A Consideration of Climax Theory: The Climax as a Population and Pattern

The Trophic‐Dynamic Aspect of Ecology

1942 • 3,144 citations

Plant succession; an analysis of the development of vegetation,

1916 • 3,142 citations

The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association

1926 • 2,294 citations

AN OUTLINE OF GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY

1950 • 1,691 citations

An Upland Forest Continuum in the Prairie‐Forest Border Region of Wisconsin

1951 • 1,671 citations

The Theory of Open Systems in Physics and Biology

1950 • 1,650 citations

The Balance of Animal Populations.—Part I.

1935 • 1,608 citations

Factors of Soil Formation: A System of Quantitative Pedology

1945 • 1,600 citations

Nature and Structure of the Climax

1936 • 1,180 citations

Principles of Animal Ecology

1950 • 1,006 citations

CIRCULAR CAUSAL SYSTEMS IN ECOLOGY

1948 • 933 citations

Periodic Fluctuations in the Numbers of Animals: Their Causes and Effects

1924 • 612 citations

The theory of forest types

1926 • 564 citations

The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan. Part I.-Geographical Relations of the Dune Floras.

1899 • 498 citations

The Use of Random and Contiguous Quadrats in the Study of the Structure of Plant Communities

1952 • 479 citations

An Ecological Analysis of the Plant Communities of Piedmont, North Carolina

1942 • 424 citations

Research methods in ecology

1905 • 423 citations

Competition and the Structure of Ecological Communities

1946 • 387 citations

The vegetation of New Zealand

1921 • 345 citations

Climax Vegetation in Tropical America

1944 • 312 citations

The ecology and geologic role of Mangroves in Florida.

1940 • 312 citations

Further Views on the Succession‐Concept

1927 • 310 citations

Factors Effecting Vegetational Zonation on Coastal Dunes

1942 • 265 citations

Behavior of Mixed Populations and the Problem of Natural Selection

1935 • 254 citations

Life-forms and phytoclimate

1950 • 251 citations

The Vegetation of Moraballi Creek, British Guiana: An Ecological Study of a Limited Area of Tropical Rain Forest. Part II

1934 • 246 citations

Voles, Mice and Lemmings: Problems in Population Dynamics

1942 • 242 citations

The Physiographic Ecology of Chicago and Vicinity; A Study of the Origin, Development, and Classification of Plant Societies

1901 • 210 citations

A Functional, Factorial Approach to Plant Ecology

1951 • 206 citations

The Insect Inhabitants of Carrion : A Study in Animal Ecology.

1934 • 199 citations

The Climax Forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and Its Development. I

1913 • 198 citations

Cattle Droppings as Ecological Units

1943 • 189 citations

Plant competition : an analysis of community functions

1929 • 180 citations

The Ecology and Silvics of Forests in the High Plateau of Pennsylvania

1943 • 174 citations

Soil Temperatures During Forest Fires and Their Effect on the Survival of Vegetation

1940 • 163 citations

Limnological Studies in Connecticut. VII. A Critical Examination of the Supposed Relationship between Phytoplakton Periodicity and Chemical Changes in Lake Waters

1944 • 163 citations

Southeast saline Everglades vegetation, Florida and its management

1952 • 161 citations

Some Attempts to Estimate Species Diversity and Population Density of Trees in Amazonian Forests

1950 • 160 citations

Is the Longleaf Type a Climax?

1932 • 157 citations

Fluctuations in the Numbers of the Varying Hare (Lepus Americanus)

1937 • 157 citations

Effects of fire on vegetation of the southeastern United States

1943 • 156 citations

The Upland Conifer‐Hardwood Forests of Northern Wisconsin

1952 • 155 citations

Description and Recording of Vegetation Upon a Structural Basis

1951 • 154 citations

Ecological Animal Geography

1952 • 137 citations

A Fourth Expedition to Glacier Bay, Alaska

1939 • 137 citations

The Hemlock‐‐White Pine‐‐Northern Hardwood Region of Eastern North America

1935 • 135 citations

Cliff Vegetation in the Eastern Mediterranean

1951 • 133 citations

The Relict Method in Dynamic Ecology

1934 • 131 citations

Plant indicators: the relation of plant communities to process and practice

1920 • 130 citations

The Fundamentals of Vegetational Change

1926 • 130 citations

Nature and Degree of Recovery of Grassland from the Great Drought of 1933 to 1940

1944 • 129 citations

Plants and Environment.-A Textbook of Plant Autecology.

1948 • 128 citations

The Recent Ecological History of Glacier Bay, Alaska: The Present Vegetation Cycle

1923 • 124 citations

On competition between different species of graminivorous insects

1945 • 123 citations

The Vegetation of the Granitic Flat‐Rocks of the Southeastern United States

1943 • 123 citations

Competition for Food by Birds of Prey

1946 • 122 citations

Over-Dispersion in Grassland Communities and the Use of Statistical Methods in Plant Ecology

1936 • 119 citations

Postglacial Forest Succession, Climate, and Chronology in the Pacific Northwest

1947 • 117 citations

The Causes of Vegetative Cycles

1911 • 113 citations

The Vegetation of the Western Cross Timbers

1948 • 112 citations

La foret coloniale: les forets de l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise

1938 • 110 citations

Biotic Communities of the Northern Desert Shrub Biome in Western Utah

1946 • 109 citations

Interspecies Competition and Its Probable Influence Upon the Vertical Distribution of Appalachian Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon

1951 • 108 citations

Population Interspersion: An Essay on Animal Community Patterns

1949 • 106 citations

Successional Responses of Herbs in the Longleaf‐Slash Pine Forest After Fire

1949 • 102 citations

An Ecological Study of the Vegetation of Southeastern Washington and Adjacent Idaho

1942 • 100 citations

An experimental analogue of "regression" with incidental observations on "reaction-formation."

1940 • 98 citations

Tropical Soil-Vegetation Catenas and Mosaics: A Study in the South-Western Part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

1948 • 96 citations

Ecological Aspects of Succession in Natural Populations

1941 • 95 citations

The Effect of Carp on a Small Lake: the Carp as a Dominant

1929 • 95 citations

Vegetation and Plant Growth as Affected by Chemically Altered Rocks in the Western Great Basin

1950 • 88 citations

Biotic Communities of the Aspen Parkland of Central Canada

1930 • 87 citations

The Ecology of Closely Related Species with Special Reference to Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) and Shag (P. aristotelis)

1945 • 83 citations

The Vegetation of Alberta: IV. The Poplar Association and Related Vegetation of Central Alberta

1932 • 81 citations

A Physiognomic Classification of Vegetation

1949 • 78 citations

Competitive Relationships Between Certain Species of Fresh-Water Triclads

1932 • 78 citations

Plant Succession and Indicators: A Definitive Edition of Plant Succession and Plant Indicators

2019 • 75 citations

The Ecology of a Raised Bog Near Tregaron, Cardiganshire

1939 • 73 citations

Some Aspects of the Soil Catena Concept

1943 • 73 citations

Gypsophily Among Mexican Desert Plants

1941 • 72 citations

Forest-type studies in the Adirondack region

1933 • 71 citations

The Plant Associations of Central Long Island. A Study in Descriptive Plant Sociology

1935 • 69 citations

Vegetation of the Great Salt Lake Region

1934 • 69 citations

Population Cycles and Random Oscillations

1951 • 69 citations

The study of plant communities : an introduction to plant ecology

1948 • 66 citations

Studies of the Vegetation of the English Chalk: VI. Late Stages in Succession Leading to Chalk Grassland

1940 • 65 citations

Statistical ecology. II—A reassessment

1948 • 63 citations

History of the Native Vegetation of Western Kansas during Seven Years of Continuous Drought

1942 • 62 citations

On the Ecology of the Vegetation of Breckland: III. General Effects of Rabbits on the Vegetation

1917 • 62 citations

Vegetation of the Prince William Sound Region, Alaska; With a Brief Excursion into Post‐Pleistocene Climatic History

1942 • 60 citations

A Theory of Analyzing Contagiously Distributed Populations

1946 • 57 citations

Burtt Memorial Supplement: Some East African Vegetation Communities

1942 • 55 citations

Development of the Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America

1947 • 55 citations

Limnological studies in Connecticut; Part V, A contribution to regional limnology

1940 • 54 citations

The Role of the Bison in Maintaining the Short Grass Plains

1940 • 54 citations

Moisture Relations in the Chaparral of the Santa Monica Mountains, California

1936 • 54 citations

Vegetation as an Object of Study

1942 • 54 citations

Evolution of Certain Floristic Associations in Western North America

1947 • 53 citations

Some Effects of Burning upon a Prairie in West-Central Kansas

1948 • 53 citations

Bird Populations and Biotic Communities in Northern Lower Michigan

1948 • 51 citations

The Nature and Origin of Soil-Polygons in Spitsbergen

1927 • 50 citations

The Principles of Biocoenology

1936 • 50 citations

Climax Forests of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

1941 • 49 citations

Mathematical Systematization of "Environment," "Organism" and "Habitat"

1940 • 49 citations

Vegetation on North and South Slopes of Mountains in Southwestern Texas

1932 • 49 citations

The Vegetation of Alberta: II. The Swamp, Moor and Bog Forest Vegetation of Central Alberta

1928 • 49 citations

A Commentary on American Plant Ecology, Based on the Textbooks of 1947‐1949

1951 • 48 citations

Periodic Fluctuations in British Game Populations

1934 • 48 citations

The Range Vegetation of Kerr County, Texas, in Relation to Livestock and White-Tailed Deer

1944 • 48 citations

A Working Basis for the Ecological Classification of Plant Communities

1923 • 48 citations

Are Population Oscillations Inherent in the Host‐Parasite Relation?

1941 • 47 citations

The Cycle form Douglas Fir to Hemlock

1940 • 46 citations

Vegetation of Roan Mountain: A Phytosociological and Successional Study

1941 • 45 citations

Vérifications expérimentales de la théorie mathématique de la lutte pour la vie

1935 • 45 citations

The Plant Communities of Western Queensland and Their Relationships, with Special Reference to the Grazing Industry.

1938 • 44 citations

Field Populations and Natural Control of Lucilia sericata

1930 • 43 citations

Limnological Studies of Western Lake Erie: V. Relation of Limnological and Meteorological Conditions to the Production of Phytoplankton in 1942

1945 • 43 citations

Savannah and Forest Vegetation of the Interior Guiana Plateau

1936 • 42 citations

The Natural Vegetation of the Island of Tobago, British West Indies

1944 • 40 citations

Plant Life in Malaya

1954 • 39 citations

Die Vegetation der Erde nach ihrer klimatischen Anordnung: ein Abriss der vergleichenden Geographie der Pflanzen

1872 • 38 citations

The Classification of Tropical Woody Vegetation Types.

1938 • 37 citations

Sphagnum Bogs of Central Russia: Phytosociology, Ecology and Succession

1926 • 37 citations

Ecology of Rancho Grande, a subtropical cloud forest in Northern Venezuela

1947 • 36 citations

The Vegetation and Retrogressive Changes of Peat Areas ("Muskegs") in Central Alberta

1926 • 34 citations

Succession on the New England Salt Marshes

1940 • 33 citations

The Undifferentiated Deciduous Forest Climax and the Association‐Segregate

1935 • 33 citations

Notes on Surface Markings in Spitsbergen

1924 • 33 citations

The Vegetation of Pine Mountain, Kentucky: An Analysis of the Influence of Soils and Slope Exposure as Determined by Geological Structure

1935 • 32 citations

Plant Populations

1948 • 32 citations

The Vegetation of the Katmai District

1936 • 31 citations

Les associations silvatiques haut-rhinoises

1926 • 31 citations

The Misuse of Climate as an Indicator of Vegetation and Soils

1951 • 31 citations

Distribution of Vegetation on the Plains of European Russia

1927 • 30 citations

Forests of the Illinoian Till Plain of Southwestern Ohio

1936 • 30 citations

The classification of life-forms of plants

1939 • 30 citations

Littoral Marine Communities

1939 • 30 citations

Vegetation and Soil Relations in the Lower Colorado Desert

1950 • 29 citations

Relations of vegetation, soil and subsoil in Denmark.

1950 • 29 citations

The Climax and Its Complexities

1939 • 27 citations

Experimental Populations of Microscopic Organisms

1937 • 26 citations

A botanical survey of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

1936 • 26 citations

The Vegetation and Habitat Factors of the Carrizo Sands

1933 • 25 citations

A Consideration of the "Biological Spectra" of New Zealand

1937 • 25 citations

The Interpretation and Application of Certain Terms and Concepts in the Ecological Classification of Plant Communities.

1919 • 25 citations

Aceretum rubri: The Red Maple Swamp Forest of Central Long Island

1938 • 24 citations

Notes on Calcicolous Communities and Peat Formation in Norwegian Lappland

1951 • 24 citations

Vegetation of Certain Sand Plains of Connecticut

1937 • 24 citations

The Maple-Basswood Forest Type in Washburn County, Wisconsin

1938 • 23 citations

Forest Insect Populations

1939 • 23 citations

A Preliminary Account of the Vegetation of Some Non-Calcareous British Screes (Gerolle)

1930 • 23 citations

Growth and Environmental Conditions in Southern California Chaparral

1947 • 23 citations

The Sample Plot as a Method of Quantitative Analysis of Chaparral Vegetation in Southern California

1941 • 22 citations

The Vegetation of the Blacks' Spur Region: A Study in the Ecology of Some Australian Mountain Eucalyptus Forests: II. Pyric Succession

1929 • 21 citations

The Relation Between Classifying and Mapping Vegetation

1951 • 20 citations

Plant Associations on Land

1939 • 20 citations

The definition of introversion, extroversion and allied concepts.

1923 • 20 citations

An Ecological Study of the Heath Balds of the Great Smoky Mountains

2017 • 19 citations

The Relation of Plants to Tide-Levels: A Study of Factors Affecting the Distribution of Marine Plants

2012 • 19 citations

The Influence of Rabbits on the Vegetation of Certain Hill-Grazing Districts of Scotland

1940 • 19 citations

Géographie des plantes

1933 • 19 citations

The ecology of the upper Williams River and Barrington Tops districts. II. The rain- forest formations

1938 • 18 citations

The Effect of the Moisture-Retaining Capacity of Soils on Forest Succession in Itasca Park, Minnesota

1938 • 17 citations

The Climax Forest Community in Itasca County, Minnesota, and Its Bearing upon the Successional Status of the Pine Community

1934 • 17 citations

Fluctuations in Numbers among Freshwater Crayfish, Potamobius pallipes Lereboullet

1933 • 17 citations

Vegetation of Philippine mountains : the relation between the environment and physical types at different altitudes

1919 • 17 citations

Some recent publications on phytogeography in Scandinavia

1937 • 15 citations

An Analysis of the Plant Communities of Mary's Peak, Western Oregon

1951 • 15 citations

The Grass Balds of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina

1931 • 15 citations

Studies on the Vegetation of Nottinghamshire: I. The Ecology of the Bunter Sandstone

1927 • 15 citations

Die Vegetation der Schweiz

1928 • 15 citations

Notes on some forest (site) types in North America

1929 • 14 citations

The Vegetation of West Greenland

1922 • 13 citations

The Ecological Life History of Certain Species of Ribes and Its Application to the Control of the White Pine Blister Rust

1922 • 13 citations

The Broadleaf Deciduous Forests of the Pacific Northwest

1946 • 13 citations

Further Observations on the Ecology of Central Iceland

1940 • 12 citations

Atypical Subalpine Environments

1942 • 12 citations

A Note on the Papers of Elton and Williams on the Generic Relations of Species in Small Ecological Communities

1951 • 12 citations

Über die chemische Zusammensetzung des Phytoplanktons aus dem Frederiksborg‐Schloßsee und ihre Bedeutung für die Maxima der Cladoceren

1931 • 12 citations

The Gold Coast forest : a study in synecology

1927 • 11 citations

VARIABILITY OF ALKALI SOIL

1922 • 11 citations

An Analysis of the Vegetation of the Northern Slopes of Pico--The Azores

1952 • 11 citations

Geological Relations of Plant Formations

1913 • 10 citations

Ecological bases for land use planning in Gulf coast marshlands.

1950 • 10 citations

The Ornithocoprophilous Vegetation of the Bird Cliffs of Rost in the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway.

1949 • 10 citations

Preliminary Notes on American Snow patches and Their Plants

1929 • 10 citations

Vegetationsbedingungen und pflanzengesellschaften auf felsschutt : Phytosoziologische untersuchungen in den Glarner Alpen

1930 • 9 citations

The Vegetation of Muskogee County, Oklahoma

1938 • 9 citations

The Terminology of the Ultimate Vegetation

1921 • 8 citations

The physiography and vegetation of Trinidad and Tobago : a study in plant ecology

1934 • 7 citations

On the Ecology of the Vegetation of Breckland: II. Factors Relating to the Relative Distributions of Calluna-Heath and Grass-Heath in Breckland

1916 • 7 citations

Notes on the Tundra of Russian Lapland

1928 • 6 citations

On the interaction between several species of hosts and parasites

1933 • 6 citations

Plant ecology of the Bulli district. Part I: stratigraphy, physiography and climate; general distribution of plant communities and interpretation

1936 • 5 citations

Forests of the Illinoian Till Plain of Southeastern Indiana

1942 • 5 citations

Zur �kologie des Quercetum galloprovinciale pubescentetosum

1939 • 5 citations

Variations in the Cabin Run Forest, a Climax Area in Southwestern Ohio

1943 • 4 citations

Wesen und Bedeutung der Waldtypen

1930 • 4 citations

A Remarkable New Zealand Scrub Association

1926 • 3 citations

Note on Soil Conditions and Two East African Vegetation Types

1937 • 3 citations

The vegetation of Northern Tropical Africa

1931 • 2 citations

The Vegetation of the Central Sahara

1930 • 2 citations

Ecological researches on the French Atlantic oak forest

1949 • 2 citations

Climax Group and Climax Swarm

1938 • 1 citations

Hawaii's Tapestry Forests

1920 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations