Biological Reviews

Article	Citations
Sleep disruption as a potential mechanism contributing to post‐zygotic reproductive isolation in hybrids	265
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Microclimate‐based oviposition site selection in butterflies and moths	182
Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations	178
Long‐term trends in parasite diversity and infection levels: approaches and patterns	167
Molecular bases of insect odorant receptor function: specificity and evolution	166
A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology	165
Mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental change	160
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Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication	141
The intricate relationship between stress and animal welfare: from historical perspective to new avenues	138
The challenging biogeography of the Juan Fernández Islands and Coast Range of central Chile explained by new models of East Pacific tectonics	127
Egg coverings in insects: ecological adaptation to abiotic and biotic selective pressures	125
Unlocking the multifaceted molecular functions and diverse disease implications of lactylation	116
Animal medical systems from Apis to apes: history, recent advances and future perspectives	107
Interactions between phytoplankton species and micro/nano‐plastics and heavy metal contamination	105
Patterns of variation in fleshy diaspore size and abundance from Late Triassic–Oligocene	100
Prey specificity of predatory venoms	99
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis	96
The moulting arthropod: a complete genetic toolkit review	94
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Defence against the intergenerational cost of reproduction in males: oxidative shielding of the germline	83
Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene	82
The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds	81

Plant periderm as a continuum in structural organisation: a tracheophyte‐wide survey and hypotheses on evolution	78
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of nitrogen deposition on producer–consumer interactions	69
The relationship between the secondary vascular system and the lymphatic vascular system in fish	66
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The plastisphere as a nexus for antimicrobial resistance: micro(nano)plastics in pathogen colonization, gene transfer, and global health risks	61
Form and function of anguilliform swimming	60
Animals in flow – towards the scientific study of intrinsic reward in animals	58
Successional theories	58
Sensing for survival: specialised regulatory mechanisms of Type III secretion systems in Gram‐negative pathogens	58
On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea	55
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis	54
A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements	53
Is self‐awareness necessary to have a theory of mind?	52
Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration	52
Quantifying farm sustainability through the lens of ecological theory	51
Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms	50
Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review	50
The tandem–random transition of cellular patterning: proposed roles of N‐cadherin‐based orientational cell adhesions in the development, maintenance, and degeneration of the nucleus pulposus	49
On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring	48
Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas	48
What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits	48
Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning – seven hypotheses	47
Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine animals	47
Grasping at water: a gap‐oriented approach to bridging shortfalls in freshwater biodiversity conservation	47
Language and learning: the cognitive revolution at 60‐odd	46
Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services	46
The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade	45
Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus	44
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review	44
Reuniting philosophy and science to advance cancer research	43
Pollination ecology in the tropical Andes: moving towards a cross‐scale approach	42
Monitoring the phenology of plant pathogenic fungi: why and how?	42
eIF4E as a molecular wildcard in metazoans RNA metabolism	41
Deciphering structural aspects of reverse cholesterol transport: mapping the knowns and unknowns	41
Research progress on nitrogen‐removal characteristics and mechanisms in salt‐tolerant microorganisms	40
Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base	40
The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy	39
Methylation and merriment: an exploration of epigenetic mechanisms underlying play behaviour	39
The evidence base for ranger patrol effectiveness in conservation and how to improve it	39
Early evolutionary history of the seed	39
Reading minds or reading scripts? De‐intellectualising theory of mind	39
A meta‐analysis of human disturbance effects on glucocorticoid hormones in free‐ranging wild vertebrates	38
Climate‐related drivers of migratory bird health in the south‐central USA	38
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review	38
Ecology needs a causal overhaul	38
Floral nectar production: what cost to a plant?	38
Long‐term sperm storage in eusocial Hymenoptera	35
Correction statement for Recent advances in amniote palaeocolour reconstruction and a framework for future research (volume 95, issue 1, pp. 22–50)	35
The best of two worlds: ecology and evolution of ambophilous plants	35
Unifying functional and population ecology to test the adaptive value of traits	35

Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops	35
Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives	35
The physiological effects of APOE genotype in healthy young/middle‐aged individuals	35
Fraternal cooperation of hierarchical cancer parallels metazoan multicellularity and eusociality	34
Correction to “New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs”	34
Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: understanding negative feedback and set‐point in mammals, birds, and lizards	33
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface	33
An operational workflow for producing periodic estimates of species occupancy at national scales	33
The Weak Worker Hypothesis: a new framework for understanding division of labour in social insects	32
Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective	32
The prospects of poop: a review of past achievements and future possibilities in faecal isotope analysis	32
Impacts of climate‐related stressors on social group cohesion and individual sociability in fish	32
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Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview	32
Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals	32
Relevance of state–behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare	31
A conceptual framework for conserving giant panda habitat: restoration and connectivity	31
Anatomical adaptations of mangroves to the intertidal environment and their dynamic responses to various stresses	31
Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade	31
Marine foundation species facilitate biodiversity: systematic and quantitative syntheses identify trait‐based standards to understand seascape functionality	31
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EthoCRED: a framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies	30
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Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across ecosystems	30
Ancestral‐area algorithms are unreliable	29
Prioritising research on endocrine disruption in the marine environment: a global perspective	29
Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis	29
Hydrodynamics in early animal evolution	29
Evolutionary implications of a deep‐time perspective on insect pollination	29
Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition	28
Does the potential strength of sexual selection differ between mating systems with and without defensive behaviours? A meta‐analysis	28
Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals	27
Integrating microbiome science and evolutionary medicine into animal health and conservation	27
Circadian orchestration of host and gut microbiota in infection	27
Ecosystem services provided by spiders	27
The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology	27
Integration of epigenetics into ecotoxicology: insights and fundamental research needs	27
Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development	27
Small non‐coding satellite RNAs – the ‘game changers’ at the virus–host plant interaction?	27
Facing the facts: adaptive trade‐offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling	27
Bees feeling the burn	27
Effective dispersal of fern spore and the ecological relevance of zoochory	27
Tactics of evasion: strategies used by signallers to deter eavesdropping enemies from exploiting communication systems	26
Understanding the joint evolution of dispersal and host specialisation using phytophagous arthropods as a model group	26
The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton	26
Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits	26
In silico studies of plant primary cell walls – structure and mechanics	26
Demographic and evolutionary consequences of hunting of wild birds	26
How do parasites and predators choose their victim? A trade‐off between quality and vulnerability across antagonistic interactions	25
A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia	25
Animal linguistics: a primer	24
Synthesis of sexual selection: a systematic map of meta‐analyses with bibliometric analysis	24
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Insect–flower interactions, ecosystem functions, and restoration ecology in the northern Sahel: current knowledge and perspectives	23
A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence	23
Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution	23
The importance of omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as high‐quality food in freshwater ecosystems with implications of global change	23
Mammalian odour‐guided navigation behaviour and neural processing in relation to the odour environment	23
Closing the air gap: the use of drones for studying wildlife ecophysiology	23
The cryptonephridial/rectal complex: an evolutionary adaptation for water and ion conservation	23
The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran–Cambrian metazoans	23
Algal volatiles – the overlooked chemical language of aquatic primary producers	22
Woody encroachment: social–ecological impacts and sustainable management	22
A call for increased integration of experimental approaches in movement ecology	22
Can metabolic traits explain animal community assembly and functioning?	22
A synthesis of deimatic behaviour	22
Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science	21
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Carrion ecology in inland aquatic ecosystems: a systematic review	21
Trouble on the horizon: anticipating biological invasions through futures thinking	21
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Hibernation‐inspired musculoskeletal resilience: comparative mechanisms of adaptation to disuse and unloading	21
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant and ecologically important	21
Assessing flexibility in meaning and context in non‐human communication	21
Joyful by nature: approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non‐human animals	21
Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects	21
Beyond compliance: harmonising research and husbandry practices to improve experimental reproducibility using fish models	20
The DCIDE framework: systematic investigation of evolutionary hypotheses, exemplified with autism	20
Larger pollen sizes correspond to longer styles: correlated evolution between male traits and female preference in plants	20
A global assessment of large terrestrial carnivore kill rates	20

Animal migration in the Anthropocene: threats and mitigation options	20
Positive species interactions structure rhodolith bed communities at a global scale	20
Invasion of the four kingdoms: the parasite journey across plant and non‐plant hosts	20
Continuous tooth replacement: what can teleost fish teach us?	20
Scientific history, biogeography, and biological traits predict presence of cryptic or overlooked species	20
Sexual selection and predation drive the repeated evolution of stridulation in Heteroptera and other arthropods	20
Moderating the neutralist–selectionist debate: exactly which propositions are we debating, and which arguments are valid?	20
A synthetic review: natural history of amniote reproductive modes in light of comparative evolutionary genomics	19
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New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs	18
Molecular regulatory mechanisms of Merkel cell differentiation	18
Transitional forestry in New Zealand: re‐evaluating the design and management of forest systems through the lens of forest purpose	18
A mosaic of microclimates: biodiversity outcomes and wildlife habitat potential in large‐scale solar facilities	18
Coral recruitment: patterns and processes determining the dynamics of coral populations	18
Integrating animal behaviour into research on multiple environmental stressors: a conceptual framework	18
Mapping molluscan endocrinology: a systematic and critical appraisal	18
Why are so few island bryophytes endemic?	18
Vertical stratification patterns of tropical forest vertebrates: a meta‐analysis	18
A complex network perspective on brain disease	18
Synergy, complexity, and the dirty, dirty cheats of the world	17
Treating gaps and biases in biodiversity data as a missing data problem	17
Antipredator defences in motion: animals reduce predation risks by concealing or misleading motion signals	17
Comparative gut microbiome research through the lens of ecology: theoretical considerations and best practices	17
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Evaluation of physiological stress in free‐ranging bears: current knowledge and future directions	16
Past aridity and dust drove biodiversity crises and altered pollination in the ancient gymnosperm Ephedra (Gnetales)	16
Capturing wild animal welfare: a physiological perspective	16
Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates	16
Environmental DNA as a tool for hydropower impact assessments: current status, special considerations, and future integration	16
The rise of hyperabundant native generalists threatens both humans and nature	16
Convergent evolution and adaptive diversification of root symbioses	16
Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals	16
Diversity of ‘simple’ multicellular eukaryotes: 45 independent cases and six types of multicellularity	16
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Evolutionary formation of melatonin and vitamin D in early life forms: insects take centre stage	15
Practical applications of soil microbiota to improve ecosystem restoration: current knowledge and future directions	15
Feather function and the evolution of birds	15
The return of metabolism: biochemistry and physiology of glycolysis	15
It's cognition, with style: rethinking the biology of intelligence	15
Extreme weather events threaten biodiversity and functions of river ecosystems: evidence from a meta‐analysis	15
Unveiling the resistance of native weed communities: insights for managing invasive weed species in disturbed environments	15
Chasing footprints in time – reframing our understanding of human foot function in the context of current evidence and emerging insights	14
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A century of theories of balancing selection	14
Biological clocks as age estimation markers in animals: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	14
The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review	14
The impacts of biological invasions	14
Reversing global causes of juvenile recruitment loss as a means to recover endangered freshwater turtles	14
Macroevolution of the plant–hummingbird pollination system	14
Reversibility of sex changes in the plant kingdom: more important than we thought?	14
Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence	14
A global synthesis of predation on bivalves	14
Testicular heat stress, a historical perspective and two postulates for why male germ cells are heat sensitive	14
Analysis of the genetic loci of pigment pattern evolution in vertebrates	14
Interspecific interactions disrupted by roads	14
Receiver psychology as a driver of communication network structure	14
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Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review	14
Advances in causal discovery methods for ecological time series	13
A review of visualisations of protein fold networks and their relationship with sequence and function	13
The environment to the rescue: can physics help predict predator–prey interactions?	13
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Perils of ingesting harmful prey by advanced snakes	13
Fear of grazing rivals the toxin‐inducing effects of nutrients in two marine harmful algae – a meta‐analysis	13
Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration	13
RNA ‐centric world of retroviruses: unravelling the molecular strategies of genomic RNA packaging	13
Multi‐host pathogen transmission and the disease–diversity relationship	13
Carotenoid ornaments and the spandrels of physiology: a critique of theory to explain condition dependency	13
Identifying practical pathways from animal culture theory to conservation practice	13
Interspecific behavioural interference and range dynamics: current insights and future directions	12
Worldwide comparison of carbon stocks and fluxes between native and non‐native forests	12
Biologically driven isotopic fractionations in bivalves: from palaeoenvironmental problem to palaeophysiological proxy	12
A systematic review of invasive non‐native freshwater bivalves	12
Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review	12
Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators	12
On the function and origin of the avian renal portal shunt and its potential significance throughout evolution	12
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The forgotten adaptive social benefits of social learning in animals	12
The expression of empathy in human's closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees: current and future directions	12
Geological processes shaping freshwater biodiversity: a synthesis of global evidence	12
Origins and evolution of biological novelty	12
Cryptic species conservation: a review	11
Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean	11
Neuroplasticity and brain health: insights from natural torpor	11
Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution	11
Darwin's ‘mystery of mysteries’: the role of sexual selection in plant speciation	11
From curiosity to play: re‐evaluating the evolutionary origins of play	11
Time trees and clock genes: a systematic review and comparative analysis of contemporary avian migration genetics	11
Genomic investigations of successful invasions: the picture emerging from recent studies	11
Biological effects of weak magnetic fields: can the radical‐pair mechanism provide a universal explanation?	11
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The Lego hypothesis of tissue morphogenesis: stereotypic organization of parallel orientational cell adhesions for epithelial self‐assembly	11