| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Cortisol in teleosts: dynamics, mechanisms of action, and metabolic regulation | Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | 1999 | 1,891 |
| 2 | ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS | Ecology | 2003 | 1,868 |
| 3 | Assembly and response rules: two goals for predictive community ecology | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1992 | 1,626 |
| 4 | An index of substitution saturation and its application | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2003 | 1,315 |
| 5 | The Theory of Open Systems in Physics and Biology | Science | 1950 | 1,184 |
| 6 | A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data | Mycologia | 2016 | 1,092 |
| 7 | From space to species: ecological applications for remote sensing | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 1,063 |
| 8 | Dysfunction in GABA signalling mediates autism-like stereotypies and Rett syndrome phenotypes | Nature | 2010 | 1,042 |
| 9 | Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment: What Are the Big Questions? | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2012 | 1,033 |
| 10 | Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification | American Journal of Botany | 2009 | 1,031 |
| 11 | Reducing Phosphorus to Curb Lake Eutrophication is a Success | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 761 |
| 12 | Genome of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus provides insight into the oldest plant symbiosis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 717 |
| 13 | The Endocannabinoid System Controls Key Epileptogenic Circuits in the Hippocampus | Neuron | 2006 | 632 |
| 14 | Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds | Nature | 2015 | 597 |
| 15 | Spatial species‐richness gradients across scales: a meta‐analysis | Journal of Biogeography | 2009 | 573 |
| 16 | Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents | Science | 2015 | 572 |
| 17 | DAMBE7: New and Improved Tools for Data Analysis in Molecular Biology and Evolution | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2018 | 528 |
| 18 | Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2022 | 495 |
| 19 | The fitness costs of antibiotic resistance mutations | Evolutionary Applications | 2015 | 490 |
| 20 | THE CHLORIDE CELL:Structure and Function in the Gills of Freshwater Fishes | Annual Review of Physiology | 1997 | 485 |
| 21 | Plant mating systems in a changing world | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 458 |
| 22 | SELFISH DNA: A SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED NUCLEAR PARASITE | Genetics | 1982 | 452 |
| 23 | Isolation of male embryonal carcinoma cells and their chromosome replication patterns | Developmental Biology | 1982 | 426 |
| 24 | A synthesis of atmospheric mercury depletion event chemistry in the atmosphere and snow | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2008 | 426 |
| 25 | Glucose intolerance in teleost fish: fact or fiction? | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 2001 | 419 |
| 26 | Accumulation of persistent organochlorine compounds in mountains of western Canada | Nature | 1998 | 401 |
| 27 | Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2004 | 387 |
| 28 | Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents | Science | 2020 | 381 |
| 29 | Excised group II introns in yeast mitochondria are lariats and can be formed by self-splicing in vitro | Cell | 1986 | 350 |
| 30 | Great Lakes Vegetation Dynamics: The Role of Fluctuating Water Levels and Buried Seeds | Journal of Great Lakes Research | 1986 | 335 |
| 31 | Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity? | Biological Conservation | 2019 | 329 |
| 32 | Mercury Physicochemical and Biogeochemical Transformation in the Atmosphere and at Atmospheric Interfaces: A Review and Future Directions | Chemical Reviews | 2015 | 323 |
| 33 | Current progress on understanding the impact of mercury on human health | Environmental Research | 2017 | 305 |
| 34 | Compositional Bias May Affect Both DNA-Based and Protein-Based Phylogenetic Reconstructions | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1999 | 301 |
| 35 | Shared Signatures of Parasitism and Phylogenomics Unite Cryptomycota and Microsporidia | Current Biology | 2013 | 290 |
| 36 | MAN1, an Inner Nuclear Membrane Protein That Shares the LEM Domain with Lamina-associated Polypeptide 2 and Emerin | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2000 | 289 |
| 37 | Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient | Nature Communications | 2019 | 285 |
| 38 | Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins: The Influence of Nitrogen versus Phosphorus | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 281 |
| 39 | A rapid assessment of co-benefits and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals | Marine Policy | 2018 | 278 |
| 40 | The Role of Animal Pollination in Plant Speciation: Integrating Ecology, Geography, and Genetics | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2009 | 276 |
| 41 | Demasculinization and feminization of male gonads by atrazine: Consistent effects across vertebrate classes | Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 2011 | 271 |
| 42 | Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate‐subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 270 |
| 43 | Community food webs have scale-invariant structure | Nature | 1984 | 264 |
| 44 | Effects of cyanobacterial toxicity and morphology on the population growth of freshwater zooplankton: Meta‐analyses of laboratory experiments | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 262 |
| 45 | Individual specialization in diet by a generalist marine predator reflects specialization in foraging behaviour | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2008 | 256 |
| 46 | Ammonia and urea transporters in gills of fish and aquatic crustaceans | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2009 | 250 |
| 47 | Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges and future directions | Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation | 2016 | 243 |
| 48 | Complex responses of insect phenology to climate change | Current Opinion in Insect Science | 2016 | 238 |
| 49 | The wheat mitochondrial gene for subunit I of the NADH dehydrogenase complex: A trans-splicing model for this gene-in-pieces | Cell | 1991 | 230 |
| 50 | An ecotoxicological characterization of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) | Nanotoxicology | 2010 | 228 |
