On the Trophic Relations of Insects: A Food-Web Approach

Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

1966 • 5,216 citations

Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?

1959 • 4,021 citations

The Trophic‐Dynamic Aspect of Ecology

1942 • 3,144 citations

Will a Large Complex System be Stable?

1972 • 2,668 citations

The Structure of Lizard Communities

1973 • 2,623 citations

An Introduction to the Study of Insects

1954 • 1,716 citations

Insects on Plants: Community Patterns and Mechanisms

1984 • 1,648 citations

Evolutionary Biology of Parasites

1980 • 1,495 citations

The Evolution and Dynamics of Intraspecific Predation

1981 • 1,287 citations

Cannibalism in Natural Populations

1975 • 990 citations

TROPICAL FORESTS: THEIR RICHNESS IN COLEOPTERA AND OTHER ARTHROPOD SPECIES

1982 • 953 citations

Explicit Calculation of the Rarefaction Diversity Measurement and the Determination of Sufficient Sample Size

1975 • 933 citations

Ecological Communities

1981 • 887 citations

Patterns of Mutualistic Interactions in Pollination and Seed Dispersal: Connectance, Dependence Asymmetries, and Coevolution

1987 • 771 citations

Connectance of Large Dynamic (Cybernetic) Systems: Critical Values for Stability

1970 • 746 citations

Artifacts or Attributes? Effects of Resolution on the Little Rock Lake Food Web

1991 • 672 citations

Number of trophic levels in ecological communities

1977 • 670 citations

Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico

1981 • 625 citations

Spiders as Biological Control Agents

1984 • 583 citations

Role of Allochthonous Detritus in the Trophic Structure of a Woodland Springbrook Community

1967 • 425 citations

The Leafhoppers and planthoppers

1985 • 381 citations

Characteristics of successful natural enemies in models of biological control of insect pests

1978 • 379 citations

Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Structure of a Freshwater Food Web

1989 • 336 citations

Community food webs have scale-invariant structure

1984 • 285 citations

Phytotelmata: Terrestrial Plants as Hosts for Aquatic Insect Communities

1984 • 282 citations

Stability and Connectance in Food Web Models

1975 • 267 citations

Community assembly and food web stability

1983 • 265 citations

A stochastic theory of community food webs I. Models and aggregated data

1985 • 264 citations

THE TROPHIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND ECOLOGY OF SOME LITTORAL COMMUNITIES OF LAKE NYASA WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE FISHES, AND A DISCUSSION OF THE EVOLUTION OF A GROUP OF ROCK‐FREQUENTING CICHLIDAE

1959 • 250 citations

Environmental Control of Food Web Structure

1983 • 235 citations

The Effects of Reduction in Trout Density on the Invertebrate Community of a Mountain Stream

1982 • 231 citations

Invertebrate predator-prey body size relationships: an explanation for upper triangular food webs and patterns in food web structure?

1987 • 230 citations

American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico

2001 • 219 citations

Trophic links of community food webs.

1984 • 204 citations

Scale Invariance in Food Web Properties

1989 • 202 citations

Omnivory and Food Chain Length in Zooplankton Food Webs

1988 • 197 citations

Cattle Droppings as Ecological Units

1943 • 189 citations

A Quantitative Study of the Fauna of Some Types of Stream-Bed

1929 • 176 citations

The Determinants of Food Chain Lengths

1987 • 173 citations

Ecological Relations of Certain Animals in Dead Pine and Oak Logs

1939 • 169 citations

The connectance of real ecosystems

1980 • 148 citations

Carrion Reduction by Animals in Contrasting Tropical Habitats

1974 • 143 citations

Ecology of Insect Host-Parasitoid Communities

1974 • 139 citations

Properties of Food Webs

1980 • 133 citations

The natural history of flies

1964 • 133 citations

A Community Matrix Analysis of Heliconia Insect Communities

1976 • 131 citations

Stability and diversity of ecological communities

1978 • 130 citations

Connectance in real biotic communities and critical values for stability of model ecosystems

1979 • 126 citations

Contributions to the ecology of Spitsbergen and Bear Island

1923 • 125 citations

Temporal Variation in Food Web Structure: 16 Empirical Cases

1991 • 121 citations

The dynamics of multispecies, multi-life-stage models of aquatic food webs

1987 • 111 citations

A Stochastic Theory of Community Food Webs

1990 • 111 citations

Predator‐prey ratios in communities of freshwater invertebrates: the role of enemy free space

1985 • 109 citations

The predatory Chironomidae of an iron‐rich stream: feeding ecology and food web structure

1985 • 105 citations

Must Connectance Decrease with Species Richness?

1989 • 84 citations

Composition, Food Webs and Population Limitation in Dung Arthropod Communities During Invasion and Succession

1974 • 76 citations

A stochastic theory of community food webs. III. Predicted and observed lengths of food chains

1986 • 74 citations

A Heliconia Insect Community in a Venezuelan Cloud Forest

1979 • 73 citations

A Further Ecological Study of Calcareous Streams in the `Black Mountain' District of South Wales

1949 • 68 citations

Organization of a parasitoid community associated with a complex of galls on Atriplex spp. in southern California

1984 • 68 citations

Static and dynamic explanations for patterns in food webs

1988 • 64 citations

Food Habits of Some Benthic Invertebrates in a Northern Cool-Desert Stream (Deep Creek, Curlew Valley, Idaho-Utah)

1973 • 62 citations

An Experimental Study of the Mortality Factors of Larval Musca autumnalis DeGeer

1969 • 61 citations

Insect succession in the decomposition of a mammal in Costa Rica

1981 • 58 citations

Studies in Stream Life in Tributaries of the Welsh Dee

1949 • 50 citations

The Stability of Complex Model Ecosystems

1980 • 48 citations

The Larger Invertebrate Fauna of Three Rabbit Carcasses

1955 • 47 citations

A stochastic theory of community food webs. IV. Theory of food chain lengths in large webs

1986 • 47 citations

Carrion Communities in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

1978 • 42 citations

Seasonal development of soybean arthropod communities in east central Illinois

1978 • 41 citations

Community structure of carrion arthropods in the Chihuahuan Desert

1983 • 41 citations

Functional Analysis of a Thermal Spring Ecosystem, with an Evaluation of the Role of Consumers

1976 • 41 citations

“An Ecological Classification of Certain Ontario Streams”, by William E. Ricker, Publication of the Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory No. 49, University of Toronto Studies Biological series, No. 37, 1934

1935 • 40 citations

A Key to the Adults of the British Trichoptera

1974 • 38 citations

The length of food chains:phytotelmata in Australia and elsewhere.

1985 • 36 citations

Studies on the Ecology of English Heaths: III. Animal Communities of the Felling and Burn Successions at Oxshott Heath, Surrey

1926 • 36 citations

A Stochastic Theory of Community Food Webs. V. Intervality and Triangulation in the Trophic-Niche Overlap Graph

1990 • 34 citations

Community structure in water-filled treeholes in Europe and Australia-comparisons and speculations

1983 • 31 citations

The Effects of Connectivity on Community Stability

1982 • 31 citations

Insects on Plants: Community Patterns and Mechanisms.

1987 • 30 citations

The Insect Fauna of Mistletoe (Phoradendron tomentosum, Loranthaceae) in Southern Texas

1984 • 24 citations

24. Stability, Probability, and the Topology of Food Webs

1984 • 23 citations

Body-Size Differences in Carabid Cave Beetles

1978 • 20 citations

The Structure of Food Webs

1982 • 20 citations

Stratification of Arthropods in a Wet Stump Cavity

1958 • 19 citations

Arthropods Associated with Bovine and Equine Dung in an Ungrazed Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem

1983 • 17 citations

On the Fauna of a Brown Flux of an Elm Tree, Ulmus procera Salisb.

1953 • 3 citations