| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance | Science | 2013 | 1,767 |
| 2 | The global tree restoration potential | Science | 2019 | 1,181 |
| 3 | Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture | Nature | 2015 | 1,005 |
| 4 | Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 912 |
| 5 | Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 908 |
| 6 | Long-term patterns of European PV output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data | Energy | 2016 | 873 |
| 7 | Using bias-corrected reanalysis to simulate current and future wind power output | Energy | 2016 | 771 |
| 8 | A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 739 |
| 9 | The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data | Scientific Data | 2020 | 646 |
| 10 | Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale | Nature | 2019 | 635 |
| 11 | Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 618 |
| 12 | The fossilized birth–death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 612 |
| 13 | The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry | Science | 2019 | 586 |
| 14 | Aggregate-associated soil organic matter as an ecosystem property and a measurement tool | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2014 | 565 |
| 15 | Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population | Nature | 2019 | 546 |
| 16 | Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities | Nature | 2017 | 544 |
| 17 | Soil biodiversity and human health | Nature | 2015 | 532 |
| 18 | A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production | Science Advances | 2019 | 524 |
| 19 | Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 509 |
| 20 | Scientists’ warning on affluence | Nature Communications | 2020 | 503 |
| 21 | The interdisciplinary nature of <i>SOIL</i> | Soil | 2015 | 494 |
| 22 | Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets | Nature | 2016 | 491 |
| 23 | Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 456 |
| 24 | Birth–death skyline plot reveals temporal changes of epidemic spread in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 454 |
| 25 | Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms | Biogeosciences | 2016 | 447 |
| 26 | A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape scale heterogeneity | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2013 | 424 |
| 27 | Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake | Nature | 2019 | 409 |
| 28 | A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality | Global Change Biology | 2017 | 394 |
| 29 | Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses | Nature | 2019 | 371 |
| 30 | Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt | PLoS Computational Biology | 2020 | 343 |
| 31 | Use of Chemical and Physical Characteristics To Investigate Trends in Biochar Feedstocks | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 2013 | 333 |
| 32 | Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades | Nature Climate Change | 2017 | 323 |
| 33 | Biophysical processes supporting the diversity of microbial life in soil | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 2017 | 314 |
| 34 | High-avidity IgA protects the intestine by enchaining growing bacteria | Nature | 2017 | 307 |
| 35 | Stabilization of cooperative virulence by the expression of an avirulent phenotype | Nature | 2013 | 289 |
| 36 | Advances in Soil Evaporation Physics—A Review | Vadose Zone Journal | 2013 | 286 |
| 37 | Intercropping enhances soil carbon and nitrogen | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 286 |
| 38 | Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall | Nature Communications | 2015 | 284 |
| 39 | Global Trends in Antimicrobial Use in Food Animals from 2017 to 2030 | Antibiotics | 2020 | 282 |
| 40 | Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling | Water Resources Research | 2019 | 281 |
| 41 | Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests | Global Change Biology | 2013 | 280 |
| 42 | Isolating organic carbon fractions with varying turnover rates in temperate agricultural soils – A comprehensive method comparison | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2018 | 269 |
| 43 | Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations | Global Change Biology | 2018 | 264 |
| 44 | Placing nanoplastics in the context of global plastic pollution | Nature Nanotechnology | 2021 | 252 |
| 45 | Global distribution of earthworm diversity | Science | 2019 | 248 |
| 46 | Thresholds of Logging Intensity to Maintain Tropical Forest Biodiversity | Current Biology | 2014 | 245 |
| 47 | The importance of open data and software: Is energy research lagging behind? | Energy Policy | 2017 | 245 |
| 48 | Relative Contributions of the Logging, Fiber, Oil Palm, and Mining Industries to Forest Loss in Indonesia | Conservation Letters | 2015 | 243 |
| 49 | Dealing with multiple decades of hourly wind and PV time series in energy models: A comparison of methods to reduce time resolution and the planning implications of inter-annual variability | Applied Energy | 2017 | 236 |
| 50 | Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments | Global Change Biology | 2017 | 231 |
