| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | An Ordination of the Upland Forest Communities of Southern Wisconsin | Ecological Monographs | 1957 | 8,777 |
| 2 | Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments | Ecological Monographs | 1984 | 7,020 |
| 3 | EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE | Ecological Monographs | 2005 | 5,856 |
| 4 | Species Assemblages and Indicator Species: The Need for a Flexible Asymmetrical Approach | Ecological Monographs | 1997 | 4,878 |
| 5 | Modeling Survival and Testing Biological Hypotheses Using Marked Animals: A Unified Approach with Case Studies | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 3,853 |
| 6 | The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services | Ecological Monographs | 2011 | 3,639 |
| 7 | Vegetation of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California | Ecological Monographs | 1960 | 2,935 |
| 8 | Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies | Ecological Monographs | 2014 | 2,397 |
| 9 | Organization of a Plant-Arthropod Association in Simple and Diverse Habitats: The Fauna of Collards (Brassica Oleracea) | Ecological Monographs | 1973 | 2,371 |
| 10 | Competition, Disturbance, and Community Organization: The Provision and Subsequent Utilization of Space in a Rocky Intertidal Community | Ecological Monographs | 1971 | 2,068 |
| 11 | DISTANCE-BASED REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS: TESTING MULTISPECIES RESPONSES IN MULTIFACTORIAL ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS | Ecological Monographs | 1999 | 2,036 |
| 12 | SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH | Ecological Monographs | 1997 | 1,949 |
| 13 | Comparisons of Treatments After an Analysis of Variance in Ecology | Ecological Monographs | 1989 | 1,860 |
| 14 | Quantitative Effects of Grazing on Vegetation and Soils Over a Global Range of Environments | Ecological Monographs | 1993 | 1,559 |
| 15 | The Niche Exploitation Pattern of the Blue‐Gray Gnatcatcher | Ecological Monographs | 1967 | 1,513 |
| 16 | Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains | Ecological Monographs | 1956 | 1,472 |
| 17 | Herbivory and Defensive Characteristics of Tree Species in a Lowland Tropical Forest | Ecological Monographs | 1983 | 1,458 |
| 18 | PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing? | Ecological Monographs | 2013 | 1,429 |
| 19 | Leaf Life‐Span in Relation to Leaf, Plant, and Stand Characteristics among Diverse Ecosystems | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 1,385 |
| 20 | Cross‐Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 1,285 |
| 21 | Avian Life History Evolution in Relation to Nest Sites, Nest Predation, and Food | Ecological Monographs | 1995 | 1,230 |
| 22 | Energy Flow in Bear Brook, New Hampshire: An Integrative Approach to Stream Ecosystem Metabolism | Ecological Monographs | 1973 | 1,196 |
| 23 | Switching in General Predators: Experiments on Predator Specificity and Stability of Prey Populations | Ecological Monographs | 1969 | 1,171 |
| 24 | Ecology of a Grazing Ecosystem: The Serengeti | Ecological Monographs | 1985 | 1,140 |
| 25 | Effects of Forest Cutting and Herbicide Treatment on Nutrient Budgets in the Hubbard Brook Watershed‐Ecosystem | Ecological Monographs | 1970 | 1,065 |
| 26 | Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern | Ecological Monographs | 1981 | 1,047 |
| 27 | Geostatistical Tools for Modeling and Interpreting Ecological Spatial Dependence | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 1,042 |
| 28 | The Color of Light in Forests and Its Implications | Ecological Monographs | 1993 | 1,022 |
| 29 | ANALYZING BETA DIVERSITY: PARTITIONING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DATA | Ecological Monographs | 2005 | 1,014 |
| 30 | Biological Invasion by Myrica Faya in Hawai'i: Plant Demography, Nitrogen Fixation, Ecosystem Effects | Ecological Monographs | 1989 | 1,001 |
| 31 | Forest Models Defined by Field Measurements: Estimation, Error Analysis and Dynamics | Ecological Monographs | 1996 | 997 |
| 32 | The Epizootiology and Ecological Significance of Malaria in Hawaiian Land Birds | Ecological Monographs | 1986 | 963 |
| 33 | Interactions of Bacteria, Fungi, and their Nematode Grazers: Effects on Nutrient Cycling and Plant Growth | Ecological Monographs | 1985 | 950 |
| 34 | Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California | Ecological Monographs | 2009 | 940 |
| 35 | Field Metabolic Rate and Food Requirement Scaling in Mammals and Birds | Ecological Monographs | 1987 | 885 |
| 36 | Secondary Succession and the Pattern of Plant Dominance Along Experimental Nitrogen Gradients | Ecological Monographs | 1987 | 882 |
| 37 | Effects of Competition, Predation by Thais lapillus, and Other Factors on Natural Populations of the Barnacle Balanus balanoides | Ecological Monographs | 1961 | 878 |
| 38 | Mechanisms of Primary Succession Following Deglaciation at Glacier Bay, Alaska | Ecological Monographs | 1994 | 878 |
| 39 | TOLERANCE TO SHADE, DROUGHT, AND WATERLOGGING OF TEMPERATE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TREES AND SHRUBS | Ecological Monographs | 2006 | 863 |
| 40 | Organization of the New England Rocky Intertidal Community: Role of Predation, Competition, and Environmental Heterogeneity | Ecological Monographs | 1976 | 850 |
| 41 | CONTROLS ON NITROGEN CYCLING IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: A SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE DATA | Ecological Monographs | 2005 | 845 |
| 42 | EXOTIC PLANT SPECIES INVADE HOT SPOTS OF NATIVE PLANT DIVERSITY | Ecological Monographs | 1999 | 835 |
| 43 | Temperature and Plant Species Control Over Litter Decomposition in Alaskan Tundra | Ecological Monographs | 1996 | 831 |
| 44 | Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll | Ecological Monographs | 1955 | 830 |
| 45 | THE GLOBAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ROOTS | Ecological Monographs | 2002 | 816 |
| 46 | Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change | Ecological Monographs | 2009 | 814 |
| 47 | Changes in the Carbon Content of Terrestrial Biota and Soils between 1860 and 1980: A Net Release of CO"2 to the Atmosphere | Ecological Monographs | 1983 | 807 |
| 48 | FINE ROOT ARCHITECTURE OF NINE NORTH AMERICAN TREES | Ecological Monographs | 2002 | 767 |
| 49 | The application of ecological stoichiometry to plant–microbial–soil organic matter transformations | Ecological Monographs | 2015 | 735 |
| 50 | Development of a New England Salt Marsh | Ecological Monographs | 1972 | 728 |
