Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
Eoraptor lunensis	382
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	258
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	234
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	201
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	194
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	176
Evolution alters ecological resilience	151
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	145
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	144
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	138
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	137
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	134
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	129
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	124
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	121
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting	117
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	114
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	111
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	109
Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition	105
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	103
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	103
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	102
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	102
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	102

Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	100
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	98
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	98
Old fish debate settled	97
Sea change	96
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	95
Several ways to balance sex differences	94
Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution	92
Biodegradable sensors are ready to transform autonomous ecological monitoring	90
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant	89
Safeguarding nutrients from coral reefs under climate change	88
Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes	87
John Alcock (1943–2023)	85
Evolution of cod supergenes	85
Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity	85
Spotlight on our AI policies	84
Animal networks become more connected in densely populated areas	83
A complicated character	82
Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure	82
Species risk assessment informs trade regulation	80
Embryonic muscle splitting patterns reveal homologies of amniote forelimb muscles	80
Microbe-induced phenotypic variation leads to overyielding in clonal plant populations	77
Climatic differences among habitats shape the balance between maximum lifespan and life expectancy in Japanese tree species	77
Neuropeptides at the origin of neurons	76
Regime shifts in rocky intertidal communities associated with a marine heatwave and disease outbreak	76
Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area	74
Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils	74
The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees	73
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across the eukaryotic kingdom	72
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021)	72
The journey of bacterial genes	72
Author Correction: Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change	69
Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions	68
Reply to: Australian fairy circles and termite linyji are not caused by the same mechanism	68
Niches beyond borders	67
Density-dependent genes	66
The next generation of colour pattern genomics	66
Author Correction: Morphology shapes community dynamics in early animal ecosystems	66
Worn down by the weather	65
Designation as cultural heritage best protects Brazilian fossils	65
Amoebas innovate	65
Understanding how well plants use carbon worldwide	65
The diversity of a tropical plant community is stably maintained by deterministic processes	64
Uphill urbanization	64
Butterflies revisit past phenotypes	63
Action on ambition	63
Water shifts the balance of coexistence	62
Offspring movement ability influences maternal resource aquisition in large herbivores	62
Meta-analysis shows that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil organic carbon stock	61
Making marine biotechnology work for people and nature	61

Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams	61
The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition	61
Emerging threats to Antarctic conservation	60
Increases in the world’s most extreme wildfire events probably driven by fire size and simultaneity	60
Diverse prehistoric cattle husbandry strategies in the forests of Central Europe	59
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined	59
Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish	58
Publisher Correction: A lamprey neural cell type atlas illuminates the origins of the vertebrate brain	58
Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific	57
Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity	57
Shrinking body size may not provide meaningful thermoregulatory benefits in a warmer world	57
Evolution of fungal phenotypic disparity	56
Meta-analysis-derived estimates of stressor–response associations for riverine organism groups	56
Resolving the intricate role of climate in litter decomposition	56
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system	54
Foregone uptake	53
Genetics re-establish the utility of 2-methylhopanes as cyanobacterial biomarkers before 750 million years ago	53
Cetacean cooperation	53
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism	53
Biogeographic boundaries and high diversity in abyssal seafloor communities	53
Heterogeneous selectivity and morphological evolution of marine clades during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction	53
Broader values for better biodiversity outcomes	52
Microbes of tiny invertebrates	52
Accidental surface compatibility paved the way for a new molecular interaction	52
The view at the end of the Palaeolithic world	51
Madagascan megafrugivores	51
Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data	51
Wrangling rabies	51
Archaic hominin traits through the splicing lens	50
A clock for clonal organisms	49
Publisher Correction: Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	48
The long tail of tree maximum lifespan enriches the forest	48
Ancient history of MX antiviral proteins	48
No refuge for Amazon birds	48
Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya	47
Deep-sea-floor diversity in Asteroidea is shaped by competing processes across different latitudes and oceans	47
Genomic structural variation is associated with hypoxia adaptation in high-altitude zokors	47
Leaf-like butterflies	47
A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean	46
Ancient and recent origins of shared polymorphisms in yeast	46
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations	46
Metabolic complexity drives divergence in microbial communities	45
Ancient origin of the rod bipolar cell pathway in the vertebrate retina	45
Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms shape the genomic landscape of deer mice	45
Sloth ornaments trace the first Americans	45
A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict	45
A large-scale in silico replication of ecological and evolutionary studies	45
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes	44
Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity	44
The genomics and evolution of inter-sexual mimicry and female-limited polymorphisms in damselflies	44
Derived faunivores are the forerunners of major synapsid radiations	44
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity	43
Two decades of improved wetland carbon sequestration in northern mid-to-high latitudes are offset by tropical and southern declines	43
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	43
Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America	43
Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps	43
Biodiversity–production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes	42
Archived natural DNA samplers reveal four decades of biodiversity change across the tree of life	42
Interaction network structure explains species’ temporal persistence in empirical plant–pollinator communities	42
Stronger increases but greater variability in global mangrove productivity compared to that of adjacent terrestrial forests	42
Invasive ants stir up lion predation	41
Avoiding lose–lose situations in agricultural landscapes	41
Planting for posterity	40
Forecasting microbiome dynamics using integrated meta-omics	40
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023)	40
Recombination triggers fungal crop disease	40
Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt	40
Publisher Correction: Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia	40
Atolls are vital for seabirds and vice versa	40
Predicting invasion costs from sparse data	39
Publisher Correction: Increasing severity of large-scale fires prolongs recovery time of forests globally since 2001	39
Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies	39
Sound science	39
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments	39
The ethics of human sequences in environmental samples	39
Mines aren’t on the maps	39
Diversification dynamics at scale	39
Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants	38
Conservation interventions are effective but far from sufficient	38
Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures	38

Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria	38
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks	38
Fire activity and deforestation in Remote Oceanian islands caused by anthropogenic and climate interactions	38
Molecular evidence from xenacoelomorph gonopore formation supports homology with the bilaterian anus	38
Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan	38
Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event	37
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests	37
Vulnerable reefs	37
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems	37
Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes	37
Progress in developing and operationalizing the Monitoring Framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework	37
Local networks inferred from regional knowledge	37
Decoding cnidarian cell type gene regulation	37
Temperature fluctuation promotes the thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration	37
Hagfish genome sequence sheds light on early vertebrate genome evolution	37
Personalized microbiomes in social baboons	36
Komodo dragons sequester iron in their teeth to maintain a cutting edge	36
Lasting effects of losing large carnivores	36
Baobab (Adansonia suarezensis)	35
Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal	35
Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife	35
Don’t dismiss dirt	35
A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass	35
Author Correction: Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate	35
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years	35
Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies	35
Causal inference concepts can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases	35
Congruent direction but different magnitude of biodiversity response to land-use intensification in space and time	34
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas	34
Sugar assimilation underlying dietary evolution of Neotropical bats	34
The decolonization dilemma at different stages of the academic career	34
Tree shapes	34
Exaggerated effects in ecology	34
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South	34
Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multi-strain RNA viruses	34
Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa	33
A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe	33
Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands	33
Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients	33
Experimental characterization of de novo proteins and their unevolved random-sequence counterparts	33
Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia)	33
The sex of scents	32
Animal power	32
The evolutionary drivers and correlates of viral host jumps	32
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	32
The social dimension of microbial niches	32
Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings	32
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	32
Mitigating a mine	32
On our (children’s) bookshelf	32
Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion	32
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	31
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	31
Genomic architecture of rapid adaptation illustrated by biological invasions	31
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	31
Threat reduction and targeted recovery are both essential	31
Accessibility for all	31
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	31
Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict	31
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	30
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach	30
Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social–ecological systems	30
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	30
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes	30
Rodents’ rule of thumb	30
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades	30
The pigment transporter Redboy confers programmed body colour transition in orchid mantises	30
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	29
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	29
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	29
Cell type and cell signalling innovations underlying mammalian pregnancy	29
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	29
Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles	29
Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance	29
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	28
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	28
Islands of diversity	28
Gimme shelter	28
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	28
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	28
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	28
Snakes’ tape of life	28
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	28
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	28
An older Oldowan	28
Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex	27
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover	27
Innate immune pathways act synergistically to constrain RNA virus evolution in Drosophila melanogaster	27
Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus)	27
Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation	27
Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics	27
Bird sternum evolution facilitated the origins of powered flight	27
A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life	27
Asynchronous abundance fluctuations can drive giant genotype frequency fluctuations	27
Allorecognition genes drive reproductive isolation in Podospora anserina	27