| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Some genetic consequences of ice ages, and their role in divergence and speciation | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1996 | 2,749 |
| 2 | Post-glacial re-colonization of European biota | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1999 | 2,330 |
| 3 | Towards integrative taxonomy | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2005 | 1,453 |
| 4 | Metapopulation dynamics: brief history and conceptual domain | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1991 | 1,270 |
| 5 | Spatial autocorrelation in biology: 1. Methodology | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1978 | 1,096 |
| 6 | On the measurement and classification of colour in studies of animal colour patterns | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1990 | 1,081 |
| 7 | Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1985 | 985 |
| 8 | Some genetic consequences of ice ages, and their role in divergence and speciation | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1996 | 972 |
| 9 | Sympatric cryptic species in New Zealand Onychophora | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1998 | 855 |
| 10 | Enemy free space and the structure of ecological communities | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1984 | 792 |
| 11 | Nested subsets and the structure of insular mammalian faunas and archipelagos | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1986 | 786 |
| 12 | Local extinction in a metapopulation context: an empirical evaluation | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1991 | 690 |
| 13 | Single-species metapopulation dynamics: concepts, models and observations | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1991 | 673 |
| 14 | Comparing entire colour patterns as birds see them | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2005 | 647 |
| 15 | The evolutionary ecology of mast seeding in trees | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1980 | 599 |
| 16 | Genome downsizing in polyploid plants | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2004 | 579 |
| 17 | Variation in sexual reproduction in orchids and its evolutionary consequences: a spasmodic journey to diversification | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2004 | 563 |
| 18 | Convergent and divergent character displacement | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1972 | 562 |
| 19 | Armaments and ornaments: an evolutionary explanation of traits of dual utility | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1996 | 559 |
| 20 | Using digital photography to study animal coloration | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2007 | 542 |
| 21 | Polyploidy in arctic plants | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2004 | 517 |
| 22 | A comparative analysis of pollen limitation in flowering plants | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2000 | 515 |
| 23 | One hundred years of eruptions of house mice in Australia - a natural biological curio | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2005 | 500 |
| 24 | Spatial autocorrelation in biology: 2. Some biological implications and four applications of evolutionary and ecological interest | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1978 | 481 |
| 25 | The diversification of South American murid rodents: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequence data for the akodontine tribe | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1993 | 460 |
| 26 | Non-invasive genetic sampling and individual identification | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1999 | 449 |
| 27 | Interspecific allometry of population density in mammals and other animals: the independence of body mass and population energy-use | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1987 | 447 |
| 28 | Sexual selection, natural selection and quality advertisement | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1982 | 435 |
| 29 | Asynchronous expression of duplicate genes in angiosperms may cause apomixis, bispory, tetraspory, and polyembryony | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1997 | 434 |
| 30 | Molecular and morphological data reveal cryptic taxonomic diversity in the terrestrial slug complex Arion subfuscus/fuscus (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Arionidae) in continental north-west Europe | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2004 | 432 |
| 31 | Variation in mutualisms: the spatiotemporal mosaic of a pollinator assemblage | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1988 | 407 |
| 32 | Allocation of resources to male and female functions in hermaphrodites | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1981 | 402 |
| 33 | Insect diversity: facts, fiction and speculation* | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1988 | 397 |
| 34 | Speciation among tropical forest trees: some deductions in the light of recent evidence | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1969 | 372 |
| 35 | The relationships of plant and insect diversities in succession | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1979 | 369 |
| 36 | Phylogenetic relationships between parthenogens and their sexual relatives: the possible routes to parthenogenesis in animals | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2003 | 369 |
| 37 | A life-cycle theory of responses to stress | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1989 | 363 |
| 38 | The tortoise and the hare: ecology of angiosperm dominance and gymnosperm persistence | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1989 | 361 |
| 39 | Assessing the magnitude of species richness in tropical marine environments: exceptionally high numbers of molluscs at a New Caledonia site | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2002 | 352 |
| 40 | Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2003 | 337 |
| 41 | Biogeography of mammals in SE Asia: estimates of rates of colonization, extinction and speciation | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1986 | 334 |
| 42 | Recent and recurrent polyploidy in Tragopogon (Asteraceae): cytogenetic, genomic and genetic comparisons | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2004 | 328 |
| 43 | Patterns of animal dispersal, vicariance and diversification in the Holarctic | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2001 | 326 |
| 44 | A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad-bearing lizards | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1996 | 325 |
| 45 | The interrelationships of all major groups of Platyhelminthes: phylogenetic evidence from morphology and molecules | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1999 | 325 |
| 46 | Evolution of reversed sexual size dimorphism and role partitioning among predatory birds, with a size scaling of flight performance | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1981 | 316 |
| 47 | Flowering time divergence and genomic rearrangements in resynthesized Brassica polyploids (Brassicaceae) | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2004 | 313 |
| 48 | Sexual selection and the temporal separation of reproductive events: sperm storage data from reptiles, birds and mammals | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1993 | 312 |
| 49 | Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1976 | 305 |
| 50 | Progressive background in moths, and a quantitative measure of crypsis | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1984 | 303 |
