Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Ecology & Evolution is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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A conserved genomic code underpins animal DNA methylation patterns338
Can herbivores sharing the same host plant be mutualists?217
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Animals and ethanol: beyond the laboratory193
Stewardship underpins sustainable foraging173
Response to ‘Allometry to evaluate Allen’s rule in climate warming’ by Santoro and Calzada172
AI-based discovery of habitats from museum collections161
Evolutionary changes in cognition due to fisheries mortality?156
The costs and benefits of a dynamic host microbiome151
Advisory Board and Contents149
Animal behaviour in a changing world146
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Current Knowledge Already Justifies Underwater Noise Reduction118
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Disability in ecology and evolution113
Sound Impact Studies: A Reply to Risch et al.109
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The outlook for Brazil’s new presidential administration93
The evidence contained in the P-value is context dependent93
A bioenergetic framework for aboveground terrestrial food webs93
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What is needed to overcome egoism?90
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Dispersal syndromes can link intraspecific trait variability and meta-ecosystem functioning83
Evaluating ecological benefits of oceanic protected areas80
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One Species at a Time: Cataloguing the Natural History of the Global Lizard Fauna74
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Control as a unique attribute of domestication (a reply to Clement)72
With Darwin towards complexity: a review of Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution70
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Investigating the impacts of artificial light via blackouts68
Delineating conservation units should be independent of effective population size67
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On the biological concept of stress66
Questioning the sixth mass extinction66
‘Domesticability’: were some species predisposed for domestication?65
Integrating social learning, social networks, and non-parental transgenerational plasticity64
Disability in ecology & evolutionary biology63
Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments63
The evolution and diversification of sleep62
An integrative paleolimnological approach for studying evolutionary processes62
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Modelling the tempo and mode of lineage dispersal61
Edge computing in wildlife behavior and ecology58
Harnessing traits for ecology: a counter perspective58
Invasive species behaviour in a toxic world57
Environmental forcing alters fisheries selection56
Situational social influence leading to non-compliance with conservation rules56
The ABC of academic writing: non-native speakers’ perspective56
A sweet tooth makes a fly a pest55
The evolution of decision-making mechanisms under competing demands55
Ensuring legitimate project-level claims about net biodiversity outcomes55
Mitochondrial genetic variation as a potential mediator of intraspecific behavioural diversity54
Testes size seen through the glass of amphibian care53
Problem-solving ability: a link between cognition and conservation?53
Predictability of Biotic Stress Structures Plant Defence Evolution52
Peer review bullying threatens diversity, equity, and inclusion52
The importance of Indigenous and local people for cataloging biodiversity52
Biased Hybridization and Its Impact on Adaptive Introgression52
Adaptive Plasticity as a Fitness Benefit of Mate Choice51
Facilitating Policy Responses for Renewable Energy and Biodiversity50
Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process50
Acoustic developmental programming: a mechanistic and evolutionary framework49
Waxing and Waning of Wings49
Animal behavior missing from data archives48
The hierarchy of factors predicting the latitudinal diversity gradient48
Beyond specialization: re-examining routes of host influence on symbiont evolution47
Polyploidy in urban environments46
Intervention-forward adaptive management in the face of extinction45
What are mycorrhizal traits?45
Local buffer mechanisms for population persistence45
Ghosts of extinct apes: genomic insights into African hominid evolution44
Journals must expand access to peer review data43
Societal extinction of species42
Biophilia revisited: nature versus nurture42
Biodiversity-friendly agricultural landscapes – integrating farming practices and spatiotemporal dynamics41
Games researchers play: conceptual advancement versus validation strategies41
Dissecting impacts of phenological shifts for performance across biological scales41
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Demystifying eDNA validation41
Sex-specific variation in species interactions matters in ecological communities41
Protected areas and the future of insect conservation40
The sociality of sleep in animal groups40
Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups39
Quantifying the internationalization and representativeness in research39
Viewing animal migration through a social lens39
Multiplayer videogames to analyze behavior during ecological interactions39
Dead foundation species drive ecosystem dynamics39
The contribution of mutualistic interactions to functional and phylogenetic diversity38
Bridging theory and experiments of priority effects38
Integrating Earth–life systems: a geogenomic approach38
Dispersal evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics in antagonistic species interactions38
Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks37
Savanna fire regimes depend on grass trait diversity37
Digital twins: dynamic model-data fusion for ecology36
Plant invasion resistance due to 2D native diversity36
Behavioral plasticity can facilitate evolution in urban environments35
Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species35
Pesticide reduction: clustering organic croplands35
Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats34
Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems33
Struggle for phosphorus and the Devonian overturn33
To harness traits for ecology, let’s abandon ‘functionality’33
Ecological impacts of climate change on Arctic marine megafauna33
The propagation of disturbances in ecological networks33
A bright future for wave reserves?32
Shark conservation requires mortality-limiting regulations amid global change31
Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle31
Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics31
The ecology and evolution of key innovations31
Fishers' multidimensional knowledge advances fisheries and aquatic science30
The role of timing in intraspecific trait ecology30
Hierarchical eco-evo dynamics mediated by the gut microbiome30
The role of alternative splicing in adaptation and evolution30
Dynamic landscapes of fear: understanding spatiotemporal risk30
How Constraining are Photic Barriers to Poleward Range-Shifts?30
Emerging contaminants and biological effects in Arctic wildlife29
Recommendations for making editorial boards diverse and inclusive29
Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer29
Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring29
Function and stability of mesophotic coral reefs29
3D animal camouflage28
Professor Barry Sinervo (1960–2021)28
Mountain social-ecological resilience requires transdisciplinarity with Indigenous and local worldviews28
Access and benefit-sharing: what indicators to measure ‘success’?28
Apart, together28
Context-dependent bird body mass responses to climate change28
A need for the wholistic application of genetics to biodiversity conservation; a response to Taylor et al.27
The underappreciated roles of aboveground vertebrates on belowground communities27
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Understanding biological invasions through the lens of environmental niches27
Disability in ecology and evolution27
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Response to ‘Why P values are not measures of evidence’ by D. Lakens26
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Disability in ecology and evolution26
Identifying key points of disagreement in non-native impacts and valuations26
Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence25
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Belonging in STEM: an interactive, iterative approach to create and maintain a diverse learning community25
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Asking the right questions in explaining tropical diversity: response to Cannon and Lerdau25
The Time Machine framework: monitoring and prediction of biodiversity loss24
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Plant community signatures of nutrient dilution24
Harshness is not stress24
Farmer-led agroecology for biodiversity with climate change24
Including a diverse set of voices to address biological invasions24
Co-cultures: exploring interspecies culture among humans and other animals23
Suppression of the physiological stress response is not stress23
Moving scholarship on invasion science forward23
Expanding the scope of fire-driven animal evolution23
Joint reply to 'Rewriting results in the language of compatibility' by V. Amrhein and S. Greenland, and to 'The evidence contained in the P-value is context dependent' by F. Hartig and F. Barraquand23
Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales23
Socially transferred materials: why and how to study them22
Work and life in dynamic equilibrium22
Ecology needs to overcome siloed modelling22
The rejection of synthetic pesticides in organic farming has multiple benefits22
We need to talk about nonprobability samples21
How is evolutionary theory evolving?21
Certainty and integration of options in animal movement21
Reproductive value and the evolution of altruism21
The potential for AI to divide conservation21
Environmental policy at a critical junction in the Brazilian Amazon21
Restoring biodiversity needs more than reducing pesticides20
Photogrammetry as a tool to improve ecosystem restoration20
Biological Earth observation with animal sensors20
Uniting niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predicts tropical forest succession20
Inviting ecologists to delve deeper into traditional ecological knowledge20
Metamorphosis in warming oceans: a microbe–larva perspective20
Size matters for linking traits to ecosystem multifunctionality20
Asking the Wrong Question in Explaining Tropical Diversity20
A taste for the familiar: explaining the inbreeding paradox19
Conformity and differentiation are two sides of the same coin19
The multiscale feedback theory of biodiversity19
The role of humans in dynamic landscapes of fear19
The importance of animal behavior for ecosystem services18
Giving fair credits to efforts in science and policy18
Defining ecological buffer mechanisms should consider diverse approaches18
Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa18
One tree to rule them all18
Recognising Indigenous plant-use histories for inclusive biocultural restoration18
Animal-mediated plant niche tracking in a changing climate18
Food webs in food webs: the micro–macro interplay of multilayered networks17
Suggestions for optimizing a global behavioral trait database17
Embracing the diversity in diverse warning signals17
Dollo’s law of irreversibility in the post-genomic age17
On the hunt for facilitation in symbiont communities17
Facultative lifestyle drives diversity of coral algal symbionts16
Fair division for avoidance of biodiversity impacts16
Listening to animal behavior to understand changing ecosystems16
A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 202516
Where to now with the evolutionarily significant unit?15
Care needed when evaluating the contributions of non-native species15
Quantifying elemental diversity to study landscape ecosystem function15
Revitalising Indigenous cultural fire practice: benefits and partnerships15
New directions in tropical phenology15
Afforestation and climate mitigation: lessons from Chile15
Keystone niche individuals: some are more unequal than others15
On the Origin of Coexisting Species14
A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 202214
Time to Integrate Pollinator Science into Soybean Production14
Common pesticides disrupt critical ecological interactions14
Animals in restoration to achieve climate biodiversity targets14
Quantitative conservation geography14
Language barriers in conservation: consequences and solutions14
Quantum computing: a new paradigm for ecology14
A solution for breaking the language barrier13
A modern definition of Fossil-Lagerstätten13
The metamicrobiome: key determinant of the homeostasis of nutrient recycling13
Trait-based research across taxa made easier13
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Ecosystem synchrony: an emerging property to elucidate ecosystem responses to global change13
Predicting plant–pollinator interactions: concepts, methods, and challenges13
Plant phosphorus-acquisition and -use strategies affect soil carbon cycling13
Fear generalization and behavioral responses to multiple dangers13
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Demystifying ecological connectivity for actionable spatial conservation planning13
Reassessing science communication for effective farmland biodiversity conservation13
On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology13
Combined light pollution and night warming as a novel threat to ecosystems13
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A way forward for biodiversity conservation: high-quality landscapes13
Professor John Philip Grime, FRS (1935–2021)12
Climate change creates nutritional phenological mismatches12
The largely neglected ecological role of oceanic pelagic fungi12
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Insect pollination in deep time12
Demographic synthesis for global tree species conservation12
Allometry to evaluate Allen’s rule in climate warming12
Describing functional diversity of communities from environmental DNA12
Renewed environmental governance scenarios in the Brazilian Amazon12
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia to guide society12
Disentangling the Environment in Wildlife Microbiome–Behaviour Interactions: Response to Davidson et al.12
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