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1 | Fluctuating resources in plant communities: a general theory of invasibility | Journal of Ecology | 2000 | 2,705 |
2 | The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto | Journal of Ecology | 2014 | 2,379 |
3 | Benefits of plant diversity to ecosystems: immediate, filter and founder effects | Journal of Ecology | 1998 | 2,093 |
4 | A Test of a Modified Line Intersect Method of Estimating Root Length | Journal of Ecology | 1975 | 1,838 |
5 | Pattern and Process in the Plant Community | Journal of Ecology | 1947 | 1,794 |
6 | Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability in Invasive Nonindigenous Plants: A Hypothesis | Journal of Ecology | 1995 | 1,439 |
7 | The Exchange of Dissolved Substances Between Mud and Water in Lakes | Journal of Ecology | 1941 | 1,376 |
8 | The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life‐history traits of the Northwest European flora | Journal of Ecology | 2008 | 1,306 |
9 | Species and Area | Journal of Ecology | 1921 | 1,296 |
10 | Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 1,259 |
11 | Seasonal Variation in the Seed Banks of Herbaceous Species in Ten Contrasting Habitats | Journal of Ecology | 1979 | 1,238 |
12 | Some Ecological Consequences of a Computer Model of Forest Growth | Journal of Ecology | 1972 | 1,095 |
13 | Rooting depths, lateral root spreads and below‐ground/above‐ground allometries of plants in water‐limited ecosystems | Journal of Ecology | 2002 | 1,081 |
14 | Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities | Journal of Ecology | 2009 | 1,071 |
15 | The effects of air-borne nitrogen pollutants on species diversity in natural and semi-natural European vegetation | Journal of Ecology | 1998 | 1,056 |
16 | Relative Growth-Rate: Its Range and Adaptive Significance in a Local Flora | Journal of Ecology | 1975 | 1,003 |
17 | Comparative Phenological Studies of Trees in Tropical Wet and Dry Forests in the Lowlands of Costa Rica | Journal of Ecology | 1974 | 998 |
18 | Nutrient Resorption from Senescing Leaves of Perennials: Are there General Patterns? | Journal of Ecology | 1996 | 969 |
19 | Incorporating the Soil Community into Plant Population Dynamics: The Utility of the Feedback Approach | Journal of Ecology | 1997 | 929 |
20 | Carbon limitation in trees | Journal of Ecology | 2003 | 908 |
21 | The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development | Journal of Ecology | 2010 | 896 |
22 | Nature and Structure of the Climax | Journal of Ecology | 1936 | 877 |
23 | Fire, resprouting and variability: a recipe for grass-tree coexistence in savanna | Journal of Ecology | 2000 | 860 |
24 | Reciprocal Averaging: An Eigenvector Method of Ordination | Journal of Ecology | 1973 | 859 |
25 | Pollen Representation of Vegetation in Quaternary Sediments: Theory and Method in Patchy Vegetation | Journal of Ecology | 1994 | 851 |
26 | Impact of invasive plants on the species richness, diversity and composition of invaded communities | Journal of Ecology | 2009 | 826 |
27 | A Comparative Study of Germination Characteristics in a Local Flora | Journal of Ecology | 1981 | 790 |
28 | Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future | Journal of Ecology | 2008 | 788 |
29 | How general are positive relationships between plant population size, fitness and genetic variation? | Journal of Ecology | 2006 | 756 |
30 | The Exchange of Dissolved Substances between Mud and Water in Lakes | Journal of Ecology | 1942 | 738 |
31 | Seedling survival and seed size: a synthesis of the literature | Journal of Ecology | 2004 | 724 |
32 | Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity: bridging the gap between the evolutionary concept and its ecological applications | Journal of Ecology | 2006 | 711 |
33 | A biogeographical approach to plant invasions: the importance of studying exotics in their introduced and native range | Journal of Ecology | 2005 | 699 |
34 | Stability of Grazing Systems: An Application of Predator-Prey Graphs | Journal of Ecology | 1975 | 692 |
35 | Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot | Journal of Ecology | 2001 | 687 |
36 | Abandoned Pastures in Eastern Amazonia. I. Patterns of Plant Succession | Journal of Ecology | 1988 | 673 |
37 | Quantitative Plant Ecology. | Journal of Ecology | 1965 | 659 |
38 | Comparative Plant Demography--Relative Importance of Life-Cycle Components to the Finite Rate of Increase in Woody and Herbaceous Perennials | Journal of Ecology | 1993 | 647 |
39 | Population Dynamics and Local Specialization in a Clonal Perennial (Ranunculus Repens): I. The Dynamics of Ramets in Contrasting Habitats | Journal of Ecology | 1981 | 626 |
40 | Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments | Journal of Ecology | 2005 | 623 |
41 | Global patterns in plant height | Journal of Ecology | 2009 | 611 |
42 | Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 605 |
43 | Stability of Semi-Arid Savanna Grazing Systems | Journal of Ecology | 1981 | 597 |
44 | Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation | Journal of Ecology | 2008 | 588 |
45 | Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta‐analysis | Journal of Ecology | 2012 | 585 |
46 | Soil Development in Relation to Vegetation and Surface Age at Glacier Bay, Alaska | Journal of Ecology | 1955 | 583 |
47 | An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research | Journal of Ecology | 2011 | 572 |
48 | The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. | Journal of Ecology | 1959 | 569 |
49 | The Ecology of Freshwater Phytoplankton. | Journal of Ecology | 1985 | 565 |
50 | Seeds: Physiology of Development and Germination. | Journal of Ecology | 1995 | 556 |