| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100 | Science | 2000 | 7,077 |
| 2 | Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification | Science | 1990 | 2,156 |
| 3 | Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds | Science | 2014 | 1,583 |
| 4 | Long‐distance seed dispersal in plant populations | American Journal of Botany | 2000 | 942 |
| 5 | Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation | Science | 2014 | 895 |
| 6 | A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny: The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG) | Taxon | 2017 | 803 |
| 7 | On the Use of Stable Isotopes in Trophic Ecology | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2011 | 752 |
| 8 | Cyclic AMP in prokaryotes | Microbiological Reviews | 1992 | 457 |
| 9 | Functional diversity revealed by removal experiments | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 395 |
| 10 | Toward a Global Phylogeny of the Brassicaceae | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2006 | 337 |
| 11 | SEED DISPERSAL AND THE HOLOCENE MIGRATION OF WOODLAND HERBS | Ecological Monographs | 1998 | 321 |
| 12 | Zika Virus Emergence in Mosquitoes in Southeastern Senegal, 2011 | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 275 |
| 13 | Conspecific Sperm and Pollen Precedence and Speciation | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1999 | 272 |
| 14 | Leaf Shape Evolution Through Duplication, Regulatory Diversification, and Loss of a Homeobox Gene | Science | 2014 | 269 |
| 15 | Stemflow, throughfall and channelization of stemflow by roots in three Chihuahuan desert shrubs | Journal of Arid Environments | 1996 | 261 |
| 16 | Anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste and agricultural waste and the effect of co-digestion with dairy cow manure | Bioresource Technology | 2008 | 251 |
| 17 | Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics | Nature | 2020 | 251 |
| 18 | Counterillumination in the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes Berry (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) | Marine Biology | 2004 | 222 |
| 19 | Conservation genetics: beyond the maintenance of marker diversity | Molecular Ecology | 1994 | 218 |
| 20 | Desertification alters patterns of aboveground net primary production in Chihuahuan ecosystems | Global Change Biology | 2002 | 211 |
| 21 | Stemflow contribution to the ‘fertile island’ effect in creosotebush,Larrea tridentata | Journal of Arid Environments | 1997 | 205 |
| 22 | A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny of the Parrots (Psittaciformes): Support for a Gondwanan Origin during the Cretaceous | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2008 | 201 |
| 23 | Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2019 | 193 |
| 24 | Evidence for a clade composed of molluscs with serially repeated structures: Monoplacophorans are related to chitons | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 192 |
| 25 | The Selection Mosaic and Diversifying Coevolution between Crossbills and Lodgepole Pine | American Naturalist | 1999 | 185 |
| 26 | DIVERGENT SELECTION DRIVES THE ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF CROSSBILLS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2003 | 183 |
| 27 | PARALLEL RADIATIONS IN THE PRIMARY CLADES OF BIRDS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2004 | 182 |
| 28 | Genomic basis for the convergent evolution of electric organs | Science | 2014 | 181 |
| 29 | Precipitation of cadmium by Clostridium thermoaceticum | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1993 | 181 |
| 30 | THE INFLUENCE OF A COMPETITOR ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MOSAIC OF COEVOLUTION BETWEEN CROSSBILLS AND LODGEPOLE PINE | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2001 | 178 |
| 31 | warbleR: an r package to streamline analysis of animal acoustic signals | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 178 |
| 32 | Reciprocal Selection Causes a Coevolutionary Arms Race between Crossbills and Lodgepole Pine | American Naturalist | 2003 | 168 |
| 33 | Selective feeding by shredders on leaf-colonizing stream fungi: comparison of macroinvertebrate taxa | Oecologia | 1989 | 164 |
| 34 | Nuclear DNA‐based markers for plant evolutionary biology | Molecular Ecology | 1997 | 161 |
| 35 | Comparison of Degradative Ability, Enzymatic Activity, and Palatability of Aquatic Hyphomycetes Grown on Leaf Litter | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1983 | 156 |
| 36 | Fever versus fever: The role of host and vector susceptibility and interspecific competition in shaping the current and future distributions of the sylvatic cycles of dengue virus and yellow fever virus | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 2013 | 152 |
| 37 | Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2016 | 148 |
| 38 | Mosquitoes Put the Brake on Arbovirus Evolution: Experimental Evolution Reveals Slower Mutation Accumulation in Mosquito Than Vertebrate Cells | PLoS Pathogens | 2009 | 146 |
| 39 | Assessment of the Effects of Student Response Systems on Student Learning and Attitudes over a Broad Range of Biology Courses | CBE Life Sciences Education | 2007 | 144 |
| 40 | Nestedness, biogeographic theory, and the design of nature reserves | Oecologia | 1997 | 143 |
| 41 | Mini-review: A priori considerations for bacteria–algae interactions in algal biofuel systems receiving municipal wastewaters | Algal Research | 2014 | 139 |
| 42 | The effect of water and nitrogen amendments on photosynthesis, leaf demography, and resource-use efficiency in Larrea tridentata, a desert evergreen shrub | Oecologia | 1989 | 137 |
| 43 | Long-distance seed dispersal in plant populations | American Journal of Botany | 2000 | 136 |
| 44 | Shrub (Prosopis velutina) encroachment in a semidesert grassland: spatial–temporal changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools | Global Change Biology | 2008 | 135 |
| 45 | A combined approach to the phylogeny of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) | Cladistics | 2004 | 134 |
| 46 | The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 129 |
| 47 | A POSTINSEMINATION BARRIER TO FERTILIZATION ISOLATES TWO CLOSELY RELATED GROUND CRICKETS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1994 | 125 |
| 48 | Plastid genome sequences of legumes reveal parallel inversions and multiple losses of rps16 in papilionoids | Journal of Systematics and Evolution | 2015 | 125 |
| 49 | Mimosoid legume plastome evolution: IR expansion, tandem repeat expansions and accelerated rate of evolution in clpP | Scientific Reports | 2015 | 125 |
| 50 | Recovery of plant DNA using a reciprocating saw and silica-based columns | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2006 | 124 |
