Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 4. 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
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines192
Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators171
Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene113
The role of the gut microbiome in sustainable teleost aquaculture91
Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies87
Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insights from a field-based microplastic addition experiment73
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?73
Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean72
Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 203070
When everything changes at once: finding a new normal after genome duplication70
Do novel insecticides pose a threat to beneficial insects?69
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation64
Perspective on musculoskeletal modelling and predictive simulations of human movement to assess the neuromechanics of gait60
Genome size evolution: towards new model systems for old questions59
Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef59
Trait-based approaches to global change ecology: moving from description to prediction55
Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations54
Body shape diversification along the benthic–pelagic axis in marine fishes52
Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators52
Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene51
Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries51
Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model50
Maximum CO2diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size50
Transient receptor potential channels: current perspectives on evolution, structure, function and nomenclature50
Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages47
A global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrial societies46
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters46
Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees46
Reduced thermal tolerance of massive coral species in a highly variable environment45
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-245
Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction44
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities43
Network ecology in dynamic landscapes43
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages43
The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia43
The phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas42
Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals42
Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off42
Rapid behavioural response of urban birds to COVID-19 lockdown41
Environmental DNA provides quantitative estimates of Pacific hake abundance and distribution in the open ocean40
Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia40
A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference40
A scientist like me: demographic analysis of biology textbooks reveals both progress and long-term lags40
‘What I cannot create, I do not understand’: functionally validated synergism of metabolic and target site insecticide resistance39
Census of heat tolerance among Florida's threatened staghorn corals finds resilient individuals throughout existing nursery populations38
The extensibility of the plantar fascia influences the windlass mechanism during human running37
‘Inert’ ingredients are understudied, potentially dangerous to bees and deserve more research attention37
Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems36
Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice36
Plants in the UK flower a month earlier under recent warming36
Bumblebees moving up: shifts in elevation ranges in the Pyrenees over 115 years35
Reproduction under light pollution: maladaptive response to spatial variation in artificial light in a glow-worm33
Coordinated changes across the O2transport pathway underlie adaptive increases in thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice33
Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation33
Accumulation curves of environmental DNA sequences predict coastal fish diversity in the coral triangle33
Stress in the city: meta-analysis indicates no overall evidence for stress in urban vertebrates33
Chemical signals act as the main reproductive barrier between sister and mimetic Heliconius butterflies33
Genotype by environment interactions in coral bleaching32
Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task32
Transmission efficiency drives host–microbe associations32
Long-term gene–culture coevolution and the human evolutionary transition32
Psychoactive pollution suppresses individual differences in fish behaviour32
Influenza A viruses remain infectious for more than seven months in northern wetlands of North America32
Eye size and investment in frogs and toads correlate with adult habitat, activity pattern and breeding ecology32
Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices32
Trophic consequences of terrestrial eutrophication for a threatened ungulate31
Adaptive strategies of high-flying migratory hoverflies in response to wind currents31
Effect of urban habitat use on parasitism in mammals: a meta-analysis31
Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments31
Poorly differentiated XX/XY sex chromosomes are widely shared across skink radiation30
Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts30
Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications30
Social network architecture and the tempo of cumulative cultural evolution30
The diversity of maternal-age effects upon pre-adult survival across animal species30
Senescence: why and where selection gradients might not decline with age30
Individual variability and versatility in an eco-evolutionary model of avian migration30
High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird30
Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy30
Introduction of probiotic bacterial consortia promotes plant growth via impacts on the resident rhizosphere microbiome29
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals and unpacks a biodiversity conservation paradox in Mediterranean marine reserves29
Chemical signals from eggs facilitate cryptic female choice in humans29
Positive selection and gene duplications in tumour suppressor genes reveal clues about how cetaceans resist cancer29
Species traits elucidate crop pest response to landscape composition: a global analysis29
Ecology of the collapse of Rapa Nui society29
Late Holocene spread of pastoralism coincides with endemic megafaunal extinction on Madagascar29
Captive-bred Atlantic salmon released into the wild have fewer offspring than wild-bred fish and decrease population productivity29
Interaction capacity as a potential driver of community diversity28
Elevated temperature increases genome-wide selection on de novo mutations28
Thermal niches of specialized gut symbionts: the case of social bees28
Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific28
Reversible plasticity in brain size, behaviour and physiology characterizes caste transitions in a socially flexible ant (Harpegnathos saltator)28
First Atlantic satellite tracks of ‘lost years’ green turtles support the importance of the Sargasso Sea as a sea turtle nursery28
Whose trait is it anyways? Coevolution of joint phenotypes and genetic architecture in mutualisms28
Depth moderates loss of marine foundation species after an extreme marine heatwave: could deep temperate reefs act as a refuge?28
Extensive hybridization reveals multiple coloration genes underlying a complex plumage phenotype28
Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism28
Nutrients and warming interact to force mountain lakes into unprecedented ecological states27
Genetic growth potential, rather than phenotypic size, predicts migration phenotype in Atlantic salmon27
The effects of ants on pest control: a meta-analysis27
Extensive polyploid clonality was a successful strategy for seagrass to expand into a newly submerged environment27
Pollen feeding inHeliconiusbutterflies: the singular evolution of an adaptive suite27
Feeding, hunger, satiety and serotonin in invertebrates27
Microplastic exposure interacts with habitat degradation to affect behaviour and survival of juvenile fish in the field27
A gene's-eye view of sexual antagonism27
Loss of vocal culture and fitness costs in a critically endangered songbird27
Asymmetrical gene flow in five co-distributed syngnathids explained by ocean currents and rafting propensity27
Phylogenomics indicates Amazonia as the major source of Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp diversity26
Endosymbiotic Rickettsiella causes cytoplasmic incompatibility in a spider host26
Salinity stress increases the severity of ranavirus epidemics in amphibian populations26
Testosterone regulates CYP2J19 -linked carotenoid signal expression in male red-backed fairywrens ( Malurus melanocephalus )26
Experimental evidence that matching habitat choice drives local adaptation in a wild population26
Morphological convergence obscures functional diversity in sabre-toothed carnivores26
Kinship dynamics: patterns and consequences of changes in local relatedness26
Beat gestures influence which speech sounds you hear26
Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals26
Tropical mammal functional diversity increases with productivity but decreases with anthropogenic disturbance26
Does conspicuousness scale linearly with colour distance? A test using reef fish25
Tolerant and intolerant macaques show different levels of structural complexity in their vocal communication25
Behavioural syndromes shape evolutionary trajectories via conserved genetic architecture25
The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds25
How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?25
7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota25
Osteohistological analyses reveal diverse strategies of theropod dinosaur body-size evolution25
Madagascan highlands: originally woodland and forest containing endemic grasses, not grazing-adapted grassland25
Skull morphology diverges between urban and rural populations of red foxes mirroring patterns of domestication and macroevolution25
Longer telomeres during early life predict higher lifetime reproductive success in females but not males25
Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships: the role of environmental heterogeneity in space and time25
Diet quantity influences caste determination in honeybees ( Apis mellifera )25
New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use25
Harsh environments promote alloparental care across human societies25
Speed and strength of an epidemic intervention25
The direct and indirect effects of environmental toxicants on the health of bumblebees and their microbiomes25
Global change in the functional diversity of marine fisheries exploitation over the past 65 years25
A comparison of dominance rank metrics reveals multiple competitive landscapes in an animal society24
Noise distracts foraging bats24
Forest stratification shapes allometry and flight morphology of tropical butterflies24
Cyclically producing the same average muscle-tendon force with a smaller duty increases metabolic rate24
Aerial photogrammetry and tag-derived tissue density reveal patterns of lipid-store body condition of humpback whales on their feeding grounds24
Influence of water content on mechanical behaviour of gastropod taenioglossan radulae24
Urban moth communities suggest that life in the city favours thermophilic multi-dimensional generalists24
Extinction of herbivorous dinosaurs linked to Early Jurassic global warming event24
A triple threat: high population density, high foraging intensity and flexible habitat preferences explain high impact of feral cats on prey24
Enthalpy efficiency of the soleus muscle contributes to improvements in running economy24
Fluctuating selection and global change: a synthesis and review on disentangling the roles of climate amplitude, predictability and novelty23
Population genomic, climatic and anthropogenic evidence suggest the role of human forces in endangerment of green peafowl ( Pavo muticus )23
Riddles in the cold: Antarctic endemism and microbial succession impact methane cycling in the Southern Ocean23
Functional constraints during development limit jaw shape evolution in marsupials23
Coming together—symbiont acquisition and early development in deep-sea bathymodioline mussels23
Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers23
Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination23
Upper tidal flats are disproportionately important for the conservation of migratory shorebirds23
DNA metabarcoding reveals trophic niche diversity of micro and mesozooplankton species23
Higher temperatures lower rates of physiological and niche evolution23
Drought-driven wildfire impacts on structure and dynamics in a wet Central Amazonian forest23
Allometric analysis of brain cell number in Hymenoptera suggests ant brains diverge from general trends23
Mutation bias can shape adaptation in large asexual populations experiencing clonal interference23
Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants22
Seeing the forest for the trees—and the grasses: revisiting the evidence for grazer-maintained grasslands in Madagascar's Central Highlands22
Multiyear social stability and social information use in reef sharks with diel fission–fusion dynamics22
Sedimentation and overfishing drive changes in early succession and coral recruitment22
First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals22
Environmental variability, reliability of information and the timing of migration22
A multi-faceted comparative perspective on elevational beta-diversity: the patterns and their causes22
Age and sex influence social interactions, but not associations, within a killer whale pod22
The increasing diversity and complexity of the RNA-binding protein repertoire in plants22
Genomic analysis of distinct bleaching tolerances among cryptic coral species21
Sociability increases survival of adult female giraffes21
The effect of optic flow cues on honeybee flight control in wind21
Self-clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: implications for lifetime risk and population at-risk of tuberculosis disease21
Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches21
The latitudinal diversity gradient of tetrapods across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction and recovery interval21
Towards reconciliation of the four world bird lists: hotspots of disagreement in taxonomy of raptors21
Restricted dispersal in a sea of gene flow21
Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands21
The ghost of disturbance past: long-term effects of pulse disturbances on community biomass and composition21
The evolution of virulence inPseudomonas aeruginosaduring chronic wound infection21
Octopamine and dopamine mediate waggle dance following and information use in honeybees21
Whole-organism responses to constant temperatures do not predict responses to variable temperatures in the ecosystem engineer Mytilus trossulus21
Warming indirectly increases invasion success in food webs20
Ecological regime shift preserved in the Anthropocene stratigraphic record20
Overcoming a ‘forbidden phenotype’: the parrot's head supports, propels and powers tripedal locomotion20
Wild epigenetics: insights from epigenetic studies on natural populations20
Recent warming reduces the reproductive advantage of large size and contributes to evolutionary downsizing in nature20
Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry20
Traffic noise inhibits cognitive performance in a songbird20
The costs and benefits of paternal care in fish: a meta-analysis20
Life-history traits and habitat availability shape genomic diversity in birds: implications for conservation20
Functional genetic diversity in an exploited marine species and its relevance to fisheries management20
The under-investigated wild side ofEscherichia coli: genetic diversity, pathogenicity and antimicrobial resistance in wild animals20
Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning in humans20
Managing fisheries in a world with more sea turtles20
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals winners and losers of global change in coastal waters20
Selective extinction against redundant species buffers functional diversity20
Insect-host control of obligate, intracellular symbiont density20
Polygenic basis for adaptive morphological variation in a threatened Aotearoa | New Zealand bird, the hihi ( Notiomystis cincta )20
A shared mechanism for facial expression in human faces and face pareidolia20
What's my age again? On the ambiguity of histology-based skeletochronology20
The development of flight behaviours in birds19
Environmental DNA from multiple pathogens is elevated near active Atlantic salmon farms19
Isochrony and rhythmic interaction in ape duetting19
How to escape from insect egg parasitoids: a review of potential factors explaining parasitoid absence across the Insecta19
Long-term exposure to artificial light at night in the wild decreases survival and growth of a coral reef fish19
Cellular bicarbonate accumulation and vesicular proton transport promote calcification in the sea urchin larva19
Pollen grain size associated with pollinator feeding strategy19
Natural disturbance impacts on trade-offs and co-benefits of forest biodiversity and carbon19
Plant guttation provides nutrient-rich food for insects19
Racing against change: understanding dispersal and persistence to improve species' conservation prospects19
Contrasting effects of human settlement on the interaction among sympatric apex carnivores19
Population-level effects of acoustic disturbance in Atlantic cod: a size-structured analysis based on energy budgets19
Marine heatwave challenges solutions to human–wildlife conflict19
Managed honeybees decrease pollination limitation in self-compatible but not in self-incompatible crops19
Differences in Quaternary co-divergence reveals community-wide diversification in the mountains of southwest China varied among species18
Variation in the strength of allometry drives rates of evolution in primate brain shape18
Within-population variability in coral heat tolerance indicates climate adaptation potential18
Chytrid rhizoid morphogenesis resembles hyphal development in multicellular fungi and is adaptive to resource availability18
Growth acceleration results in faster telomere shortening later in life18
Determinate growth is predominant and likely ancestral in squamate reptiles18
Is the X chromosome a hot spot for sexually antagonistic polymorphisms? Biases in current empirical tests of classical theory18
Using the Goldilocks Principle to model coral ecosystem engineering18
The multinomial index: a robust measure of reproductive skew18
Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators18
Target-capture phylogenomics provide insights on gene and species tree discordances in Old World treefrogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae)18
Climate change and lithium mining influence flamingo abundance in the Lithium Triangle18
Intensive human contact correlates with smaller brains: differential brain size reduction in cattle types18
The biophysical basis of thermal tolerance in fish eggs18
Deep-diving beaked whales dive together but forage apart18
Large mesopelagic fish biomass in the Southern Ocean resolved by acoustic properties18
Plicidentine and the repeated origins of snake venom fangs18
Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios18
Age influences the thermal suitability of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in the Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi18
Calibrating phylogenies assuming bifurcation or budding alters inferred macroevolutionary dynamics in a densely sampled phylogeny of bivalve families18
Host–microbiota–insect interactions drive emergent virulence in a complex tree disease18
Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of development in life-history evolution18
More than words: word predictability, prosody, gesture and mouth movements in natural language comprehension18
Emerging themes in Population Consequences of Disturbance models18
Food talk: 40-Hz fin whale calls are associated with prey biomass18
Contrasting size and fate of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish linked to ontogenetic diet shifts18
Modelling homing suppression gene drive in haplodiploid organisms18
Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whaleMesoplodon eueu18
Perfect mimicry between Heliconius butterflies is constrained by genetics and development18
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom18
Biotic stability mechanisms in Inner Mongolian grassland18
Among-individual and within-individual variation in seasonal migration covaries with subsequent reproductive success in a partially migratory bird17
Evolutionary history of quadrupedal walking gaits shows mammalian release from locomotor constraint17
A fast pace-of-life is traded off against a high thermal performance17
Emotion in animal contests17
Self-organization of river vegetation leads to emergent buffering of river flows and water levels17
Ancient crested penguin constrains timing of recruitment into seabird hotspot17
Increased functional diversity warns of ecological transition in the Arctic17
Global tropical reef fish richness could decline by around half if corals are lost17
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