| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Plant species richness: the world records | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2012 | 600 |
| 2 | THE INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS: PATCH DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF SPECIES COEXISTENCE | Ecology | 2004 | 471 |
| 3 | Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community | Journal of Ecology | 2004 | 373 |
| 4 | An index of functional diversity | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2003 | 236 |
| 5 | Functional regularity: a neglected aspect of functional diversity | Oecologia | 2005 | 206 |
| 6 | Of mast and mean: differential‐temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 195 |
| 7 | The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project | Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 186 |
| 8 | Species and mycorrhizal infections of New Zealand endogonaceae | Transactions of the British Mycological Society | 1977 | 167 |
| 9 | Suprageneric phylogenetics of Myrteae, the generically richest tribe in Myrtaceae (Myrtales) | Taxon | 2007 | 156 |
| 10 | Is zonation on coastal sand dunes determined primarily by sand burial or by salt spray? A test in New Zealand dunes | Ecology Letters | 1999 | 146 |
| 11 | “My garden is an expression of me”: Exploring householders' relationships with their gardens | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 2012 | 144 |
| 12 | Niche overlap estimates based on quantitative functional traits: a new family of non-parametric indices | Oecologia | 2005 | 141 |
| 13 | Controlled Cytokinin Production in Transgenic Tobacco Using a Copper-Inducible Promoter | Plant Physiology | 1998 | 132 |
| 14 | Properties of ecotones: Evidence from five ecotones objectively determined from a coastal vegetation gradient | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2003 | 130 |
| 15 | Shoot Dry Weight, Chlorophyll and UV-B-absorbing Compounds as Indicators of a Plant's Sensitivity to UV-B Radiation | Annals of Botany | 2000 | 126 |
| 16 | Does Vegetation Science exist? | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1991 | 119 |
| 17 | The twelve theories of co-existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2011 | 114 |
| 18 | Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history, Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand | Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand | 1995 | 108 |
| 19 | Cover versus biomass as an estimate of species abundance: does it make a difference to the conclusions? | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1999 | 101 |
| 20 | Climate-Change Effects on Alpine Plant Biodiversity: A New Zealand Perspective on Quantifying the Threat | Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research | 2003 | 101 |
| 21 | The high-alpine vegetation of Central Otago, New Zealand | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1970 | 94 |
| 22 | A null model of guild proportionality, applied to stratification of a New Zealand temperate rain forest | Oecologia | 1989 | 94 |
| 23 | Evidence on ecotone concepts from switch, environmental and anthropogenic ecotones | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2000 | 94 |
| 24 | Reconfiguration as a Prerequisite for Survival in Highly Unstable Flow-Dominated Habitats | Journal of Plant Growth Regulation | 2004 | 94 |
| 25 | Integrating earth and life sciences in New Zealand natural history: The parallel arcs model | New Zealand Journal of Zoology | 1989 | 92 |
| 26 | Is the abundance of species determined by their functional traits? A new method with a test using plant communities | Oecologia | 2007 | 86 |
| 27 | Flowering, seeding, and seedling establishment of narrow-leaved Snow Tussock,Chionochloa Rigida | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1965 | 84 |
| 28 | Forest Succession on landslides above Lake Thomson, Fiordland | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1964 | 83 |
| 29 | Leaf colour polymorphisms: a balance between plant defence and photosynthesis | Journal of Ecology | 2016 | 78 |
| 30 | Frugivore gape size and the evolution of fruit size and shape in southern hemisphere floras | Austral Ecology | 2004 | 77 |
| 31 | Environmental physiology of three species of Collembola at Cape Hallett, North Victoria Land, Antarctica | Journal of Insect Physiology | 2006 | 73 |
| 32 | Methods for detecting non-randomness in species co-occurrences: a contribution | Oecologia | 1987 | 72 |
| 33 | Cover plus: ways of measuring plant canopies and the terms used for them | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2011 | 71 |
| 34 | EFFECT OF VESIGULAR-ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAS ON GROWTH OF GRISELINIA LITTORALIS (CORNACEAE) | New Phytologist | 1959 | 69 |
| 35 | Forest succession on landslides in the Fiord Ecological Region, southwestern New Zealand | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1989 | 67 |
| 36 | Phylogenetic patterns in the fleshy-fruited Myrtaceae ? preliminary molecular evidence | Plant Systematics and Evolution | 2005 | 66 |
| 37 | Importance of including cultural practices in ecological restoration | Conservation Biology | 2017 | 66 |
| 38 | The mycorrhizal nodules of podocarps | Transactions of the British Mycological Society | 1963 | 64 |
| 39 | Auxin in a Seaweed Extract: Identification and Quantitation of Indole-3-acetic acid by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry | Journal of Plant Physiology | 1987 | 64 |
| 40 | Mesopelagic faunal transition across the Subtropical Convergence east of New Zealand | New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research | 1978 | 63 |
| 41 | Time and space in the community structure of a species-rich limestone grassland | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1995 | 63 |
| 42 | PCR amplification of the fas‐1 gene for the detection of virulent strains of Rhodococcus fascians | Plant Pathology | 1996 | 62 |
| 43 | Floral initiation and development in New Zealand alpine plants | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1970 | 60 |
| 44 | Who makes the assembly rules? | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1994 | 60 |
| 45 | Community structure and assembly rules in a dune slack: Variance in richness, guild proportionality, biomass constancy and dominance/diversity relations | Plant Ecology | 1995 | 58 |
| 46 | Trait‐divergence assembly rules have been demonstrated: Limiting similarity lives! A reply to Grime | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2007 | 58 |
| 47 | The Environment and Growth Rate of Narrow-Leaved Snow Tussock, Chionochloa Rigida, in Otago | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1965 | 56 |
| 48 | Plant succession on moraines of the upper Dart Valley, southern South Island, New Zealand | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 1982 | 54 |
| 49 | Guilds and assembly rules in lawn communities | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1994 | 54 |
| 50 | Relative abundance distributions in plant communities: effects of species richness and of spatial scale | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1998 | 54 |
