| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | WHAT IS THE OBSERVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES RICHNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY? | Ecology | 2001 | 1,260 |
| 2 | On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems | Ecological Monographs | 2010 | 649 |
| 3 | Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2007 | 547 |
| 4 | MEETING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL NEEDS FOR FRESHWATER | | 2002 | 448 |
| 5 | Assembling the Squamate Tree of Life: Perspectives from the Phenotype and the Fossil Record | Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History | 2012 | 410 |
| 6 | Terrestrial ecosystems, increased solar ultraviolet radiation, and interactions with other climate change factors | Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences | 2007 | 384 |
| 7 | Six types of species-area curves | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2003 | 372 |
| 8 | Altering Rainfall Timing and Quantity in a Mesic Grassland Ecosystem: Design and Performance of Rainfall Manipulation Shelters | Ecosystems | 2000 | 235 |
| 9 | SMOKE-INDUCED SEED GERMINATION IN CALIFORNIA CHAPARRAL | Ecology | 1998 | 230 |
| 10 | Evolutionary principles and their practical application | Evolutionary Applications | 2011 | 230 |
| 11 | Parallel evolution of glucosinolate biosynthesis inferred from congruent nuclear and plastid gene phylogenies | American Journal of Botany | 1998 | 191 |
| 12 | CAM photosynthesis in submerged aquatic plants | Botanical Review, The | 1998 | 188 |
| 13 | Allopolyploidy, diversification, and the Miocene grassland expansion | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 177 |
| 14 | Eating yourself sick: transmission of disease as a function of foraging ecology | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 161 |
| 15 | Old and new challenges in using species diversity for assessing biodiversity | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2011 | 160 |
| 16 | Selection experiments and the study of phenotypic plasticity1 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2002 | 153 |
| 17 | Experimental evidence does not support the Habitat Amount Hypothesis | Ecography | 2017 | 145 |
| 18 | Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert‐based assessment | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 145 |
| 19 | Quality matters: resource quality for hosts and the timing of epidemics | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 125 |
| 20 | The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. X. Variation versus uncertainty | Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 122 |
| 21 | A general theory of ecology | Theoretical Ecology | 2008 | 114 |
| 22 | The underpinnings of the relationship of species richness with space and time | Ecological Monographs | 2011 | 114 |
| 23 | The ubiquity of phenotypic plasticity in plants: a synthesis | Ecology and Evolution | 2015 | 113 |
| 24 | The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. XII. Temporal and spatial heterogeneity | Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 101 |
| 25 | Rapid diversification of falcons (Aves: Falconidae) due to expansion of open habitats in the Late Miocene | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2015 | 99 |
| 26 | Friendly competition: evidence for a dilution effect among competitors in a planktonic host–parasite system | Ecology | 2009 | 96 |
| 27 | Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction | Community Ecology | 2009 | 94 |
| 28 | Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment | Science | 2019 | 92 |
| 29 | Carbon exchange of a mature, naturally regenerated pine forest in north Florida | Global Change Biology | 2008 | 87 |
| 30 | The Taxonomic Impediment Overcome: NSF's Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) as a Model | Systematic Biology | 2003 | 76 |
| 31 | DEVELOPMENTAL INSTABILITY IS GENETICALLY CORRELATED WITH PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY, CONSTRAINING HERITABILITY, AND FITNESS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2013 | 75 |
| 32 | Developing Unified Theories in Ecology as Exemplified with Diversity Gradients | American Naturalist | 2005 | 73 |
| 33 | PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF LAKES CONSTRAINS EPIDEMICS INDAPHNIAPOPULATIONS | Ecology | 2006 | 71 |
| 34 | WARMER DOES NOT HAVE TO MEAN SICKER: TEMPERATURE AND PREDATORS CAN JOINTLY DRIVE TIMING OF EPIDEMICS | Ecology | 2006 | 70 |
| 35 | Controls on carbon dynamics by ecosystem structure and climate for southeastern U.S. slash pine plantations | Ecological Monographs | 2012 | 70 |
| 36 | Land use dynamics and landscape history in La Montaña, Campeche, Mexico | Landscape and Urban Planning | 2007 | 69 |
| 37 | Plant diversity, biogeography and environment in Iberia: Patterns and possible causal factors | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2002 | 68 |
| 38 | Decomposing functional diversity | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 62 |
| 39 | REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL BIAS WHEN MEASURING NATURAL SELECTION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2002 | 61 |
| 40 | A mélange of curves - further dialogue about species-area relationships | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2004 | 60 |
| 41 | WHAT IS THE OBSERVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES RICHNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY? | | 2001 | 59 |
| 42 | When condition trumps location: seed consumption by fruit‐eating birds removes pathogens and predator attractants | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 57 |
| 43 | Retention of Inorganic Nitrogen by Epiphytic Bryophytes in a Tropical Montane Forest1 | Biotropica | 2005 | 56 |
| 44 | The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. XVII. Response to climate change | Evolutionary Applications | 2020 | 47 |
| 45 | Toward a Conceptual Framework for Biology | Quarterly Review of Biology | 2010 | 44 |
| 46 | Temporal, spatial, and between‐host comparisons of patterns of parasitism in lake zooplankton | Ecology | 2010 | 43 |
| 47 | The genetics of phenotypic plasticity. XV. Genetic assimilation, the Baldwin effect, and evolutionary rescue | Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 42 |
| 48 | The ecological literature, an idea‐free distribution | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 38 |
| 49 | Inequality in science and the case for a new agenda | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2022 | 38 |
| 50 | ROLE OF CHARRED WOOD, HEAT-SHOCK, AND LIGHT IN GERMINATION OF POSTFIRE PHRYGANA SPECIES FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN | Israel Journal of Plant Sciences | 1999 | 36 |
