| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome | Science | 2010 | 3,588 |
| 2 | ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution | Bioinformatics | 2005 | 2,809 |
| 3 | Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being | Science | 2017 | 2,026 |
| 4 | The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 1,439 |
| 5 | Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches | Science | 2010 | 1,430 |
| 6 | The integrative future of taxonomy | Frontiers in Zoology | 2010 | 1,281 |
| 7 | Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2014 | 998 |
| 8 | Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 2008 | 966 |
| 9 | The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change | Ecology Letters | 2014 | 802 |
| 10 | A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Beetles Reveals the Evolutionary Origins of a Superradiation | Science | 2007 | 729 |
| 11 | Heat freezes niche evolution | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 708 |
| 12 | Threshold criteria for conversion of probability of species presence to either–or presence–absence | Acta Oecologica | 2007 | 676 |
| 13 | Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 575 |
| 14 | A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans | Science | 1997 | 556 |
| 15 | Predicting extinction risks under climate change: coupling stochastic population models with dynamic bioclimatic habitat models | Biology Letters | 2008 | 552 |
| 16 | Not as good as they seem: the importance of concepts in species distribution modelling | Diversity and Distributions | 2008 | 501 |
| 17 | Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes? | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2016 | 479 |
| 18 | Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes | Science | 2009 | 456 |
| 19 | Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders | Science | 2014 | 421 |
| 20 | Modelling landscape-scale habitat use using GIS and remote sensing: a case study with great bustards | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2001 | 414 |
| 21 | Lower Pleistocene hominids and artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain) | Science | 1995 | 410 |
| 22 | Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus | Nature | 2017 | 398 |
| 23 | Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world | Nature Climate Change | 2015 | 397 |
| 24 | Molecular Evidence on the Evolutionary and Biogeographical Patterns of European Cyprinids | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1999 | 393 |
| 25 | Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals | Nature | 2016 | 392 |
| 26 | Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe | Nature | 2006 | 390 |
| 27 | Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines | Science | 2018 | 389 |
| 28 | Multiple emergences of genetically diverse amphibian-infecting chytrids include a globalized hypervirulent recombinant lineage | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 375 |
| 29 | Are avian blood parasites pathogenic in the wild? A medication experiment in blue tits ( Parus caeruleus ) | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 367 |
| 30 | Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits | New Phytologist | 2015 | 350 |
| 31 | Madagascar as a model region of species diversification | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2009 | 340 |
| 32 | Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments | Science | 2017 | 329 |
| 33 | Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2012 | 315 |
| 34 | A complete estimate of the phylogenetic relationships in Ruminantia: a dated species-level supertree of the extant ruminants | Biological Reviews | 2005 | 311 |
| 35 | Hotspot volcanism close to a passive continental margin: the Canary Islands | Geological Magazine | 1998 | 297 |
| 36 | Changing markets – Medicinal plants in the markets of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 2016 | 286 |
| 37 | Thin-plate spline analysis of allometry and sexual dimorphism in the human craniofacial complex | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2002 | 276 |
| 38 | Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 274 |
| 39 | Avian egg colour and sexual selection: does eggshell pigmentation reflect female condition and genetic quality? | Ecology Letters | 2003 | 267 |
| 40 | A Melanocortin 1 Receptor Allele Suggests Varying Pigmentation Among Neanderthals | Science | 2007 | 264 |
| 41 | A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes | Global Change Biology | 2017 | 259 |
| 42 | Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture | Science | 2010 | 255 |
| 43 | Small mammal taphonomy of Gran Dolina, Atapuerca (Burgos), Spain | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1992 | 254 |
| 44 | Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context | Ecology Letters | 2017 | 244 |
| 45 | Initial Diversification of Living Amphibians Predated the Breakup of Pangaea | American Naturalist | 2005 | 228 |
| 46 | Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 228 |
| 47 | Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 223 |
| 48 | Craniofacial levels and the morphological maturation of the human skull | Journal of Anatomy | 2006 | 220 |
| 49 | Slickenside kinematic indicators | Tectonophysics | 1998 | 218 |
| 50 | Evolutionary history of the fish genus Astyanax Baird & Girard (1854) (Actinopterygii, Characidae) in Mesoamerica reveals multiple morphological homoplasies | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2008 | 211 |
