Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	341
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	234
Falcon flyways	230
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	215
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	196
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	187
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	169
Evolution alters ecological resilience	168
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	143
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	140
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	137
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	133
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	131
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	127
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	123
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	117
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	116
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	116
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	107
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	104
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	104
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	102
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	101
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	100
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	100

Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	100
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	99
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	97
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	96
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	96
Old fish debate settled	93
Sea change	93
The wilderness myth	93
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	93
John Alcock (1943–2023)	89
Evolution of cod supergenes	88
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	86
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	86
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	86
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	85
A complicated character	85
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	83
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	82
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	82
Spotlight on our AI policies	82
Several ways to balance sex differences	81
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	80
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	80
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	78
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	78
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	77
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	74
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	72
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	72
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	71
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	70
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	69
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	69
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	68
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	67
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	66
The journey of bacterial genes	66
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	65
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	65
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	65
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	64
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	63
Niches beyond borders	63
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	63
Amoebas innovate	62
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	62
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	62
Density-dependent genes	62
Worn down by the weather	62
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	60

Action on ambition	60
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	60
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	59
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	59
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	59
Uphill urbanization	58
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	58
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	58
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	57
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	57
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	57
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	56
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	56
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	56
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	55
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	55
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	53
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	52
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups	52
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	52
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	52
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	52
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	52
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	52
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	51
Foregone uptake	51
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	50
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	50
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	50
Cetacean cooperation	50
Madagascan megafrugivores	50
Wrangling rabies	49
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	49
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	49
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	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	47
A clock for clonal organisms	47
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	46
No refuge for Amazon birds	46
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	45
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	45
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	45
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	45
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	45
Leaf-like butterflies	45
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	44
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	44
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	44
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	44
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	44
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	44
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	43
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	43
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	43
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	42
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	42
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	42
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	42
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	41
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	41
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	41
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	41
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	40
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	40
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	40
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	40
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	39
Planting for posterity	39
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	39
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	39
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	39
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	39
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	39
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	38
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	38
Mines aren’t on the maps	38
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	38
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	38
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	38

The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	37
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	37
Molecular evidence from xenacoelomorph gonopore formation supports homology with the bilaterian anus	37
Diversification dynamics at scale	37
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks	37
Sound science	37
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	37
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	37
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	36
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	36
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	36
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	36
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	36
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	36
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	36
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	36
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event	36
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	36
Vulnerable reefs	36
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	35
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	35
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	35
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	35
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	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
Tree shapes	34
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	34
Don’t dismiss dirt	34
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	34
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	34
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	33
Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time	33
Exaggerated effects in ecology	33
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	33
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	33
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	33
A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass	33
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	33
A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe	33
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	33
On our (children’s) bookshelf	32
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	32
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	32
Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies	32
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	32
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	32
The social dimension of microbial niches	32
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	32
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	32
The sex of scents	31
Mitigating a mine	31
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	31
Animal power	31
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	30
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	30
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	30
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	30
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	30
Accessibility for all	30
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	30
Rodents’ rule of thumb	30
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	30
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	30
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	29
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	29
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	29
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades	29
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach	29
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	29
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	29
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	29
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	29
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	28
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	28
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	28
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	28
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	28
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	28
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	28
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	27
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	27
Gimme shelter	27
Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus)	27
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	27
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	27
Islands of diversity	27
Snakes’ tape of life	27
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	27
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	27
An older Oldowan	27
A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life	27
Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles	26
Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations	26