| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity | Nature | 2012 | 4,969 |
| 2 | Global Change and the Ecology of Cities | Science | 2008 | 4,931 |
| 3 | Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 3,460 |
| 4 | Fire in the Earth System | Science | 2009 | 2,330 |
| 5 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 6 | Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for next‐generation ecology and beyond | Ecosphere | 2015 | 1,488 |
| 7 | A STANDARDIZED GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION MEASURE | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2005 | 1,471 |
| 8 | Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution | Science | 2020 | 1,330 |
| 9 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge | Science | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 10 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 11 | Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation | Nature Genetics | 2007 | 1,202 |
| 12 | Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading | Nature | 2008 | 1,097 |
| 13 | TimeTree: a public knowledge-base of divergence times among organisms | Bioinformatics | 2006 | 1,096 |
| 14 | A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data | Mycologia | 2016 | 1,092 |
| 15 | A DNA nanorobot functions as a cancer therapeutic in response to a molecular trigger in vivo | Nature Biotechnology | 2018 | 1,066 |
| 16 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 17 | From The Cover: Emerging infectious disease and the loss of biodiversity in a Neotropical amphibian community | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 996 |
| 18 | Assessing population structure: FST and related measures | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2011 | 967 |
| 19 | From patterns to emerging processes in mechanistic urban ecology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 947 |
| 20 | The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth | Journal of Biogeography | 2011 | 845 |
| 21 | Methane emissions from wetlands: biogeochemical, microbial, and modeling perspectives from local to global scales | Global Change Biology | 2013 | 836 |
| 22 | Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models | Science | 2015 | 836 |
| 23 | Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern analysis: scaling relations | Landscape Ecology | 2004 | 826 |
| 24 | Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 816 |
| 25 | Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species | Science | 2010 | 808 |
| 26 | A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny: The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG) | Taxon | 2017 | 803 |
| 27 | Don't judge species on their origins | Nature | 2011 | 781 |
| 28 | Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time | Ecology Letters | 2012 | 764 |
| 29 | Growth rate-stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota | Ecology Letters | 2003 | 758 |
| 30 | Transcranial Pulsed Ultrasound Stimulates Intact Brain Circuits | Neuron | 2010 | 750 |
| 31 | Nutrient co‐limitation of primary producer communities | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 747 |
| 32 | Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming | Nature Climate Change | 2012 | 745 |
| 33 | Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change | New Phytologist | 2010 | 741 |
| 34 | A broken biogeochemical cycle | Nature | 2011 | 734 |
| 35 | A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastidmatKgene resolves many well‐supported subclades within the family | American Journal of Botany | 2004 | 699 |
| 36 | Riparian vegetation: degradation, alien plant invasions, and restoration prospects | Diversity and Distributions | 2007 | 685 |
| 37 | ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae | Journal of General Virology | 2017 | 676 |
| 38 | Short telomeres are a risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 665 |
| 39 | Shifts in Lake N:P Stoichiometry and Nutrient Limitation Driven by Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition | Science | 2009 | 655 |
| 40 | Use and misuse of landscape indices | Landscape Ecology | 2004 | 631 |
| 41 | Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2012 | 604 |
| 42 | The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2008 | 597 |
| 43 | Urban heat islands and landscape heterogeneity: linking spatiotemporal variations in surface temperatures to land-cover and socioeconomic patterns | Landscape Ecology | 2010 | 591 |
| 44 | Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2018) | Archives of Virology | 2018 | 567 |
| 45 | Adaptive introgression in animals: examples and comparison to new mutation and standing variation as sources of adaptive variation | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 562 |
| 46 | A distinct urban biogeochemistry? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 557 |
| 47 | Remote Excitation of Neuronal Circuits Using Low-Intensity, Low-Frequency Ultrasound | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 551 |
| 48 | Depression sum-scores don’t add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential | BMC Medicine | 2015 | 528 |
| 49 | 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 |
| 50 | Temporal Patterns of Fruit Fly (Drosophila) Evolution Revealed by Mutation Clocks | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2003 | 516 |
