Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Falcon flyways	267
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	204
Eoraptor lunensis	198
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	182
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	177
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	172
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	165
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	165
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	154
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	152
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	125
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	119
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	114
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	113
Evolution alters ecological resilience	112
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	109
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	107
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	106
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	105
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	99
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	97
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	97
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	95
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	93
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	92

Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	90
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	90
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	89
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	89
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	88
Sea change	86
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	83
The wilderness myth	82
Predation drives diversity	81
Old fish debate settled	80
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	78
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	78
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	77
John Alcock (1943–2023)	77
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	77
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	76
Evolution of cod supergenes	76
A complicated character	74
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	74
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	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
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	71
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	71
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	70
A decisive decade	69
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	69
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	68
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	68
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	65
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	64
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	64
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	64
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	62
The journey of bacterial genes	62
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	61
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	61
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	60
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	60
Niches beyond borders	59
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	57
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	57
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	57
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	57
Amoebas innovate	56
Action on ambition	56
Density-dependent genes	56
Worn down by the weather	56
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	56
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	55

Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	55
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	54
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	54
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	54
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	54
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	54
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	53
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	53
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	53
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	53
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	52
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	51
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	51
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	51
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	50
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	50
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	50
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	48
Cetacean cooperation	48
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	48
Foregone uptake	48
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	47
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	47
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	47
Wrangling rabies	46
Madagascan megafrugivores	46
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	45
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	44
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	44
A clock for clonal organisms	44
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	44
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	44
Leaf-like butterflies	43
No refuge for Amazon birds	43
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	42
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	42
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	42
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	42
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	42
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	42
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	41
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	41
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	41
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	41
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	40
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	40
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	40
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	40
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	40
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	40
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	40
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	39
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	39
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	38
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	37
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	37
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	37
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	37
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	37
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	37
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	37
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	36
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	36
Planting for posterity	36
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	36
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	36
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	36
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	36
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	36
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	36
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	35
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	35
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	35
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	35
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	35
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	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
Mines aren’t on the maps	34

The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	34
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	34
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	34
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	33
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	33
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	33
Vulnerable reefs	33
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	33
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	33
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	33
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	32
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	32
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	32
Don’t dismiss dirt	32
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	32
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	32
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	32
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	32
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	32
Evolution of lizard viviparity	32
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	31
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	31
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	31
Exaggerated effects in ecology	31
Tree shapes	31
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	31
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	31
A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe	31
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	31
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	30
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	30
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	30
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	30
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	30
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	30
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	29
On our (children’s) bookshelf	29
Mitigating a mine	29
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	29
Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies	29
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	29
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	29
Animal power	29
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	29
The social dimension of microbial niches	29
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	29
The sex of scents	29
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	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
Accessibility for all	28
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	28
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	28
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	28
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	28
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	27
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	27
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	27
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	27
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	27
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	27
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	27
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	27
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	27
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	27
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	27
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	27
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	27
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	26
Islands of diversity	26
Snakes’ tape of life	26
An older Oldowan	26
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	26
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	26
Tropical dry forests under threat	26
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	26
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	26
Gimme shelter	26
Inductive link prediction facilitates the discovery of missing links and enables cross-community inference in ecological networks	26
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila	25
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability	25
A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life	25
Bird sternum evolution facilitated the origins of powered flight	25
The limits of acoustic indices	25
Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression	25
Allorecognition genes drive reproductive isolation in Podospora anserina	25
Integrate geographic scales in equity, diversity and inclusion	25
Enlargement of sternum traits facilitated the evolution of powered flight in birds	25
Innate immune pathways act synergistically to constrain RNA virus evolution in Drosophila melanogaster	24
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity	24
Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus)	24
Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks	24
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation	24
Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles	24