| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming | Nature | 2006 | 1,420 |
| 2 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 3 | Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees | Science | 2002 | 1,176 |
| 4 | Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests | Science | 2016 | 864 |
| 5 | Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 763 |
| 6 | EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2010 | 672 |
| 7 | CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 473 |
| 8 | Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador | Journal of Ecology | 2004 | 443 |
| 9 | The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 378 |
| 10 | Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease | Ecology Letters | 2019 | 349 |
| 11 | An estimate of the number of tropical tree species | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 335 |
| 12 | Global importance of large‐diameter trees | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 330 |
| 13 | A general framework for the distance–decay of similarity in ecological communities | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 312 |
| 14 | Clinical, molecular, and epidemiological characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a comprehensive literature review | Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease | 2020 | 293 |
| 15 | An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR) | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2002 | 285 |
| 16 | Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 280 |
| 17 | Epidemiology of Candidemia in Latin America: A Laboratory-Based Survey | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 267 |
| 18 | Scale‐dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 265 |
| 19 | Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages | PLoS Biology | 2009 | 242 |
| 20 | Structure and diversity of stream invertebrate assemblages: the influence of temperature with altitude and latitude | Freshwater Biology | 1997 | 231 |
| 21 | Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo's vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 227 |
| 22 | Parkinson's disease severity levels and MDS-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale | Parkinsonism and Related Disorders | 2015 | 216 |
| 23 | Soil resources and topography shape local tree community structure in tropical forests | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2013 | 201 |
| 24 | Obstacles to integrated pest management adoption in developing countries | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 199 |
| 25 | Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 170 |
| 26 | A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels | Ecology and Evolution | 2015 | 167 |
| 27 | Low diversity and high host preference of ectomycorrhizal fungi in Western Amazonia, a neotropical biodiversity hotspot | ISME Journal | 2010 | 165 |
| 28 | Effects of human activities on wild pygmy marmosets in Ecuadorian Amazonia | Biological Conservation | 2000 | 156 |
| 29 | Colony Size and Individual Fitness in the Social SpiderAnelosimus eximius | American Naturalist | 1998 | 152 |
| 30 | EEG-Based BCI Emotion Recognition: A Survey | Sensors | 2020 | 146 |
| 31 | Whipworm genome and dual-species transcriptome analyses provide molecular insights into an intimate host-parasite interaction | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 139 |
| 32 | Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2019 | 138 |
| 33 | The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2012 | 135 |
| 34 | Widespread density‐dependent seedling mortality promotes species coexistence in a highly diverse Amazonian rain forest | Ecology | 2010 | 131 |
| 35 | Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life | Systematic Biology | 2021 | 124 |
| 36 | Trapping Triatominae in Silvatic Habitats | Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 2002 | 121 |
| 37 | A Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Taxonomic study of all Extant Species of Anolis (Squamata; Iguanidae) | Systematic Biology | 2017 | 119 |
| 38 | Microplastic pollution in seawater and marine organisms across the Tropical Eastern Pacific and Galápagos | Scientific Reports | 2021 | 118 |
| 39 | NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS DETERMINE THE SPATIAL PATTERN OF TROPICAL TREE SEEDLING SURVIVAL | Ecology | 2007 | 117 |
| 40 | Standardized Assessment of Biodiversity Trends in Tropical Forest Protected Areas: The End Is Not in Sight | PLoS Biology | 2016 | 117 |
| 41 | Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2013 | 116 |
| 42 | An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 115 |
| 43 | Confirmation of cooperative polyandry in the Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1995 | 112 |
| 44 | Spatial patterns reveal negative density dependence and habitat associations in tropical trees | Ecology | 2011 | 112 |
| 45 | Parental Burnout Around the Globe: a 42-Country Study | Affective Science | 2021 | 112 |
| 46 | COVID-19, consumer behavior, technology, and society: A literature review and bibliometric analysis | Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 2021 | 111 |
| 47 | Norovirus Infection and Disease in an Ecuadorian Birth Cohort: Association of Certain Norovirus Genotypes With Host FUT2 Secretor Status | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2015 | 106 |
| 48 | Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity | Nature | 2017 | 106 |
| 49 | New diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis: Reliability and validity | Annals of Neurology | 2016 | 102 |
| 50 | Habitat filtering across tree life stages in tropical forest communities | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2013 | 101 |
