| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Detrended correspondence analysis: An improved ordination technique | Plant Ecology | 1980 | 2,746 |
| 2 | Spatial pattern and ecological analysis | Plant Ecology | 1989 | 1,858 |
| 3 | Compositional dissimilarity as a robust measure of ecological distance | Plant Ecology | 1987 | 1,357 |
| 4 | An evaluation of the relative robustness of techniques for ecological ordination | Plant Ecology | 1987 | 1,174 |
| 5 | Transformation of cover-abundance values in phytosociology and its effects on community similarity | Plant Ecology | 1979 | 1,080 |
| 6 | Vegetation science concepts I. Initial floristic composition, a factor in old-field vegetation development with 2 figs. | Plant Ecology | 1954 | 1,011 |
| 7 | The analysis of vegetation-environment relationships by canonical correspondence analysis | Plant Ecology | 1987 | 974 |
| 8 | On the definition of ecological species groups in tropical rain forests | Plant Ecology | 1988 | 964 |
| 9 | The use of vital attributes to predict successional changes in plant communities subject to recurrent disturbances | Plant Ecology | 1980 | 868 |
| 10 | Interspecific variation in the growth response of plants to an elevated ambient CO2 concentration | Plant Ecology | 1993 | 586 |
| 11 | North American vegetation patterns observed with the NOAA-7 advanced very high resolution radiometer | Plant Ecology | 1985 | 546 |
| 12 | GEMI: a non-linear index to monitor global vegetation from satellites | Plant Ecology | 1992 | 530 |
| 13 | Quantity, quality and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals | Plant Ecology | 1993 | 513 |
| 14 | Coexistence of plant species with similar niches | Plant Ecology | 1984 | 462 |
| 15 | Weighted averaging, logistic regression and the Gaussian response model | Plant Ecology | 1986 | 455 |
| 16 | A theory of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plant communities | Plant Ecology | 1989 | 449 |
| 17 | The decimal scale for releves of permanent quadrats | Plant Ecology | 1976 | 427 |
| 18 | A new model for the continuum concept | Plant Ecology | 1989 | 422 |
| 19 | The evolutionary significance of fire in the mediterranean region | Plant Ecology | 1975 | 396 |
| 20 | Raised nutrient levels change heathland into grassland | Plant Ecology | 1983 | 335 |
| 21 | Is vegetation in equilibrium with climate? How to interpret late-Quaternary pollen data | Plant Ecology | 1986 | 335 |
| 22 | Forest vegetation of the Colorado Front Range | Plant Ecology | 1981 | 328 |
| 23 | Climate and plant distribution at global and local scales | Plant Ecology | 1987 | 320 |
| 24 | A Modified-Whittaker nested vegetation sampling method | Plant Ecology | 1995 | 316 |
| 25 | Accuracy of the AVHRR vegetation index as a predictor of biomass, primary productivity and net CO2 flux | Plant Ecology | 1989 | 312 |
| 26 | The relationships of vegetation to surface water chemistry and peat chemistry in fens of Alberta, Canada | Plant Ecology | 1990 | 311 |
| 27 | An altitudinal transect study of the vegetation on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo | Plant Ecology | 1992 | 284 |
| 28 | Dispersal mode, seed shadows, and colonization patterns | Plant Ecology | 1993 | 281 |
| 29 | Changes and disturbances of forest ecosystems caused by human activities in the western part of the mediterranean basin | Plant Ecology | 1990 | 280 |
| 30 | A hierarchical consideration of causes and mechanisms of succession | Plant Ecology | 1987 | 279 |
| 31 | The effect of increased nutrient availability on vegetation dynamics in wet heathlands | Plant Ecology | 1988 | 279 |
| 32 | New approaches to direct gradient analysis using environmental scalars and statistical curve-fitting procedures | Plant Ecology | 1984 | 273 |
| 33 | Structural and floristic diversity of shrublands and woodlands in Northern Israel and other Mediterranean areas | Plant Ecology | 1980 | 272 |
| 34 | Spatial autocorrelation and sampling design in plant ecology | Plant Ecology | 1989 | 272 |
| 35 | Fractal geometry: a tool for describing spatial patterns of plant communities | Plant Ecology | 1988 | 270 |
| 36 | Effects of grazing, topography, and precipitation on the structure of a semiarid grassland | Plant Ecology | 1989 | 270 |
| 37 | Community stability, complexity and species life history strategies | Plant Ecology | 1982 | 268 |
| 38 | Succession: A population process | Plant Ecology | 1980 | 256 |
| 39 | Adaptations enhancing survival and establishment of seedlings on coastal dune systems | Plant Ecology | 1994 | 256 |
| 40 | The role of remnant forest trees in tropical secondary succession | Plant Ecology | 1986 | 249 |
| 41 | Composition and species diversity of pine-wiregrass savannas of the Green Swamp, North Carolina | Plant Ecology | 1984 | 237 |
| 42 | Structure and floristic composition of the lowland rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico | Plant Ecology | 1988 | 233 |
| 43 | Searching for a model for use in vegetation analysis | Plant Ecology | 1980 | 232 |
| 44 | Ordination on the basis of fuzzy set theory | Plant Ecology | 1986 | 232 |
| 45 | Coastal fore-dune zonation and succession in various parts of the world | Plant Ecology | 1985 | 226 |
| 46 | Effects of disturbance on diversity in mixed-grass prairie | Plant Ecology | 1986 | 226 |
| 47 | Catastrophic influences on the vegetation of the Valdivian Andes, Chile | Plant Ecology | 1978 | 223 |
| 48 | Sand movement as a factor in the distribution of plant communities in a coastal dune system | Plant Ecology | 1986 | 222 |
| 49 | Understanding ecological community succession: Causal models and theories, a review | Plant Ecology | 1994 | 220 |
| 50 | Buried, viable seeds in two California bunchgrass sites and their bearing on the definition of a flora | Plant Ecology | 1966 | 219 |
