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|---|
| 1 | Marine Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities for Tropical Reefs | Science | 2002 | 1,336 |
| 2 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 3 | Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem | Science | 2016 | 951 |
| 4 | Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges | ISME Journal | 2012 | 508 |
| 5 | New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna: Continent-Wide Extinction About 46,000 Years Ago | Science | 2001 | 471 |
| 6 | Heterochrony | | 1991 | 398 |
| 7 | Conservation hotspots of biodiversity and endemism for Indo‐Pacific coral reef fishes | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 2008 | 334 |
| 8 | A guide to the nomenclature of heterochrony | Journal of Paleontology | 1986 | 300 |
| 9 | Aquifers and hyporheic zones: Towards an ecological understanding of groundwater | Hydrogeology Journal | 2005 | 295 |
| 10 | Short-range endemism amongst the Australian fauna: some examples from non-marine environments | Invertebrate Systematics | 2002 | 291 |
| 11 | Burrowing, Emergence, Behavior, and Functional Morphology of the Australian Salamanderfish,Lepidogalaxias salamandroides | Fisheries | 1989 | 270 |
| 12 | Analysis of factors implicated in the recent decline of Australia's mammal fauna | Journal of Biogeography | 2007 | 248 |
| 13 | Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago | Quaternary Research | 2001 | 247 |
| 14 | EVOLUTION OF SUBTERRANEAN DIVING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE HYDROPORINI, BIDESSINI) IN THE ARID ZONE OF AUSTRALIA | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2003 | 207 |
| 15 | Biodiversity, functional roles and ecosystem services of groundwater invertebrates | Invertebrate Systematics | 2008 | 179 |
| 16 | Specimen collection: An essential tool | Science | 2014 | 169 |
| 17 | Hierarchical structure of mitochondrial DNA gene flow among humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae, world‐wide | Molecular Ecology | 1994 | 159 |
| 18 | Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation | PLoS Biology | 2018 | 149 |
| 19 | Phylogenomic analyses of deep gastropod relationships reject Orthogastropoda | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 144 |
| 20 | Exploring Symbiodinium diversity and host specificity in Acropora corals from geographical extremes of Western Australia with 454 amplicon pyrosequencing | Molecular Ecology | 2014 | 143 |
| 21 | Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia | Quaternary Science Reviews | 1991 | 137 |
| 22 | Protecting the innocent: studying short-range endemic taxa enhances conservation outcomes | Invertebrate Systematics | 2011 | 137 |
| 23 | An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia | Nature | 2007 | 130 |
| 24 | Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness | Zootaxa | 2011 | 129 |
| 25 | THE NEGLECTED COUSINS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SMALLER ARACHNID ORDERS? | Journal of Arachnology | 2002 | 128 |
| 26 | The flux of meteorites to the Earth over the last 50 000 years | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 1996 | 127 |
| 27 | The tempo and mode of barnacle evolution | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2008 | 127 |
| 28 | Climate and rock weathering: a study of terrestrial age dated ordinary chondritic meteorites from hot desert regions | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1998 | 120 |
| 29 | Conservation status and biogeography of Australia's terrestrial mammals | Australian Journal of Zoology | 2008 | 118 |
| 30 | Arthropods invade the land: trace fossils and palaeoenvironments of the Tumblagooda Sandstone (?late Silurian) of Kalbarri, Western Australia | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences | 1994 | 117 |
| 31 | Phylogenetic reconstruction of the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) using sequences from the 12S rRNA, 28S rRNA, and NADH1 genes: Implications for classification, biogeography, and the evolution of web building behavior | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2006 | 115 |
| 32 | Cryptic speciation in two widespread subterranean amphipod genera reflects historical drainage patterns in an ancient landscape | Molecular Ecology | 2006 | 108 |
| 33 | Rising from Down Under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective | Invertebrate Systematics | 2008 | 108 |
| 34 | Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot | Biological Reviews | 2015 | 107 |
| 35 | Subterranean archipelago in the Australian arid zone: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of amphipods from central Western Australia | Molecular Ecology | 2007 | 106 |
| 36 | 水文地质与地下水生态 : 相互关联吗 ? | Hydrogeology Journal | 2009 | 103 |
| 37 | Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 103 |
| 38 | First molecular phylogeny of the major clades of Pseudoscorpiones (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2008 | 100 |
| 39 | VIEWPOINT. Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse? | Invertebrate Systematics | 2010 | 100 |
| 40 | Lizard assemblage and reserve size and structure in the Western Australian wheatbelt — some implications for conservation | Biological Conservation | 1980 | 95 |
| 41 | THE ROLE OF HETEROCHRONY IN THE EVOLUTION OF CAMBRIAN TRILOBITES | Biological Reviews | 1986 | 95 |
| 42 | The Biogeography and Phylogeny of Unicellular Cyanobacterial Symbionts in Sponges from Australia and the Mediterranean | Microbial Ecology | 2004 | 92 |
| 43 | New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 87 |
| 44 | An Anomalous Basaltic Meteorite from the Innermost Main Belt | Science | 2009 | 86 |
| 45 | Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of stygobitic isopods (Oniscidea:Haloniscus) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia | Invertebrate Systematics | 2008 | 83 |
| 46 | THE EVOLUTION OF SPINY LOBSTERS (PALINURIDAE): A STUDY OF EVOLUTION IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1967 | 82 |
| 47 | A multivariate study of geographic variation in the whelk Dicathais | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 1973 | 82 |
| 48 | Phylogeny and historical biogeography of ancient assassin spiders (Araneae: Archaeidae) in the Australian mesic zone: Evidence for Miocene speciation within Tertiary refugia | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2012 | 82 |
| 49 | Deep phylogeographic structuring of populations of the trapdoor spider Moggridgea tingle (Migidae) from southwestern Australia: evidence for long-term refugia within refugia | Molecular Ecology | 2011 | 81 |
| 50 | Phylogeny and biogeography of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from Australia and New Guinea | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2013 | 81 |
