A Consumer-Resource Approach to Community Structure

The Theory of Island Biogeography

1968 • 11,511 citations

Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs

1978 • 8,878 citations

Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

1966 • 5,216 citations

THE MAINTENANCE OF SPECIES‐RICHNESS IN PLANT COMMUNITIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REGENERATION NICHE

1977 • 4,340 citations

Resource Competition and Community Structure.

1983 • 4,157 citations

A General Hypothesis of Species Diversity

1979 • 3,369 citations

Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities

1977 • 2,450 citations

The Commonness, And Rarity, of Species

1948 • 1,961 citations

Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: A Review of Concepts

1966 • 1,815 citations

Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species.

1973 • 1,723 citations

Plant strategies and vegetation processes

1980 • 1,636 citations

The Assembly of Species Communities: Chance or Competition?

1979 • 1,183 citations

Plant Species Diversity in a Marine Intertidal Community: Importance of Herbivore Food Preference and Algal Competitive Abilities

1978 • 1,097 citations

Energy Flow in the Salt Marsh Ecosystem of Georgia

1962 • 1,095 citations

Phytoplankton Community Ecology: The Role of Limiting Nutrients

1982 • 1,047 citations

Disturbance, Patch Formation, and Community Structure

1974 • 973 citations

Competitive Exclusion

1980 • 952 citations

Seaweeds: Their Productivity and Strategy for Growth

1973 • 762 citations

Interactions Between Bacteria and Algae in Aquatic Ecosystems

1982 • 729 citations

Community Equilibria and Stability, and an Extension of the Competitive Exclusion Principle

1970 • 697 citations

Minimal Community Structure: An Explanation of Species Abundance Patterns

1980 • 558 citations

Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. V. Biomass, Production, and Diversity along the Elevation Gradient

1975 • 504 citations

Resource-Limited Growth, Competition, and Predation: A Model and Experimental Studies with Bacteria and Bacteriophage

1977 • 493 citations

A Mathematical Theory for Single-Nutrient Competition in Continuous Cultures of Micro-Organisms

1977 • 492 citations

Food webs and niche space.

1978 • 472 citations

Coexistence in a Variable Environment

1979 • 459 citations

Convergence Versus Nonconvergence in Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems

1978 • 389 citations

A comparison of the abilities of freshwater algae and bacteria to acquire and retain phosphorus1

1984 • 350 citations

Competition and Regional Coexistence

1974 • 346 citations

Competitive Interactions in Ecosystems

1976 • 314 citations

Discrete time models for two-species competition

1976 • 288 citations

Community food webs have scale-invariant structure

1984 • 285 citations

Coexistence of species competing for shared resources

1976 • 270 citations

Soil Nutrients and Tree Species Richness in Costa Rican Forests

1980 • 254 citations

The relative importance of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in phosphorus uptake in freshwater1

1984 • 240 citations

Competition and nutrient kinetics along a temperature gradient: An experimental test of a mechanistic approach to niche theory1

1981 • 216 citations

COMPETITION BETWEEN AN ALGA AND AN AQUATIC BACTERIUM FOR PHOSPHATE1

1972 • 212 citations

An Optimization Model of Food Selection

1971 • 211 citations

Fugitive Species: Experiments with Fungi and Some Theoretical Considerations

1976 • 209 citations

Indirect Mutualism: Variations on a Theme by Stephen Levine

1980 • 198 citations

Tilman's predicted productivity–diversity relationship shown by desert rodents

1984 • 183 citations

Competitive displacement between ecological homologues

1963 • 182 citations

Plant succession and gopher disturbance along an experimental gradient

1983 • 165 citations

Effect of Burning Cereal Straw on Soil Properties and Grain Yields in Saskatchewan

1980 • 159 citations

Complex Interactions between Natural Coexploiters--Daphnia and Ceriodaphnia

1978 • 159 citations

Food Webs and Niche Space

1979 • 150 citations

The Distribution of Some Woodland Herbs in Relation to the Supply of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Soil

1964 • 138 citations

The Dynamics of Nutrient Limitation of Phytoplankton Algae: A Model Reconsidered

1974 • 136 citations

Nutrient competition between phyto plankton species in multi species chemostat experiments

1983 • 133 citations

Static and Dynamic Aspects of Nitrogen Cycling in the Salt Marsh Graminoid Spartina Alterniflora

1984 • 117 citations

Direct and indirect effects of n-species competition

1979 • 109 citations

Null hypotheses in ecology

1980 • 107 citations

Coexistence of two competitors on one resource

1976 • 93 citations

6. Non-Competitive Populations, Non-Convergent Communities, and Vacant Niches: The Herbivores of Bracken

1984 • 89 citations

Missing Species Combinations

1981 • 88 citations

Microbial Growth Rate in Glucose‐Amended Soil

1974 • 85 citations

Effect of an Ammonium Nitrate Pulse on the Growth and Elemental Composition of Natural Stands of Spartina alterniflora and Juncus roemerianus

1975 • 84 citations

On Measuring the Intrinsic Rate of Increase of Populations with Heterogeneous Life Histories

1979 • 79 citations

Seasonal Changes in Standing Crop and Primary Production in a Sedge Wetland and an Adjacent Dry Old‐Field in Central Minnesota

1974 • 75 citations

Influence of Crop Growth on Mineralization of Nitrogen in the Soil

1949 • 63 citations

The effects of fertilization on nitrogen distribution in a Spartina alterniflora salt marsh

1979 • 63 citations

Short-term bacterial growth, nutrient uptake, and ATP turnover in sterilized, inoculated and C-amended soil: The influence of N availability

1983 • 54 citations

Association of Species and Their Relationship to Microtopography Within Old Fields

1969 • 49 citations

Interactions between freshwater bacteria andAnkistrodesmus braunii in batch and continuous culture

1977 • 24 citations

The paradox of the plankton: fluctuations of phosphorus availability maintain diversity of phytoplankton in flow-through cultures

1984 • 11 citations