| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 2 | From hotspot to hopespot: An opportunity for the Brazilian Atlantic Forest | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | 2018 | 379 |
| 3 | Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations | Science | 2017 | 353 |
| 4 | Global importance of large‐diameter trees | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 330 |
| 5 | Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity? | Biological Conservation | 2019 | 329 |
| 6 | The Use of Fire in the Cerrado and Amazonian Rainforests of Brazil: Past and Present | Fire Ecology | 2011 | 270 |
| 7 | (null) | Plant Ecology | 2002 | 225 |
| 8 | Fire in the Ecology of the Brazilian Cerrado | Ecological Studies | 1990 | 208 |
| 9 | Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 199 |
| 10 | Relative effects of fragment size and connectivity on bird community in the Atlantic Rain Forest: Implications for conservation | Biological Conservation | 2008 | 183 |
| 11 | Small mammals in a mosaic of forest remnants and anthropogenic habitats—evaluating matrix quality in an Atlantic forest landscape | Landscape Ecology | 2007 | 182 |
| 12 | Diversification in vipers: Phylogenetic relationships, time of divergence and shifts in speciation rates | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2016 | 168 |
| 13 | Effects of roads, topography, and land use on forest cover dynamics in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest | Forest Ecology and Management | 2010 | 160 |
| 14 | Phylogenetic classification of the world’s tropical forests | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 144 |
| 15 | Modeling landscape dynamics in an Atlantic Rainforest region: Implications for conservation | Forest Ecology and Management | 2009 | 141 |
| 16 | Resource seasonality and the structure of mixed species bird flocks in a coastal Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil | Journal of Tropical Ecology | 2000 | 135 |
| 17 | Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework | People and Nature | 2020 | 127 |
| 18 | Brazilian Law: Full Speed in Reverse? | Science | 2010 | 97 |
| 19 | Abundance and Distribution of Native and Alien Grasses in a "Cerrado" (Brazilian Savanna) Biological Reserve1 | Biotropica | 1999 | 92 |
| 20 | Nutrients, emerging pollutants and pesticides in a tropical urban reservoir: Spatial distributions and risk assessment | Science of the Total Environment | 2017 | 92 |
| 21 | Hidden destruction of older forests threatens Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and challenges restoration programs | Science Advances | 2021 | 92 |
| 22 | Biodiversity Conservation Research, Training, and Policy in São Paulo | Science | 2010 | 86 |
| 23 | Effects of landscape structure on avian-mediated insect pest control services: a review | Landscape Ecology | 2017 | 84 |
| 24 | Carnivore mammals in a fragmented landscape in northeast of São Paulo State, Brazil | Biodiversity and Conservation | 2008 | 81 |
| 25 | Why Brazil needs its Legal Reserves | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | 2019 | 81 |
| 26 | Payment for ecosystem services programs in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Effective but not enough | Land Use Policy | 2019 | 79 |
| 27 | Thresholds in landscape structure for three common deforestation patterns in the Brazilian Amazon | Landscape Ecology | 2006 | 76 |
| 28 | Relief influence on the spatial distribution of the Atlantic Forest cover on the Ibiúna Plateau, SP | Brazilian Journal of Biology | 2007 | 76 |
| 29 | Rural-Urban Differences in Escape Behavior of European Birds across a Latitudinal Gradient | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 74 |
| 30 | Landscape genetics of a tropical rescue pollinator | Conservation Genetics | 2016 | 71 |
| 31 | Considering landscape-level processes in ecosystem service assessments | Science of the Total Environment | 2021 | 71 |
| 32 | The Year 2017: Megafires and Management in the Cerrado | Fire | 2018 | 69 |
| 33 | There is hope for achieving ambitious Atlantic Forest restoration commitments | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | 2019 | 69 |
| 34 | Beekeeping practices and geographic distance, not land use, drive gene flow across tropical bees | Molecular Ecology | 2016 | 66 |
| 35 | Scenarios and Models to Support Global Conservation Targets | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 66 |
| 36 | Untangling associations between chironomid taxa in Neotropical streams using local and landscape filters | Freshwater Biology | 2010 | 65 |
| 37 | Maximizing biodiversity conservation and carbon stocking in restored tropical forests | Conservation Letters | 2018 | 59 |
| 38 | Atlantic forest bird communities provide different but not fewer functions after habitat loss | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2015 | 57 |
| 39 | Vanishing bird species in the Atlantic Forest: relative importance of landscape configuration, forest structure and species characteristics | Biodiversity and Conservation | 2011 | 55 |
| 40 | Performance of camera trapping and track counts for surveying large mammals in rainforest remnants | Biodiversity and Conservation | 2011 | 53 |
| 41 | Towards environmentally sustainable agriculture in Brazil: challenges and opportunities for applied ecological research | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2012 | 52 |
| 42 | The importance of landscape structure for seed dispersal in rain forest fragments | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2012 | 52 |
| 43 | Insights into the assembly rules of a continent-wide multilayer network | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 52 |
| 44 | Landscape structure regulates pest control provided by ants in sun coffee farms | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2019 | 51 |
| 45 | Ecosystem services at risk: integrating spatiotemporal dynamics of supply and demand to promote long-term provision | One Earth | 2020 | 51 |
| 46 | Rural property size drives patterns of upland and riparian forest retention in a tropical deforestation frontier | Global Environmental Change | 2010 | 50 |
| 47 | Dung beetles and fecal helminth transmission: patterns, mechanisms and questions | Parasitology | 2014 | 48 |
| 48 | Theory and practice of water ecosystem services valuation: Where are we going? | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 48 |
| 49 | Land use type, forest cover and forest edges modulate avian cross‐habitat spillover | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2018 | 48 |
| 50 | Effects of slash-and-burn fallow periods on landscape structure | Environmental Conservation | 2003 | 47 |
