Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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You startle me, you don’t290
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?127
Issue Information125
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions120
Erratum113
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Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities88
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations87
Dispatches86
COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem67
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Attracted to death65
Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya64
Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems63
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships60
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes59
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests58
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography56
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?53
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Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship49
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics47
How to pay for ecosystem services47
Protecting threatened species and music traditions45
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe45
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences44
Hunting on dangerous ground41
All‐true‐ism41
RAD needs monitoring41
Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you41
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors39
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas38
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management38
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance33
Cities as sanctuaries33
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene32
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Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds30
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making29
Dispatches29
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development28
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems28
Issue Information26
Action on ecology and justice24
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?24
Generating ecological insights from historical data24
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Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander22
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly22
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?22
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature21
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact21
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species21
“Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?21
How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms20
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil20
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US19
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities19
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity19
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene19
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals18
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands18
Size matters in nature17
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity17
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower17
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends17
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Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene17
Are all‐girls programs sexist?16
Standing on one foot15
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Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges14
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms14
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective14
The global rise of crustacean fisheries14
Dispatches13
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling13
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Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies13
Science in a changing world12
Glass‐like flowers in the rain12
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture12
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Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?12
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Ants actively carry microplastics12
A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions11
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized11
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America11
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era11
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields10
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes10
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data10
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity10
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?9
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework9
Last refuge for Arctic fauna9
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta9
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color9
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Dispatches9
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Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science9
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?9
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings9
Dispatches9
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools8
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?8
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?8
Cavity occupancy by wild honey bees: need for evidence of ecological impacts8
Landsat@508
Can we coevolve with AI?8
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature7
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Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us7
Setting your service agenda6
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Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations6
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses6
Geophagy in African savanna elephants6
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients6
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The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat6
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Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest5
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience5
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions5
Reckless parenting with a purpose5
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems5
Going my way?5
Issue Information5
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Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation4
Treefrogs near the top of a tropical rainforest4
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller4
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon4
The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawns regularly in salt marshes4
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts4
Exoneration of the shrike4
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Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management4
Squirrel consuming “poisonous” mushrooms4
Wild American mink (Neovison vison) may pose a COVID‐19 threat3
The frog and the princess3
Reshaping the Tree of Life: ecological implications of evolution in the Anthropocene3
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?3
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Maladapted in the Anthropocene: communal hyperfidelity in snakes3
Clever commensalism in a harsh environment3
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Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated3
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“Best available science” and the reproducibility crisis3
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Advancing freshwater science with sensor data collected by community scientists3
Male and female crab spiders “cooperate” to mimic a flower3
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands3
Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change?3
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Evaluating conservation units using network analysis: a sea duck case study3
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science3
The art of hiding in plain sight3
Mermaids by another name3
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Predator personalities alter ecosystem services2
New arrivals: natural colonization of an island by a large vertebrate2
A native raptor contributing to the biological control of an invasive species2
Structural diversity: a digital revolution2
How do urban trees vary across the US? It depends on where and how you look2
Promoting equity in the Conservation Reserve Program across the southeastern US2
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires2
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Extreme event ecology needs proactive funding2
Habitat‐mediated soundscape conservation in marine ecosystems2
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Erratum2
The Translocation Continuum Framework for context‐specific decision making2
Allyship requires action2
Yorke Bay, Falkland Islands: a question for coastal management2
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Shifting along the urbanization gradient: A countryside hawk now thrives in the city2
Issue Information2
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events2
“Authors declare no competing interests”—really?2
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The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: a new approach to field research in ecology2
Green pockets with seeds2
What's the point of peer review?1
Sea‐ice anomalies affect the acoustic presence of Antarctic pinnipeds in breeding areas1
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Air pollution: a threat to insect pollination1
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The seal people1
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature1
Enhancing water protection on Tribal lands1
Twenty years of Frontiers1
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Climate‐driven diatom aggregations pose a risk to long‐lived Antarctic filter feeders1
Stuff of nightmares1
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Treasure troves of tabasheer1
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Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape1
For species reintroduction, it’s all politics1
Dynamic connectivity assessment for a terrestrial predator in a metropolitan region1
Pacific herring spawns transfer energy to coastal ecosystems1
Conservation of the Atlantic Forest trees through Indigenous sustainability1
Sex on the beach1
Hidden in the jelly: the uncommon lifestyle of a dipteran larva1
A king among queens1
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From plant litter to soil organic matter: a game to understand carbon dynamics1
Aquatic fungi: largely neglected targets for conservation1
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On pikas and ticks1
Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales1
Discovery of solar sea slugs in the Falkland Islands1
Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution1
A silent spring, or a new cacophony? Invasive plants as maestros of modern soundscapes1
Disgusting, delicious durians1
Dispatches1
Taking a chance1
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine1
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Removing federal subsidies from high‐hazard coastal areas slows development1
Participatory action research generates knowledge for Sustainable Development Goals1
Three species of birds in one nest1
Dispatches1
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Pathway to mainstream youth engagement and intergenerational partnership in nature conservation1
Hidden in plain sight1
Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field1
Floral parasites: mutualism or exploitation in pollination?1
Throughfall and stemflow are major hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through tree canopies1
Elevating the human dimension in ecology—a call for action1
Where no elephant has gone before1
Open Access perpetuates differences between higher‐ and lower‐income countries1
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Host manipulation by a parasitic plant?1
Minding the boundary: social–ecological contexts for fence ecology and management1
Integrating climate‐change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America0
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A new and unexpected survivor of Aristolochia toxicity?0
Ecological and developmental history impacts the equitable distribution of services0
Juvenile salmonids traverse coastal meta‐nurseries that connect rivers via the sea0
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