| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness | Ecology Letters | 2001 | 4,953 |
| 2 | Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 4,859 |
| 3 | The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 4,069 |
| 4 | The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 3,691 |
| 5 | Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 3,460 |
| 6 | Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity â ecosystem service management | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 3,245 |
| 7 | Conceptual issues in local adaptation | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 2,964 |
| 8 | Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity | Ecology Letters | 2012 | 2,720 |
| 9 | Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 2,219 |
| 10 | Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 2,215 |
| 11 | The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,997 |
| 12 | Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,995 |
| 13 | Multivariate dispersion as a measure of beta diversity | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,957 |
| 14 | Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,913 |
| 15 | Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 1,899 |
| 16 | Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,880 |
| 17 | Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,855 |
| 18 | The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 1,795 |
| 19 | Conserving biodiversity under climate change: the rear edge matters | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 1,743 |
| 20 | Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 1,707 |
| 21 | Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,684 |
| 22 | Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species’ ranges | Ecology Letters | 2009 | 1,675 |
| 23 | Ecological speciation | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 1,606 |
| 24 | Interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systems | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,600 |
| 25 | A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 1,470 |
| 26 | A meta‐analysis of trait differences between invasive and non‐invasive plant species | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 1,442 |
| 27 | Grinnellian and Eltonian niches and geographic distributions of species | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 1,422 |
| 28 | Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 1,387 |
| 29 | Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition | Ecology Letters | 2002 | 1,380 |
| 30 | Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 1,375 |
| 31 | Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 1,361 |
| 32 | Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance | Ecology Letters | 2002 | 1,344 |
| 33 | Ecological consequences of genetic diversity | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,342 |
| 34 | Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 1,320 |
| 35 | Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,311 |
| 36 | Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers | Ecology Letters | 2001 | 1,297 |
| 37 | Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 1,279 |
| 38 | Functional landscape heterogeneity and animal biodiversity in agricultural landscapes | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 1,279 |
| 39 | Meta‐analysis reveals negative yet variable effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 1,278 |
| 40 | Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales | Ecology Letters | 2014 | 1,254 |
| 41 | Nitrogen additions and microbial biomass: a meta‐analysis of ecosystem studies | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,221 |
| 42 | Microsatellites for ecologists: a practical guide to using and evaluating microsatellite markers | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,217 |
| 43 | Effects of species diversity on disease risk | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,194 |
| 44 | Running to stand still: adaptation and the response of plants to rapid climate change | Ecology Letters | 2005 | 1,172 |
| 45 | Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 1,162 |
| 46 | On the relationship between niche and distribution | Ecology Letters | 2000 | 1,156 |
| 47 | A meta-analysis of biotic resistance to exotic plant invasions | Ecology Letters | 2004 | 1,149 |
| 48 | The evolutionary and ecological role of heat shock proteins | Ecology Letters | 2003 | 1,132 |
| 49 | Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 1,124 |
| 50 | Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 1,101 |
