| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 2 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 3 | ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS | Ecology | 2003 | 1,868 |
| 4 | Control of Nitrogen Export from Watersheds by Headwater Streams | Science | 2001 | 1,209 |
| 5 | Variation Among Biomes in Temporal Dynamics of Aboveground Primary Production | Science | 2001 | 1,198 |
| 6 | Eutrophication of U.S. Freshwaters: Analysis of Potential Economic Damages | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 1,164 |
| 7 | Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading | Nature | 2008 | 1,097 |
| 8 | Predictions and tests of climate-based hypotheses of broad-scale variation in taxonomic richness | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 1,011 |
| 9 | Profiling Membrane Lipids in Plant Stress Responses | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2002 | 946 |
| 10 | Rainfall Variability, Carbon Cycling, and Plant Species Diversity in a Mesic Grassland | Science | 2002 | 942 |
| 11 | Consistent effects of nitrogen amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes | Global Change Biology | 2012 | 936 |
| 12 | Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming | Nature | 2016 | 879 |
| 13 | Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 875 |
| 14 | Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 868 |
| 15 | Quantitative analysis of major plant hormones in crude plant extracts by high-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry | Nature Protocols | 2010 | 792 |
| 16 | Ecological Forecasts: An Emerging Imperative | Science | 2001 | 774 |
| 17 | Resource-based niches provide a basis for plant species diversity and dominance in arctic tundra | Nature | 2002 | 749 |
| 18 | Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability | New Phytologist | 2009 | 744 |
| 19 | Signaling functions of phosphatidic acid | Progress in Lipid Research | 2006 | 647 |
| 20 | Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium: transmission, detection and identification | International Journal for Parasitology | 2000 | 646 |
| 21 | Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long‐term field experiments | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 600 |
| 22 | Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non-random species loss | Ecology Letters | 2003 | 591 |
| 23 | The Landscape Ecology of Invasive Spread | Conservation Biology | 2002 | 559 |
| 24 | Dark septate endophytes - are they mycorrhizal? | Mycorrhiza | 2001 | 534 |
| 25 | Seeking the elusive function of the root-colonising dark septate endophytic fungi | Studies in Mycology | 2005 | 529 |
| 26 | Relationships between Leaf Area Index and Landsat TM Spectral Vegetation Indices across Three Temperate Zone Sites | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1999 | 520 |
| 27 | Phospholipase Dα1 and Phosphatidic Acid Regulate NADPH Oxidase Activity and Production of Reactive Oxygen Species in ABA-Mediated Stomatal Closure inArabidopsis | Plant Cell | 2009 | 517 |
| 28 | Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 517 |
| 29 | Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet | Nature | 2014 | 505 |
| 30 | Grape Exosome-like Nanoparticles Induce Intestinal Stem Cells and Protect Mice From DSS-Induced Colitis | Molecular Therapy | 2013 | 495 |
| 31 | Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes | Science | 2015 | 492 |
| 32 | Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients, water and light | Functional Ecology | 2013 | 472 |
| 33 | Nutrients, eutrophication and harmful algal blooms along the freshwater to marine continuum | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | 2019 | 465 |
| 34 | Exploring systemic RNA interference in insects: a genome-wide survey for RNAi genes in Tribolium | Genome Biology | 2008 | 459 |
| 35 | Interannual variability in primary production in tallgrass prairie: climate, soil moisture, topographic position, and fire as determinants of aboveground biomass | American Journal of Botany | 1995 | 420 |
| 36 | Massively parallel 454 sequencing indicates hyperdiverse fungal communities in temperate Quercus macrocarpa phyllosphere | New Phytologist | 2009 | 414 |
| 37 | Nitrogen, phosphorus, and eutrophication in streams | Inland Waters | 2016 | 404 |
| 38 | Lipidomics reveals that adiposomes store ether lipids and mediate phospholipid traffic, | Journal of Lipid Research | 2007 | 397 |
| 39 | Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world | Nature Climate Change | 2015 | 397 |
| 40 | MYCORRHIZAE INFLUENCE PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE | Ecology | 1999 | 387 |
| 41 | Nitrogen limitation in dryland ecosystems: Responses to geographical and temporal variation in precipitation | Biogeochemistry | 1999 | 384 |
| 42 | Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C 4 -dominated grassland | Oecologia | 2003 | 383 |
| 43 | BindN: a web-based tool for efficient prediction of DNA and RNA binding sites in amino acid sequences | Nucleic Acids Research | 2006 | 375 |
| 44 | Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas | Ecology | 2012 | 374 |
| 45 | Inter-biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism | Freshwater Biology | 2001 | 360 |
| 46 | Interspecific variation in plant responses to mycorrhizal colonization in tallgrass prairie | American Journal of Botany | 1998 | 354 |
| 47 | Eutrophication and trophic state in rivers and streams | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 349 |
| 48 | Larval RNAi in Tribolium (Coleoptera) for analyzing adult development | Development Genes and Evolution | 2004 | 348 |
| 49 | Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 348 |
| 50 | Tissue Barriers to Arbovirus Infection in Mosquitoes | Viruses | 2015 | 347 |
