Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	585
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	464
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	271
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	232
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	195
Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	177
Rebuilding Ukraine’s capacity for fundamental research in evolutionary biology	168
Ferula sinkiangensis (新疆阿魏, xin jiang a wei)	164
Emma Johnston (1973–2025)	153
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	152
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	148
Multicellularity for free	145
Nonlinearity in marine fish populations is amplified by temperature variation and fast life histories	143
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)	141
Key lessons from 50 years of Germany’s impact mitigation regulation for biodiversity offsetting	135
Alignment-free integration of single-nucleus ATAC-seq across species with sPYce	132
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response	132
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	124
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	121
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	121
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	121
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	120
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	118
Growing nickel supply from the tropics threatens priority conservation areas	115
Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian	115

Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	107
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	106
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	105
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	104
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	104
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	103
Evolution alters ecological resilience	101
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	101
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	100
Old fish debate settled	100
Sea change	99
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	98
Several ways to balance sex differences	97
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	94
John Alcock (1943–2023)	92
Author Correction: Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory	91
Spotlight on our AI policies	90
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	88
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	88
A complicated character	86
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	83
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	81
Synergistic evolution to trick a bird	80
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	80
Mapping where marine megafauna move	76
A blueprint for assessing national progress towards ‘30 by 30’	76
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom	75
Pricing nature into sovereign debt	75
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	75
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	74
Alan M. Wilson (1964–2026)	74
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	74
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	73
Biodiversity buffers the effects of drought on productivity most in drier grasslands and less so in forests	72
Hidden patterns in fauna compensation values in European biodiversity legislation	72
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	71
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	70
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	69
A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data	68
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	68
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	68
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	68
Worn down by the weather	67
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	67
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	67
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	66
Larger forest patches have greater per-area productivity	66
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	66
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts	66
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	64

Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	64
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	63
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	63
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	63
Action on ambition	61
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	60
Niches beyond borders	59
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	59
Uphill urbanization	58
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	57
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	57
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	57
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	56
Missing planktivore functions drive global variation in reef fish productivity	56
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	56
Costs and benefits of primate group size shift under varying climate regimes	56
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	56
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	55
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	55
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	55
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	55
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	53
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	53
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups	53
Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space	53
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	52
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	52
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	52
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	52
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	51
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	51
Foregone uptake	51
Cetacean cooperation	51
Leaf-like butterflies	50
A clock for clonal organisms	50
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	50
No refuge for Amazon birds	50
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	50
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	50
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	50
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	49
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	49
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	49
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	49
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	49
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	49
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	48
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	48
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	48
Models used for Red List assessments underestimate climate-related extinction risk of range-shifting species	48
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	48
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	48
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	48
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	47
Reply to: A case definition with microscopy would help establish Vibrio as a cause of sea star wasting disease	47
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	47
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	47
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	47
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	47
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	47
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	46
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	45
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	45
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	45
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	44
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	44
Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches	43
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	43
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	43
Planting for posterity	42
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	42
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	42
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	42
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	42
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	41
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	41
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	41
Diversification dynamics at scale	40
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	40
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	40

Molecular evidence from xenacoelomorph gonopore formation supports homology with the bilaterian anus	40
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	40
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	40
Sound science	39
Stability depends on climate extremes	39
Author Correction: Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of anammox bacteria and ancient nitrogen loss	39
Mines aren’t on the maps	39
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	39
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	38
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	38
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	38
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	38
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	38
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	38
Decoding cnidarian cell type gene regulation	38
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	38
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	38
Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests	37
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks	37
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	37
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	37
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	36
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	36
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	36
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	36
Evolution in medicine	35
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	35
Carbon/phosphorus burial ratio reveals a rapid spread of land plants during the Late Ordovician	35
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	35
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	34
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	34
Exaggerated effects in ecology	34
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	34
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	34
Tree shapes	34
Direct benefits are not necessary for the evolution of multicellularity	34
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	33
Severe winter storms bring severe population changes	33
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	33
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	33
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	32
Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI	32
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	32
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	32
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	32
Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time	32
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	32
Comparing potential biodiversity conflicts from renewable energy expansion in China at different centralization levels	32
Mitigating a mine	31
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	31
Don’t dismiss dirt	31
Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments	31
On our (children’s) bookshelf	31
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	31
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	31
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	31
A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass	31
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	31
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	30
When local arthropod biomass declines, every species counts	30
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	30
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	30
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	30
Discrepancies between observations and models highlight how to improve predictions	30
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	30
Accessibility for all	30
Drivers of same-sex sexual behaviour	30
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	29
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	29
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	29
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	29
Rodents’ rule of thumb	29
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	29
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	28
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	28
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	28
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people	28
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach	28
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	28
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades	28
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	28
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	28
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	28
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	28
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	28
The social dimension of microbial niches	28
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	28
Tropical dry forests under threat	27
An older Oldowan	27
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	27
Snakes’ tape of life	27
Islands of diversity	27
Gimme shelter	27
Predicted decline in common bird and butterfly species even under conservation policy scenarios in Europe	27