| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global trends in emerging infectious diseases | Nature | 2008 | 5,859 |
| 2 | Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines | Science | 2010 | 3,642 |
| 3 | Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health | Science | 2000 | 3,330 |
| 4 | Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being | Science | 2017 | 2,026 |
| 5 | The delayed rise of present-day mammals | Nature | 2007 | 1,832 |
| 6 | A proposed unified framework for biological invasions | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2011 | 1,762 |
| 7 | Considering evolutionary processes in conservation biology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2000 | 1,567 |
| 8 | Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases | Nature | 2010 | 1,481 |
| 9 | COLONY: a program for parentage and sibship inference from multilocus genotype data | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2010 | 1,394 |
| 10 | PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals | Ecology | 2009 | 1,322 |
| 11 | A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology | PeerJ | 2018 | 1,277 |
| 12 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge | Science | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 13 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 14 | Essential Biodiversity Variables | Science | 2013 | 1,150 |
| 15 | One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts | Science | 2008 | 1,142 |
| 16 | How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 1,052 |
| 17 | Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species | Science | 2005 | 1,035 |
| 18 | Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat | Nature | 2005 | 993 |
| 19 | A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets | Science | 2014 | 949 |
| 20 | The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people | Science | 2016 | 883 |
| 21 | Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep | Science | 2001 | 820 |
| 22 | Using observation-level random effects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution | PeerJ | 2014 | 818 |
| 23 | Sibship Reconstruction From Genetic Data With Typing Errors | Genetics | 2004 | 780 |
| 24 | Mammals on the EDGE: Conservation Priorities Based on Threat and Phylogeny | PLoS ONE | 2007 | 772 |
| 25 | coancestry: a program for simulating, estimating and analysing relatedness and inbreeding coefficients | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2011 | 758 |
| 26 | Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife | Acta Tropica | 2001 | 757 |
| 27 | Enhancer Evolution across 20 Mammalian Species | Cell | 2015 | 671 |
| 28 | A critical analysis of the biological impacts of plasticizers on wildlife | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2009 | 646 |
| 29 | Taxonomic inflation: its influence on macroecology and conservation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2004 | 645 |
| 30 | The role of taxonomy in species conservation | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 602 |
| 31 | Limits to evolution at range margins: when and why does adaptation fail? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2007 | 598 |
| 32 | An Estimator for Pairwise Relatedness Using Molecular Markers | Genetics | 2002 | 575 |
| 33 | Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores | Nature | 1999 | 568 |
| 34 | Global Emergence ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisand Amphibian Chytridiomycosis in Space, Time, and Host | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2009 | 564 |
| 35 | Ecological role and services of tropical mangrove ecosystems: a reassessment | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2014 | 555 |
| 36 | Estimating animal density using camera traps without the need for individual recognition | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2008 | 553 |
| 37 | Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas | Biological Conservation | 2010 | 537 |
| 38 | A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special? | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2013 | 508 |
| 39 | Matriarchs As Repositories of Social Knowledge in African Elephants | Science | 2001 | 500 |
| 40 | Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring? | Biological Reviews | 2013 | 499 |
| 41 | Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics | Nature | 1998 | 498 |
| 42 | The more you introduce the more you get: the role of colonization pressure and propagule pressure in invasion ecology | Diversity and Distributions | 2009 | 495 |
| 43 | Detecting Population Expansion and Decline Using Microsatellites | Genetics | 1999 | 493 |
| 44 | Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2014 | 486 |
| 45 | A Common Rule for the Scaling of Carnivore Density | Science | 2002 | 478 |
| 46 | Basic aspects of frozen storage of semen | Animal Reproduction Science | 2000 | 477 |
| 47 | A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets | Science Advances | 2019 | 477 |
| 48 | Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates | Nature | 2006 | 462 |
| 49 | The Ecology of Seamounts: Structure, Function, and Human Impacts | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2010 | 461 |
| 50 | Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores | PLoS Biology | 2004 | 448 |
