| Global consequences of land use | Science | 2005 | 7.5K |
| Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 731 |
| Selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon | Science | 2005 | 706 |
| Ocean model predictions of chemistry changes from carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere and ocean | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 663 |
| A brief history of seed size | Science | 2005 | 423 |
| Fire history and the global carbon budget: a 1°× 1° fire history reconstruction for the 20th century | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 305 |
| Responses of grassland production to single and multiple global environmental changes | PLoS Biology | 2005 | 280 |
| Factors that shape seed mass evolution | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 217 |
| Remote analysis of biological invasion and biogeochemical change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 198 |
| Analysis of wheat yield and climatic trends in Mexico | Field Crops Research | 2005 | 189 |
| Climate effects of global land cover change | Geophysical Research Letters | 2005 | 176 |
| Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on extracellular enzyme activity and soil density fractionation in a California annual grassland | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 111 |
| Measuring photosynthetic parameters at a distance: laser induced fluorescence transient (LIFT) method for remote measurements of photosynthesis in terrestrial vegetation | Photosynthesis Research | 2005 | 93 |
| Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on plant litter quality in a California annual grassland | Oecologia | 2005 | 88 |
| Major perturbation of ocean chemistry and a ‘Strangelove Ocean’ after the end-Permian mass extinction | Terra Nova | 2005 | 72 |
| Ground-based and remotely sensed nutrient availability across a tropical landscape | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 71 |
| Desertification alters regional ecosystem–climate interactions | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 64 |
| Evolutionary capacitance may be favored by natural selection | Genetics | 2005 | 48 |
| Testing a model of CO2, water and energy exchange in Great Plains tallgrass prairie and wheat ecosystems | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2005 | 47 |
| Remote sensing of heterogeneity in photosynthetic efficiency, electron transport and dissipation of excess light in Populus deltoides stands under ambient and elevated CO2 concentrations, and in a tropical forest canopy, using a new laser-induced fluorescence transient device | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 44 |
| The effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 and drought on sources and sinks of isoprene in a temperate and tropical rainforest mesocosm | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 43 |
| Variation in isoprene emission from Quercus rubra: Sources, causes, and consequences for estimating fluxes | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 41 |
| Variations in life-form composition and foliar carbon isotope discrimination among eight plant communities under different soil moisture conditions in the Xilin River Basin, Inner Mongolia, China | Ecological Research | 2005 | 38 |
| Ecosystem Structure throughout the Brazilian Amazon from Landsat Observations and Automated Spectral Unmixing | Earth Interactions | 2005 | 35 |
| Substrate age and precipitation effects on Hawaiian forest canopies from spaceborne imaging spectroscopy | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2005 | 34 |
