| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 2 | The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection | Science | 2014 | 2,295 |
| 3 | Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 2,181 |
| 4 | Removal of nutrients in various types of constructed wetlands | Science of the Total Environment | 2007 | 2,083 |
| 5 | A Toxicologic Review of Quantum Dots: Toxicity Depends on Physicochemical and Environmental Factors | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2006 | 1,967 |
| 6 | S-nitrosohaemoglobin: a dynamic activity of blood involved in vascular control | Nature | 1996 | 1,584 |
| 7 | The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene | Science | 2016 | 1,543 |
| 8 | Soil respiration and the global carbon cycle | Science | 2000 | 1,400 |
| 9 | A Critical Review of the Risks to Water Resources from Unconventional Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States | Environmental Science & Technology | 2014 | 1,217 |
| 10 | CO2 emissions from forest loss | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,095 |
| 11 | LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY: A GRAPH-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE | Ecology | 2001 | 1,054 |
| 12 | Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon‐use efficiency in soils | New Phytologist | 2012 | 1,046 |
| 13 | Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 1,027 |
| 14 | Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming | Nature | 2016 | 879 |
| 15 | Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora | Science | 2013 | 873 |
| 16 | The distribution of soil nutrients with depth: Global patterns and the imprint of plants | Biogeochemistry | 2001 | 850 |
| 17 | Caenorhabditis elegans: An Emerging Model in Biomedical and Environmental Toxicology | Toxicological Sciences | 2008 | 832 |
| 18 | THE GLOBAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ROOTS | Ecological Monographs | 2002 | 816 |
| 19 | High and Far: Biases in the Location of Protected Areas | PLoS ONE | 2009 | 749 |
| 20 | A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 739 |
| 21 | Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 737 |
| 22 | An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean | Nature | 2012 | 736 |
| 23 | The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 713 |
| 24 | A human-driven decline in global burned area | Science | 2017 | 694 |
| 25 | Horizontal sub-surface flow and hybrid constructed wetlands systems for wastewater treatment | Ecological Engineering | 2005 | 678 |
| 26 | Differential responses to changes in growth temperature between trees from different functional groups and biomes: a review and synthesis of data | Tree Physiology | 2010 | 663 |
| 27 | Detection of Organophosphate Flame Retardants in Furniture Foam and U.S. House Dust | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 662 |
| 28 | Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 654 |
| 29 | Why environmental scientists are becoming Bayesians | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 641 |
| 30 | Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally | Nature | 2017 | 630 |
| 31 | The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2013 | 616 |
| 32 | Modifying the ‘pulse–reserve’ paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water, and plant responses | Oecologia | 2004 | 593 |
| 33 | House Dust Concentrations of Organophosphate Flame Retardants in Relation to Hormone Levels and Semen Quality Parameters | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2010 | 580 |
| 34 | Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world | Science | 2020 | 576 |
| 35 | Rapid accumulation and turnover of soil carbon in a re-establishing forest | Nature | 1999 | 561 |
| 36 | Discovery of 40 Classes of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Historical Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFFs) and AFFF-Impacted Groundwater | Environmental Science & Technology | 2017 | 554 |
| 37 | Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population | Nature | 2019 | 546 |
| 38 | Mechanism of Silver Nanoparticle Toxicity Is Dependent on Dissolved Silver and Surface Coating in Caenorhabditis elegans | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 535 |
| 39 | Bycatch of Marine Mammals in U.S. and Global Fisheries | Conservation Biology | 2006 | 533 |
| 40 | Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin | Nature | 2017 | 526 |
| 41 | Global resorption efficiencies and concentrations of carbon and nutrients in leaves of terrestrial plants | Ecological Monographs | 2012 | 521 |
| 42 | Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change | Global Change Biology | 2012 | 519 |
| 43 | Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 495 |
| 44 | Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 483 |
| 45 | Limited carbon storage in soil and litter of experimental forest plots under increased atmospheric CO2 | Nature | 2001 | 482 |
| 46 | Alternate and New Brominated Flame Retardants Detected in U.S. House Dust | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 471 |
| 47 | A Census of Marine Biodiversity Knowledge, Resources, and Future Challenges | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 468 |
| 48 | Graph models of habitat mosaics | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 467 |
| 49 | Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 466 |
| 50 | Landscape connectivity: A conservation application of graph theory | Journal of Environmental Management | 2000 | 462 |
