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|---|
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| 2 | Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking | Nature Biotechnology | 2016 | 2,802 |
| 3 | The global spectrum of plant form and function | Nature | 2016 | 2,022 |
| 4 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 5 | Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity | Science | 2010 | 1,826 |
| 6 | The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific | PLoS Biology | 2007 | 1,757 |
| 7 | Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees | Global Change Biology | 2014 | 1,712 |
| 8 | Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems | Science | 2003 | 1,634 |
| 9 | Why do females mate multiply? A review of the genetic benefits | Biological Reviews | 2000 | 1,553 |
| 10 | The social behaviour of anuran amphibians | Animal Behaviour | 1977 | 1,360 |
| 11 | Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence | Oecologia | 2002 | 1,152 |
| 12 | One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts | Science | 2008 | 1,142 |
| 13 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 14 | Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest | Nature | 2010 | 942 |
| 15 | Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas | Nature | 2012 | 909 |
| 16 | Similarity indices, sample size and diversity | Oecologia | 1981 | 890 |
| 17 | Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests | Nature | 2007 | 867 |
| 18 | Pervasive density-dependent recruitment enhances seedling diversity in a tropical forest | Nature | 2000 | 866 |
| 19 | Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees | Ecology | 2010 | 788 |
| 20 | Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests | Nature | 2016 | 763 |
| 21 | Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 750 |
| 22 | Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage | Nature | 2014 | 743 |
| 23 | Tropical Forest Census Plots | | 1998 | 718 |
| 24 | ENVIRONMENT: The Future of the Brazilian Amazon | Science | 2001 | 715 |
| 25 | Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites | Nature | 1999 | 705 |
| 26 | Wolbachiainfection frequencies in insects: evidence of a global equilibrium? | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 699 |
| 27 | Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot | Journal of Ecology | 2001 | 687 |
| 28 | Are tropical fungal endophytes hyperdiverse? | Ecology Letters | 2000 | 676 |
| 29 | Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching | Nature | 1997 | 666 |
| 30 | Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size | Nature | 2014 | 663 |
| 31 | Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition | Nature | 2016 | 655 |
| 32 | Are invasive species the drivers of ecological change? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2005 | 648 |
| 33 | Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 633 |
| 34 | Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients | Science | 2011 | 617 |
| 35 | Sexual selection for sensory exploitation in the frog Physalaemus pustulosus | Nature | 1990 | 612 |
| 36 | Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 594 |
| 37 | Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest | Nature | 2002 | 588 |
| 38 | Tropical forests in a changing environment | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2005 | 586 |
| 39 | Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans | Nature | 2011 | 586 |
| 40 | Competition in Tropical Stream Fishes: Support for the Competitive Exclusion Principle | Ecology | 1971 | 584 |
| 41 | PLASTIC PHENOTYPIC RESPONSE TO LIGHT OF 16 CONGENERIC SHRUBS FROM A PANAMANIAN RAINFOREST | Ecology | 2000 | 576 |
| 42 | ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS | Ecology | 2008 | 572 |
| 43 | Formation of the Isthmus of Panama | Science Advances | 2016 | 565 |
| 44 | Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community | Science | 2010 | 551 |
| 45 | Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses | Nature Communications | 2012 | 546 |
| 46 | Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 540 |
| 47 | Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 517 |
| 48 | Spread of Diadema Mass Mortality Through the Caribbean | Science | 1984 | 516 |
| 49 | Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry | Nature | 2011 | 509 |
| 50 | Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries | Nature | 2008 | 506 |
