| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity | Science | 2010 | 1,826 |
| 2 | Hybridization and speciation | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2013 | 1,735 |
| 3 | The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes | Nature | 1999 | 791 |
| 4 | Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale | Nature | 2009 | 588 |
| 5 | Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2011 | 527 |
| 6 | Pollinator-mediated evolution of floral signals | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 504 |
| 7 | The evolution of floral scent and insect chemical communication | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 365 |
| 8 | Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 356 |
| 9 | Production of plant growth modulating volatiles is widespread among rhizosphere bacteria and strongly depends on culture conditions | Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 343 |
| 10 | Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 339 |
| 11 | The ubiquity of alpine plant radiations: from the Andes to the Hengduan Mountains | New Phytologist | 2015 | 336 |
| 12 | A revised classification of the Apocynaceae s.l. | Botanical Review, The | 2000 | 310 |
| 13 | The evolution of floral scent: the influence of olfactory learning by insect pollinators on the honest signalling of floral rewards | Functional Ecology | 2009 | 306 |
| 14 | Phylogenomics and a posteriori data partitioning resolve the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation Malpighiales | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 305 |
| 15 | Symmetry in Flowers: Diversity and Evolution | International Journal of Plant Sciences | 1999 | 298 |
| 16 | Reconstructing the ancestral angiosperm flower and its initial specializations | American Journal of Botany | 2009 | 296 |
| 17 | Evolutionary diversification of the flowers in angiosperms | American Journal of Botany | 2011 | 278 |
| 18 | The partitioning of Africa: statistically defined biogeographical regions in sub‐Saharan Africa | Journal of Biogeography | 2012 | 276 |
| 19 | Evolution of multicellularity coincided with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 273 |
| 20 | The Flowers in Extant Basal Angiosperms and Inferences on Ancestral Flowers | International Journal of Plant Sciences | 2001 | 265 |
| 21 | Neotropical Plant Evolution: Assembling the Big Picture | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society | 2013 | 251 |
| 22 | Gynoecium Structure and Evolution in Basal Angiosperms | International Journal of Plant Sciences | 2000 | 243 |
| 23 | The origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2011 | 237 |
| 24 | Phylogeny and classification of Ranunculales: Evidence from four molecular loci and morphological data | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 2009 | 227 |
| 25 | Plant species radiations: where, when, why? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2008 | 220 |
| 26 | Molecular dating of phylogenetic trees: A brief review of current methods that estimate divergence times | Diversity and Distributions | 2006 | 211 |
| 27 | Hydatellaceae identified as a new branch near the base of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree | Nature | 2007 | 208 |
| 28 | Floral Isolation, Specialized Pollination, and Pollinator Behavior in Orchids | Annual Review of Entomology | 2009 | 206 |
| 29 | Origin and diversification of the Greater Cape flora: Ancient species repository, hot-bed of recent radiation, or both? | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2009 | 198 |
| 30 | Traditional plant use in the areas of Monte Vesole and Ascea, Cilento National Park (Campania, Southern Italy) | Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 2005 | 197 |
| 31 | Pollinator specificity, floral odour chemistry and the phylogeny of Australian sexually deceptiveChiloglottisorchids: implications for pollinator‐driven speciation | New Phytologist | 2010 | 188 |
| 32 | Angiosperm ovules: diversity, development, evolution | Annals of Botany | 2011 | 187 |
| 33 | Evolution of floral symmetry | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 2001 | 186 |
| 34 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The Greater Cape Floristic Region | Journal of Biogeography | 2006 | 185 |
| 35 | Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 185 |
| 36 | Disentangling confusions in inflorescence morphology: Patterns and diversity of reproductive shoot ramification in angiosperms | Journal of Systematics and Evolution | 2010 | 178 |
| 37 | The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts | Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 178 |
| 38 | Evidence for the monophyletic evolution of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis in angiosperms | Phytochemistry | 2005 | 175 |
| 39 | Historical Biogeography and Diversification of Truffles in the Tuberaceae and Their Newly Identified Southern Hemisphere Sister Lineage | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 175 |
| 40 | Angiosperm Floral Evolution: Morphological Developmental Framework | Advances in Botanical Research | 2006 | 174 |
| 41 | A fundamental, eco‐hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities | New Phytologist | 2011 | 171 |
| 42 | Bees use honest floral signals as indicators of reward when visiting flowers | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 165 |
| 43 | Phylogeny of early land plants: insights from genes and genomes | Trends in Plant Science | 1999 | 161 |
| 44 | EARLY TERTIARY OUT-OF-INDIA DISPERSAL OF CRYPTERONIACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM PHYLOGENY AND MOLECULAR DATING | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2002 | 159 |
| 45 | Archaefructus – angiosperm precursor or specialized early angiosperm? | Trends in Plant Science | 2003 | 154 |
| 46 | Ecology and evolution of floral volatile‐mediated information transfer in plants | New Phytologist | 2015 | 150 |
| 47 | As old as the mountains: the radiations of the Ericaceae | New Phytologist | 2015 | 150 |
| 48 | Using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes to increase phylogenetic resolution in the neotropical rain forest genus Inga (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) | Frontiers in Plant Science | 2015 | 147 |
| 49 | Species delimitation and relationships: The dance of the seven veils | Taxon | 2015 | 146 |
| 50 | Herbivory and floral signaling: phenotypic plasticity and tradeoffs between reproduction and indirect defense | New Phytologist | 2014 | 139 |
