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|---|
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| 2 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity | Nature | 2012 | 4,969 |
| 3 | Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome | Nature | 2002 | 3,938 |
| 4 | Functional Characterization of the S. cerevisiae Genome by Gene Deletion and Parallel Analysis | Science | 1999 | 3,761 |
| 5 | Life with 6000 Genes | Science | 1996 | 3,548 |
| 6 | Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 3,525 |
| 7 | Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution | Biological Reviews | 2007 | 2,671 |
| 8 | Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems | Science Advances | 2015 | 2,541 |
| 9 | The diversity–stability debate | Nature | 2000 | 2,471 |
| 10 | Systematic Genetic Analysis with Ordered Arrays of Yeast Deletion Mutants | Science | 2001 | 1,946 |
| 11 | A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change | Nature | 2012 | 1,750 |
| 12 | Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components | Heredity | 1987 | 1,556 |
| 13 | Variation in δ15N and δ13C trophic fractionation: Implications for aquatic food web studies | Limnology and Oceanography | 2001 | 1,506 |
| 14 | Low Nitrogen to Phosphorus Ratios Favor Dominance by Blue-Green Algae in Lake Phytoplankton | Science | 1983 | 1,238 |
| 15 | High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services | Nature | 2011 | 1,195 |
| 16 | Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 1,175 |
| 17 | Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 1,124 |
| 18 | Superoxide dismutases: Dual roles in controlling ROS damage and regulating ROS signaling | Journal of Cell Biology | 2018 | 1,091 |
| 19 | Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics | | 1997 | 1,047 |
| 20 | Extinction Rates of North American Freshwater Fauna | Conservation Biology | 1999 | 1,042 |
| 21 | The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems | American Journal of Botany | 2011 | 991 |
| 22 | The Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Metals in the Oceans | Science | 2003 | 929 |
| 23 | PRIMARY CONSUMER δ13C AND δ15N AND THE TROPHIC POSITION OF AQUATIC CONSUMERS | Ecology | 1999 | 903 |
| 24 | The genetics of caloric restriction in Caenorhabditis elegans | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 863 |
| 25 | Contemporary evolution meets conservation biology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 858 |
| 26 | Comparison of aquatic food chains using nitrogen isotopes. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1996 | 841 |
| 27 | The experimental evolution of specialists, generalists, and the maintenance of diversity | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2002 | 816 |
| 28 | The functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 808 |
| 29 | Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees | Ecology | 2010 | 788 |
| 30 | Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change | Science | 2016 | 780 |
| 31 | Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change | Nature | 2012 | 772 |
| 32 | Inbreeding depression in the wild | Heredity | 1999 | 767 |
| 33 | The statistical analysis of mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms: chi 2 and the problem of small samples. | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1989 | 763 |
| 34 | Stable isotope evidence for the food web consequences of species invasions in lakes | Nature | 1999 | 729 |
| 35 | Meiotic and Mitotic Recombination in Aspergillus and Its Chromosomal Aberrations | Advances in Genetics | 1977 | 722 |
| 36 | Modelling food chain structure and contaminant bioaccumulation using stable nitrogen isotopes | Nature | 1994 | 719 |
| 37 | Relationships between body size and some life history parameters | Oecologia | 1978 | 709 |
| 38 | An in Vivo Map of the Yeast Protein Interactome | Science | 2008 | 681 |
| 39 | Patterns and processes in crop domestication: an historical review and quantitative analysis of 203 global food crops | New Phytologist | 2012 | 674 |
| 40 | Cell Wall Assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2006 | 673 |
| 41 | splotch (Sp2H), a mutation affecting development of the mouse neural tube, shows a deletion within the paired homeodomain of Pax-3 | Cell | 1991 | 669 |
| 42 | Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates | Brain, Behavior and Evolution | 2004 | 623 |
| 43 | Recruitment in marine fishes: Is it regulated by starvation and predation in the egg and larval stages? | Journal of Sea Research | 1994 | 614 |
| 44 | The evolution of self-control | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 602 |
| 45 | Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 592 |
| 46 | Association of folding intermediates of glycoproteins with calnexin during protein maturation | Nature | 1993 | 589 |
| 47 | Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 581 |
| 48 | Mitochondrial Electron Transport Is a Key Determinant of Life Span in Caenorhabditis elegans | Developmental Cell | 2001 | 572 |
| 49 | A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology | Biological Reviews | 2017 | 570 |
| 50 | The ecological importance of intraspecific variation | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 570 |
