IS IT TIME TO BURY THE ECOSYSTEM CONCEPT? (WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS, OF COURSE!)¹

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

1963 • 36,823 citations

Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

1973 • 15,387 citations

NONPOINT POLLUTION OF SURFACE WATERS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN

1998 • 5,394 citations

HUMAN ALTERATION OF THE GLOBAL NITROGEN CYCLE: SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES

1997 • 5,231 citations

Fundamentals of ecology

1953 • 5,158 citations

Biological Invasions by Exotic Grasses, the Grass/Fire Cycle, and Global Change

1992 • 3,245 citations

Network analysis and feedback amplifier design

1945 • 3,157 citations

Plant succession; an analysis of the development of vegetation,

1916 • 3,142 citations

Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef

1994 • 2,776 citations

The complexity and stability of ecosystems

1984 • 2,736 citations

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms

1935 • 2,626 citations

Habitat destruction and the extinction debt

1994 • 2,605 citations

Beyond Global Warming: Ecology and Global Change

1994 • 1,838 citations

Biological diversity: the coexistence of species on changing landscapes

1995 • 1,813 citations

Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states

1977 • 1,625 citations

The Balance of Animal Populations.—Part I.

1935 • 1,608 citations

Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis

1986 • 1,543 citations

Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences

1996 • 1,442 citations

The Collapse of Complex Societies.

1989 • 1,440 citations

Experimental studies on predation: Dispersion factors and predator-prey oscillations

1958 • 1,347 citations

Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences

1996 • 1,241 citations

The collapse of complex societies

1989 • 1,217 citations

Environment, Power and Society

1970 • 1,138 citations

Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern

1981 • 1,127 citations

Energy Flow in the Salt Marsh Ecosystem of Georgia

1962 • 1,095 citations

CIRCULAR CAUSAL SYSTEMS IN ECOLOGY

1948 • 933 citations

Stability of Semi-Arid Savanna Grazing Systems

1981 • 748 citations

Multiple Stable Points in Natural Communities

1974 • 735 citations

Elephants and Fire as Causes of Multiple Stable States in the Serengeti-Mara Woodlands

1990 • 707 citations

Ecosystem Alteation of Boreal Forest Streams by Beaver (Castor Canadensis)

1986 • 540 citations

A revised concept of landscape equilibrium: Disturbance and stability on scaled landscapes

1993 • 508 citations

Research methods in ecology

1905 • 423 citations

A hierarchical framework for the analysis of scale

1989 • 398 citations

Pleistocene biogeography of temperate deciduous forests

1976 • 396 citations

World Soil Erosion and Conservation

1993 • 343 citations

Ecology and Resource Management

1972 • 334 citations

The Lake as a Microcosm

1925 • 322 citations

Long-Term Forest Dynamics of the Temperate Zone

1987 • 228 citations

Population and the energy problem

1991 • 212 citations

The Ecosystem Concept in Natural Resource Management

1969 • 209 citations

The economic approach to environmental and natural resources

1995 • 197 citations

Spatial heterogeneity and the persistence of populations

1974 • 188 citations

Resources, Population, Environment: An Oversupply of False Bad News

1980 • 183 citations

Biological Diversity: The Co-existence of Species on Changing Landscapes.

1997 • 178 citations

Abrupt Climate Change and Extinction Events in Earth History

1988 • 177 citations

The analysis of a population model demonstrating the importance of dispersal in a heterogeneous environment

1974 • 135 citations

Animal ecology and evolution

1927 • 121 citations

Habitat Destruction and the Extinction Debt Revisited

1996 • 112 citations

Ecological Implications of Landscape Fragmentation

1993 • 84 citations

Fire in the History of Mettler's Woods

1954 • 72 citations

Catastrophe Theory and Fisheries Regulation

1976 • 71 citations

Do Deconstructive Ecology and Sociobiology Undermine Leopold’s Land Ethic?

1996 • 58 citations

The Distribution of the Upland Plant Societies of Kent County, Michigan

1903 • 55 citations

Catastrophe theory in ecology: a critical review and an example of the butterfly catastrophe

1989 • 55 citations

The Passenger Pigeon

1972 • 46 citations

Arid Lands, a geographical appraisal.

1966 • 43 citations

Characterizing the boundary between California annual grassland and coastal sage scrub with differential profiles

1986 • 38 citations

Engineering Systems Analysis: Applicability to Ecosystems

1976 • 28 citations

Muddle or Muddle Through? Taking Jurisprudence Meets the Endangered Species Act

1997 • 28 citations

Optimal stocking for semi-desert range: A catastrophe theory model

1985 • 24 citations

Chaotic Models as Representations of Ecological Systems

1982 • 23 citations

Peculiar Zonal Formations of the Great Plains

1897 • 22 citations

Scarcity or abundance

1994 • 21 citations

Practical Ecology and Foundations for Environmentals Ethics

1995 • 21 citations

Time lags and emergent stability in morphogenic/pedogenic system models

1995 • 15 citations

Practical Ecology and Foundations for Environmental Ethics

1995 • 14 citations

Analysis of structural stability of aquatic ecosystems as an aid for ecosystem control

1985 • 13 citations

A botanical survey of the Sugar Grove region

1914 • 7 citations

Norman Myers and Julian L. Simon, Scarcity or Abundance? A Deb ate on the Environment, New York/London, W.W. Norton & Co.

1996 • 2 citations