Ecology and Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecology and Evolution is 6. 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
Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so205
Ignoring non‐English‐language studies may bias ecological meta‐analyses116
Meta‐analysis shows that environmental DNA outperforms traditional surveys, but warrants better reporting standards98
SDMtune: An R package to tune and evaluate species distribution models97
Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals cross‐continental similarities in biodiversity change77
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives: Results from a survey of instructors72
Variation in leaf traits at different altitudes reflects the adaptive strategy of plants to environmental changes61
Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps in ecology and evolutionary biology58
Changes in soil carbon fractions and enzyme activities under different vegetation types of the northern Loess Plateau56
Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities53
Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces?53
Marine water environmental DNA metabarcoding provides a comprehensive fish diversity assessment and reveals spatial patterns in a large oceanic area52
From panic to pedagogy: Using online active learning to promote inclusive instruction in ecology and evolutionary biology courses and beyond52
Automated facial recognition for wildlife that lack unique markings: A deep learning approach for brown bears48
Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities46
Cell size, genome size, and maximum growth rate are near‐independent dimensions of ecological variation across bacteria and archaea45
The traits of “trait ecologists”: An analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology45
Effect of soil microorganisms and labile C availability on soil respiration in response to litter inputs in forest ecosystems: A meta‐analysis42
Molecular diet analysis of neotropical bats based on fecal DNA metabarcoding42
Generation and application of river network analogues for use in ecology and evolution42
Automatic detection of fish and tracking of movement for ecology41
Collecting eco‐evolutionary data in the dark: Impediments to subterranean research and how to overcome them40
Performance evaluation of cetacean species distribution models developed using generalized additive models and boosted regression trees39
Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation39
Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: Current knowledge and future perspectives38
The role of replication studies in ecology38
A total crapshoot? Evaluating bioinformatic decisions in animal diet metabarcoding analyses38
Which factors contribute most to genome size variation within angiosperms?37
Current and future distribution of the deciduous shrub Hydrangea macrophylla in China estimated by MaxEnt37
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models36
The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time36
Are native and non‐native pollinator friendly plants equally valuable for native wild bee communities?36
Heat stress responses and population genetics of the kelp Laminaria digitata (Phaeophyceae) across latitudes reveal differentiation among North Atlantic populations35
The transformation of Caribbean coral communities since humans35
Revisiting the effect of PCR replication and sequencing depth on biodiversity metrics in environmental DNA metabarcoding35
Meta‐replication, sampling bias, and multi‐scale model selection: A case study on snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in western China35
NGSpeciesID: DNA barcode and amplicon consensus generation from long‐read sequencing data35
Coexistence of predators in time: Effects of season and prey availability on species activity within a Mediterranean carnivore guild34
Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia34
Soil physicochemical properties drive the variation in soil microbial communities along a forest successional series in a degraded wetland in northeastern China34
Improving the accessibility and transferability of machine learning algorithms for identification of animals in camera trap images: MLWIC233
Draft genome of the famous ornamental plant Paeonia suffruticosa33
What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes33
Evolution of habitat preference in 243 species of Bent‐toed geckos (GenusCyrtodactylusGray, 1827) with a discussion of karst habitat conservation33
A contrast of meta and metafor packages for meta‐analyses in R32
Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis32
How many replicates to accurately estimate fish biodiversity using environmental DNA on coral reefs?31
Comparative plastome analysis of Blumea, with implications for genome evolution and phylogeny of Asteroideae30
Bringing function to structure: Root–soil interactions shaping phosphatase activity throughout a soil profile in Puerto Rico30
When are hypotheses useful in ecology and evolution?30
Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta‐analysis30
Is population subdivision different from speciation? From phylogeography to species delimitation30
Predicting the potential global distribution of Ageratina adenophora under current and future climate change scenarios30
Evaluating cetacean body condition; a review of traditional approaches and new developments30
How the ecology and evolution of the COVID‐19 pandemic changed learning29
Plant species identity drives soil microbial community structures that persist under a following crop29
Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank29
You are welcome here: A practical guide to diversity, equity, and inclusion for undergraduates embarking on an ecological research experience29
Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America29
Some like it cold: Temperature‐dependent habitat selection by narwhals28
Leaf litter quality drives the feeding by invertebrate shredders in tropical streams28
In silico and empirical evaluation of twelve metabarcoding primer sets for insectivorous diet analyses28
Breaking barriers? Ethnicity and socioeconomic background impact on early career progression in the fields of ecology and evolution28
Honey bees and wild pollinators differ in their preference for and use of introduced floral resources28
MaxEnt brings comparable results when the input data are being completed; Model parameterization of four species distribution models28
Rewilding with invertebrates and microbes to restore ecosystems: Present trends and future directions27
Habitat suitability and connectivity implications for the conservation of the Persian leopard along the Iran–Iraq border27
A national‐scale dataset for threats impacting Australia’s imperiled flora and fauna27
Effects of sampling seasons and locations on fish environmental DNA metabarcoding in dam reservoirs27
Individual dietary specialization in a generalist predator: A stable isotope analysis of urban and rural red foxes27
Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on stream macroinvertebrate community composition and functional diversity27
DNA Barcoding and geographical scale effect: The problems of undersampling genetic diversity hotspots27
Diet of a rare herbivore based on DNA metabarcoding of feces: Selection, seasonality, and survival27
Moving academic conferences online: Understanding patterns of delegate engagement27
Targeted and passive environmental DNA approaches outperform established methods for detection of quagga mussels, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis in flowing water27
Are shed hair genomes the most effective noninvasive resource for estimating relationships in the wild?27
Human–wildlife conflict in the roof of the world: Understanding multidimensional perspectives through a systematic review26
Influence of intra‐ and interspecific variation in predator–prey body size ratios on trophic interaction strengths26
Advancing biodiversity assessments with environmental DNA: Long‐read technologies help reveal the drivers of Amazonian fungal diversity26
“Into and Out of” the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas: Centers of origin and diversification across five clades of Eurasian montane and alpine passerine birds26
Worldclim 2.1 versus Worldclim 1.4: Climatic niche and grid resolution affect between‐version mismatches in Habitat Suitability Models predictions across Europe26
Light heterogeneity affects understory plant species richness in temperate forests supporting the heterogeneity–diversity hypothesis26
Waste not, want not: Microsatellites remain an economical and informative technology for conservation genetics26
Suitable habitat of wild Asian elephant in Western Terai of Nepal26
Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research?25
Genome structure and content of the rice root‐knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola)25
Denning in brown bears25
Observer‐oriented approach improves species distribution models from citizen science data25
Don’t judge toxic weeds on whether they are native but on their ecological effects25
Temperature but not ocean acidification affects energy metabolism and enzyme activities in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis25
A review of conspecific attraction for habitat selection across taxa25
Geographic range estimates and environmental requirements for the harpy eagle derived from spatial models of current and past distribution25
Extreme rainfall events and cooling of sea turtle clutches: Implications in the face of climate warming25
Non‐native species have multiple abundance–impact curves25
Wildlife roadkill patterns in a fragmented landscape of the Western Amazon25
Species‐specific responses to combined water stress and increasing temperatures in two bee‐pollinated congeners (Echium, Boraginaceae)25
Eco‐oncology: Applying ecological principles to understand and manage cancer25
Understanding the unexplained: The magnitude and correlates of individual differences in residual variance24
On the importance of predictor choice, modelling technique, and number of pseudo‐absences for bioclimatic envelope model performance24
Robustness of close‐kin mark–recapture estimators to dispersal limitation and spatially varying sampling probabilities24
Environmental DNA metabarcoding primers for freshwater fish detection and quantification: In silico and in tanks24
A review of spatial capture–recapture: Ecological insights, limitations, and prospects24
Tool for genomic selection and breeding to evolutionary adaptation: Development of a 100K single nucleotide polymorphism array for the honey bee24
Pool choice in a vertical landscape: Tadpole‐rearing site flexibility in phytotelm‐breeding frogs24
How citizen science could improve species distribution models and their independent assessment24
Predictive ability of a process‐based versus a correlative species distribution model23
Comparative assessment of range‐wide patterns of genetic diversity and structure with SNPs and microsatellites: A case study with Iberian amphibians23
Modeling vegetation greenness and its climate sensitivity with deep‐learning technology23
Fixed or random? On the reliability of mixed‐effects models for a small number of levels in grouping variables23
There’s a storm a‐coming: Ecological resilience and resistance to extreme weather events23
Pollen DNA metabarcoding identifies regional provenance and high plant diversity in Australian honey23
Lineage‐specific plastid degradation in subtribe Gentianinae (Gentianaceae)23
Mixing tree species associated with arbuscular or ectotrophic mycorrhizae reveals dual mycorrhization and interactive effects on the fungal partners23
Learning principles of evolution during a crisis: An exploratory analysis of student barriers one week and one month into the COVID‐19 pandemic22
Movement patterns of large juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: Ontogenetic space use in a small ocean basin22
How to make methodological decisions when inferring social networks22
Monitoring the dead as an ecosystem indicator22
Potential geographical distribution and environmental explanations of rare and endangered plant species through combined modeling: A case study of Northwest Yunnan, China22
From leaf to label: A robust automated workflow for stomata detection22
Genetic differentiation underlies seasonal variation in thermal tolerance, body size, and plasticity in a short‐lived copepod22
Accelerated vegetation succession but no hydrological change in a boreal fen during 20 years of recent climate change22
Simulated heat waves reduce cognitive and motor performance of an endotherm22
The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness22
Modeling the effects of grassland management intensity on biodiversity21
High‐resolution multi‐marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism21
Root morphological responses to population density vary with soil conditions and growth stages: The complexity of density effects21
Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) seasonal movements, diving, and haul‐out behavior in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas (2011–2017)21
Non‐reef habitats in a tropical seascape affect density and biomass of fishes on coral reefs21
Intraspecific genetic variation of a Fagus sylvatica population in a temperate forest derived from airborne imaging spectroscopy time series21
Understanding 3D structural complexity of individual Scots pine trees with different management history21
Detecting shrub encroachment in seminatural grasslands using UAS LiDAR21
Molecular evolution and SSRs analysis based on the chloroplast genome of Callitropsis funebris21
Amelioration of ocean acidification and warming effects through physiological buffering of a macroalgae21
Effects of drought and mycorrhiza on wheat and aphid infestation21
Effects of diet, habitat, and phylogeny on the fecal microbiome of wild African savanna (Loxodonta africana) and forest elephants (L. cyclotis)21
Genetic diversity, population structure, and gene flow analysis of lowland bamboo [Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro] in Ethiopia21
Coupling of green and brown food webs and ecosystem stability21
Biosurveillance for invasive insect pest species using an environmental DNA metabarcoding approach and a high salt trap collection fluid20
Evolution of breeding plumages in birds: A multiple‐step pathway to seasonal dichromatism in New World warblers (Aves: Parulidae)20
Cultivating inclusive instructional and research environments in ecology and evolutionary science20
DNA metabarcoding quantifies the relative biomass of arthropod taxa in songbird diets: Validation with camera‐recorded diets20
COVID‐19 lockdown frees wildlife to roam but increases poaching threats in Nepal20
Highly variable chloroplast genome from two endangered Papaveraceae lithophytes Corydalis tomentella and Corydalis saxicola20
Life‐history traits of Tubastraea coccinea: Reproduction, development, and larval competence20
Molecular study of drought response in the Mediterranean conifer Pinus pinaster Ait.: Differential transcriptomic profiling reveals constitutive water deficit‐independent drought tolerance mech20
High foliar K and P resorption efficiencies in old‐growth tropical forests growing on nutrient‐poor soils20
Environmental factors affect the response of microbial extracellular enzyme activity in soils when determined as a function of water availability and temperature20
Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly shaped the taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of natural forests in southern China20
Combining stable isotopes, morphological, and molecular analyses to reconstruct the diet of free‐ranging consumers20
Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance20
Persistence of microbial extracellular enzymes in soils under different temperatures and water availabilities20
Who let the dogs out? Exploring the spatial ecology of free‐roaming domestic dogs in western Kenya20
Direct effects of nitrogen addition on seed germination of eight semi‐arid grassland species20
Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to predict length, circumference, and weight from mostly dewatered images of fish20
Temporal patterns of visitation of birds and mammals at mineral licks in the Peruvian Amazon20
Predicted declines in suitable habitat for greater one‐horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) under future climate and land use change scenarios20
Natural history of model organisms: The secret (group) life of Drosophila melanogaster larvae and why it matters to developmental ecology20
Off to new shores: Climate niche expansion in invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia spp.)20
Rethinking trophic niches: Speed and body mass colimit prey space of mammalian predators20
Toward reliable habitat suitability and accessibility models in an era of multiple environmental stressors19
Evaluating new technology for biodiversity monitoring: Are drone surveys biased?19
Candidate‐species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying hybrid zones19
Environmental drivers of Cheirogaleidae population density: Remarkable resilience of Madagascar’s smallest lemurs to habitat degradation19
Exploring the drivers of variation in trophic mismatches: A systematic review of long‐term avian studies19
Drought has negative consequences on aphid fitness and plant vigor: Insights from a meta‐analysis19
Documentation of en route mortality of summer chum salmon in the Koyukuk River, Alaska and its potential linkage to the heatwave of 201919
DNA degradation in fish: Practical solutions and guidelines to improve DNA preservation for genomic research19
Removing climbers more than doubles tree growth and biomass in degraded tropical forests19
High concentrations of environmental ammonia induced changes in large‐scale loach (Paramisgurnus dabryanus) immunity19
Evaluating the effect of reference genome divergence on the analysis of empirical RADseq datasets19
High dispersal capacity and biogeographic breaks shape the genetic diversity of a globally distributed reef‐dwelling calcifier19
Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America19
Leaf shape in Populus tremula is a complex, omnigenic trait19
Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate concentrations of understory woody species regulated by soil phosphorus availability in a tropical forest19
Insectivorous birds can see and smell systemically herbivore‐induced pines19
Online conferences for better learning19
Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study19
Patterns and determinants of elephant attacks on humans in Nepal19
Moderate grazing increased alpine meadow soils bacterial abundance and diversity index on the Tibetan Plateau18
Reproducibility in ecology and evolution: Minimum standards for data and code18
Long‐term persistence of wildlife populations in a pastoral area18
Potential risk zone for anthropogenic mortality of carnivores in Gandaki Province, Nepal18
Miocene diversification of a golden‐thread nanmu tree species (Phoebe zhennan, Lauraceae) around the Sichuan Basin shaped by the East Asian monsoon18
Gut microbiome of migratory shorebirds: Current status and future perspectives18
Contrasting vulnerability of monospecific and species‐diverse forests to wind and bark beetle disturbance: The role of management18
Spatial capture–recapture with random thinning for unidentified encounters18
Dietary complexity and hidden costs of prey switching in a generalist top predator18
Lunar synchronization of daily activity patterns in a crepuscular avian insectivore18
An endangered flightless grasshopper with strong genetic structure maintains population genetic variation despite extensive habitat loss18
Not a cakewalk: Insights into movement of large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes in India18
Creating outbred and inbred populations in haplodiploids to measure adaptive responses in the laboratory18
Multidecadal changes in functional diversity lag behind the recovery of taxonomic diversity18
Physiological basis of interactive responses to temperature and salinity in coastal marine invertebrate: Implications for responses to warming18
Seasonality of floral resources in relation to bee activity in agroecosystems18
Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore‐caused livestock predation18
Integrated analysis of three newly sequenced fern chloroplast genomes: Genome structure and comparative analysis18
Predicting seasonal movements and distribution of the sperm whale using machine learning algorithms18
Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China18
Thanks for inviting me to the party: Virtual poster sessions as a way to connect in a time of disconnection17
Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter‐ and intra‐guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields17
Tree litter functional diversity and nitrogen concentration enhance litter decomposition via changes in earthworm communities17
Bats partition activity in space and time in a large, heterogeneous landscape17
Contrasting mitochondrial diversity of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) across three invasive continental distributions17
Finding common ground: Toward comparable indicators of adaptive capacity of tree species to a changing climate17
The influence of bat ecology on viral diversity and reservoir status17
The fate of Meconopsis species in the Tibeto‐Himalayan region under future climate change17
Color pan traps often catch less when there are more flowers around17
A phylogenetic and trait‐based analysis of community assembly in a subtropical forest in central China17
Six years of wild bee monitoring shows changes in biodiversity within and across years and declines in abundance17
Freshwater wild biota exposure to microplastics: A global perspective17
A new direction for differentiating animal activity based on measuring angular velocity about the yaw axis17
Large‐scale movement patterns in a social vulture are influenced by seasonality, sex, and breeding region17
Ecological and morphological determinants of evolutionary diversification in Darwin's finches and their relatives17
The dark side of pseudoscorpion diversity: The German Barcode of Life campaign reveals high levels of undocumented diversity in European false scorpions17
Characterizing niche differentiation among marine consumers with amino acid δ13C fingerprinting17
Temporal and palaeoclimatic context of the evolution of insular woodiness in the Canary Islands17
Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems17
Repeatable individual variation in migration timing in two anadromous salmonids and ecological consequences17
A review of applications of environmental DNA for reptile conservation and management17
Deep reefs are not refugium for shallow‐water fish communities in the southwestern Atlantic17
Tropical understory herbaceous community responds more strongly to hurricane disturbance than to experimental warming17
occAssess: An R package for assessing potential biases in species occurrence data17
Distribution of genetic variation underlying adult migration timing in steelhead of the Columbia River basin17
Comparing whole‐genome shotgun sequencing and DNA metabarcoding approaches for species identification and quantification of pollen species mixtures16
Italian weedy rice—A case of de‐domestication?16
Urban living influences the nesting success of Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands16
Measuring nestedness: A comparative study of the performance of different metrics16
Tree recruitment is determined by stand structure and shade tolerance with uncertain role of climate and water relations16
Skin resistance to water gain and loss has changed in cane toads (Rhinella marina) during their Australian invasion16
Embryo ecology: Developmental synchrony and asynchrony in the embryonic development of wild annual fish populations16
Non‐invasive monitoring of multiple wildlife health factors by fecal microbiome analysis16
Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest16
Sweet tooth: Elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone16
Drones, automatic counting tools, and artificial neural networks in wildlife population censusing16
How do less‐expensive nitrogen alternatives affect legume sanctions on rhizobia?16
3D genital shape complexity in female marine mammals16
For flux's sake: General considerations for energy‐flux calculations in ecological communities16
Use of an exotic host plant shifts immunity, chemical defense, and viral burden in wild populations of a specialist insect herbivore16
Geographical pattern of genetic diversity in Capsella bursa‐pastoris (Brassicaceae)—A global perspective16
Decades of dietary data demonstrate regional food web structures in the Southern Ocean16
An introduction to agent‐based models as an accessible surrogate to field‐based research and teaching16
Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes16
Phylogenetic significance of the characteristics of simple sequence repeats at the genus level based on the complete chloroplast genome sequences of Cyatheaceae16
Cryptic species and hidden ecological interactions of halictine bees along an elevational gradient16
Seasonal polyphenism of spotted‐wing Drosophila is affected by variation in local abiotic conditions within its invaded range, likely influencing survival and regional population dynamics16
Characterization of soil microbes associated with a grazing‐tolerant grass species, Stipa breviflora, in the Inner Mongolian desert steppe16
Fine‐scale oceanographic drivers of reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) visitation patterns at a feeding aggregation site16
Contrasting population structure and demographic history of cereal aphids in different environmental and agricultural landscapes16
The role of context in elucidating drivers of animal movement16
Evolutionary and plastic variation in larval growth and digestion reveal the complex underpinnings of size and age at maturation in dung beetles16
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