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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Wildfires and global change219
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species88
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework87
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales86
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming82
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application77
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people73
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters71
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding71
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires69
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes68
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning65
Urban evolution of invasive species63
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept63
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges61
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene59
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades57
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions50
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions48
The global rise of crustacean fisheries47
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands43
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene42
A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands42
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity41
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems40
Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales40
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe38
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry38
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use38
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations37
No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes36
Climate‐change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study34
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities34
Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change?32
Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains31
Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change31
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity30
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events29
COVID‐19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future29
An overview of ecological traps in marine ecosystems29
Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape28
Over half of threatened species require targeted recovery actions to avert human‐induced extinction28
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities27
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling26
The global fall and rise of oyster reefs25
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences25
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends24
Throughfall and stemflow are major hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through tree canopies23
Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas23
Multi‐scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems23
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity22
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms22
Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems22
Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates21
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature21
A farming systems approach to linking agricultural policies with biodiversity and ecosystem services20
The consequences of predators without prey19
Linking soil health and ecological resilience to achieve agricultural sustainability19
Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems18
Invasive Spartina alterniflora marshes in China: a blue carbon sink at the expense of other ecosystem services17
Anticipating the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on wildlife16
Cities as sanctuaries16
Trade‐offs between utility‐scale solar development and ungulates on western rangelands16
Coral conservation requires ecological climate‐change vulnerability assessments16
Modulation of ecosystem services by animal personalities16
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes15
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development15
The decline of a hidden and expansive microhabitat: the subnivium15
Policy action needed to unlock eDNA potential14
Training macrosystems scientists requires both interpersonal and technical skills14
Human‐caused mortality triggers pack instability in gray wolves14
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems14
Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?14
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests14
Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data14
The evolution of macrosystems biology13
Reconciling carbon‐cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales13
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools13
Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations13
Global Swimways for the conservation of migratory freshwater fishes12
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature12
Adaptive foraging in the Anthropocene: can individual diet specialization compensate for biotic homogenization?12
Ecosystem‐scale mapping of coral species and thermal tolerance12
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture12
Climate change paves the way for a new inter‐ocean fish interchange12
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships12
Counteracting wildfire misinformation12
Integrating climate‐change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America11
An expanded framework for wildland–urban interfaces and their management11
Grassroots reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of overharvest11
Transience of public attention in conservation science11
Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests11
Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology11
Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management11
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas10
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science10
Toward cross‐realm management of coastal urban ecosystems10
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance10
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography10
Cavity occupancy by wild honey bees: need for evidence of ecological impacts9
Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field9
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine9
Parasites of the past: 90 years of change in parasitism for English sole9
Wild genes boost the survival of captive‐bred individuals in the wild9
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics9
Biological invasion threatens keystone species indelibly entwined with Indigenous cultures9
Responding to the US national pollinator plan: a case study in Michigan9
An ecology of segregation9
Responsibility, equity, justice, and inclusion in dynamic human–wildlife interactions9
Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey8
Canopy structure from space using GEDI lidar8
Minding the boundary: social–ecological contexts for fence ecology and management8
TheNEONEcological Forecasting Challenge8
Plant–frugivore interactions revealed by arboreal camera trapping8
Olfactory misinformation: creating “fake news” to reduce problem foraging by wildlife8
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework8
Precise knowledge of commodity trade is needed to understand invasion flows8
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US8
Disturbance–recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery7
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts7
Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum7
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions7
Predator personalities alter ecosystem services7
The impact of excessive protein consumption on human wastewater nitrogen loading of US waters7
Antarctic biodiversity predictions through substrate qualities and environmental DNA6
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands6
Textured species range maps enhance interdisciplinary science capacity across scales6
Aquatic fungi: largely neglected targets for conservation6
The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: a new approach to field research in ecology6
Plant selection for pollinator restoration in seminatural ecosystems6
The public health implications of gentrification: tick‐borne disease risks for communities of color5
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes5
Plant pirates of the Caribbean: is Cuba sheltered by its revolutionary economy?5
Environmental impacts of increasing numbers of artificial space objects5
Tough questions for the “30 × 30” conservation agenda5
Global knowledge gaps of herptile responses to land transformation5
Collateral damage: military invasions beget biological invasions4
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact4
Split personality4
New forces influencing savanna conservation: increasing land prices driven by gentrification and speculation at the landscape scale4
Air pollution: a threat to insect pollination4
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?4
Participatory action research generates knowledge for Sustainable Development Goals4
The Dasgupta Review: resetting the stage for a new paradigm4
Tree crown economics4
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated4
Prioritizing science efforts to inform decision making on public lands4
How has the concept of resilience been applied in research across forest regions?3
On the lookout for the endangered, only to find the invasive3
Fairy lanterns may lure pollinators by mimicking fungi3
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller3
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon3
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses3
Rethinking strategies for coexistence with bark beetles in Mexico and beyond3
High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China3
Sex analysis in marine biological systems: insights and opportunities3
Overcoming obstacles to prescribed fire in the North American Mediterranean climate zone3
Removing federal subsidies from high‐hazard coastal areas slows development3
Wild American mink (Neovison vison) may pose a COVID‐19 threat3
Human perception relates to when endangered species are listed3
Fulfilling the promise of digital tools to build rangeland resilience3
For species reintroduction, it’s all politics3
The perilous and important art of definition: the case of the old‐growth forest3
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era3
Subseasonal forecasts provide a powerful tool for dynamic marine mammal management3
Lidar and deep learning reveal forest structural controls on snowpack3
Sea‐ice anomalies affect the acoustic presence of Antarctic pinnipeds in breeding areas3
Building capacity through interdisciplinary graduate collaboration3
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management3
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems3
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature3
More green, fewer problems: landcover relates to perception of environmental problems3
Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation3
Fish Flow: following fisheries from spawning to supper3
Structural diversity: a digital revolution2
“Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?2
Zurich’s urban beavers are crowd‐pleasers2
Propagating uncertainty in ecological models to understand causation2
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship2
Pathway to mainstream youth engagement and intergenerational partnership in nature conservation2
Science denialism limits management of invasive hippos in Colombia2
Extreme event ecology needs proactive funding2
Superb advantage from carrion‐associated arthropods?2
Informing management of recovering predators and their prey with ecological diffusion models2
Long‐term network research for the next agricultural revolution2
Offsetting is a dangerous smokescreen for inaction2
Open Access perpetuates differences between higher‐ and lower‐income countries2
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings2
New arrivals: natural colonization of an island by a large vertebrate2
Reshaping the Tree of Life: ecological implications of evolution in the Anthropocene2
Quantifying biodiversity impacts of livestock using life‐cycle perspectives2
Multiplying the impact of conservation funding using spatial exchange rates2
Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution2
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience2
Open data facilitate resilience in science during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields2
Bird of a different feather1
Beyond COVID‐19: ecotourism's role in ocean conservation targets1
Hidden in plain sight1
Booted eagle migrates across the Strait of Gibraltar with the head of a spiny‐tailed lizard1
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Massive raids: the underappreciated impact of Dorylus ants on sea turtle nesting1
Attracted to death1
Beyond habituation to human presence1
The cockroach: a largely overlooked pollinator1
How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms1
Can we coevolve with AI?1
“Best available science” and the reproducibility crisis1
From plant litter to soil organic matter: a game to understand carbon dynamics1
Can predator cue effects on a foundation species alter community functioning?1
Raising awareness of science’s environmental footprint1
Monitoring ecosystem services with essential ecosystem service variables1
No meal is too big1
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The fierce urgency of now: integrating the youth voice at COP1
A story behind what's on the menu1
Treefrogs near the top of a tropical rainforest1
Upscaling ecological restoration by integrating with agriculture1
How to pay for ecosystem services1
Where no elephant has gone before1
Nangaghneghput – our way of life1
A flower’s middle lobe mimics an anther1
Open access is a misnomer1
Dynamic connectivity assessment for a terrestrial predator in a metropolitan region1
Tree removals as socioecological experiments in cities1
Open data and the 21st‐century naturalist1
Undesirable outcomes in seasonally dry forests1
Fire and climate change: a comment1
Threadfin hawkfish predation on a stalkless crinoid1
“Lianification” or liana invasion? Commentary on Perring et al. (2020)1
Generating ecological insights from historical data1
Bithynian snake bombs1
Ecology, advocacy, and interdisciplinarity1
Let’s twist again? Resupination failure in an orchid1
Building US food‐energy‐water security requires avoiding unintended consequences for ecosystems1
Dispatches1
Suffering sparrows1
Sex on the beach1
Allyship requires action1
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat1
Fostering ecological understanding in and engagement with local communities1
Dispatches1
Centering socioecological connections to collaboratively manage post‐fire vegetation shifts1
Integrating perspectives on ecology, conservation value, and policy of bee pollinator seed mixes1
The curious case of leaf‐rolling nematodes1
Improving estimates of land protection costs in a tropical biodiversity hotspot1
Grand strategy for human–wildlife coexistence1
The marvel from Sumatra1
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