| Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder-event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 293 |
| Bio-ORACLE v2.0: Extending marine data layers for bioclimatic modelling | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 243 |
| Paintings predict the distribution of species, or the challenge of selecting environmental predictors and evaluation statistics | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 198 |
| Global importance of large-diameter trees | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 185 |
| A meta-analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 182 |
| BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 153 |
| Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: 10 questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 111 |
| Without quality presence–absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 105 |
| Expanding, shifting and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species’ elevational distributions | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 100 |
| Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 91 |
| Higher precipitation strengthens the microbial interactions in semi-arid grassland soils | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 83 |
| Biome stability in South America over the last 30 kyr: Inferences from long-term vegetation dynamics and habitat modelling | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 80 |
| Salvage logging in the world’s forests: Interactions between natural disturbance and logging need recognition | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 72 |
| Explaining global variation in the latitudinal diversity gradient: Meta-analysis confirms known patterns and uncovers new ones | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 64 |
| Traits of lizards of the world: Variation around a successful evolutionary design | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 63 |
| Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 57 |
| The sedimentary and remote-sensing reflection of biomass burning in Europe | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 57 |
| Local environment and space drive multiple facets of stream macroinvertebrate beta diversity | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 55 |
| Shifts in plant distributions in response to climate warming in a biodiversity hotspot, the Hengduan Mountains | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 54 |
| Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 53 |
| Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 52 |
| Beyond climate control on species range: The importance of soil data to predict distribution of Amazonian plant species | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 51 |
| Effects of forest degradation on microbial communities and soil carbon cycling: A global meta-analysis | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 50 |
| Resist, recover or both? Growth plasticity in response to drought is geographically structured and linked to intraspecific variability in Pinus pinaster | Journal of Biogeography | 2018 | 50 |
| Habitat suitability estimated by niche models is largely unrelated to species abundance | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 50 |
