| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Genes mirror geography within Europe | Nature | 2008 | 1,287 |
| 2 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 3 | An Abundance of Rare Functional Variants in 202 Drug Target Genes Sequenced in 14,002 People | Science | 2012 | 626 |
| 4 | An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes | Nature | 2018 | 579 |
| 5 | Epidemic Dynamics at the Human-Animal Interface | Science | 2009 | 554 |
| 6 | Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change | Nature | 2010 | 518 |
| 7 | Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 517 |
| 8 | Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs | Science | 2013 | 438 |
| 9 | Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2017 | 430 |
| 10 | Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire‐prone ecosystems | New Phytologist | 2014 | 380 |
| 11 | A Phylogeny of Birds Based on Over 1,500 Loci Collected by Target Enrichment and High-Throughput Sequencing | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 287 |
| 12 | Cope's Rule, Hypercarnivory, and Extinction in North American Canids | Science | 2004 | 281 |
| 13 | Not All Sequence Tags Are Created Equal: Designing and Validating Sequence Identification Tags Robust to Indels | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 267 |
| 14 | The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 253 |
| 15 | Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 253 |
| 16 | Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas | Animal Behaviour | 2016 | 253 |
| 17 | A Phylogenomic Perspective on the Radiation of Ray-Finned Fishes Based upon Targeted Sequencing of Ultraconserved Elements (UCEs) | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 247 |
| 18 | Did genome duplication drive the origin of teleosts? A comparative study of diversification in ray-finned fishes | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2009 | 246 |
| 19 | The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 241 |
| 20 | Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)—is it a widespread phenomenon? | Plant and Soil | 2007 | 235 |
| 21 | Global analysis of plasticity in turgor loss point, a key drought tolerance trait | Ecology Letters | 2014 | 234 |
| 22 | Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents | Journal of Morphology | 2008 | 224 |
| 23 | Reprogramming normal human epithelial tissues to a common, lethal neuroendocrine cancer lineage | Science | 2018 | 217 |
| 24 | Inferring Genetic Ancestry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2010 | 214 |
| 25 | Acoustic sequences in non‐human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus | Biological Reviews | 2016 | 213 |
| 26 | Conservation translocations: a review of common difficulties and promising directions | Animal Conservation | 2020 | 204 |
| 27 | Genomic Flatlining in the Endangered Island Fox | Current Biology | 2016 | 201 |
| 28 | Towards understanding resprouting at the global scale | New Phytologist | 2016 | 197 |
| 29 | Modeling Effects of Environmental Change on Wolf Population Dynamics, Trait Evolution, and Life History | Science | 2011 | 185 |
| 30 | Adaptation in protein fitness landscapes is facilitated by indirect paths | ELife | 2016 | 184 |
| 31 | Relating belowground microbial composition to the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional trait distributions of trees in a tropical forest | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 183 |
| 32 | Spatial patterns of variation due to natural selection in humans | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2009 | 180 |
| 33 | Hydraulic basis for the evolution of photosynthetic productivity | Nature Plants | 2016 | 177 |
| 34 | How do leaf veins influence the worldwide leaf economic spectrum? Review and synthesis | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2013 | 171 |
| 35 | Comparative Phylogeography of the Coral Triangle and Implications for Marine Management | Journal of Marine Biology | 2011 | 167 |
| 36 | A Rapid, Strong, and Convergent Genetic Response to Urban Habitat Fragmentation in Four Divergent and Widespread Vertebrates | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 161 |
| 37 | Variation of BMP3 Contributes to Dog Breed Skull Diversity | PLoS Genetics | 2012 | 159 |
| 38 | Explosive diversification of marine fishes at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 156 |
| 39 | Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genusJunco | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2007 | 141 |
| 40 | Purging of Strongly Deleterious Mutations Explains Long-Term Persistence and Absence of Inbreeding Depression in Island Foxes | Current Biology | 2018 | 140 |
| 41 | The anatomical and compositional basis of leaf mass per area | Ecology Letters | 2017 | 139 |
| 42 | Identifying genetic markers of adaptation for surveillance of viral host jumps | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2010 | 138 |
| 43 | Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 137 |
| 44 | A single-nucleotide polymorphism causes smaller grain size and loss of seed shattering during African rice domestication | Nature Plants | 2017 | 133 |
| 45 | ranacapa: An R package and Shiny web app to explore environmental DNA data with exploratory statistics and interactive visualizations | F1000Research | 2018 | 132 |
| 46 | Genomic Quantitative Genetics to Study Evolution in the Wild | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 127 |
| 47 | Strongly deleterious mutations are a primary determinant of extinction risk due to inbreeding depression | Evolution Letters | 2021 | 127 |
| 48 | Effects of warming on predator–prey interactions – a resource‐based approach and a theoretical synthesis | Ecology Letters | 2017 | 126 |
| 49 | Demographic history, selection and functional diversity of the canine genome | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2017 | 125 |
| 50 | Automated species recognition of antbirds in a Mexican rainforest using hidden Markov models | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 2008 | 123 |
