Ecology and Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Evolution is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so204
Ignoring non‐English‐language studies may bias ecological meta‐analyses113
Meta‐analysis shows that environmental DNA outperforms traditional surveys, but warrants better reporting standards95
SDMtune: An R package to tune and evaluate species distribution models90
Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals cross‐continental similarities in biodiversity change74
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives: Results from a survey of instructors72
Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps in ecology and evolutionary biology58
Variation in leaf traits at different altitudes reflects the adaptive strategy of plants to environmental changes58
Changes in soil carbon fractions and enzyme activities under different vegetation types of the northern Loess Plateau56
Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?53
From panic to pedagogy: Using online active learning to promote inclusive instruction in ecology and evolutionary biology courses and beyond52
Marine water environmental DNA metabarcoding provides a comprehensive fish diversity assessment and reveals spatial patterns in a large oceanic area52
Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities50
Automated facial recognition for wildlife that lack unique markings: A deep learning approach for brown bears46
Toward a standardized quantitative and qualitative insect monitoring scheme45
Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near‐independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea43
The traits of “trait ecologists”: An analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology43
Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding42
Evolution of ungulate mating systems: Integrating social and environmental factors42
Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution42
Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities42
Effect of soil microorganisms and labile C availability on soil respiration in response to litter inputs in forest ecosystems: A meta‐analysis41
Automatic detection of fish and tracking of movement for ecology41
Effects of ocean acidification on Antarctic marine organisms: A meta‐analysis41
Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them40
Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation39
Performance evaluation of cetacean species distribution models developed using generalized additive models and boosted regression trees38
Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: Current knowledge and future perspectives38
A total crapshoot? Evaluating bioinformatic decisions in animal diet metabarcoding analyses38
The role of replication studies in ecology37
Current and future distribution of the deciduous shrub Hydrangea macrophylla in China estimated by MaxEnt36
Which factors contribute most to genome size variation within angiosperms?36
The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time36
Are native and non‐native pollinator friendly plants equally valuable for native wild bee communities?36
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models35
Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia34
NGSpeciesID: DNA barcode and amplicon consensus generation from long‐read sequencing data34
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans34
Revisiting the effect of PCR replication and sequencing depth on biodiversity metrics in environmental DNA metabarcoding34
Improving the accessibility and transferability of machine learning algorithms for identification of animals in camera trap images: MLWIC233
Coexistence of predators in time: Effects of season and prey availability on species activity within a Mediterranean carnivore guild33
Are large frugivorous birds better seed dispersers than medium‐ and small‐sized ones? Effect of body mass on seed dispersal effectiveness33
Evolution of habitat preference in 243 species of Bent‐toed geckos (GenusCyrtodactylusGray, 1827) with a discussion of karst habitat conservation33
Draft genome of the famous ornamental plant Paeonia suffruticosa33
What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes33
Heat stress responses and population genetics of the kelp Laminaria digitata (Phaeophyceae) across latitudes reveal differentiation among North Atlantic populations33
Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis32
Meta‐replication, sampling bias, and multi‐scale model selection: A case study on snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in western China32
Soil physicochemical properties drive the variation in soil microbial communities along a forest successional series in a degraded wetland in northeastern China32
Within‐season changes in habitat use of forest‐dwelling boreal bats31
A contrast of meta and metafor packages for meta‐analyses in R31
Is population subdivision different from speciation? From phylogeography to species delimitation30
Bringing function to structure: Root–soil interactions shaping phosphatase activity throughout a soil profile in Puerto Rico30
An African bat in Europe, Plecotus gaisleri: Biogeographic and ecological insights from molecular taxonomy and Species Distribution Models30
Comparative plastome analysis of Blumea, with implications for genome evolution and phylogeny of Asteroideae30
Predicting the potential global distribution of Ageratina adenophora under current and future climate change scenarios30
Evaluating cetacean body condition; a review of traditional approaches and new developments30
When are hypotheses useful in ecology and evolution?30
Species specificity and intraspecific variation in the chemical profiles of Heliconius butterflies across a large geographic range30
How the ecology and evolution of the COVID‐19 pandemic changed learning29
Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta‐analysis29
Honey bees and wild pollinators differ in their preference for and use of introduced floral resources28
In silico and empirical evaluation of twelve metabarcoding primer sets for insectivorous diet analyses28
Breaking barriers? Ethnicity and socioeconomic background impact on early career progression in the fields of ecology and evolution28
Shifts in potential geographical distribution of Pterocarya stenoptera under climate change scenarios in China28
How many replicates to accurately estimate fish biodiversity using environmental DNA on coral reefs?28
Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America28
You are welcome here: A practical guide to diversity, equity, and inclusion for undergraduates embarking on an ecological research experience28
Isotopic niche differs between seal and fish‐eating killer whales (Orcinus orca) in northern Norway28
Plant species identity drives soil microbial community structures that persist under a following crop28
Effects of sampling seasons and locations on fish environmental DNA metabarcoding in dam reservoirs27
Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions27
Some like it cold: Temperature‐dependent habitat selection by narwhals27
A national‐scale dataset for threats impacting Australia’s imperiled flora and fauna27
Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank27
Moving academic conferences online: Understanding patterns of delegate engagement27
Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity27
Light heterogeneity affects understory plant species richness in temperate forests supporting the heterogeneity–diversity hypothesis26
Habitat suitability and connectivity implications for the conservation of the Persian leopard along the Iran–Iraq border26
Are shed hair genomes the most effective noninvasive resource for estimating relationships in the wild?26
Suitable habitat of wild Asian elephant in Western Terai of Nepal26
Advancing biodiversity assessments with environmental DNA: Long‐read technologies help reveal the drivers of Amazonian fungal diversity26
Targeted and passive environmental DNA approaches outperform established methods for detection of quagga mussels, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis in flowing water26
Influence of intra‐ and interspecific variation in predator–prey body size ratios on trophic interaction strengths26
Leaf litter quality drives the feeding by invertebrate shredders in tropical streams26
Human–wildlife conflict in the roof of the world: Understanding multidimensional perspectives through a systematic review26
DNA Barcoding and geographical scale effect: The problems of undersampling genetic diversity hotspots26
Worldclim 2.1 versus Worldclim 1.4: Climatic niche and grid resolution affect between‐version mismatches in Habitat Suitability Models predictions across Europe26
“Into and Out of” the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas: Centers of origin and diversification across five clades of Eurasian montane and alpine passerine birds25
Genome structure and content of the rice root‐knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola)25
Geographic range estimates and environmental requirements for the harpy eagle derived from spatial models of current and past distribution25
Extreme rainfall events and cooling of sea turtle clutches: Implications in the face of climate warming25
Non‐native species have multiple abundance–impact curves25
Eco‐oncology: Applying ecological principles to understand and manage cancer25
Diet of a rare herbivore based on DNA metabarcoding of feces: Selection, seasonality, and survival25
Individual dietary specialization in a generalist predator: A stable isotope analysis of urban and rural red foxes25
Denning in brown bears25
Tool for genomic selection and breeding to evolutionary adaptation: Development of a 100K single nucleotide polymorphism array for the honey bee24
Species‐specific responses to combined water stress and increasing temperatures in two bee‐pollinated congeners (Echium, Boraginaceae)24
Waste not, want not: Microsatellites remain an economical and informative technology for conservation genetics24
Pool choice in a vertical landscape: Tadpole‐rearing site flexibility in phytotelm‐breeding frogs24
A review of spatial capture–recapture: Ecological insights, limitations, and prospects24
Wildlife roadkill patterns in a fragmented landscape of the Western Amazon24
Understanding the unexplained: The magnitude and correlates of individual differences in residual variance24
Environmental DNA metabarcoding primers for freshwater fish detection and quantification: In silico and in tanks24
Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research?24
How citizen science could improve species distribution models and their independent assessment24
Robustness of close‐kin mark–recapture estimators to dispersal limitation and spatially varying sampling probabilities24
Observer‐oriented approach improves species distribution models from citizen science data24
Don’t judge toxic weeds on whether they are native but on their ecological effects24
Predictive ability of a process‐based versus a correlative species distribution model23
On the importance of predictor choice, modelling technique, and number of pseudo‐absences for bioclimatic envelope model performance23
Fixed or random? On the reliability of mixed‐effects models for a small number of levels in grouping variables23
MaxEnt brings comparable results when the input data are being completed; Model parameterization of four species distribution models23
Comparative assessment of range‐wide patterns of genetic diversity and structure with SNPs and microsatellites: A case study with Iberian amphibians22
Learning principles of evolution during a crisis: An exploratory analysis of student barriers one week and one month into the COVID‐19 pandemic22
Effects of captivity, diet, and relocation on the gut bacterial communities of white‐footed mice22
Pollen DNA metabarcoding identifies regional provenance and high plant diversity in Australian honey22
Lineage‐specific plastid degradation in subtribe Gentianinae (Gentianaceae)22
Simulated heat waves reduce cognitive and motor performance of an endotherm22
Genetic differentiation underlies seasonal variation in thermal tolerance, body size, and plasticity in a short‐lived copepod22
Temperature but not ocean acidification affects energy metabolism and enzyme activities in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis22
A review of conspecific attraction for habitat selection across taxa22
From leaf to label: A robust automated workflow for stomata detection22
Modeling vegetation greenness and its climate sensitivity with deep‐learning technology22
Monitoring the dead as an ecosystem indicator22
Amelioration of ocean acidification and warming effects through physiological buffering of a macroalgae21
Effects of drought and mycorrhiza on wheat and aphid infestation21
Parallel flowering time clines in native and introduced ragweed populations are likely due to adaptation21
Co‐occurrence of bobcats, coyotes, and ocelots in Texas21
Detecting shrub encroachment in seminatural grasslands using UAS LiDAR21
Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) seasonal movements, diving, and haul‐out behavior in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas (2011–2017)21
Intraspecific genetic variation of a Fagus sylvatica population in a temperate forest derived from airborne imaging spectroscopy time series21
Potential geographical distribution and environmental explanations of rare and endangered plant species through combined modeling: A case study of Northwest Yunnan, China21
Effects of diet, habitat, and phylogeny on the fecal microbiome of wild African savanna (Loxodonta africana) and forest elephants (L. cyclotis)21
The diet of the striped hyena in Nepal's lowland regions21
There’s a storm a‐coming: Ecological resilience and resistance to extreme weather events21
Mixing tree species associated with arbuscular or ectotrophic mycorrhizae reveals dual mycorrhization and interactive effects on the fungal partners21
Accelerated vegetation succession but no hydrological change in a boreal fen during 20 years of recent climate change21
Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity21
Understanding 3D structural complexity of individual Scots pine trees with different management history21
Movement patterns of large juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: Ontogenetic space use in a small ocean basin21
Root morphological responses to population density vary with soil conditions and growth stages: The complexity of density effects21
How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks21
Molecular evolution and SSRs analysis based on the chloroplast genome of Callitropsis funebris20
High‐resolution multi‐marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism20
Combining stable isotopes, morphological, and molecular analyses to reconstruct the diet of free‐ranging consumers20
Who let the dogs out? Exploring the spatial ecology of free‐roaming domestic dogs in western Kenya20
Coupling of green and brown food webs and ecosystem stability20
Environmental factors affect the response of microbial extracellular enzyme activity in soils when determined as a function of water availability and temperature20
Natural history of model organisms: The secret (group) life of Drosophila melanogaster larvae and why it matters to developmental ecology20
Genetic diversity, population structure, and gene flow analysis of lowland bamboo [Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro] in Ethiopia20
Biosurveillance for invasive insect pest species using an environmental DNA metabarcoding approach and a high salt trap collection fluid20
Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to predict length, circumference, and weight from mostly dewatered images of fish20
Off to new shores: Climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.)20
Environmental drivers of Cheirogaleidae population density: Remarkable resilience of Madagascar’s smallest lemurs to habitat degradation19
Evolution of breeding plumages in birds: A multiple‐step pathway to seasonal dichromatism in New World warblers (Aves: Parulidae)19
Cultivating inclusive instructional and research environments in ecology and evolutionary science19
Drought has negative consequences on aphid fitness and plant vigor: Insights from a meta‐analysis19
Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance19
Persistence of microbial extracellular enzymes in soils under different temperatures and water availabilities19
Insectivorous birds can see and smell systemically herbivore‐induced pines19
Direct effects of nitrogen addition on seed germination of eight semi‐arid grassland species19
Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly shaped the taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of natural forests in southern China19
Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study19
Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America19
DNA degradation in fish: Practical solutions and guidelines to improve DNA preservation for genomic research19
Life‐history traits of Tubastraea coccinea: Reproduction, development, and larval competence19
Molecular study of drought response in the Mediterranean conifer Pinus pinaster Ait.: Differential transcriptomic profiling reveals constitutive water deficit‐independent drought tolerance mech19
Major inconsistencies of inferred population genetic structure estimated in a large set of domestic horse breeds using microsatellites19
Evaluating the effect of reference genome divergence on the analysis of empirical RADseq datasets19
Patterns and determinants of elephant attacks on humans in Nepal19
Temporal patterns of visitation of birds and mammals at mineral licks in the Peruvian Amazon19
Documentation of en route mortality of summer chum salmon in the Koyukuk River, Alaska and its potential linkage to the heatwave of 201919
The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness19
High concentrations of environmental ammonia induced changes in large‐scale loach (Paramisgurnus dabryanus) immunity19
Rethinking trophic niches: Speed and body mass colimit prey space of mammalian predators19
Gut microbiome of migratory shorebirds: Current status and future perspectives18
Non‐reef habitats in a tropical seascape affect density and biomass of fishes on coral reefs18
Contrasting vulnerability of monospecific and species‐diverse forests to wind and bark beetle disturbance: The role of management18
DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera‐recorded diets18
Predicted declines in suitable habitat for greater one‐horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) under future climate and land use change scenarios18
An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss18
Potential risk zone for anthropogenic mortality of carnivores in Gandaki Province, Nepal18
Predicting seasonal movements and distribution of the sperm whale using machine learning algorithms18
Candidate‐species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying hybrid zones18
High dispersal capacity and biogeographic breaks shape the genetic diversity of a globally distributed reef‐dwelling calcifier18
Toward reliable habitat suitability and accessibility models in an era of multiple environmental stressors18
Moderate grazing increased alpine meadow soils bacterial abundance and diversity index on the Tibetan Plateau18
COVID‐19 lockdown frees wildlife to roam but increases poaching threats in Nepal18
Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore‐caused livestock predation18
Evaluating new technology for biodiversity monitoring: Are drone surveys biased?18
Not a cakewalk: Insights into movement of large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes in India18
High foliar K and P resorption efficiencies in old‐growth tropical forests growing on nutrient‐poor soils18
Online conferences for better learning18
Physiological basis of interactive responses to temperature and salinity in coastal marine invertebrate: Implications for responses to warming18
Long‐term persistence of wildlife populations in a pastoral area18
Lunar synchronization of daily activity patterns in a crepuscular avian insectivore18
Highly variable chloroplast genome from two endangered Papaveraceae lithophytes Corydalis tomentella and Corydalis saxicola18
Miocene diversification of a golden‐thread nanmu tree species (Phoebe zhennan, Lauraceae) around the Sichuan Basin shaped by the East Asian monsoon18
Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests17
Thanks for inviting me to the party: Virtual poster sessions as a way to connect in a time of disconnection17
Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China17
Creating outbred and inbred populations in haplodiploids to measure adaptive responses in the laboratory17
Temporal and palaeoclimatic context of the evolution of insular woodiness in the Canary Islands17
Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code17
A review of applications of environmental DNA for reptile conservation and management17
A new direction for differentiating animal activity based on measuring angular velocity about the yaw axis17
Large‐scale movement patterns in a social vulture are influenced by seasonality, sex, and breeding region17
Integrated analysis of three newly sequenced fern chloroplast genomes: Genome structure and comparative analysis17
Six years of wild bee monitoring shows changes in biodiversity within and across years and declines in abundance17
Tree litter functional diversity and nitrogen concentration enhance litter decomposition via changes in earthworm communities17
Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter‐ and intra‐guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields17
Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems17
Seasonal changes in mixed‐species bird flocks and antipredator information17
Contrasting mitochondrial diversity of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across three invasive continental distributions17
Ecological and morphological determinants of evolutionary diversification in Darwin's finches and their relatives17
Distribution of genetic variation underlying adult migration timing in steelhead of the Columbia River basin17
The fate of Meconopsis species in the Tibeto‐Himalayan region under future climate change17
Characterizing niche differentiation among marine consumers with amino acid δ13C fingerprinting17
Bats partition activity in space and time in a large, heterogeneous landscape17
Repeatable individual variation in migration timing in two anadromous salmonids and ecological consequences17
Freshwater wild biota exposure to microplastics: A global perspective17
City limits: Heat tolerance is influenced by body size and hydration state in an urban ant community17
Spatial capture–recapture with random thinning for unidentified encounters17
Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate concentrations of understory woody species regulated by soil phosphorus availability in a tropical forest17
The influence of bat ecology on viral diversity and reservoir status17
Decades of dietary data demonstrate regional food web structures in the Southern Ocean16
Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest16
Non‐invasive monitoring of multiple wildlife health factors by fecal microbiome analysis16
Drones, automatic counting tools, and artificial neural networks in wildlife population censusing16
How do less‐expensive nitrogen alternatives affect legume sanctions on rhizobia?16
Measuring nestedness: A comparative study of the performance of different metrics16
Population genomic response to geographic gradients by widespread and endemic fishes of the Arabian Peninsula16
Geographical pattern of genetic diversity in Capsella bursa‐pastoris (Brassicaceae)—A global perspective16
Embryo ecology: Developmental synchrony and asynchrony in the embryonic development of wild annual fish populations16
Sweet tooth: Elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone16
Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes16
3D genital shape complexity in female marine mammals16
Seasonality of floral resources in relation to bee activity in agroecosystems16
For flux's sake: General considerations for energy‐flux calculations in ecological communities16
Fine‐scale oceanographic drivers of reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) visitation patterns at a feeding aggregation site16
Contrasting population structure and demographic history of cereal aphids in different environmental and agricultural landscapes16
Tropical understory herbaceous community responds more strongly to hurricane disturbance than to experimental warming16
Comparing whole‐genome shotgun sequencing and DNA metabarcoding approaches for species identification and quantification of pollen species mixtures16
Multidecadal changes in functional diversity lag behind the recovery of taxonomic diversity16
Seasonal polyphenism of spotted‐wing Drosophila is affected by variation in local abiotic conditions within its invaded range, likely influencing survival and regional population dynamics16
Leaf shape in Populus tremula is a complex, omnigenic trait16
Characterization of soil microbes associated with a grazing‐tolerant grass species, Stipa breviflora, in the Inner Mongolian desert steppe16
Skin resistance to water gain and loss has changed in cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their Australian invasion16
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