Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	226
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	215
Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat	212
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	201
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	192
Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond	171
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	158
Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data	157
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	157
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	145
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	143
The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families	134
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	134
Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities	129
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites	126
Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development	124
Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change	124
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	118
Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy	112
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning	112
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	108
Metagenome-wide association analysis identifies microbial determinants of post-antibiotic ecological recovery in the gut	105
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	105
A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications	103
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	102

Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	102
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them	101
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	98
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	97
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	97
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic	96
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	96
Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time	96
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	94
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	94
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	93
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	92
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	89
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	88
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	86
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	85
Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions	85
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	81
Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests	80
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	80
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	80
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	79
Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria	78
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	78
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	77
Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities	74
Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15	73
The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences	72
A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change	71
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	71
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	70
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	70
Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions	69
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	68
Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery	67
The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates	67
A forest loss report card for the world’s protected areas	66
The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change	65
Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures	65
Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants	64
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs	64
Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria	64
Metabolomic signatures of coral bleaching history	63
Timing the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity with ancient duplications	62
Gradual evolution of allopolyploidy in Arabidopsis suecica	61
Engineering complex communities by directed evolution	59
Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts	59
Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts	59
Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems	59
Global biogeography of marine dispersal potential	59

Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts	58
Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown in plants	58
Integrating agroecological production in a robust post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	58
Ten recent insights for our understanding of cooperation	57
Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition	57
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	56
A theoretical analysis of tumour containment	56
Correlational selection in the age of genomics	56
A geometric basis for surface habitat complexity and biodiversity	55
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	55
Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide	55
Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid	53
Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history	53
Idiosyncratic epistasis creates universals in mutational effects and evolutionary trajectories	53
Empirical support for the biogeochemical niche hypothesis in forest trees	52
Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria	52
A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests	52
Maximum levels of global phylogenetic diversity efficiently capture plant services for humankind	51
Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition	51
Selection of metastasis competent subclones in the tumour interior	51
Metabolic fitness landscapes predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance	51
Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants	51
Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems	50
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	50
Commensal Pseudomonas strains facilitate protective response against pathogens in the host plant	50
Knockout of crustacean leg patterning genes suggests that insect wings and body walls evolved from ancient leg segments	49
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	49
Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution	48
The severity and extent of the Australia 2019–20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management	48
Management implications of long transients in ecological systems	48
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth	48
Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale	48
Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments	48
Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces	47
Adaptation to low parasite abundance affects immune investment and immunopathological responses of cavefish	47
Chaos is not rare in natural ecosystems	46
A decade to study deep-sea life	45
Facilitative priority effects drive parasite assembly under coinfection	45
Concerted genomic and epigenomic changes accompany stabilization of Arabidopsis allopolyploids	44
Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species	44
Ecological pest control fortifies agricultural growth in Asia–Pacific economies	44
Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits	44
Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades	43
Spontaneous cell fusions as a mechanism of parasexual recombination in tumour cell populations	43
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity	43
Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales	43
Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression	42
Retreat of large carnivores across the giant panda distribution range	42
Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests	41
Meta-analysis reveals that animal sexual signalling behaviour is honest and resource based	41
Echolocation at high intensity imposes metabolic costs on flying bats	41
Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines	40
A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems	40
Vibrational modes of water predict spectral niches for photosynthesis in lakes and oceans	40
Intra- and interpopulation transposition of mobile genetic elements driven by antibiotic selection	40
Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics	40
Male swarming aggregation pheromones increase female attraction and mating success among multiple African malaria vector mosquito species	39
Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets	39
A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation	39
Selection against archaic hominin genetic variation in regulatory regions	39
Habitat loss and range shifts contribute to ecological generalization among reef fishes	38
The genome of Nautilus pompilius illuminates eye evolution and biomineralization	38
An early origin of iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis machineries before Earth oxygenation	38
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient	38
Fertilization mode drives sperm length evolution across the animal tree of life	38
Bottleneck size and selection level reproducibly impact evolution of antibiotic resistance	37
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	37
Ecological network complexity scales with area	37
Current levels of microplastic pollution impact wild seabird gut microbiomes	37
Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host–microbiota systems	37
Rapid evolutionary dynamics of an expanding family of meiotic drive factors and their hpRNA suppressors	36
Host diversity slows bacteriophage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists	36
The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales	36
Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up	36
Animals, protists and bacteria share marine biogeographic patterns	36
Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations	36
Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds	36
Remote spectral detection of biodiversity effects on forest biomass	36
Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record	36
Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia	36

Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal–modern human turnover in southern Italy	36
Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology	36
Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic	35
Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees’ pesticide risk	34
Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world	34
Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes	34
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila	34
Inbreeding depression explains killer whale population dynamics	34
Epimutations driven by small RNAs arise frequently but most have limited duration in Caenorhabditis elegans	33
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands at 50	33
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	33
Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought	33
Eco-evolutionary interaction between microbiome presence and rapid biofilm evolution determines plant host fitness	33
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	33
Comparative genome anatomy reveals evolutionary insights into a unique amphitriploid fish	32
Neanderthal introgression reintroduced functional ancestral alleles lost in Eurasian populations	32
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	32
Challenges and opportunities for achieving Sustainable Development Goals through restoration of Indonesia’s mangroves	32
Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle	32
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients	31
Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts	31
Benthic composition changes on coral reefs at global scales	31
Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial	31
Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution	31
A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins	30
Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species	30
A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution	30
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	30
A social niche breadth score reveals niche range strategies of generalists and specialists	30
Molecular mechanisms of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions in a plant–pollinator association	30
Guidelines for healthy global scientific collaborations	30
Improving sex and gender identity equity and inclusion at conservation and ecology conferences	30
A meta-analysis reveals edge effects within marine protected areas	30
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	30
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	30
Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture	29
Experimental manipulation of microbiota reduces host thermal tolerance and fitness under heat stress in a vertebrate ectotherm	29
Phosphorus fertilization is eradicating the niche of northern Eurasia’s threatened plant species	29
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities	29
Improving pesticide-use data for the EU	29
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour	29
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	29
Spatial patterns of tumour growth impact clonal diversification in a computational model and the TRACERx Renal study	29
Extreme Y chromosome polymorphism corresponds to five male reproductive morphs of a freshwater fish	29
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	29
Seasonal variation in UVA light drives hormonal and behavioural changes in a marine annelid via a ciliary opsin	28
Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities	28
Mass spectrometry of short peptides reveals common features of metazoan peptidergic neurons	28
Co-evolution of interacting proteins through non-contacting and non-specific mutations	28
The rise and fall of proboscidean ecological diversity	28
Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature	28
Potential negative effects of ocean afforestation on offshore ecosystems	27
Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks	27
Two sets of candidate crustacean wing homologues and their implication for the origin of insect wings	27
Sugars dominate the seagrass rhizosphere	27
The interspecific growth–mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure	27
Gene family evolution underlies cell-type diversification in the hypothalamus of teleosts	27
Meta-analytic evidence that animals rarely avoid inbreeding	27
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	27
Human pressure drives biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships in large Neotropical wetlands	27
Self-disseminating vaccines to suppress zoonoses	26
Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges	26
Amazon tree dominance across forest strata	26
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	26
A genome-wide investigation of the effect of farming and human-mediated introduction on the ubiquitous seaweed Undaria pinnatifida	26
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	26
The elusive search for tipping points	25
Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession	25
Ancient homomorphy of molluscan sex chromosomes sustained by reversible sex-biased genes and sex determiner translocation	25
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability	25
Dog colour patterns explained by modular promoters of ancient canid origin	25
Global hunter-gatherer population densities constrained by influence of seasonality on diet composition	25
Evolution and implications of de novo genes in humans	25
Patterns of skeletal integration in birds reveal that adaptation of element shapes enables coordinated evolution between anatomical modules	25
Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities	25
Immune evasion and ACE2 binding affinity contribute to SARS-CoV-2 evolution	25
Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease	25
Risks to global biodiversity and Indigenous lands from China’s overseas development finance	24
Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life	24
Random population fluctuations bias the Living Planet Index	24
A new wave of marine fish invasions through the Panama and Suez canals	24
Global topographic uplift has elevated speciation in mammals and birds over the last 3 million years	24
Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots	24
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	24
Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle	24
A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action	24
Expression level is a major modifier of the fitness landscape of a protein coding gene	24
National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps	23
Urban-adapted mammal species have more known pathogens	23
Mating increases Drosophila melanogaster females’ choosiness by reducing olfactory sensitivity to a male pheromone	23
Synchrony and idiosyncrasy in the gut microbiome of wild baboons	23
The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild	23
Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes	23
Rib cage anatomy in Homo erectus suggests a recent evolutionary origin of modern human body shape	23
Elevate, don’t assimilate, to revolutionize the experience of scientists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour	23