Most cited papers in Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
What are the most cited papers in Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies?
The most cited paper in Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies is "Phylogenies and the Comparative Method" (Joseph Felsenstein, 1985), with 10,187 citations. Next come "Parasitology Meets Ecology on Its Own Terms: Margolis et al. Revisited" (7,944) and "Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals" (7,622).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,446 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phylogenies and the Comparative Method Joseph Felsenstein · The American Naturalist | 1985 | 10,187 |
| 2 | Parasitology Meets Ecology on Its Own Terms: Margolis et al. Revisited Albert O. Bush, Kevin D. Lafferty, Jeffrey M. Lotz et al. · Journal of Parasitology | Aug 1997 | 7,944 |
| 3 | Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals Gary C. White, Kenneth P. Burnham · Bird Study | 1999 | 7,622 |
| 4 | SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH Marc Dufrêne, Pierre Legendre · Ecological Monographs | Aug 1997 | 7,453 |
| 5 | Mechanisms of Maintenance of Species Diversity Peter Chesson · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 2000 | 6,837 |
| 6 | The Logic of Animal Conflict John Maynard Smith, George Price · Nature | Nov 1973 | 6,326 |
| 7 | The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections E. C. Pielou · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Dec 1966 | 5,986 |
| 8 | The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography Gottfried Jetschke, Stephen P. Hubbell · Ecology | Jun 2002 | 5,706 |
| 9 | Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits Brian J. McGill, Brian Joseph Enquist, Evan Weiher et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 20 Feb 2006 | 4,696 |
| 10 | Some Characteristics of Simple Types of Predation and Parasitism Crawford S. Holling · The Canadian Entomologist | Jul 1959 | 4,674 |
| 11 | Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation Robert K. Colwell, Jonathan A. Coddington · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Jul 1994 | 4,610 |
| 12 | A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits Étienne Laliberté, Pierre Legendre · Ecology | 2010 | 4,399 |
| 13 | Defaunation in the Anthropocene Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Mauro Galetti et al. · Science | 24 Jul 2014 | 4,270 |
| 14 | Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities Thomas W. Schoener · Science | 5 Jul 1974 | 4,152 |
| 15 | Species Concepts and Species Delimitation Kevin de Queiroz · Systematic Biology | 16 Nov 2007 | 4,135 |
| 16 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth James A. Estes et al. · Science | 14 Jul 2011 | 4,114 |
| 17 | The Population Biology of Invasive Species Ann K. Sakai, Fred W. Allendorf, Jodie Sims Holt et al. · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 2001 | 3,943 |
| 18 | Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization Michael L. McKinney · Biological Conservation | 3 Nov 2005 | 3,879 |
| 19 | The Components of Predation as Revealed by a Study of Small-Mammal Predation of the European Pine Sawfly Crawford S. Holling · The Canadian Entomologist | May 1959 | 3,668 |
| 20 | Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments Michel Loreau, Andy Hector · Nature | 5 Jul 2001 | 3,564 |
| 21 | Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview Andrew Sih, Alison M. Bell, J. Chadwick Johnson · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 21 Jun 2004 | 3,396 |
| 22 | Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I Roy Malcolm Anderson, Robert Mccredie May · Nature | Aug 1979 | 3,265 |
| 23 | The diversity–stability debate Kevin Shear McCann · Nature | May 2000 | 3,231 |
| 24 | Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients Holger Schielzeth · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 10 Feb 2010 | 3,099 |
| 25 | Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in Europe Pierre Taberlet, Luca Fumagalli, ANNE‐GABRIELLE WUST‐SAUCY et al. · Molecular Ecology | Apr 1998 | 3,034 |
| 26 | Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology Mark Vellend · The Quarterly Review of Biology | 25 May 2010 | 2,922 |
| 27 | Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats David Tilman · Ecology | 1994 | 2,857 |
| 28 | Progress in invasion biology: predicting invaders Cynthia S. Kolar, David M. Lodge · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Apr 2001 | 2,848 |
| 29 | The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization Daniel I. Bolnick, Richard Svanbäck, James A. Fordyce et al. · The American Naturalist | 2003 | 2,822 |
| 30 | Metapopulation dynamics Ilkka Hanski · Nature | Nov 1998 | 2,803 |
| 31 | Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization Philip Eric Hulme · Journal of Applied Ecology | 14 Jan 2009 | 2,670 |
| 32 | Repeatability for Gaussian and non‐Gaussian data: a practical guide for biologists Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 21 Jun 2010 | 2,668 |
| 33 | The role of propagule pressure in explaining species invasions Julie L. Lockwood, Phillip Cassey, Tim M. Blackburn · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 24 Feb 2005 | 2,592 |
| 34 | Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities Robert Douglas Holt · Theoretical Population Biology | Oct 1977 | 2,588 |
| 35 | CONFRONTING MULTICOLLINEARITY IN ECOLOGICAL MULTIPLE REGRESSION Michael H. Graham · Ecology | Nov 2003 | 2,575 |
| 36 | betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity Andrés Baselga, C. David L. Orme · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 18 Jun 2012 | 2,540 |
| 37 | RANDOM DISPERSAL IN THEORETICAL POPULATIONS J. Gordon Skellam · Biometrika | 1951 | 2,525 |
| 38 | ISOLATION BY DISTANCE IN EQUILIBRIUM AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM POPULATIONS Montgomery Slatkin · Evolution | Feb 1993 | 2,472 |
| 39 | Community Diversity: Relative Roles of Local and Regional Processes Robert E. Ricklefs · Science | 9 Jan 1987 | 2,411 |
| 40 | Toward an Integration of Landscape and Food Web Ecology: The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs Gary A. Polis, Wendy B. Anderson, Robert Douglas Holt · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1997 | 2,389 |
| 41 | Occupancy Estimation and Modeling. Inferring patterns and dynamics of species occurrence Nigel G. Yoccoz · Wildlife Biology | Dec 2006 | 2,336 |
| 42 | Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity Norman W. H. Mason, David Mouillot, William G. Lee et al. · Oikos | 14 Sep 2005 | 2,315 |
| 43 | Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions Katriona Shea · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Apr 2002 | 2,295 |
| 44 | Positive Interactions of Nonindigenous Species: Invasional Meltdown? Daniel Simberloff, Betsy Von Holle · Biological Invasions | Mar 1999 | 2,245 |
| 45 | Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation Robert M. Ewers, Raphaël K. Didham · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Dec 2005 | 2,229 |
| 46 | Interpretation of Models of Fundamental Ecological Niches and Species’ Distributional Areas Jorge M. Soberón, A. Townsend Peterson · Biodiversity Informatics | 13 Jan 2005 | 2,203 |
| 47 | Assembly and response rules: two goals for predictive community ecology Paul A. Keddy · Journal of Vegetation Science | Apr 1992 | 2,193 |
| 48 | Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment Ran Nathan, Ran Nathan, Helene C. Muller‐Landau et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Jul 2000 | 2,119 |
| 49 | Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order Richard J. Hobbs, Salvatore Aricò, James C. Aronson et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2006 | 2,106 |
| 50 | STRENGTH OF EVIDENCE FOR DENSITY DEPENDENCE IN ABUNDANCE TIME SERIES OF 1198 SPECIES Barry W. Brook, Corey J. A. Bradshaw · Ecology | Jun 2006 | 2,088 |
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