Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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A new centrality index designed for multilayer networks153
A network theoretic method for the basic reproductive number for infectious diseases151
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Individual tree extraction through 3D promptable segmentation networks114
Empirical dynamic programming for model‐free ecosystem‐based management108
Incidence‐data‐based species richness estimation via a Beta‐Binomial model108
occupancyTuts: Occupancy modelling tutorials with RPresence96
Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution94
Toward a unified approach to modelling adaptation among demographers and evolutionary ecologists92
Beneath the buzz: Quantifying nest locations and densities of ground‐nesting wild bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)89
A pluralistic framework for measuring, interpreting and decomposing heterogeneity in meta‐analysis83
How to get the most out of phylogenetic imputation without abusing it83
Nighthawk: Acoustic monitoring of nocturnal bird migration in the Americas81
Exploring noise, degeneracy and determinism in biological networks with the einet package80
From anarchy to clarity, data pre‐processing and statistical choices influence quantitative environmental DNA (eDNA) analyses79
Nearest neighbour distance matching Leave‐One‐Out Cross‐Validation for map validation78
Integrated community occupancy models: A framework to assess occurrence and biodiversity dynamics using multiple data sources72
OCCUR Shiny application: A user‐friendly guide for curating species occurrence records71
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Assimilating ecological theory with empiricism: Using constrained generalized additive models to enhance survival analyses63
Revticulate: An R framework for interaction with RevBayes62
Filtering heart rates using data densities: The boxfilter R package62
AF‐vapeR: A multivariate genome scan for detecting parallel evolution using allele frequency change vectors59
ECOGEN: Bird sounds generation using deep learning58
plantR: An R package and workflow for managing species records from biological collections58
Exploring congruent diversification histories with flexibility and parsimony56
FlywayNet: A hidden semi‐Markov model for inferring the structure of migratory bird networks from count data56
Using cloud radar to investigate the effect of rainfall on migratory insect flight54
BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large‐scale bat migration patterns53
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A 3D modelling approach to measuring structural characteristics of bird nest interiors49
Gone with the wind: Inferring bird migration with light‐level geolocation, wind and activity measurements47
An open future for MEE46
Multi‐trait point pattern reconstruction of plant ecosystems43
The ecological forecast limit revisited: Potential, absolute and relative system predictability41
Integrated movement models for individual tracking and species distribution data40
A general framework for jointly modelling thermal and hydric constraints on developing eggs40
Continuous on‐board behaviour classification using accelerometry: A case study with a new GPS‐3G‐Bluetooth system in Pacific black ducks40
EcoEnsemble: A general framework for combining ecosystem models in R39
Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals38
lacunr: Efficient 3D lacunarity for voxelized LiDAR data from forested ecosystems38
Classifying the activity states of small vertebrates using automated VHF telemetry38
A systematic method for hypothesis synthesis and conceptual model development38
MoonShine: A software‐hardware system for simulating moonlight ground illuminance and re‐creating artificial moonlight cycles in a laboratory environment38
Long‐term automated visual monitoring of Antarctic benthic fauna37
Plant biodiversity assessment through soil eDNA reflects temporal and local diversity37
Benchmarking imputation methods for categorical biological data36
Navigating through space and time: A methodological approach to quantify spatiotemporal connectivity using stream flow data as a case study34
treetop: A Shiny‐based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists34
Going beyond richness: Modelling the BEF relationship using species identity, evenness, richness and species interactions via the DImodels R package34
Chronospaces: An R package for the statistical exploration of divergence times promotes the assessment of methodological sensitivity33
Scalable semantic 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning33
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Dynamic visualisation of million‐tip trees: The OneZoom project32
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PicoCam: High‐resolution 3D imaging of live animals and preserved specimens31
Introducing recurrent event analyses to assess species interactions based on camera‐trap data: A comparison with time‐to‐first‐event approaches31
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Automated identification of diverse Neotropical pollen samples using convolutional neural networks30
Sensors versus surveyors: Comparing passive acoustic monitoring, camera trapping and observer‐based monitoring for terrestrial mammals30
Linear polyacrylamide is highly efficient in precipitating and purifying environmental and ancient DNA30
PleistoDist: A toolbox for visualising and quantifying the effects of Pleistocene sea‐level change on island archipelagos30
Same data, different results? Machine learning approaches in bioacoustics30
Detecting and reducing heterogeneity of error in acoustic classification30
The Benthic Underwater Microscope imaging PAM (BUMP): A non‐invasive tool for in situ assessment of microstructure and photosynthetic efficiency29
Issues in calibrating models with multiple unbalanced constraints: the significance of systematic model and data errors29
TinyCO2: High‐performance, low‐cost CO2 enrichment for field‐grown plants29
Measuring understorey vegetation structure using a novel mixed‐reality device29
Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology28
Parasitic flowering plant collections embody the extended specimen28
An aquaria set‐up for long‐term, multiple‐stressor research in marine organisms28
RFIDeep: Unfolding the potential of deep learning for radio‐frequency identification28
Retrodiction of forest demography: Backward simulation with reverse matrix models27
Using standardized fish‐specific autonomous reef monitoring structures (FARMS) to quantify cryptobenthic fish communities27
Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data26
The Wayqecha Amazon Cloud Curtain Ecosystem Experiment: A new experimental method to manipulate fog water inputs in terrestrial systems26
Overall dynamic body acceleration measures activity differently on large versus small aquatic animals26
qad: An R‐package to detect asymmetric and directed dependence in bivariate samples26
A Double machine learning trend model for citizen science data26
Handbook of protocols for standardized measurements of floral traits for pollinators in temperate communities25
Integrated SDM database: Enhancing the relevance and utility of species distribution models in conservation management25
The r package enerscape: A general energy landscape framework for terrestrial movement ecology25
Hidden Markov models: Pitfalls and opportunities in ecology25
When to monitor or control: Informed invasive species management using a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) framework24
Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses24
Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation24
RevGadgets: An R package for visualizing Bayesian phylogenetic analyses from RevBayes24
Generating spatially realistic environmental null models with the shift‐&‐rotate approach helps evaluate false positives in species distribution modelling23
Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology23
treats: A modular R package for simulating trees and traits23
Accelerating advances in landscape connectivity modelling with the ConScape library23
Use of amino acid isotope analysis to investigate capital versus income breeding strategies in migratory avian species23
Reflectance spectroscopy allows rapid, accurate and non‐destructive estimates of functional traits from pressed leaves23
In situ estimation of active dispersal abilities in reef fish early life stages using tracking technologies22
A wireless, remotely operable and easily customizable robotic flower system21
Tracking the frequency of phytoplankton clonal lineages using multispectral image flow cytometry and neural networks21
Correction to: Quantifying degradation in animal acoustic signals with the R package baRulho21
Addressing spatial confounding in geostatistical regression models: An R‐INLA approach21
Writing a massively multi‐authored paper: Overcoming barriers to meaningful authorship for all21
TreeCompR: Tree competition indices for inventory data and 3D point clouds21
TaxoNERD: Deep neural models for the recognition of taxonomic entities in the ecological and evolutionary literature20
A cost‐effective method to passively sample communities at the forest canopy–aerosphere interface20
Detecting seasonal episodic‐like spatio‐temporal memory patterns using animal movement modelling20
Estimating process‐based model parameters from species distribution data using the evolutionary algorithm CMA‐ES20
The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography20
Limits to ecological forecasting: Estimating uncertainty for critical transitions with deep learning20
A process approach to quality management doublesNEONsensor data quality20
The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory20
OpenSoundscape: An open‐source bioacoustics analysis package for Python20
The CV is dead, long live the CV!20
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Estimating interaction strengths for diverse horizontal systems using performance data19
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Towards scalable insect monitoring: Ultra‐lightweight CNNs as on‐device triggers for insect camera traps19
Estimating species misclassification with occupancy dynamics and encounter rates: A semi‐supervised, individual‐level approach19
starve: An R package for spatio‐temporal analysis of research survey data using nearest‐neighbour Gaussian processes19
Design and performance of an ecosystem‐scale forest soil warming experiment with infrared heater arrays19
The Latent Dirichlet Allocation model applied to airborne LiDAR data: A case study on mapping forest degradation associated with fragmentation and fire in the Amazon region18
How to generate accurate continuous thermal regimes from sparse but regular temperature measurements18
ipsecr: An R package for awkward spatial capture–recapture data18
Evo‐Scope: Fully automated assessment of correlated evolution on phylogenetic trees18
aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation18
The uniform AUC: Dealing with the representativeness effect in presence–absence models18
soundscape_IR: A source separation toolbox for exploring acoustic diversity in soundscapes18
Scalable phylogenetic Gaussian process models improve the detectability of environmental signals on local extinctions for many Red List species18
poolHelper: An R package to help in designing Pool‐Seq studies18
A framework to model a web of linkage disequilibria for natural allotetraploid populations18
sabinaNSDM: An R package for spatially nested hierarchical species distribution modelling18
Precise tactile stimulation of worker ants by a robotic manipulator reveals that individual responses are density‐ and context‐dependent18
Using ensemble methods to improve the robustness of deep learning for image classification in marine environments18
NAPS: Integrating pose estimation and tag‐based tracking18
Impact of sampling strategy on inference of community assembly processes in phylogenetic island biogeography18
Monitoring fast‐moving animals—Building a customized camera system and evaluation toolset18
PhycoCanopy: An R Shiny tool for exploring primary production in macroalgal canopies18
soundClass: An automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning18
Methods to account for incomplete viewsheds in distance sampling18
Temporal design for aquatic organismal sampling across the National Ecological Observatory Network18
DeepDiveR—A software for deep learning estimation of palaeodiversity from fossil occurrences17
Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability and plasticity: A practical guide17
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ecochange: An R‐package to derive ecosystem change indicators from freely available earth observation products17
Synthesizing forecasts to inform decision‐making and advance ecological theory17
Practical guidelines and the EMLN R package for handling ecological multilayer networks17
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Guidelines for the prediction of species interactions through binary classification17
tidysdm: Leveraging the flexibility of tidymodels for species distribution modelling in R17
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Hard tissue thin‐sectioning techniques in vertebrate paleohistology: Review, synthesis and improvements17
Acoustic and archival technologies join forces: A combination tag16
A conceptual framework for host‐associated microbiomes of hybrid organisms16
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring16
A framework for post‐processing bird tracks from automated tracking radar systems16
The use of weighted averages of Hedges' d in meta‐analysis: Is it worth it?16
A GLMM approach for combining multiple relative abundance surfaces16
Quantifying the utilisation of blue, green and brown resources by riparian predators: A combined use of amino acid isotopes and fatty acids16
Correction to ‘The Aquatic Metatron: A large‐scale experimental facility to study the combined effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on aquatic meta‐ecosystems’16
Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs16
Introducing the combined atlas framework for large‐scale web‐based data visualization: The GloNAF atlas of plant invasion16
PiCAM: A Raspberry Pi‐based open‐source, low‐power camera system for monitoring plant phenology in Arctic environments16
Improved order selection method for hidden Markov models: A case study with movement data16
Extending isolation by resistance to predict genetic connectivity16
CaptuRING: A do‐it‐yourself tool for wood sample digitization16
Advancing aquatic biodiversity assessments of invertebrates using eDNA metabarcoding: A systematic evaluation of primers for marine and freshwater communities16
Streamlining analysis methods for large acoustic surveys using automatic detectors with operator validation15
Pitfalls arising from site selection bias in population monitoring defy simple heuristics15
A low‐cost IoT network to monitor microclimate variables in ecosystems15
Stable isotope fingerprinting traces essential amino acid assimilation and multichannel feeding in a vertebrate consumer15
Modelling approaches for meta‐analyses with dependent effect sizes in ecology and evolution: A simulation study15
Population assignment from genotype likelihoods for low‐coverage whole‐genome sequencing data15
Real‐time alerts from AI‐enabled camera traps using the Iridium satellite network: A case‐study in Gabon, Central Africa15
Long‐term collar deployment leads to bias in soil respiration measurements15
Studying collective animal behaviour with drones and computer vision15
Sap Flow Analyzer: A tool to standardize sap flow estimation and scaling to whole‐tree water use using the HFD method14
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isotracer: An R package for the analysis of tracer addition experiments14
A model selection approach to structural equation modelling: A critical evaluation and a road map for ecologists14
Connectivity conservation planning through deep reinforcement learning14
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ChirpArray: A low‐cost, easy‐to‐construct microphone array for long‐term ecoacoustic monitoring14
Correction to ‘PhyBaSE: A Bayesian structural equation model approach to causal inference in phylogenetic comparative analyses’14
HSC3D: A Python package to quantify three‐dimensional habitat structural complexity14
3D photogrammetry and deep‐learning deliver accurate estimates of epibenthic biomass14
PoolDilutionR: An R package for easy optimization of isotope pool dilution calculations14
CATS: A high‐performance software framework for simulating plant migration in changing environments14
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TransMCL enables the assembly of full‐length coding genes for collecting complete hierarchical orthogroups14
ISSRseq: An extensible method for reduced representation sequencing14
Generating continuous maps of genetic diversity using moving windows14
rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes14
Clustering and unconstrained ordination with Dirichlet process mixture models14
allodb: An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots14
A continuous‐score occupancy model that incorporates uncertain machine learning output from autonomous biodiversity surveys13
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Analysing biodiversity observation data collected in continuous time: Should we use discrete‐ or continuous‐time occupancy models?13
rphenoscate: An R package for semantics‐aware evolutionary analyses of anatomical traits13
The role of large language models in interdisciplinary research: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward13
Time‐lapse cameras bridge the gap between remote sensing and in situ observations of tundra phenology13
Applying computer vision to digitised natural history collections for climate change research: Temperature‐size responses in British butterflies13
Realising the promise of large data and complex models13
Impact of acoustic index parameters on soundscape comparisons13
Regional ecological forecasting across scales: A manifesto for a biodiversity hotspot13
Estimating animal density for a community of species using information obtained only from camera‐traps13
ENphylo: A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species13
Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions13
Quantifying macro‐evolutionary patterns of trait mean and variance with phylogenetic location–scale models13
bistro: An R package for vector bloodmeal identification by short tandem repeat overlap13
Investigating soil mesofauna cryptic diversity: Current challenges and perspectives13
Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems13
HemiPy: A Python module for automated estimation of forest biophysical variables and uncertainties from digital hemispherical photographs13
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ontophylo: Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of phenomes using new ontology‐informed phylogenetic methods12
mpmsim: An R package for simulating matrix population models12
metaRange: A framework to build mechanistic range models12
Avoiding confusion: Modelling image identification surveys with classification errors12
Decoding the footsteps of the African savanna: Classifying wildlife using seismic signals and machine learning12
Distinguishing passive and driven trait evolution in the presence of boundaries12
patter: Particle algorithms for animal tracking in R and Julia12
A heuristic method to evaluate consequences for flight control and stability induced by attachment of biologging devices to birds and bats12
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A new method for voxel‐based modelling of three‐dimensional forest scenes with integration of terrestrial and airborne LiDAR data12
A new tool to improve the estimates of interaction rewiring considering the whole community composition12
AMMonitor 2: Remote monitoring of biodiversity in an adaptive framework in R12
A Monte Carlo resampling framework for implementing goodness‐of‐fit tests in spatial capture‐recapture models12
An RGB‐D framework for capturing soft‐sediment microtopography12
High‐magnification platform for characterising microscopic communities12
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plantTracker: An R package to translate maps of plant occurrence into demographic data12
EEMtoolbox: A user‐friendly R package for flexible ensemble ecosystem modelling12
Robust passive sampling of airborne environmental DNA to monitor plants and animals12
Systematic review and best practices for drone remote sensing of invasive plants11
Home‐range spillover in habitats with impassable boundaries: Causes, biases and corrections using autocorrelated kernel density estimation11
Bioregionalization analyses with the bioregion R package11
Wellcounter: Automated high‐throughput phenotyping for aquatic microinvertebrates11
A multi‐property assessment of intensity of use provides a functional understanding of animal movement11
Simple assay quantifying sediment resuspension effects on marine carbon storage11
USE it: Uniformly sampling pseudo‐absences within the environmental space for applications in habitat suitability models11
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Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation‐informed weighting11
Reconstructing bird trajectories from pressure and wind data using a highly optimized hidden Markov model11
ohun: An R package for diagnosing and optimizing automatic sound event detection11
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