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| 1 | Behavioral decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1990 | 6,716 |
| 2 | Toward Defining the Course of Evolution: Minimum Change for a Specific Tree Topology | Systematic Zoology | 1971 | 5,869 |
| 3 | A working guide to boosted regression trees | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2008 | 4,853 |
| 4 | Extensions of the Procrustes Method for the Optimal Superimposition of Landmarks | Systematic Zoology | 1990 | 2,960 |
| 5 | Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach | Journal of Wildlife Management | 2003 | 2,699 |
| 6 | The Relation Between the Number of Species and the Number of Individuals in a Random Sample of an Animal Population | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1943 | 2,597 |
| 7 | The Length-Weight Relationship and Seasonal Cycle in Gonad Weight and Condition in the Perch (Perca fluviatilis) | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1951 | 2,475 |
| 8 | Quantitative Phyletics and the Evolution of Anurans | Systematic Zoology | 1969 | 2,440 |
| 9 | Comparing isotopic niche widths among and within communities: SIBER - Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2011 | 2,385 |
| 10 | Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will be Positively Misleading | Systematic Zoology | 1978 | 2,293 |
| 11 | The Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase of an Insect Population | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1948 | 2,002 |
| 12 | Stress in Fishes: A Diversity of Responses with Particular Reference to Changes in Circulating Corticosteroids | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 2002 | 1,896 |
| 13 | Directions in Conservation Biology | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1994 | 1,873 |
| 14 | Multiple Regression and Correlation Extensions of the Mantel Test of Matrix Correspondence | Systematic Zoology | 1986 | 1,866 |
| 15 | At-sea distribution and scale-dependent foraging behaviour of petrels and albatrosses: a comparative study | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2007 | 1,838 |
| 16 | Density as a Misleading Indicator of Habitat Quality | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1983 | 1,820 |
| 17 | Habitat, the Templet for Ecological Strategies? | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1977 | 1,619 |
| 18 | Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool | ZooKeys | 2011 | 1,541 |
| 19 | Null Hypothesis Testing: Problems, Prevalence, and an Alternative | Journal of Wildlife Management | 2000 | 1,540 |
| 20 | Preservation of avian blood and tissue samples for DNA analyses | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1991 | 1,491 |
| 21 | The Evolution of Life-histories | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1993 | 1,472 |
| 22 | Regulation and Stability of Host-Parasite Population Interactions: I. Regulatory Processes | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1978 | 1,431 |
| 23 | Food Webs: Linkage, Interaction Strength and Community Infrastructure | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1980 | 1,421 |
| 24 | How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2014 | 1,379 |
| 25 | Measuring beta diversity for presence-absence data | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2003 | 1,359 |
| 26 | The integrative future of taxonomy | Frontiers in Zoology | 2010 | 1,350 |
| 27 | An analysis of nesting mortality in birds | Smithsonian Contributions To Zoology | 1969 | 1,324 |
| 28 | Mutual Interference Between Parasites or Predators and its Effect on Searching Efficiency | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1975 | 1,322 |
| 29 | A Practical Model of Metapopulation Dynamics | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1994 | 1,319 |
| 30 | Character Displacement | Systematic Zoology | 1956 | 1,256 |
| 31 | Distinguishing Homologous from Analogous Proteins | Systematic Zoology | 1970 | 1,252 |
| 32 | The Natural Control of Animal Populations | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1949 | 1,212 |
| 33 | Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour? | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2006 | 1,193 |
| 34 | Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the study of avian and mammalian trophic ecology | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 2000 | 1,165 |
| 35 | Scaling of metabolic rate with body mass and temperature in teleost fish | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1999 | 1,133 |
| 36 | A Technique for Analysis of Utilization-Availability Data | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1974 | 1,108 |
| 37 | A Successive Approximations Approach to Character Weighting | Systematic Zoology | 1969 | 1,100 |
| 38 | Population Fluctuations and Clutch-Size in the Great Tit, Parus major L. | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1965 | 1,076 |
| 39 | Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2004 | 1,076 |
| 40 | Uninformative Parameters and Model Selection Using Akaike's Information Criterion | Journal of Wildlife Management | 2010 | 1,066 |
| 41 | A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents | Frontiers in Zoology | 2013 | 1,055 |
| 42 | Effects of Sample Size on Kernel Home Range Estimates | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1999 | 1,047 |
| 43 | The Balance of Animal Populations.—Part I. | Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London | 1935 | 1,005 |
| 44 | Inferring evolutionary processes from phylogenies | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 988 |
| 45 | A Radical Solution to the Species Problem | Systematic Zoology | 1974 | 985 |
| 46 | A Concern for Evidence and a Phylogenetic Hypothesis of Relationships Among Epicrates (Boidae, Serpentes) | Systematic Zoology | 1989 | 974 |
| 47 | Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1970 | 960 |
| 48 | The Food of Fresh-Water Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus and Pygosteus pungitius), with a Review of Methods Used in Studies of the Food of Fishes | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1950 | 959 |
| 49 | `Mean Crowding' | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1967 | 942 |
| 50 | A New Statistical Approach to Geographic Variation Analysis | Systematic Zoology | 1969 | 940 |
| 51 | Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food-web studies | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 2014 | 923 |
| 52 | Avoiding Pitfalls When Using Information-Theoretic Methods | Journal of Wildlife Management | 2002 | 918 |
| 53 | Methods for Computing Wagner Trees | Systematic Zoology | 1970 | 897 |
| 54 | Survival Analysis in Telemetry Studies: The Staggered Entry Design | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1989 | 893 |
| 55 | Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed‐effect modelling approaches | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2013 | 893 |
| 56 | On the Use of Demographic Models of Population Viability in Endangered Species Management | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1998 | 888 |
| 57 | Wolves, elk, and bison: reestablishing the "landscape of fear" in Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A. | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 2001 | 882 |
| 58 | Random Search and Insect Population Models | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1972 | 881 |
| 59 | Species Interactions, Local and Regional Processes, and Limits to the Richness of Ecological Communities: A Theoretical Perspective | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1992 | 880 |
| 60 | An ecologist’s guide to the animal model | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2010 | 871 |
| 61 | Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta) | ZooKeys | 2011 | 868 |
| 62 | The Evolutionary Species Concept Reconsidered | Systematic Zoology | 1978 | 867 |
| 63 | The Insignificance of Statistical Significance Testing | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1999 | 858 |
| 64 | Ungulate Effects on the Functional Species Composition of Plant Communities: Herbivore Selectivity and Plant Tolerance | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1998 | 851 |
| 65 | Are Species Really Individuals? | Systematic Zoology | 1976 | 847 |
| 66 | Outgroup Analysis and Parsimony | Systematic Zoology | 1984 | 847 |
| 67 | A Capture-Recapture Design Robust to Unequal Probability of Capture | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1982 | 846 |
| 68 | Foraging ranges of solitary bees | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2002 | 824 |
| 69 | Stability in Insect Host-Parasite Models | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1973 | 800 |
| 70 | Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and Forest | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1978 | 799 |
| 71 | Variation in survivorship of a migratory songbird throughout its annual cycle | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2002 | 796 |
| 72 | Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2009 | 792 |
| 73 | Food supplementation experiments with terrestrial vertebrates: patterns, problems, and the future | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1990 | 768 |
| 74 | Temperature, Growth Rate, and Body Size in Ectotherms: Fitting Pieces of a Life-History Puzzle | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 2004 | 765 |
| 75 | Modification of Ecosystems by Ungulates | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1996 | 762 |
| 76 | Relative Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Population Extinction | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1997 | 762 |
| 77 | XXXII. Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidae. | Transactions of the Linnean Society | 1862 | 761 |
| 78 | Conversion of α-linolenic acid to longer-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in human adults | Reproduction, Nutrition, Development | 2005 | 752 |
| 79 | Tongues, tentacles and trunks: the biomechanics of movement in muscular-hydrostats | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1985 | 751 |
| 80 | Patterns of natal and breeding dispersal in birds | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1998 | 725 |
| 81 | The critical thermal maximum: history and critique | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1997 | 724 |
| 82 | Thermal Physiology and Vertical Zonation of Intertidal Animals: Optima, Limits, and Costs of Living | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 2002 | 718 |
| 83 | Profitable stream positions for salmonids: relating specific growth rate to net energy gain | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1984 | 716 |
| 84 | Molecular biogeography of Europe: Pleistocene cycles and postglacial trends | Frontiers in Zoology | 2007 | 712 |
| 85 | A Framework for the Quantitative Study of Evolutionary Trees | Systematic Zoology | 1989 | 710 |
| 86 | QUANTIFYING HOME-RANGE OVERLAP: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UTILIZATION DISTRIBUTION | Journal of Wildlife Management | 2005 | 707 |
| 87 | Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2015 | 701 |
| 88 | Cascading top‐down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2009 | 698 |
| 89 | Carry-over effects as drivers of fitness differences in animals | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2011 | 686 |
| 90 | Using Stable Isotopes to Determine Seabird Trophic Relationships | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1994 | 682 |
| 91 | The importance of immune gene variability (MHC) in evolutionary ecology and conservation | Frontiers in Zoology | 2005 | 672 |
| 92 | Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? janzen's hypothesis revisited | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 2006 | 670 |
| 93 | Supplement: the Balance of Animal Populations | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1933 | 669 |
| 94 | Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery, Biotic Diversity, and Paleontological Significance | American Museum Novitates | 2002 | 660 |
| 95 | Specialist Predators, Generalist Predators, and the Microtine Rodent Cycle | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1991 | 659 |
| 96 | The Discovery and Importance of Multiple Islands of Most-Parsimonious Trees | Systematic Zoology | 1991 | 652 |
| 97 | Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2004 | 650 |
| 98 | Hybridization between Fish Species in Nature | Systematic Zoology | 1955 | 638 |
| 99 | Quantifying Landscape Ruggedness for Animal Habitat Analysis: A Case Study Using Bighorn Sheep in the Mojave Desert | Journal of Wildlife Management | 2007 | 638 |
| 100 | Application of random effects to the study of resource selection by animals | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2006 | 633 |
