Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Papers
(The TQCC of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Wildfires and global change165
COVID‐19 crisis demonstrates the urgent need for urban greenspaces164
Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane160
Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible107
Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks92
Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?91
Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change90
Functional eradication as a framework for invasive species control88
The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation86
Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked84
Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals83
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework80
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales76
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming74
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application67
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species62
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters60
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes60
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning57
Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change56
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people54
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding52
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges51
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept51
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires49
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades48
Urban evolution of invasive species47
Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads47
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene46
Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards46
Validating climate‐change refugia: empirical bottom‐up approaches to support management actions46
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions43
Oases of the future? Springs as potential hydrologic refugia in drying climates40
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions40
Managing climate refugia for freshwater fishes under an expanding human footprint39
Diverse perspectives of cat owners indicate barriers to and opportunities for managing cat predation of wildlife39
The global rise of crustacean fisheries37
Overview of recent land‐cover changes in biodiversity hotspots37
Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales37
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry35
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems34
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use33
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands33
Applying cumulative effects to strategically advance large‐scale ecosystem restoration33
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations32
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene31
Temperate biocrusts: mesic counterparts to their better‐known dryland cousins31
Combining physical and species‐based approaches improves refugia identification30
Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management30
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe29
Climate‐change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study29
A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands29
Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change27
COVID‐19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future27
Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change?26
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities26
An overview of ecological traps in marine ecosystems26
Novel resources: opportunities for and risks to species conservation25
No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes25
A comparative analysis of dynamic management in marine and terrestrial systems24
Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains23
The global fall and rise of oyster reefs23
Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape23
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities22
Throughfall and stemflow are major hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through tree canopies22
Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems21
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity21
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends21
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling21
Over half of threatened species require targeted recovery actions to avert human‐induced extinction21
Multi‐scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems20
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity20
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature20
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events20
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms19
Vegetation refugia can inform climate‐adaptive land management under global warming19
Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates18
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity18
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences17
LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics16
Harnessing the collective intelligence of stakeholders for conservation15
Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas15
A farming systems approach to linking agricultural policies with biodiversity and ecosystem services15
Coral conservation requires ecological climate‐change vulnerability assessments15
Expanding wetland hydroperiod data via satellite imagery for ecological applications15
Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?14
Modulation of ecosystem services by animal personalities14
The decline of a hidden and expansive microhabitat: the subnivium14
Anticipating the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on wildlife14
Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems14
Linking soil health and ecological resilience to achieve agricultural sustainability13
Training macrosystems scientists requires both interpersonal and technical skills13
The consequences of predators without prey13
Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy13
Policy action needed to unlock eDNA potential13
Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?13
Trade‐offs between utility‐scale solar development and ungulates on western rangelands12
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems12
Reconciling carbon‐cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales12
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development12
The evolution of macrosystems biology11
Adaptive foraging in the Anthropocene: can individual diet specialization compensate for biotic homogenization?11
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships11
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests11
Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology11
Ecosystem‐scale mapping of coral species and thermal tolerance11
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature11
Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations11
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes10
Cities as sanctuaries10
Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management10
Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests10
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture10
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas10
Invasive Spartina alterniflora marshes in China: a blue carbon sink at the expense of other ecosystem services10
Counteracting wildfire misinformation9
Global Swimways for the conservation of migratory freshwater fishes9
Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data9
An ecology of segregation9
Grassroots reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of overharvest9
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools9
Integrating climate‐change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America9
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography9
Toward cross‐realm management of coastal urban ecosystems9
Plant–frugivore interactions revealed by arboreal camera trapping8
Parasites of the past: 90 years of change in parasitism for English sole8
Wild genes boost the survival of captive‐bred individuals in the wild8
Climate change paves the way for a new inter‐ocean fish interchange8
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics8
Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field8
An expanded framework for wildland–urban interfaces and their management8
How many sea scallops are there and why does it matter?8
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science7
Precise knowledge of commodity trade is needed to understand invasion flows7
Renewed threats to Brazilian biodiversity from sugarcane7
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework7
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine7
Cavity occupancy by wild honey bees: need for evidence of ecological impacts7
Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey7
Predator personalities alter ecosystem services6
Textured species range maps enhance interdisciplinary science capacity across scales6
Responding to the US national pollinator plan: a case study in Michigan6
Disturbance–recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery6
Canopy structure from space using GEDI lidar6
Human‐caused mortality triggers pack instability in gray wolves6
Antarctic biodiversity predictions through substrate qualities and environmental DNA6
The NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge6
Responsibility, equity, justice, and inclusion in dynamic human–wildlife interactions6
Plant pirates of the Caribbean: is Cuba sheltered by its revolutionary economy?5
Educating students in solutions‐oriented science5
Field stations as sentinels of change5
Biological invasion threatens keystone species indelibly entwined with Indigenous cultures5
The impact of excessive protein consumption on human wastewater nitrogen loading of US waters5
Minding the boundary: social–ecological contexts for fence ecology and management5
Olfactory misinformation: creating “fake news” to reduce problem foraging by wildlife5
Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum5
Transience of public attention in conservation science5
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance5
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions5
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