Topic · Ecology and Conservation Studies
Most cited papers in Ecology and Conservation Studies
What are the most cited papers in Ecology and Conservation Studies?
The most cited paper in Ecology and Conservation Studies is "The Use of Distance Measures in Phytosociological Sampling" (Grant Cottam, John T. Curtis, 1956), with 2,184 citations. Next come "The cerrado vegetation of Brazil" (1,413) and "Plant strategies and the dynamics and structure of plant communities" (1,138).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 120 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Use of Distance Measures in Phytosociological Sampling Grant Cottam, John T. Curtis · Ecology | Jul 1956 | 2,184 |
| 2 | The cerrado vegetation of Brazil George Eiten · The Botanical Review | Apr 1972 | 1,413 |
| 3 | Plant strategies and the dynamics and structure of plant communities Michael P. Austin · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 1989 | 1,138 |
| 4 | Pattern, process, and natural disturbance in vegetation Peter S. White · The Botanical Review | Jul 1979 | 1,122 |
| 5 | Carbon and Nitrogen Economy of 24 Wild Species Differing in Relative Growth Rate Hendrik Poorter, Carlo Remkes, Hans Lambers · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | Oct 1990 | 644 |
| 6 | Tansley Review No. 110. Joseph Arditti, Abdul Karim Abdul Ghani · New Phytologist | Mar 2000 | 622 |
| 7 | Biometrical Studies of Yield in Segregating Populations of Korean Lespedeza 1 Clarence H. Hanson, H. F. Robinson, Ralph E. Comstock · Agronomy Journal | Jun 1956 | 559 |
| 8 | Quantifying urban forest structure, function, and value: the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project E. Gregory McPherson, David J. Nowak, Gordon M. Heisler et al. · Urban Ecosystems | Mar 1997 | 552 |
| 9 | Disturbance Regimes in Temperate Forests James Reade Runkle · Elsevier eBooks | 1985 | 522 |
| 10 | Network meta-analysis: application and practice using R software Sung Ryul Shim, Seong‐Jang Kim, Jong Hoo Lee et al. · Epidemiology and Health | 8 Apr 2019 | 512 |
| 11 | A simple confidence interval for meta‐analysis Kurex Sidik, Jeffrey N. Jonkman · Statistics in Medicine | 7 Oct 2002 | 440 |
| 12 | Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy John David Phillipson · Journal of Ethnopharmacology | Oct 2002 | 406 |
| 13 | Effects of copper and cadmium on heavy metal polluted waterbody restoration by duckweed (Lemna minor) Wenhua Hou, Xiao Chen, Guanling Song et al. · Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 29 Dec 2006 | 370 |
| 14 | Sediment characteristics, phosphorus types and phosphorus release rates between river and lake sediments Lee-Hyung Kim, Euiso Choi, Michael K. Stenstrom · Chemosphere | 2003 | 361 |
| 15 | Nutrient Cycling Franz–Josef Bormann, Gene E. Likens · Science | 27 Jan 1967 | 357 |
| 16 | Threatened Species List of China’s Higher Plants Haining Qin et al. · Biodiversity Science | 2017 | 325 |
| 17 | Impacts of urban greenspace on offsetting carbon emissions for middle Korea Hyun-Kil Jo · Journal of Environmental Management | Feb 2002 | 279 |
| 18 | Litter quality and environmental controls of home‐field advantage effects on litter decomposition G. F. Veen, Grégoire T. Freschet, Alejandro Ordóñez et al. · Oikos | Jul 2014 | 269 |
| 19 | Nutrient Loss Accelerated by Clear-Cutting of a Forest Ecosystem Franz–Josef Bormann, Gene E. Likens, Donald Fisher et al. · Science | 23 Feb 1968 | 268 |
| 20 | Validation of a Forest Values Typology for Use in National Forest Planning Greg Brown, Patrick C. Reed · Forest Science | May 2000 | 260 |
| 21 | The Hartung‐Knapp modification for random‐effects meta‐analysis: A useful refinement but are there any residual concerns? Dan Jackson, Martin Wai-Ming Law, Gerta Rücker et al. · Statistics in Medicine | 26 Jul 2017 | 248 |
| 22 | Characterization of highly variable (GA/CT) n microsatellites in the bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa B. D. Dow, Mary V. Ashley, Henry F. Howe · Theoretical and Applied Genetics | Jul 1995 | 232 |
| 23 | Phylogeny and Systematics of Lemnaceae, the Duckweed Family Donald H. Les, Daniel J. Crawford, Elias Landolt et al. · BioOne Complete (BioOne) | 24 Jan 2009 | 229 |
| 24 | Assessing the Value of the Umbrella‐Species Concept for Conservation Planning with Meta‐Analysis Margaret A. Branton, John Stuart Richardson · Conservation Biology | 17 Nov 2010 | 224 |
| 25 | Fossil Calibration of Molecular Divergence Infers a Moderate Mutation Rate and Recent Radiations for Pinus Ann Willyard, John V. Syring, David S. Gernandt et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 22 Sep 2006 | 220 |
| 26 | Relationship between Organic Matter Content of Soil and the Sequestration of Phenanthrene Kyoungphile Nam, Namhyun Chung, Martin J. Alexander · Environmental Science & Technology | 3 Oct 1998 | 220 |
| 27 | Investigation of heavy metal accumulation in Polygonum thunbergii for phytoextraction In Sung Kim, Kyung Hong Kang, Perry Johnson-Green et al. · Environmental Pollution | 31 Jul 2003 | 215 |
| 28 | Insect succession and decomposition patterns on shaded and sunlit carrion in Saskatchewan in three different seasons Barbara J. Sharanowski, Ernest G. Walker, Gail Scott Anderson · Forensic Science International | 27 Jul 2008 | 210 |
| 29 | INVASION BY A N2-FIXING TREE ALTERS FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE IN WET LOWLAND FORESTS OF HAWAII R. Flint Hughes, JULIE SLOAN DENSLOW · Ecological Applications | Oct 2005 | 209 |
| 30 | New check list of British agarics and boleti Peter D. Orton · Transactions of the British Mycological Society | Jun 1960 | 209 |
| 31 | An Expression for the Effect of Aspect, Slope, and Habitat Type on Tree Growth Albert R. Stage · Forest Science | Dec 1976 | 205 |
| 32 | Review and assessment of various techniques for estimating net aerial primary production in grasslands from harvest data Jyoti Singh, William K. Lauenroth, R. Kirk Steinhorst · The Botanical Review | Apr 1975 | 196 |
| 33 | Effects of Light Quality on Tiller Production in Lolium spp. Victor Alejandro Deregibus, Rodolfo A. Sánchez, Jorge José Casal · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | Jul 1983 | 193 |
| 34 | Scaling and Root Planing Effectiveness: The Effect of Root Surface Access and Operator Experience William K. Brayer, James T. Mellonig, Robert M. Dunlap et al. · Journal of Periodontology | 1989 | 193 |
| 35 | Salinity Tolerance Mechanisms of Six C4 Turfgrasses Kenneth B. Marcum, Charles L. Murdoch · Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science | Jul 1994 | 189 |
| 36 | Characterization of microsatellite markers in eastern white pine Craig S. Echt, Paula E. Marquardt, M. Hseih et al. · Genome | Dec 1996 | 189 |
| 37 | Digitization of The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Barbara M. Thiers, Melissa Tulig, Kimberly A. Watson · Brittonia | 12 Apr 2016 | 188 |
| 38 | Cogongrass ( Imperata cylindrica )—Biology, Ecology, and Management Gregory E. MacDonald · Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences | Sep 2004 | 185 |
| 39 | Some factors affecting the responses of plants to acute and chronic radiation exposures A.H. Sparrow, Robin Louis Cuany, Jerome P. Miksche et al. · Radiation Botany | 1961 | 184 |
| 40 | Biological Flora of New Zealand P. Wardle, Andrew MacRae · New Zealand Journal of Botany | Mar 1966 | 184 |
| 41 | Toxicity of a pah photooxidation product to the bacteria Photobacterium phosphoreum and the duckweed Lemna gibba: Effects of phenanthrene and its primary photoproduct, phenanthrenequinone Brendan J. McConkey, Cheryl L. Duxbury, D. George Dixon et al. · Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | May 1997 | 183 |
| 42 | MOLECULAR DELINEATION OF SPECIES AND SPECIES RELATIONSHIPS IN THE RED ALGAL AGAROPHYTES GRACILARIOPSIS AND GRACILARIA (GRACILARIALES)1 Lynda J. Goff, Debra A. Moon, Annette Wilbois Coleman · Journal of Phycology | Jun 1994 | 182 |
| 43 | Differentiation of vegetation zones and species strategies in the subalpine region of Mt. Fuji Masahiko Ohsawa · Plant Ecology | Aug 1984 | 180 |
| 44 | Incubation time, functional litter diversity, and habitat characteristics predict litter-mixing effects on decomposition Antoine Lecerf, Guillaume Marie, John S. Kominoski et al. · Ecology | 28 Jun 2010 | 179 |
| 45 | An explanation for alpine timberline P. Wardle · New Zealand Journal of Botany | Sep 1971 | 179 |
| 46 | COMPARISON OF THE VEGETATION OF THREE LOUISIANA SWAMP SITES WITH DIFFERENT FLOODING REGIMES William H. Conner, James G. Gosselink, Roland T. Parrondo · American Journal of Botany | Mar 1981 | 177 |
| 47 | A New Rice Seedling Test for Gibberellins, 'Microdrop Method', and its Use for Testing Extracts of Rice and Morning Glory Yutaka Murakami · Shokubutsugaku Zasshi | 1968 | 177 |
| 48 | TRANSFER TO THE MOUSE OVIDUCT OF EGGS WITH AND WITHOUT THE ZONA PELLUCIDA RICHARD A. BRONSON, Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren · Reproduction | Jun 1970 | 175 |
| 49 | Vegetation: Identification of Typal Communities Rexford F. Daubenmire · Science | 21 Jan 1966 | 172 |
| 50 | Importance of seed size for the establishment of seedlings of five deciduous broad-leaved tree species Kenji Seiwa, Kihachiro Kikuzawa · Plant Ecology | Mar 1996 | 171 |
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