| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 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 | 2,354 |
| 2 | Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 1,809 |
| 3 | High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 1,540 |
| 4 | Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 1,490 |
| 5 | Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2005 | 1,461 |
| 6 | A gentle introduction to quantile regression for ecologists | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 1,453 |
| 7 | Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 1,409 |
| 8 | Bio-energy in the black | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 1,333 |
| 9 | Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 1,317 |
| 10 | Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 1,308 |
| 11 | Novel weapons: invasive success and the evolution of increased competitive ability | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 1,187 |
| 12 | Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 1,061 |
| 13 | Alternative stable states in ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 1,043 |
| 14 | Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 1,013 |
| 15 | Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 998 |
| 16 | The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 992 |
| 17 | Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 980 |
| 18 | Ecological light pollution | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 962 |
| 19 | Adaptive co‐management for social–ecological complexity | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 954 |
| 20 | Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 949 |
| 21 | Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 947 |
| 22 | A new generation of climate-change experiments: events, not trends | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 931 |
| 23 | Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 927 |
| 24 | A niche for isotopic ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 917 |
| 25 | Have we overemphasized the role of denitrification in aquatic ecosystems? A review of nitrate removal pathways | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 906 |
| 26 | 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 | 870 |
| 27 | The forgotten stage of forest succession: early‐successional ecosystems on forest sites | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 733 |
| 28 | Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating management options | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 711 |
| 29 | Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 674 |
| 30 | Big data and the future of ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 657 |
| 31 | Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 656 |
| 32 | Coupled biogeochemical cycles: eutrophication and hypoxia in temperate estuaries and coastal marine ecosystems | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 656 |
| 33 | Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2017 | 656 |
| 34 | Assessing the impacts of global warming on forest pest dynamics | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2003 | 655 |
| 35 | Understory vegetation as a forest ecosystem driver: evidence from the northern Swedish boreal forest | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2005 | 643 |
| 36 | Protected area needs in a changing climate | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 630 |
| 37 | Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 622 |
| 38 | Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea‐level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 614 |
| 39 | A niche for isotopic ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 607 |
| 40 | The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 597 |
| 41 | City clusters in China: air and surface water pollution | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2006 | 595 |
| 42 | Assessing data quality in citizen science | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2016 | 555 |
| 43 | The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 524 |
| 44 | A comparison-shopper's guide to connectivity metrics | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2004 | 522 |
| 45 | The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2006 | 511 |
| 46 | Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 503 |
| 47 | Rising stream and river temperatures in the United States | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2010 | 485 |
| 48 | Live plant imports: the major pathway for forest insect and pathogen invasions of the US | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 479 |
| 49 | Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 462 |
| 50 | An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 462 |
