Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	507
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	408
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	248
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	212
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	179
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	170
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	164
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	159
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	154
Evolution alters ecological resilience	153
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	145
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	140
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	138
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	136
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	136
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	133
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	128
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	127
Multicellularity for free	122
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	122
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)	118
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	115
Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas	115
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	113
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	112

Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	112
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	111
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	110
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	109
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	105
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	101
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	101
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	100
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	98
Sea change	97
Old fish debate settled	97
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	96
Several ways to balance sex differences	96
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	94
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	94
John Alcock (1943–2023)	94
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	94
Spotlight on our AI policies	93
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	86
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	86
A complicated character	85
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	83
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	83
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	83
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	80
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	79
A blueprint for assessing national progress towards ‘30 by 30’	78
Hidden patterns in fauna compensation values in European biodiversity legislation	78
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	76
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	75
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	73
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	71
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	71
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	71
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	71
Mapping where marine megafauna move	71
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	70
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	70
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	70
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	69
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	69
Worn down by the weather	69
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	68
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	67
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	67
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	67
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	67
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	66
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	65
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	65

Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	64
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	64
Action on ambition	64
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	64
Uphill urbanization	62
Niches beyond borders	62
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	62
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	60
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	60
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	60
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	59
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups	58
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	57
Missing planktivore functions drive global variation in reef fish productivity	56
Costs and benefits of primate group size shift under varying climate regimes	56
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts	56
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	56
Larger forest patches have greater per-area productivity	56
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	55
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	55
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	54
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	54
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	53
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	52
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	52
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	52
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	51
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	51
Cetacean cooperation	51
Foregone uptake	51
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	51
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	50
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	50
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	50
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	49
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	49
A clock for clonal organisms	49
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	49
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	48
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	48
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	48
Leaf-like butterflies	48
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	48
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	48
No refuge for Amazon birds	48
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	48
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	47
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	47
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	47
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	47
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	46
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	46
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	46
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	46
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	45
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	45
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	45
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	45
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	45
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	45
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	45
Reply to: A case definition with microscopy would help establish Vibrio as a cause of sea star wasting disease	45
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	44
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	44
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	44
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	44
Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches	44
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	44
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	44
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	43
Planting for posterity	43
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	43
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	43
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	43
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	42
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	42
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	42
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	42
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	42
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	42

Diversification dynamics at scale	42
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	42
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	42
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	42
Mines aren’t on the maps	41
Decoding cnidarian cell type gene regulation	40
Sound science	40
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	39
Author Correction: Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	39
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	39
Stability depends on climate extremes	38
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	38
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	37
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	37
Molecular evidence from xenacoelomorph gonopore formation supports homology with the bilaterian anus	37
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	37
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	37
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	36
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	36
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	36
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	36
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	36
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	36
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	36
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks	36
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	36
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	35
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	35
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	35
Don’t dismiss dirt	35
Tree shapes	35
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	35
Exaggerated effects in ecology	34
Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time	34
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	34
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	34
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	34
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	34
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	34
Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician	34
Severe winter storms bring severe population changes	34
Direct benefits are not necessary for the evolution of multicellularity	34
Evolution in medicine	34
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	33
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	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
Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments	33
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	33
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	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
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	33
A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass	32
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	32
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	32
Mitigating a mine	31
The sex of scents	31
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	31
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	31
On our (children’s) bookshelf	31
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	31
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	30
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	30
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	30
The social dimension of microbial niches	30
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	30
Discrepancies between observations and models highlight how to improve predictions	30
When local arthropod biomass declines, every species counts	30
Accessibility for all	30
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	29
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	29
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	29
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	29
Drivers of same-sex sexual behaviour	29
Rodents’ rule of thumb	29
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	28
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	28
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people	28
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	28
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	28
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	28
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	28
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	28
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades	28
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	28
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	27
Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community	27
Bird sternum evolution facilitated the origins of powered flight	27
Snakes’ tape of life	27
Gimme shelter	27
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover	27
An older Oldowan	27
Warming enhances soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands	27
Tropical dry forests under threat	27
A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life	27