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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Millipedes diving into a small tributary?148
Issue Information147
Erratum134
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities121
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Harnessing trait–environment interactions to predict ecosystem functions94
COVID resilience inside the research ecosystem93
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Modern building structures are a landscape‐level driver of bat–human exposure risk in Kenya73
Attracted to death73
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Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography70
What is the fitness benefit of night lighting for toads?64
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions62
Relationship with the land as a foundation for ecosystem stewardship59
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships57
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes56
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests52
How to pay for ecosystem services52
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe49
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences48
RAD needs monitoring48
All‐true‐ism45
Hunting on dangerous ground44
Deoxygenation—coming to a water body near you44
Four‐Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non‐majors42
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance42
Managing the threat of infectious disease in fisheries and aquaculture using structured decision making38
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Dispatches34
Vagrancy in Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic pinnipeds34
Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management32
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas32
Cities as sanctuaries30
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development29
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene28
Centering 30 × 30 conservation initiatives on freshwater ecosystems28
Issue Information25
Moose and wood ducks – an unlikely partnership?25
Generating ecological insights from historical data25
Non‐consumptive killing of a conspecific dragonfly24
Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?24
Aposematism as a trap? A case of heavy predation on a poisonous salamander24
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How climate‐change awareness can provoke physical symptoms23
“Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?23
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature23
Unusual nectar‐thieving behavior in Brazil22
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands21
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US21
Co‐benefits of and trade‐offs between natural climate solutions and Sustainable Development Goals21
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact21
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity20
Urban parks and low‐dispersal species20
Toward a predictable cask theory of species extinction assessment in the Anthropocene19
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities18
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene18
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity18
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Size matters in nature17
Are all‐girls programs sexist?17
Replace the ivory tower with the fire tower17
Standing on one foot16
The global rise of crustacean fisheries16
No branch left behind: tracking terrestrial biodiversity from a phylogenetic completeness perspective16
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling15
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms15
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges15
Tree frogs serve as a hotel for moth flies14
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Issue Information13
Dispatches13
When avifauna collide: the case for lethal control of barred owls in western North America12
A scenario‐guided strategy for the future management of biological invasions12
Will greater argonaut strandings in southeast Australia increase with climate change?12
Managing ecosystem damage from extreme events12
Ecotourism impacts on reef fishes in a marine reserve during the COVID‐19 era12
Issue Information12
Ants actively carry microplastics12
Glass‐like flowers in the rain12
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture12
Logistical and preference bias in participatory science butterfly data11
Science in a changing world11
Eurasian otters are becoming urbanized11
Webs of science: mentor networks influence women's integration into STEM fields11
Dead rock python, the new fragrance from Crocuta10
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes10
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework10
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity10
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Dispatches9
Virtual conferences improve inclusion in science9
Identity theft: anti‐predator mimicry by the giant anteater?9
Browning and blueing – what is the fate of polar coasts?9
Swallow‐tailed gull predation on a marine eel: personality traits implied?9
Last refuge for Arctic fauna9
US lakes are monitored disproportionately less in communities of color9
Dispatches9
Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings8
Can we coevolve with AI?8
Re‐envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us8
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools8
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Landsat@508
Can AI interpretation increase inclusivity?8
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Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses7
Issue Information7
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Prevalence of discourse on public engagement with science in ecology literature7
The ecological cost of reproduction in the proboscis bat7
Setting your service agenda7
Geophagy in African savanna elephants7
Going my way?6
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems6
Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience6
Camouflaged life in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest6
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions6
Issue Information6
Forecasting range shifts using abundance distributions along environmental gradients6
Reckless parenting with a purpose5
Treefrogs near the top of a tropical rainforest5
The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) spawns regularly in salt marshes5
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Disease‐smart climate adaptation for wildlife management and conservation5
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated5
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands5
Exoneration of the shrike5
Time to retire “alien” from the invasion ecology lexicon5
A native parrot as an invasive plant controller5
Squirrel consuming “poisonous” mushrooms5
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