| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance | Ecological Research | 2010 | 458 |
| 2 | Characteristics of insect populations on habitat fragments: A mini review | Ecological Research | 2002 | 363 |
| 3 | Ecology of ligninolytic fungi associated with leaf litter decomposition | Ecological Research | 2007 | 347 |
| 4 | ‘Green tides’ are overwhelming the coastline of our blue planet: taking the world's largest example | Ecological Research | 2011 | 332 |
| 5 | Legacies of the past in the present-day forest biodiversity: a review of past land-use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity | Ecological Research | 2007 | 285 |
| 6 | Citizen science: a new approach to advance ecology, education, and conservation | Ecological Research | 2016 | 285 |
| 7 | Forest ecosystems of east and southeast Asia in a global perspective | Ecological Research | 1991 | 263 |
| 8 | Local neighborhood effects on long-term survival of individual trees in a neotropical forest | Ecological Research | 2001 | 261 |
| 9 | Community diversity and invasion resistance: An experimental test in a grassland ecosystem and a review of comparable studies | Ecological Research | 2001 | 211 |
| 10 | Food webs in space: On the interplay of dynamic instability and spatial processes | Ecological Research | 2002 | 206 |
| 11 | Effect of land use conversion on soil organic carbon sequestration in the loess hilly area, loess plateau of China | Ecological Research | 2007 | 199 |
| 12 | Pigment dynamics and autumn leaf senescence in a New England deciduous forest, eastern USA | Ecological Research | 2003 | 197 |
| 13 | Food webs in river networks | Ecological Research | 2002 | 193 |
| 14 | Regeneration of beech (Fagus crenata ) after the simultaneous death of undergrowing dwarf bamboo (Sasa kurilensis ) | Ecological Research | 1988 | 191 |
| 15 | Importance of permafrost as a source of water for plants in east Siberian taiga | Ecological Research | 2002 | 190 |
| 16 | Mixed leaf litter effects on decomposition rates and soil microarthropod communities in an oak–pine stand in Japan | Ecological Research | 1999 | 188 |
| 17 | Influence of slope aspect on Mediterranean woody formations: Comparison of a semiarid and an arid site in Israel | Ecological Research | 2001 | 183 |
| 18 | Rebuilding the relationship between people and nature: the Satoyama Initiative | Ecological Research | 2010 | 178 |
| 19 | Soil organic matter dynamics: a biological perspective derived from the use of compound‐specific isotopes studies | Ecological Research | 2013 | 175 |
| 20 | Land use change in Asia and the ecological consequences | Ecological Research | 2006 | 172 |
| 21 | Resource-driven terrestrial interaction webs | Ecological Research | 2002 | 170 |
| 22 | Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science | Ecological Research | 2006 | 160 |
| 23 | The impact of changing irrigation practices in rice fields on frog populations of the Kanto Plain, central Japan | Ecological Research | 1997 | 157 |
| 24 | Empirical dynamic modeling for beginners | Ecological Research | 2017 | 154 |
| 25 | Seed germination of high mountain Mediterranean species: altitudinal, interpopulation and interannual variability | Ecological Research | 2005 | 153 |
| 26 | Double counting in ecosystem services valuation: causes and countermeasures | Ecological Research | 2011 | 152 |
| 27 | Copepoda - Cladocera - Tunicata: The role of three major mesozooplankton groups in pelagic food webs | Ecological Research | 2002 | 150 |
| 28 | Feeding groups, lifetypes and the global ecology of termites | Ecological Research | 2001 | 148 |
| 29 | Does seed production of spring ephemerals decrease when spring comes early? | Ecological Research | 2004 | 148 |
| 30 | Effects of leaf blade narrowness and petiole length on the light capture efficiency of a shoot | Ecological Research | 1994 | 143 |
| 31 | Bird community composition patterns in urban parks of Madrid: The role of age, size and isolation | Ecological Research | 2000 | 143 |
| 32 | Organic chemical and nutrient dynamics in decomposing beech leaf litter in relation to fungal ingrowth and succession during 3-year decomposition processes in a cool temperate deciduous forest in Japan | Ecological Research | 2001 | 143 |
| 33 | Effects of aquatic macrophytes on water quality and phytoplankton communities in shallow lakes | Ecological Research | 2003 | 143 |
| 34 | Phytoplankton stoichiometry | Ecological Research | 2008 | 143 |
| 35 | Successional diversity and forest ecosystem function | Ecological Research | 2001 | 142 |
| 36 | Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages | Ecological Research | 2020 | 141 |
| 37 | Functional domains in soils | Ecological Research | 2002 | 140 |
| 38 | Social–ecological systems and adaptive governance of the commons | Ecological Research | 2007 | 138 |
| 39 | Effects of understory dwarf bamboo on soil water and the growth of overstory trees in a dense secondary Betula ermanii forest, northern Japan | Ecological Research | 2003 | 137 |
| 40 | Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques | Ecological Research | 2011 | 135 |
| 41 | A new index of interspecific competition for replacement and additive designs | Ecological Research | 2001 | 130 |
| 42 | Fruiting phenology of animal-dispersed plants in response to winter migration of frugivores in a warm temperate forest on Yakushima Island, Japan | Ecological Research | 1997 | 124 |
| 43 | The impact of selective logging and clearcutting on forest structure, tree diversity and above‐ground biomass of African tropical forests | Ecological Research | 2015 | 122 |
| 44 | The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs | Ecological Research | 2006 | 121 |
| 45 | Long-distance dispersal of tree seeds by wind | Ecological Research | 2001 | 120 |
| 46 | Can minimum convex polygon home ranges be used to draw biologically meaningful conclusions? | Ecological Research | 2008 | 120 |
| 47 | Soil erodibility, microbial biomass, and physical–chemical property changes during long‐term natural vegetation restoration: a case study in the Loess Plateau, China | Ecological Research | 2010 | 118 |
| 48 | Effects of rainfall events on soil CO2 flux in a cool temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest | Ecological Research | 2002 | 117 |
| 49 | Effects of partitioning allochthonous and autochthonous resources on food web stability | Ecological Research | 2002 | 117 |
| 50 | Xylem embolism refilling and resilience against drought‐induced mortality in woody plants: processes and trade‐offs | Ecological Research | 2018 | 116 |
