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1964 • 3,741 citations

On r- and K-Selection

1970 • 3,457 citations

Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

1960 • 3,384 citations

Ethylene in plant biology

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Animal cytology and evolution

1980 • 2,302 citations

Interactions Among Three Trophic Levels: Influence of Plants on Interactions Between Insect Herbivores and Natural Enemies

1980 • 2,297 citations

Seasonal Changes in Oak Leaf Tannins and Nutrients as a Cause of Spring Feeding by Winter Moth Caterpillars

1970 • 1,878 citations

The Consumption and Utilization of Food by Insects

1968 • 1,815 citations

The Nutritional Ecology of Immature Insects

1981 • 1,786 citations

The ecology of arboreal folivores.

1978 • 1,427 citations

Strategies in Herbivory by Mammals: The Role of Plant Secondary Compounds

1974 • 1,338 citations

Grazing as an Optimization Process: Grass-Ungulate Relationships in the Serengeti

1979 • 1,228 citations

Toward a General Theory of Plant Antiherbivore Chemistry

1976 • 1,168 citations

Evolution of plant chemical defense against herbivores

1979 • 842 citations

THE ROLE OF PHEROMONES, KAIROMONES, AND ALLOMONES IN THE HOST SELECTION AND COLONIZATION BEHAVIOR OF BARK BEETLES

1982 • 765 citations

The Role of Host Plant Resistance in the Colonization Behavior and Ecology of Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

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Variable Plants and Herbivores in Natural and Managed Systems.

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Grasshoppers and Locusts

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Phytophagous Insects as Regulators of Forest Primary Production

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Rapid Changes in Tree Leaf Chemistry Induced by Damage: Evidence for Communication Between Plants

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Biochemical aspects of plant and animal coevolution

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Tannins: Does Structure Determine Function? An Ecological Perspective

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Induced Immunity to Plant Disease

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Serengeti Migratory Wildebeest: Facilitation of Energy Flow by Grazing

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NATURAL SELECTION FOR WITHIN-GENERATION VARIANCE IN OFFSPRING NUMBER

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Air Pollution and Forests

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On the Role of Plant Defences in the Fluctuation of Herbivore Populations

1980 • 338 citations

Wildlife's Ten-Year Cycle

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Adaptive Significance of Midgut pH in Larval Lepidoptera

1980 • 331 citations

Semiochemicals, their role in pest control

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Egg Deposition Patterns in Butterflies: Why Do Some Species Cluster Their Eggs Rather Than Deposit Them Singly?

1980 • 289 citations

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Plant Phenolics: An Ecological Perspective

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Do Consumers Maximize Plant Fitness?

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A Revision of the Genus Locusta, L. (= Pachytylus, Fieb.), with a New Theory as to the Periodicity and Migrations of Locusts

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Biochemical Interaction Between Plants and Insects

1976 • 239 citations

Dynamics of Larch Bud Moth Populations

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Habitat Selection and Foraging Tactics of Caterpillars in Heterogeneous Trees

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1977 • 193 citations

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Santa Rosalia Was a Goat

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1976 • 152 citations

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A Community Matrix Analysis of Heliconia Insect Communities

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1982 • 127 citations

Biology of Aphids.

1974 • 124 citations

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The Douglas-Fir Tussock Moth: A Synthesis

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Adaptive strategies of primates in relation to leaf eating

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1975 • 50 citations

Starfish predation of a growing coral reef community

1984 • 50 citations

Studies on the phase variation and related phenomena in some lepidopterous insects.

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Predators and Hurricanes Change Ecology

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: A Round Table on Research.

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Oak Mortality in Pennsylvania: A Ten-Year Study

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A trail pheromone from silk produced by larvae of the range caterpillarHemileuca oliviae (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) and observations on aggregation behavior

1980 • 37 citations

Induced responses of cherry trees to periodical cicada oviposition

1983 • 33 citations

Selective factors affecting clonal variation in the fall cankerworm Alsophila pometaria (Lepidoptera: geometridae)

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Group and mass effects in diprionid sawflies

1977 • 30 citations

Release of Gypsy Moth 1 Populations from Innocuous Levels

1977 • 30 citations

Adaptation, Host Specificity, and Gene Flow in the Black Pineleaf Scale

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Specificity of trail markers of forest and eastern tent caterpillars

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A comparison of the rate of metabolic activity in the solitary and migratory phases of Locusta migratoria

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Grasses, Grazers, Mutualism and Coevolution: A Comment about Handwaving in Ecology

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Faeces as a source of a locust gregarisation stimulus. Effects on social aggregation and on cuticular colour of nymphs of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forsk.).

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Activated Coordinated Chemical Defense against Disease in Plants

1977 • 24 citations

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The Evolution of Alarm Pheromones

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The 1953 Lemming Emigration at Point Barrow, Alaska

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A Simulation Model of Locust Migratory Behaviour

1979 • 21 citations

THE GENETICS OF SEX IN LEPIDOPTERA

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1981 • 19 citations

Adaptation and Speciation in the Fall Webworm

1979 • 19 citations

Metabolism of ingested auxins in the bug Lygus disponsi: Conversion of indole-3-acetic acid and gibberellin

1977 • 19 citations

The population dynamics of the spruce budworm in eastern Canada

1959 • 17 citations

The history, biology, damage, and control of the gypsy moth, Porthetria dispar (L.)

1979 • 16 citations

Defenses Triggered by the Invader: Recognition and Compatibility Phenomena

1980 • 16 citations

How Insects Induce Disease

1979 • 15 citations

Defenses Triggered by Previous Invaders: Fungi

1980 • 15 citations

CHANGE IN PROPORTION OF LARVAL COLOURTYPES OF THE LARCHFORM ZEIRAPHERA DINIANA WHEN REARED ON TWO MEDIA

1972 • 15 citations

Defenses Triggered by Previous Invaders: Bacteria

1980 • 13 citations

Defenses Triggered by Previous Invaders: Nematodes and Insects

1980 • 13 citations

Phase variation in the lawn caterpillar (Spodoptera abyssinia Guen.)

1947 • 11 citations

Population Dynamics of the Gypsy Moth: An Annotated Bibliography.

1978 • 11 citations

How Nematodes Induce Disease

1979 • 11 citations

NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY AND HABITS OF THE RED-BACKED SAWFLY, ERIOCAMPA OVATA (HYMENOPTERA: TENTHREDINIDAE)

1977 • 10 citations

Characteristics of Sites with High Black Cherry Mortality Due to Bark Beetles Following Defoliation by Hydria prunivorata 1

1977 • 9 citations

EFFECTS OF GALL MIDGE INFESTATION ON PLANT GROWTH AND GROWTH REGULATING SUBSTANCES

1969 • 8 citations

Allelochemics and nutritional indices for larch sawfly,Pristiphora erichsonii (Hartig): A specialist feeding onLarix spp.

1981 • 7 citations

DISPERSION PATTERNS OF DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS AND ITS PREDATOR THANASIMUS DUBIUS: INFLUENCE OF BEHAVIORAL CHEMICALS

1979 • 5 citations

Insect Flight Times and Atmospheric Hydrocarbons

1980 • 4 citations