| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Systematic Revision of Symbiodiniaceae Highlights the Antiquity and Diversity of Coral Endosymbionts | Current Biology | 2018 | 1,242 |
| 2 | A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture | Nature | 2021 | 871 |
| 3 | Systems integration for global sustainability | Science | 2015 | 820 |
| 4 | Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 717 |
| 5 | Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 511 |
| 6 | Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes | Science | 2015 | 473 |
| 7 | Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 450 |
| 8 | The future of food from the sea | Nature | 2020 | 403 |
| 9 | The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2019 | 372 |
| 10 | The genome of Aiptasia , a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 359 |
| 11 | Intensification and spatial homogenization of coastal upwelling under climate change | Nature | 2015 | 331 |
| 12 | The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways | Freshwater Biology | 2018 | 273 |
| 13 | Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza epidemics in U.S. cities | Science | 2018 | 272 |
| 14 | Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity | Ecology | 2017 | 230 |
| 15 | What is a Trophic Cascade? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 218 |
| 16 | Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail | Nature Communications | 2017 | 216 |
| 17 | Evolutionary Origins and Dynamics of Octoploid Strawberry Subgenomes Revealed by Dense Targeted Capture Linkage Maps | Genome Biology and Evolution | 2014 | 197 |
| 18 | A single generation of domestication heritably alters the expression of hundreds of genes | Nature Communications | 2016 | 191 |
| 19 | Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 188 |
| 20 | Optimal nutrient exchange and immune responses operate in partner specificity in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 181 |
| 21 | Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 175 |
| 22 | Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective | Frontiers in Marine Science | 2018 | 174 |
| 23 | On the reproductive success of early‐generation hatchery fish in the wild | Evolutionary Applications | 2014 | 172 |
| 24 | The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean | Science | 2021 | 170 |
| 25 | Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals | ELife | 2016 | 169 |
| 26 | Dispersal strength determines meta‐community structure in a dendritic riverine network | Journal of Biogeography | 2015 | 168 |
| 27 | Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef‐building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 158 |
| 28 | Genomic signatures of mitonuclear coevolution across populations of Tigriopus californicus | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 154 |
| 29 | Spatial and temporal dynamics of superspreading events in the 2014–2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 151 |
| 30 | Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation | PLoS Biology | 2018 | 149 |
| 31 | Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts | Nature | 2016 | 147 |
| 32 | Persistent spatial structuring of coastal ocean acidification in the California Current System | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 146 |
| 33 | Resistance and resilience of invertebrate communities to seasonal and supraseasonal drought in arid‐land headwater streams | Freshwater Biology | 2015 | 142 |
| 34 | Peripheral Circadian Clocks Mediate Dietary Restriction-Dependent Changes in Lifespan and Fat Metabolism in Drosophila | Cell Metabolism | 2016 | 139 |
| 35 | The right incentives enable ocean sustainability successes and provide hope for the future | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 123 |
| 36 | Chemical and biological impacts of ocean acidification along the west coast of North America | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2016 | 121 |
| 37 | Interacting environmental mosaics drive geographic variation in mussel performance and predation vulnerability | Ecology Letters | 2016 | 118 |
| 38 | Climate change and alpine stream biology: progress, challenges, and opportunities for the future | Biological Reviews | 2017 | 118 |
| 39 | Sea Star Wasting Disease in the Keystone Predator Pisaster ochraceus in Oregon: Insights into Differential Population Impacts, Recovery, Predation Rate, and Temperature Effects from Long-Term Research | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 114 |
| 40 | Circadian deep sequencing reveals stress-response genes that adopt robust rhythmic expression during aging | Nature Communications | 2017 | 112 |
| 41 | Nature as capital: Advancing and incorporating ecosystem services in United States federal policies and programs | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 110 |
| 42 | Long‐term declines in an intertidal foundation species parallel shifts in community composition | Global Change Biology | 2017 | 105 |
| 43 | Using cultural ecosystem services to inform restoration priorities in the Laurentian Great Lakes | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2015 | 104 |
| 44 | Epistasis and natural selection shape the mutational architecture of complex traits | Nature Communications | 2014 | 100 |
| 45 | Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure | Geophysical Research Letters | 2016 | 93 |
| 46 | Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix? | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2016 | 89 |
| 47 | Fundamental contradictions among observational and experimental estimates of non‐trophic species interactions | Ecology | 2018 | 89 |
| 48 | The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia | River Research and Applications | 2019 | 86 |
| 49 | Habitat heterogeneity drives the host‐diversity‐begets‐parasite‐diversity relationship: evidence from experimental and field studies | Ecology Letters | 2016 | 85 |
| 50 | Repeated translocation of a gene cassette drives sex-chromosome turnover in strawberries | PLoS Biology | 2018 | 85 |
