Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife	365
Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land	347
Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems	333
Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution	225
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade	216
A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night	199
Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat	197
Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology	184
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	172
Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond	169
Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data	149
Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems	148
Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water	144
Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests	142
Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism	133
Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets	130
Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought	129
The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families	126
Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities	125
No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites	123
Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome	119
Global targets that reveal the social–ecological interdependencies of sustainable development	118
Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification	118
Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change	114
The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity	113

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning	107
Behavioural plasticity is associated with reduced extinction risk in birds	104
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	103
Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming	100
Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy	99
Metagenome-wide association analysis identifies microbial determinants of post-antibiotic ecological recovery in the gut	98
Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity	97
Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people	93
A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications	90
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation	89
Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time	88
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic	88
Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement	87
Exacerbated drought impacts on global ecosystems due to structural overshoot	87
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them	86
Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping	86
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass	86
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	85
A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria	84
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation	83
Balancing selection maintains hyper-divergent haplotypes in Caenorhabditis elegans	83
ACE2 receptor usage reveals variation in susceptibility to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection among bat species	82
The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants	81
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	79
An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas	79
Biogeography of marine giant viruses reveals their interplay with eukaryotes and ecological functions	77
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	76
Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability	75
Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale	75
Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria	73
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	73
Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests	72
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	71
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	71
Scientific foundations for an ecosystem goal, milestones and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	70
Resource–diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism	70
Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities	69
Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15	69
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene	68
The evolution of oxygen-utilizing enzymes suggests early biosphere oxygenation	68
Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews	67
On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks	66
Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions	66
Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management	65
Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome	65
Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass	64
Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery	64
The evolution of niche overlap and competitive differences	63
The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates	62
A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change	62

A forest loss report card for the world’s protected areas	61
Timing the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity with ancient duplications	60
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	60
Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants	59
Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders	59
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	58
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs	58
Gradual evolution of allopolyploidy in Arabidopsis suecica	58
The evolutionary genomics of species’ responses to climate change	57
Metabolomic signatures of coral bleaching history	57
Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions despite multiple stressors on coral reefs	56
The Y chromosome may contribute to sex-specific ageing in Drosophila	56
Coevolution of host–plasmid pairs facilitates the emergence of novel multidrug resistance	55
Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria	55
Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts	55
Global biogeography of marine dispersal potential	54
Ten recent insights for our understanding of cooperation	54
A theoretical analysis of tumour containment	54
Integrating agroecological production in a robust post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	54
Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures	53
Engineering complex communities by directed evolution	53
Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts	53
Evolutionary origins of genomic adaptations in an invasive copepod	52
Soil-microorganism-mediated invasional meltdown in plants	51
Genome-wide analysis of the Firmicutes illuminates the diderm/monoderm transition	51
Correlational selection in the age of genomics	50
Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid	50
A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests	49
Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts	49
Maximum levels of global phylogenetic diversity efficiently capture plant services for humankind	49
Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution	48
Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history	48
Selection of metastasis competent subclones in the tumour interior	48
Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria	48
A geometric basis for surface habitat complexity and biodiversity	47
Adaptation to low parasite abundance affects immune investment and immunopathological responses of cavefish	47
Individual species provide multifaceted contributions to the stability of ecosystems	47
Idiosyncratic epistasis creates universals in mutational effects and evolutionary trajectories	47
The severity and extent of the Australia 2019–20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management	47
Knockout of crustacean leg patterning genes suggests that insect wings and body walls evolved from ancient leg segments	46
Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition	46
Empirical support for the biogeochemical niche hypothesis in forest trees	46
Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments	46
Metabolic fitness landscapes predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance	46
Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide	46
Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants	45
Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems	45
Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale	45
Management implications of long transients in ecological systems	44
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	44
Commensal Pseudomonas strains facilitate protective response against pathogens in the host plant	44
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	43
Facilitative priority effects drive parasite assembly under coinfection	43
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	43
A decade to study deep-sea life	43
Urban biodiversity management using evolutionary tools	42
Academic leaders must support inclusive scientific communities during COVID-19	42
Determinants of genetic variation across eco-evolutionary scales in pinnipeds	42
Chaos is not rare in natural ecosystems	41
Decadal changes in fire frequencies shift tree communities and functional traits	41
Retreat of large carnivores across the giant panda distribution range	40
Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales	40
Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades	39
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity	39
The position of Australopithecus sediba within fossil hominin hand use diversity	39
Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces	38
Ecological pest control fortifies agricultural growth in Asia–Pacific economies	38
Mutation load is the spectre of species conservation	38
Echolocation at high intensity imposes metabolic costs on flying bats	38
Male swarming aggregation pheromones increase female attraction and mating success among multiple African malaria vector mosquito species	38
Selection against archaic hominin genetic variation in regulatory regions	38
Urgent need for an integrated policy framework for biodiversity loss and climate change	38
A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems	38
Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19	38
A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting	37
Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression	37
Spontaneous cell fusions as a mechanism of parasexual recombination in tumour cell populations	37
Fertilization mode drives sperm length evolution across the animal tree of life	37
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	37
Concerted genomic and epigenomic changes accompany stabilization of Arabidopsis allopolyploids	37

Meta-analysis reveals that animal sexual signalling behaviour is honest and resource based	37
Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species	36
Intra- and interpopulation transposition of mobile genetic elements driven by antibiotic selection	36
Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia	36
Vibrational modes of water predict spectral niches for photosynthesis in lakes and oceans	35
The need for an evolutionary approach to ecotoxicology	35
The population sizes and global extinction risk of reef-building coral species at biogeographic scales	35
Strategies and support for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in ecology and evolutionary biology	35
Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up	35
The genome of Nautilus pompilius illuminates eye evolution and biomineralization	35
Habitat loss and range shifts contribute to ecological generalization among reef fishes	35
Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal–modern human turnover in southern Italy	34
Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations	34
Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics	34
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient	34
Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record	34
Animals, protists and bacteria share marine biogeographic patterns	33
Remote spectral detection of biodiversity effects on forest biomass	33
Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets	33
Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic	33
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands at 50	33
Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines	32
Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host–microbiota systems	32
Neanderthal introgression reintroduced functional ancestral alleles lost in Eurasian populations	32
Ecological network complexity scales with area	32
Epimutations driven by small RNAs arise frequently but most have limited duration in Caenorhabditis elegans	32
Bottleneck size and selection level reproducibly impact evolution of antibiotic resistance	32
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	31
Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts	31
Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought	31
Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes	31
Host use diversification during range shifts shapes global variation in Lepidopteran dietary breadth	31
Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle	31
Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests	31
Species multidimensional effects explain idiosyncratic responses of communities to environmental change	31
Rapid evolutionary dynamics of an expanding family of meiotic drive factors and their hpRNA suppressors	31
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	30
Host diversity slows bacteriophage adaptation by selecting generalists over specialists	30
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila	30
Stromal reactivity differentially drives tumour cell evolution and prostate cancer progression	29
Lockdowns due to COVID-19 threaten PhD students’ and early-career researchers’ careers	29
Molecular mechanisms of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions in a plant–pollinator association	29
Guidelines for healthy global scientific collaborations	29
A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation	29
Extreme Y chromosome polymorphism corresponds to five male reproductive morphs of a freshwater fish	29
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	28
Predation risk constrains herbivores’ adaptive capacity to warming	28
Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees’ pesticide risk	28
Eco-evolutionary interaction between microbiome presence and rapid biofilm evolution determines plant host fitness	28
Improving sex and gender identity equity and inclusion at conservation and ecology conferences	28
Spatial patterns of tumour growth impact clonal diversification in a computational model and the TRACERx Renal study	28
Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial	28
Phosphorus fertilization is eradicating the niche of northern Eurasia’s threatened plant species	28
Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds	28
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities	27
Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution	27
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour	27
Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species	27
Inbreeding depression explains killer whale population dynamics	27
Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture	27
Sugars dominate the seagrass rhizosphere	27
Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world	27
A meta-analysis reveals edge effects within marine protected areas	26
Comparative genome anatomy reveals evolutionary insights into a unique amphitriploid fish	26
Taxonomy must engage with new technologies and evolve to face future challenges	26
Amazon tree dominance across forest strata	26
Potential negative effects of ocean afforestation on offshore ecosystems	26
A genome-wide investigation of the effect of farming and human-mediated introduction on the ubiquitous seaweed Undaria pinnatifida	26
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	26
An early origin of iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis machineries before Earth oxygenation	26
Two sets of candidate crustacean wing homologues and their implication for the origin of insect wings	26
A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution	26
Benthic composition changes on coral reefs at global scales	25
Improving pesticide-use data for the EU	25
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	25
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	25
Meta-analytic evidence that animals rarely avoid inbreeding	25
Ancient homomorphy of molluscan sex chromosomes sustained by reversible sex-biased genes and sex determiner translocation	25
Convergent molecular evolution among ash species resistant to the emerald ash borer	25
Experimental manipulation of microbiota reduces host thermal tolerance and fitness under heat stress in a vertebrate ectotherm	25
A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth	25
Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities	25
A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins	24
Current levels of microplastic pollution impact wild seabird gut microbiomes	24
Nutrition-responsive gene expression and the developmental evolution of insect polyphenism	24
Dog colour patterns explained by modular promoters of ancient canid origin	24
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	24
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	24
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients	24
Seasonal variation in UVA light drives hormonal and behavioural changes in a marine annelid via a ciliary opsin	24
Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature	24
Self-disseminating vaccines to suppress zoonoses	23
Rib cage anatomy in Homo erectus suggests a recent evolutionary origin of modern human body shape	23
Co-evolution of interacting proteins through non-contacting and non-specific mutations	23
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability	23