| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women | Nature | 2004 | 536 |
| 2 | Evolution of endophyte?plant symbioses | Trends in Plant Science | 2004 | 521 |
| 3 | Alien predators are more dangerous than native predators to prey populations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2007 | 459 |
| 4 | ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS | Ecological Monographs | 2005 | 439 |
| 5 | Consequences of simultaneous elevation of carbon dioxide and temperature for plant-herbivore interactions: a metaanalysis | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 418 |
| 6 | SOCIAL INFORMATION USE IS A PROCESS ACROSS TIME, SPACE, AND ECOLOGY, REACHING HETEROSPECIFICS | Ecology | 2007 | 369 |
| 7 | Large–scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 357 |
| 8 | SMALL-RODENT DYNAMICS AND PREDATION | Ecology | 2001 | 353 |
| 9 | Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations | Science | 2017 | 353 |
| 10 | META-ANALYSIS OF SOURCES OF VARIATION IN FITNESS COSTS OF PLANT ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSES | Ecology | 2002 | 340 |
| 11 | What determines the citation frequency of ecological papers? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2005 | 321 |
| 12 | Climate warming, ecological mismatch at arrival and population decline in migratory birds | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2011 | 321 |
| 13 | CONTENTS OF SOLUBLE, CELL-WALL-BOUND AND EXUDED PHLOROTANNINS IN THE BROWN ALGA Fucus vesiculosus, WITH IMPLICATIONS ON THEIR ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS | Journal of Chemical Ecology | 2005 | 293 |
| 14 | Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change | Biological Reviews | 2011 | 286 |
| 15 | Model systems in ecology: dissecting the endophyte–grass literature | Trends in Plant Science | 2006 | 265 |
| 16 | Endophytic mediation of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant activity in plants: a review | Fungal Diversity | 2012 | 251 |
| 17 | Experimentally activated immune defence in female pied flycatchers results in reduced breeding success | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 240 |
| 18 | Seasonal changes in birch leaf chemistry: are there trade-offs between leaf growth and accumulation of phenolics? | Oecologia | 2002 | 232 |
| 19 | Effects of altitude and topography on species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in alpine communities | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2006 | 230 |
| 20 | Defensive mutualism between plants and endophytic fungi? | Fungal Diversity | 2010 | 216 |
| 21 | Multiple benefits of gregariousness cover detectability costs in aposematic aggregations | Nature | 2001 | 209 |
| 22 | Metal-related oxidative stress in birds | Environmental Pollution | 2010 | 205 |
| 23 | Trends in Ecosystem Service Research: Early Steps and Current Drivers | Ambio | 2010 | 200 |
| 24 | The cost of an immune response: vaccination reduces parental effort | Ecology Letters | 2000 | 198 |
| 25 | Variation in climate warming along the migration route uncouples arrival and breeding dates | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 198 |
| 26 | Taxon-specific variation in the stable isotopic signatures (delta13C and delta15N) of lake phytoplankton | Freshwater Biology | 2006 | 197 |
| 27 | Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 177 |
| 28 | Reproduction under predation risk and the trade–off between current and future reproduction in the threespine stickleback | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1998 | 172 |
| 29 | Tolerance to herbivory in woody vs. herbaceous plants | Evolutionary Ecology | 2000 | 167 |
| 30 | Birch (Betula spp.) leaves adsorb and re‐release volatiles specific to neighbouring plants – a mechanism for associational herbivore resistance? | New Phytologist | 2010 | 165 |
| 31 | Chemical Ecology Mediated by Fungal Endophytes in Grasses | Journal of Chemical Ecology | 2013 | 165 |
| 32 | Effects of elevated O3, alone and in combination with elevated CO2, on tree leaf chemistry and insect herbivore performance: a meta-analysis | Global Change Biology | 2007 | 164 |
| 33 | Predator–induced synchrony in population oscillations of coexisting small mammal species | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2005 | 161 |
| 34 | Shared predators and indirect trophic interactions: lemming cycles and arctic-nesting geese | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2002 | 160 |
| 35 | Causes of cyclicity of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): grandiose theory and tedious practice | Population Ecology | 2000 | 159 |
| 36 | Biosynthetic origin of carbon-based secondary compounds: cause of variable responses of woody plants to fertilization? | Chemoecology | 1998 | 155 |
| 37 | Nest predation research: recent findings and future perspectives | Journal of Ornithology | 2015 | 155 |
| 38 | Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in humans | Nature Communications | 2012 | 154 |
| 39 | Inter-sexual differences in the immune response of Eurasian kestrel nestlings under food shortage | Ecology Letters | 2002 | 152 |
| 40 | Tree species diversity influences herbivore abundance and damage: meta-analysis of long-term forest experiments | Oecologia | 2007 | 151 |
| 41 | Effects of altitude and topography on species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in alpine communities | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2006 | 149 |
| 42 | Characterisation of hydrolysable tannins from leaves of Betula pubescens by high-performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry | Journal of Chromatography A | 1999 | 148 |
| 43 | Inbreeding and extreme outbreeding cause sex differences in immune defence and life history traits in Epirrita autumnata | Heredity | 2007 | 144 |
| 44 | Seasonal variation in the content of hydrolysable tannins in leaves of Betula pubescens | Phytochemistry | 2001 | 140 |
| 45 | ADAPTIVE PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND GENETICS OF LARVAL LIFE HISTORIES IN TWO RANA TEMPORARIA POPULATIONS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2002 | 140 |
| 46 | High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of phlorotannins from the brown algaFucus Vesiculosus | Phytochemical Analysis | 2007 | 139 |
| 47 | Predator manipulation experiments: impacts on populations of terrestrial vertebrate prey | Ecological Monographs | 2010 | 139 |
| 48 | Birds of prey as limiting factors of gamebird populations in Europe: a review | Biological Reviews | 2005 | 138 |
| 49 | Cumulative meta–analysis: a new tool for detection of temporal trends and publication bias in ecology | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 137 |
| 50 | Effects of sap-feeding insect herbivores on growth and reproduction of woody plants: a meta-analysis of experimental studies | Oecologia | 2010 | 136 |
