| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A safe operating space for humanity | Nature | 2009 | 8,638 |
| 2 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 3 | Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming | Science | 2005 | 1,186 |
| 4 | Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change | Science | 2009 | 1,043 |
| 5 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 6 | Development of obesity in transgenic mice after genetic ablation of brown adipose tissue | Nature | 1993 | 1,003 |
| 7 | Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods | Ecosystems | 2006 | 904 |
| 8 | Ecosystem carbon storage in arctic tundra reduced by long-term nutrient fertilization | Nature | 2004 | 898 |
| 9 | Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming | Nature | 2006 | 890 |
| 10 | The Circumpolar Arctic vegetation map | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2005 | 846 |
| 11 | Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 744 |
| 12 | Climate-induced boreal forest change: Predictions versus current observations | Global and Planetary Change | 2007 | 619 |
| 13 | Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison | Science | 2004 | 601 |
| 14 | Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology | Nature Geoscience | 2016 | 527 |
| 15 | Snow–Shrub Interactions in Arctic Tundra: A Hypothesis with Climatic Implications | Journal of Climate | 2001 | 512 |
| 16 | Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 485 |
| 17 | Nutrition integrates environmental responses of ungulates | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 482 |
| 18 | Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 | Environmental Research Letters | 2019 | 471 |
| 19 | Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline | Science | 2013 | 461 |
| 20 | Glaciers as a source of ancient and labile organic matter to the marine environment | Nature | 2009 | 452 |
| 21 | Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome | Nature | 2018 | 451 |
| 22 | Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest | Global Change Biology | 2010 | 448 |
| 23 | Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome | Nature Climate Change | 2015 | 447 |
| 24 | Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic | Nature Climate Change | 2020 | 447 |
| 25 | Sensitivity of predictive species distribution models to change in grain size | Diversity and Distributions | 2007 | 445 |
| 26 | Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw | Nature Geoscience | 2020 | 434 |
| 27 | The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2013 | 433 |
| 28 | Reconnecting to the Biosphere | Ambio | 2011 | 420 |
| 29 | Predator‐induced stress and the ecology of fear | Functional Ecology | 2013 | 407 |
| 30 | Freeze avoidance in a mammal: body temperatures below 0 degree C in an Arctic hibernator | Science | 1989 | 389 |
| 31 | Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance | Nature Climate Change | 2014 | 383 |
| 32 | Cellulose utilization in forest litter and soil: identification of bacterial and fungal decomposers | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2012 | 381 |
| 33 | Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2014 | 378 |
| 34 | Hibernation in Black Bears: Independence of Metabolic Suppression from Body Temperature | Science | 2011 | 363 |
| 35 | Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire | Nature | 2011 | 359 |
| 36 | Fluorescence characteristics and biodegradability of dissolved organic matter in forest and wetland soils from coastal temperate watersheds in southeast Alaska | Biogeochemistry | 2008 | 344 |
| 37 | Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2016 | 343 |
| 38 | The Evolutionary Genetics and Emergence of Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds | PLoS Pathogens | 2008 | 334 |
| 39 | Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline | Earth Interactions | 2010 | 332 |
| 40 | A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide | Functional Ecology | 2017 | 330 |
| 41 | The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems | New Phytologist | 2012 | 322 |
| 42 | Controls on soil respiration: Implications for climate change | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 316 |
| 43 | Effects of Soil Burn Severity on Post-Fire Tree Recruitment in Boreal Forest | Ecosystems | 2006 | 313 |
| 44 | High stocks of soil organic carbon in the North American Arctic region | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 306 |
| 45 | Long-term ecosystem level experiments at Toolik Lake, Alaska, and at Abisko, Northern Sweden: generalizations and differences in ecosystem and plant type responses to global change | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 299 |
| 46 | Gene flow between insular, coastal and interior populations of brown bears in Alaska | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 297 |
| 47 | Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 296 |
| 48 | Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 292 |
| 49 | Greening of arctic Alaska, 1981–2001 | Geophysical Research Letters | 2003 | 289 |
| 50 | Global Patterns and Predictions of Seafloor Biomass Using Random Forests | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 287 |
