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| 2 | Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species | Conservation Biology | 2008 | 944 |
| 3 | Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements | Science | 2018 | 783 |
| 4 | STABLE ISOTOPES IN ANIMAL ECOLOGY: ASSUMPTIONS, CAVEATS, AND A CALL FOR MORE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS | Ecology | 1997 | 776 |
| 5 | Isotopic ecology ten years after a call for more laboratory experiments | Biological Reviews | 2009 | 773 |
| 6 | Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming | Nature | 2010 | 729 |
| 7 | Homogenization of Freshwater Faunas | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2002 | 664 |
| 8 | A niche for isotopic ecology | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 607 |
| 9 | The Functional Organization of Cutaneous Low-Threshold Mechanosensory Neurons | Cell | 2011 | 602 |
| 10 | Homogenization of Fish Faunas Across the United States | Science | 2000 | 601 |
| 11 | Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 521 |
| 12 | Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 517 |
| 13 | Natural Abundance Variations in Stable Isotopes and their Potential Uses in Animal Physiological Ecology | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 1998 | 461 |
| 14 | Skin shedding and tissue regeneration in African spiny mice (Acomys) | Nature | 2012 | 448 |
| 15 | Sources of and processes controlling CO2 emissions change with the size of streams and rivers | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 430 |
| 16 | Genome‐wide association genetics of an adaptive trait in lodgepole pine | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 402 |
| 17 | Diet, Morphology, and Interspecific Killing in Carnivora | American Naturalist | 2006 | 393 |
| 18 | Injury-induced mechanical hypersensitivity requires C-low threshold mechanoreceptors | Nature | 2009 | 392 |
| 19 | Quantity and quality: unifying food web and ecosystem perspectives on the role of resource subsidies in freshwaters | Ecology | 2011 | 382 |
| 20 | Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts | Nature | 2010 | 381 |
| 21 | Transcriptome sequencing in an ecologically important tree species: assembly, annotation, and marker discovery | BMC Genomics | 2010 | 374 |
| 22 | MATCHING HABITAT CHOICE CAUSES DIRECTED GENE FLOW: A NEGLECTED DIMENSION IN EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2008 | 353 |
| 23 | Biogeographic barriers, connectivity and homogenization of freshwater faunas: it's a small world after all | Freshwater Biology | 2007 | 335 |
| 24 | Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness | Science | 2015 | 315 |
| 25 | Optimizing Great Tit Clutch Size in a Fluctuating Environment | Ecology | 1987 | 314 |
| 26 | The Neurobehavioral Nature of Fishes and the Question of Awareness and Pain | Reviews in Fisheries Science | 2002 | 314 |
| 27 | Stable isotopes in mammalian research: a beginner's guide | Journal of Mammalogy | 2012 | 311 |
| 28 | Fish Assemblages and Habitat Gradients in a Rocky Mountain–Great Plains Stream: Biotic Zonation and Additive Patterns of Community Change | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society | 1991 | 308 |
| 29 | Effects of elemental composition on the incorporation of dietary nitrogen and carbon isotopic signatures in an omnivorous songbird | Oecologia | 2003 | 306 |
| 30 | Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient | Nature Communications | 2019 | 285 |
| 31 | Ecosystem metabolism controls nitrogen uptake in streams in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming | Limnology and Oceanography | 2003 | 281 |
| 32 | Loss of a Harvested Fish Species Disrupts Carbon Flow in a Diverse Tropical River | Science | 2006 | 270 |
| 33 | Inter‐regional comparison of land‐use effects on stream metabolism | Freshwater Biology | 2010 | 267 |
| 34 | Information theory and hypothesis testing: a call for pluralism | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2005 | 264 |
| 35 | Ecological Physiology of Diet and Digestive Systems | Annual Review of Physiology | 2011 | 256 |
| 36 | Ten years of experimental animal isotopic ecology | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 255 |
| 37 | Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals | Science | 2018 | 254 |
| 38 | Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics | Nature | 2020 | 251 |
| 39 | The metabolic regimes of flowing waters | Limnology and Oceanography | 2018 | 247 |
| 40 | Behavioral flexibility as a mechanism for coping with climate change | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2017 | 240 |
| 41 | Predicting fate from early connectivity in a social network | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 234 |
| 42 | Large herbivores surf waves of green-up during spring | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2016 | 225 |
| 43 | Major defects in neocortical GABAergic inhibitory circuits in mice lacking the fragile X mental retardation protein | Neuroscience Letters | 2007 | 222 |
| 44 | UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS: ARE MAJOR SURPRISES INEVITABLE | Ecology | 2008 | 222 |
| 45 | Relating nutrient uptake with transient storage in forested mountain streams | Limnology and Oceanography | 2002 | 212 |
| 46 | Inference in ecology and evolution | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2007 | 201 |
| 47 | Consumption of salmon by Alaskan brown bears: a trade-off between nutritional requirements and the risk of infanticide? | Oecologia | 2004 | 200 |
| 48 | Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna | PLoS Biology | 2010 | 198 |
| 49 | The effect of cold-induced increased metabolic rate on the rate of 13C and 15N incorporation in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) | Oecologia | 2005 | 196 |
| 50 | Animal migration amid shifting patterns of phenology and predation: lessons from a Yellowstone elk herd | Ecology | 2013 | 192 |
