| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms: Causes, Consequences, and Controls | Microbial Ecology | 2013 | 1,237 |
| 2 | Impacts of Carbon and Flooding on Soil Microbial Communities: Phospholipid Fatty Acid Profiles and Substrate Utilization Patterns | Microbial Ecology | 1998 | 1,113 |
| 3 | Survival and viability of nonculturableEscherichia coli andVibrio cholerae in the estuarine and marine environment | Microbial Ecology | 1982 | 934 |
| 4 | Determinants of Soil Microbial Communities: Effects of Agricultural Management, Season, and Soil Type on Phospholipid Fatty Acid Profiles | Microbial Ecology | 1998 | 892 |
| 5 | The Diversity of Archaea and Bacteria in Association with the Roots of Zea mays L. | Microbial Ecology | 2001 | 761 |
| 6 | Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Allow Reduced Application Rates of Chemical Fertilizers | Microbial Ecology | 2009 | 609 |
| 7 | Microorganisms and heavy metal toxicity | Microbial Ecology | 1977 | 602 |
| 8 | Microbial Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology: A Decade of Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Uncultivated Microorganisms | Microbial Ecology | 1998 | 599 |
| 9 | Influence of Drying-Rewetting Frequency on Soil Bacterial Community Structure | Microbial Ecology | 2003 | 583 |
| 10 | Relationship between soil organic carbon and microbial biomass on chronosequences of reclamation sites | Microbial Ecology | 1988 | 563 |
| 11 | Role of Productivity and Protozoan Abundance for the Occurrence of Predation-resistant Bacteria in Aquatic Systems | Microbial Ecology | 2008 | 548 |
| 12 | Soil pH Determines Microbial Diversity and Composition in the Park Grass Experiment | Microbial Ecology | 2015 | 544 |
| 13 | Bacterial flora of fishes: A review | Microbial Ecology | 1990 | 493 |
| 14 | Soil Water Content and Organic Carbon Availability Are Major Determinants of Soil Microbial Community Composition | Microbial Ecology | 2004 | 475 |
| 15 | The effect of temperature and algal biomass on bacterial production and specific growth rate in freshwater and marine habitats | Microbial Ecology | 1991 | 468 |
| 16 | Bacterial adhesion: A physicochemical approach | Microbial Ecology | 1989 | 466 |
| 17 | Validation of a Three-Stage Compound Continuous Culture System for Investigating the Effect of Retention Time on the Ecology and Metabolism of Bacteria in the Human Colon | Microbial Ecology | 1998 | 443 |
| 18 | Microbial Communities Associated with Electrodes Harvesting Electricity from a Variety of Aquatic Sediments | Microbial Ecology | 2004 | 440 |
| 19 | Microbiological basis of phosphate removal in the activated sludge process for the treatment of wastewater | Microbial Ecology | 1975 | 438 |
| 20 | Endophytes of Grapevine Flowers, Berries, and Seeds: Identification of Cultivable Bacteria, Comparison with Other Plant Parts, and Visualization of Niches of Colonization | Microbial Ecology | 2011 | 437 |
| 21 | Comparison of 61 Sequenced Escherichia coli Genomes | Microbial Ecology | 2010 | 436 |
| 22 | Microbiological characterization of a fuel-oil contaminated site including numerical identification of heterotrophic water and soil bacteria | Microbial Ecology | 1991 | 429 |
| 23 | High-Density Universal 16S rRNA Microarray Analysis Reveals Broader Diversity than Typical Clone Library When Sampling the Environment | Microbial Ecology | 2007 | 416 |
| 24 | Dysbiosis Signature of Fecal Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer Patients | Microbial Ecology | 2013 | 408 |
| 25 | Bacterivory and herbivory: Key roles of phagotrophic protists in pelagic food webs | Microbial Ecology | 1994 | 406 |
| 26 | A mini-review of microbial consortia: Their roles in aquatic production and biogeochemical cycling | Microbial Ecology | 1996 | 389 |
| 27 | The uptake of inorganic nutrients by heterotrophic bacteria | Microbial Ecology | 1994 | 385 |
| 28 | Microbial Biomass and Community Structure in a Sequence of Soils with Increasing Fertility and Changing Land Use | Microbial Ecology | 2000 | 382 |
| 29 | The significance of viruses to mortality in aquatic microbial communities | Microbial Ecology | 1994 | 379 |
| 30 | Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms in Disease | Microbial Ecology | 2014 | 373 |
| 31 | Bacterial Interactions in Early Life Stages of Marine Cold Water Fish | Microbial Ecology | 1999 | 366 |
| 32 | Microbial Community Succession in an Unvegetated, Recently Deglaciated Soil | Microbial Ecology | 2007 | 359 |
| 33 | Equivalence of microbial biomass measures based on membrane lipid and cell wall components, adenosine triphosphate, and direct counts in subsurface aquifer sediments | Microbial Ecology | 1988 | 340 |
| 34 | Slope of the Monod equation as an indicator of advantage in nutrient competition | Microbial Ecology | 1980 | 337 |
| 35 | Genotypic Microbial Community Profiling: A Critical Technical Review | Microbial Ecology | 2007 | 334 |
| 36 | Improved Tolerance of Acacia nilotica to Salt Stress by Arbuscular Mycorrhiza, Glomus fasciculatum may be Partly Related to Elevated K/Na Ratios in Root and Shoot Tissues | Microbial Ecology | 2007 | 332 |
| 37 | Potential risks of gene amplification by PCR as determined by 16S rDNA analysis of a mixed-culture of strict barophilic bacteria | Microbial Ecology | 1991 | 329 |
| 38 | Viability of soil bacteria: Optimization of plate-counting technique and comparison between total counts and plate counts within different size groups | Microbial Ecology | 1987 | 322 |
| 39 | Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance Genes, and Bacterial Community Composition in Fresh Water Aquaculture Environment in China | Microbial Ecology | 2015 | 322 |
| 40 | Availability of dissolved organic carbon for planktonic bacteria in oligotrophic lakes of differing humic content | Microbial Ecology | 1988 | 321 |
| 41 | New PCR Primers for the Screening of NRPS and PKS-I Systems in Actinomycetes: Detection and Distribution of These Biosynthetic Gene Sequences in Major Taxonomic Groups | Microbial Ecology | 2005 | 321 |
| 42 | Common Features of Environmental and Potentially Beneficial Plant-Associated Burkholderia | Microbial Ecology | 2012 | 321 |
| 43 | Protozoan grazing of bacteria in soil—impact and importance | Microbial Ecology | 1981 | 317 |
| 44 | The structure of microbial communities in soil and the lasting impact of cultivation | Microbial Ecology | 2001 | 314 |
| 45 | Hypolithic Cyanobacteria, Dry Limit of Photosynthesis, and Microbial Ecology in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert | Microbial Ecology | 2006 | 314 |
| 46 | Illumina Sequencing of 16S rRNA Tag Revealed Spatial Variations of Bacterial Communities in a Mangrove Wetland | Microbial Ecology | 2013 | 314 |
| 47 | A Phylogenetic Evaluation of Whether Endophytes Become Saprotrophs at Host Senescence | Microbial Ecology | 2007 | 313 |
| 48 | Abundance and Diversity of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Fungal Communities Along an Altitudinal Gradient in Alpine Forest Soils: What Are the Driving Factors? | Microbial Ecology | 2016 | 309 |
| 49 | Phylogenetic Analysis of Intestinal Microflora Indicates a Novel Mycoplasma Phylotype in Farmed and Wild Salmon | Microbial Ecology | 2002 | 308 |
| 50 | Endophytic Bacterial Diversity in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Roots Estimated by 16S rDNA Sequence Analysis | Microbial Ecology | 2008 | 299 |
