| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Extinction risk from climate change | Nature | 2004 | 5,985 |
| 2 | A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests | Science | 2011 | 5,393 |
| 3 | A physically based, variable contributing area model of basin hydrology / Un modèle à base physique de zone d'appel variable de l'hydrologie du bassin versant | Hydrological Sciences Bulletin Des Sciences Hydrologiques | 1979 | 5,198 |
| 4 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 5 | Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,746 |
| 6 | Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees | Global Change Biology | 2014 | 1,712 |
| 7 | Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest | Science | 2009 | 1,443 |
| 8 | Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2 | Geoscientific Model Development | 2011 | 1,141 |
| 9 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 10 | Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 924 |
| 11 | The 2010 Amazon Drought | Science | 2011 | 912 |
| 12 | Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora | Science | 2013 | 873 |
| 13 | Evaluation of 1D and 2D numerical models for predicting river flood inundation | Journal of Hydrology | 2002 | 863 |
| 14 | Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests | Nature | 2009 | 816 |
| 15 | Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink | Nature | 2015 | 796 |
| 16 | Weak Northern and Strong Tropical Land Carbon Uptake from Vertical Profiles of Atmospheric CO2 | Science | 2007 | 775 |
| 17 | Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2009 | 765 |
| 18 | Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19 | Nature Medicine | 2020 | 695 |
| 19 | Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns inAmazonian forest biomass | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 633 |
| 20 | REGIONAL AND PHYLOGENETIC VARIATION OF WOOD DENSITY ACROSS 2456 NEOTROPICAL TREE SPECIES | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 632 |
| 21 | Recent advances in stream and river temperature research | Hydrological Processes | 2008 | 623 |
| 22 | The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2013 | 616 |
| 23 | Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia | Nature | 2006 | 593 |
| 24 | Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide | Biogeosciences | 2015 | 587 |
| 25 | Increasing human dominance of tropical forests | Science | 2015 | 551 |
| 26 | Estimation of erosion and deposition volumes in a large, gravel-bed, braided river using synoptic remote sensing | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2003 | 531 |
| 27 | Buffered Tree Population Changes in a Quaternary Refugium: Evolutionary Implications | Science | 2002 | 522 |
| 28 | Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests | Nature | 2002 | 500 |
| 29 | Glacier motion estimation using SAR offset-tracking procedures | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2002 | 490 |
| 30 | Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests | New Phytologist | 2010 | 487 |
| 31 | Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate | Biogeosciences | 2012 | 487 |
| 32 | 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions | Nature Communications | 2018 | 485 |
| 33 | Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation | Nature | 2015 | 482 |
| 34 | Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2019 | 474 |
| 35 | An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 469 |
| 36 | Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia | Nature | 2015 | 464 |
| 37 | Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards | Earth-Science Reviews | 2012 | 449 |
| 38 | Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests | Nature | 2020 | 439 |
| 39 | Alternative explanations for rising dissolved organic carbon export from organic soils | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 438 |
| 40 | Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex | Nature | 2017 | 428 |
| 41 | PEATMAP: Refining estimates of global peatland distribution based on a meta-analysis | Catena | 2018 | 421 |
| 42 | Effects of rising temperatures and [CO 2 ] on the physiology of tropical forest trees | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2008 | 416 |
| 43 | Artificial drainage of peatlands: hydrological and hydrochemical process and wetland restoration | Progress in Physical Geography | 2004 | 412 |
| 44 | Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 405 |
| 45 | HydroTest: A web-based toolbox of evaluation metrics for the standardised assessment of hydrological forecasts | Environmental Modelling and Software | 2007 | 405 |
| 46 | Testing a physically-based flood forecasting model (TOPMODEL) for three U.K. catchments | Journal of Hydrology | 1984 | 398 |
| 47 | Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements | Nature | 2014 | 398 |
| 48 | Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 397 |
| 49 | Species Loss and Aboveground Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest | Science | 2005 | 390 |
| 50 | Impacts of anthropogenic activity on the ecology of class 1 integrons and integron-associated genes in the environment | ISME Journal | 2011 | 377 |
