| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback | Nature | 2015 | 2,369 |
| 2 | A DNA barcode for land plants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 2,120 |
| 3 | Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought | Nature | 2012 | 1,944 |
| 4 | A DNA-Based Registry for All Animal Species: The Barcode Index Number (BIN) System | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 1,562 |
| 5 | The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 2005 | 1,476 |
| 6 | The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 2012 | 1,340 |
| 7 | An inexpensive, automation-friendly protocol for recovering high-quality DNA | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2006 | 1,219 |
| 8 | DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 1,160 |
| 9 | The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex | Science | 2011 | 1,086 |
| 10 | The Promise of DNA Barcoding for Taxonomy | Systematic Biology | 2005 | 988 |
| 11 | DNA barcoding: how it complements taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics and population genetics | Trends in Genetics | 2007 | 934 |
| 12 | Environmental DNA | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 926 |
| 13 | Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 2019 | 904 |
| 14 | The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations | Nature | 2011 | 897 |
| 15 | Influence of Phylogeny on Fungal Community Assembly and Ecosystem Functioning | Science | 2007 | 850 |
| 16 | Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements | Science | 2018 | 783 |
| 17 | Structural asymmetry and the stability of diverse food webs | Nature | 2006 | 759 |
| 18 | Next‐generation sequencing technologies for environmental DNA research | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 721 |
| 19 | Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 674 |
| 20 | Carry-over effects as drivers of fitness differences in animals | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2011 | 670 |
| 21 | Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation | Nature | 2014 | 669 |
| 22 | Biotic interactions and plant invasions | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 649 |
| 23 | Invasive Plant Suppresses the Growth of Native Tree Seedlings by Disrupting Belowground Mutualisms | PLoS Biology | 2006 | 621 |
| 24 | Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 612 |
| 25 | Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness | Nature | 2016 | 564 |
| 26 | Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 547 |
| 27 | The dynamics of spatially coupled food webs | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 526 |
| 28 | Multiple Multilocus DNA Barcodes from the Plastid Genome Discriminate Plant Species Equally Well | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 526 |
| 29 | Are there general mechanisms of animal home range behaviour? A review and prospects for future research | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 523 |
| 30 | Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics | Science | 2017 | 505 |
| 31 | A trait-based framework to understand life history of mycorrhizal fungi | Trends in Plant Science | 2013 | 488 |
| 32 | Multi-omics of permafrost, active layer and thermokarst bog soil microbiomes | Nature | 2015 | 467 |
| 33 | A minimalist barcode can identify a specimen whose DNA is degraded | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2006 | 466 |
| 34 | Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem‐specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species | New Phytologist | 2016 | 466 |
| 35 | Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness | Science | 2011 | 463 |
| 36 | Environmental Barcoding: A Next-Generation Sequencing Approach for Biomonitoring Applications Using River Benthos | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 459 |
| 37 | NOVEL WEAPONS: INVASIVE PLANT SUPPRESSES FUNGAL MUTUALISTS IN AMERICA BUT NOT IN ITS NATIVE EUROPE | Ecology | 2008 | 456 |
| 38 | Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework | Ecology | 2009 | 445 |
| 39 | Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw | Nature Geoscience | 2020 | 434 |
| 40 | Critical factors for assembling a high volume of DNA barcodes | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2005 | 430 |
| 41 | Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 428 |
| 42 | Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands | Nature | 2014 | 409 |
| 43 | Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients | Nature Plants | 2015 | 403 |
| 44 | Spatial memory and animal movement | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 402 |
| 45 | Comprehensive DNA barcode coverage of North American birds | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2007 | 397 |
| 46 | The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 395 |
| 47 | A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands | Global Change Biology | 2014 | 389 |
| 48 | DNA barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2005 | 388 |
| 49 | Mycorrhizal Symbioses and Plant Invasions | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2009 | 388 |
| 50 | Cycling of extracellular DNA in the soil environment | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2007 | 382 |
