Latitudinal gradients in species diversity

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Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

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Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1970 • 4,587 citations

Resource Competition and Community Structure

1984 • 4,280 citations

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

1959 • 4,021 citations

Systematics and the Origin of Species

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On Bird Species Diversity

1961 • 3,466 citations

A General Hypothesis of Species Diversity

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The distribution and abundance of animals

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Marine Benthic Diversity: A Comparative Study

1968 • 2,412 citations

The Statistics and Biology of the Species-Area Relationship

1979 • 2,257 citations

Plant strategies and the dynamics and structure of plant communities

1988 • 2,192 citations

Information theory in ecology

1958 • 2,116 citations

Fluctuations of Animal Populations and a Measure of Community Stability

1955 • 2,070 citations

AN EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF INSULAR ZOOGEOGRAPHY

1963 • 2,020 citations

Geographical ecology; patterns in the distribution of species

1972 • 1,887 citations

Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: A Review of Concepts

1966 • 1,815 citations

The Canonical Distribution of Commonness and Rarity: Part I

1962 • 1,786 citations

Biological Determinants of Species Diversity

1985 • 1,479 citations

PATTERNS OF SPECIES DIVERSITY

1965 • 1,433 citations

Species-Energy Theory: An Extension of Species-Area Theory

1983 • 1,389 citations

Evolution Above the Species Level

1959 • 1,083 citations

TROPICAL FORESTS: THEIR RICHNESS IN COLEOPTERA AND OTHER ARTHROPOD SPECIES

1982 • 953 citations

Effects of Competition, Predation by Thais lapillus, and Other Factors on Natural Populations of the Barnacle Balanus balanoides

1961 • 939 citations

Zoogeography: The Geographical Distribution of Animals

1958 • 876 citations

On the Relation Between Species and Area

1922 • 812 citations

Population Biology and Evolution

1968 • 801 citations

Patterns in the Balance of Nature

1966 • 792 citations

LATITUDINAL VARIATIONS IN ORGANIC DIVERSITY

1960 • 787 citations

Darwin's Finches

1947 • 754 citations

Maintenance of High Diversity in Coral Reef Fish Communities

1977 • 708 citations

Large-scale biogeographical patterns of species richness of trees

1987 • 703 citations

Evolution in the tropics

1950 • 686 citations

The Ecological Regulation of Species Diversity

1964 • 615 citations

Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls.

1975 • 585 citations

Temperature and Life

1973 • 555 citations

Chapter 17: Bottom Communities (Sublittoral or Shallow Shelf)

1957 • 548 citations

Bird Species Diversity on an Andean Elevational Gradient

1977 • 544 citations

Species Density of North American Recent Mammals

1964 • 519 citations

Areography. Geographical Strategies of Species.

1983 • 480 citations

Community Structure in the Deep-Sea Benthos

1981 • 410 citations

How many species?

1990 • 401 citations

Competition and the Structure of Ecological Communities

1946 • 387 citations

Ecology of Marine Parasites

1993 • 374 citations

Patterns of communities in the tropics

1969 • 368 citations

On the Notion of Favorableness in Plant Ecology

1973 • 363 citations

Speciation in Ancient Lakes (Concluded)

1950 • 331 citations

Does Solar Energy Control Organic Diversity? Butterflies, Moths and the British Climate

1987 • 318 citations

Geographical Trends in Numbers of Species

1978 • 314 citations

Benthic marine diversity and the stability-time hypothesis.

1969 • 290 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF BILL SIZE DIFFERENCES AMONG SYMPATRIC CONGENERIC SPECIES OF BIRDS

1965 • 285 citations

On the contribution of environmental predictability to species diversity.

1969 • 273 citations

The Ecology of Conus in Hawaii

1959 • 258 citations

COMMUNITY EFFECTS OF INTRODUCED SPECIES

1981 • 255 citations

Reduced Interspecific Competition among the Birds of Bermuda

1962 • 231 citations

Untitled

1976 • 225 citations

Population Genetics and Evolution

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The Evolutionary Biology of Colonizing Species

1983 • 218 citations

Generation and Maintenance of Gradients in Taxonomic Diversity

1969 • 214 citations

The Vertical Component of Plant Species Diversity in Temperate and Tropical Forests

1985 • 213 citations

CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS IN THE BIOSPHERE

1981 • 196 citations

Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations

1962 • 195 citations

Diversity and stability: a practical proposal and a model of interdependence.

1969 • 194 citations

Niche Size and Faunal Diversity

1960 • 181 citations

Mechanisms of species coexistence: twelve explanations for Hutchinson's 'Paradox of the Plankton': evidence from New Zealand plant communities.

1990 • 178 citations

Competition and Nest Spacing in a Tropical Stingless Bee Community

1977 • 168 citations

The Abundance, Seasonal Occurrence and Distribution of the Epizooplankton between New York and Bermuda

1962 • 162 citations

Host specificity of temperate and tropical animals

1979 • 162 citations

The evolution of Miocene surface and near-surface marine temperatures: Oxygen isotopic evidence

1985 • 158 citations

On the Causes of Tropical Species Diversity: Niche Overlap

1961 • 154 citations

Insect diversity of a Costa Rican dry forest: why keep it, and how?

1987 • 148 citations

Presence and absence of density dependence in a neotropical tree community

1990 • 146 citations

Behavioral Aspects of Ecology

1963 • 137 citations

Species diversity in temperate and tropical Ichneumonidae

1974 • 137 citations

Organizational Constraints on the Dynamics of Evolution

1990 • 133 citations

Evolution of diversity in plant communities.

1969 • 128 citations

Environmental Determinants of Faunal Diversity

1959 • 124 citations

An Introduction to the World's Oceans

1984 • 117 citations

LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS IN THE SPECIES DIVERSITY OF NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS

1980 • 116 citations

Epiphyte Loads, Tree Falls, and Perennial Forest Disruption: A Mechanism for Maintaining Higher Tree Species Richness in the Tropics Without Animals

1977 • 112 citations

Neuere Probleme der Abstammungslehre : die transspezifische Evolution

1972 • 110 citations

Paleontological gaps and geochronology

1962 • 109 citations

Primary Production in Grazed and Ungrazed Desert Communities of Eastern Idaho

1965 • 108 citations

NUMBERS OF SPECIES OF ANTS IN FAUNAE OF DIFFERENT LATITUDES

1957 • 105 citations

Stochastic Extinction and Reserve Size: A Focal Species Approach

1983 • 97 citations

Evolutionary rates: effects of stress upon recombination

1988 • 92 citations

Evolutionary Biology of Transient Unstable Populations

1989 • 89 citations

Host specificity indices of parasites and their application

1980 • 87 citations

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF INSULAR VARIATION IN BIRD SPECIES ABUNDANCE

1964 • 85 citations

Possible Relationships Between Plankton‐Diatom Species Numbers and Water‐Quality Estimates

1964 • 73 citations

Marine Benthic Diversity: A Critique and Alternative Explanation

1979 • 71 citations

An Annual Phytoplankton Cycle in the Lower Chesapeake Bay

1963 • 70 citations

Latitudinal differences in host-specificity of marine Monogenea and digenea

1978 • 65 citations

Factors That Control Species Numbers in Silver Springs, Florida1

1956 • 63 citations

Ecological Isolation in a Rich Tropical Avifauna

1948 • 61 citations

SOME ASPECTS OF EVOLUTION IN LAKE NYASA

1959 • 61 citations

The paleoecological significance of diversity: The effect of time averaging and differential preservation on macroinvertebrate species richness in death assemblages

1988 • 58 citations

Primary Productivity of Marine Ecosystems

1975 • 58 citations

Late Pleistocene Faunal and Temperature Patterns of the Colombia Basin, Caribbean Sea

1976 • 53 citations

Evolutionary Physiological Ecology

1987 • 51 citations

ENVIRONMENTAL INSTABILITY AND COMMUNITY DIVERSITY*

1982 • 46 citations

Comparative diversity of temperate and tropical forest bird communities:the influence of habitat heterogeneity.

1990 • 44 citations

Are There Fewer Parasitoids in the Tropics?

1979 • 44 citations

Equatorial Atlantic and Caribbean Foraminiferal Assemblages, Temperatures, and Circulation: Interglacial and Glacial Comparisons

1976 • 40 citations

LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS IN SPECIES DIVERSITY AND THEIR CAUSES. I: A REVIEW OF THE HYPOTHESES EXPLAINING THE GRADIENTS

1978 • 37 citations

Gill Monogenea of deepwater and surface fish in southeastern Australia

1988 • 36 citations

Regional diversity, local community structure and vacant niches: the herbivorous arthropods of bracken in South Africa

1989 • 32 citations

THE EFFECTS OF REDUCED COMPETITION IN BIRDS

1961 • 32 citations

Zoogeography of marine parasites

1984 • 31 citations

Differences in species diversity of Monogenea between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

1986 • 29 citations

Species diversity of parasites on the Great Barrier Reef

1976 • 29 citations

Diversity gradients of marine Monogenea in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

1980 • 28 citations

The first three billion years of community evolution.

1969 • 22 citations

The Relationship between Species Diversity and Population Density in Diatom Populations from Silver Springs, Florida

1961 • 19 citations

Habitat Implications of Gap Geometry in Tropical Forests

1990 • 16 citations

Model of the number of species in an ecosystem in dependence on geographical latitude

1982 • 6 citations

Mobile Genetic Elements and Quantitative Characters in Drosophila: Fast Heritable Changes Under Temperature Treatment

1989 • 5 citations

Latitudinal Species Diversities in Australian Endemic Drosophila

1979 • 5 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations