Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	547
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	441
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	264
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	223
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	184
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	175
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	162
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	158
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	156
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	147
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	144
Multicellularity for free	143
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	142
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)	138
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	137
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	134
Evolution alters ecological resilience	131
Alignment-free integration of single-nucleus ATAC-seq across species with sPYce	126
Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian	121
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	120
Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas	119
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	117
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	117
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	116
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	113

Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	112
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	109
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	106
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	104
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	102
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	102
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	101
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	101
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	101
Old fish debate settled	100
Sea change	99
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	98
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	97
Several ways to balance sex differences	97
John Alcock (1943–2023)	96
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	92
Spotlight on our AI policies	89
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	88
A complicated character	87
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	87
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	86
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	83
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	82
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	80
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	79
Mapping where marine megafauna move	78
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	78
Hidden patterns in fauna compensation values in European biodiversity legislation	77
A blueprint for assessing national progress towards ‘30 by 30’	76
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	74
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	74
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	73
Pricing nature into sovereign debt	73
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	72
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	72
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	71
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	71
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	70
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	70
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	70
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	70
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	68
Worn down by the weather	68
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	68
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	68
Action on ambition	67
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	67
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	66
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	66

Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	65
Niches beyond borders	64
Uphill urbanization	64
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	63
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	63
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	63
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups	62
Costs and benefits of primate group size shift under varying climate regimes	61
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	61
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	60
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	60
Missing planktivore functions drive global variation in reef fish productivity	60
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	60
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	59
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	59
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	56
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts	56
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	55
Larger forest patches have greater per-area productivity	55
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	55
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	55
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	55
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	54
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	54
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	54
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	53
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	53
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	52
Cetacean cooperation	52
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	52
Foregone uptake	52
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	51
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	51
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	50
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	50
A clock for clonal organisms	50
No refuge for Amazon birds	50
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	50
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	50
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	49
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	49
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	49
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	49
Reply to: A case definition with microscopy would help establish Vibrio as a cause of sea star wasting disease	49
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	49
Leaf-like butterflies	49
Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches	49
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	48
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	48
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	48
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	48
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	48
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	48
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	48
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	47
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	47
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	47
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	47
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	47
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	47
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	46
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	46
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	46
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	46
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	46
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	45
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	45
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	45
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	45
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	45
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	44
Planting for posterity	44
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	44
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	43
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	43
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	43
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	42
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	42
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	41
Molecular evidence from xenacoelomorph gonopore formation supports homology with the bilaterian anus	41

Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	41
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	41
Diversification dynamics at scale	40
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	40
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	39
Author Correction: Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	39
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	39
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	39
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	39
Stability depends on climate extremes	39
Sound science	39
Mines aren’t on the maps	39
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	39
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	38
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	37
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	37
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	37
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks	37
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	37
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	37
Don’t dismiss dirt	37
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	37
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	37
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	37
Tree shapes	37
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	37
Decoding cnidarian cell type gene regulation	37
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	37
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	36
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	36
Evolution in medicine	36
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	36
Direct benefits are not necessary for the evolution of multicellularity	36
Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time	35
Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician	35
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	35
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	35
Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments	35
Exaggerated effects in ecology	35
Comparing potential biodiversity conflicts from renewable energy expansion in China at different centralization levels	34
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	34
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	34
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	34
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	33
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	33
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	33
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	33
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	33
Severe winter storms bring severe population changes	33
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	32
On our (children’s) bookshelf	32
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	32
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	32
A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass	32
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	31
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	31
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	31
Mitigating a mine	31
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	31
The sex of scents	31
Rodents’ rule of thumb	30
Discrepancies between observations and models highlight how to improve predictions	30
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	30
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	30
Accessibility for all	30
Drivers of same-sex sexual behaviour	30
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	30
When local arthropod biomass declines, every species counts	30
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	30
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	30
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	30
The social dimension of microbial niches	29
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach	29
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	29
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	29
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people	29
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	29
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	29
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	29
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	28
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	28
Islands of diversity	28
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	28
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	28
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	28
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	28
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	28
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades	28
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	28
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	28
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	28
A planning framework for coordinated global action to prevent cyclone-driven extinctions	27
Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations	27
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex	27