| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | No evidence that carotenoid pigments boost either immune or antioxidant defenses in a songbird | Nature Communications | 2018 | 1,639 |
| 2 | A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome | Nature | 2017 | 1,365 |
| 3 | Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest | Science | 2013 | 1,130 |
| 4 | The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 885 |
| 5 | Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 870 |
| 6 | Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees | Nature | 2015 | 816 |
| 7 | A global meta‐analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 768 |
| 8 | Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation | Nature Communications | 2015 | 656 |
| 9 | Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 641 |
| 10 | Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 618 |
| 11 | Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale | Nature Climate Change | 2012 | 594 |
| 12 | Ectomycorrhizal fungi – potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs | New Phytologist | 2015 | 589 |
| 13 | Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses | Nature Communications | 2017 | 555 |
| 14 | Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality | Nature | 2016 | 526 |
| 15 | A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production | Science Advances | 2019 | 524 |
| 16 | Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 520 |
| 17 | The biology of color | Science | 2017 | 509 |
| 18 | Spatially and functionally distinct subclasses of breast cancer-associated fibroblasts revealed by single cell RNA sequencing | Nature Communications | 2018 | 496 |
| 19 | Grasslands—more important for ecosystem services than you might think | Ecosphere | 2019 | 476 |
| 20 | Hidden costs of infection: Chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds | Science | 2015 | 387 |
| 21 | Salt effects on the soil microbial decomposer community and their role in organic carbon cycling: A review | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2015 | 383 |
| 22 | The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe | Ecology Letters | 2019 | 364 |
| 23 | When and where does mortality occur in migratory birds? Direct evidence from long‐term satellite tracking of raptors | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2014 | 361 |
| 24 | Yeast, not fruit volatiles mediate Drosophila melanogaster attraction, oviposition and development | Functional Ecology | 2012 | 355 |
| 25 | The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis | Ecology Letters | 2020 | 319 |
| 26 | Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 314 |
| 27 | Differences in Speed and Duration of Bird Migration between Spring and Autumn | American Naturalist | 2013 | 313 |
| 28 | Mutational and putative neoantigen load predict clinical benefit of adoptive T cell therapy in melanoma | Nature Communications | 2017 | 310 |
| 29 | The impact of learning on sexual selection and speciation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 307 |
| 30 | Optimal bird migration revisited | Journal of Ornithology | 2011 | 304 |
| 31 | An Anatomically Constrained Model for Path Integration in the Bee Brain | Current Biology | 2017 | 290 |
| 32 | Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient | Nature Communications | 2019 | 285 |
| 33 | Linking bacterial community composition to soil salinity along environmental gradients | ISME Journal | 2019 | 283 |
| 34 | Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long‐term succession: insights into assembly processes | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 282 |
| 35 | Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection | Science | 2017 | 267 |
| 36 | The draft genome of whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, a global crop pest, provides novel insights into virus transmission, host adaptation, and insecticide resistance | BMC Biology | 2016 | 265 |
| 37 | Ectomycorrhizal fungi decompose soil organic matter using oxidative mechanisms adapted from saprotrophic ancestors | New Phytologist | 2016 | 264 |
| 38 | The production and turnover of extramatrical mycelium of ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest soils: role in carbon cycling | Plant and Soil | 2013 | 262 |
| 39 | A global synthesis of the effects of diversified farming systems on arthropod diversity within fields and across agricultural landscapes | Global Change Biology | 2017 | 259 |
| 40 | Changes in fungal communities along a boreal forest soil fertility gradient | New Phytologist | 2015 | 258 |
| 41 | Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics | Nature | 2020 | 251 |
| 42 | Signals and regulators that governStreptomycesdevelopment | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 2012 | 249 |
| 43 | Evolution of insect olfactory receptors | ELife | 2014 | 249 |
| 44 | Geolocation by light: accuracy and precision affected by environmental factors | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 243 |
| 45 | Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Their Impacts on Bees: A Systematic Review of Research Approaches and Identification of Knowledge Gaps | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 236 |
| 46 | Partial migration in fishes: causes and consequences | Journal of Fish Biology | 2012 | 235 |
| 47 | Increasing iron concentrations in surface waters – a factor behind brownification? | Biogeosciences | 2012 | 229 |
| 48 | Humidity Sensing in Drosophila | Current Biology | 2016 | 229 |
| 49 | Global change‐driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition: Implications for food webs of northern lakes | Global Change Biology | 2018 | 229 |
| 50 | Distinct signalling pathways and transcriptome response signatures differentiate ammonium- and nitrate-supplied plants | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2010 | 227 |
