Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Papers
(The median citation count of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Erratum199
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Measuring what matters in the era of big data110
Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions94
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?93
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities77
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COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem68
Attracted to death67
Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya62
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?62
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Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships56
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship54
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions40
How to pay for ecosystem services38
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography38
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes37
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences34
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests32
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making30
Hunting on dangerous ground29
Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds28
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Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you27
Dispatches27
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas26
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems26
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management25
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development25
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors23
The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint23
RAD needs monitoring22
Sparse genetic data limit biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally22
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance22
Cities as sanctuaries22
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Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil20
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly20
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?20
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How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms19
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?18
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands18
Maximizing inference from distributed experimental networks via “add‐on” studies18
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species17
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US17
Generating ecological insights from historical data17
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals16
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene16
Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander16
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact16
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene16
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower15
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity15
Size matters in nature15
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity15
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Are all‐girls programs sexist?14
Standing on one foot14
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Transformative governance of cumulative effects through an Indigenous outlook13
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Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations13
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies13
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective13
Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas13
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling13
Glass‐like flowers in the rain12
Science in a changing world12
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Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?12
Managing ecosystem damage from extreme events11
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era11
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Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data11
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture10
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?10
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta10
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields10
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized10
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity10
A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions10
Ants actively carry microplastics10
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America10
Last refuge for Arctic fauna10
Dispatches9
Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us9
Dispatches9
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?9
Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science8
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?8
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Landsat@508
Can we coevolve with AI?7
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color7
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?7
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings7
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Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses6
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience6
Setting your service agenda6
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Geophagy in African savanna elephants6
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Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature6
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat5
Exoneration of the shrike5
Addressing diversity in undergraduate ecology textbooks5
Managing strategic linkages among natural and human systems can enhance ecosystem services5
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients5
Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest5
Improving our understanding of blue carbon with a net ecosystem carbon budget framework5
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems5
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions5
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller5
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Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon4
The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawns regularly in salt marshes4
Clever commensalism in a harsh environment4
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Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation4
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Mermaids by another name4
Cultivating curiosity4
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated4
Disentangling the potential of protected areas to promote sustainable development4
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts4
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?4
Evaluating conservation units using network analysis: a sea duck case study4
Maladapted in the Anthropocene: communal hyperfidelity in snakes3
Habitat‐mediated soundscape conservation in marine ecosystems3
The art of hiding in plain sight3
Advancing freshwater science with sensor data collected by community scientists3
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Drought and deluge—opportunities for climate‐change adaptation in US national parks3
“Best available science” and the reproducibility crisis3
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Promoting equity in the Conservation Reserve Program across the southeastern US3
Structural diversity: a digital revolution3
Allyship requires action3
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science3
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Toward a unified understanding of people’s aversion to nature: biophobia3
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From science to policy: evolving marine biodiversity targets3
A native raptor contributing to the biological control of an invasive species3
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The frog and the princess3
Male and female crab spiders “cooperate” to mimic a flower3
Erratum3
Cover Image3
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events3
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Disgusting, delicious durians2
“Authors declare no competing interests”—really?2
Issue Information2
Erratum2
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature2
Pathway to mainstream youth engagement and intergenerational partnership in nature conservation2
The Translocation Continuum Framework for context‐specific decision making2
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires2
Yorke Bay, Falkland Islands: a question for coastal management2
Extreme event ecology needs proactive funding2
Sex on the beach2
Predator personalities alter ecosystem services2
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How do urban trees vary across the US? It depends on where and how you look2
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From plant litter to soil organic matter: a game to understand carbon dynamics2
Shifting along the urbanization gradient: A countryside hawk now thrives in the city2
Treasure troves of tabasheer2
Elevating the human dimension in ecology—a call for action2
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The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: a new approach to field research in ecology2
Open Access perpetuates differences between higher‐ and lower‐income countries2
Green pockets with seeds2
Stuff of nightmares2
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Pacific herring spawns transfer energy to coastal ecosystems2
Participatory action research generates knowledge for Sustainable Development Goals2
Twenty years of Frontiers2
Inducing biological resistance to invasive plants with adapted native species2
Discovery of solar sea slugs in the Falkland Islands2
Spatial and taxonomic coverage of international migratory bird agreements2
Air pollution: a threat to insect pollination1
Escape from Alcatraz1
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High mountain wanderings1
Three species of birds in one nest1
Charting a path for the National Nature Assessment1
Sea‐ice anomalies affect the acoustic presence of Antarctic pinnipeds in breeding areas1
High stakes and sacrifice in the Arctic1
Conservation of the Atlantic Forest trees through Indigenous sustainability1
Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation1
The western North American forestland carbon sink: will our climate commitments go up in smoke?1
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Hidden in plain sight1
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A silent spring, or a new cacophony? Invasive plants as maestros of modern soundscapes1
Fostering ecological understanding in and engagement with local communities1
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Dynamic connectivity assessment for a terrestrial predator in a metropolitan region1
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The curious case of leaf‐rolling nematodes1
Managing public lands requires a new kind of leader1
Building US food‐energy‐water security requires avoiding unintended consequences for ecosystems1
Climate‐driven diatom aggregations pose a risk to long‐lived Antarctic filter feeders1
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Losing flow in free‐flowing Mediterranean‐climate streams1
Aquatic fungi: largely neglected targets for conservation1
Subseasonal forecasts provide a powerful tool for dynamic marine mammal management1
Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution1
Stealthier than we thought1
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Where no elephant has gone before1
Managing nutritional landscapes as the next frontier in forest ecology and conservation1
National parks in Spain are failing to protect wetlands1
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The seal people1
Minding the boundary: social–ecological contexts for fence ecology and management1
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine1
Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales1
Supplementary bird feeding as an overlooked contribution to local phosphorus cycles1
Hidden in the jelly: the uncommon lifestyle of a dipteran larva1
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Floral parasites: mutualism or exploitation in pollination?1
TheNEONEcological Forecasting Challenge1
Removing federal subsidies from high‐hazard coastal areas slows development1
Precise knowledge of commodity trade is needed to understand invasion flows1
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Duration record for a GPS‐transmitter fitted to a vulture1
Enhancing water protection on Tribal lands1
Reply to Gilbert, Eyster, and Zipkin1
Lidar and deep learning reveal forest structural controls on snowpack1
What's the point of peer review?1
Host manipulation by a parasitic plant?1
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