| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 4,012 |
| 2 | Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 2,997 |
| 3 | Global diversity and geography of soil fungi | Science | 2014 | 2,513 |
| 4 | The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications | Nucleic Acids Research | 2019 | 2,072 |
| 5 | The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi – recent updates and future perspectives | New Phytologist | 2010 | 1,563 |
| 6 | Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome | Nature | 2018 | 1,370 |
| 7 | Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2009 | 1,053 |
| 8 | Persistent negative effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biological control potential on European farmland | Basic and Applied Ecology | 2010 | 1,039 |
| 9 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 10 | The online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) | New Phytologist | 2010 | 857 |
| 11 | Wetlands, carbon, and climate change | Landscape Ecology | 2013 | 727 |
| 12 | Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta‐Analysis of Species Richness in Europe | Conservation Biology | 2010 | 679 |
| 13 | Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 666 |
| 14 | Global assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism | Science | 2015 | 644 |
| 15 | Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time‐delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 620 |
| 16 | Filter materials for phosphorus removal from wastewater in treatment wetlands—A review | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 612 |
| 17 | Plant species richness: the world records | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2012 | 600 |
| 18 | Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness | Nature | 2016 | 564 |
| 19 | Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet | Nature | 2014 | 505 |
| 20 | 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases | New Phytologist | 2010 | 484 |
| 21 | Large‐scale parallel 454 sequencing reveals host ecological group specificity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreonemoral forest | New Phytologist | 2009 | 481 |
| 22 | How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology | Science | 2020 | 453 |
| 23 | Lineages of ectomycorrhizal fungi revisited: Foraging strategies and novel lineages revealed by sequences from belowground | Fungal Biology Reviews | 2013 | 431 |
| 24 | Revealing the History of Sheep Domestication Using Retrovirus Integrations | Science | 2009 | 402 |
| 25 | Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) | Functional Ecology | 2015 | 396 |
| 26 | FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles | Fungal Diversity | 2020 | 387 |
| 27 | Towards global patterns in the diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 365 |
| 28 | Strong host preference of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Tasmanian wet sclerophyll forest as revealed by DNA barcoding and taxon‐specific primers | New Phytologist | 2008 | 362 |
| 29 | Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations | Science | 2017 | 353 |
| 30 | Sex Differences in Phenotypic Plasticity Affect Variation in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Insects: From Physiology to Evolution | Annual Review of Entomology | 2010 | 352 |
| 31 | A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture | Genome Research | 2015 | 348 |
| 32 | Trends in the use of landscape spatial metrics as landscape indicators: A review | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 338 |
| 33 | A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues | Conservation Letters | 2012 | 328 |
| 34 | Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2014 | 323 |
| 35 | Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness | Science | 2015 | 315 |
| 36 | Tree diversity and species identity effects on soil fungi, protists and animals are context dependent | ISME Journal | 2016 | 307 |
| 37 | DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions | Molecular Ecology | 2019 | 300 |
| 38 | Land‐use change to bioenergy production in Europe: implications for the greenhouse gas balance and soil carbon | GCB Bioenergy | 2012 | 298 |
| 39 | Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2011 | 275 |
| 40 | Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination | Biological Reviews | 2010 | 259 |
| 41 | Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium | Biogeosciences | 2013 | 257 |
| 42 | Regional and local patterns of ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and community structure along an altitudinal gradient in the Hyrcanian forests of northern Iran | New Phytologist | 2012 | 256 |
| 43 | Stochastic distribution of small soil eukaryotes resulting from high dispersal and drift in a local environment | ISME Journal | 2016 | 256 |
| 44 | The ITS region as a target for characterization of fungal communities using emerging sequencing technologies | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2009 | 246 |
| 45 | Greenhouse gas emission in constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment: A review | Ecological Engineering | 2014 | 237 |
| 46 | A Comprehensive, Automatically Updated Fungal ITS Sequence Dataset for Reference-Based Chimera Control in Environmental Sequencing Efforts | Microbes and Environments | 2015 | 231 |
| 47 | Agricultural intensification and biodiversity partitioning in European landscapes comparing plants, carabids, and birds | Microbes and Environments | 2011 | 221 |
| 48 | FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations | New Phytologist | 2020 | 221 |
| 49 | Plant root exudates mediate neighbour recognition and trigger complex behavioural changes | New Phytologist | 2014 | 217 |
| 50 | Notes for genera: Ascomycota | Fungal Diversity | 2017 | 213 |
