Most cited papers in Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
What are the most cited papers in Ecosystem dynamics and resilience?
The most cited paper in Ecosystem dynamics and resilience is "A safe operating space for humanity" (Johan Rockström et al., 2009), with 13,302 citations. Next come "A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems" (8,610) and "Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses" (7,678).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 974 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A safe operating space for humanity Johan Rockström et al. · Nature | 23 Sep 2009 | 13,302 |
| 2 | A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems Элинор Остром · Science | 23 Jul 2009 | 8,610 |
| 3 | Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses Carl Folke · Global Environmental Change | 22 Jul 2006 | 7,678 |
| 4 | Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems Marten Scheffer, Stephen R. Carpenter, Jonathan A. Foley et al. · Nature | Oct 2001 | 7,525 |
| 5 | The Strategy of Ecosystem Development Eugene P. Odum · Science | 18 Apr 1969 | 5,478 |
| 6 | Early-warning signals for critical transitions Marten Scheffer, Jordi Bascompte, William A. Brock et al. · Nature | 2 Sep 2009 | 4,946 |
| 7 | Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota David A. Wardle, Richard D. Bardgett, John N. Klironomos et al. · Science | 10 Jun 2004 | 4,702 |
| 8 | Defaunation in the Anthropocene Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Mauro Galetti et al. · Science | 24 Jul 2014 | 4,270 |
| 9 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth James A. Estes et al. · Science | 14 Jul 2011 | 4,114 |
| 10 | Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 Feb 2008 | 4,083 |
| 11 | Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management Carl Folke, Steve R. Carpenter, Brian Walker et al. · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | 2 Nov 2004 | 3,866 |
| 12 | Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems Jianguo Liu, Thomas M. Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter et al. · Science | 13 Sep 2007 | 3,645 |
| 13 | From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What? Stephen R. Carpenter, Brian Walker, J. Marty Anderies et al. · Ecosystems | Dec 2001 | 3,504 |
| 14 | Fluctuating resources in plant communities: a general theory of invasibility Mark Alan Davis, J. Philip Grime, Ken A. Thompson · Journal of Ecology | Jun 2000 | 3,484 |
| 15 | Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis Shigeo Yachi, Michel Loreau · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Feb 1999 | 3,227 |
| 16 | Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries Katherine Anne Koren Richardson et al. · Science Advances | 13 Sep 2023 | 3,158 |
| 17 | The complexity and stability of ecosystems Stuart L. Pimm · Nature | 1984 | 3,117 |
| 18 | Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation Marten Scheffer, Stephen R. Carpenter · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 23 Sep 2003 | 2,844 |
| 19 | Habitat destruction and the extinction debt David Tilman, Robert Mccredie May, Clarence L. Lehman et al. · Nature | Sep 1994 | 2,837 |
| 20 | Ecological Resilience—In Theory and Application Lance Gunderson · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 2000 | 2,767 |
| 21 | Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Apr 2007 | 2,733 |
| 22 | Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Rodolfo Dirzo · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 10 Jul 2017 | 2,665 |
| 23 | Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems George Sugihara, Robert Mccredie May, Hao Ye et al. · Science | 21 Sep 2012 | 2,648 |
| 24 | Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units R.S. de Groot, Luke Brander, Sander van der Ploeg et al. · Ecosystem Services | Jul 2012 | 2,596 |
| 25 | RANDOM DISPERSAL IN THEORETICAL POPULATIONS J. Gordon Skellam · Biometrika | 1951 | 2,525 |
| 26 | Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change Элинор Остром · Global Environmental Change | 4 Aug 2010 | 2,417 |
| 27 | A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change David U. Hooper, E. Carol Adair, Bradley J. Cardinale et al. · Nature | May 2012 | 2,416 |
| 28 | The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene Colin N. Waters et al. · Science | 7 Jan 2016 | 2,376 |
| 29 | Anticipating Critical Transitions Marten Scheffer, Stephen R. Carpenter, Timothy M. Lenton et al. · Science | 18 Oct 2012 | 2,275 |
| 30 | Priming effects: Interactions between living and dead organic matter Yakov V. Kuzyakov · Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 21 Apr 2010 | 2,166 |
| 31 | Biodiversity and stability in grasslands David Tilman, John Downing · Nature | 1994 | 2,128 |
| 32 | Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management Crawford S. Holling, Gary K. Meffe · Conservation Biology | Apr 1996 | 2,056 |
| 33 | Determinants of woody cover in African savannas Mahesh Sankaran et al. · Nature | Dec 2005 | 1,992 |
| 34 | Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere Anthony D. Barnosky et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 1,978 |
| 35 | Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series George Sugihara, Robert Mccredie May · Nature | Apr 1990 | 1,973 |
| 36 | Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points David I. Armstrong McKay, Arie Staal, Jesse F. Abrams et al. · Science | 8 Sep 2022 | 1,931 |
| 37 | Adaptive Comanagement for Building Resilience in Social?Ecological Systems Per G Olsson, Carl Folke, Fikret Berkes · Environmental Management | 21 Jun 2004 | 1,868 |
| 38 | Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes Forest Isaac Isbell et al. · Nature | Oct 2015 | 1,868 |
| 39 | Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple time scales Christopher John Honey, Rolf Kötter, Michael J Breakspear et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 4 Jun 2007 | 1,820 |
| 40 | Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession Francisco Dini‐Andreote, James Stegen, Jan Dirk van Elsas et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 Mar 2015 | 1,762 |
| 41 | Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems Simon A. Levin · Ecosystems | Sep 1998 | 1,747 |
| 42 | Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology Katharine N. Suding, Katherine L. Gross, Gregory R. Houseman · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 28 Oct 2003 | 1,730 |
| 43 | Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems Anthony R. Ives, Stephen R. Carpenter · Science | 5 Jul 2007 | 1,630 |
| 44 | Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions Tom Henry Oliver, Matthew S. Heard, Nick J. B. Isaac et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 3 Oct 2015 | 1,578 |
| 45 | Theory of stochastic resonance Bruce McNamara, Kurt A. Wiesenfeld · Physical Review A | May 1989 | 1,567 |
| 46 | Original Articles: Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale Garry Peterson, Craig R. Allen, Crawford S. Holling · Ecosystems | 1998 | 1,553 |
| 47 | Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience Jill F. Johnstone, Craig D. Allen, Jerry F. Franklin et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | Sep 2016 | 1,524 |
| 48 | Adaptive co‐management for social–ecological complexity Derek R. Armitage, Ryan Plummer, Fikret Berkes et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 24 Jan 2008 | 1,479 |
| 49 | Biodiversity enhances ecosystem reliability Shahid Naeem, Shibin Li · Nature | Dec 1997 | 1,469 |
| 50 | Noise enhancement of information transfer in crayfish mechanoreceptors by stochastic resonance John K. Douglass, Lon A. Wilkens, Eleni Pantazelou et al. · Nature | Sep 1993 | 1,454 |
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