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| 1 | BIOTIC INVASIONS: CAUSES, EPIDEMIOLOGY, GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES, AND CONTROL | Ecological Applications | 2000 | 4,731 |
| 2 | 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 | 4,186 |
| 3 | Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 3,139 |
| 4 | Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change | Science | 2001 | 3,135 |
| 5 | Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 2,443 |
| 6 | The complexity and stability of ecosystems | Nature | 1984 | 2,398 |
| 7 | Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 1,972 |
| 8 | Comparison of whole chloroplast genome sequences to choose noncoding regions for phylogenetic studies in angiosperms: the tortoise and the hare III | American Journal of Botany | 2007 | 1,831 |
| 9 | The Future of Biodiversity | Science | 1995 | 1,789 |
| 10 | Positive Interactions of Nonindigenous Species: Invasional Meltdown? | Biological Invasions | 1999 | 1,778 |
| 11 | Impact: Toward a Framework for Understanding the Ecological Effects of Invaders | Biological Invasions | 1999 | 1,467 |
| 12 | Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments | Nature | 2014 | 1,362 |
| 13 | Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 1,334 |
| 14 | The Role of Propagule Pressure in Biological Invasions | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2009 | 1,205 |
| 15 | Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading | Nature | 2008 | 1,118 |
| 16 | Scientists' warning on invasive alien species | Biological Reviews | 2020 | 1,109 |
| 17 | Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 1,101 |
| 18 | Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades | Systematic Biology | 2014 | 1,041 |
| 19 | Viruses and Nutrient Cycles in the Sea | BioScience | 1999 | 1,026 |
| 20 | Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency | Nature | 2004 | 993 |
| 21 | Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming | Nature | 2016 | 943 |
| 22 | A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2006 | 921 |
| 23 | EXTINCTION VULNERABILITY AND SELECTIVITY:Combining Ecological and Paleontological Views | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1997 | 795 |
| 24 | Leaf Maximum Photosynthetic Rate and Venation Are Linked by Hydraulics | Plant Physiology | 2007 | 758 |
| 25 | Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process | Science | 2006 | 744 |
| 26 | A Major Ecosystem Shift in the Northern Bering Sea | Science | 2006 | 739 |
| 27 | Soil Microbial Community Responses to Multiple Experimental Climate Change Drivers | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 711 |
| 28 | Eradication revisited: dealing with exotic species | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2000 | 699 |
| 29 | Food web patterns and their consequences | Nature | 1991 | 678 |
| 30 | Sympatric Speciation: Models and Empirical Evidence | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2007 | 636 |
| 31 | The ecological importance of intraspecific variation | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 609 |
| 32 | treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies | Bioinformatics | 2012 | 605 |
| 33 | The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits | Systematic Biology | 2009 | 589 |
| 34 | MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2012 | 560 |
| 35 | Metagenome, metatranscriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal microbial response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill | ISME Journal | 2012 | 559 |
| 36 | Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 547 |
| 37 | Impact of wild boar (Sus scrofa) in its introduced and native range: a review | Biological Invasions | 2012 | 545 |
| 38 | Dineserv: A Tool for Measuring Service Quality in Restaurants | The Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly | 1995 | 521 |
| 39 | Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2013 | 510 |
| 40 | PERSPECTIVE: MODELS OF SPECIATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 40 YEARS? | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2003 | 489 |
| 41 | Rapid evolution of reproductive barriers driven by sexual conflict | Nature | 2000 | 488 |
| 42 | Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments | Conservation Biology | 1999 | 478 |
| 43 | Coexistence of plant species with similar niches | Plant Ecology | 1984 | 469 |
| 44 | Detecting Hidden Diversification Shifts in Models of Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction | Systematic Biology | 2016 | 467 |
| 45 | Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead? | Ecosphere | 2015 | 453 |
| 46 | Now you See them, Now you don't! – Population Crashes of Established Introduced Species | Biological Invasions | 2004 | 433 |
| 47 | Plant species loss decreases arthropod diversity and shifts trophic structure | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 432 |
| 48 | Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome | Nature | 2011 | 428 |
| 49 | Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 426 |
| 50 | Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2012 | 422 |
