Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 5. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Complex responses of global insect pests to climate warming229
COVID‐19 crisis demonstrates the urgent need for urban greenspaces155
Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane147
Wildfires and global change142
From eDNA to citizen science: emerging tools for the early detection of invasive species116
Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible98
Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks87
Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?83
The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation80
Functional eradication as a framework for invasive species control79
Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals77
The role of species charisma in biological invasions76
Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change75
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework74
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming72
Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked72
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales70
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application64
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters53
Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change53
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes50
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species48
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges47
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning47
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept46
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades46
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires44
Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads43
Validating climate‐change refugia: empirical bottom‐up approaches to support management actions42
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people41
The dilemma of altitudinal shifts: caught between high temperature and low oxygen40
Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards40
Oases of the future? Springs as potential hydrologic refugia in drying climates39
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions38
Urban evolution of invasive species38
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding37
Diverse perspectives of cat owners indicate barriers to and opportunities for managing cat predation of wildlife37
Managing climate refugia for freshwater fishes under an expanding human footprint36
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene36
Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots35
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions35
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry32
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use30
Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales30
Climate‐change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study29
Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management29
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems29
Temperate biocrusts: mesic counterparts to their better‐known dryland cousins29
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene28
Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large‐scale ecosystem restoration28
Combining physical and species‐based approaches improves refugia identification27
The global rise of crustacean fisheries27
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations27
COVID‐19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future25
Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change25
Novel resources: opportunities for and risks to species conservation24
US imperiled species are most vulnerable to habitat loss on private lands24
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands24
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe24
No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes23
Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change?23
A comparative analysis of dynamic management in marine and terrestrial systems22
Changes in China's water resources in the early 21st century22
Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape22
A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands22
Mammal species composition reveals new insights into Earth's remaining wilderness21
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities20
Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains20
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature19
An overview of ecological traps in marine ecosystems19
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities19
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends19
The global fall and rise of oyster reefs19
Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems19
Recurring outburst floods from drained lakes: an emerging Arctic hazard18
Multi‐scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems18
Throughfall and stemflow are major hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through tree canopies18
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
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling17
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences17
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity16
LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics16
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events16
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity16
A farming systems approach to linking agricultural policies with biodiversity and ecosystem services15
Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates15
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
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity14
Anticipating the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on wildlife14
Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems14
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms13
Coral conservation requires ecological climate‐change vulnerability assessments13
Doubling demands in programming skills call for ecoinformatics education13
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems12
Harnessing the collective intelligence of stakeholders for conservation12
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development12
Training macrosystems scientists requires both interpersonal and technical skills12
NEON is seeding the next revolution in ecology12
The consequences of predators without prey12
The decline of a hidden and expansive microhabitat: the subnivium12
Modulation of ecosystem services by animal personalities12
Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas12
Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?11
Reconciling carbon‐cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales11
The evolution of macrosystems biology11
Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology11
Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy11
Adaptive foraging in the Anthropocene: can individual diet specialization compensate for biotic homogenization?11
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests11
Beyond fangs: beef and soybean trade drive jaguar extinction10
Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations10
Policy action needed to unlock eDNA potential10
Private‐sector conservation under the US Endangered Species Act: a return‐on‐investment perspective10
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture9
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography9
Toward cross‐realm management of coastal urban ecosystems9
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes9
Grassroots reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of overharvest9
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools9
Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?9
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships9
Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests8
Global Swimways for the conservation of migratory freshwater fishes8
Trade‐offs between utility‐scale solar development and ungulates on western rangelands8
Plant–frugivore interactions revealed by arboreal camera trapping8
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas8
Wild genes boost the survival of captive‐bred individuals in the wild8
Counteracting wildfire misinformation8
Aboveground soil supports high levels of biological activity in oil palm plantations8
Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management8
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature8
Exit strategies for wildlife conservation: why they are rare and why every institution needs one8
An ecology of segregation7
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics7
Cavity occupancy by wild honey bees: need for evidence of ecological impacts7
Linking soil health and ecological resilience to achieve agricultural sustainability7
Ecosystem‐scale mapping of coral species and thermal tolerance7
How many sea scallops are there and why does it matter?7
Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey7
An expanded framework for wildland–urban interfaces and their management7
Renewed threats to Brazilian biodiversity from sugarcane7
Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field7
Climate change paves the way for a new inter‐ocean fish interchange6
Parasites of the past: 90 years of change in parasitism for English sole6
Cities as sanctuaries6
Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data6
Invasive Spartina alterniflora marshes in China: a blue carbon sink at the expense of other ecosystem services6
Plant pirates of the Caribbean: is Cuba sheltered by its revolutionary economy?5
Predator personalities alter ecosystem services5
The NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge5
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine5
Disturbance–recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery5
Recovery of raptors from displacement by wind farms – a response5
Canopy structure from space using GEDI lidar5
Transience of public attention in conservation science5
Field stations as sentinels of change5
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework5
Integrating climate‐change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America5
Educating students in solutions‐oriented science5
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science5
Responding to the US national pollinator plan: a case study in Michigan5
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