| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Spatial Scaling in Ecology | Functional Ecology | 1989 | 3,691 |
| 2 | On the Temperature Dependence of Soil Respiration | Functional Ecology | 1994 | 3,249 |
| 3 | Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail | Functional Ecology | 2002 | 2,500 |
| 4 | Adaptive versus non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments | Functional Ecology | 2007 | 2,356 |
| 5 | Trade-Offs in Life-History Evolution | Functional Ecology | 1989 | 2,154 |
| 6 | Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor | Functional Ecology | 2015 | 1,126 |
| 7 | Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules | Functional Ecology | 2010 | 1,105 |
| 8 | The use of leukocyte profiles to measure stress in vertebrates: a review for ecologists | Functional Ecology | 2008 | 1,099 |
| 9 | Differential fractionation of δ 13 C and δ 15 N among fish tissues: implications for the study of trophic interactions | Functional Ecology | 1999 | 821 |
| 10 | The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 709 |
| 11 | Neutral theory in community ecology and the hypothesis of functional equivalence | Functional Ecology | 2005 | 685 |
| 12 | The Adaptive Significance of Diel Vertical Migration of Zooplankton | Functional Ecology | 1989 | 665 |
| 13 | Seed Size and Shape Predict Persistence in Soil | Functional Ecology | 1993 | 665 |
| 14 | Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high- and low-rainfall and high- and low-nutrient habitats | Functional Ecology | 2001 | 648 |
| 15 | Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world | Functional Ecology | 2015 | 619 |
| 16 | The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology | Functional Ecology | 2004 | 570 |
| 17 | Chlorophyll Fluorescence as a Probe of the Photosynthetic Competence of Leaves in the Field: A Review of Current Instrumentation | Functional Ecology | 1989 | 563 |
| 18 | Growth responses of 15 rain‐forest tree species to a light gradient: the relative importance of morphological and physiological traits | Functional Ecology | 1999 | 552 |
| 19 | A standardized protocol for the determination of specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content | Functional Ecology | 2001 | 546 |
| 20 | The variability of stomatal sensitivity to leaf water potential across tree species indicates a continuum between isohydric and anisohydric behaviours | Functional Ecology | 2014 | 544 |
| 21 | Evolution on ecological time-scales | Functional Ecology | 2007 | 539 |
| 22 | The paradigm of body condition: a critical reappraisal of current methods based on mass and length | Functional Ecology | 2010 | 529 |
| 23 | The twelfth Tansley Lecture. Small is beautiful: the picophytoplankton | Functional Ecology | 1998 | 523 |
| 24 | Upper thermal limits in terrestrial ectotherms: how constrained are they? | Functional Ecology | 2013 | 519 |
| 25 | Long-range foraging by the honey-bee, Apis mellifera L. | Functional Ecology | 2000 | 511 |
| 26 | Nutrition, ecology and nutritional ecology: toward an integrated framework | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 496 |
| 27 | Why does metabolism scale with temperature? | Functional Ecology | 2004 | 486 |
| 28 | Non‐optimal animal movement in human‐altered landscapes | Functional Ecology | 2007 | 485 |
| 29 | Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 485 |
| 30 | Nutrition integrates environmental responses of ungulates | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 482 |
| 31 | Leaf structure (specific leaf area) modulates photosynthesis-nitrogen relations: evidence from within and across species and functional groups | Functional Ecology | 1998 | 479 |
| 32 | Simplifying the phytohaemagglutinin skin‐testing technique in studies of avian immunocompetence | Functional Ecology | 1999 | 473 |
| 33 | Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients, water and light | Functional Ecology | 2013 | 472 |
| 34 | Linking the global carbon cycle to individual metabolism | Functional Ecology | 2005 | 462 |
| 35 | Assessing functional diversity in the field – methodology matters! | Functional Ecology | 2008 | 459 |
| 36 | The multifarious effects of dispersal and gene flow on contemporary adaptation | Functional Ecology | 2007 | 453 |
| 37 | Eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems | Functional Ecology | 2007 | 450 |
| 38 | Decomposers in disguise: mycorrhizal fungi as regulators of soil C dynamics in ecosystems under global change | Functional Ecology | 2008 | 450 |
| 39 | Oxidative stress as a life‐history constraint: the role of reactive oxygen species in shaping phenotypes from conception to death | Functional Ecology | 2010 | 450 |
| 40 | The balanced-growth hypothesis and the allometry of leaf and root biomass allocation | Functional Ecology | 2002 | 448 |
| 41 | The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta‐analysis | Functional Ecology | 2011 | 446 |
| 42 | Sexual selection, sexual conflict and the evolution of ageing and life span | Functional Ecology | 2008 | 440 |
| 43 | Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence | Functional Ecology | 2011 | 437 |
| 44 | Photosynthesis and respiration rates depend on leaf and root morphology and nitrogen concentration in nine boreal tree species differing in relative growth rate | Functional Ecology | 1998 | 430 |
| 45 | An Improved Method for Seed-Bank Analysis: Seedling Emergence After Removing the Soil by Sieving | Functional Ecology | 1996 | 429 |
| 46 | N : P ratios influence litter decomposition and colonization by fungi and bacteria in microcosms | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 426 |
| 47 | A multi‐trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra‐ vs. interspecific variability in plant traits | Functional Ecology | 2010 | 420 |
| 48 | Plant traits that predict resistance to herbivores | Functional Ecology | 2011 | 415 |
| 49 | Seed size, shape and vertical distribution in the soil: indicators of seed longevity | Functional Ecology | 1998 | 410 |
| 50 | Measuring metabolic rate in the field: the pros and cons of the doubly labelled water and heart rate methods | Functional Ecology | 2004 | 407 |
