Most cited papers in Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
What are the most cited papers in Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies?
The most cited paper in Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies is "Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions" (David M. Richardson, Petr Pyšek, Marcel Rejmánek et al., 2000), with 4,066 citations. Next come "Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States" (2,710) and "Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in endangered fern Adiantum reniforme var. sinense" (2,606).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 452 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions David M. Richardson, Petr Pyšek, Marcel Rejmánek et al. · Diversity and Distributions | Mar 2000 | 4,066 |
| 2 | Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States James M. Omernik · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Mar 1987 | 2,710 |
| 3 | Development and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in endangered fern Adiantum reniforme var. sinense Ming Kang, Pan Li, Xiaohong Yao et al. · Conservation Genetics | 17 Feb 2006 | 2,606 |
| 4 | Competitive Exclusion in Herbaceous Vegetation J. Philip Grime · Nature | Mar 1973 | 2,551 |
| 5 | The Use of Distance Measures in Phytosociological Sampling Grant Cottam, John T. Curtis · Ecology | Jul 1956 | 2,184 |
| 6 | Grinnellian and Eltonian niches and geographic distributions of species Jorge M. Soberón · Ecology Letters | 10 Sep 2007 | 1,966 |
| 7 | Monitoring the vernal advancement and retrogradation (green wave effect) of natural vegetation John Wilson Rouse · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) | 27 Nov 1973 | 1,767 |
| 8 | Vegetation classification by reference to strategies J. Philip Grime · Nature | Jul 1974 | 1,586 |
| 9 | Ecology of sprouting in woody plants: the persistence niche William John Bond, Jeremy J. Midgley · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 2001 | 1,521 |
| 10 | Alien plants in checklists and floras: towards better communication between taxonomists and ecologists Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson, Marcel Rejmánek et al. · Taxon | Feb 2004 | 1,492 |
| 11 | The Brazilian Cerrado Vegetation and Threats to its Biodiversity James Alexander Ratter · Annals of Botany | Sep 1997 | 1,395 |
| 12 | STUDIES IN THE WATER RELATIONS OF THE COTTON PLANT Paul Egerton Weatherley · New Phytologist | Mar 1950 | 1,334 |
| 13 | On the definition of ecological species groups in tropical rain forests M. D. Swaine, T. C. Whitmore · Plant Ecology | May 1988 | 1,313 |
| 14 | The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. James L. Luteyn, James C. Hickman · Brittonia | Oct 1993 | 1,300 |
| 15 | Shrub Invasions of North American Semiarid Grasslands Oscar William Van Auken · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 2000 | 1,296 |
| 16 | Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Rupert C. Barneby, P. H. Davis, John P. Edmondson et al. · Brittonia | 1983 | 1,283 |
| 17 | Trees and shrubs as invasive alien species – a global review David M. Richardson, Marcel Rejmánek · Diversity and Distributions | 8 Aug 2011 | 1,187 |
| 18 | Quantitative Interpretation of Fossil Pollen Spectra: Dissimilarity Coefficients and the Method of Modern Analogs Jonathan T. Overpeck, T. Webb, Iain Colin Prentice · Quaternary Research | 1985 | 1,181 |
| 19 | Patterns of Floristic Differentiation among Atlantic Forests in Southeastern Brazil and the Influence of Climate 1 Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes · Biotropica | Dec 2000 | 1,154 |
| 20 | Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species Brian S. Arbogast · American Zoologist | Feb 2001 | 1,152 |
| 21 | DNA Protocols for Plants Jeffrey J. Doyle | 1991 | 1,136 |
| 22 | EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PHENOLOGY, FROST DAMAGE, AND FLORAL ABUNDANCE OF MONTANE WILDFLOWERS David W. Inouye · Ecology | Feb 2008 | 1,131 |
| 23 | Pattern, process, and natural disturbance in vegetation Peter S. White · The Botanical Review | Jul 1979 | 1,122 |
| 24 | Comparative phylogeography of unglaciated eastern North America Pamela S. Soltis, Ashley B. Morris, JASON S. McLACHLAN et al. · Molecular Ecology | 14 Nov 2006 | 1,090 |
| 25 | Secondary Succession and the Pattern of Plant Dominance Along Experimental Nitrogen Gradients David Tilman · Ecological Monographs | Sep 1987 | 1,084 |
| 26 | EXOTIC PLANT SPECIES INVADE HOT SPOTS OF NATIVE PLANT DIVERSITY Thomas J. Stohlgren, Dan Binkley, Geneva W. Chong et al. · Ecological Monographs | Feb 1999 | 1,083 |
| 27 | Traits Associated with Invasiveness in Alien Plants: Where Do we Stand? Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson · Ecological studies | 9 Feb 2007 | 1,064 |
| 28 | Fire in the Virgin Forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota Miron L. Heinselman · Quaternary Research | Oct 1973 | 1,025 |
| 29 | Phylogenetic utility of the internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal DNA in plants: An example from the compositae Bruce G. Baldwin · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | Mar 1992 | 1,024 |
| 30 | The Selection of Sites for Paleovegetational Studies George L. Jacobson, Richard Bradshaw · Quaternary Research | Jul 1981 | 1,010 |
| 31 | Modulation of Diversity by Grazing and Mowing in Native Tallgrass Prairie Scott L. Collins, Alan K. Knapp, John M. Briggs et al. · Science | May 1998 | 1,008 |
| 32 | An updated classification of Orchidaceae Mark W. Chase, Kenneth M. Cameron, John V. Freudenstein et al. · Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society | 29 Jan 2015 | 1,002 |
| 33 | D ioecy and its correlates in the flowering plants Susanne S. Renner, Robert E. Ricklefs · American Journal of Botany | May 1995 | 939 |
| 34 | The invasive potential of Australian banksias in South African fynbos: A comparison of the reproductive potential ofBanksia ericifoliaandLeucadendron laureolum Meredith A Honig, Richard M. Cowling, David M. Richardson · Australian Journal of Ecology | Sep 1992 | 938 |
| 35 | Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A. Peter G. DeCelles · American Journal of Science | Feb 2004 | 925 |
| 36 | Detection of nickeliferous rocks by analysis of herbarium specimens of indicator plants Robert Richard Brooks, J Lee, Roger D. Reeves et al. · Journal of Geochemical Exploration | 1977 | 894 |
| 37 | The Biological Aspects of Rare Plant Conservation. James W. Grimes, Hugh Synge · Brittonia | Apr 1982 | 850 |
| 38 | Potential Natural Vegetation of the Conterminous United States A. W. Küchler · Soil Science | May 1965 | 842 |
| 39 | Invasion of Bromus tectorum L. into Western North America: An ecological chronicle Richard N. Mack · Agro-Ecosystems | Aug 1981 | 817 |
| 40 | Description of Sunflower Growth Stages1 A. A. Schneiter, Jerry F. Miller · Crop Science | Nov 1981 | 816 |
| 41 | Current approaches to the revegetation and reclamation of metalliferous mine wastes George M. Tordoff, Alan J. M. Baker, Alyson Willis · Chemosphere | Jul 2000 | 806 |
| 42 | Evolution of Eastern Asian and Eastern North American Disjunct Distributions in Flowering Plants Jun Wen · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1999 | 795 |
| 43 | Invasive weeds in rangelands: Species, impacts, and management Joseph M. DiTomaso · Weed Science | Mar 2000 | 787 |
| 44 | Reid's Paradox of Rapid Plant Migration James S. Clark, C. Fastie, GEORGE C. HURTT et al. · BioScience | 1998 | 777 |
| 45 | Comparative ecology of seed size and dispersal Mark Westoby, Michelle R. Leishman, Janice M. Lord · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 30 Sep 1996 | 772 |
| 46 | Predicting Invasions of Woody Plants Introduced into North America Sarah Hayden Reichard, Clement W. Hamilton · Conservation Biology | 17 Feb 1997 | 772 |
| 47 | A CHECK‐LIST OF MYCORRHIZA IN THE BRITISH FLORA* John Laker Harley, E. L. HARLEY · New Phytologist | Feb 1987 | 758 |
| 48 | New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora Barry Meatyard · Biological Conservation | 25 Mar 2003 | 735 |
| 49 | An Ecosystem in Transition: Causes and Consequences of the Conversion of Mesic Grassland to Shrubland John M. Briggs, Alan K. Knapp, John M. Blair et al. · BioScience | 2005 | 731 |
| 50 | Seed banks and seed dispersal: important topics in restoration ecology§ Jan Pouwel Bakker, Peter Poschlod, RJ Strykstra et al. · Acta Botanica Neerlandica | Dec 1996 | 709 |
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