| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Evolutionarily singular strategies and the adaptive growth and branching of the evolutionary tree | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 1,520 |
| 2 | Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis | Evolutionary Ecology | 2012 | 667 |
| 3 | Altruism in viscous populations — an inclusive fitness model | Evolutionary Ecology | 1992 | 612 |
| 4 | Repeatability: Its role in evolutionary studies of mating behavior | Evolutionary Ecology | 1989 | 490 |
| 5 | Site fidelity in predictable and unpredictable habitats | Evolutionary Ecology | 1993 | 419 |
| 6 | Analysis of adaptation in heterogeneous landscapes: Implications for the evolution of fundamental niches | Evolutionary Ecology | 1992 | 395 |
| 7 | An introduction to niche construction theory | Evolutionary Ecology | 2016 | 376 |
| 8 | Can altruism evolve in purely viscous populations? | Evolutionary Ecology | 1992 | 370 |
| 9 | Modelling the proximate basis of salmonid life-history variation, with application to Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 350 |
| 10 | Evolutionarily unstable fitness maxima and stable fitness minima of continuous traits | Evolutionary Ecology | 1993 | 343 |
| 11 | A comparison of levels of genetic polymorphism and self-compatibility in geographically restricted and widespread plant congeners | Evolutionary Ecology | 1987 | 337 |
| 12 | Overcompensation by plants: Herbivore optimization or red herring? | Evolutionary Ecology | 1993 | 331 |
| 13 | Mechanisms of tolerance to herbivore damage:what do we know? | Evolutionary Ecology | 2000 | 323 |
| 14 | The loss of sex in clonal plants | Evolutionary Ecology | 2001 | 317 |
| 15 | Phenotypic plasticity: linking molecular mechanisms with evolutionary outcomes | Evolutionary Ecology | 2002 | 312 |
| 16 | Genetic relatedness in viscous populations | Evolutionary Ecology | 1994 | 292 |
| 17 | The relative advantages of plasticity and fixity in different environments: when is it good for a plant to adjust? | Evolutionary Ecology | 2002 | 292 |
| 18 | Evolution of yields from populations with age-specific cropping | Evolutionary Ecology | 1989 | 263 |
| 19 | The use of conspecific reproductive success for breeding patch selection in terrestrial migratory species | Evolutionary Ecology | 1997 | 255 |
| 20 | Speciation via habitat specialization: the evolution of reproductive isolation as a correlated character | Evolutionary Ecology | 1987 | 253 |
| 21 | Plastic inducible morphologies are not always adaptive: The importance of time delays in a stochastic environment | Evolutionary Ecology | 1996 | 244 |
| 22 | Density, body mass and parasite species richness of terrestrial mammals | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 243 |
| 23 | Processes organizing open-nesting bird assemblages: competition or nest predation? | Evolutionary Ecology | 1988 | 241 |
| 24 | Ecological versus phylogenetic determinants of helminth parasite community richness | Evolutionary Ecology | 1990 | 236 |
| 25 | Habitat-dependent population regulation and community structure | Evolutionary Ecology | 1988 | 235 |
| 26 | Synthetic analyses of phenotypic selection in natural populations: lessons, limitations and future directions | Evolutionary Ecology | 2012 | 234 |
| 27 | Schooling as a strategy for taxis in a noisy environment | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 216 |
| 28 | Phagotrophy by a flagellate selects for colonial prey: A possible origin of multicellularity | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 215 |
| 29 | Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity in a trophically polymorphic population of pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) | Evolutionary Ecology | 1996 | 212 |
| 30 | Evolutionary lag versus bill-size constraints: a comparative study of the acceptance of cowbird eggs by old hosts | Evolutionary Ecology | 1988 | 211 |
| 31 | Optimal size of storage for recovery after unpredictable disturbances | Evolutionary Ecology | 1997 | 208 |
| 32 | Seed size variation: magnitude, distribution, and ecological correlates | Evolutionary Ecology | 1988 | 206 |
| 33 | Effects of life history, domestication and agronomic selection on plant defence against insects: Evidence from maizes and wild relatives | Evolutionary Ecology | 1997 | 202 |
| 34 | Good genes, old age and life-history trade-offs | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 201 |
| 35 | Sexual cannibalism in the fishing spider and a model for the evolution of sexual cannibalism based on genetic constraints | Evolutionary Ecology | 1997 | 200 |
| 36 | Climatic determinants of diet and foraging behaviour in baboons | Evolutionary Ecology | 2002 | 200 |
| 37 | The role of plasticity in resource capture by plants | Evolutionary Ecology | 2002 | 199 |
| 38 | The decline of tree diversity on newly isolated tropical islands: A test of a null hypothesis and some implications | Evolutionary Ecology | 1993 | 195 |
| 39 | Trade-offs and the evolution of host specialization | Evolutionary Ecology | 1995 | 195 |
| 40 | The role of behavior in evolution: a search for mechanism | Evolutionary Ecology | 2009 | 195 |
| 41 | Effects of variation in inflorescence size and floral rewards on the visitation rates of traplining pollinators ofAralia hispida | Evolutionary Ecology | 1988 | 193 |
| 42 | Gene regulation, quantitative genetics and the evolution of reaction norms | Evolutionary Ecology | 1995 | 192 |
| 43 | The effects of floral display on pollinator visitation vary among populations ofPhacelia linearis (Hydrophyllaceae) | Evolutionary Ecology | 1991 | 191 |
| 44 | Seed dispersal curves: Behavior of the tail of the distribution | Evolutionary Ecology | 1993 | 191 |
| 45 | Intraspecific Variation in Home Range Overlap with Habitat Quality: A Comparison among Brown Bear Populations | Evolutionary Ecology | 2000 | 191 |
| 46 | Host immune defence and migration in birds | Evolutionary Ecology | 1998 | 188 |
| 47 | Experimental alteration of DNA methylation affects the phenotypic plasticity of ecologically relevant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana | Evolutionary Ecology | 2010 | 187 |
| 48 | Coevolutionary genetics of plants and pathogens | Evolutionary Ecology | 1993 | 186 |
| 49 | Visual Ecology and Perception of Coloration Patterns by Domestic Chicks | Evolutionary Ecology | 1999 | 186 |
| 50 | Phenotypic plasticity as a state-dependent life-history decision | Evolutionary Ecology | 1992 | 185 |
