Natural Variability and the Manifold Mechanisms of Ecological Communities

Evidence for the Existence of Three Primary Strategies in Plants and Its Relevance to Ecological and Evolutionary Theory

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Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

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Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

1965 • 4,354 citations

Evolution in Changing Environments

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Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

1960 • 3,384 citations

The Trophic‐Dynamic Aspect of Ecology

1942 • 3,144 citations

Organization of a Plant‐Arthropod Association in Simple and Diverse Habitats: The Fauna of Collards (Brassica Oleracea)

1973 • 2,907 citations

The distribution and abundance of animals

1974 • 2,811 citations

Competition, Disturbance, and Community Organization: The Provision and Subsequent Utilization of Space in a Rocky Intertidal Community

1971 • 2,384 citations

The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association

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The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus Stellatus

1961 • 2,080 citations

Herbivores. Their Interaction with Secondary Plant Metabolites.

1981 • 1,990 citations

On the Prevalence and Relative Importance of Interspecific Competition: Evidence from Field Experiments

1983 • 1,938 citations

Evolutionary Biology of Parasites

1980 • 1,495 citations

Biological Control by Natural Enemies

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The Measurement of Niche Overlap and Some Relatives

1978 • 1,317 citations

An Introduction to Population Ecology.

1980 • 1,068 citations

Geographic Size Variation in Birds and Its Relationship to Climate

1970 • 844 citations

Darwin's Finches

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Fish Community Structure and Function along Two Habitat Gradients in a Headwater Stream

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Competition and the Structure of Bird Communities

1975 • 700 citations

The triumph of the Darwinian method

1969 • 633 citations

Management of Multispecies Fisheries

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Plant Defense Guilds

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The Adequacy of Body Size as a Niche Difference

1975 • 567 citations

Ecological Isolation in Birds

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Competitive Networks: Nontransitive Competitive Relationships in Cryptic Coral Reef Environments

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Community Patterns and Competition in Folivorous Insects

1981 • 495 citations

Reconstructing Forest History from Live and Dead Plant Material‐‐An Approach to the Study of Forest Succession in Southwest New Hampshire

1974 • 459 citations

Population Dynamic Models in Heterogeneous Environments

1976 • 452 citations

Stochasticity in Structural and Functional Characteristics of an Indiana Stream Fish Assemblage: A Test of Community Theory

1982 • 419 citations

Competition on a Divided and Ephemeral Resource: A Simulation Model

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Competition and Theory in Community Ecology

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Competition and Regional Coexistence

1974 • 346 citations

On Hypothesis Testing in Ecology and Evolution

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SANTA ROSALIA RECONSIDERED: SIZE RATIOS AND COMPETITION

1981 • 317 citations

Insect Herbivore Abundance in Tropical Monocultures and Polycultures: An Experimental Test of Two Hypotheses

1981 • 314 citations

TESTS OF COMMUNITY‐WIDE CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT AGAINST NULL HYPOTHESES

1979 • 309 citations

Niche Shifts and the Rediscovery of Interspecific Competition

1978 • 307 citations

A Critical Evaluation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Responsible for Niche Restriction in Parasites

1979 • 299 citations

Exclusion or Coexistence and the Taxonomic or Ecological Relationship Between Species

1979 • 295 citations

Interspecific Competition Among Rodents

1972 • 286 citations

The effect of species of animals which share common resources on one another's distribution and abundance.

1979 • 243 citations

Early Growth of Mangrove Seedlings in Panama, and an Hypothesis Concerning the Relationship of Dispersal and Zonation

1978 • 234 citations

Weather, food and plagues of locusts

1976 • 216 citations

Tautology in Evolution and Ecology

1976 • 215 citations

Predator-Prey Theory and Variability

1978 • 212 citations

Diversity Relations of Upland Forests in the Western Great Lakes Area

1971 • 192 citations

An Experimental Study of Interspecific Competition Between the Iguanid Lizards Sceloporus Merriami and Urosaurus Ornatus

1980 • 187 citations

Associations of Plants and Insects in Deciduous Forest

1979 • 179 citations

Competition and Coexistence in a North Carolina Grassland: II. The Effects of the Experimental Removal of Species

1981 • 178 citations

Structure in the Copepod Community of the North Pacific Central Gyre

1979 • 175 citations

FOOD PREFERENCE AND THE EXTENT OF OVERLAP IN SOME INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE TYRANNIDAE

1971 • 166 citations

Resource Partitioning and Interspecific Competition in Two Two-Species Insular Anolis Lizard Communities

1982 • 166 citations

Limiting similarity and the form of the competition coefficient

1975 • 161 citations

Darwin's finches and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in body size

1976 • 158 citations

Group Living, Competition, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Sessile Invertebrate

1981 • 157 citations

Competition and Coexistence with A Guild of Herbivorous Insects

1976 • 151 citations

Landscape Development, Forest Fires, and Wilderness Management

1974 • 146 citations

Patterns of Morphology and Ecology in Grassland and Shrubsteppe Bird Populations

1980 • 145 citations

The Natural Control of Insect Populations

1957 • 145 citations

The Evolutionary Consequences of Interspecific Competition

1982 • 142 citations

Ecology of Insect Host-Parasitoid Communities

1974 • 139 citations

Effects of an experimental increase in prey abundance upon the reproductive rates of two orb-weaving spider species (Araneae: Araneidae)

1979 • 135 citations

A Community Matrix Analysis of Heliconia Insect Communities

1976 • 131 citations

Seed Selection in Some North American Finches

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The Influence of Food and Water on Growth Rates in a Tropical Lizard (Anolis Aeneus)

1981 • 123 citations

Null Hypotheses in Ecology

1982 • 108 citations

Avian community ecology: an iconoclastic view

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Weather and the “Regulation” of Subalpine Populations

1972 • 107 citations

H. A. Gleason-"Individualistic Ecologist" 1882-1975: His Contributions to Ecological Theory

1975 • 105 citations

Character Divergence and Convergence Among Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

1979 • 105 citations

Resource Utilization and Local Coexistence in a Guild of Scarabaeid Dung Beetles (Aphodius spp.)

1982 • 102 citations

An Experimental Test of a Guild: Salamander Competition

1981 • 100 citations

Larval trematodes from the Apalachee Bay area, Florida, with a checklist of known marine cercariae arranged in a key to their superfamilies.

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Spruce Budworm Outbreaks in the Past Three Centuries in the Laurentide Park, Quebec

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The Tyranny of Words

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Body Size in Island Lizards: A Cautionary Tale

1978 • 80 citations

A Heliconia Insect Community in a Venezuelan Cloud Forest

1979 • 73 citations

An Assessment of the Use of Stability Analyses in Population Ecology

1980 • 71 citations

The Ecological Correlates of Survival in Some Bahamian Anolis Lizards

1982 • 70 citations

The Relationship between Selectivity and Food Abundance in a Juvenile Lizard

1981 • 67 citations

Distributions of Galapagos Ground Finches Along An Altitudinal Gradient: The Importance of Food Supply

1982 • 67 citations

Patterns of Resource Use and Tests for Competitive Release in a Spider Community

1983 • 67 citations

Science: Our Common Heritage

1980 • 66 citations

The Role of Theoretical Ecology in the Description and Understanding of Populations in Heterogeneous Environments

1981 • 65 citations

Ecological Relationships Among Arboreal Desert Lizards

1981 • 64 citations

A PERSPECTIVE ON SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IN CROP PRODUCTION AND INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT

1982 • 63 citations

Habitat Selection and Interspecific Competition in Two Species of Plethodontid Salamanders

1982 • 63 citations

The foraging ecology of sympatric marine fish in the genus Embiotoca (Embiotocidae): Importance of foraging behavior in prey size selection

1982 • 62 citations

13. Interspecific Competition Inferred from Patterns of Guild Structure

1984 • 60 citations

Ecotope Differentiation in a Guild of Sap‐Feeding Insects on the Salt Marsh Grass, Spartina Patens

1980 • 59 citations

Parapatry and niche complementarity of Peruvian Desert geckos (Phyllodactylus): the ambiguous role of competition

1979 • 56 citations

The Effect of Environmental Disturbance on a Tropical Butterfly Population

1980 • 56 citations

Ecological Community Theory and the Coexistence of Sparrows

1983 • 56 citations

The concept of energy flow and nutrient flow between trophic levels

1975 • 54 citations

Is the insect or the plant the driving force in the cinnabar moth ? Tansy ragwort system?

1980 • 52 citations

Insect grazing and post-fire plant succession in south-west Australian woodland

1979 • 52 citations

Initial Investigation into the Structure of Spider Communities

1977 • 50 citations

Determinate evolution in the color-pattern of the lady-beetles

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Competition for sites of attachment to hosts in three parapatric species of reptile tick

1981 • 47 citations

Patterns of Co-Existence in a Guild of Raptorial Spiders

1979 • 47 citations

Exclusion Experiments and the Competitive Release of Insects feeding on Collards

1982 • 45 citations

Useful Concepts for Predictive Ecology

1982 • 44 citations

The Body Size-Prey Size Hypothesis: The Adequacy of Body Size as a Vehicle for Character Displacement

1982 • 42 citations

Current Speed and Filtration Rate Link Caddisfly Phylogeny and Distributional Patterns on a Stream Gradient

1982 • 41 citations

Biochemistry of a forested ecosystem

1978 • 35 citations

Temporal and spatial variability in the interaction between the checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas chalcedona and its principal food source, the Californian shrub, Diplacus aurantiacus

1981 • 34 citations

The Role of Theory in Ecology

1981 • 32 citations

Foraging by Passerine birds and Anolis lizards on St. Eustatius (Neth. Antilles): implications for interclass competition, and predation

1983 • 31 citations

Non-Equilibrium `Island' Communities. A Guild of Tropical Bark Beetles

1979 • 31 citations

Results of Experimental Density Manipulation in An Arizona Lizard Community

1982 • 31 citations

A Contribution to the Study of Biological Control and Parasite Introduction in Continental Areas

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16. Patterns and Processes in Three Guilds of Terrestrial Vertebrates

1984 • 30 citations

An attempt at re‐establishing the swallowtail butterfly at Wicken Fen

1980 • 29 citations

Sampling Data on the Bactivorous Ciliates of a Small Pond Compared to Neutral Models of Community Structure

1979 • 28 citations

Ecology ofRhopalomyia californicaFelt (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and its parasites in an urban environment

1982 • 25 citations

Interference or Exploitation? A Second Look at Competition between Salamanders

1974 • 24 citations

5. Does Competition Structure Communities? Field Studies on Neotropical Heliconia Insect Communities

1984 • 24 citations

Periodic, Pseudoperiodic, and Chaotic Population Fluctuations

1977 • 21 citations

Competition Between Two Natural Enemies of Mediterranean Black Scale 1 on Olive

1978 • 19 citations

The Common Sense of Drinking

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FORESTS, DISTURBANCES, AND INSECTS

1980 • 15 citations

Roots of the Niche Concept

1975 • 13 citations

EVOLUTION OF COMPETITIVE ABILITY IN MIXTURES OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER : POPULATIONS WITH AN INITIAL ASYMMETRY

1979 • 12 citations

SELECTION FOR COMPETITIVE ABILITY: NEGATIVE RESULTS IN DROSOPHILA

1980 • 12 citations

Coexistence of two species of Binella Motchulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) and the significance of their adaptation to different temperature ranges

1980 • 9 citations

Common Sense Suicide: The Final Right

1978 • 9 citations

Symposium on `The Ecology of Closely Allied Species'

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Common Sense About Yoga

1974 • 1 citations