| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Exploring the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities: An Example for Rain Forest Trees | American Naturalist | 2000 | 1,309 |
| 2 | Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 1,123 |
| 3 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 4 | Phylogenetic signal in plant pathogen-host range | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 633 |
| 5 | REGIONAL AND PHYLOGENETIC VARIATION OF WOOD DENSITY ACROSS 2456 NEOTROPICAL TREE SPECIES | | 2006 | 632 |
| 6 | Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project | GigaScience | 2014 | 582 |
| 7 | ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS | Ecology | 2008 | 572 |
| 8 | Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure | Molecular Ecology | 2009 | 544 |
| 9 | Evolutionary Consequences of Fallback Foods | International Journal of Primatology | 2007 | 439 |
| 10 | Sprouting in temperate trees: A morphological and ecological review | Botanical Review, The | 2001 | 391 |
| 11 | Recent Synchronous Radiation of a Living Fossil | Science | 2011 | 304 |
| 12 | Herbarium specimens demonstrate earlier flowering times in response to warming in Boston | American Journal of Botany | 2004 | 290 |
| 13 | Global shifts in the phenological synchrony of species interactions over recent decades | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 290 |
| 14 | Confronting Maxwell's demon: biophysics of xylem embolism repair | Trends in Plant Science | 2009 | 282 |
| 15 | Hemisphere-scale differences in conifer evolutionary dynamics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 280 |
| 16 | Temperature and photoperiod drive spring phenology across all species in a temperate forest community | New Phytologist | 2018 | 201 |
| 17 | Sensing embolism in xylem vessels: the role of sucrose as a trigger for refilling | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2011 | 200 |
| 18 | Site- and Species-Specific Influences on Sub-Alpine Conifer Growth in Mt. Rainier National Park, USA | Forests | 2018 | 195 |
| 19 | Phylogenetic signal in nucleotide data from seed plants: implications for resolving the seed plant tree of life | American Journal of Botany | 2004 | 192 |
| 20 | Independent variation in photosynthetic capacity and stomatal conductance leads to differences in intrinsic water use efficiency in 11 soybean genotypes before and during mild drought | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2011 | 171 |
| 21 | Phytochrome-mediated development in land plants: red light sensing evolves to meet the challenges of changing light environments | Molecular Ecology | 2006 | 169 |
| 22 | Allocation, stress tolerance and carbon transport in plants: how does phloem physiology affect plant ecology? | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2016 | 164 |
| 23 | From Pinot to Xinomavro in the world's future wine-growing regions | Nature Climate Change | 2018 | 136 |
| 24 | Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why | Journal of Ecology | 2015 | 131 |
| 25 | REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN RATES OF PLANT SPECIATION AND MOLECULAREVOLUTION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN EASTERN ASIA AND EASTERN NORTH AMERICA | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2004 | 125 |
| 26 | Exploring the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities: An Example for Rain Forest Trees | American Naturalist | 2000 | 119 |
| 27 | Evolutionary Studies Illuminate the Structural-Functional Model of Plant Phytochromes | Plant Cell | 2010 | 115 |
| 28 | Evolutionary tools for phytosanitary risk analysis: phylogenetic signal as a predictor of host range of plant pests and pathogens | Evolutionary Applications | 2012 | 114 |
| 29 | Patterns of PIP gene expression in Populus trichocarpa during recovery from xylem embolism suggest a major role for the PIP1 aquaporin subfamily as moderators of refilling process | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2010 | 110 |
| 30 | Analysis of Xylem Sap from Functional (Nonembolized) and Nonfunctional (Embolized) Vessels of Populus nigra: Chemistry of Refilling | Plant Physiology | 2012 | 108 |
| 31 | Phylogenetic studies of a large data set. I. Bambusoideae, Andropogonodae, and Pooideae (Gramineae) | Botanical Review, The | 1993 | 99 |
| 32 | IntegratingELF4into the circadian system through combined structural and functional studies | HFSP Journal | 2009 | 99 |
| 33 | Investigating xylem embolism formation, refilling and water storage in tree trunks using frequency domain reflectometry | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2013 | 98 |
| 34 | Spatial structuring of bacterial communities within individual Ginkgo biloba trees | Environmental Microbiology | 2015 | 94 |
| 35 | Phylogeny of the Dipsacales s.l. based on chloroplast trnL-F and ndhF sequences | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2003 | 87 |
| 36 | Vessel diameter is related to amount and spatial arrangement of axial parenchyma in woody angiosperms | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2018 | 81 |
| 37 | Field confirmation of genetic variation in soybean transpiration response to vapor pressure deficit and photosynthetic compensation | Field Crops Research | 2011 | 76 |
| 38 | Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long‐term drought | Ecology Letters | 2019 | 75 |
| 39 | Winter temperatures predominate in spring phenological responses to warming | Nature Climate Change | 2020 | 70 |
| 40 | Mitochondrial matR sequences help to resolve deep phylogenetic relationships in rosids | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2007 | 66 |
| 41 | Trees approach gravitational limits to height in tall lowland forests of Malaysia | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 65 |
| 42 | Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity | Nature Communications | 2020 | 61 |
| 43 | Biodiversity inventory and informatics in Southeast Asia | Biodiversity and Conservation | 2010 | 59 |
| 44 | Rethinking false spring risk | Global Change Biology | 2019 | 57 |
| 45 | A duplicate gene rooting of seed plants and the phylogenetic position of flowering plants | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 53 |
| 46 | Functional analysis of putative genes encoding the PIP2 water channel subfamily in Populus trichocarpa | Tree Physiology | 2009 | 47 |
| 47 | Phenological sequences: how early‐season events define those that follow | American Journal of Botany | 2018 | 43 |
| 48 | DESTRUCTION OF THE BERLIN HERBARIUM | Science | 1943 | 39 |
| 49 | How do climate change experiments alter plot‐scale climate? | Ecology Letters | 2019 | 39 |
| 50 | The Phenology of Sexual Reproduction in Ginkgo biloba: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications | Botanical Review, The | 2007 | 35 |
