| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2006 | 2,434 |
| 2 | A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models | Ecological Modelling | 2006 | 2,219 |
| 3 | Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils | Nature | 2006 | 2,144 |
| 4 | The ODD protocol: A review and first update | Ecological Modelling | 2010 | 1,913 |
| 5 | Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 1,627 |
| 6 | Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons | BMC Bioinformatics | 2011 | 1,320 |
| 7 | The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling | Biological Reviews | 2013 | 1,224 |
| 8 | Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes | Nature | 2015 | 995 |
| 9 | Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data | Nature Methods | 2009 | 895 |
| 10 | Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability | Nature | 2016 | 874 |
| 11 | Novel genes for nitrite reductase and Amo-related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling | Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 758 |
| 12 | The genome sequence of Atlantic cod reveals a unique immune system | Nature | 2011 | 730 |
| 13 | Simultaneous Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function through Analysis of the Meta-Transcriptome | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 667 |
| 14 | Comparison of prokaryotic diversity at offshore oceanic locations reveals a different microbiota in the Mediterranean Sea | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2006 | 580 |
| 15 | Large mesopelagic fishes biomass and trophic efficiency in the open ocean | Nature Communications | 2014 | 561 |
| 16 | Pathways of Carbon Assimilation and Ammonia Oxidation Suggested by Environmental Genomic Analyses of Marine Crenarchaeota | PLoS Biology | 2006 | 554 |
| 17 | Ecology: Managing Evolving Fish Stocks | Science | 2007 | 552 |
| 18 | Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 540 |
| 19 | Genomic studies of uncultivated archaea | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2005 | 531 |
| 20 | Evaluation of potential reference genes in real-time RT-PCR studies of Atlantic salmon | BMC Molecular Biology | 2005 | 493 |
| 21 | 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 478 |
| 22 | Nature of Phosphorus Limitation in the Ultraoligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean | Science | 2005 | 459 |
| 23 | Phylogenies without roots? A plea for the use of vouchers in molecular phylogenetic studies | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2008 | 421 |
| 24 | Genomic analysis of the uncultivated marine crenarchaeote Cenarchaeum symbiosum | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 420 |
| 25 | Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries | Science | 2012 | 392 |
| 26 | Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments | ISME Journal | 2010 | 387 |
| 27 | Salmon lice – impact on wild salmonids and salmon aquaculture | Journal of Fish Diseases | 2013 | 386 |
| 28 | Characterization of the 18S rRNA Gene for Designing Universal Eukaryote Specific Primers | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 378 |
| 29 | Linking climate change to lemming cycles | Nature | 2008 | 377 |
| 30 | The effect of temperature and fish size on growth, feed intake, food conversion efficiency and stomach evacuation rate of Atlantic salmon post-smolts | Aquaculture | 2008 | 357 |
| 31 | Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations | Science | 2017 | 353 |
| 32 | Trade-Offs between Competition and Defense Specialists among Unicellular Planktonic Organisms: the “Killing the Winner” Hypothesis Revisited | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2010 | 333 |
| 33 | Feeding behaviour and digestive physiology in larval fish: current knowledge, and gaps and bottlenecks in research | Reviews in Aquaculture | 2013 | 325 |
| 34 | Ammonia-oxidising Crenarchaeota: important players in the nitrogen cycle? | Trends in Microbiology | 2006 | 315 |
| 35 | The role of mixotrophic protists in the biological carbon pump | Biogeosciences | 2014 | 314 |
| 36 | Fish larval nutrition and feed formulation: knowledge gaps and bottlenecks for advances in larval rearing | Reviews in Aquaculture | 2013 | 311 |
| 37 | Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | 2006 | 294 |
| 38 | BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 289 |
| 39 | Black soldier fly larvae meal can replace fish meal in diets of sea-water phase Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) | Aquaculture | 2019 | 289 |
| 40 | Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 286 |
| 41 | Complex nitrogen cycling in the sponge Geodia barretti | Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 286 |
| 42 | Correlating microbial community profiles with geochemical data in highly stratified sediments from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 282 |
| 43 | Methane oxidation at 55°C and pH 2 by a thermoacidophilic bacterium belonging to the Verrucomicrobia phylum | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 281 |
| 44 | Genomic Insights into Methanotrophy: The Complete Genome Sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) | PLoS Biology | 2004 | 275 |
| 45 | Age and Growth | | 0 | 259 |
| 46 | Ecosystem oceanography for global change in fisheries | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 259 |
| 47 | Topography‐driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2016 | 243 |
| 48 | Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe | Climate of the Past | 2009 | 238 |
| 49 | Fishing‐induced evolution of growth: concepts, mechanisms and the empirical evidence | Marine Ecology | 2012 | 237 |
| 50 | Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity | Global Environmental Change | 2014 | 236 |
