Ecology and Evolution

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Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so	220
Meta‐analysis shows that environmental DNA outperforms traditional surveys, but warrants better reporting standards	112
Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals cross‐continental similarities in biodiversity change	93
The traits of “trait ecologists”: An analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology	56
Automated facial recognition for wildlife that lack unique markings: A deep learning approach for brown bears	54
Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near‐independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea	51
NGSpeciesID: DNA barcode and amplicon consensus generation from long‐read sequencing data	51
Revisiting the effect of PCR replication and sequencing depth on biodiversity metrics in environmental DNA metabarcoding	49
Automatic detection of fish and tracking of movement for ecology	48
MaxEnt brings comparable results when the input data are being completed; Model parameterization of four species distribution models	47
Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding	45
Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them	45
Current and future distribution of the deciduous shrub Hydrangea macrophylla in China estimated by MaxEnt	45
Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation	45
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models	44
Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: Current knowledge and future perspectives	44
Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank	43
Which factors contribute most to genome size variation within angiosperms?	42
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans	41
Soil physicochemical properties drive the variation in soil microbial communities along a forest successional series in a degraded wetland in northeastern China	40
Evolution of habitat preference in 243 species of Bent‐toed geckos (GenusCyrtodactylusGray, 1827) with a discussion of karst habitat conservation	39
Predicting the potential global distribution of Ageratina adenophora under current and future climate change scenarios	38
Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia	38
How many replicates to accurately estimate fish biodiversity using environmental DNA on coral reefs?	38
Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity	37

Human–wildlife conflict in the roof of the world: Understanding multidimensional perspectives through a systematic review	37
A review of conspecific attraction for habitat selection across taxa	36
Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America	36
Light heterogeneity affects understory plant species richness in temperate forests supporting the heterogeneity–diversity hypothesis	35
Comparative plastome analysis of Blumea, with implications for genome evolution and phylogeny of Asteroideae	34
Habitat suitability and connectivity implications for the conservation of the Persian leopard along the Iran–Iraq border	34
When are hypotheses useful in ecology and evolution?	34
You are welcome here: A practical guide to diversity, equity, and inclusion for undergraduates embarking on an ecological research experience	34
Temperature but not ocean acidification affects energy metabolism and enzyme activities in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis	33
Worldclim 2.1 versus Worldclim 1.4: Climatic niche and grid resolution affect between‐version mismatches in Habitat Suitability Models predictions across Europe	33
Bringing function to structure: Root–soil interactions shaping phosphatase activity throughout a soil profile in Puerto Rico	33
Waste not, want not: Microsatellites remain an economical and informative technology for conservation genetics	33
Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions	32
Environmental DNA metabarcoding primers for freshwater fish detection and quantification: In silico and in tanks	32
Mixing tree species associated with arbuscular or ectotrophic mycorrhizae reveals dual mycorrhization and interactive effects on the fungal partners	32
A national‐scale dataset for threats impacting Australia’s imperiled flora and fauna	31
The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness	31
Monitoring the dead as an ecosystem indicator	30
Modeling vegetation greenness and its climate sensitivity with deep‐learning technology	30
A review of spatial capture–recapture: Ecological insights, limitations, and prospects	30
Moving academic conferences online: Understanding patterns of delegate engagement	30
Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code	29
Fixed or random? On the reliability of mixed‐effects models for a small number of levels in grouping variables	29
Understanding the unexplained: The magnitude and correlates of individual differences in residual variance	29
TreeViewer: Flexible, modular software to visualise and manipulate phylogenetic trees	29
Pool choice in a vertical landscape: Tadpole‐rearing site flexibility in phytotelm‐breeding frogs	29
Pollen DNA metabarcoding identifies regional provenance and high plant diversity in Australian honey	28
How citizen science could improve species distribution models and their independent assessment	28
Geographic range estimates and environmental requirements for the harpy eagle derived from spatial models of current and past distribution	26
Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research?	26
Lineage‐specific plastid degradation in subtribe Gentianinae (Gentianaceae)	26
Amplicon_sorter: A tool for reference‐free amplicon sorting based on sequence similarity and for building consensus sequences	26
Seasonality of floral resources in relation to bee activity in agroecosystems	26
Extreme rainfall events and cooling of sea turtle clutches: Implications in the face of climate warming	26
Six years of wild bee monitoring shows changes in biodiversity within and across years and declines in abundance	25
Simulated heat waves reduce cognitive and motor performance of an endotherm	25
Molecular evolution and SSRs analysis based on the chloroplast genome ofCallitropsis funebris	25
Freshwater wild biota exposure to microplastics: A global perspective	25
High concentrations of environmental ammonia induced changes in large‐scale loach (Paramisgurnus dabryanus) immunity	25
Potential geographical distribution and environmental explanations of rare and endangered plant species through combined modeling: A case study of Northwest Yunnan, China	25
Temporal patterns of visitation of birds and mammals at mineral licks in the Peruvian Amazon	24
Large‐scale movement patterns in a social vulture are influenced by seasonality, sex, and breeding region	24
Accelerated vegetation succession but no hydrological change in a boreal fen during 20 years of recent climate change	24
Cultivating inclusive instructional and research environments in ecology and evolutionary science	24
Physiological basis of interactive responses to temperature and salinity in coastal marine invertebrate: Implications for responses to warming	24
Predicted declines in suitable habitat for greater one‐horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) under future climate and land use change scenarios	24
Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long‐term avian studies	23
Root morphological responses to population density vary with soil conditions and growth stages: The complexity of density effects	23
Evaluating new technology for biodiversity monitoring: Are drone surveys biased?	23
Color pan traps often catch less when there are more flowers around	23

Off to new shores: Climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.)	23
Candidate‐species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying hybrid zones	23
Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity	23
The impact of climate change on the distribution of rare and endangered tree Firmiana kwangsiensis using the Maxent modeling	23
Drought has negative consequences on aphid fitness and plant vigor: Insights from a meta‐analysis	22
Biosurveillance for invasive insect pest species using an environmental DNA metabarcoding approach and a high salt trap collection fluid	22
Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study	22
DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera‐recorded diets	22
A consensus view of the proteome of the last universal common ancestor	22
Predicting insect outbreaks using machine learning: A mountain pine beetle case study	22
Projected impacts of climate change on snow leopard habitat in Qinghai Province, China	22
Multidecadal changes in functional diversity lag behind the recovery of taxonomic diversity	22
Gut microbiome of migratory shorebirds: Current status and future perspectives	21
High foliar K and P resorption efficiencies in old‐growth tropical forests growing on nutrient‐poor soils	21
Patterns and determinants of elephant attacks on humans in Nepal	21
Trophic niche overlap between round sardinella (Sardinella aurita) and sympatric pelagic fish species in the Western Mediterranean	21
Deep reefs are not refugium for shallow‐water fish communities in the southwestern Atlantic	21
High‐altitude adaptation in vertebrates as revealed by mitochondrial genome analyses	21
Environmental drivers of Cheirogaleidae population density: Remarkable resilience of Madagascar’s smallest lemurs to habitat degradation	21
Understanding 3D structural complexity of individual Scots pine trees with different management history	21
Tree recruitment is determined by stand structure and shade tolerance with uncertain role of climate and water relations	21
Highly variable chloroplast genome from two endangered Papaveraceae lithophytes Corydalis tomentella and Corydalis saxicola	21
The fate of Meconopsis species in the Tibeto‐Himalayan region under future climate change	21
Non‐reef habitats in a tropical seascape affect density and biomass of fishes on coral reefs	21
Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China	21
Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly shaped the taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of natural forests in southern China	21
Natural history of model organisms: The secret (group) life of Drosophila melanogaster larvae and why it matters to developmental ecology	21
An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss	20
Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest	20
Predicting seasonal movements and distribution of the sperm whale using machine learning algorithms	20
Body mass and hibernation microclimate may predict bat susceptibility to white‐nose syndrome	20
Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance	20
From the Balkan towards Western Europe: Range expansion of the golden jackal (Canis aureus)—A climatic niche modeling approach	20
Who let the dogs out? Exploring the spatial ecology of free‐roaming domestic dogs in western Kenya	20
The dark side of pseudoscorpion diversity: The German Barcode of Life campaign reveals high levels of undocumented diversity in European false scorpions	20
Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests	20
Global change impacts on arid zone ecosystems: Seedling establishment processes are threatened by temperature and water stress	20
Spatial capture–recapture with random thinning for unidentified encounters	20
COVID‐19 lockdown frees wildlife to roam but increases poaching threats in Nepal	20
The role of context in elucidating drivers of animal movement	20
Ecological and morphological determinants of evolutionary diversification in Darwin's finches and their relatives	20
Comparing whole‐genome shotgun sequencing and DNA metabarcoding approaches for species identification and quantification of pollen species mixtures	20
Not a cakewalk: Insights into movement of large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes in India	20
Vegetation resistance and resilience to a decade‐long dry period in the temperate grasslands in China	20
Analytical methods matter too: Establishing a framework for estimating maximum metabolic rate for fishes	20
Potential risk zone for anthropogenic mortality of carnivores in Gandaki Province, Nepal	20
Larval sites of the mosquito Aedes aegypti formosus in forest and domestic habitats in Africa and the potential association with oviposition evolution	19
Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure	19
Temporal and palaeoclimatic context of the evolution of insular woodiness in the Canary Islands	19
Phylogenetic significance of the characteristics of simple sequence repeats at the genus level based on the complete chloroplast genome sequences of Cyatheaceae	19
Effective distance of volatile cues for plant–plant communication in beech	19
Detection of the elusive Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) using environmental DNA at Malpelo island (Eastern Pacific, Colombia)	19
Integrated analysis of three newly sequenced fern chloroplast genomes: Genome structure and comparative analysis	19
The effect of habitat and human disturbance on the spatiotemporal activity of two urban carnivores: The results of an intensive camera trap study	19
Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter‐ and intra‐guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields	19
Drones, automatic counting tools, and artificial neural networks in wildlife population censusing	19
A review of applications of environmental DNA for reptile conservation and management	19
Finding common ground: Toward comparable indicators of adaptive capacity of tree species to a changing climate	19
Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients	19
Limited heat tolerance in an Arctic passerine: Thermoregulatory implications for cold‐specialized birds in a rapidly warming world	19
Errors in aerial survey count data: Identifying pitfalls and solutions	19
Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America	19
For flux's sake: General considerations for energy‐flux calculations in ecological communities	19
Decades of dietary data demonstrate regional food web structures in the Southern Ocean	19
Non‐invasive monitoring of multiple wildlife health factors by fecal microbiome analysis	19
occAssess: An R package for assessing potential biases in species occurrence data	18
Prey availability and intraguild competition regulate the spatiotemporal dynamics of a modified large carnivore guild	18
Metabarcoding reveals massive species diversity of Diptera in a subtropical ecosystem	18
Fine‐scale coexistence between Mediterranean mesocarnivores is mediated by spatial, temporal, and trophic resource partitioning	18
The efficacy of DNA barcoding in the classification, genetic differentiation, and biodiversity assessment of benthic macroinvertebrates	18
Geographical pattern of genetic diversity in Capsella bursa‐pastoris (Brassicaceae)—A global perspective	18
Efficiency of biochar, nitrogen addition, and microbial agent amendments in remediation of soil properties and microbial community in Qilian Mountains mine soils	18
A guide for optimal iodine staining and high‐throughput diceCT scanning in snakes	18
Mechanisms driving plant functional trait variation in a tropical forest	18
Patterns of thermal adaptation in a globally distributed plant pathogen: Local diversity and plasticity reveal two‐tier dynamics	18
Facultative mutualisms: A double‐edged sword for foundation species in the face of anthropogenic global change	18
Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems	18
Low temperature has opposite effects on sex determination in a marine fish at the larval/postlarval and juvenile stages	18
Fine‐scale oceanographic drivers of reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) visitation patterns at a feeding aggregation site	18
A real‐world implementation of a nationwide, long‐term monitoring program to assess the impact of agrochemicals and agricultural practices on biodiversity	18

Optimization and validation of a cost‐effective protocol for biosurveillance of invasive alien species	18
Contrasting patterns in the occurrence and biomass centers of gravity among fish and macroinvertebrates in a continental shelf ecosystem	18
Influence of environmental variables on macroinvertebrate community structure in Lianhuan Lake	18
Automated location invariant animal detection in camera trap images using publicly available data sources	18
Cryptic species and hidden ecological interactions of halictine bees along an elevational gradient	18
Use of an exotic host plant shifts immunity, chemical defense, and viral burden in wild populations of a specialist insect herbivore	18
Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology	18
Urban living influences the nesting success of Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands	17
Sandpipers go with the flow: Correlations between estuarine conditions and shorebird abundance at an important stopover on the Pacific Flyway	17
Beta diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages associated with leaf patches in neotropical montane streams	17
Analysing detection gaps in acoustic telemetry data to infer differential movement patterns in fish	17
Causes, temporal trends, and the effects of urbanization on admissions of wild raptors to rehabilitation centers in England and Wales	17
Extensive daily movement rates measured in territorial arctic foxes	17
The ecology and evolution of the monito del monte, a relict species from the southern South America temperate forests	17
Evolutionary and plastic variation in larval growth and digestion reveal the complex underpinnings of size and age at maturation in dung beetles	17
Climate change‐induced distributional change of medicinal and aromatic plants in the Nepal Himalaya	17
Past, present, and future geographic range of the relict Mediterranean and Macaronesian Juniperus phoenicea complex	17
Uncovering the different scales in deer–forest interactions	17
Diet and temperature modify the relationship between energy use and ATP production to influence behavior in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	17
Survival and abundance of polar bears in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, 2001–2016	17
Historic range dynamics in Kaiser's mountain newt (Neurergus kaiseri): Insights from phylogeographic analyses and species distribution modeling	17
Responses of two dominant desert plant species to the changes in groundwater depth in hinterland natural oasis, Tarim Basin	17
Bats partition activity in space and time in a large, heterogeneous landscape	17
Using community photography to investigate phenology: A case study of coat molt in the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) with missing data	17
Effects of climate‐change scenarios on the distribution patterns of Castanea henryi	17
Robust and simplified machine learning identification of pitfall trap‐collected ground beetles at the continental scale	17
3D genital shape complexity in female marine mammals	17
Shifts and plasticity of plant leaf mass per area and leaf size among slope aspects in a subalpine meadow	17
Community science data suggests that urbanization and forest habitat loss threaten aphidophagous native lady beetles	17
Disparate movement behavior and feeding ecology in sympatric ecotypes of Atlantic cod	17
Macronutrient balancing in free‐ranging populations of moose	17
Population abundance in arctic grayling using genetics and close‐kin mark‐recapture	17
Spatial phylogenetics of the native woody plant species in Hainan, China	17
Embryo ecology: Developmental synchrony and asynchrony in the embryonic development of wild annual fish populations	17
Poor nutritional quality of primary producers and zooplankton driven by eutrophication is mitigated at upper trophic levels	17
Understanding the evolution of nutritive taste in animals: Insights from biological stoichiometry and nutritional geometry	17
Trophic resource partitioning drives fine‐scale coexistence in cryptic bat species	16
Pleistocene climate fluctuations as the major driver of genetic diversity and distribution patterns of the Caspian green lizard, Lacerta strigata Eichwald, 1831	16
Diets maintained in a changing world: Does land‐use intensification alter wild bee communities by selecting for flexible generalists?	16
Time series covering up to four decades reveals major changes and drivers of marine growth and proportion of repeat spawners in an Atlantic salmon population	16
Reliability of animal counts and implications for the interpretation of trends	16
Differential reliance on aquatic prey subsidies influences mercury exposure in riparian arachnids and songbirds	16
Dining from the coast to the summit: Salmon and pine nuts determine the summer body condition of female brown bears on the Shiretoko Peninsula	16
Past connections with the mainland structure patterns of insular species richness in a continental‐shelf archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece)	16
Close encounters of the fatal kind: Landscape features associated with central mountain caribou mortalities	16
Fire and forage quality: Postfire regrowth quality and pyric herbivory in subtropical grasslands of Nepal	16
Uncovering the genetic diversity of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in China by combining phenotypic trait and molecular marker analyses	16
Impacts of climate change on species distribution patterns of Polyspora sweet in China	16
Identifying and correcting spatial bias in opportunistic citizen science data for wild ungulates in Norway	16
Habitat heterogeneity affects the thermal ecology of an endangered lizard	16
Teaching an experiential field course via online participatory science projects: A COVID‐19 case study of a UC California Naturalist course	16
Effects of temperature on life‐history traits of the newly invasive fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda in Southeast China	16
Site fidelity and behavioral plasticity regulate an ungulate’s response to extreme disturbance	16
Cattle grazing results in greater floral resources and pollinators than sheep grazing in low‐diversity grasslands	16
Analytical approaches for evaluating passive acoustic monitoring data: A case study of avian vocalizations	16
The inappropriate use of time‐to‐independence biases estimates of activity patterns of free‐ranging mammals derived from camera traps	16
American lobster postlarvae alter gene regulation in response to ocean warming and acidification	16
Camera traps are an effective tool for monitoring insect–plant interactions	16
A meta‐analysis of the effects of climate change on the mutualism between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	16
Improved management of farm dams increases vegetation cover, water quality, and macroinvertebrate biodiversity	15
Clustering of loci controlling species differences in male chemical bouquets of sympatric Heliconius butterflies	15
The importance of environmental conditions in maintaining lineage identity in Epithelantha (Cactaceae)	15
Estimating the abundance of the critically endangered Baltic Proper harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) population using passive acoustic monitoring	15
Illegal harvesting and livestock grazing threaten the endangered orchid Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soó in Nepalese Himalaya	15
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular genetic basis of pigmentation loss inSinocyclocheiluscavefishes	15
Functional groups in piscivorous fishes	15
Fire disturbance effects on plant taxonomic and functional β‐diversity mediated by topographic exposure	15
Spatial structure of reproductive success infers mechanisms of ungulate invasion in Nearctic boreal landscapes	15
Retraction of invasiveSpartina alternifloraand its effect on the habitat loss of endangered migratory bird species and their decline in YNNR using remote sensing technology	15
Feeding ecology and diet of the southern geladas (Theropithecus gelada obscurus) in human‐modified landscape, Wollo, Ethiopia	15
The effect of nest temperature on growth and survival in juvenile Great TitsParus major	15
Method for quick DNA barcode reference library construction	15
High functional diversity in deep‐sea fish communities and increasing intraspecific trait variation with increasing latitude	15
The gut microbiome composition and degradation enzymes activity of black Amur bream (Megalobrama terminalis) in response to breeding migratory behavior	15
Coordinated evolution of brain size, structure, and eye size in Trinidadian killifish	15
Impacts of environmental stress on resistance and resilience of algal‐associated bacterial communities	15
Positive relationships among aboveground biomass, tree species diversity, and urban greening management in tropical coastal city of Haikou	15
Plastic responses of survival and fertility following heat stress in pupal and adultDrosophila virilis	15
A long postreproductive life span is a shared trait among genetically distinct killer whale populations	15
Increased microclimatic variation in artificial nests does not create ecological traps for a secondary cavity breeder, the European roller	15
Inferring predator–prey interactions from camera traps: A Bayesian co‐abundance modeling approach	15
Optimizing noninvasive sampling of a zoonotic bat virus	15
Interference competition between wolves and coyotes during variable prey abundance	15
Mitochondrial genomes of fiveHyphessobrycontetras and their phylogenetic implications	15
Arthropod prey vary among orders in their nutrient and exoskeleton content	15
Considering sampling bias in close‐kin mark–recapture abundance estimates of Atlantic salmon	15
Kinship, dear enemies, and costly combat: The effects of relatedness on territorial overlap and aggression in a cooperative breeder	15
Predicting the potential distribution and forest impact of the invasive species Cydalima perspectalis in Europe	15
Freezing in a warming climate: Marked declines of a subnivean hibernator after a snow drought	15
Plant functional types broadly describe water use strategies in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeast Brazil	15
Diversity and characterization of bacterial communities of five co‐occurring species at a hydrothermal vent on the Tonga Arc	15
Gut microbial ecology of the Critically Endangered Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis): Effects of captivity status and host reintroduction on endogenous microbiomes	15
In a comfort zone and beyond—Ecological plasticity of key marine mediators	15
Seasonal patterns of spatial fidelity and temporal consistency in the distribution and movements of a migratory ungulate	15
Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long‐distance migratory passerine	15