Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	482
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	388
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	241
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	227
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	226
Multicellularity for free	201
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	174
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	165
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	160
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	155
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	151
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	149
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	143
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	135
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	134
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	134
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	130
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	126
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	126
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	125
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	120
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	114
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	114
Evolution alters ecological resilience	112
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	111

Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	111
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	109
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	108
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	106
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	105
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	104
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	103
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	99
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	97
Old fish debate settled	96
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	96
Sea change	96
Several ways to balance sex differences	94
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	93
John Alcock (1943–2023)	92
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	91
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	91
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	90
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	89
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	88
Spotlight on our AI policies	88
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	86
A complicated character	84
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	82
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	80
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	79
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	78
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	77
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	77
Mapping where marine megafauna move	77
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	75
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	74
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	74
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	73
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	72
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	69
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	68
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	68
Worn down by the weather	68
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	67
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	66
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	66
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	66
Action on ambition	66
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	66
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	65
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	65
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	64
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	64

Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	64
Niches beyond borders	64
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	64
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	63
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	63
Missing planktivore functions drive global variation in reef fish productivity	63
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	62
Uphill urbanization	62
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	61
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	61
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups	60
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	60
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	59
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	57
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	57
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	56
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	55
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts	55
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	55
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	55
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	54
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	54
Foregone uptake	53
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	53
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	51
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	51
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	51
Cetacean cooperation	51
Wrangling rabies	51
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	51
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	51
A clock for clonal organisms	50
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	50
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	50
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	50
No refuge for Amazon birds	49
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	48
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	48
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	48
Leaf-like butterflies	48
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	48
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	48
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	48
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	48
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	48
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	47
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	47
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	47
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	47
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	47
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	47
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	47
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	47
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	46
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	45
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	45
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	45
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	45
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	45
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	45
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	44
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	44
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	44
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	44
Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches	44
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	43
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	43
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	43
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	43
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	43
Planting for posterity	43
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	42
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	42
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	42
Diversification dynamics at scale	42
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	42
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	42
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	42
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	41
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	41

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