Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
On our (children’s) bookshelf	244
Some, but not all, eponyms should be disallowed	233
Life through the lens of metabolism	185
Correcting the record	181
Native Mexican adaptation	149
Dan Salah Tawfik (1955–2021)	143
Farming adaptations	134
An ocean of benefits	132
Beyond the paper	124
Colourful females	123
Metabolic models predict evolutionary dynamics	122
Rainforest origins	122
Fossilized ethics	115
Long tail of land use	112
The rise of mammals	111
Excess plant growth worsens droughts	111
Falcon flyways	107
Reply to: Recognizing and marshalling the pre-publication error correction potential of open data for more reproducible science	104
Viral priorities from genomic signatures	104
African savannah elephants call one another by ‘name’	101
Best practices for genetic and genomic data archiving	99
Gene duplication contributes to liver evolution	97
Quantifying research waste in ecology	95
Coexistence holes characterize the assembly and disassembly of multispecies systems	92
Make global biodiversity information useful to national decision-makers	91

Bridged knowledge	89
Between ice and ocean	89
Pollinator interaction flexibility across scales affects patch colonization and occupancy	87
‘Nature positive’ must incorporate, not undermine, the mitigation hierarchy	86
Estimating comparable distances to tipping points across mutualistic systems by scaled recovery rates	84
Rapid evolution of body plans	83
Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia	80
Plasmid evolution in the clinic	79
Awakening innovations in biology and culture	76
Interpreting intertidal invasions	75
Reply to: Conclusions of low extinction risk for most species of reef-building corals are premature	74
Animal power	73
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	73
Salt-stressed frogs	73
The social dimension of microbial niches	71
Memory pays off	71
Agriculture isn’t all rocket science	70
Futureproofing Europe’s forests	69
Andrew S. Brierley (1967–2024)	68
Ethical considerations for human sequences in environmental DNA	66
Parachute research is another ethical problem for Myanmar amber	66
Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago	64
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	64
Useful plants have deep evolutionary roots	62
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	61
Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity	61
Mammal masses	60
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	59
Protection for migratory species	59
Neanderthal assimilation?	59
Kathy MacKinnon (1948–2023)	59
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	59
Mitigating a mine	57
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	56
Transitions and trade-offs in regeneration	55
Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments	54
Ignoring species hybrids in the IUCN Red List assessments for African elephants may bias conservation policy	54
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	54
Bird vulnerability to forest loss	54
Empirical pressure-response relations can benefit assessment of safe operating spaces	54
Fish community structure and dynamics are insufficient to mediate coral resilience	54
No evidence for long-range male sex pheromones in two malaria mosquitoes	53
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	53
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	53
Mating increases Drosophila melanogaster females’ choosiness by reducing olfactory sensitivity to a male pheromone	53
Time delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems	53
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	52
Horizontal gene transfer facilitates the molecular reverse-evolution of antibiotic sensitivity in experimental populations of H. pylori	52
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	52
The sex of scents	51

Human pressures modulate climate-warming-induced changes in size spectra of stream fish communities	50
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	49
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	49
Evolutionary history of an immune protein conserved across all domains of life	49
Transitions between colour mechanisms affect speciation dynamics and range distributions of birds	49
Environmental selection and epistasis in an empirical phenotype–environment–fitness landscape	48
Predicting 3D protein structures in light of evolution	48
Comparative single-cell transcriptomic analysis of primate brains highlights human-specific regulatory evolution	48
Robert L. Pressey (1953–2023)	48
Sustained high rates of morphological evolution during the rise of tetrapods	47
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	47
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	46
Eoraptor lunensis	46
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	46
Microbes as marine habitat formers and ecosystem engineers	45
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	43
Capturing stochasticity properly is key to understanding the nuances of the Living Planet Index	43
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	43
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	42
Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide	42
Canalized gene expression during development mediates caste differentiation in ants	42
A Late Devonian actinopterygian suggests high lineage survivorship across the end-Devonian mass extinction	41
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	41
Dynamics of species-rich predator–prey networks and seasonal alternations of core species	41
Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development	41
Increasing climatic decoupling of bird abundances and distributions	41
A panoply of pangenomes	41
Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold	40
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	40
Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide	40
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	40
Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds	40
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	40
Statistically learning the functional landscape of microbial communities	40
Industrial energy development decouples ungulate migration from the green wave	39
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	39
A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)	38
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	38
Warming amplifies urbanization effects on mammals	38
Convergent resistance to GABA receptor neurotoxins through plant–insect coevolution	38
Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle	37
Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes	37
Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco	37
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	36
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	36
Tripartite origin of the chordate brain	35
Biodiversity in times of conflict	35
Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology	35
Single-cell dissection of aggression in honeybee colonies	35
Extremely acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in bacteria and highly diversified archaea thriving in geothermal chaotropic brines	34
Evidence for hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diet and ecology in the Gravettian of Southern Moravia	34
The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation	34
Plasmid-encoded insertion sequences promote rapid adaptation in clinical enterobacteria	33
Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems	33
Better plans are needed for mitigating the ecological impacts of Cambodia's Funan Techo Canal	33
Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions	33
Spring comes earlier but not equally among species	33
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	33
Competition and coevolution drive the evolution and the diversification of CRISPR immunity	32
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	32
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	32
Co-evolution of interacting proteins through non-contacting and non-specific mutations	32
Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery	32
Why the geosciences are becoming increasingly vital to the interpretation of the human evolutionary record	32
Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses	31
Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes	31
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	31
Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases	31
A call to develop carbon credits for second-growth forests	31
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	31
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	31
Adaptation to climate change through dispersal and inherited timing in an avian migrant	31
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	30
National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps	30
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	30
Meta-analysis reveals that vertebrates enhance plant litter decomposition at the global scale	30
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	30
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	29
The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales	29
Five essentials for area-based biodiversity protection	29

Evidence for widespread thermal optimality of ecosystem respiration	29
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	29
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient	29
Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species	29
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	29
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	29
Ocean science and advocacy work better when decolonized	29
Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits	28
Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition	28
North African fox genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts	28
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	28
Multiple invasion routes have led to the pervasive introduction of earthworms in North America	27
African savanna raptors show evidence of widespread population collapse and a growing dependence on protected areas	27
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	27
Natural capital investments in China undermined by reclamation for cropland	27
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	27
Author Correction: Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial	27
Publisher Correction: Healing the land and the academy	27
Author Correction: Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	26
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	26
Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	26
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	26
Publisher Correction: Heavy reliance on private finance alone will not deliver conservation goals	26
Author Correction: On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks	26
Author Correction: The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales	26
Author Correction: Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice	26
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	26
Author Correction: Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	25
Ecological network complexity scales with area	25
Genomics of a sexually selected sperm ornament and female preference in Drosophila	25
Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities	25
Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host–microbiota systems	25
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	25
Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales	25
Publisher Correction: Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe	24
Migratory lifestyle carries no added overall energy cost in a partial migratory songbird	24
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	24
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour	24
Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought	24
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	24
The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks	24
Evolution alters ecological resilience	24
Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial	24
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	24
Power laws in species’ biotic interaction networks can be inferred from co-occurrence data	24
Grassland communities rapidly respond to climate change to settle climatic debts	24
Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea	24
Genomic evidence that a sexually selected trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the purging of genetic load	23
Limits to the ability of carbon farming projects to deliver benefits for threatened species	23
Gradual exacerbation of obstetric constraints during hominoid evolution implied by re-evaluation of cephalopelvic fit in chimpanzees	23
Adapting to vaccination	23
Homoploid hybrids in Heliconius	23
Plasticity and environment-specific relationships between gene expression and fitness in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	23
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants	23
Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	23
Neonatal antipredator tactics shape female movement patterns in large herbivores	22
Inferring DNA methylation in non-skeletal tissues of ancient specimens	22
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	22
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth	22
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	22
Nitrogen-fixing organelle	22
A threshold precipitation function determines when ecosystem respiration depends on water	22
Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade	22
Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections	22
Atolls are globally important sites for tropical seabirds	22
An ancestral Wnt–Brachyury feedback loop in axial patterning and recruitment of mesoderm-determining target genes	21
Pathogen evasion of social immunity	21
Tropical dry forests under threat	21
A draft bill imperils Brazilian non-forest vegetation amid climate catastrophes	21
Parallel loss of sexual reproduction in field populations of a brown alga sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the emergence of asexuality	21
John Alcock (1943–2023)	21
An older Oldowan	21
Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants	21
Reply to: Identification of old coding regions disproves the hominoid de novo status of genes	21
Blue carbon for climate and co-benefits	21
Islands of diversity	21
Mycorrhizae mediate diversity effects	20
Spatial models of giant pandas under current and future conditions reveal extinction risks	20
New Asian hominin	20
No pervasive relationship between species size and local abundance trends	20
Disentangling biology from mathematical necessity in twentieth-century gymnosperm resilience trends	20
Rare and declining bird species benefit most from designating protected areas for conservation in the UK	20
Eleanor Jane Sterling (1960–2023)	20
Deeply tangled evolution	20
Reforming social genetics	20
A complicated character	19
Alerts protect forests	19
Richard S. Gomulkiewicz (1962–2023)	19
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	19
Beyond English language	19
Life finds a way	19
The wilderness myth	19
Predation drives diversity	19
Ecological recipes for selecting community function	18
Footprint beds record Holocene decline in large mammal diversity on the Irish Sea coast of Britain	18