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|---|
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| 2 | Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance | Environmental Science & Technology | 2002 | 6,924 |
| 3 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity | Nature | 2012 | 4,969 |
| 4 | Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management? | Science | 2008 | 3,381 |
| 5 | The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes | Scientific Data | 2015 | 3,074 |
| 6 | Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification | Geophysical Journal International | 1991 | 3,011 |
| 7 | Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes | Geophysical Journal International | 1995 | 2,775 |
| 8 | A global perspective on the use, sales, exposure pathways, occurrence, fate and effects of veterinary antibiotics (VAs) in the environment | Chemosphere | 2006 | 2,698 |
| 9 | Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback | Nature | 2015 | 2,369 |
| 10 | Fire in the Earth System | Science | 2009 | 2,330 |
| 11 | Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles | New Phytologist | 2009 | 2,230 |
| 12 | Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2011 | 2,072 |
| 13 | TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology | Chemical Geology | 2003 | 2,017 |
| 14 | Crustal contributions to arc magmatism in the Andes of Central Chile | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 1988 | 1,937 |
| 15 | Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2003 | 1,874 |
| 16 | Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: Review and synthesis | Journal of Hydrology | 2006 | 1,823 |
| 17 | Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate | Nature | 2005 | 1,782 |
| 18 | Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters | Nature | 2013 | 1,670 |
| 19 | Humic substances as electron acceptors for microbial respiration | Nature | 1996 | 1,572 |
| 20 | ECOLOGY: Synthesizing U.S. River Restoration Efforts | Science | 2005 | 1,552 |
| 21 | Determinants of woody cover in African savannas | Nature | 2005 | 1,543 |
| 22 | Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 1,487 |
| 23 | Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage | International Journal of Wildland Fire | 2009 | 1,470 |
| 24 | The role of magmas in the formation of hydrothermal ore deposits | Nature | 1994 | 1,465 |
| 25 | The role of stress transfer in earthquake occurrence | Nature | 1999 | 1,434 |
| 26 | Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate | Nature | 2002 | 1,419 |
| 27 | Guidelines and recommended terms for expression of stable‐isotope‐ratio and gas‐ratio measurement results | Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry | 2011 | 1,404 |
| 28 | ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY, COLONIZATION, AND LOCAL EXTINCTION WHEN A SPECIES IS DETECTED IMPERFECTLY | Ecology | 2003 | 1,274 |
| 29 | Finer resolution observation and monitoring of global land cover: first mapping results with Landsat TM and ETM+ data | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2013 | 1,263 |
| 30 | Microbial reduction of uranium | Nature | 1991 | 1,262 |
| 31 | Choosing appropriate techniques for quantifying groundwater recharge | Hydrogeology Journal | 2002 | 1,231 |
| 32 | Standards for ecologically successful river restoration | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2005 | 1,221 |
| 33 | Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions | Climatic Change | 2005 | 1,219 |
| 34 | Introduced species and their missing parasites | Nature | 2003 | 1,189 |
| 35 | Evidence for deep mantle circulation from global tomography | Nature | 1997 | 1,170 |
| 36 | Current perspectives on gas hydrate resources | Energy and Environmental Science | 2011 | 1,146 |
| 37 | A self-modifying cellular automaton model of historical urbanization in the San Francisco Bay area | Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design | 1997 | 1,142 |
| 38 | Decline of the North American avifauna | Science | 2019 | 1,131 |
| 39 | Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems | Oecologia | 2004 | 1,119 |
| 40 | Ecological and evolutionary traps | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2002 | 1,113 |
| 41 | Cordilleran suspect terranes | Nature | 1980 | 1,089 |
| 42 | Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2001 | 1,055 |
| 43 | Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System | Journal of Computational Physics | 2008 | 1,032 |
| 44 | Monitoring for conservation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 1,002 |
| 45 | Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2005 | 1,001 |
| 46 | Effect of organic-matter type and thermal maturity on methane adsorption in shale-gas systems | Organic Geochemistry | 2012 | 985 |
| 47 | Effects of climate on chemical_ weathering in watersheds | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1995 | 952 |
| 48 | Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 951 |
| 49 | Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 947 |
| 50 | Oxygen isotope calibration of the onset of ice-rafting and history of glaciation in the North Atlantic region | Nature | 1984 | 934 |
