-examining routes of host influence on symbiont evolution12
Why P values are not measures of evidence12
Polyploidy in urban environments12
A way forward for biodiversity conservation: high-quality landscapes12
Common pesticides disrupt critical ecological interactions12
The outlook for Brazil’s new presidential administration12
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia to guide society12
The metamicrobiome: key determinant of the homeostasis of nutrient recycling12
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