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|---|
| 1 | Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges | Science | 2001 | 3,551 |
| 2 | The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations | American Naturalist | 2001 | 1,694 |
| 3 | Impact: Toward a Framework for Understanding the Ecological Effects of Invaders | Biological Invasions | 1999 | 1,443 |
| 4 | Intertidal community structure | Oecologia | 1974 | 1,280 |
| 5 | Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature | Science | 2002 | 1,190 |
| 6 | Pheromone binding and inactivation by moth antennae | Nature | 1981 | 1,182 |
| 7 | ESTIMATING THE ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT OF PHYTOPLANKTON FROM CELL VOLUME OR PLASMA VOLUME1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1967 | 1,140 |
| 8 | RARE ALLELES AS INDICATORS OF GENE FLOW | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1985 | 1,088 |
| 9 | The segment polarity network is a robust developmental module | Nature | 2000 | 1,067 |
| 10 | Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion | Nature | 2002 | 935 |
| 11 | The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2005 | 933 |
| 12 | Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2000 | 867 |
| 13 | Invasion of Coastal Marine Communities in North America: Apparent Patterns, Processes, and Biases | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2000 | 857 |
| 14 | Compounded Perturbations Yield Ecological Surprises | Ecosystems | 1998 | 855 |
| 15 | Ecological Consequences of Foraging Mode | Ecology | 1981 | 841 |
| 16 | Spatial and temporal patterns of neurogenesis in the central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster | Developmental Biology | 1988 | 700 |
| 17 | Rapid Evolution of a Geographic Cline in Size in an Introduced Fly | Science | 2000 | 673 |
| 18 | SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF FEMALE CHOICE | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1982 | 664 |
| 19 | Food-web analysis through field measurement of per capita interaction strength | Nature | 1992 | 641 |
| 20 | Seasonal changes of the adrenocortical response to stress in birds of the Sonoran desert | The Journal of Experimental Zoology | 1992 | 625 |
| 21 | Population dynamics in spatially complex environments: theory and data | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1990 | 622 |
| 22 | The determination of five steroids in avian plasma by radioimmunoassay and competitive protein-binding | Steroids | 1975 | 612 |
| 23 | Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem | Ecology Letters | 2003 | 570 |
| 24 | HETEROCHROMATIN AND GENE EXPRESSION IN DROSOPHILA | Annual Review of Genetics | 1995 | 546 |
| 25 | A NEO‐DARWINIAN COMMENTARY ON MACROEVOLUTION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1982 | 528 |
| 26 | Estimating Divergence Times from Molecular Data on Phylogenetic and Population Genetic Timescales | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2002 | 521 |
| 27 | Allee Effects Limit Population Viability of an Annual Plant | American Naturalist | 1998 | 520 |
| 28 | Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes | Nature | 1995 | 517 |
| 29 | PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES OF COADAPTATION: PREFERRED TEMPERATURES VERSUS OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE TEMPERATURES OF LIZARDS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1987 | 503 |
| 30 | Toward a General Theory of Plant Antiherbivore Chemistry | | 1976 | 502 |
| 31 | Cellular and Molecular Actions of Juvenile Hormone I. General Considerations and Premetamorphic Actions | Advances in Insect Physiology | 1994 | 502 |
| 32 | The parr—Smolt transformation (smoltification) and seawater adaptation in salmonids | Aquaculture | 1980 | 495 |
| 33 | Pacific Salmon, Nutrients, and the Dynamics of Freshwater and Riparian Ecosystems | Ecosystems | 2002 | 490 |
| 34 | Avoiding the ‘Costs’ of Testosterone: Ecological Bases of Hormone-Behavior Interactions | Brain, Behavior and Evolution | 2001 | 478 |
| 35 | Ecdysone receptors and their biological actions | Vitamins and Hormones | 2000 | 469 |
| 36 | Size and Function of Mammalian Testes in Relation to Body Size | Journal of Mammalogy | 1986 | 467 |
| 37 | The origins of insect metamorphosis | Nature | 1999 | 459 |
| 38 | Adaptation of Fruit Morphology to Dispersal Agents in a Neotropical Forest | Science | 1983 | 448 |
| 39 | TROPHIC CASCADES, NUTRIENTS, AND LAKE PRODUCTIVITY: WHOLE-LAKE EXPERIMENTS | Ecological Monographs | 2001 | 448 |
| 40 | Habitat fragmentation and the stability of predator–prey interactions | Nature | 1987 | 446 |
| 41 | Stress, reproduction, and adrenocortical modulation in amphibians and reptiles | Hormones and Behavior | 2003 | 446 |
| 42 | THE EFFECTS OF GRAZING BY SEA URCHINS, STRONGYLOCENTROTUS SPP., ON BENTHIC ALGAL POPULATIONS1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1969 | 440 |
| 43 | Spread of invading organisms | Landscape Ecology | 1990 | 440 |
| 44 | Versatile fluorescent probes for actin filaments based on the actin‐binding domain of utrophin | Cytoskeleton | 2007 | 430 |
| 45 | Strength and tempo of directional selection in the wild | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2001 | 401 |
| 46 | Taxonomic Bias in Conservation Research | Science | 2002 | 390 |
| 47 | Maternal corticosterone is transferred to avian yolk and may alter offspring growth and adult phenotype | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 2004 | 385 |
| 48 | Dynamics of food availability, body condition and physiological stress response in breeding Black-legged Kittiwakes | Functional Ecology | 1999 | 375 |
| 49 | Endocrine Insights into the Evolution of Metamorphosis in Insects | Annual Review of Entomology | 2002 | 370 |
| 50 | Endocrine Responses of White-Crowned Sparrows to Environmental Stress | Condor | 1982 | 365 |
