| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | An Ordination of the Upland Forest Communities of Southern Wisconsin | Ecological Monographs | 1957 | 9,048 |
| 2 | Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments | Ecological Monographs | 1984 | 7,096 |
| 3 | Species Assemblages and Indicator Species: The Need for a Flexible Asymmetrical Approach | Ecological Monographs | 1997 | 4,912 |
| 4 | Modeling Survival and Testing Biological Hypotheses Using Marked Animals: A Unified Approach with Case Studies | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 3,899 |
| 5 | The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services | Ecological Monographs | 2011 | 3,858 |
| 6 | Vegetation of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California | Ecological Monographs | 1960 | 3,050 |
| 7 | Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies | Ecological Monographs | 2014 | 2,630 |
| 8 | Organization of a Plant-Arthropod Association in Simple and Diverse Habitats: The Fauna of Collards (Brassica Oleracea) | Ecological Monographs | 1973 | 2,428 |
| 9 | DISTANCE-BASED REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS: TESTING MULTISPECIES RESPONSES IN MULTIFACTORIAL ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS | Ecological Monographs | 1999 | 2,118 |
| 10 | SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH | Ecological Monographs | 1997 | 2,101 |
| 11 | Competition, Disturbance, and Community Organization: The Provision and Subsequent Utilization of Space in a Rocky Intertidal Community | Ecological Monographs | 1971 | 2,084 |
| 12 | Comparisons of Treatments After an Analysis of Variance in Ecology | Ecological Monographs | 1989 | 1,875 |
| 13 | Quantitative Effects of Grazing on Vegetation and Soils Over a Global Range of Environments | Ecological Monographs | 1993 | 1,593 |
| 14 | Herbivory and Defensive Characteristics of Tree Species in a Lowland Tropical Forest | Ecological Monographs | 1983 | 1,557 |
| 15 | The Niche Exploitation Pattern of the Blue‐Gray Gnatcatcher | Ecological Monographs | 1967 | 1,543 |
| 16 | PERMANOVA, ANOSIM, and the Mantel test in the face of heterogeneous dispersions: What null hypothesis are you testing? | Ecological Monographs | 2013 | 1,505 |
| 17 | Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains | Ecological Monographs | 1956 | 1,490 |
| 18 | Leaf Life‐Span in Relation to Leaf, Plant, and Stand Characteristics among Diverse Ecosystems | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 1,411 |
| 19 | Cross‐Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 1,296 |
| 20 | Avian Life History Evolution in Relation to Nest Sites, Nest Predation, and Food | Ecological Monographs | 1995 | 1,244 |
| 21 | Energy Flow in Bear Brook, New Hampshire: An Integrative Approach to Stream Ecosystem Metabolism | Ecological Monographs | 1973 | 1,208 |
| 22 | Switching in General Predators: Experiments on Predator Specificity and Stability of Prey Populations | Ecological Monographs | 1969 | 1,185 |
| 23 | Ecology of a Grazing Ecosystem: The Serengeti | Ecological Monographs | 1985 | 1,153 |
| 24 | Effects of Forest Cutting and Herbicide Treatment on Nutrient Budgets in the Hubbard Brook Watershed‐Ecosystem | Ecological Monographs | 1970 | 1,072 |
| 25 | Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern | Ecological Monographs | 1981 | 1,052 |
| 26 | Geostatistical Tools for Modeling and Interpreting Ecological Spatial Dependence | Ecological Monographs | 1992 | 1,052 |
| 27 | The Color of Light in Forests and Its Implications | Ecological Monographs | 1993 | 1,041 |
| 28 | ANALYZING BETA DIVERSITY: PARTITIONING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DATA | Ecological Monographs | 2005 | 1,038 |
| 29 | Forest Models Defined by Field Measurements: Estimation, Error Analysis and Dynamics | Ecological Monographs | 1996 | 1,013 |
| 30 | Biological Invasion by Myrica Faya in Hawai'i: Plant Demography, Nitrogen Fixation, Ecosystem Effects | Ecological Monographs | 1989 | 1,010 |
| 31 | The Epizootiology and Ecological Significance of Malaria in Hawaiian Land Birds | Ecological Monographs | 1986 | 977 |
| 32 | Interactions of Bacteria, Fungi, and their Nematode Grazers: Effects on Nutrient Cycling and Plant Growth | Ecological Monographs | 1985 | 964 |
| 33 | Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California | Ecological Monographs | 2009 | 963 |
| 34 | Mechanisms of Primary Succession Following Deglaciation at Glacier Bay, Alaska | Ecological Monographs | 1994 | 902 |
| 35 | TOLERANCE TO SHADE, DROUGHT, AND WATERLOGGING OF TEMPERATE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TREES AND SHRUBS | Ecological Monographs | 2006 | 900 |
| 36 | Secondary Succession and the Pattern of Plant Dominance Along Experimental Nitrogen Gradients | Ecological Monographs | 1987 | 896 |
| 37 | Field Metabolic Rate and Food Requirement Scaling in Mammals and Birds | Ecological Monographs | 1987 | 891 |
| 38 | Effects of Competition, Predation by Thais lapillus, and Other Factors on Natural Populations of the Barnacle Balanus balanoides | Ecological Monographs | 1961 | 884 |
| 39 | EXOTIC PLANT SPECIES INVADE HOT SPOTS OF NATIVE PLANT DIVERSITY | Ecological Monographs | 1999 | 869 |
| 40 | CONTROLS ON NITROGEN CYCLING IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: A SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE DATA | Ecological Monographs | 2005 | 863 |
| 41 | Organization of the New England Rocky Intertidal Community: Role of Predation, Competition, and Environmental Heterogeneity | Ecological Monographs | 1976 | 859 |
| 42 | Temperature and Plant Species Control Over Litter Decomposition in Alaskan Tundra | Ecological Monographs | 1996 | 848 |
| 43 | THE GLOBAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ROOTS | Ecological Monographs | 2002 | 839 |
| 44 | Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll | Ecological Monographs | 1955 | 838 |
| 45 | Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change | Ecological Monographs | 2009 | 834 |
| 46 | 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 | 816 |
| 47 | The application of ecological stoichiometry to plant–microbial–soil organic matter transformations | Ecological Monographs | 2015 | 787 |
| 48 | FINE ROOT ARCHITECTURE OF NINE NORTH AMERICAN TREES | Ecological Monographs | 2002 | 785 |
| 49 | Development of a New England Salt Marsh | Ecological Monographs | 1972 | 739 |
| 50 | Thermodynamic Equilibria of Animals with Environment | Ecological Monographs | 1969 | 721 |
