| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Measures of the Amount of Ecologic Association Between Species | Ecology | 1945 | 8,860 |
| 2 | TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY | Ecology | 2004 | 5,745 |
| 3 | The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology: The Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture | Ecology | 1992 | 5,366 |
| 4 | USING STABLE ISOTOPES TO ESTIMATE TROPHIC POSITION: MODELS, METHODS, AND ASSUMPTIONS | Ecology | 2002 | 4,994 |
| 5 | Canonical Correspondence Analysis: A New Eigenvector Technique for Multivariate Direct Gradient Analysis | Ecology | 1986 | 4,727 |
| 6 | Diversity and Evenness: A Unifying Notation and Its Consequences | Ecology | 1973 | 4,372 |
| 7 | TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIA | Ecology | 2007 | 3,728 |
| 8 | Partialling out the Spatial Component of Ecological Variation | Ecology | 1992 | 3,619 |
| 9 | The Nonconcept of Species Diversity: A Critique and Alternative Parameters | Ecology | 1971 | 3,292 |
| 10 | ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY RATES WHEN DETECTION PROBABILITIES ARE LESS THAN ONE | Ecology | 2002 | 3,271 |
| 11 | RANDOM FORESTS FOR CLASSIFICATION IN ECOLOGY | Ecology | 2007 | 3,224 |
| 12 | Kernel Methods for Estimating the Utilization Distribution in Home-Range Studies | Ecology | 1989 | 3,188 |
| 13 | The Comparison of Usage and Availability Measurements for Evaluating Resource Preference | Ecology | 1980 | 3,103 |
| 14 | FITTING MULTIVARIATE MODELS TO COMMUNITY DATA: A COMMENT ON DISTANCE-BASED REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS | Ecology | 2001 | 3,092 |
| 15 | Distance to Nearest Neighbor as a Measure of Spatial Relationships in Populations | Ecology | 1954 | 3,000 |
| 16 | THE META-ANALYSIS OF RESPONSE RATIOS IN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY | Ecology | 1999 | 2,977 |
| 17 | Spatial Autocorrelation: Trouble or New Paradigm? | Ecology | 1993 | 2,936 |
| 18 | Energy Storage and the Balance of Producers and Decomposers in Ecological Systems | Ecology | 1963 | 2,929 |
| 19 | A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits | Ecology | 2010 | 2,787 |
| 20 | Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference | Ecology | 2009 | 2,649 |
| 21 | The Trophic-Dynamic Aspect of Ecology | Ecology | 1942 | 2,598 |
| 22 | On Bird Species Diversity | Ecology | 1961 | 2,568 |
| 23 | CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES: A POWERFUL YET SIMPLE TECHNIQUE FOR ECOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS | Ecology | 2000 | 2,501 |
| 24 | NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY | Ecology | 2008 | 2,318 |
| 25 | Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats | Ecology | 1994 | 2,198 |
| 26 | Nitrogen and Lignin Control of Hardwood Leaf Litter Decomposition Dynamics | Ecology | 1982 | 2,194 |
| 27 | Turnover Rates in Insular Biogeography: Effect of Immigration on Extinction | Ecology | 1977 | 2,096 |
| 28 | NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED | Ecology | 2008 | 2,069 |
| 29 | CANONICAL ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPAL COORDINATES: A USEFUL METHOD OF CONSTRAINED ORDINATION FOR ECOLOGY | Ecology | 2003 | 2,003 |
| 30 | The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms | Ecology | 1935 | 1,964 |
| 31 | MICROBIAL STRESS-RESPONSE PHYSIOLOGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION | Ecology | 2007 | 1,935 |
| 32 | NITROGEN MINERALIZATION: CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING PARADIGM | Ecology | 2004 | 1,926 |
| 33 | VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS | Ecology | 2006 | 1,875 |
| 34 | CONFRONTING MULTICOLLINEARITY IN ECOLOGICAL MULTIPLE REGRESSION | Ecology | 2003 | 1,868 |
| 35 | ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS | Ecology | 2003 | 1,868 |
| 36 | POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ORGANISMS AS PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS | Ecology | 1997 | 1,807 |
| 37 | The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology | Ecology | 2011 | 1,801 |
| 38 | Stopping Rules in Principal Components Analysis: A Comparison of Heuristical and Statistical Approaches | Ecology | 1993 | 1,800 |
| 39 | PARTITIONING DIVERSITY INTO INDEPENDENT ALPHA AND BETA COMPONENTS | Ecology | 2007 | 1,790 |
| 40 | FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES | Ecology | 2008 | 1,766 |
| 41 | Derivation of Leaf-Area Index from Quality of Light on the Forest Floor | Ecology | 1969 | 1,761 |
| 42 | The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus Stellatus | Ecology | 1961 | 1,714 |
| 43 | PLANT FUNCTIONAL MARKERS CAPTURE ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES DURING SECONDARY SUCCESSION | Ecology | 2004 | 1,678 |
| 44 | Fluctuations of Animal Populations and a Measure of Community Stability | Ecology | 1955 | 1,649 |
| 45 | Seasonal Changes in Oak Leaf Tannins and Nutrients as a Cause of Spring Feeding by Winter Moth Caterpillars | Ecology | 1970 | 1,647 |
| 46 | The Anolis Lizards of Bimini: Resource Partitioning in a Complex Fauna | Ecology | 1968 | 1,587 |
| 47 | Saturated Solutions For the Control of Humidity in Biological Research | Ecology | 1960 | 1,557 |
| 48 | Generalization in Pollination Systems, and Why it Matters | Ecology | 1996 | 1,553 |
| 49 | The Use of Distance Measures in Phytosociological Sampling | Ecology | 1956 | 1,551 |
| 50 | The Commonness, And Rarity, of Species | Ecology | 1948 | 1,550 |
