Species richness in marine benthic habitats through the Phanerozoic

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1968 • 11,511 citations

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

1953 • 5,543 citations

Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

1966 • 5,216 citations

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

1959 • 4,021 citations

Communities and Ecosystems.

1970 • 2,544 citations

Marine Benthic Diversity: A Comparative Study

1968 • 2,412 citations

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1971 • 2,384 citations

The Measurement of Species Diversity

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1963 • 2,020 citations

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION

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Dominance and Diversity in Land Plant Communities

1965 • 1,558 citations

Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands

1969 • 749 citations

Approaches to paleoecology

1964 • 735 citations

Evolution and Environment

1968 • 733 citations

Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls.

1975 • 585 citations

Taxonomic Diversity during the Phanerozoic

1972 • 580 citations

Stochastic Models of Phylogeny and the Evolution of Diversity

1973 • 572 citations

EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF OXYGEN‐DEFICIENT MARINE BASINS

1971 • 567 citations

Communities and Ecosystems

1971 • 563 citations

The Study of Trace Fossils

1975 • 429 citations

Species diversity in the Phanerozoic: an interpretation

1976 • 377 citations

Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: Effects of Island Size

1976 • 365 citations

Principles of paleontology

1978 • 333 citations

Beginnings of biospheric evolution and their biogeochemical consequences

1976 • 328 citations

Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology

1957 • 324 citations

Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere.

1975 • 323 citations

Experimental Zoogeography of Islands. A Two‐Year Record of Colonization

1970 • 322 citations

The shape of evolution: a comparison of real and random clades

1977 • 319 citations

Benthic marine diversity and the stability-time hypothesis.

1969 • 290 citations

The Late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia

1966 • 286 citations

Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere

1974 • 286 citations

On the contribution of environmental predictability to species diversity.

1969 • 273 citations

Principles of paleontology

1973 • 264 citations

Evolution and extinction rate controls

1976 • 261 citations

THE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF LOWER SILURIAN MARINE COMMUNITIES

1968 • 258 citations

Patterns of taxonomic and ecological structure of the shelf benthos during Phanerozoic time

1969 • 251 citations

An Ecological Theory for the Sudden Origin of Multicellular Life in the Late Precambrian

1973 • 246 citations

Primary production, isotopes, extinctions and the atmosphere

1968 • 194 citations

Ecological succession as an aspect of structure in fossil communities

1975 • 189 citations

Taphonomy and Information Losses in Fossil Communities

1968 • 184 citations

Global Tectonics and the Fossil Record

1972 • 176 citations

Late Middle Cambrian faunas from western Utah

1964 • 171 citations

MODELS AND METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF THE MODE OF FORMATION OF FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES

1960 • 169 citations

Permo-Triassic Extinctions: Relation to Sea-Floor Spreading

1974 • 169 citations

Species diversity in the Phanerozoic: a tabulation

1976 • 167 citations

Minor Internal Structures of Some Recent Unconsolidated Sediments

1957 • 154 citations

Phanerozoic glaciation and the causes of ice ages

1970 • 148 citations

Geochemical Aspects of Atmospheric Evolution: Discussion

1965 • 141 citations

The Fossil Record of Shell Boring by Snails

1969 • 129 citations

Palaeobiology of Angiosperm Origins

1977 • 127 citations

A sedimentary and faunal study of the Blue Lias of Dorset and Glamorgan

1960 • 124 citations

Species diversity in the Phanerozoic: species-area effects

1976 • 121 citations

Permo-Triassic Extinctions: Effects of Area on Biotic Equilibrium

1974 • 113 citations

The species equilibrium.

1969 • 108 citations

Marine benthic communities in the Upper Devonian of New York

1974 • 102 citations

On the biology and palaeontology of some predators of bivalved mollusca

1968 • 94 citations

Silurian continental distributions, paleogeography, climatology, and biogeography

1977 • 92 citations

Early Silurian Spore Tetrads from New York: Earliest New World Evidence for Vascular Plants?

1971 • 88 citations

How many marine invertebrate fossil species? A new approximation

1970 • 85 citations

Paleoecology and paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Formation, Kansas

1970 • 77 citations

Paleontology and paleoecology of the Crawfordsville fossil site (Upper Osagian; Indiana)

1973 • 74 citations

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

1974 • 73 citations

Reefs in Time and Space

1975 • 65 citations

Wenlock and Ludlow marine communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland

1974 • 64 citations

Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State

1976 • 64 citations

Bay and shoreface benthic communities in the Lower Cretaceous

1974 • 62 citations

Trophic Group Analysis of Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Bivalve Assemblages from South Dakota

1972 • 61 citations

Stratigraphy and paleontology of the uppermost Pennsylvanian and lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas

1962 • 54 citations

Marine Bands and other faunal marker-horizons in relation to the sedimentary cycles of the Middle Coal Measures of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

1947 • 52 citations

Phanerozoic Taxonomic Diversity: A Test of Alternate Models

1973 • 52 citations

Example of Cratonic Sedimentation: Lower Paleozoic of Algerian Sahara

1971 • 51 citations

Taphonomy and Diagenesis of a Permian Fossil Assemblage from Wyoming

1972 • 49 citations

Interspecific Associations in Pennsylvanian Fossil Assemblages

1962 • 47 citations

Ideas on the timing of metazoan diversification

1976 • 46 citations

Community Ecology of the Middle Ordovician Black River Group of New York State

1972 • 45 citations

Paleobiology of angiosperm origins

1977 • 44 citations

Paleosalinities within a Pliocene Bay, Kettleman Hills, California: A Study of the Resolving Power of Isotopic and Faunal Techniques

1975 • 44 citations

Succession and repetition of Late Ordovician fossil assemblages from the Nicolet River Valley, Quebec

1975 • 42 citations

ORDOVICIAN PALEONTOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN HUDSON BAY LOWLAND

1963 • 41 citations

The paleoecology of a lower Carboniferous marine transgression

1960 • 39 citations

Role of the Blue-Green Alga Girvanella in Skeletal Grain Destruction and Lime-Mud Formation in the Lower Ordovician of West Texas

1967 • 39 citations

The evolution of ecological units above the population level

1968 • 36 citations

Mode of preservation in early Paleozoic pelecypods and its morphologic and ecologic significance

1962 • 35 citations

BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC STUDIES IN THE COMANCHE (CRETACEOUS) SERIES OF NORTHERN MEXICO AND TEXAS

1960 • 35 citations

The Palaeoecology of the Top Hosie Shale (Lower Carboniferous) at a Locality Near Kilsyth

1954 • 34 citations

Macroinvertebrate assemblages from the Bembridge Marls (Oligocene) of the Isle of Wight, England, and their environmental significance

1972 • 32 citations

Pleistocene paleoecology and biostratigraphy, Santa Barbara Island, California

1968 • 31 citations

Upper Cambrian faunas from the northwest Wind River Mountains, Wyoming--Part 1

1960 • 31 citations

Wenlock carbonate, level bottom, brachiopod-dominated communities from Wales and the Welsh Borderland

1975 • 31 citations

Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad

1969 • 28 citations

Palaeontology of the Silurian rocks of Arisaig, Nova Scotia

1924 • 28 citations

Pleistocene molluscan paleoecology and community structure of the Puerto Libertad region, Sonora, Mexico

1975 • 27 citations

Lingulasma tenuigranulata - Palaeoecology of a large Ordovician linguloid that lived within a strophomenid-trilobite community

1973 • 25 citations

Upper Ordovician Glaciation in Northwest Africa? Reply

1971 • 21 citations

Caspian-like relict molluscan fauna in the South American Permian. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 146, article 1

1971 • 21 citations

Paleoenvironmental analysis of a late Pleistocene estuary in southern California

1971 • 20 citations

Carboniferous brachiopods from northern California

1974 • 19 citations

Repetitive benthonic community in the Maquoketa Formation (Ordovician) of Minnesota

1967 • 16 citations

Gastropods Of The Middle Devonian Anderdon Limestone.

1960 • 15 citations

Deltaic Depositional Environments in the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian), Southeastern New York State

1973 • 14 citations

Recurrent Tropidoleptus zones of the Upper Devonian in New York

1913 • 9 citations

Paleoecology of the Choctawhatchee Deposits, Jackson Bluff, Florida

1962 • 7 citations

The Horn Plateau Formation: A Middle Devonian Coral Reef, Northwest Territories, Canada

1972 • 6 citations

A brackish water biota from the upper Cretaceous Harebell Formation of northwestern Wyoming

1973 • 4 citations

Ordovician and Silurian Fossils from the Lang River and Allen Bay Formations of Prince of Wales and Somerset Islands, Northwest Territories

1975 • 2 citations

Paleoecology of a molluscan fauna from the Trent Formation [North Carolina]

1959 • 2 citations

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1955 • 0 citations