Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Ecology & Evolution is 21. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence269
Beyond organic farming – harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes253
A Roadmap for Understanding the Evolutionary Significance of Structural Genomic Variation207
Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour205
Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant–Soil Interactions182
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics157
Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?141
Addressing context dependence in ecology139
The Temporal Dynamics of Multiple Stressor Effects: From Individuals to Ecosystems139
iEcology: Harnessing Large Online Resources to Generate Ecological Insights135
Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics134
Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation117
Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world115
The Net Effect of Functional Traits on Fitness113
Are Environmental DNA Methods Ready for Aquatic Invasive Species Management?112
Plant phosphorus-acquisition and -use strategies affect soil carbon cycling109
Protecting Biodiversity (in All Its Complexity): New Models and Methods107
Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring104
The Importance of Genetic Redundancy in Evolution104
Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle99
Integrating Mitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism into Ecology and Evolution97
Emerging Perspectives on Resource Tracking and Animal Movement Ecology95
After the Megafires: What Next for Australian Wildlife?93
Tropical Cyclone Ecology: A Scale-Link Perspective93
Environmental RNA: A Revolution in Ecological Resolution?90
On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology90
Multilevel Organisation of Animal Sociality88
Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions86
Understanding 'Non-genetic' Inheritance: Insights from Molecular-Evolutionary Crosstalk85
Towards a Comparative Framework of Demographic Resilience83
Plant–Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity–Productivity Relationships82
The Adaptive Value of Numerical Competence80
Standardizing Ecosystem Morphological Traits from 3D Information Sources80
Evaluating Impact Using Time-Series Data78
Transboundary Frontiers: An Emerging Priority for Biodiversity Conservation78
Epigenetic inheritance and reproductive mode in plants and animals77
Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming75
Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency74
Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts71
Making ecology really global70
Integrating Behavior in Life-History Theory: Allocation versus Acquisition?69
Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems69
Global trends in aquatic animal tracking with acoustic telemetry69
How useful are thermal vulnerability indices?69
Horizon Scan of the Belt and Road Initiative68
Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale67
The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution67
The cold range limit of trees67
Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs66
Winner–Loser Species Replacements in Human-Modified Landscapes66
Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments65
The Persistence of Polymorphisms across Species Radiations65
A Darwinian Laboratory of Multiple Contact Zones64
Intergenerational Transfer of Ageing: Parental Age and Offspring Lifespan64
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses64
Invasion Science and the Global Spread of SARS-CoV-262
Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?61
Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk61
Deciphering the Biodiversity–Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate58
Decoding the Evolution of Melanin in Vertebrates58
COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation57
The Neglected Belowground Dimension of Plant Dominance56
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors56
Unraveling the Zoonotic Origin and Transmission of SARS-CoV-255
Identifying Microbiome-Mediated Behaviour in Wild Vertebrates55
Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation55
On the Three Major Recycling Pathways in Terrestrial Ecosystems54
Does Plasticity Trade Off With Basal Heat Tolerance?54
Taking the Animals’ Perspective Regarding Anthropogenic Underwater Sound53
Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats53
The mismeasure of conservation53
Predictability of Biotic Stress Structures Plant Defence Evolution52
Inviting ecologists to delve deeper into traditional ecological knowledge50
Protected areas and the future of insect conservation50
Advancing Systematic Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services49
Living Litter: Dynamic Trait Spectra Predict Fauna Composition49
Organic Matter Degradation across Ecosystem Boundaries: The Need for a Unified Conceptualization49
Improving Predictions of Climate Change–Land Use Change Interactions49
The Power of Infochemicals in Mediating Individualized Niches48
Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people47
The Silver Lining of Extreme Events47
Ecosystem consequences of herbicides: the role of microbiome46
Hygric Niches for Tropical Endotherms45
Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications45
Plant Secondary Compounds in Soil and Their Role in Belowground Species Interactions44
Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution44
You’re Just My Type: Mate Choice and Behavioral Types44
Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to understand phenotypic diversity44
Metamorphosis in an Era of Increasing Climate Variability44
What Maintains Flower Colour Variation within Populations?44
The Evolution of ‘Ecological Release’ into the 21st Century43
Beyond Infection: Integrating Competence into Reservoir Host Prediction43
What are mycorrhizal traits?43
The latitudinal taxonomy gradient43
Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer42
Evolutionary Responses to Warming42
What is domestication?41
Pathways for cross-boundary effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning41
Life in Deserts: The Genetic Basis of Mammalian Desert Adaptation41
Draining the Swamping Hypothesis: Little Evidence that Gene Flow Reduces Fitness at Range Edges41
Stemming the Flow: Information, Infection, and Social Evolution41
Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change41
Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks40
Overcoming biotic homogenization in ecological restoration39
Scale gaps in landscape phenology: challenges and opportunities39
A 2021 Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues38
Is Variation in Conspecific Negative Density Dependence Driving Tree Diversity Patterns at Large Scales?38
The ecological impacts of discarded cigarette butts38
Pulse Heat Stress and Parasitism in a Warming World38
Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments38
Plasticity’s role in adaptive evolution depends on environmental change components37
Farm robots: ecological utopia or dystopia?37
Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues36
Demystifying ecological connectivity for actionable spatial conservation planning36
Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature36
Time to Integrate Pollinator Science into Soybean Production36
Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management36
Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process36
Photic Barriers to Poleward Range-shifts35
The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior35
Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy34
Herbivore Impacts on Carbon Cycling in Boreal Forests34
Bias assessments to expand research harnessing biological collections34
Confronting the Modern Gordian Knot of Urban Beekeeping34
Resilience of Tropical Ecosystems to Ocean Deoxygenation33
On the Origin of Coexisting Species33
Plant litter strengthens positive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships over time33
A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 202233
Next-generation cophylogeny: unravelling eco-evolutionary processes32
Viewing animal migration through a social lens32
Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed32
To harness traits for ecology, let’s abandon ‘functionality’32
Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits32
Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation31
Evolution of Cellular Differentiation: From Hypotheses to Models31
Predation landscapes influence migratory prey ecology and evolution30
The herbarium of the future30
Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species30
Evolving spatial conservation prioritization with intraspecific genetic data30
Animal Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Quietus30
Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments30
Reframing the Wilderness Concept can Bolster Collaborative Conservation30
Emerging contaminants and biological effects in Arctic wildlife30
Societal extinction of species30
Molecular ecology meets systematic conservation planning29
Symbiotic organs: the nexus of host–microbe evolution29
Nitrogen deposition and climate: an integrated synthesis29
Reconciling livestock production and wild herbivore conservation: challenges and opportunities28
Speciation by sexual selection: 20 years of progress28
Nutritional Dimensions of Invasive Success28
A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology28
Environmental lead exposure from halide perovskites in solar cells28
Biodiversity Conservation and the Earth System: Mind the Gap28
Evolutionary importance of intraspecific variation in sex pheromones27
Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security27
Intraspecific Adaptation Load: A Mechanism for Species Coexistence27
The Nidobiome: A Framework for Understanding Microbiome Assembly in Neonates27
How Field Courses Propel Inclusion and Collective Excellence27
Examining Natural History through the Lens of Palaeogenomics27
Survival of the Systems26
Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations26
Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups26
Teaching between the Lines: Representation in Science Textbooks25
Why do plants silicify?25
Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time25
Using optimal foraging theory to infer how groups make collective decisions25
Extended phenotypes: buffers or amplifiers of climate change?25
Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation25
The ecology and evolution of key innovations25
A holocentric twist to chromosomal speciation?25
The macroecology of landscape ecology24
How to improve scaling from traits to ecosystem processes24
Daily activity timing in the Anthropocene24
A call to reconceptualize lichen symbioses24
Biased Hybridization and Its Impact on Adaptive Introgression24
When Ecology Fails: How Reproductive Interactions Promote Species Coexistence23
A solution for breaking the language barrier23
Integrating Earth–life systems: a geogenomic approach23
Valuing marine restoration beyond the ‘too small and too expensive’23
Feedbacks in ecology and evolution23
Fungal behaviour: a new frontier in behavioural ecology23
Toward a general theory of plant carbon economics23
Defining the Domestication Syndrome: Comment on Lord et al. 202022
Fisheries-induced changes of shoaling behaviour: mechanisms and potential consequences22
Food intake: an overlooked driver of climate change casualties?22
Linguistic laws in biology21
Symbiosis and host responses to heating21
Uniting niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predicts tropical forest succession21
New Approaches to Anticipate the Risk of Reverse Zoonosis21
Certainty and integration of options in animal movement21
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