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| Impacts of biodiversity loss escalate through time as redundancy fades | Science | 2012 | 518 |
| Bisphenol A exposure, effects, and policy: a wildlife perspective | Journal of Environmental Management | 2012 | 474 |
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| Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 297 |
| Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability | Ecology | 2012 | 285 |
| Rapid climate change and the rate of adaptation: insight from experimental quantitative genetics | New Phytologist | 2012 | 198 |
| Response of decomposing litter and its microbial community to multiple forms of nitrogen enrichment | Ecological Monographs | 2012 | 182 |
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| Invasions: the trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea | Journal of Ecology | 2012 | 153 |
| Tree species effects on coupled cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and acidity in mineral soils at a common garden experiment | Biogeochemistry | 2012 | 140 |
| Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 123 |
| Soil carbon sequestration in prairie grasslands increased by chronic nitrogen addition | Ecology | 2012 | 117 |
| Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability | Ecology Letters | 2012 | 116 |
| Aboveground biomass in mature and secondary seasonally dry tropical forests: A literature review and global synthesis | Forest Ecology and Management | 2012 | 114 |
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| Biophysical feedback mediates effects of invasive grasses on coastal dune shape | Ecology | 2012 | 101 |
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| Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient | Ecology | 2012 | 97 |
| Diversity of plant evolutionary lineages promotes arthropod diversity | Ecology Letters | 2012 | 94 |
| Uncertainty in ecosystem services valuation and implications for assessing land use tradeoffs: An agricultural case study in the Minnesota River Basin | Ecological Economics | 2012 | 93 |
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| Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment | Ecology | 2012 | 89 |
| Evolutionary Patterns and Biogeochemical Significance of Angiosperm Root Traits | International Journal of Plant Sciences | 2012 | 87 |
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