| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 | Nature Biotechnology | 2019 | 11,167 |
| 2 | Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences | Nature Biotechnology | 2013 | 8,049 |
| 3 | Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms | ISME Journal | 2012 | 7,430 |
| 4 | Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography | Nature | 2012 | 6,247 |
| 5 | A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests | Forest Ecology and Management | 2010 | 5,535 |
| 6 | Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought? | New Phytologist | 2008 | 3,232 |
| 7 | Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin | Microbiome | 2018 | 3,159 |
| 8 | Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback | Nature | 2015 | 2,369 |
| 9 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 10 | A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity | Nature | 2017 | 1,942 |
| 11 | Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2003 | 1,874 |
| 12 | A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change | Nature | 2012 | 1,750 |
| 13 | LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products | Astrophysical Journal | 2019 | 1,744 |
| 14 | Functioning of mycorrhizal associations along the mutualism-parasitism continuum | New Phytologist | 1997 | 1,637 |
| 15 | Current understanding of the human microbiome | Nature Medicine | 2018 | 1,593 |
| 16 | Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States | Science | 2009 | 1,465 |
| 17 | Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Consensus Statement from International Multidisciplinary Roundtable | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2019 | 1,443 |
| 18 | USING CIRCUIT THEORY TO MODEL CONNECTIVITY IN ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND CONSERVATION | Ecology | 2008 | 1,405 |
| 19 | Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys | MSystems | 2016 | 1,364 |
| 20 | THE SPITZER c2d LEGACY RESULTS: STAR-FORMATION RATES AND EFFICIENCIES; EVOLUTION AND LIFETIMES | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2009 | 1,244 |
| 21 | Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk | Human Nature | 2009 | 1,243 |
| 22 | Best practices for analysing microbiomes | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2018 | 1,138 |
| 23 | Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes | Nature Methods | 2018 | 1,125 |
| 24 | Phylogenetic Relationships within Cation Transporter Families of Arabidopsis | Plant Physiology | 2001 | 1,110 |
| 25 | Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: a meta‐analysis of experimental manipulation | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 1,066 |
| 26 | Ecological Responses to Habitat Edges: Mechanisms, Models, and Variability Explained | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2004 | 1,060 |
| 27 | How Big Is “Big”? Interpreting Effect Sizes in L2 Research | Language Learning | 2014 | 1,054 |
| 28 | Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands | Science | 2012 | 1,043 |
| 29 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 30 | Global-Scale Similarities in Nitrogen Release Patterns During Long-Term Decomposition | Science | 2007 | 1,027 |
| 31 | Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 1,018 |
| 32 | Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture | Nature | 2015 | 1,005 |
| 33 | Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency | Nature | 2004 | 968 |
| 34 | Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 947 |
| 35 | Quantifying burn severity in a heterogeneous landscape with a relative version of the delta Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2007 | 935 |
| 36 | The limits to tree height | Nature | 2004 | 918 |
| 37 | A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2006 | 911 |
| 38 | Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems | Texts in Applied Mathematics | 2001 | 910 |
| 39 | Microbiota Transfer Therapy alters gut ecosystem and improves gastrointestinal and autism symptoms: an open-label study | Microbiome | 2017 | 901 |
| 40 | Resident attitudes | Annals of Tourism Research | 2002 | 873 |
| 41 | Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora | Science | 2013 | 873 |
| 42 | Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models | Science | 2015 | 836 |
| 43 | Seismicity Remotely Triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake | Science | 1993 | 808 |
| 44 | Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogs | ELife | 2013 | 801 |
| 45 | When Good Animals Love Bad Habitats: Ecological Traps and the Conservation of Animal Populations | Conservation Biology | 2004 | 794 |
| 46 | The Continuum of Plant Responses to Herbivory: The Influence of Plant Association, Nutrient Availability, and Timing | American Naturalist | 1989 | 793 |
| 47 | Increased sedimentation rates and grain sizes 2–4 Myr ago due to the influence of climate change on erosion rates | Nature | 2001 | 746 |
| 48 | A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 739 |
| 49 | ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Nitrogen and Climate Change | Science | 2003 | 735 |
| 50 | Staphylococcus aureusbiofilms | Virulence | 2011 | 734 |
