| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity | Nature | 2012 | 4,969 |
| 2 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 3 | The Genome of Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) | Science | 2006 | 3,945 |
| 4 | Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges | Science | 2001 | 3,551 |
| 5 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 6 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth | Science | 2011 | 3,030 |
| 7 | Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 2,997 |
| 8 | Global diversity and geography of soil fungi | Science | 2014 | 2,513 |
| 9 | Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 2,304 |
| 10 | Direct observation of individual endogenous protein complexes in situ by proximity ligation | Nature Methods | 2006 | 2,103 |
| 11 | Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis | Ecological Applications | 2010 | 2,063 |
| 12 | Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,913 |
| 13 | Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2002 | 1,877 |
| 14 | Proteoglycans: Structures and Interactions | Annual Review of Biochemistry | 1991 | 1,798 |
| 15 | Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography | Nature | 2011 | 1,771 |
| 16 | Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance | Science | 2013 | 1,767 |
| 17 | Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands | Science | 1999 | 1,757 |
| 18 | Toxicity of heavy metals to microorganisms and microbial processes in agricultural soils: a review | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1998 | 1,684 |
| 19 | The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System | Science | 2000 | 1,601 |
| 20 | The chemistry and antioxidant properties of tocopherols and tocotrienols | Lipids | 1996 | 1,597 |
| 21 | Comparison of different nuclear DNA markers for estimating intraspecific genetic diversity in plants | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,572 |
| 22 | New primers to amplify the fungal ITS2 region - evaluation by 454-sequencing of artificial and natural communities | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2012 | 1,568 |
| 23 | Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses | Biological Reviews | 2012 | 1,443 |
| 24 | Tansley Review No. 95 15 N natural abundance in soil‐plant systems | New Phytologist | 1997 | 1,438 |
| 25 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 26 | The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes | Science | 2012 | 1,424 |
| 27 | Microelectrophoretic study of radiation-induced DNA damages in individual mammalian cells | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 1984 | 1,415 |
| 28 | Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 1,325 |
| 29 | Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes | Science | 2014 | 1,319 |
| 30 | Lakes as sentinels of climate change | Limnology and Oceanography | 2009 | 1,314 |
| 31 | Integration of Plant Responses to Environmentally Activated Phytohormonal Signals | Science | 2006 | 1,304 |
| 32 | The Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution | Nature | 2013 | 1,303 |
| 33 | Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 1,259 |
| 34 | The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling | Biological Reviews | 2013 | 1,224 |
| 35 | Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 1,143 |
| 36 | Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2002 | 1,133 |
| 37 | Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest | Science | 2013 | 1,130 |
| 38 | Reassessing PCR primers targeting nirS, nirK and nosZ genes for community surveys of denitrifying bacteria with DGGE | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2004 | 1,095 |
| 39 | Lake responses to reduced nutrient loading - an analysis of contemporary long-term data from 35 case studies | Freshwater Biology | 2005 | 1,080 |
| 40 | The molecular structures of starch components and their contribution to the architecture of starch granules: A comprehensive review | Starch/Staerke | 2010 | 1,075 |
| 41 | Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2009 | 1,053 |
| 42 | Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon‐use efficiency in soils | New Phytologist | 2012 | 1,046 |
| 43 | Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland | Basic and Applied Ecology | 2010 | 1,039 |
| 44 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 45 | Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species | Nature Communications | 2013 | 1,034 |
| 46 | Are Agricultural Soils Dumps for Microplastics of Urban Origin? | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 1,014 |
| 47 | Fluorescein Diacetate Hydrolysis as a Measure of Total Microbial Activity in Soil and Litter | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1982 | 1,007 |
| 48 | Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks | Nature Communications | 2018 | 992 |
| 49 | Diversity meets decomposition | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 991 |
| 50 | The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems | American Journal of Botany | 2011 | 991 |
