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| 4 | HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, MOLECULAR CHAPERONES, AND THE STRESS RESPONSE: Evolutionary and Ecological Physiology | Annual Review of Physiology | 1999 | 3,624 |
| 5 | Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought? | New Phytologist | 2008 | 3,232 |
| 6 | Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 2,997 |
| 7 | Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate | Science | 2001 | 2,927 |
| 8 | Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2006 | 2,434 |
| 9 | Soil enzymes in a changing environment: Current knowledge and future directions | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2013 | 1,535 |
| 10 | The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa | Nature | 2003 | 1,528 |
| 11 | Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere | Nature | 2012 | 1,518 |
| 12 | Trends in wood density and structure are linked to prevention of xylem implosion by negative pressure | Oecologia | 2001 | 1,257 |
| 13 | Standards for ecologically successful river restoration | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2005 | 1,221 |
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| 17 | The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification | Nature Biotechnology | 2008 | 1,069 |
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| 19 | Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems | Oecologia | 2004 | 942 |
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| 24 | Effects of size and temperature on developmental time | Nature | 2002 | 798 |
| 25 | Don't judge species on their origins | Nature | 2011 | 781 |
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| 29 | Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule | Science | 2002 | 717 |
| 30 | ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF SOUTHWESTERN PONDEROSA PINE ECOSYSTEMS: A BROAD PERSPECTIVE | | 2002 | 711 |
| 31 | WATER IN A CHANGING WORLD | | 2001 | 709 |
| 32 | Neutral models for the analysis of broad-scale landscape pattern | Landscape Ecology | 1987 | 702 |
| 33 | Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences | Nature | 2007 | 661 |
| 34 | Comparative Biology of Calcium Signaling during Fertilization and Egg Activation in Animals | Developmental Biology | 1999 | 655 |
| 35 | Macroecology: The Division of Food and Space Among Species on Continents | Science | 1989 | 650 |
| 36 | How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2014 | 642 |
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| 38 | Why are there so many species in the tropics? | Journal of Biogeography | 2014 | 608 |
| 39 | Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments | Oecologia | 2004 | 604 |
| 40 | A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 599 |
| 41 | Invertebrate immune systems - not homogeneous, not simple, not well understood | Immunological Reviews | 2004 | 589 |
| 42 | ADAPTIVE VARIATION IN THE VULNERABILITY OF WOODY PLANTS TO XYLEM CAVITATION | Ecology | 2004 | 584 |
| 43 | ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT | Ecology | 2005 | 582 |
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