| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities | Nature | 2000 | 22,192 |
| 2 | Extinction risk from climate change | Nature | 2004 | 5,985 |
| 3 | Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines | Science | 2010 | 3,642 |
| 4 | Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2002 | 2,256 |
| 5 | Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 1,801 |
| 6 | Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities | Science | 2006 | 1,762 |
| 7 | Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity | Conservation Biology | 2002 | 1,518 |
| 8 | Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest | Science | 2009 | 1,443 |
| 9 | Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays | ELife | 2014 | 1,400 |
| 10 | Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon | Science | 2008 | 1,383 |
| 11 | Marine Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities for Tropical Reefs | Science | 2002 | 1,336 |
| 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 | Human-Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide | Conservation Biology | 2003 | 1,179 |
| 15 | Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity | Nature | 2004 | 1,149 |
| 16 | One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts | Science | 2008 | 1,142 |
| 17 | Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 1,082 |
| 18 | Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities | Conservation Biology | 1998 | 1,032 |
| 19 | Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean | Nature Communications | 2015 | 1,030 |
| 20 | Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter | Science Advances | 2017 | 912 |
| 21 | Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas | Nature | 2012 | 909 |
| 22 | The value of the IUCN Red List for conservation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 882 |
| 23 | A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture | Nature | 2021 | 871 |
| 24 | Global Biodiversity Conservation: The Critical Role of Hotspots | Nature | 2011 | 821 |
| 25 | THE ROLE OF PROTECTED AREAS IN CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINING LOCAL LIVELIHOODS | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 2005 | 818 |
| 26 | An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean | Nature | 2012 | 736 |
| 27 | Global Warming and Extinctions of Endemic Species from Biodiversity Hotspots | Conservation Biology | 2006 | 728 |
| 28 | Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 633 |
| 29 | Protected area needs in a changing climate | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 630 |
| 30 | Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally | Nature | 2017 | 630 |
| 31 | Wilderness and biodiversity conservation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 610 |
| 32 | Climate change, wine, and conservation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 571 |
| 33 | The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions | Nature Sustainability | 2020 | 571 |
| 34 | Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 568 |
| 35 | Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan | BioScience | 2020 | 553 |
| 36 | Fifty years of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar | Environmental Conservation | 2007 | 552 |
| 37 | Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 514 |
| 38 | Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests | Nature | 2002 | 500 |
| 39 | The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old-growth Amazonian forests | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 497 |
| 40 | Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests | New Phytologist | 2010 | 487 |
| 41 | Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate | Biogeosciences | 2012 | 487 |
| 42 | Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools | Science | 2008 | 484 |
| 43 | Regional Management Units for Marine Turtles: A Novel Framework for Prioritizing Conservation and Research across Multiple Scales | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 483 |
| 44 | One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity | Conservation Biology | 2009 | 468 |
| 45 | Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores | PLoS Biology | 2004 | 448 |
| 46 | Millennial-Scale Dynamics of Southern Amazonian Rain Forests | Science | 2000 | 439 |
| 47 | The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 436 |
| 48 | Biodiversity Conservation Planning Tools: Present Status and Challenges for the Future | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 2006 | 427 |
| 49 | Geomorphology of the oceans | Marine Geology | 2014 | 426 |
| 50 | Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human‐modified Tropical Landscapes | Biotropica | 2009 | 417 |
