| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | USING STABLE ISOTOPES TO ESTIMATE TROPHIC POSITION: MODELS, METHODS, AND ASSUMPTIONS | Ecology | 2002 | 4,994 |
| 2 | Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus | Science | 2009 | 2,998 |
| 3 | Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial and Marine Biota | Science | 2002 | 2,154 |
| 4 | Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 1,521 |
| 5 | A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing | Nature | 2015 | 1,341 |
| 6 | Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities | Molecular Ecology | 2017 | 1,210 |
| 7 | Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations | Climatic Change | 2011 | 1,035 |
| 8 | Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens | Nature | 2003 | 1,025 |
| 9 | Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods | Ecosystems | 2006 | 904 |
| 10 | Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system | Nature | 2003 | 897 |
| 11 | Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity | Science | 2019 | 805 |
| 12 | Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 756 |
| 13 | A meta‐analysis of crop pest and natural enemy response to landscape complexity | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 745 |
| 14 | Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2003 | 731 |
| 15 | The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science | Biological Conservation | 2014 | 703 |
| 16 | Coastal nitrogen pollution: A review of sources and trends globally and regionally | Harmful Algae | 2008 | 683 |
| 17 | Coupled biogeochemical cycles: eutrophication and hypoxia in temperate estuaries and coastal marine ecosystems | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2011 | 656 |
| 18 | Biotic interactions and plant invasions | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 649 |
| 19 | Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense | Trends in Plant Science | 2012 | 634 |
| 20 | Fate of soil‐applied black carbon: downward migration, leaching and soil respiration | Global Change Biology | 2010 | 610 |
| 21 | Eco-physiological adaptations that favour freshwater cyanobacteria in a changing climate | Water Research | 2012 | 603 |
| 22 | Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes | Nature | 2000 | 590 |
| 23 | Nitrogen loss from unpolluted South American forests mainly via dissolved organic compounds | Nature | 2002 | 582 |
| 24 | Increased tree carbon storage in response to nitrogen deposition in the US | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 582 |
| 25 | Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 546 |
| 26 | Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs | Science | 2018 | 540 |
| 27 | Eutrophication of freshwater and marine ecosystems | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 535 |
| 28 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 516 |
| 29 | An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale | Oecologia | 2002 | 500 |
| 30 | EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2010 | 492 |
| 31 | Climate Change Influences on Marine Infectious Diseases: Implications for Management and Society | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2014 | 484 |
| 32 | Integral Projection Models for Species with Complex Demography | American Naturalist | 2006 | 482 |
| 33 | Should fracking stop? | Nature | 2011 | 477 |
| 34 | Sources of nutrient pollution to coastal waters in the United States: Implications for achieving coastal water quality goals | Estuaries and Coasts | 2002 | 466 |
| 35 | EXPANSION OF GEOGRAPHIC RANGE IN THE PINE PROCESSIONARY MOTH CAUSED BY INCREASED WINTER TEMPERATURES | | 2005 | 464 |
| 36 | Plant mating systems in a changing world | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 458 |
| 37 | Cholera Dynamics and El Nino-Southern Oscillation | Science | 2000 | 446 |
| 38 | Rapid evolutionary dynamics and disease threats to biodiversity | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 434 |
| 39 | FACILITATIVE INTERACTIONS AMONG PLANTS VIA SHARED POLLINATORS | Ecology | 2004 | 427 |
| 40 | A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 423 |
| 41 | Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders | Science | 2014 | 421 |
| 42 | Pathogen Spillover in Disease Epidemics | American Naturalist | 2004 | 415 |
| 43 | Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2010 | 415 |
| 44 | Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 410 |
| 45 | THE LOCI OF REPEATED EVOLUTION: A CATALOG OF GENETIC HOTSPOTS OF PHENOTYPIC VARIATION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2013 | 405 |
| 46 | Filling key gaps in population and community ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 401 |
| 47 | Herbivory in the Previous Generation Primes Plants for Enhanced Insect Resistance | Plant Physiology | 2012 | 394 |
| 48 | The evolution of plant–insect mutualisms | New Phytologist | 2006 | 390 |
| 49 | Insect Herbivores Drive Real-Time Ecological and Evolutionary Change in Plant Populations | Science | 2012 | 389 |
| 50 | Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines | Science | 2018 | 389 |
