| Phenol oxidase, peroxidase and organic matter dynamics of soil | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2010 | 769 |
| Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 322 |
| Positive feedback between microclimate and shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan desert | Ecosphere | 2010 | 255 |
| Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 243 |
| Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism | Freshwater Biology | 2010 | 227 |
| Comparative transcriptome and secretome analysis of wood decay fungi Postia placenta and Phanerochaete chrysosporium | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 213 |
| The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals | Science | 2010 | 200 |
| Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 195 |
| Pattern and timing of diversification of the mammalian order Carnivora inferred from multiple nuclear gene sequences | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2010 | 173 |
| A general hypothesis-testing framework for stable isotope ratios in ecological studies | Ecology | 2010 | 155 |
| Beneficial mutations and the dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 133 |
| A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 133 |
| The Role of Photodegradation in Surface Litter Decomposition Across a Grassland Ecosystem Precipitation Gradient | Ecosystems | 2010 | 130 |
| Pathogen entrapment by transglutaminase--a conserved early innate immune mechanism | PLoS Pathogens | 2010 | 129 |
| Radiocarbon dating of small terrestrial gastropod shells in North America | Quaternary Geochronology | 2010 | 129 |
| Rational design of a highly selective and sensitive fluorescent PET probe for discrimination of thiophenols and aliphatic thiols | Chemical Communications | 2010 | 121 |
| Iminium-allenamine cascade catalysis: one-pot access to chiral 4H-chromenes by a highly enantioselective Michael-Michael sequence | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2010 | 119 |
| Role for a somatically diversified lectin in resistance of an invertebrate to parasite infection | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 111 |
| Looking deeper into the soil: biophysical controls and seasonal lags of soil CO2 production and efflux | | 2010 | 108 |
| Extraction of state-to-state reactive scattering attributes from wave packet in reactant Jacobi coordinates | Journal of Chemical Physics | 2010 | 103 |
| When phylogenetic assumptions are violated: base compositional heterogeneity and among-site rate variation in beetle mitochondrial phylogenomics | Systematic Entomology | 2010 | 102 |
| Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation | New Phytologist | 2010 | 96 |
| A general suite of fungal endophytes dominate the roots of two dominant grasses in a semiarid grassland | Journal of Arid Environments | 2010 | 92 |
| Leaf physiological responses to extreme droughts in Mediterranean Quercus ilex forest | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2010 | 84 |
| Zoonotic and Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Relation to Human Personality and Societal Values: Support for the Parasite-Stress Model | Evolutionary Psychology | 2010 | 82 |
