| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The worldwide leaf economics spectrum | Nature | 2004 | 6,489 |
| 2 | Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 4,012 |
| 3 | Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota | Science | 2004 | 3,502 |
| 4 | Global diversity and geography of soil fungi | Science | 2014 | 2,513 |
| 5 | Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution | Science | 2014 | 2,096 |
| 6 | Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships | New Phytologist | 2005 | 1,704 |
| 7 | Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for next‐generation ecology and beyond | Ecosphere | 2015 | 1,488 |
| 8 | A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 1,341 |
| 9 | SIMR: an R package for power analysis of generalized linear mixed models by simulation | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 1,229 |
| 10 | Control of Nitrogen Export from Watersheds by Headwater Streams | Science | 2001 | 1,209 |
| 11 | Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 1,143 |
| 12 | Halloysite clay minerals — a review | Clay Minerals | 2005 | 1,142 |
| 13 | The Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex | Studies in Mycology | 2012 | 1,130 |
| 14 | Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules | Functional Ecology | 2010 | 1,105 |
| 15 | The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies | International Journal of Plant Sciences | 2003 | 1,057 |
| 16 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 17 | Are treelines advancing? A global meta‐analysis of treeline response to climate warming | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 977 |
| 18 | Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea | PLoS Genetics | 2011 | 902 |
| 19 | Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests | Science | 2016 | 864 |
| 20 | Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 776 |
| 21 | A global meta‐analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 768 |
| 22 | Colletotrichum – current status and future directions | Studies in Mycology | 2012 | 754 |
| 23 | Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2005 | 669 |
| 24 | Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size | Nature | 2014 | 663 |
| 25 | Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition | Nature | 2016 | 655 |
| 26 | Mapping tree density at a global scale | Nature | 2015 | 642 |
| 27 | A weed risk assessment model for use as a biosecurity tool evaluating plant introductions | Journal of Environmental Management | 1999 | 638 |
| 28 | Use of niche models in invasive species risk assessments | Biological Invasions | 2011 | 621 |
| 29 | Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 605 |
| 30 | Leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, conductance and transpiration: scaling from leaves to canopies | Plant, Cell and Environment | 1995 | 600 |
| 31 | Linking above-ground and below-ground interactions: how plant responses to foliar herbivory influence soil organisms | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1998 | 596 |
| 32 | Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale | Nature | 2009 | 588 |
| 33 | Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene | Science | 2017 | 586 |
| 34 | The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits | Systematic Biology | 2009 | 581 |
| 35 | Nematodes as soil indicators: functional and biodiversity aspects | Biology and Fertility of Soils | 2003 | 542 |
| 36 | Stable oxygen isotope composition of plant tissue: a review | Functional Plant Biology | 2007 | 526 |
| 37 | Fine-grained sediment in river systems: environmental significance and management issues | River Research and Applications | 2005 | 516 |
| 38 | Families of Dothideomycetes | Fungal Diversity | 2013 | 509 |
| 39 | Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services | Biodiversity and Conservation | 2017 | 505 |
| 40 | Incorporating Molecular Evolution into Phylogenetic Analysis, and a New Compilation of Conserved Polymerase Chain Reaction Primers for Animal Mitochondrial DNA | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2006 | 496 |
| 41 | Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 494 |
| 42 | World checklist of hornworts and liverworts | PhytoKeys | 2016 | 478 |
| 43 | Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2019 | 474 |
| 44 | The Faces of Fungi database: fungal names linked with morphology, phylogeny and human impacts | Fungal Diversity | 2015 | 471 |
| 45 | A review of models for low impact urban stormwater drainage | Environmental Modelling and Software | 2007 | 470 |
| 46 | Invasive Rodent Eradication on Islands | Conservation Biology | 2007 | 448 |
| 47 | Mycoviruses of filamentous fungi and their relevance to plant pathology | Molecular Plant Pathology | 2009 | 436 |
| 48 | The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution | Systematic Entomology | 2015 | 435 |
| 49 | High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 427 |
| 50 | PLANT REMOVALS IN PERENNIAL GRASSLAND: VEGETATION DYNAMICS, DECOMPOSERS, SOIL BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES | Ecological Monographs | 1999 | 415 |
