Ecology and Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology and Evolution is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so211
Meta‐analysis shows that environmental DNA outperforms traditional surveys, but warrants better reporting standards107
SDMtune: An R package to tune and evaluate species distribution models105
Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals cross‐continental similarities in biodiversity change83
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives: Results from a survey of instructors73
Variation in leaf traits at different altitudes reflects the adaptive strategy of plants to environmental changes70
Changes in soil carbon fractions and enzyme activities under different vegetation types of the northern Loess Plateau61
Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?57
Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities54
From panic to pedagogy: Using online active learning to promote inclusive instruction in ecology and evolutionary biology courses and beyond53
The traits of “trait ecologists”: An analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology53
Automated facial recognition for wildlife that lack unique markings: A deep learning approach for brown bears51
Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near‐independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea47
Automatic detection of fish and tracking of movement for ecology45
Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them44
Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding44
Current and future distribution of the deciduous shrub Hydrangea macrophylla in China estimated by MaxEnt42
Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation42
Effect of soil microorganisms and labile C availability on soil respiration in response to litter inputs in forest ecosystems: A meta‐analysis42
Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: Current knowledge and future perspectives41
A total crapshoot? Evaluating bioinformatic decisions in animal diet metabarcoding analyses41
Revisiting the effect of PCR replication and sequencing depth on biodiversity metrics in environmental DNA metabarcoding41
Which factors contribute most to genome size variation within angiosperms?40
NGSpeciesID: DNA barcode and amplicon consensus generation from long‐read sequencing data39
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models39
Coexistence of predators in time: Effects of season and prey availability on species activity within a Mediterranean carnivore guild39
Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank38
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans37
Soil physicochemical properties drive the variation in soil microbial communities along a forest successional series in a degraded wetland in northeastern China37
The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time37
Are native and non‐native pollinator friendly plants equally valuable for native wild bee communities?37
Heat stress responses and population genetics of the kelp Laminaria digitata (Phaeophyceae) across latitudes reveal differentiation among North Atlantic populations37
Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia36
Evolution of habitat preference in 243 species of Bent‐toed geckos (GenusCyrtodactylusGray, 1827) with a discussion of karst habitat conservation36
Meta‐replication, sampling bias, and multi‐scale model selection: A case study on snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in western China36
Predicting the potential global distribution of Ageratina adenophora under current and future climate change scenarios36
Improving the accessibility and transferability of machine learning algorithms for identification of animals in camera trap images: MLWIC235
MaxEnt brings comparable results when the input data are being completed; Model parameterization of four species distribution models35
How many replicates to accurately estimate fish biodiversity using environmental DNA on coral reefs?35
What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes34
A contrast of meta and metafor packages for meta‐analyses in R33
Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity32
When are hypotheses useful in ecology and evolution?32
Human–wildlife conflict in the roof of the world: Understanding multidimensional perspectives through a systematic review32
A review of conspecific attraction for habitat selection across taxa31
DNA Barcoding and geographical scale effect: The problems of undersampling genetic diversity hotspots31
Comparative plastome analysis of Blumea, with implications for genome evolution and phylogeny of Asteroideae31
Bringing function to structure: Root–soil interactions shaping phosphatase activity throughout a soil profile in Puerto Rico31
You are welcome here: A practical guide to diversity, equity, and inclusion for undergraduates embarking on an ecological research experience31
Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta‐analysis31
Habitat suitability and connectivity implications for the conservation of the Persian leopard along the Iran–Iraq border30
Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America30
Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions30
Plant species identity drives soil microbial community structures that persist under a following crop30
A national‐scale dataset for threats impacting Australia’s imperiled flora and fauna29
Waste not, want not: Microsatellites remain an economical and informative technology for conservation genetics29
Individual dietary specialization in a generalist predator: A stable isotope analysis of urban and rural red foxes29
How the ecology and evolution of the COVID‐19 pandemic changed learning29
Leaf litter quality drives the feeding by invertebrate shredders in tropical streams29
Temperature but not ocean acidification affects energy metabolism and enzyme activities in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis29
Some like it cold: Temperature‐dependent habitat selection by narwhals29
Observer‐oriented approach improves species distribution models from citizen science data29
Moving academic conferences online: Understanding patterns of delegate engagement29
Light heterogeneity affects understory plant species richness in temperate forests supporting the heterogeneity–diversity hypothesis28
“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 birds28
On the importance of predictor choice, modelling technique, and number of pseudo‐absences for bioclimatic envelope model performance28
Targeted and passive environmental DNA approaches outperform established methods for detection of quagga mussels, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis in flowing water28
Environmental DNA metabarcoding primers for freshwater fish detection and quantification: In silico and in tanks28
Fixed or random? On the reliability of mixed‐effects models for a small number of levels in grouping variables28
Eco‐oncology: Applying ecological principles to understand and manage cancer28
Pool choice in a vertical landscape: Tadpole‐rearing site flexibility in phytotelm‐breeding frogs28
Understanding the unexplained: The magnitude and correlates of individual differences in residual variance27
Worldclim 2.1 versus Worldclim 1.4: Climatic niche and grid resolution affect between‐version mismatches in Habitat Suitability Models predictions across Europe27
Genome structure and content of the rice root‐knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola)26
Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research?26
Pollen DNA metabarcoding identifies regional provenance and high plant diversity in Australian honey26
The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness26
Mixing tree species associated with arbuscular or ectotrophic mycorrhizae reveals dual mycorrhization and interactive effects on the fungal partners26
A review of spatial capture–recapture: Ecological insights, limitations, and prospects26
Don’t judge toxic weeds on whether they are native but on their ecological effects26
Modeling vegetation greenness and its climate sensitivity with deep‐learning technology26
How citizen science could improve species distribution models and their independent assessment25
Extreme rainfall events and cooling of sea turtle clutches: Implications in the face of climate warming25
Geographic range estimates and environmental requirements for the harpy eagle derived from spatial models of current and past distribution25
Predictive ability of a process‐based versus a correlative species distribution model25
Genetic differentiation underlies seasonal variation in thermal tolerance, body size, and plasticity in a short‐lived copepod25
Comparative assessment of range‐wide patterns of genetic diversity and structure with SNPs and microsatellites: A case study with Iberian amphibians24
There’s a storm a‐coming: Ecological resilience and resistance to extreme weather events24
Monitoring the dead as an ecosystem indicator24
Molecular evolution and SSRs analysis based on the chloroplast genome of Callitropsis funebris24
Accelerated vegetation succession but no hydrological change in a boreal fen during 20 years of recent climate change23
Movement patterns of large juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: Ontogenetic space use in a small ocean basin23
Molecular study of drought response in the Mediterranean conifer Pinus pinaster Ait.: Differential transcriptomic profiling reveals constitutive water deficit‐independent drought tolerance mech23
Lineage‐specific plastid degradation in subtribe Gentianinae (Gentianaceae)23
From leaf to label: A robust automated workflow for stomata detection23
Amelioration of ocean acidification and warming effects through physiological buffering of a macroalgae23
Potential geographical distribution and environmental explanations of rare and endangered plant species through combined modeling: A case study of Northwest Yunnan, China23
Persistence of microbial extracellular enzymes in soils under different temperatures and water availabilities23
Coupling of green and brown food webs and ecosystem stability22
Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity22
Understanding 3D structural complexity of individual Scots pine trees with different management history22
Learning principles of evolution during a crisis: An exploratory analysis of student barriers one week and one month into the COVID‐19 pandemic22
Root morphological responses to population density vary with soil conditions and growth stages: The complexity of density effects22
High concentrations of environmental ammonia induced changes in large‐scale loach (Paramisgurnus dabryanus) immunity22
Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long‐term avian studies22
Cultivating inclusive instructional and research environments in ecology and evolutionary science22
Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code22
How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks22
Direct effects of nitrogen addition on seed germination of eight semi‐arid grassland species22
Effects of drought and mycorrhiza on wheat and aphid infestation22
High‐resolution multi‐marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism22
Temporal patterns of visitation of birds and mammals at mineral licks in the Peruvian Amazon22
Simulated heat waves reduce cognitive and motor performance of an endotherm22
Highly variable chloroplast genome from two endangered Papaveraceae lithophytes Corydalis tomentella and Corydalis saxicola21
Non‐reef habitats in a tropical seascape affect density and biomass of fishes on coral reefs21
DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera‐recorded diets21
Drought has negative consequences on aphid fitness and plant vigor: Insights from a meta‐analysis21
Natural history of model organisms: The secret (group) life of Drosophila melanogaster larvae and why it matters to developmental ecology21
Genetic diversity, population structure, and gene flow analysis of lowland bamboo [Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro] in Ethiopia21
Gut microbiome of migratory shorebirds: Current status and future perspectives21
Evolution of breeding plumages in birds: A multiple‐step pathway to seasonal dichromatism in New World warblers (Aves: Parulidae)21
Physiological basis of interactive responses to temperature and salinity in coastal marine invertebrate: Implications for responses to warming21
Leaf shape in Populus tremula is a complex, omnigenic trait21
Off to new shores: Climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.)21
Environmental drivers of Cheirogaleidae population density: Remarkable resilience of Madagascar’s smallest lemurs to habitat degradation21
Multidecadal changes in functional diversity lag behind the recovery of taxonomic diversity21
Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to predict length, circumference, and weight from mostly dewatered images of fish21
Predicted declines in suitable habitat for greater one‐horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) under future climate and land use change scenarios21
Candidate‐species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying hybrid zones20
Online conferences for better learning20
Freshwater wild biota exposure to microplastics: A global perspective20
Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly shaped the taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of natural forests in southern China20
COVID‐19 lockdown frees wildlife to roam but increases poaching threats in Nepal20
Deep reefs are not refugium for shallow‐water fish communities in the southwestern Atlantic20
Evaluating new technology for biodiversity monitoring: Are drone surveys biased?20
High foliar K and P resorption efficiencies in old‐growth tropical forests growing on nutrient‐poor soils20
Contrasting vulnerability of monospecific and species‐diverse forests to wind and bark beetle disturbance: The role of management20
Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China20
Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study20
Tree recruitment is determined by stand structure and shade tolerance with uncertain role of climate and water relations20
An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss20
Projected impacts of climate change on snow leopard habitat in Qinghai Province, China20
Biosurveillance for invasive insect pest species using an environmental DNA metabarcoding approach and a high salt trap collection fluid20
Environmental factors affect the response of microbial extracellular enzyme activity in soils when determined as a function of water availability and temperature20
Patterns and determinants of elephant attacks on humans in Nepal20
DNA degradation in fish: Practical solutions and guidelines to improve DNA preservation for genomic research20
Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance20
Who let the dogs out? Exploring the spatial ecology of free‐roaming domestic dogs in western Kenya20
Seasonality of floral resources in relation to bee activity in agroecosystems19
Toward reliable habitat suitability and accessibility models in an era of multiple environmental stressors19
Analytical methods matter too: Establishing a framework for estimating maximum metabolic rate for fishes19
Potential risk zone for anthropogenic mortality of carnivores in Gandaki Province, Nepal19
An introduction to agent‐based models as an accessible surrogate to field‐based research and teaching19
Predicting seasonal movements and distribution of the sperm whale using machine learning algorithms19
The impact of climate change on the distribution of rare and endangered tree Firmiana kwangsiensis using the Maxent modeling19
Color pan traps often catch less when there are more flowers around19
Spatial capture–recapture with random thinning for unidentified encounters19
Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America19
For flux's sake: General considerations for energy‐flux calculations in ecological communities19
Finding common ground: Toward comparable indicators of adaptive capacity of tree species to a changing climate19
Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests19
Insectivorous birds can see and smell systemically herbivore‐induced pines19
Creating outbred and inbred populations in haplodiploids to measure adaptive responses in the laboratory19
Phylogenetic significance of the characteristics of simple sequence repeats at the genus level based on the complete chloroplast genome sequences of Cyatheaceae19
Documentation of en route mortality of summer chum salmon in the Koyukuk River, Alaska and its potential linkage to the heatwave of 201919
Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate concentrations of understory woody species regulated by soil phosphorus availability in a tropical forest19
Amplicon_sorter: A tool for reference‐free amplicon sorting based on sequence similarity and for building consensus sequences19
The dark side of pseudoscorpion diversity: The German Barcode of Life campaign reveals high levels of undocumented diversity in European false scorpions19
Not a cakewalk: Insights into movement of large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes in India19
Thanks for inviting me to the party: Virtual poster sessions as a way to connect in a time of disconnection18
Large‐scale movement patterns in a social vulture are influenced by seasonality, sex, and breeding region18
High‐altitude adaptation in vertebrates as revealed by mitochondrial genome analyses18
Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest18
Temporal and palaeoclimatic context of the evolution of insular woodiness in the Canary Islands18
Miocene diversification of a golden‐thread nanmu tree species (Phoebe zhennan, Lauraceae) around the Sichuan Basin shaped by the East Asian monsoon18
Predicting insect outbreaks using machine learning: A mountain pine beetle case study18
A new direction for differentiating animal activity based on measuring angular velocity about the yaw axis18
Past, current, and potential future distributions of unique genetic diversity in a cold‐adapted mountain butterfly18
Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore‐caused livestock predation18
Errors in aerial survey count data: Identifying pitfalls and solutions18
Integrated analysis of three newly sequenced fern chloroplast genomes: Genome structure and comparative analysis18
Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter‐ and intra‐guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields18
Moderate grazing increased alpine meadow soils bacterial abundance and diversity index on the Tibetan Plateau18
Long‐term persistence of wildlife populations in a pastoral area18
Larval sites of the mosquito Aedes aegypti formosus in forest and domestic habitats in Africa and the potential association with oviposition evolution18
Decades of dietary data demonstrate regional food web structures in the Southern Ocean18
Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems18
Non‐invasive monitoring of multiple wildlife health factors by fecal microbiome analysis18
Body mass and hibernation microclimate may predict bat susceptibility to white‐nose syndrome18
A review of applications of environmental DNA for reptile conservation and management18
The effect of habitat and human disturbance on the spatiotemporal activity of two urban carnivores: The results of an intensive camera trap study17
The fate of Meconopsis species in the Tibeto‐Himalayan region under future climate change17
Global change impacts on arid zone ecosystems: Seedling establishment processes are threatened by temperature and water stress17
Contrasting patterns in the occurrence and biomass centers of gravity among fish and macroinvertebrates in a continental shelf ecosystem17
Effects of Hedysarum leguminous plants on soil bacterial communities in the Mu Us Desert, northwest China17
Spatial phylogenetics of the native woody plant species in Hainan, China17
Urban living influences the nesting success of Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands17
Drones, automatic counting tools, and artificial neural networks in wildlife population censusing17
Contrasting mitochondrial diversity of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across three invasive continental distributions17
Fine‐scale oceanographic drivers of reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) visitation patterns at a feeding aggregation site17
The role of context in elucidating drivers of animal movement17
occAssess: An R package for assessing potential biases in species occurrence data17
Sandpipers go with the flow: Correlations between estuarine conditions and shorebird abundance at an important stopover on the Pacific Flyway17
Evolutionary and plastic variation in larval growth and digestion reveal the complex underpinnings of size and age at maturation in dung beetles17
Foraging in a dynamic environment: Response of four sympatric sub‐Antarctic albatross species to interannual environmental variability17
Small differences in root distributions allow resource niche partitioning17
Automated location invariant animal detection in camera trap images using publicly available data sources17
Repeatable individual variation in migration timing in two anadromous salmonids and ecological consequences17
How do less‐expensive nitrogen alternatives affect legume sanctions on rhizobia?17
Low temperature has opposite effects on sex determination in a marine fish at the larval/postlarval and juvenile stages17
Measuring nestedness: A comparative study of the performance of different metrics17
Ecological and morphological determinants of evolutionary diversification in Darwin's finches and their relatives17
Tropical understory herbaceous community responds more strongly to hurricane disturbance than to experimental warming17
Salt glands of recretohalophyte Tamarix under salinity: Their evolution and adaptation17
Comparing whole‐genome shotgun sequencing and DNA metabarcoding approaches for species identification and quantification of pollen species mixtures17
Patterns of thermal adaptation in a globally distributed plant pathogen: Local diversity and plasticity reveal two‐tier dynamics17
A real‐world implementation of a nationwide, long‐term monitoring program to assess the impact of agrochemicals and agricultural practices on biodiversity17
Limited heat tolerance in an Arctic passerine: Thermoregulatory implications for cold‐specialized birds in a rapidly warming world17
A phylogenetic and trait‐based analysis of community assembly in a subtropical forest in central China17
Six years of wild bee monitoring shows changes in biodiversity within and across years and declines in abundance17
Bats partition activity in space and time in a large, heterogeneous landscape17
The gut bacterial community affects immunity but not metabolism in a specialist herbivorous butterfly17
Trophic niche overlap between round sardinella (Sardinella aurita) and sympatric pelagic fish species in the Western Mediterranean17
Contrasting population structure and demographic history of cereal aphids in different environmental and agricultural landscapes17
Geographical pattern of genetic diversity in Capsella bursa‐pastoris (Brassicaceae)—A global perspective17
Distribution of genetic variation underlying adult migration timing in steelhead of the Columbia River basin17
Energy–water and seasonal variations in climate underlie the spatial distribution patterns of gymnosperm species richness in China16
Diet and temperature modify the relationship between energy use and ATP production to influence behavior in zebrafish (Danio rerio)16
Climate change‐induced distributional change of medicinal and aromatic plants in the Nepal Himalaya16
Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia16
Population abundance in arctic grayling using genetics and close‐kin mark‐recapture16
Embryo ecology: Developmental synchrony and asynchrony in the embryonic development of wild annual fish populations16
Detection of the elusive Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) using environmental DNA at Malpelo island (Eastern Pacific, Colombia)16
Past, present, and future geographic range of the relict Mediterranean and Macaronesian Juniperus phoenicea complex16
gauseR: Simple methods for fitting Lotka‐Volterra models describing Gause’s “Struggle for Existence”16
Cryptic species and hidden ecological interactions of halictine bees along an elevational gradient16
Italian weedy rice—A case of de‐domestication?16
Using community photography to investigate phenology: A case study of coat molt in the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) with missing data16
Characterization of soil microbes associated with a grazing‐tolerant grass species, Stipa breviflora, in the Inner Mongolian desert steppe16
Use of an exotic host plant shifts immunity, chemical defense, and viral burden in wild populations of a specialist insect herbivore16
Skin resistance to water gain and loss has changed in cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their Australian invasion16
Sweet tooth: Elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone16
Disparate movement behavior and feeding ecology in sympatric ecotypes of Atlantic cod16
3D genital shape complexity in female marine mammals16
Time series covering up to four decades reveals major changes and drivers of marine growth and proportion of repeat spawners in an Atlantic salmon population16
Extensive daily movement rates measured in territorial arctic foxes16
The efficacy of DNA barcoding in the classification, genetic differentiation, and biodiversity assessment of benthic macroinvertebrates16
Effective distance of volatile cues for plant–plant communication in beech16
Behavioral strategies during incubation influence nest and female survival of Wild Turkeys16
Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry16
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