Nature Ecology & Evolution

Article	Citations
On our (children’s) bookshelf	287
Life through the lens of metabolism	259
Correcting the record	211
Native Mexican adaptation	176
Farming adaptations	168
An ocean of benefits	161
Beyond the paper	157
Colourful females	154
Fossilized ethics	147
Rainforest origins	147
Long tail of land use	140
The rise of mammals	130
Falcon flyways	129
Viral priorities from genomic signatures	129
Indigenous communities share how to live with wildlife	126
Multispecies migratory connectivity indicates hemispheric-scale risk to bird populations from global change	119
Bridged knowledge	117
Between ice and ocean	115
Pervasive gene flow despite strong and varied reproductive barriers in swordtails	112
The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction	109
Awakening innovations in biology and culture	108
Interpreting intertidal invasions	105
Salt-stressed frogs	103
Animal power	102
The social dimension of microbial niches	96

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales	96
Agriculture isn’t all rocket science	96
‘Nature positive’ must incorporate, not undermine, the mitigation hierarchy	93
Spatial match–mismatch between predators and prey under climate change	91
Plasmids do not consistently stabilize cooperation across bacteria but may promote broad pathogen host-range	89
Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds	86
Mammal masses	85
Protection for migratory species	81
Human altriciality is driven by postnatal brain growth	81
Mitigating a mine	79
Charles Kimberlin (Bob) Brain (1931–2023)	78
Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people	77
Lower lignin for wood efficiency	77
Homoploid hybrids in Heliconius	76
Nitrogen-fixing organelle	76
Evolutionary history of an immune protein conserved across all domains of life	76
Spring comes earlier but not equally among species	74
Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections	73
Better plans are needed for mitigating the ecological impacts of Cambodia's Funan Techo Canal	73
Convergent resistance to GABA receptor neurotoxins through plant–insect coevolution	72
Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China	72
Coordinated surveillance is essential to monitor and mitigate the evolutionary impacts of SARS-CoV-2 spillover and circulation in animal hosts	71
Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host–microbiota systems	68
Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago	68
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity	68
Environmental selection and epistasis in an empirical phenotype–environment–fitness landscape	67
Reply to: Conclusions of low extinction risk for most species of reef-building corals are premature	67
Author Correction: Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice	67
Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests	66
Adapting to vaccination	64
Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes	64
The sex of scents	63
Author Correction: Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams	63
Increasing climatic decoupling of bird abundances and distributions	63
Eukaryotes were shaped by Oxygen	63
Isotopic evidence that aestivation allows malaria mosquitoes to persist through the dry season in the Sahel	62
Fish community structure and dynamics are insufficient to mediate coral resilience	62
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction	61
Estimating comparable distances to tipping points across mutualistic systems by scaled recovery rates	61
Canalized gene expression during development mediates caste differentiation in ants	61
Industrial energy development decouples ungulate migration from the green wave	60
A Late Devonian actinopterygian suggests high lineage survivorship across the end-Devonian mass extinction	58
Plasmid evolution in the clinic	58
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain	57
Reply to: Existing methods are effective at measuring natural selection on gene expression	57
Memory pays off	57
Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development	55
A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)	54
Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected	54
North African fox genomes show signatures of repeated introgression and adaptation to life in deserts	53

Single-cell dissection of aggression in honeybee colonies	53
Evidence for hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diet and ecology in the Gravettian of Southern Moravia	53
Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes	53
Kathy MacKinnon (1948–2023)	53
Capturing stochasticity properly is key to understanding the nuances of the Living Planet Index	52
Ethical considerations for human sequences in environmental DNA	52
Reply to: Recognizing and marshalling the pre-publication error correction potential of open data for more reproducible science	52
Human pressures modulate climate-warming-induced changes in size spectra of stream fish communities	51
Publisher Correction: Heavy reliance on private finance alone will not deliver conservation goals	51
Author Correction: Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	50
Robert L. Pressey (1953–2023)	50
Chase-away evolution maintains imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system despite rapid evolution of mimics	49
Make global biodiversity information useful to national decision-makers	49
Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide	49
Spatial sorting creates winners and losers	49
Meta-analysis reveals that vertebrates enhance plant litter decomposition at the global scale	49
Transitions and trade-offs in regeneration	49
Andrew S. Brierley (1967–2024)	48
Author Correction: Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density	48
Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort	48
Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia	47
Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco	47
Best practices for genetic and genomic data archiving	47
Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold	46
Bird vulnerability to forest loss	46
Rapid evolution of body plans	46
Transitions between colour mechanisms affect speciation dynamics and range distributions of birds	45
Gene duplication contributes to liver evolution	45
Futureproofing Europe’s forests	45
Extremely acidic proteomes and metabolic flexibility in bacteria and highly diversified archaea thriving in geothermal chaotropic brines	45
Microbes as marine habitat formers and ecosystem engineers	44
African savannah elephants call one another by ‘name’	44
Author Correction: Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial	44
A new type of non-Mendelian segregation	44
Migratory lifestyle carries no added overall energy cost in a partial migratory songbird	43
Tripartite origin of the chordate brain	43
Limits to the ability of carbon farming projects to deliver benefits for threatened species	42
Gradual exacerbation of obstetric constraints during hominoid evolution implied by re-evaluation of cephalopelvic fit in chimpanzees	42
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia	42
Advances in breeding phenology outpace latitudinal and elevational shifts for North American birds tracking temperature	41
Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales	41
Predicting 3D protein structures in light of evolution	41
Plasticity and environment-specific relationships between gene expression and fitness in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	41
Ignoring species hybrids in the IUCN Red List assessments for African elephants may bias conservation policy	41
Eoraptor lunensis	41
Genomics of a sexually selected sperm ornament and female preference in Drosophila	40
Publisher Correction: Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe	40
Pollinator interaction flexibility across scales affects patch colonization and occupancy	40
Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats	40
Neanderthal assimilation?	39
Neonatal antipredator tactics shape female movement patterns in large herbivores	39
Parachute research is another ethical problem for Myanmar amber	38
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants	38
National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps	38
Ocean science and advocacy work better when decolonized	38
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation	38
Ecological network complexity scales with area	37
Excess plant growth worsens droughts	37
Inferring DNA methylation in non-skeletal tissues of ancient specimens	37
Author Correction: On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks	37
Multiple invasion routes have led to the pervasive introduction of earthworms in North America	37
Dan Salah Tawfik (1955–2021)	37
Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts	37
Dosage sensitivity and exon shuffling shape the landscape of polymorphic duplicates in Drosophila and humans	37
Sustained high rates of morphological evolution during the rise of tetrapods	37
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets	36
Publisher Correction: Talk the talk and walk the walk	36
Biodiversity in times of conflict	36
Horizontal gene transfer facilitates the molecular reverse-evolution of antibiotic sensitivity in experimental populations of H. pylori	36
Publisher Correction: Healing the land and the academy	36
Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide	36
A panoply of pangenomes	36
Policy responses to the Ukraine crisis threaten European biodiversity	36
Genome sequences of 36,000- to 37,000-year-old modern humans at Buran-Kaya III in Crimea	35
Evolution alters ecological resilience	35
Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits	35
Grassland communities rapidly respond to climate change to settle climatic debts	35
Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade	34
A call to develop carbon credits for second-growth forests	34
The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks	34

African savanna raptors show evidence of widespread population collapse and a growing dependence on protected areas	34
The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation	34
Why the geosciences are becoming increasingly vital to the interpretation of the human evolutionary record	34
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth	33
Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities	33
Competition and coevolution drive the evolution and the diversification of CRISPR immunity	33
Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases	33
Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology	33
Five essentials for area-based biodiversity protection	32
Mating increases Drosophila melanogaster females’ choosiness by reducing olfactory sensitivity to a male pheromone	32
Coexistence holes characterize the assembly and disassembly of multispecies systems	32
Population size mediates the contribution of high-rate and large-benefit mutations to parallel evolution	32
Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial	32
Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species	32
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour	32
Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally	31
Supergene origin and maintenance in Atlantic cod	31
Comparative single-cell transcriptomic analysis of primate brains highlights human-specific regulatory evolution	31
Domestication reprogrammed the budding yeast life cycle	31
No evidence for long-range male sex pheromones in two malaria mosquitoes	31
Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets	30
Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability	30
Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity	30
Empirical pressure-response relations can benefit assessment of safe operating spaces	30
The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution in terrestrial vertebrates	30
Time delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems	30
Dynamics of species-rich predator–prey networks and seasonal alternations of core species	30
Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions	30
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous	29
Power laws in species’ biotic interaction networks can be inferred from co-occurrence data	29
Plasmid-encoded insertion sequences promote rapid adaptation in clinical enterobacteria	29
Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments	29
Some, but not all, eponyms should be disallowed	29
Genomic and phenotypic evidence support visual and olfactory shifts in primate evolution	29
Butterfly optics underlie mate preference	29
Natural capital investments in China undermined by reclamation for cropland	28
Phylogenomics reveals the origin of mammal lice out of Afrotheria	28
Warming amplifies urbanization effects on mammals	28
Meta-analysis shows that plant mixtures increase soil phosphorus availability and plant productivity in diverse ecosystems	28
Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size	28
Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity	28
Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space	28
A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline	27
Adaptation to climate change through dispersal and inherited timing in an avian migrant	27
Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient	27
Genomic evidence that a sexually selected trait captures genome-wide variation and facilitates the purging of genetic load	27
Statistically learning the functional landscape of microbial communities	27
Identifying species likely threatened by international trade on the IUCN Red List can inform CITES trade measures	27
Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought	27
Evidence for widespread thermal optimality of ecosystem respiration	26
Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA	26
Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands	26
Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses	26
Anti-racist interventions to transform ecology, evolution and conservation biology departments	26
Quantifying research waste in ecology	26
Invasive species drive cross-ecosystem effects worldwide	26
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK	26
Co-evolution of interacting proteins through non-contacting and non-specific mutations	26
Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance	25
An older Oldowan	25
Reforming social genetics	25
Erroneous predictions of auxotrophies by CarveMe	25
Deeply tangled evolution	25
Islands of diversity	25
Tropical dry forests under threat	25
Mycorrhizae mediate diversity effects	25
Predation drives diversity	24
The wilderness myth	24
Deep cuts	24
An eco-evolutionary game of hide-and-seek	24
Beyond English language	24
Cenozoic megaherbivore emergence	24
Publisher Correction: Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size	24
A life spent at the roots	24
New Asian hominin	24
Alerts protect forests	24
Indigenous-led objectives to improve co-management of culturally significant entities	24
Genetic basis of camouflage in an alpine plant and its long-term co-evolution with an insect herbivore	24
Remembering Wallace	24
Rolling out Registered Reports	23
A decisive decade	23
Dams threaten big cats	23
Freshwater stressors	23
Old fish debate settled	23
A complicated character	23
Fungal traits	23
Adapting to city life	23
Sea change	23
Isaiah Odhiambo Nengo (1961–2022)	23
Indigenous networks map peach spread	22
A threshold precipitation function determines when ecosystem respiration depends on water	22
Evolutionary origin of vertebrate neural crest and neuromesodermal cells	22
Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s	22
Two hundred years of dinosaurs	22
Evolution at the cellular level	22