| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 2,537 |
| 2 | Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China | Ecological Complexity | 2011 | 681 |
| 3 | Capacity, pressure, demand, and flow: A conceptual framework for analyzing ecosystem service provision and delivery | Ecological Complexity | 2013 | 497 |
| 4 | Quantifying sustainability: Resilience, efficiency and the return of information theory | Ecological Complexity | 2009 | 392 |
| 5 | Centrality measures and the importance of generalist species in pollination networks | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 387 |
| 6 | Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping | Ecological Complexity | 2013 | 296 |
| 7 | Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization: The case of the two fastest growing metropolitan regions in the United States | Ecological Complexity | 2011 | 295 |
| 8 | Precisely incorrect? Monetising the value of ecosystem services | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 293 |
| 9 | Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic change: Case studies and policy implications | Ecological Complexity | 2005 | 220 |
| 10 | Spatial characteristics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a human-dominated watershed | Ecological Complexity | 2011 | 206 |
| 11 | Dimensions of ecosystem complexity: Heterogeneity, connectivity, and history | Ecological Complexity | 2006 | 202 |
| 12 | Seasonal patterns of litterfall in forest ecosystem worldwide | Ecological Complexity | 2014 | 197 |
| 13 | Remote sensing evaluation of urban heat island and its spatial pattern of the Shanghai metropolitan area, China | Ecological Complexity | 2009 | 180 |
| 14 | Cultural ecosystem services in the context of offshore wind farming: A case study from the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 180 |
| 15 | Bifurcation analysis of a ratio-dependent prey–predator model with the Allee effect | Ecological Complexity | 2012 | 169 |
| 16 | Post-Normal Science and the complexity of transitions towards sustainability | Ecological Complexity | 2006 | 168 |
| 17 | Social complexity and sustainability | Ecological Complexity | 2006 | 167 |
| 18 | Factors limiting our understanding of ecological scale | Ecological Complexity | 2009 | 154 |
| 19 | Carbon emissions in the life cycle of urban building system in China—A case study of residential buildings | Ecological Complexity | 2011 | 154 |
| 20 | The relative importance of habitat complexity and surface area in assessing biodiversity: Fractal application on rocky shores | Ecological Complexity | 2005 | 152 |
| 21 | The impacts of network topology on disease spread | Ecological Complexity | 2005 | 149 |
| 22 | Chinese ecosystem research network: Progress and perspectives | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 146 |
| 23 | On some properties of the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and their ecological meaning | Ecological Complexity | 2017 | 144 |
| 24 | Ecosystem services–A tool for sustainable management of human–environment systems. Case study Finnish Forest Lapland | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 142 |
| 25 | The applicability of empirical vegetation indices for determining leaf chlorophyll content over different leaf and canopy structures | Ecological Complexity | 2014 | 140 |
| 26 | Combining system dynamic model and CLUE-S model to improve land use scenario analyses at regional scale: A case study of Sangong watershed in Xinjiang, China | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 135 |
| 27 | Towards a resolution of ‘the paradox of the plankton’: A brief overview of the proposed mechanisms | Ecological Complexity | 2007 | 128 |
| 28 | Calibration of a fuzzy cellular automata model of urban dynamics in Saudi Arabia | Ecological Complexity | 2009 | 125 |
| 29 | How emergence arises | Ecological Complexity | 2006 | 123 |
| 30 | A framework for assessing ecological quality based on ecosystem services | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 121 |
| 31 | Beyond Turing: The response of patterned ecosystems to environmental change | Ecological Complexity | 2014 | 115 |
| 32 | Interactions matter—complexity in landscapes and ecosystems | Ecological Complexity | 2005 | 112 |
| 33 | Effect of hunting cooperation and fear in a predator-prey model | Ecological Complexity | 2019 | 112 |
| 34 | Using a cellular automaton model to forecast the effects of urban growth on habitat pattern in southern California | Ecological Complexity | 2005 | 108 |
| 35 | A general framework for analyzing beta diversity, nestedness and related community-level phenomena based on abundance data | Ecological Complexity | 2013 | 108 |
| 36 | Demonstrating the importance of intangible ecosystem services from peri-urban landscapes | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 107 |
| 37 | Transition to spatiotemporal chaos can resolve the paradox of enrichment | Ecological Complexity | 2004 | 104 |
| 38 | Environmental regulation and CO2 emissions: Based on strategic interaction of environmental governance | Ecological Complexity | 2021 | 104 |
| 39 | Characterization of topological keystone species | Ecological Complexity | 2007 | 102 |
| 40 | Spatio-temporal behaviour of the deep chlorophyll maximum in Mediterranean Sea: Development of a stochastic model for picophytoplankton dynamics | Ecological Complexity | 2013 | 101 |
| 41 | An Index of Regional Sustainability: A GIS-based multiple criteria analysis decision support system for progressing sustainability | Ecological Complexity | 2009 | 100 |
| 42 | The “Four Spheres” framework for sustainability | Ecological Complexity | 2006 | 99 |
| 43 | Understanding eco-complexity: Social-Economic-Natural Complex Ecosystem approach | Ecological Complexity | 2011 | 98 |
| 44 | Application of thermodynamic principles in ecology | Ecological Complexity | 2004 | 94 |
| 45 | Linking vegetation type and condition to ecosystem goods and services | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 94 |
| 46 | Stability domains in barrier island dune systems | Ecological Complexity | 2005 | 90 |
| 47 | The effects of land use change and irrigation water resource on nitrate contamination in shallow groundwater at county scale | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 90 |
| 48 | An integrated approach to improving fossil fuel emissions scenarios with urban ecosystem studies | Ecological Complexity | 2009 | 88 |
| 49 | Disturbance patterns in a socio-ecological system at multiple scales | Ecological Complexity | 2006 | 87 |
| 50 | Spatial assessment of ecosystem goods and services in complex production landscapes: A case study from south-eastern Australia | Ecological Complexity | 2013 | 83 |
