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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID‐19 crisis demonstrates the urgent need for urban greenspaces157
Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane153
Wildfires and global change149
Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible99
Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks87
Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?87
The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation84
Functional eradication as a framework for invasive species control84
Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change80
Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals79
The role of species charisma in biological invasions78
Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked77
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework75
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming74
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales71
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application66
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters55
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes55
Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change55
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species51
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning50
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges48
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept47
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades46
Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads45
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires45
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people44
Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards43
Validating climate‐change refugia: empirical bottom‐up approaches to support management actions43
Urban evolution of invasive species42
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding41
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene40
Oases of the future? Springs as potential hydrologic refugia in drying climates39
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions39
Managing climate refugia for freshwater fishes under an expanding human footprint38
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions37
Diverse perspectives of cat owners indicate barriers to and opportunities for managing cat predation of wildlife37
Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots36
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry33
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems32
Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales31
The global rise of crustacean fisheries31
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations31
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use31
Temperate biocrusts: mesic counterparts to their better‐known dryland cousins30
Combining physical and species‐based approaches improves refugia identification30
Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management30
Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large‐scale ecosystem restoration29
Climate‐change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study29
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene28
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe26
COVID‐19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future26
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands26
Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change?25
US imperiled species are most vulnerable to habitat loss on private lands25
A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands25
Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change25
Novel resources: opportunities for and risks to species conservation24
A comparative analysis of dynamic management in marine and terrestrial systems23
No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes23
Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth's remaining wilderness23
The global fall and rise of oyster reefs23
Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape23
An overview of ecological traps in marine ecosystems22
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities21
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities21
Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains20
Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems19
Throughfall and stemflow are major hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through tree canopies19
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends19
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature19
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity18
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms18
Multi‐scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems18
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling18
Vegetation refugia can inform climate‐adaptive land management under global warming18
Over half of threatened species require targeted recovery actions to avert human‐induced extinction17
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events17
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences17
LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics16
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity16
Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates16
A farming systems approach to linking agricultural policies with biodiversity and ecosystem services15
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity15
Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas15
Expanding wetland hydroperiod data via satellite imagery for ecological applications15
Deciphering the past to inform the future: preparing for the next (“really big”) extreme event14
The decline of a hidden and expansive microhabitat: the subnivium14
Coral conservation requires ecological climate‐change vulnerability assessments14
Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems14
Anticipating the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on wildlife14
Doubling demands in programming skills call for ecoinformatics education13
Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy13
Modulation of ecosystem services by animal personalities12
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development12
Harnessing the collective intelligence of stakeholders for conservation12
Training macrosystems scientists requires both interpersonal and technical skills12
The consequences of predators without prey12
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems12
Reconciling carbon‐cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales11
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests11
Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?11
Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?11
The evolution of macrosystems biology11
Adaptive foraging in the Anthropocene: can individual diet specialization compensate for biotic homogenization?11
Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations11
Private‐sector conservation under the US Endangered Species Act: a return‐on‐investment perspective11
Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology11
Trade‐offs between utility‐scale solar development and ungulates on western rangelands10
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships10
Policy action needed to unlock eDNA potential10
Beyond fangs: beef and soybean trade drive jaguar extinction10
Ecosystem‐scale mapping of coral species and thermal tolerance10
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture9
Global Swimways for the conservation of migratory freshwater fishes9
Toward cross‐realm management of coastal urban ecosystems9
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes9
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography9
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools9
Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management9
Grassroots reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of overharvest9
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature9
Counteracting wildfire misinformation8
Linking soil health and ecological resilience to achieve agricultural sustainability8
Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field8
Plant–frugivore interactions revealed by arboreal camera trapping8
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas8
Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data8
An ecology of segregation8
Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests8
Wild genes boost the survival of captive‐bred individuals in the wild8
An expanded framework for wildland–urban interfaces and their management7
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics7
Climate change paves the way for a new inter‐ocean fish interchange7
Invasive Spartina alterniflora marshes in China: a blue carbon sink at the expense of other ecosystem services7
How many sea scallops are there and why does it matter?7
Integrating climate‐change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America7
Cities as sanctuaries7
Renewed threats to Brazilian biodiversity from sugarcane7
Cavity occupancy by wild honey bees: need for evidence of ecological impacts7
Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey7
Predator personalities alter ecosystem services6
Textured species range maps enhance interdisciplinary science capacity across scales6
Parasites of the past: 90 years of change in parasitism for English sole6
Antarctic biodiversity predictions through substrate qualities and environmental DNA6
The NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge6
Disturbance–recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery6
Human‐caused mortality triggers pack instability in gray wolves6
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework5
Canopy structure from space using GEDI lidar5
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science5
Field stations as sentinels of change5
Plant pirates of the Caribbean: is Cuba sheltered by its revolutionary economy?5
Educating students in solutions‐oriented science5
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine5
Responsibility, equity, justice, and inclusion in dynamic human–wildlife interactions5
Recovery of raptors from displacement by wind farms – a response5
The impact of excessive protein consumption on human wastewater nitrogen loading of US waters5
Transience of public attention in conservation science5
Olfactory misinformation: creating “fake news” to reduce problem foraging by wildlife5
Responding to the US national pollinator plan: a case study in Michigan5
Tough questions for the “30 × 30” conservation agenda4
Plant selection for pollinator restoration in seminatural ecosystems4
Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum4
Precise knowledge of commodity trade is needed to understand invasion flows4
Biological invasion threatens keystone species indelibly entwined with Indigenous cultures4
The Dasgupta Review: resetting the stage for a new paradigm4
Minding the boundary: social–ecological contexts for fence ecology and management4
Rethinking strategies for coexistence with bark beetles in Mexico and beyond3
Using Collective Impact to overcome systemic racism3
Collateral damage: military invasions beget biological invasions3
Documented raptor displacement at a wind farm3
Wild American mink (Neovison vison) may pose a COVID‐19 threat3
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions3
More green, fewer problems: landcover relates to perception of environmental problems3
It is time to rebalance the risk equation3
Fish Flow: following fisheries from spawning to supper3
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands3
Aquatic fungi: largely neglected targets for conservation3
Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature3
The perilous and important art of definition: the case of the old‐growth forest3
Poyang Lake and wintering Siberian cranes3
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US3
Building capacity through interdisciplinary graduate collaboration3
For species reintroduction, it’s all politics3
Environmental impacts of increasing numbers of artificial space objects3
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes2
Split personality2
Prioritizing science efforts to inform decision making on public lands2
Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation2
Temperate urchins clear space for corals2
Reshaping the Tree of Life: ecological implications of evolution in the Anthropocene2
Superb advantage from carrion‐associated arthropods?2
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?2
Fairy lanterns may lure pollinators by mimicking fungi2
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller2
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management2
Conservation implications of disease control2
Open Access perpetuates differences between higher‐ and lower‐income countries2
Open data facilitate resilience in science during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
The public health implications of gentrification: tick‐borne disease risks for communities of color2
Amazonian fires endanger threatened plants and protected areas2
Subseasonal forecasts provide a powerful tool for dynamic marine mammal management2
Zurich’s urban beavers are crowd‐pleasers2
“Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?2
Removing federal subsidies from high‐hazard coastal areas slows development2
Offsetting is a dangerous smokescreen for inaction2
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance2
Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses2
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship2
Science denialism limits management of invasive hippos in Colombia2
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era2
Extreme event ecology needs proactive funding2
It's a trap!2
Scrutinizing impact investment in sustainable fisheries2
Tree crown economics2
Long‐term network research for the next agricultural revolution2
On the lookout for the endangered, only to find the invasive2
One Health and the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Participatory action research generates knowledge for Sustainable Development Goals1
New forces influencing savanna conservation: increasing land prices driven by gentrification and speculation at the landscape scale1
Can predator cue effects on a foundation species alter community functioning?1
No meal is too big1
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Beyond COVID‐19: ecotourism's role in ocean conservation targets1
Treefrogs near the top of a tropical rainforest1
Dispatches1
Too big to fit1
Open access is a misnomer1
Wave‐flattening and translational science1
Grand strategy for human–wildlife coexistence1
Pathway to mainstream youth engagement and intergenerational partnership in nature conservation1
Fire and climate change: a comment1
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Global knowledge gaps of herptile responses to land transformation1
Let’s twist again? Resupination failure in an orchid1
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems1
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The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat1
Attracted to death1
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings1
Scale and climate regulation as a conservation incentive1
“Lianification” or liana invasion? Commentary on Perring et al. (2020)1
Undesirable outcomes in seasonally dry forests1
Ecology, advocacy, and interdisciplinarity1
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated1
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts1
The fierce urgency of now: integrating the youth voice at COP1
The cockroach: a largely overlooked pollinator1
Dispatches1
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