Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	317
Eoraptor lunensis	221
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	216
Falcon flyways	211
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	192
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	180
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	179
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	165
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	161
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	137
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	136
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	133
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	128
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	123
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	122
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	120
Evolution alters ecological resilience	116
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	110
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	109
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	103
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	102
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	102
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	96
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	96
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	96

Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	95
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	94
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	94
Old fish debate settled	93
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	93
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	93
The wilderness myth	92
Predation drives diversity	91
Sea change	90
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	87
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	86
John Alcock (1943–2023)	86
Evolution of cod supergenes	83
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	82
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	82
A complicated character	82
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	81
A decisive decade	79
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	79
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	78
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	77
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	77
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	77
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	76
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	75
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	75
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	74
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	70
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	70
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	69
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	69
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	68
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	66
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	65
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	65
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	63
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	63
The journey of bacterial genes	63
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	62
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	62
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	62
Niches beyond borders	62
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	61
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	61
Amoebas innovate	60
Density-dependent genes	60
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	60
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	59
Worn down by the weather	59
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	59

Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	59
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	59
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	58
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	58
Action on ambition	58
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	58
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	57
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	57
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	56
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	56
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	56
Uphill urbanization	56
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	55
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	53
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	53
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	53
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	52
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	51
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	51
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	51
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	50
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	50
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	49
Foregone uptake	49
Cetacean cooperation	49
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	49
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	49
Madagascan megafrugivores	48
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	48
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	48
Wrangling rabies	48
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	47
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	47
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	46
No refuge for Amazon birds	46
A clock for clonal organisms	46
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	46
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	45
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	45
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	45
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	45
Leaf-like butterflies	45
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	44
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	44
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	43
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	43
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	43
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	43
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	43
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	43
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	42
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	42
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	42
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	42
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	42
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	41
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	41
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	41
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	41
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	41
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	40
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	39
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	39
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	39
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	39
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	39
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	38
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	38
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	38
Planting for posterity	38
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	37
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	37
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	37
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	37
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	37
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	37
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event	37
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	37
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	36
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	36

Sound science	36
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	36
Mines aren’t on the maps	36
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	36
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	36
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	36
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	36
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	35
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks	35
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	35
Diversification dynamics at scale	35
Molecular evidence from xenacoelomorph gonopore formation supports homology with the bilaterian anus	35
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	34
Vulnerable reefs	34
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	34
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	34
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	34
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	34
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	33
Don’t dismiss dirt	33
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	33
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	33
Tree shapes	33
Exaggerated effects in ecology	33
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	33
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	33
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	33
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	33
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	33
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	33
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	33
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	32
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	32
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	32
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	32
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	32
A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass	32
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	32
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	32
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	32
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	31
A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe	31
On our (children’s) bookshelf	31
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	31
The social dimension of microbial niches	31
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	31
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	31
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	31
Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies	31
Mitigating a mine	30
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	30
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	30
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	30
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	30
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	30
Animal power	30
The sex of scents	30
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	30
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	29
Accessibility for all	29
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	29
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	29
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	29
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	29
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	29
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	29
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	29
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	29
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	28
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	28
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	28
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	28
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	28
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades	28
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	28
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	28
Rodents’ rule of thumb	28
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	28
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	27
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	27
Gimme shelter	27
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	27
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	27
Islands of diversity	27
Snakes’ tape of life	27
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	27
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	27
An older Oldowan	27
Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus)	26
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex	26
Chromosome fusions repatterned recombination rate and facilitated reproductive isolation during Pristionchus nematode speciation	26
Tropical dry forests under threat	26
Integrate geographic scales in equity, diversity and inclusion	26
Inductive link prediction facilitates the discovery of missing links and enables cross-community inference in ecological networks	26
Bird sternum evolution facilitated the origins of powered flight	26