Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Falcon flyways	299
Ocean science and advocacy work better when decolonized	265
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	219
Eoraptor lunensis	189
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	175
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	163
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	161
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	161
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	155
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	155
Evolution alters ecological resilience	146
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	136
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	133
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	133
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	131
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	123
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	122
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	121
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	116
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	116
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	108
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	104
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	100
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	99
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	96

Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	95
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	94
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	91
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	86
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	86
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	85
Sea change	85
Predation drives diversity	83
The wilderness myth	83
A decisive decade	81
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	79
Old fish debate settled	79
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	75
Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease	75
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	74
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	73
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	71
John Alcock (1943–2023)	71
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	70
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	69
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	68
Evolution of cod supergenes	68
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	68
Author Correction: Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	67
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	67
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	65
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	65
A complicated character	65
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	65
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	64
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	64
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	64
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	64
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	63
The journey of bacterial genes	63
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	62
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	62
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	59
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	59
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	58
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	58
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	58
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	57
Niches beyond borders	57
Author Correction: Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Māori lens	56
The genome of Nautilus pompilius illuminates eye evolution and biomineralization	56
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	56
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	56
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	56

Fertilization mode drives sperm length evolution across the animal tree of life	54
Density-dependent genes	53
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	53
Worn down by the weather	52
Amoebas innovate	52
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	51
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	51
Action on ambition	51
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	51
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	50
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	50
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	49
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	49
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	49
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	49
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	49
Cetacean cooperation	48
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	48
Foregone uptake	48
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	48
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	47
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	46
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	46
Madagascan megafrugivores	45
Wrangling rabies	45
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	45
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	45
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	45
A clock for clonal organisms	45
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	45
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	45
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	45
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	45
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	44
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	43
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	43
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	42
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	42
Leaf-like butterflies	42
No refuge for Amazon birds	42
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	42
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	42
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	41
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	41
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	41
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	40
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	40
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	40
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	40
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	40
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	40
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	40
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	39
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	39
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	39
Handle nature’s contributions with care	38
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	38
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	38
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	38
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	38
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	38
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	37
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	37
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	37
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	37
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	37
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	36
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	36
Planting for posterity	36
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	36
A meta-analysis reveals edge effects within marine protected areas	35
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event	35
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	35
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	35
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	34
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	34
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	34
Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria	34
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	34
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	34

Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	34
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	34
Vulnerable reefs	34
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	33
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	33
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	33
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	33
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	33
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	33
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	32
Don’t dismiss dirt	32
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	32
Exaggerated effects in ecology	31
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	31
Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies	31
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	31
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	30
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	30
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	30
Evolution of lizard viviparity	30
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	30
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	30
A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe	30
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	30
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	30
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	30
Animal power	29
On our (children’s) bookshelf	29
Fossilized ethics	29
The social dimension of microbial niches	29
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	29
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	28
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	28
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	28
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	28
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	28
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	28
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	28
Mitigating a mine	28
Ignoring species hybrids in the IUCN Red List assessments for African elephants may bias conservation policy	28
The sex of scents	28
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	27
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	27
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	27
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	27
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	27
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	27
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	27
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	27
National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps	27
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	27
Mating increases Drosophila melanogaster females’ choosiness by reducing olfactory sensitivity to a male pheromone	27
Islands of diversity	26
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	26
Tropical dry forests under threat	26
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	26
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	26
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	26
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	26
Gimme shelter	25
Author Correction: Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	25
Integrate geographic scales in equity, diversity and inclusion	25
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability	25
Innate immune pathways act synergistically to constrain RNA virus evolution in Drosophila melanogaster	25
Snakes’ tape of life	25
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila	25
Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur	25
Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics	25
An older Oldowan	25
Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations	25
Allorecognition genes drive reproductive isolation in Podospora anserina	25
Reply to: Empirical pressure-response relations can benefit assessment of safe operating spaces	25
The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation	25
Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks	24
Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression	24
Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community	24
Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil viromes	24
Shifting needs to safeguard diversity	24
Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world	24
The limits of acoustic indices	24
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity	24
Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities	24
To cull or kill	24
J. Philip Grime (1935–2021)	24
Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts	24
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation	24
Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable	24
Evolutionary determinants of curability in cancer	24
Toxin rescue by a random sequence	24
Comparative genomics uncover the evolutionary history of butterfly and moth chromosomes	23
Author Correction: Global plant–symbiont organization and emergence of biogeochemical cycles resolved by evolution-based trait modelling	23
Jury remains out on decline of non-avian dinosaurs	23
Tiger protection brings carbon benefits	23
Indigenous-led recovery	23