Topic · Plant and animal studies
Most cited papers in Plant and animal studies
What are the most cited papers in Plant and animal studies?
The most cited paper in Plant and animal studies is "A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance" (Marti Jane Anderson, 2001), with 13,523 citations. Next come "Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation" (12,232) and "A general and simple method for obtaining R 2 from generalized linear mixed‐effects models" (10,527).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,837 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance Marti Jane Anderson · Austral Ecology | Feb 2001 | 13,523 |
| 2 | Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork · Nucleic Acids Research | 12 Apr 2021 | 12,232 |
| 3 | A general and simple method for obtaining R 2 from generalized linear mixed‐effects models Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 3 Dec 2012 | 10,527 |
| 4 | Tree View: An application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers Roderic Page · Computer applications in the biosciences | 1996 | 10,261 |
| 5 | Phylogenies and the Comparative Method Joseph Felsenstein · The American Naturalist | 1985 | 10,187 |
| 6 | Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs Joseph H. Connell · Science | 24 Mar 1978 | 9,487 |
| 7 | Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data Jane Elith et al. · Ecography | 29 Mar 2006 | 9,223 |
| 8 | Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution Benjamin M. Bolker, M. Brooks, Connie J. Clark et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 29 Jan 2009 | 9,021 |
| 9 | Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change Camille Parmesan · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | 24 Aug 2006 | 8,743 |
| 10 | EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE David U. Hooper, F. Stuart Chapin, John J. Ewel et al. · Ecological Monographs | Feb 2005 | 8,101 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Extinction risk from climate change Chris D. Thomas, Alison Cameron, Rhys E. Green et al. · Nature | 2004 | 7,757 |
| 13 | Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Bernard E Vaissiere, James H. Cane et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 27 Oct 2006 | 7,273 |
| 14 | The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology: The Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture Simon A. Levin · Ecology | Dec 1992 | 6,873 |
| 15 | Mechanisms of Maintenance of Species Diversity Peter Chesson · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 2000 | 6,837 |
| 16 | Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers Simon Geoffrey Potts, Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer, Claire Kremen et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 25 Feb 2010 | 6,497 |
| 17 | Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness Nicholas J. Gotelli, Robert K. Colwell · Ecology Letters | 22 Jul 2001 | 6,487 |
| 18 | Ecology, Sexual Selection, and the Evolution of Mating Systems Stephen T. Emlen, Lewis W. Oring · Science | 15 Jul 1977 | 6,316 |
| 19 | Spatial Interaction and the Statistical Analysis of Lattice Systems Julian E. Besag · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | 1974 | 6,216 |
| 20 | BIOTIC INVASIONS: CAUSES, EPIDEMIOLOGY, GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES, AND CONTROL Richard N. Mack, Daniel Simberloff, W. Mark Lonsdale et al. · Ecological Applications | Jun 2000 | 6,179 |
| 21 | Canonical Correspondence Analysis: A New Eigenvector Technique for Multivariate Direct Gradient Analysis Cajo J. F. ter Braak · Ecology | Oct 1986 | 6,023 |
| 22 | Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation Martin A. Nowak · Science | 7 Dec 2006 | 5,999 |
| 23 | The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections E. C. Pielou · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Dec 1966 | 5,986 |
| 24 | Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity Daniel P. Faith · Biological Conservation | 1992 | 5,933 |
| 25 | NOMENCLATURE FOR CENTROMERIC POSITION ON CHROMOSOMES ALBERT LEVAN, Karl Fredga, Avery A. Sandberg · Hereditas | 2 Sep 2009 | 5,927 |
| 26 | The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography Gottfried Jetschke, Stephen P. Hubbell · Ecology | Jun 2002 | 5,706 |
| 27 | Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork · Nucleic Acids Research | 19 Apr 2016 | 5,530 |
| 28 | The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet et al. · Ecology Letters | 4 Jun 2004 | 5,524 |
| 29 | EVOLUTION AND MEASUREMENT OF SPECIES DIVERSITY ROBERT H. WHITTAKER · Taxon | May 1972 | 5,520 |
| 30 | ggtree : an r package for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data Guangchuang Yu, David Keith Smith, Huachen Zhu et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 16 Aug 2016 | 5,408 |
| 31 | TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis Pablo A. Goloboff, James S. Farris, Kevin C. J. Nixon · Cladistics | 11 Jul 2008 | 5,395 |
| 32 | Mate selection—A selection for a handicap Amotz Avishag Zahavi · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Sep 1975 | 5,378 |
| 33 | THE MEASUREMENT OF SELECTION ON CORRELATED CHARACTERS Russell Lande, Stevan J. Arnold · Evolution | Nov 1983 | 5,068 |
| 34 | Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United States David Mayke da Silva Pimentel, Rodolfo Zuniga, Doug Morrison · Ecological Economics | 30 Dec 2004 | 4,821 |
| 35 | Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants Terry L. Root, Jeff T. Price, Kimberly R. Hall et al. · Nature | 2003 | 4,803 |
| 36 | Let the concept of trait be functional! Cyrille Violle, Marie‐Laure Navas, Denis Vile et al. · Oikos | May 2007 | 4,802 |
| 37 | Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota David A. Wardle, Richard D. Bardgett, John N. Klironomos et al. · Science | 10 Jun 2004 | 4,702 |
| 38 | On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds Stephen Dewitt Fretwell, H. L. Lucas · Acta Biotheoretica | Mar 1969 | 4,543 |
| 39 | Measuring Biological Diversity Julian R. W. Reid · Austral Ecology | 10 Oct 2005 | 4,500 |
| 40 | THE MAINTENANCE OF SPECIES‐RICHNESS IN PLANT COMMUNITIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REGENERATION NICHE P. J. Grubb · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Feb 1977 | 4,457 |
| 41 | A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits Étienne Laliberté, Pierre Legendre · Ecology | 2010 | 4,399 |
| 42 | Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies Anne Chao, Nicholas J. Gotelli, T. C. Hsieh et al. · Ecological Monographs | 17 May 2013 | 4,367 |
| 43 | PLEIOTROPY, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SENESCENCE George Christopher Williams · Evolution | Dec 1957 | 4,343 |
| 44 | Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity Céline Bellard, Cléo Bertelsmeier, Paul Leadley et al. · Ecology Letters | 18 Jan 2012 | 4,304 |
| 45 | Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of species: are bioclimate envelope models useful? Richard G. Pearson, Terence P. Dawson · Global Ecology and Biogeography | 21 Aug 2003 | 4,294 |
| 46 | The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Jul 1964 | 4,202 |
| 47 | AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons Kenneth P. Burnham, David R. Anderson, Kathryn P. Huyvaert · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 17 Aug 2010 | 4,200 |
| 48 | Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities Thomas W. Schoener · Science | 5 Jul 1974 | 4,152 |
| 49 | A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide J. H. C. Cornelissen, Sandra Lavorel, Éric Garnier et al. · Australian Journal of Botany | 13 Aug 2003 | 4,148 |
| 50 | Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers Dave Goulson, Elizabeth Nicholls, Cristina Botías et al. · Science | 26 Feb 2015 | 4,110 |
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