Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Falcon flyways	330
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	244
Eoraptor lunensis	236
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	198
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	194
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	175
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	172
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	165
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	161
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	153
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	153
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	147
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	138
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	137
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	134
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	129
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	127
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	117
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	117
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	112
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	110
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	103
Evolution alters ecological resilience	102
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	100
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	95

Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	94
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	93
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	92
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	91
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	90
Sea change	89
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	86
The wilderness myth	86
Predation drives diversity	85
A decisive decade	84
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	84
Old fish debate settled	84
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	81
John Alcock (1943–2023)	81
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	80
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	79
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	76
Evolution of cod supergenes	76
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	75
A complicated character	75
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	74
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	74
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	73
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	73
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	71
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	71
Spatial structure governs the mode of tumour evolution	69
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	69
Antigenic escape selects for the evolution of higher pathogen transmission and virulence	69
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	68
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	68
A flurry of sex-ratio distorters	67
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	67
The journey of bacterial genes	66
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	64
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	64
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	63
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	63
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	62
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	61
Niches beyond borders	61
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	60
Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	60
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	59
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	59
Density-dependent genes	59
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	59
Amoebas innovate	58
Worn down by the weather	57
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	56

Action on ambition	56
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	56
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	56
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	55
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	54
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	54
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	54
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	53
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	53
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	53
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	53
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	53
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	53
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	53
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	52
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	52
Foregone uptake	51
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	51
Cetacean cooperation	51
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	51
Wrangling rabies	50
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	50
Madagascan megafrugivores	50
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	50
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	50
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	49
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	49
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	46
A clock for clonal organisms	46
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	45
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	45
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	44
No refuge for Amazon birds	44
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	43
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	43
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	43
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	43
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	43
Leaf-like butterflies	43
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	42
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	42
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	42
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	41
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	41
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	41
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	41
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	40
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	40
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	40
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	40
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	39
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	39
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	39
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	38
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	38
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	38
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	38
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	38
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	38
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	37
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	37
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	37
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	37
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	37
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	37
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	37
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	37
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	36
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	36
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	36
Planting for posterity	35
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	35
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	35
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	35
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	35
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	34
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	34
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	34
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	34
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	34

Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	34
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment	34
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event	34
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	34
Vulnerable reefs	33
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	33
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	33
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	33
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	33
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	32
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	32
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	32
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	31
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	31
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	31
Evolution of lizard viviparity	31
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	31
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	31
Tree shapes	31
Exaggerated effects in ecology	31
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	31
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	31
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	31
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	31
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	31
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	31
Don’t dismiss dirt	31
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	30
On our (children’s) bookshelf	30
Animal power	30
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	30
The social dimension of microbial niches	30
Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies	30
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	30
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	30
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	29
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	29
The sex of scents	29
Mitigating a mine	29
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	29
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	29
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	28
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	28
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	28
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	28
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	28
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	28
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	28
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	28
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	28
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	28
Accessibility for all	28
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	28
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	27
National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps	27
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	27
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	27
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	27
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	27
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	27
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	27
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	27
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	27
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	27
An older Oldowan	26
Tropical dry forests under threat	26
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	26
Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community	26
Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity	26
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	26
Gimme shelter	26
Inductive link prediction facilitates the discovery of missing links and enables cross-community inference in ecological networks	26
Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation	26
Allorecognition genes drive reproductive isolation in Podospora anserina	26
Integrate geographic scales in equity, diversity and inclusion	26
Islands of diversity	26
Snakes’ tape of life	26
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability	26
Satellite DNA-mediated diversification of a sex-ratio meiotic drive gene family in Drosophila	26
Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks	26
Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts	26
Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles	25
Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression	25
The limits of acoustic indices	25
Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations	25
Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus)	25
The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation	25
A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life	25
Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur	24
Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable	24
To cull or kill	24
Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics	24
Toxin rescue by a random sequence	24