Biological Reviews

Papers
(The median citation count of Biological Reviews is 8. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?324
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension265
Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates159
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community141
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application134
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps132
Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition102
Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps100
Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research98
Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis96
Regulatory mechanisms of lipid biosynthesis in microalgae94
Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles90
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds86
The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests84
Climate change effects on animal ecology: butterflies and moths as a case study83
Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review75
Clinical implications of sperm DNA damage in IVF and ICSI: updated systematic review and meta‐analysis75
The naked truth: a comprehensive clarification and classification of current ‘myths’ in naked mole‐rat biology74
Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences73
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating Triad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management72
Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis71
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore: an evolving concept critical for cell life and death70
Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda70
Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions69
Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution67
Wolbachiahost shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences66
Migration in butterflies: a global overview66
How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation65
The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis64
Seed ‘primeomics’: plants memorize their germination under stress61
Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities59
Diverse roles of microbial indole compounds in eukaryotic systems59
Mechanosensing by Piezo1 and its implications for physiology and various pathologies58
Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems58
The biology and evolution of spider venoms57
Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians57
Seagrasses in an era of ocean warming: a review57
Fire as a driver and mediator of predator–prey interactions55
Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels55
Fire‐released seed dormancy ‐ a global synthesis55
Omega‐3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences – implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions54
Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects54
Plasticity of microglia54
When more is more: taking advantage of species diversity to move towards sustainable aquaculture53
Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications51
The hallmarks of myotonic dystrophy type 1 muscle dysfunction49
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions49
Chronic stress and Alzheimer's disease: the interplay between the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, genetics and microglia49
The role of inputs of marine wrack and carrion in sandy‐beach ecosystems: a global review48
Behavioural ecology at the spatial–social interface48
Speciation across theTree ofLife48
Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review47
Multi‐level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence47
Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment cause declines in invertebrate populations: a global meta‐analysis46
Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems45
New insight into dyslipidemia‐induced cellular senescence in atherosclerosis45
Social complexity and the fractal structure of group size in primate social evolution44
Post COVID‐19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics44
An integrated, multi‐level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns44
The PERKs of mitochondria protection during stress: insights for PERK modulation in neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases43
Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital‐based food webs: a global meta‐analysis from streams and rivers43
A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography43
Global variation in freshwater physico‐chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife43
A comprehensive synthesis unveils the mysteries of phosphate‐solubilizing microbes42
Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene41
What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?41
A meta‐analysis of sex differences in animal personality: no evidence for the greater male variability hypothesis41
From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models41
Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa41
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?40
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on distribution and community composition of macrophytes in lentic systems40
Circadian rhythms in zebrafish (Danio rerio) behaviour and the sources of their variability40
Patterns and determinants of dispersal in grey wolves (Canis lupus)39
More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends38
A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification38
Towards an ecology of protective coloration38
Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods38
Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology37
A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs36
Plant susceptible responses: the underestimated side of plant–pathogen interactions36
The ecology of electricity and electroreception36
Carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation using macroalgae: a state of knowledge review36
Learning in non‐avian reptiles 40 years on: advances and promising new directions35
Calpain–calpastatin system and cancer progression35
The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods35
Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions35
Wallace's line,Wallacea, and associated divides and areas: history of a tortuous tangle of ideas and labels35
A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis35
A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)35
The singing question: re‐conceptualizing birdsong34
Delete and survive: strategies of programmed genetic material elimination in eukaryotes34
Odorant‐binding proteins of mammals34
Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review33
Feather function and the evolution of birds33
Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops33
The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis: there's life in the old dog yet33
A guide to area‐restricted search: a foundational foraging behaviour32
Avian vocalisations: the female perspective32
Deciphering the molecular mechanism of stop codon readthrough32
Omics‐based molecular analyses of adhesion by aquatic invertebrates32
Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions31
Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution31
Animal migrations and parasitism: reciprocal effects within a unified framework31
The convoluted history of haem biosynthesis31
The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution30
Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition30
Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis30
The integrative biology of genetic dominance30
What is the status of metabolic theory one century afterPütter invented the vonBertalanffy growth curve?30
A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example30
Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals29
Sex roles and sex ratios in animals29
The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants29
Newborn and elderly skin: two fragile skins at higher risk of pressure injury28
A synthesis of deimatic behaviour28
Successional theories28
Convergence and divergence in lizard colour polymorphisms28
Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects28
A pan‐metazoan concept for adult stem cells: the wobbling Penrose landscape28
Small things are important: the value of singular point elements for birds in agricultural landscapes28
Life‐history strategies in salmonids: the role of physiology and its consequences28
From fibre to function: are we accurately representing muscle architecture and performance?27
How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe27
Extreme weather events threaten biodiversity and functions of river ecosystems: evidence from a meta‐analysis27
A comprehensive overview of the effects of urbanisation on sexual selection and sexual traits26
Olfactory camouflage and communication in birds26
The terrestrial and semi‐aquatic invertebrates of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams26
Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome26
The phenotypic costs of captivity26
Improving zebrafish laboratory welfare and scientific research through understanding their natural history25
Understanding the evolution of viviparity using intraspecific variation in reproductive mode and transitional forms of pregnancy25
Vertical stratification of seed‐dispersing vertebrate communities and their interactions with plants in tropical forests24
Methodological advances for hypothesis‐driven ethnobiology24
Demographic effects of road mortality on mammalian populations: a systematic review24
How feedback and feed‐forward mechanisms link determinants of social dominance24
Evaluating endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response through the lens of ecology and evolution24
Why aren't warning signals everywhere? On the prevalence of aposematism and mimicry in communities24
The behavioural and physiological ecology of embryos: responding to the challenges of life inside an egg23
Algal volatiles – the overlooked chemical language of aquatic primary producers23
A farewell to arms and legs: a review of limb reduction in squamates23
Biotic homogenisation and differentiation as directional change in beta diversity: synthesising driver–response relationships to develop conceptual models across ecosystems23
The diet of early birds based on modern and fossil evidence and a new framework for its reconstruction23
Humoral immune responses to AAV gene therapy in the ocular compartment23
The stele – a developmental perspective on the diversity and evolution of primary vascular architecture23
Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non‐feather integumentary structures in non‐avialan theropod dinosaurs23
ATP binding cassette importers in eukaryotic organisms23
Broad‐scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: a global multi‐taxa analysis22
Eco‐genetics of desiccation resistance in Drosophila22
A framework to integrate innovations in invasion science for proactive management22
Temporal resource partitioning mitigates interspecific competition and promotes coexistence among insect parasites22
Recent advances in heteromorph ammonoid palaeobiology22
Invasion of temperate deciduous broadleaf forests by N‐fixing tree species – consequences for stream ecosystems22
Insecticide‐contaminated honeydew: risks for beneficial insects21
Male alternative reproductive tactics and sperm competition: a meta‐analysis21
The mutualism–antagonism continuum in Neotropical palm–frugivore interactions: from interaction outcomes to ecosystem dynamics21
Parent–offspring cannibalism throughout the animal kingdom: a review of adaptive hypotheses21
The importance of considering age when quantifying wild animals’ welfare21
Eco‐evolutionary consequences of habitat warming and fragmentation in communities20
Beneficial intergenerational effects of exercise on brain and cognition: a multilevel meta‐analysis of mean and variance20
The origin and early evolution of arthropods20
Molecular regulatory mechanisms underlying the adaptability of polyploid plants20
The secretome of Verticillium dahliae in collusion with plant defence responses modulates Verticillium wilt symptoms20
Seawater intrusion: an appraisal of taxa at most risk and safe salinity levels20
Sowing forests: a synthesis of seed dispersal and predation by agoutis and their influence on plant communities20
The biomechanics of pollen release: new perspectives on the evolution of wind pollination in angiosperms19
The hidden links between animal weapons, fighting style, and their effect on contest success: a meta‐analysis19
Sexual conflict in a changing environment18
Evolution and patterning of the ovule in seed plants18
Critical thermal limits in ants and their implications under climate change18
Social competition as a driver of phenotype–environment correlations: implications for ecology and evolution18
Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science18
The effects of endocrine disruptors on the male germline: an intergenerational health risk18
Towards understanding the extensive diversity of protein N‐glycan structures in eukaryotes18
Morphology of the temporal skull region in tetrapods: research history, functional explanations, and a new comprehensive classification scheme17
Can metabolic traits explain animal community assembly and functioning?17
Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development17
Trade‐off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions17
Who listens to mother? A whole‐family perspective on the evolution of maternal hormone allocation17
Microbes, metabolites and (synaptic) malleability, oh my! The effect of the microbiome on synaptic plasticity17
Sophistication in a seemingly simple creature: a review of wild holothurian nutrition in marine ecosystems17
Fish as a model in social neuroscience: conservation and diversity in the social brain network17
The energetic costs of sub‐lethal helminth parasites in mammals: a meta‐analysis17
Avian adjustments to cold and non‐shivering thermogenesis: whats, wheres and hows17
The science and engineering of stem cell‐derived organoids‐examples from hepatic, biliary, and pancreatic tissues16
Tactics of evasion: strategies used by signallers to deter eavesdropping enemies from exploiting communication systems16
How phenological tracking shapes species and communities in non‐stationary environments16
The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade16
The impact of environmental and social factors on learning abilities: a meta‐analysis16
Passive directed dispersal of plants by animals16
Programmed ageing: decline of stem cell renewal, immunosenescence, and Alzheimer's disease16
Social pressure drives “conversational rules” in great apes16
Ecological integrity of tropical secondary forests: concepts and indicators15
Integrative biology of injury in animals15
What do we know about growth of vessel elements of secondary xylem in woody plants?15
A conceptual framework to predict social information use based on food ephemerality and individual resource requirements15
Trade‐offs in carbon‐degrading enzyme activities limit long‐term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition15
New insights on the reparative cells in bone regeneration and repair14
Ashmole's hypothesis and the latitudinal gradient in clutch size14
On the move: sloths and their epibionts as model mobile ecosystems14
Fluorescent nanoparticles as tools in ecology and physiology14
The ephemeral resource patch concept13
On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea13
Aliens in caves: the global dimension of biological invasions in subterranean ecosystems13
Origin and evolution of fungus farming in wood‐boringColeoptera – a palaeontological perspective13
The complex role of microbial metabolic activity in fossilization13
Coastal peat‐beds and peatlands of the southern North Sea: their past, present and future13
Analysis of the genetic loci of pigment pattern evolution in vertebrates13
Motor function recovery: deciphering a regenerative niche at the neuromuscular synapse13
How plants affect amphibian populations12
Quantitative meta‐analysis reveals no association between mercury contamination and body condition in birds12
Testicular heat stress, a historical perspective and two postulates for why male germ cells are heat sensitive12
The conundrum of pharyngeal teeth origin: the role of germ layers, pouches, and gill slits11
Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence11
The behavioural ecology of marine cleaning mutualisms11
Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach11
The Method of Local Restriction: in search of potential great ape culture‐dependent forms11
Microbiome mediation of animal life histories via metabolites and insulin‐like signalling11
Impacts of volcanic eruptions and early recovery in freshwater environments and organisms11
Intentional communication: solving methodological issues to assigning first‐order intentional signalling11
Interaction between nanomaterials and the innate immune system across evolution11
Estimating counterfactuals for evaluation of ecological and conservation impact: an introduction to matching methods11
Global meta‐analysis of tree decline impacts on fauna11
Four errors and a fallacy: pitfalls for the unwary in comparative brain analyses11
Changing our view of the Schistosoma granuloma to an ecological standpoint11
Habitat split as a driver of disease in amphibians11
The ecological significance of time sense in animals10
Vertical stratification patterns of tropical forest vertebrates: a meta‐analysis10
Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness10
Human torpor: translating insights from nature into manned deep space expedition10
Are hippos Africa's most influential megaherbivore? A review of ecosystem engineering by the semi‐aquatic common hippopotamus10
Beringia as a high‐latitude engine of avian speciation10
Coral recruitment: patterns and processes determining the dynamics of coral populations10
The Staufen1‐dependent cell cycle regulon or how a misregulated RNA‐binding protein leads to cancer10
A phylogenetic and functional perspective on the origin and evolutionary shifts of growth ring anatomical markers in seed plants10
Shared and unique features of mammalian sleep spindles – insights from new and old animal models10
Carotenoid ornaments and the spandrels of physiology: a critique of theory to explain condition dependency10
Spatiotemporal regulation of maternal mRNAs during vertebrate oocyte meiotic maturation10
Uncovering the ‘sphinx’ of sphingosine 1‐phosphate signalling: from cellular events to organ morphogenesis10
Mechanisms of group‐hunting in vertebrates10
Deciphering structural aspects of reverse cholesterol transport: mapping the knowns and unknowns10
False alarms and information transmission in grouping animals10
The Galápagos Islands: biogeographic patterns and geology10
Animal linguistics: a primer9
Chasing footprints in time – reframing our understanding of human foot function in the context of current evidence and emerging insights9
Moments of weaknesses – exploiting vulnerabilities between germination and encystment in the Phytomyxea9
Strategies of plants to overcome abiotic and biotic stresses9
The thermal environment as a moderator of social evolution9
The persistence and evolutionary consequences of vestigial behaviours9
Consistent trade‐offs in ecosystem services between land covers with different production intensities9
The rise of hyperabundant native generalists threatens both humans and nature9
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