| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity | Nature | 2010 | 5,284 |
| 2 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth | Science | 2011 | 3,030 |
| 3 | Rebuilding Global Fisheries | Science | 2009 | 1,722 |
| 4 | Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2012 | 1,299 |
| 5 | Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers | Nature | 2019 | 1,249 |
| 6 | Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species | Nature | 2010 | 1,187 |
| 7 | Homogenization of regional river dynamics by dams and global biodiversity implications | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 1,172 |
| 8 | Lake responses to reduced nutrient loading - an analysis of contemporary long-term data from 35 case studies | Freshwater Biology | 2005 | 1,080 |
| 9 | Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change | Science | 2009 | 1,043 |
| 10 | Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries | Nature | 2011 | 981 |
| 11 | Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species | Conservation Biology | 2008 | 944 |
| 12 | THE CHALLENGE OF PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW RULES TO SUSTAIN RIVER ECOSYSTEMS | | 2006 | 935 |
| 13 | Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities | Nature Communications | 2016 | 808 |
| 14 | Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe | Geophysical Research Letters | 2015 | 767 |
| 15 | Biocomplexity and fisheries sustainability | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 747 |
| 16 | Incorporating thermal regimes into environmental flows assessments: modifying dam operations to restore freshwater ecosystem integrity | Freshwater Biology | 2010 | 724 |
| 17 | Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2017 | 719 |
| 18 | WATER IN A CHANGING WORLD | | 2001 | 709 |
| 19 | Drivers of bacterial β-diversity depend on spatial scale | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 672 |
| 20 | CLIMATE CHANGE UNCOUPLES TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN AN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM | Ecology | 2004 | 655 |
| 21 | Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita | Science | 2007 | 644 |
| 22 | Status and Solutions for the World’s Unassessed Fisheries | Science | 2012 | 621 |
| 23 | The Potential Conservation Value of Non-Native Species | Conservation Biology | 2011 | 597 |
| 24 | Self-Organized Fish Schools: An Examination of Emergent Properties | Biological Bulletin | 2002 | 576 |
| 25 | Machine Learning Methods Without Tears: A Primer for Ecologists | Quarterly Review of Biology | 2008 | 561 |
| 26 | Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan | BioScience | 2020 | 553 |
| 27 | When can marine reserves improve fisheries management? | Ocean and Coastal Management | 2004 | 533 |
| 28 | Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research | Biological Conservation | 2015 | 529 |
| 29 | Global Patterns of Bacterial Beta-Diversity in Seafloor and Seawater Ecosystems | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 525 |
| 30 | Compensatory density dependence in fish populations: importance, controversy, understanding and prognosis | Fish and Fisheries | 2001 | 505 |
| 31 | Paradigm shifts in marine fisheries genetics: ugly hypotheses slain by beautiful facts | Fish and Fisheries | 2008 | 492 |
| 32 | Pacific Salmon, Nutrients, and the Dynamics of Freshwater and Riparian Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2002 | 490 |
| 33 | Evolutionary rescue in a changing world | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 485 |
| 34 | Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 485 |
| 35 | Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in the Wild: Evidence from Introduced Salmon | Science | 2000 | 477 |
| 36 | Dam invaders: impoundments facilitate biological invasions into freshwaters | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 457 |
| 37 | Ecological Impacts of Nonnative Freshwater Fishes | Fisheries | 2011 | 447 |
| 38 | Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 439 |
| 39 | Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 434 |
| 40 | Classification of natural flow regimes in Australia to support environmental flow management | Freshwater Biology | 2010 | 416 |
| 41 | The future of food from the sea | Nature | 2020 | 403 |
| 42 | Will extreme climatic events facilitate biological invasions? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 402 |
| 43 | Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors in fish: Where we are and where to go | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 2005 | 391 |
| 44 | Oleic acid content is responsible for the reduction in blood pressure induced by olive oil | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 386 |
| 45 | Fishing through marine food webs | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 382 |
| 46 | Potential responses to climate change in organisms with complex life histories: evolution and plasticity in Pacific salmon | Evolutionary Applications | 2008 | 379 |
| 47 | Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 359 |
| 48 | Climatic effects on the phenology of lake processes | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 352 |
| 49 | Phenotypic plasticity and population viability: the importance of environmental predictability | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 352 |
| 50 | The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2015 | 349 |
