| 1 | A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 2,532 |
| 2 | High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 1,695 |
| 3 | Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 1,689 |
| 4 | Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2005 | 1,410 |
| 5 | A gentle introduction to quantile regression for ecologists | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 1,402 |
| 6 | Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 1,241 |
| 7 | Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 1,215 |
| 8 | Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 1,169 |
| 9 | Bio-energy in the black | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 1,167 |
| 10 | Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 1,122 |
| 11 | Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 1,078 |
| 12 | Novel weapons: invasive success and the evolution of increased competitive ability | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 1,075 |
| 13 | Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 1,034 |
| 14 | Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 1,009 |
| 15 | Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 956 |
| 16 | Alternative stable states in ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 928 |
| 17 | Ecological light pollution | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 926 |
| 18 | Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 920 |
| 19 | Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 897 |
| 20 | The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 883 |
| 21 | Have we overemphasized the role of denitrification in aquatic ecosystems? A review of nitrate removal pathways | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 871 |
| 22 | A new generation of climate-change experiments: events, not trends | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 861 |
| 23 | Adaptive co‐management for social–ecological complexity | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 850 |
| 24 | How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan‐European, cross‐taxa assessment | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2010 | 767 |
| 25 | The forgotten stage of forest succession: early‐successional ecosystems on forest sites | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 738 |
| 26 | A niche for isotopic ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 632 |
| 27 | Understory vegetation as a forest ecosystem driver: evidence from the northern Swedish boreal forest | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2005 | 629 |
| 28 | Coupled biogeochemical cycles: eutrophication and hypoxia in temperate estuaries and coastal marine ecosystems | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 626 |
| 29 | Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 617 |
| 30 | Assessing data quality in citizen science | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 587 |
| 31 | Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating management options | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 581 |
| 32 | Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 574 |
| 33 | Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea‐level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 572 |
| 34 | Big data and the future of ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 567 |
| 35 | Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 558 |
| 36 | Assessing the impacts of global warming on forest pest dynamics | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 556 |
| 37 | Protected area needs in a changing climate | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 535 |
| 38 | The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 519 |
| 39 | The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2006 | 497 |
| 40 | A comparison-shopper's guide to connectivity metrics | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 486 |
| 41 | The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 484 |
| 42 | City clusters in China: air and surface water pollution | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2006 | 480 |
| 43 | Rising stream and river temperatures in the United States | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2010 | 478 |
| 44 | Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 472 |
| 45 | Live plant imports: the major pathway for forest insect and pathogen invasions of the US | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 452 |
| 46 | Synthetic chemicals as agents of global change | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2017 | 448 |
| 47 | Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 447 |
| 48 | Dam invaders: impoundments facilitate biological invasions into freshwaters | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 443 |
| 49 | Farmland abandonment: threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2014 | 423 |
| 50 | Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 421 |
