Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Impact Factor 2026, APC, Indexing and Published Papers

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02Indexing

Indexing of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

2296-701X

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Frontiers Media SA

Country

Switzerland

Language

English

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Journal

Web of Science categories

Ecology

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03What it publishes

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04Published papers

Papers published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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1. Adaptation pathways identify effective strategies for mitigating damage on a developed barrier island as sea levels rise20260 citations
2. Life history responses to salmon habitat restoration20260 citations
3. Significant northwest shift in suitable climate expected for North American bison by the year 210020260 citations
4. Bamboo for climate resilience: green gold of ecosystems in the UN SDG Framework20260 citations
5. Ecosystem condition assessments: progress towards a global standard20250 citations
6. Down with the roots. Phytoliths as biocultural traces in historical olive agroecosystems of Sicily20250 citations
7. Study of identification and simulation of ecological zoning through integration of landscape ecological risk and ecosystem health20250 citations
8. Collaborative optimization path of the" water-carbon-ecology" system in the Yellow River Basin: spatio-temporal evolution and driving factors20250 citations
9. Including predation risk in mechanistic habitat assessment models for stream fish20250 citations
10. Fine-scale biogeographical ancestry inference in Southeast and East Asians via high-efficiency markers and machine learning approaches20250 citations
11. Advances in modelling and analysis of animal movement20250 citations
12. Study on the identification of protection priority areas in the Huaihe River Basin based on ecosystem services20250 citations
13. Application of a nature-based solution adaptive management framework for improving coastal resiliency in a highly urbanized environment20250 citations
14. Spatio-temporal evolution and driving mechanisms of landscape in the Yellow River Basin from 1985 to 202020250 citations
15. Can National Forest Cities Construction promote Urban Sustainability and Resilience? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China20250 citations
16. Strategic management of regional land carrying capacity: evidence from Hubei Province using an improved projection pursuit model20250 citations
17. Evidence for marine-driven, cyclical fluctuations in burrow-nesting seabird habitat on the Oregon Coast20250 citations
18. Evaluating spatial and temporal trends in ecological indicators at dredged material placement sites20250 citations
19. The rhythms of citizens' leisure and recreation: a case study based on social media data20250 citations
20. Lessons learned from integrated long-term monitoring of a coho salmon population complex in the Russian River watershed20250 citations
21. Imaging and spectroscopy techniques applied to characterise fossilisation processes and biomineralisation20250 citations
22. Rare milkvetch (Astragalus) persistence at a utility-scale solar energy facility in the Mojave Desert20250 citations
23. What evidence exists on the impacts of artificial light on terrestrial non-flying mammals native to Europe? A systematic map and a narrative review20250 citations
24. Quantifying elephant mortality in a changing landscape: insights from Jharkhand, India20250 citations
25. Integrating machine learning and species distribution models for predicting the potential hazard areas of Marmota baibacina in Xinjiang, China20250 citations
26. Plant volatiles drive Spodoptera frugiperda behavioral preference to sweet corn20250 citations
27. The rising tide of conservation technology: empowering the fight against poaching and unsustainable wildlife harvest20250 citations
28. A theory of change to improve conservation outcomes through CITES20250 citations
29. Assessment and multi-scenario prediction of ecosystem services in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau based on machine learning and the PLUS model20250 citations
30. Multi-scenario land use simulation and carbon storage prediction analysis in the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park20250 citations
31. Quantifying the spatio-temporal dynamics and coupling coordination of PLE spaces in Heilongjiang's Grain Belt: a grid-based geospatial analysis20250 citations
32. Postmodern evolutionary framework for chronic diseases–cultural evolution allows multicausal explanations20250 citations
33. Exploring the multi-scale ecological consequences of stoichiometric imbalance using an agent-based modeling approach20250 citations
34. Coordinated development of ecosystem services and human well-being is increasing in the Yellow River Basin, though some regions lag behind20250 citations
35. A practical workflow to facilitate analysis of the emission dynamics of non-target BVOCs in terrestrial ecosystems by PTR-TOF-MS20250 citations
36. A comparative analysis of protected area expansion strategies for biodiversity and ecosystem services: A case study of Hainan Island20250 citations
37. Coastal aquaculture ponds represent a notable source of the blooming jellyfish Aurelia coerulea20250 citations
38. Mission relationships, employment relationships, or alliance relationships: wetland management from the perspective of carbon trading20250 citations
39. Timing of prooxidant and antioxidant intake shapes life-history and parasite tolerance in Anopheles mosquitoes20250 citations
40. Exploration of the multi-scenario spatiotemporal evolution, trade-off and synergy relationships, and driving factors of ecosystem services in Henan Province, China …20250 citations
41. Biological recycling theory: a cyclic network framework for evolutionary innovation and recovery20250 citations
42. Mammals show no spatiotemporal avoidance of trails or roads in a forested raptor sanctuary20250 citations
43. Urban green infrastructure: Bridging biodiversity conservation and sustainable urban development through adaptive management approach20240 citations
44. Biodiversity of urban green spaces and human health: a systematic review of recent research20240 citations
45. The spatial effect of integrated economy on carbon emissions in the era of big data: a case study of China20240 citations
46. A new method for identifying key fossil species in the Miocene Calcareous Nannofossil Zone: insights from deep convolutional neural networks20240 citations
47. Urban low-carbon governance and ecological efficiency: New evidence from prefecture-level cities in China20240 citations
48. The win-stay, lose-switch renesting strategy of a territorial bird endemic to subtropical salt marshes20240 citations
49. Persistence, changes and robustness of nest webs along a latitudinal gradient in the Canadian boreal forest20240 citations
50. Review of forest ecosystem services evaluation studies in East Africa20240 citations
51. … of the spatio-temporal evolution of the improved integrated ecological effect index (IEEI) in mountainous province based on remote sensing: a case study in Yunnan …20240 citations
52. The impact mechanism of human activities on the evolution of coastal wetlands in the Liaohe River Delta20240 citations
53. Decline of a North American rocky intertidal foundation species linked to extreme dry, downslope Santa Ana winds20240 citations
54. Regional disparities, dynamic evolution, and spatial spillover effects of urban-rural carbon emission inequality in China20240 citations
55. Water ecological health evaluation of urban river: a case study of Zaogang River, China20240 citations
56. Hydrological and climate intensification induces conservative behavior in the Hydrochorea corymbosa xylem production in a Central Amazon floodplain forest20240 citations
57. Driving factors analysis and scenario prediction of CO2 emissions in power industries of key provinces along the Yellow River based on LMDI and BP neural network20240 citations
58. Fire dynamics and driving mechanisms on the Eastern Coast of China since the Late Pleistocene: evidence from charcoal records on Shengshan Island20240 citations
59. Coordinated development of rural ecological construction and carbon neutrality: a deep learning approach for enhanced sustainability20240 citations
60. A novel feeding platform design for behavioral research on wild Tanimbar corellas (Cacatua goffiniana)20240 citations
61. Spatiotemporal variation of alpine gorge watershed landscape patterns via multi-scale metrics and optimal granularity analysis: a case study of Lushui City in Yunnan …20240 citations
62. Promoting urban ecological resilience through the lens of avian biodiversity20240 citations
63. Population and spatial dynamics of desert bighorn sheep in Grand Canyon during an outbreak of respiratory pneumonia20240 citations
64. Spatiotemporal changes and influencing factors of ecosystem services in the Nanchang metropolitan area, China20240 citations
65. Exploring landscape ecological risk with human activity intensity and correlation in the Kuye River Basin20240 citations
66. Human aeroecology20240 citations
67. Detecting and monitoring rodents using camera traps and machine learning versus live trapping for occupancy modeling20240 citations
68. Inyoo Kim1, Youngwoo Nam2, Sinyoung Park3, Wonhee Cho4, Kwanghun Choi5 and Dongwook W. Ko620240 citations
69. Evaluating land use/cover change associations with urban surface temperature via machine learning and spatial modeling: Past trends and future simulations in Dera …20230 citations
70. Spatial and temporal variations of grassland vegetation on the Mongolian Plateau and its response to climate change20230 citations
71. Construction of a carbon neutral enterprise environmental performance assessment model based on transformer-GRU20230 citations
72. Machine learning algorithms for lithological mapping using Sentinel-2 and SRTM DEM in highly vegetated areas20230 citations
73. Assessing the impact of forest structure disturbances on the arboreal movement and energetics of orangutans—An agent-based modeling approach20230 citations
74. Ecosystem service assessment under ecological restoration programs: A systematic review of studies from China20230 citations
75. The distribution law and coupling factors of debris flows in the G318 Linzhi–Lhasa section of the Sichuan–Tibet traffic corridor20230 citations
76. Automatic differentiation and the optimization of differential equation models in biology20230 citations
77. An improved machine learning model Shapley value-based to forecast demand for aquatic product supply chain20230 citations
78. Fusion model with attention mechanism for carbon-neutral sports competitions20230 citations
79. Optimizing the distribution pattern of species under climate change: the protection and management of Phellodendron amurense in China20230 citations
80. Adaptive slope reliability analysis method based on sliced inverse regression dimensionality reduction20230 citations
81. Optimizing the evaluation model of green building management based on the concept of urban ecology and environment20230 citations
82. Surveying wildlife and livestock in Uganda with aerial cameras: Deep Learning reduces the workload of human interpretation by over 70%20230 citations
83. Carbon reduction effect of ESG: Empirical evidence from listed manufacturing companies in China20230 citations
84. Long-term monitoring in the boreal forest reveals high spatio-temporal variability among primary ecosystem constituents20230 citations
85. Stronger microbial nutrient limitations in subsoil along the precipitation gradient of agroecosystem: insights from soil enzyme activity and stoichiometry20230 citations
86. Which land cover product provides the most accurate land use land cover map of the Yellow River Basin?20230 citations
87. Tripartite evolutionary game analysis and simulation research on zero-carbon production supervision of marine ranching against a carbon-neutral background20230 citations
88. Habitat quality assessment and multi-scenario prediction of the Gansu-Qinghai section of the Yellow River Basin based on the FLUS-InVEST model20230 citations
89. Niche concept scale in space and time: evolutionary perspectives from tropical insectivorous birds20230 citations
90. Monitoring marine pollution for carbon neutrality through a deep learning method with multi-source data fusion20230 citations
91. Dynamic change, driving mechanism and spatiotemporal prediction of the normalized vegetation index: a case study from Yunnan Province, China20230 citations
92. Urban sprawl at the expense of cultivated land: decadal land use and land cover changes and future projections in the upper Awash basin of central Ethiopia20230 citations
93. Mapping seagrass habitats of potential suitability using a hybrid machine learning model20230 citations
94. Research on carbon emission prediction and economic policy based on TCN-LSTM combined with attention mechanism20230 citations
95. Magnifier or refractor? Exploring the impact of geographical indication on people's perception of the value of cultural ecosystem services based on the SolVES model20230 citations
96. Individual tree-based forest species diversity estimation by classification and clustering methods using UAV data20230 citations
97. Can the development of digital construction reduce enterprise carbon emission intensity? New evidence from Chinese construction enterprises20230 citations
98. Effects of photovoltaic power station construction on terrestrial ecosystems: A meta-analysis20230 citations
99. A review on resilient cities research from the perspective of territorial spatial planning: a bibliometric analysis20230 citations
100. Artificial intelligence carbon neutrality strategy in sports event management based on STIRPAT-GRU and transfer learning20230 citations
101. Unprecedented distribution data for Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana) reveal contemporary climate associations of a Mojave Desert icon20230 citations
102. Make the environment protect you from disease: elevated CO2 inhibits antagonists of the fungus-farming termite symbiosis20230 citations
103. Evolution and zoning of spatial ecosystem functional stability in the southern hilly region of China: a “structure–function” perspective20230 citations
104. Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of palynological changes in Asia during the Holocene20230 citations
105. The impact of industrial structure upgrading and digital economy integration on China's urban carbon emissions20230 citations
106. State-space models to describe survival of an endemic species in the Little Tennessee River basin20230 citations
107. A stakeholder perspective on social stability risk of public–private partnerships project for water environmental governance in China: A social network analysis20230 citations
108. Toward forest dynamics' systematic knowledge: concept study of a multi-sensor visually tracked rover including a new insect radar for high-accuracy robotic monitoring20230 citations
109. Mathematical approach of fiber optics for renewable energy sources using general adversarial networks20230 citations
110. Distribution patterns, driving mechanisms and ecological service functions of urban plant biodiversity20230 citations
111. A three-step approach for co-locating nature-based solutions within offshore wind farms20230 citations
112. Analysis of urban form typology using urban heat island indicators: Case study of Ferdous neighborhood of Tabriz20230 citations
113. Path analysis of energy economic management standardization in the context of carbon neutralization and carbon peak20230 citations
114. Digital transition and the clean renewable energy adoption in rural family: Evidence from Broadband China20230 citations
115. Spatial-temporal variation and driving forces of the synergy of “pollution reduction, carbon reduction, green expansion and economic growth”: evidence from 243 cities …20230 citations
116. The evolution of public sentiment toward government management of emergencies: Social media analytics20230 citations
117. Effects of geographic origin and temperature on survival, development, and emergence of the managed pollinator Osmia lignaria20230 citations
118. … on the path of practical cooperation between China and European Union countries under the environment of carbon neutrality and peak carbon dioxide emissions20230 citations
119. Responses of soil N-cycle enzyme activities to vegetation degradation in a wet meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau20230 citations
120. GSC-MIM: Global semantic integrated self-distilled complementary masked image model for remote sensing images scene classification20230 citations
121. Analysis of water resource ecological optimization and Obstacles based on the water resources–socio–economic–ecological environment model framework–a case …20230 citations
122. High-throughput micro-CT scanning and deep learning segmentation workflow for analyses of shelly invertebrates and their fossils: Examples from marine Bivalvia20230 citations
123. Thermal microrefugia and changing climate affect migratory phenology of a thermally constrained marine mammal20230 citations
124. Spatio-temporal variability in the strength, directionality, and relative importance of climate on occupancy and population densities in a philopatric mammal, the …20230 citations
125. Spatio-temporal variation and prediction of ecological quality based on remote sensing ecological index–a case study of Zhanjiang City, China20230 citations
126. Phylogenomics of Lasiodoriforms: reclassification of the South American genus Vitalius Lucas, Silva and Bertani and allied genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae)20230 citations
127. Planning for megafauna recovery in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra20230 citations
128. Enhancing landslide management with hyper-tuned machine learning and deep learning models: Predicting susceptibility and analyzing sensitivity and uncertainty20230 citations
129. Evolution of human language: duetting as part of prosociality and cognition20230 citations
130. Modeling global habitat suitability and environmental predictor of distribution of a Near Threatened avian scavenger at a high spatial resolution20230 citations
131. Reducing carbon emissions in the architectural design process via transformer with cross-attention mechanism20230 citations
132. Impact of digital technology on carbon emissions: Evidence from Chinese cities20230 citations
133. Multispectral remote sensing and DANet model improve the precision of urban park vegetation detection: an empirical study in Jinhai Park, Shanghai20230 citations
134. Objects detection theory for evaluating the city environmental quality20230 citations
135. The influence of regional tourism economy development on carbon neutrality for environmental protection using improved recurrent neural network20230 citations
136. Does higher demand for medicinal plants lead to more harvest? Evidence from the dual trade of Nardostachy jatamansi and Fritillaria cirrhosa and Tibetan people's …20230 citations
137. Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics and prediction analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus surface source pollution in Shandong Province under the climate …20230 citations
138. Construction and optimization of ecological security pattern based on landscape ecological risk assessment in the affected area of the Lower Yellow River20230 citations
139. Energy efficiency optimization and carbon emission reduction targets of resource-based cities based on BiLSTM-CNN-GAN model20230 citations
140. Machine learning-based grassland aboveground biomass estimation and its response to climate variation in Southwest China20230 citations
141. Factors driving changes in water conservation function from a geospatial perspective: case study of Jilin Province20230 citations
142. A workflow for the automated detection and classification of female gibbon calls from long-term acoustic recordings20230 citations
143. Ontogenetic changes in green turtle (Chelonia mydas) diet and home range in a tropical lagoon20230 citations
144. Offshore wind power policies and green total factor productivity: empirical evidence from coastal China20230 citations
145. Pressures on boreal riparian vegetation: A literature review20220 citations
146. Data-integration of opportunistic species observations into hierarchical modeling frameworks improves spatial predictions for urban red squirrels20220 citations
147. The Limpopo–Mpumalanga–Eswatini Escarpment—extra-ordinary endemic plant richness and extinction risk in a summer rainfall montane region of southern Africa20220 citations
148. Eco-environmental constraints, economic incentives, and spatiotemporal variations of construction land use efficiency in regional China20220 citations
149. Forecasting New COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Based on an Intelligent Point and Interval System Coupled With Environmental Variables20220 citations
150. Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services and the driving factors in urban agglomerations: Evidence from 12 National Urban Agglomerations in China20220 citations
151. Vulnerability assessment and spatio-temporal difference analysis of inland fisheries flood disaster in China20220 citations
152. Analysis of the formation mechanism of debris flows after earthquakes–A case study of the Legugou debris flow20220 citations
153. Research on information extraction of the Dongting Lake ecological wetland based on genetic algorithm optimized convolutional neural network20220 citations
154. What are the “Costs and Benefits” of meat-eating in human evolution? The challenging contribution of behavioral ecology to archeology20220 citations
155. Empirical evidence for energy efficiency using intermittent gliding flight in northern bald ibises20220 citations
156. Accounting for niche truncation to improve spatial and temporal predictions of species distributions20220 citations
157. Overview of current research on wolves in Russia20220 citations
158. Conservation actions for restoring the coastal lagoon habitats: Strategy and multidisciplinary approach of LIFE Lagoon Refresh20220 citations
159. Human impacts on the world's raptors20220 citations
160. Pollinator movement activity influences genetic diversity and differentiation of spatially isolated populations of clonal forest herbs20220 citations
161. Sounding the call for a global library of underwater biological sounds20220 citations
162. Can restoration of freshwater mineral soil wetlands deliver nature-based climate solutions to agricultural landscapes?20220 citations
163. Evaluation of the effect and investment benefit of marine ecosystem protection and restoration20220 citations
164. Ecology of human medical enterprises: from disease ecology of zoonoses, cancer ecology through to medical ecology of human microbiomes20220 citations
165. Research on the optimization of cold chain logistics distribution path of agricultural products E-commerce in urban ecosystem from the perspective of carbon neutrality20220 citations
166. Spatiotemporal mechanism of urban heat island effects on human health—Evidence from Tianjin city of China20220 citations
167. Challenges in linking cognition and survival: a review20220 citations
168. Rain forest fragmentation and environmental dynamics on Nosy Be island (NW madagascar) at 1300 cal BP is attributable to intensified human impact20220 citations
169. Multiscale spatiotemporal dynamics analysis of urban green space: Implications for green space planning in the rapid urbanizing Hefei City, China20220 citations
170. PSR-BP neural network-based health assessment of the Huangshui plateau urban wetlands in China20220 citations
171. Functional wetland loss drives emerging risks to waterbird migration networks20220 citations
172. “Landscape of stress” for sheep owners in the Swedish wolf region20220 citations
173. Economic evaluation and systematic review of salt marsh restoration projects at a global scale20220 citations
174. The evolution of the spiracular region from jawless fishes to tetrapods20220 citations
175. From Analog to Digital Computing: Is Homo sapiens' Brain on Its Way to Become a Turing Machine?20220 citations
176. Balancing future renewable energy infrastructure siting and associated habitat loss for migrating whooping cranes20220 citations
177. Spillover effects of built-up land expansion under ecological security constraint at multiple spatial scales20220 citations
178. Missing interactions: the current state of multispecies connectivity analysis20220 citations
179. Genetic insights into the introduction history of black rats into the eastern Indian Ocean20220 citations
180. Environmental factors indirectly reduce phytoplankton community stability via functional diversity20220 citations
181. Population Genetics Reveals Invasion Origin of Coilia brachygnathus in the Three Gorges Reservoir of the Yangtze River, China20220 citations
182. Infanticide by Adult Females Causes Sexual Conflict in a Female-Dominated Social Mammal20220 citations
183. Ecosystem services becoming political: how ecological processes shape local resource-management networks20210 citations
184. Groping in the fog: soaring migrants exhibit wider scatter in flight directions and respond differently to wind under low visibility conditions20210 citations
185. Standards and best practices for monitoring and benchmarking insects20210 citations
186. Ratio-dependence in predator-prey systems as an edge and basic minimal model of predator interference20210 citations
187. Gene Flow in Phaseolus Beans and Its Role as a Plausible Driver of Ecological Fitness and Expansion of Cultigens20210 citations
188. High throughput data acquisition and deep learning for insect ecoinformatics20210 citations
189. Bridging the gap between mammal and insect ears–A comparative and evolutionary view of sound-reception20210 citations
190. Computer vision, machine learning, and the promise of phenomics in ecology and evolutionary biology20210 citations
191. Nestmate recognition in social insects: what does it mean to be chemically insignificant?20200 citations
192. Seasonal hypometabolism in female moose20200 citations
193. Avoiding conceptual and mathematical pitfalls when developing indices to inform conservation20200 citations
194. Understanding the effects of sublethal pesticide exposure on honey bees: a role for probiotics as mediators of environmental stress20200 citations
195. Predictive characterization for seed morphometric traits for genebank accessions using genomic selection20200 citations
196. Spatio-temporal distribution of monarch butterflies along their migratory route20190 citations
197. Human-elephant conflict: A review of current management strategies and future directions20190 citations
198. Reconstruction of the early Miocene critical zone at Loperot, southwestern Turkana, Kenya20190 citations
199. Geographical distribution of fungal plant pathogens in dust across the United States20190 citations
200. Decision-making in agent-based modeling: A current review and future prospectus20190 citations
201. The role of modeling in monarch butterfly research and conservation20190 citations
202. Physiological adaptations to extreme maternal and allomaternal care in spiders20190 citations
203. Essential biomolecules in food webs20190 citations
204. Spatiotemporal controls on the urban aerobiome20190 citations
205. Wildlife warning reflectors' potential to mitigate wildlife-vehicle collisions—A review on the evaluation methods20180 citations
206. Large extent volunteer roadkill and wildlife observation systems as sources of reliable data20170 citations
207. Fractional diffusion emulates a human mobility network during a simulated disease outbreak20170 citations
208. Diversity, specificity, and phylogenetic relationships of endohyphal bacteria in fungi that inhabit tropical seeds and leaves20160 citations
209. The incredible lightness of being methane-fuelled: stable isotopes reveal alternative energy pathways in aquatic ecosystems and beyond20160 citations
210. Dynamic complexity in exploited marine ecosystems20160 citations
211. Typical males and unconventional females: songs and singing behaviors of a tropical, duetting oriole in the breeding and non-breeding season20160 citations
212. Diversity in fish auditory systems: one of the riddles of sensory biology20160 citations
213. Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research20150 citations
214. High-resolution paleolimnology opens new management perspectives for lakes adaptation to climate warming20150 citations

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