Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	229
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	227
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	219
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	213
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	168
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	166
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	158
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	150
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	141
Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change	136
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	129
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	116
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	116
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning	113
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	110
A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications	108
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	108
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them	107
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	107
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	107
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	105
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	105
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	105
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	102
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	101

An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	100
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	94
Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions	93
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	92
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	90
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	89
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	88
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	88
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	88
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	87
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	85
The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences	84
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	83
Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15	78
A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change	77
Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery	77
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	74
The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change	74
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	73
The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates	72
A forest loss report card for the world’s protected areas	71
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	71
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	71
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth	71
Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions	70
Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria	70
Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts	69
Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures	69
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs	68
Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts	68
Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems	68
Timing the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity with ancient duplications	67
Gradual evolution of allopolyploidy in Arabidopsis suecica	67
Metabolomic signatures of coral bleaching history	65
Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants	65
Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown in plants	64
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	63
Engineering complex communities by directed evolution	63
Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants	63
Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition	62
Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces	61
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	61
Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history	61
Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide	60
Ten recent insights for our understanding of cooperation	59
Idiosyncratic epistasis creates universals in mutational effects and evolutionary trajectories	58
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	58
Correlational selection in the age of genomics	57
A theoretical analysis of tumour containment	57
Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts	57

Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition	56
Metabolic fitness landscapes predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance	56
Empirical support for the biogeochemical niche hypothesis in forest trees	55
Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments	54
Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid	54
Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria	53
Commensal Pseudomonas strains facilitate protective response against pathogens in the host plant	53
Maximum levels of global phylogenetic diversity efficiently capture plant services for humankind	53
Selection of metastasis competent subclones in the tumour interior	53
Chaos is not rare in natural ecosystems	53
Knockout of crustacean leg patterning genes suggests that insect wings and body walls evolved from ancient leg segments	53
Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale	51
Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests	51
Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems	51
Current levels of microplastic pollution impact wild seabird gut microbiomes	51
Management implications of long transients in ecological systems	50
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity	50
The severity and extent of the Australia 2019–20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management	50
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	50
Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets	50
Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species	50
A decade to study deep-sea life	48
Meta-analysis reveals that animal sexual signalling behaviour is honest and resource based	48
Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression	48
Concerted genomic and epigenomic changes accompany stabilization of Arabidopsis allopolyploids	47
Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits	47
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient	46
Spontaneous cell fusions as a mechanism of parasexual recombination in tumour cell populations	45
An early origin of iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis machineries before Earth oxygenation	45
A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation	45
Intra- and interpopulation transposition of mobile genetic elements driven by antibiotic selection	45
Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines	44
Inbreeding depression explains killer whale population dynamics	44
Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales	44
Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades	44
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	44
Bottleneck size and selection level reproducibly impact evolution of antibiotic resistance	42
The genome of Nautilus pompilius illuminates eye evolution and biomineralization	42
Habitat loss and range shifts contribute to ecological generalization among reef fishes	42
A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins	41
Fertilization mode drives sperm length evolution across the animal tree of life	41
Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics	41
Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host–microbiota systems	41
A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems	41
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	40
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	40
Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees’ pesticide risk	40
Ecological network complexity scales with area	40
Vibrational modes of water predict spectral niches for photosynthesis in lakes and oceans	39
Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations	39
Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic	39
Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle	39
Animals, protists and bacteria share marine biogeographic patterns	39
Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record	38
Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up	38
Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world	38
Remote spectral detection of biodiversity effects on forest biomass	38
Rapid evolutionary dynamics of an expanding family of meiotic drive factors and their hpRNA suppressors	38
Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia	37
Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds	37
Challenges and opportunities for achieving Sustainable Development Goals through restoration of Indonesia’s mangroves	37
Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes	36
Host diversity slows bacteriophage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists	36
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands at 50	36
The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales	36
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila	36
Comparative genome anatomy reveals evolutionary insights into a unique amphitriploid fish	35
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	35
Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought	35
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	35
Benthic composition changes on coral reefs at global scales	34
A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution	34
A social niche breadth score reveals niche range strategies of generalists and specialists	34
Guidelines for healthy global scientific collaborations	34
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients	34
Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature	34
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	34
Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands	33
Eco-evolutionary interaction between microbiome presence and rapid biofilm evolution determines plant host fitness	33
Sugars dominate the seagrass rhizosphere	33

Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	33
Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts	33
A meta-analysis reveals edge effects within marine protected areas	32
Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects	32
Potential negative effects of ocean afforestation on offshore ecosystems	32
Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution	32
Extreme Y chromosome polymorphism corresponds to five male reproductive morphs of a freshwater fish	32
The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild	32
Spatial patterns of tumour growth impact clonal diversification in a computational model and the TRACERx Renal study	31
Molecular mechanisms of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions in a plant–pollinator association	31
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	31
Experimental manipulation of microbiota reduces host thermal tolerance and fitness under heat stress in a vertebrate ectotherm	31
Immune evasion and ACE2 binding affinity contribute to SARS-CoV-2 evolution	31
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	31
Improving pesticide-use data for the EU	31
Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks	31
Co-evolution of interacting proteins through non-contacting and non-specific mutations	31
Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species	30
Gene family evolution underlies cell-type diversification in the hypothalamus of teleosts	30
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	30
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities	30
Seasonal variation in UVA light drives hormonal and behavioural changes in a marine annelid via a ciliary opsin	30
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour	30
Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture	29
Meta-analytic evidence that animals rarely avoid inbreeding	29
Ancient homomorphy of molluscan sex chromosomes sustained by reversible sex-biased genes and sex determiner translocation	29
Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges	29
The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity	29
Mass spectrometry of short peptides reveals common features of metazoan peptidergic neurons	29
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability	29
The interspecific growth–mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure	29
Amazon tree dominance across forest strata	29
Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life	29
Evolution and implications of de novo genes in humans	29
Phosphorus fertilization is eradicating the niche of northern Eurasia’s threatened plant species	29
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	28
Dog colour patterns explained by modular promoters of ancient canid origin	28
Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities	28
A genome-wide investigation of the effect of farming and human-mediated introduction on the ubiquitous seaweed Undaria pinnatifida	28
Mating increases Drosophila melanogaster females’ choosiness by reducing olfactory sensitivity to a male pheromone	28
A predictive timeline of wildlife population collapse	28
Peer review perpetuates barriers for historically excluded groups	27
Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years	27
Applying the ‘CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance’ to ecology and biodiversity research	27
Synchrony and idiosyncrasy in the gut microbiome of wild baboons	27
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	27
Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle	27
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action	27
The functional genetic architecture of egg-laying and live-bearing reproduction in common lizards	26
Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease	26
National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps	26
Ageing red deer alter their spatial behaviour and become less social	26
Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities	26
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	26
A new wave of marine fish invasions through the Panama and Suez canals	26
Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens	26
The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales	26
Abiotic conditions shape spatial and temporal morphological variation in North American birds	25
Cophylogeny and convergence shape holobiont evolution in sponge–microbe symbioses	25
Soil microbiome predictability increases with spatial and taxonomic scale	25
Patterns of skeletal integration in birds reveal that adaptation of element shapes enables coordinated evolution between anatomical modules	25
Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession	25
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	25
Latitudinal gradients in avian colourfulness	25
Global hunter-gatherer population densities constrained by influence of seasonality on diet composition	25
Evolutionary assembly of flowering plants into sky islands	25
Random population fluctuations bias the Living Planet Index	24
Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago	24
AI chatbots can boost scientific coding	24
Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19	24
Expression level is a major modifier of the fitness landscape of a protein coding gene	24
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	24
Risks to global biodiversity and Indigenous lands from China’s overseas development finance	24
Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents	24
Compensation for wind drift during raptor migration improves with age through mortality selection	24
Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots	24
Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes	24
Global topographic uplift has elevated speciation in mammals and birds over the last 3 million years	24
The methylation landscape and its role in domestication and gene regulation in the chicken	24
Spatial models of giant pandas under current and future conditions reveal extinction risks	24
Ecology shapes epistasis in a genotype–phenotype–fitness map for stick insect colour	23
Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation	23
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	23
A dynamic view of seagrass meadows in the wake of successful green turtle conservation	23
Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution	23
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	23
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event	23
Groundwater extraction poses extreme threat to Doñana World Heritage Site	23
Epigenetic divergence during early stages of speciation in an African crater lake cichlid fish	22
Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community	22
Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss	22
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	22
Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions	22
The structure of genotype-phenotype maps makes fitness landscapes navigable	22
The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation	22