| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget | Ecosystems | 2007 | 2,836 |
| 2 | Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems | Ecosystems | 2001 | 2,528 |
| 3 | From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What? | Ecosystems | 2001 | 2,329 |
| 4 | Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2003 | 1,874 |
| 5 | Newer Classification and Regression Tree Techniques: Bagging and Random Forests for Ecological Prediction | Ecosystems | 2006 | 1,665 |
| 6 | Effects of Exotic Plant Invasions on Soil Nutrient Cycling Processes | Ecosystems | 2003 | 1,375 |
| 7 | Minireview: Quantifying Landscape Spatial Pattern: What Is the State of the Art? | Ecosystems | 1998 | 1,260 |
| 8 | Original Articles: Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale | Ecosystems | 1998 | 1,225 |
| 9 | Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems | Ecosystems | 1998 | 1,171 |
| 10 | Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods | Ecosystems | 2006 | 904 |
| 11 | Compounded Perturbations Yield Ecological Surprises | Ecosystems | 1998 | 855 |
| 12 | Original Articles: Plant Attribute Diversity, Resilience, and Ecosystem Function: The Nature and Significance of Dominant and Minor Species | Ecosystems | 1999 | 852 |
| 13 | A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products | Ecosystems | 2012 | 843 |
| 14 | Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application? | Ecosystems | 2006 | 829 |
| 15 | Factors Influencing Succession: Lessons from Large, Infrequent Natural Disturbances | Ecosystems | 1998 | 614 |
| 16 | Dissolved Organic Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Synthesis and a Model | Ecosystems | 2001 | 597 |
| 17 | Quantitative Evidence for Increasing Forest Fire Severity in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Mountains, California and Nevada, USA | Ecosystems | 2009 | 597 |
| 18 | Small Players, Large Role: Microbial Influence on Biogeochemical Processes in Pelagic Aquatic Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2002 | 529 |
| 19 | Land-Use History as Long-Term Broad-Scale Disturbance: Regional Forest Dynamics in Central New England | Ecosystems | 1998 | 518 |
| 20 | Pacific Salmon, Nutrients, and the Dynamics of Freshwater and Riparian Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2002 | 490 |
| 21 | Rewilding Abandoned Landscapes in Europe | Ecosystems | 2012 | 455 |
| 22 | Mobile Link Organisms and Ecosystem Functioning: Implications for Ecosystem Resilience and Management | Ecosystems | 2003 | 443 |
| 23 | Review of the Foundations of Network Environ Analysis | Ecosystems | 1999 | 432 |
| 24 | Drought as an Inciting Mortality Factor in Scots Pine Stands of the Valais, Switzerland | Ecosystems | 2006 | 429 |
| 25 | Integrating Social Science into the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Social Dimensions of Ecological Change and Ecological Dimensions of Social Change | Ecosystems | 2004 | 424 |
| 26 | The Function of Marine Critical Transition Zones and the Importance of Sediment Biodiversity | Ecosystems | 2001 | 413 |
| 27 | An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience | Ecosystems | 2005 | 410 |
| 28 | Contrasting Climatic Controls on the Estimated Productivity of Global Terrestrial Biomes | Ecosystems | 1998 | 407 |
| 29 | Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Dynamics for Ecosystem Management: A Study of Lake Racken Watershed, Sweden | Ecosystems | 2001 | 404 |
| 30 | GLOBIO3: A Framework to Investigate Options for Reducing Global Terrestrial Biodiversity Loss | Ecosystems | 2009 | 396 |
| 31 | Moving Beyond Global Warming Potentials to Quantify the Climatic Role of Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2015 | 396 |
| 32 | Ecology of Soil Erosion in Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 1998 | 394 |
| 33 | Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances | Ecosystems | 1998 | 394 |
| 34 | Phosphorus Limitation of Microbial Processes in Moist Tropical Forests: Evidence from Short-term Laboratory Incubations and Field Studies | Ecosystems | 2002 | 385 |
| 35 | Effects of Local Deforestation on the Diversity and Structure of Southern California Giant Kelp Forest Food Webs | Ecosystems | 2004 | 385 |
| 36 | Whole-Ecosystem Experiments: Replication Versus Realism: The Need for Ecosystem-Scale Experiments | Ecosystems | 1998 | 383 |
| 37 | Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges | Ecosystems | 2015 | 382 |
| 38 | Minireviews: A Sea of Change: Biogeochemical Variability in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | Ecosystems | 1999 | 378 |
| 39 | Minireview: Biomanipulation as an Application of Food-Chain Theory: Constraints, Synthesis, and Recommendations for Temperate Lakes | Ecosystems | 1998 | 374 |
| 40 | Nitrogen Fluxes and Retention in Urban Watershed Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2004 | 374 |
| 41 | The Nature and Longevity of Agricultural Impacts on Soil Carbon and Nutrients: A Review | Ecosystems | 2006 | 368 |
| 42 | Spatial Resilience of Coral Reefs | Ecosystems | 2001 | 363 |
| 43 | Patterns and Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Boreal Streams: The Role of Processes, Connectivity, and Scaling | Ecosystems | 2011 | 340 |
| 44 | Resilience to Stress and Disturbance, and Resistance to Bromus tectorum L. Invasion in Cold Desert Shrublands of Western North America | Ecosystems | 2014 | 336 |
| 45 | Contagious Disturbance, Ecological Memory, and the Emergence of Landscape Pattern | Ecosystems | 2002 | 328 |
| 46 | Effects of Long-Term Nitrogen Addition on Microbial Enzyme Activity in Eight Forested and Grassland Sites: Implications for Litter and Soil Organic Matter Decomposition | Ecosystems | 2009 | 326 |
| 47 | Land-Use Intensity Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation Rates and Mechanisms | Ecosystems | 2007 | 325 |
| 48 | Characterization of Households and its Implications for the Vegetation of Urban Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2006 | 321 |
| 49 | Effects of Soil Texture on Belowground Carbon and Nutrient Storage in a Lowland Amazonian Forest Ecosystem | Ecosystems | 2000 | 318 |
| 50 | Effects of Soil Burn Severity on Post-Fire Tree Recruitment in Boreal Forest | Ecosystems | 2006 | 313 |
