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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence227
Beyond organic farming – harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes221
Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour189
A Roadmap for Understanding the Evolutionary Significance of Structural Genomic Variation189
Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant–Soil Interactions167
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics134
Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?130
iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights127
The Temporal Dynamics of Multiple Stressor Effects: From Individuals to Ecosystems123
Addressing context dependence in ecology119
Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics112
Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation105
The Net Effect of Functional Traits on Fitness105
Are Environmental DNA Methods Ready for Aquatic Invasive Species Management?103
Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species101
Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods99
Plant phosphorus-acquisition and -use strategies affect soil carbon cycling98
Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world95
The Importance of Genetic Redundancy in Evolution91
Tropical Cyclone Ecology: A Scale-Link Perspective88
After the Megafires: What Next for Australian Wildlife?87
Emerging Perspectives on Resource Tracking and Animal Movement Ecology85
Environmental RNA: A Revolution in Ecological Resolution?85
Integrating Mitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism into Ecology and Evolution85
Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions83
Multilevel Organisation of Animal Sociality83
The Demographic Buffering Hypothesis: Evidence and Challenges82
Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle81
Understanding 'Non-genetic' Inheritance: Insights from Molecular-Evolutionary Crosstalk80
Agriculture and the Disruption of Plant–Microbial Symbiosis78
The IPBES Global Assessment: Pathways to Action77
The Adaptive Value of Numerical Competence77
Transboundary Frontiers: An Emerging Priority for Biodiversity Conservation74
Plant–Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity–Productivity Relationships74
On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology74
Towards a Comparative Framework of Demographic Resilience73
Epigenetic inheritance and reproductive mode in plants and animals73
Phylogenetics is the New Genetics (for Most of Biodiversity)72
Standardizing Ecosystem Morphological Traits from 3D Information Sources71
Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring71
Coloration in Mammals70
Evaluating Impact Using Time-Series Data69
Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency69
Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming68
Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative67
Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts67
Mixed Models Offer No Freedom from Degrees of Freedom67
Integrating Behavior in Life-History Theory: Allocation versus Acquisition?65
Making ecology really global64
Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale62
How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?61
A Darwinian Laboratory of Multiple Contact Zones61
Global trends in aquatic animal tracking with acoustic telemetry61
Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs60
The cold range limit of trees60
Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments60
The Persistence of Polymorphisms across Species Radiations60
Invasion Science and the Global Spread of SARS-CoV-260
Winner–Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes60
Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems59
Intergenerational Transfer of Ageing: Parental Age and Offspring Lifespan57
COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation57
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses56
The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution56
Our Wild Companions: Domestic cats in the Anthropocene55
Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate54
Decoding the Evolution of Melanin in Vertebrates54
The Neglected Belowground Dimension of Plant Dominance54
Unraveling the Zoonotic Origin and Transmission of SARS-CoV-254
Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences54
The Role of Evolution in Shaping Ecological Networks52
Identifying Microbiome-Mediated Behaviour in Wild Vertebrates52
Does Plasticity Trade Off With Basal Heat Tolerance?51
A Plea for Standardized Nuclear Markers in Metazoan DNA Taxonomy51
Climate Change and Edaphic Specialists: Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object?50
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors49
On the Three Major Recycling Pathways in Terrestrial Ecosystems49
Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?49
Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats49
Taking the Animals’ Perspective Regarding Anthropogenic Underwater Sound48
Predictability of Biotic Stress Structures Plant Defence Evolution48
Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation48
The mismeasure of conservation47
The Silver Lining of Extreme Events46
The Power of Infochemicals in Mediating Individualized Niches46
Advancing Systematic Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services46
Improving Predictions of Climate Change–Land Use Change Interactions46
Organic Matter Degradation across Ecosystem Boundaries: The Need for a Unified Conceptualization45
Inviting ecologists to delve deeper into traditional ecological knowledge44
Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk44
Protected areas and the future of insect conservation43
Living Litter: Dynamic Trait Spectra Predict Fauna Composition43
The latitudinal taxonomy gradient43
Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people43
Towards a Probabilistic Understanding About the Context-Dependency of Species Interactions43
Metamorphosis in an Era of Increasing Climate Variability42
Plant Secondary Compounds in Soil and Their Role in Belowground Species Interactions42
Hygric Niches for Tropical Endotherms41
Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution41
What is domestication?40
You’re Just My Type: Mate Choice and Behavioral Types40
Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change40
The Evolution of ‘Ecological Release’ into the 21st Century40
Beyond Infection: Integrating Competence into Reservoir Host Prediction40
Coevolutionary Governance of Antibiotic and Pesticide Resistance40
Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications39
Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to understand phenotypic diversity39
Stemming the Flow: Information, Infection, and Social Evolution39
Draining the Swamping Hypothesis: Little Evidence that Gene Flow Reduces Fitness at Range Edges38
What are mycorrhizal traits?37
What Maintains Flower Colour Variation within Populations?37
A 2021 Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues37
Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management36
Evolutionary Responses to Warming36
Ecosystem consequences of herbicides: the role of microbiome36
Time to Integrate Pollinator Science into Soybean Production35
Life in Deserts: The Genetic Basis of Mammalian Desert Adaptation35
Pulse Heat Stress and Parasitism in a Warming World35
Scale gaps in landscape phenology: challenges and opportunities34
Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations34
Pathways for cross-boundary effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning34
Photic Barriers to Poleward Range-shifts34
Farm robots: ecological utopia or dystopia?34
A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 202233
Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks33
Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues32
Herbivore Impacts on Carbon Cycling in Boreal Forests32
Confronting the Modern Gordian Knot of Urban Beekeeping32
Is Variation in Conspecific Negative Density Dependence Driving Tree Diversity Patterns at Large Scales?32
Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy32
The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior32
Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process32
Overcoming biotic homogenization in ecological restoration31
Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer31
Animals as Agents in Fire Regimes31
On the Origin of Coexisting Species31
Resilience of Tropical Ecosystems to Ocean Deoxygenation30
Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature30
Bias assessments to expand research harnessing biological collections30
Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments30
Plasticity’s role in adaptive evolution depends on environmental change components29
Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed29
The ecological impacts of discarded cigarette butts28
Reframing the Wilderness Concept can Bolster Collaborative Conservation28
Next-generation cophylogeny: unravelling eco-evolutionary processes28
Measuring Coevolutionary Dynamics in Species-Rich Communities28
Biodiversity Conservation and the Earth System: Mind the Gap28
Intraspecific Adaptation Load: A Mechanism for Species Coexistence27
Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits27
To harness traits for ecology, let’s abandon ‘functionality’27
Nitrogen deposition and climate: an integrated synthesis27
Speciation by sexual selection: 20 years of progress27
Environmental lead exposure from halide perovskites in solar cells27
Animal Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Quietus27
Examining Natural History through the Lens of Palaeogenomics26
Societal extinction of species26
How Field Courses Propel Inclusion and Collective Excellence26
Evolution of Cellular Differentiation: From Hypotheses to Models26
Demystifying ecological connectivity for actionable spatial conservation planning25
Survival of the Systems25
Emerging contaminants and biological effects in Arctic wildlife25
Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time25
Viewing animal migration through a social lens24
Plant litter strengthens positive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships over time24
Symbiotic organs: the nexus of host–microbe evolution24
The Nidobiome: A Framework for Understanding Microbiome Assembly in Neonates24
Extended phenotypes: buffers or amplifiers of climate change?24
Predation landscapes influence migratory prey ecology and evolution24
Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species24
Evolutionary importance of intraspecific variation in sex pheromones24
Reconciling livestock production and wild herbivore conservation: challenges and opportunities24
A call to reconceptualize lichen symbioses23
Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations23
Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security23
Teaching between the Lines: Representation in Science Textbooks23
Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups23
Molecular ecology meets systematic conservation planning23
Nutritional Dimensions of Invasive Success23
Biased Hybridization and Its Impact on Adaptive Introgression23
Evolving spatial conservation prioritization with intraspecific genetic data22
Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation22
How to improve scaling from traits to ecosystem processes22
A holocentric twist to chromosomal speciation?22
Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments22
Healthy Pollinators: Evaluating Pesticides with Molecular Medicine Approaches22
When Ecology Fails: How Reproductive Interactions Promote Species Coexistence22
A solution for breaking the language barrier21
Feedbacks in ecology and evolution21
Food intake: an overlooked driver of climate change casualties?21
Fungal behaviour: a new frontier in behavioural ecology21
The macroecology of landscape ecology20
A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology20
The herbarium of the future20
The ecology and evolution of key innovations20
New Approaches to Anticipate the Risk of Reverse Zoonosis20
Toward a general theory of plant carbon economics20
Is Endothermy an Evolutionary By-Product?19
Using optimal foraging theory to infer how groups make collective decisions19
Daily activity timing in the Anthropocene19
Certainty and integration of options in animal movement19
Fisheries-induced changes of shoaling behaviour: mechanisms and potential consequences19
Valuing marine restoration beyond the ‘too small and too expensive’19
Defining the Domestication Syndrome: Comment on Lord et al. 202018
Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics18
Photogrammetry as a tool to improve ecosystem restoration18
The eco-evolutionary landscape of power relationships between males and females18
A Metabolic Perspective of Stochastic Community Assembly17
Valuing Ecosystem Services Can Help to Save Seabirds17
The earliest history of eukaryotic life: uncovering an evolutionary story through the integration of biological and geological data17
Avian influenza spread and seabird movements between colonies17
Are ectotherm brains vulnerable to global warming?17
Ecological radiations of insects in the Mesozoic17
Why do plants silicify?17
Straw Foxes: Domestication Syndrome Evaluation Comes Up Short17
The Scope for Postmating Sexual Selection in Plants17
Quantifying Tropical Plant Diversity Requires an Integrated Technological Approach16
Integrating Earth–life systems: a geogenomic approach16
Imminent Extinction of Australian Myrtaceae by Fungal Disease16
Poaching is Not One Big Thing16
Equity in science: advocating for a triple-blind review system16
New directions in tropical phenology16
Embryo Selection and Mate Choice: Can ‘Honest Signals’ Be Trusted?16
Symbiosis and host responses to heating16
A Peptide–Nucleic Acid Replicator Origin for Life16
The Paradox of Iridescent Signals16
Unifying climate change biology across realms and taxa16
Uniting niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predicts tropical forest succession16
Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments16
Denisovans and Homo sapiens on the Tibetan Plateau: dispersals and adaptations16
Ancient trees: irreplaceable conservation resource for ecosystem restoration16
Ant caste evo-devo: it’s not all about size16
Measurement Uncertainty in Ecological and Environmental Models16
Integrating agricultural diversification in China’s major policies15
Converting Ecological Currencies: Energy, Material, and Information Flows15
Multilevel Societies in Birds15
Understanding and overcoming obstacles in adaptive management15
Bioaccumulation of Pathogen Exposure in Top Predators15
Linguistic laws in biology15
Redirecting marine antibiofouling innovations from sustainable horizons15
Acoustic developmental programming: a mechanistic and evolutionary framework15
The vicious cycle of biophobia14
A global biological conservation horizon scan of issues for 202314
Climate change creates nutritional phenological mismatches14
Climate sensitivity across latitude: scaling physiology to communities14
Conceptualizing the 3D niche and vertical space use14
Recognising the key role of individual recognition in social networks14
Density Dependence, Senescence, and Williams’ Hypothesis14
Genetic approaches for increasing fitness in endangered species14
Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation14
Museum Epigenomics: Charting the Future by Unlocking the Past14
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