American Naturalist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Naturalist is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assortative Mating in Hybrid Zones Is Remarkably Ineffective in Promoting Speciation76
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling63
Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification55
Patterns, Predictors, and Consequences of Dominance in Hybrids43
Survival Benefits of Group Living in a Fluctuating Environment36
Timing Metabolic Depression: Predicting Thermal Stress in Extreme Intertidal Environments33
Frequency of Occurrence and Population-Dynamic Consequences of Different Forms of Density-Dependent Emigration33
The Genetic Architecture of Fitness Drives Population Viability during Rapid Environmental Change32
Species Differences in Phenology Shape Coexistence32
Metabolic Rate Interacts with Resource Availability to Determine Individual Variation in Microhabitat Use in the Wild31
The Origin and Spread of Locally Adaptive Seasonal Camouflage in Snowshoe Hares29
Australian Rodents Reveal Conserved Cranial Evolutionary Allometry across 10 Million Years of Murid Evolution27
The Benefits of Help in Cooperative Birds: Nonexistent or Difficult to Detect?26
Selection and Constraints in the Ecomorphological Adaptive Evolution of the Skull of Living Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)26
Where Is Natural History in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Science?25
Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays25
How Long Does It Take to Fix a Favorable Mutation, and Why Should We Care?25
Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient24
Dispersal Predicts Hybrid Zone Widths across Animal Diversity: Implications for Species Borders under Incomplete Reproductive Isolation24
The Minimum Environmental Perturbation Principle: A New Perspective on Niche Theory24
The Ecology of Individual Differences Empirically Applied to Space-Use and Movement Tactics24
Moving beyond the “Diversity Paradox”: The Limitations of Competition-Based Frameworks in Understanding Species Diversity23
Ecology and Evolution of Blood Oxygen-Carrying Capacity in Birds23
Miniaturization, Genome Size, and Biological Size in a Diverse Clade of Salamanders23
Effect of Stressors on the Carrying Capacity of Spatially Distributed Metapopulations23
Movement and Seasonal Energetics Mediate Vulnerability to Disturbance in Marine Mammal Populations23
Complex Relationship between Tunneling Patterns and Individual Behaviors in Termites22
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity22
The Contribution of Genetic and Environmental Effects to Bergmann’s Rule and Allen’s Rule in House Mice22
Daily Nest Predation Rates Decrease with Body Size in Passerine Birds22
Microgeography, Not Just Latitude, Drives Climate Overlap on Mountains from Tropical to Polar Ecosystems21
Identifying “Useful” Fitness Models: Balancing the Benefits of Added Complexity with Realistic Data Requirements in Models of Individual Plant Fitness21
Rethinking Gloger’s Rule: Climate, Light Environments, and Color in a Large Family of Tropical Birds (Furnariidae)21
Multiple Environmental Stressors Induce an Adaptive Maternal Effect20
Host Transcriptional Responses to High- and Low-Virulent Avian Malaria Parasites20
Janzen-Connell Effects Are a Weak Impediment to Competitive Exclusion20
Amphibian Speciation Rates Support a General Role of Mountains as Biodiversity Pumps20
Observed Ecological Communities Are Formed by Species Combinations That Are among the Most Likely to Persist under Changing Environments20
Climate Change and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Activity Time in Mammals19
Phenotypic Plasticity for Desiccation Resistance, Climate Change, and Future Species Distributions: Will Plasticity Have Much Impact?19
Model Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: A Call for Diversity in Our Model Systems and Discipline19
Aging and Senescence across Reproductive Traits and Survival in Superb Fairy-Wrens (Malurus cyaneus)19
Hybridization and the Coexistence of Species18
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps18
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum18
Adaptation and Latitudinal Gradients in Species Interactions: Nest Predation in Birds17
Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success17
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists17
The Complexity of Social Complexity: A Quantitative Multidimensional Approach for Studies of Social Organization17
Revisiting the Role of Hyperparasitism in the Evolution of Virulence17
Fitness Costs of Parasites Explain Multiple Life-History Trade-Offs in a Wild Mammal17
Relative Brain Size Is Predicted by the Intensity of Intrasexual Competition in Frogs17
When and Where We Can Expect to See Early Warning Signals in Multispecies Systems Approaching Tipping Points: Insights from Theory17
Niche Theory for Mutualism: A Graphical Approach to Plant-Pollinator Network Dynamics16
Frugivory Specialization in Birds and Fruit Chemistry Structure Mutualistic Networks across the Neotropics16
Mechanisms for Color Convergence in a Mimetic Radiation of Poison Frogs16
Infection Status as the Basis for Habitat Choices in a Wild Amphibian16
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)16
Deconstructing the Impact of Malaria Vector Diversity on Disease Risk16
Models for Eco-Evolutionary Extinction Vortices under Balancing Selection16
Positively and Negatively Autocorrelated Environmental Fluctuations Have Opposing Effects on Species Coexistence16
Parental Age Effects and the Evolution of Senescence15
Ecological Transitions in Grouping Benefits Explain the Paradox of Environmental Quality and Sociality15
Male-Male Competition Causes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection for Local Adaptation15
Virulent Disease Epidemics Can Increase Host Density by Depressing Foraging of Hosts15
Understanding the Social Dynamics of Breeding Phenology: Indirect Genetic Effects and Assortative Mating in a Long-Distance Migrant15
Temperature-Dependent Competitive Outcomes between the Fruit FliesDrosophila santomeaandDrosophila yakuba15
The Effect of the Recombination Rate between Adaptive Loci on the Capacity of a Population to Expand Its Range15
An Empiricist’s Guide to Using Ecological Theory14
The Context-Dependent Effects of Host Competence, Competition, and Pathogen Transmission Mode on Disease Prevalence14
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere14
State-Dependent Decision-Making by Predators and Its Consequences for Mimicry14
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny14
Prey Exploits the Auditory Illusions of Eavesdropping Predators14
Ecological Drivers of Carnivoran Body Shape Evolution14
Fledging Mass Is Color Morph Specific and Affects Local Recruitment in a Wild Bird14
Context-Dependent Reproductive Isolation: Host Plant Variability Drives Fitness of Hybrid Herbivores14
Magnitude and Predictability of pH Fluctuations Shape Plastic Responses to Ocean Acidification14
Oxidative Stress Experienced during Early Development Influences the Offspring Phenotype14
Soil Microbes Generate Stronger Fitness Differences than Stabilization among California Annual Plants13
Accelerated Brain Shape Evolution Is Associated with Rapid Diversification in an Avian Radiation13
Disentangling Niche Theory and Beta Diversity Change13
Burying Beetle Parents Adaptively Manipulate Information Broadcast from a Microbial Community13
Within Reach? Habitat Availability as a Function of Individual Mobility and Spatial Structuring13
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality13
Selection for Rhythm as a Trigger for Recursive Evolution in the Elaborate Display System of Woodpeckers13
The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning13
A Common Endocrine Signature Marks the Convergent Evolution of an Elaborate Dance Display in Frogs13
Dispersal Increases the Resilience of Tropical Savanna and Forest Distributions13
Repeated Genetic and Adaptive Phenotypic Divergence across Tidal Elevation in a Foundation Plant Species13
Virulence Evolution of Pathogens That Can Grow in Reservoir Environments12
Demographic History, Not Mating System, Explains Signatures of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression in a Large Outbred Population12
Evolutionary Pathways to Communal and Cooperative Breeding in Carnivores12
Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities12
Evolution of Reproduction Periods in Seasonal Environments12
Sexual Dichromatism Is Decoupled from Diversification over Deep Time in Fishes12
Transformational Mimicry in a Myrmecomorphic Spider12
Age-Related Brood Parasitism and Egg Rejection in Magpie Hosts12
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids12
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators12
Parental Population Range Expansion before Secondary Contact Promotes Heterosis12
Defensive Symbiosis and the Evolution of Virulence12
The Allometry of Sound Frequency Bandwidth in Songbirds12
Fish, People, and Systems of Power: Understanding and Disrupting Feedback between Colonialism and Fisheries Science12
The Shapes of Birds’ Eggs: Evolutionary Constraints and Adaptations11
Natural Selection and the Evolution of Asynchronous Aging11
The Size, Symmetry, and Color Saturation of a Male Guppy’s Ornaments Forecast His Resistance to Parasites11
The Use and Underuse of Model Systems in Infectious Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Biology11
Rapid Range Expansion of a Marine Ectotherm Reveals the Demographic and Ecological Consequences of Short-Term Variability in Seawater Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen11
Is Evolution in Response to Extreme Events Good for Population Persistence?11
Individual-Level Memory Is Sufficient to Create Spatial Segregation among Neighboring Colonies of Central Place Foragers11
Climate Change–Driven Regime Shifts in a Planktonic Food Web11
Experimental Hybridization Studies Suggest That Pleiotropic Alleles Commonly Underlie Adaptive Divergence between Natural Populations11
Holobiont Evolution: Population Theory for the Hologenome11
Reproductive Character Displacement in Genital Morphology in Ohomopterus Ground Beetles10
Ant Collective Behavior Is Heritable and Shaped by Selection10
A New Diploid Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard from Sonora, Mexico, Is the “Missing Link” in the Evolutionary Transition to Polyploidy10
More or Less? The Effect of Symbiont Density in Protective Mutualisms10
Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity10
Predicting Multivariate Responses of Sexual Dimorphism to Direct and Indirect Selection10
Environmental Change, If Unaccounted, Prevents Detection of Cryptic Evolution in a Wild Population10
Abiotic Niche Divergence of Hybrid Species from Their Progenitors10
Partner Fidelity and Asymmetric Specialization in Ecological Networks10
Parasitism Risk and Infection Alter Host Dispersal10
Shifts in Reproductive Investment in Response to Competitors Lower Male Reproductive Success10
High Preservation Potential of Paleogeographic Range Size Distributions in Deep Time10
Individual Specialization and Multihost Epidemics: Disease Spread in Plant-Pollinator Networks9
Revisiting a Landmark Study System: No Evidence for a Punctuated Mode of Evolution inMetrarabdotos9
Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a Path to Complex Multicellularity9
Proximate Causes of Infertility and Embryo Mortality in Captive Zebra Finches9
Pollinator-Mediated Indirect Effects on Plant Fecundity Revealed by Network Indices9
Did Mammals Bring the First Mistletoes into the Treetops?9
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution9
Dispersal Alters the Nature and Scope of Sexually Antagonistic Variation9
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery9
Resource Competition and Host Feedbacks Underlie Regime Shifts in Gut Microbiota9
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths9
Conservation and Convergence of Genetic Architecture in the Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards9
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion9
Trade-Offs with Growth Limit Host Range in Complex Life-Cycle Helminths9
Differences in Thermal Tolerance between Parental Species Could Fuel Thermal Adaptation in Hybrid Wood Ants9
How Dispersal Evolution and Local Adaptation Affect the Range Dynamics of Species Lagging Behind Climate Change8
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny8
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data8
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change8
Combining Climatic and Genomic Data Improves Range-Wide Tree Height Growth Prediction in a Forest Tree8
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities ofClarkiaSpecies: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement8
Synchrony and Perturbation Transmission in Trophic Metacommunities8
Elder Barn Owl Nestlings Flexibly Redistribute Parental Food according to Siblings’ Need or in Return for Allopreening8
Looking for Mimicry in a Snake Assemblage Using Deep Learning8
Coping with Danger and Deception: Lessons from Signal Detection Theory8
Mating Preference for Novel Phenotypes Can Be Explained by General Neophilia in Female Guppies8
Climate Shapes the Geographic Distribution and Introgressive Spread of Color Ornamentation in Common Wall Lizards8
A Theoretical Framework for Trait-Based Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Population Structure, Intraspecific Variation, and Community Assembly8
Common Field Data Limitations Can Substantially Bias Sexual Selection Metrics8
Civil War Is Associated with Longer Escape Distances among Sri Lankan Birds8
Floral Trait Evolution of Angiosperms on Pacific Islands8
Infanticide by Females Is a Leading Source of Juvenile Mortality in a Large Social Carnivore8
Increased Levels of Perceived Competition Decrease Juvenile Kin-Shoaling Preferences in a Cichlid Fish8
Diversification or Collapse of Self-Incompatibility Haplotypes as a Rescue Process8
Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped This Special Section8
Investigating the Dynamics of Elk Population Size and Body Mass in a Seasonal Environment Using a Mechanistic Integral Projection Model8
Caching in or Falling Back at the Sevilleta: The Effects of Body Size and Seasonal Uncertainty on Desert Rodent Foraging7
Correlated Evolution of Sex Allocation and Mating System in Wrasses and Parrotfishes7
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations7
Plantagospp. as Models for Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Species Interactions across Environmental Gradients7
Hybridization Outcomes Have Strong Genomic and Environmental Contingencies7
Selection of Floral Traits by Pollinators and Seed Predators during Sequential Life History Stages7
A Comparative Test for Divergent Adaptation: Inferring Speciation Drivers from Functional Trait Divergence7
Reproductive Character Displacement Drives Diversification of Male Courtship Songs in Drosophila7
The Effect of Habitat Choice on Evolutionary Rescue in Subdivided Populations7
Mammal Community Structure through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum7
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output7
Annual Schedule Adjustment by a Long-Distance Migratory Bird7
Natural Selection on Adults Has Trait-Dependent Consequences for Juvenile Evolution in Dragonflies7
Experimental Evidence That Phenotypic Evolution but Not Plasticity Occurs along Genetic Lines of Least Resistance in Homogeneous Environments7
Coevolutionary Arms Races and the Conditions for the Maintenance of Mutualism7
The Potential Beneficial Effects of Vaccination on Antigenically Evolving Pathogens7
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?7
Evolution of Anisogamy in Organisms with Parthenogenetic Gametes7
Host Plant Choice Determined by Reproductive Interference between Closely Related Butterflies7
The Temporal Dimension of Plant-Soil Microbe Interactions: Mechanisms Promoting Feedback between Generations7
Can Sensory Drive Explain the Evolution of Visual Signal Diversity in Terrestrial Species? A Test with Anolis Lizards7
Snared in an Evil Time: How Age-Dependent Environmental and Demographic Variability Contribute to Variance in Lifetime Outcomes7
Maintenance of Metabolic Plasticity despite Relaxed Selection in a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli7
Rethinking Habitat Occupancy Modeling and the Role of Diel Activity in an Anthropogenic World7
Comparison of Categorical Color Perception in Two Estrildid Finches7
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence7
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat7
Carnivore Niche Partitioning in a Human Landscape7
Fish Avoid Visually Noisy Environments Where Prey Targeting Is Reduced7
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals7
Pulse and Press Disturbances Have Different Effects on Transient Community Dynamics7
Cheating in Mutualisms Promotes Diversity and Complexity7
Density-Dependent and Species-Specific Effects on Self-Organization Modulate the Resistance of Mussel Bed Ecosystems to Hydrodynamic Stress7
Emergent Shapes of Trait-Based Competition Functions from Resource-Based Models: A Gaussian Is Not Normal in Plant Communities7
Maternal and Paternal Age Effects on Male Antler Flies: A Field Experiment7
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