Mechanical Limits to Size in Wave‐Swept Organisms

Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs

1978 • 8,878 citations

On Growth and Form

1917 • 4,330 citations

Mechanisms of Succession in Natural Communities and Their Role in Community Stability and Organization

1977 • 4,288 citations

On Bird Species Diversity

1961 • 3,466 citations

Predation, Body Size, and Composition of Plankton

1965 • 3,237 citations

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

1971 • 2,384 citations

ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY

1966 • 2,271 citations

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

1961 • 2,080 citations

Theory of Vibration with Applications

1993 • 1,866 citations

FLUID-DYNAMIC DRAG

1965 • 1,346 citations

Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates

1979 • 1,334 citations

Mechanical Design in Organisms

2020 • 1,292 citations

Life in moving fluids: the physical biology of flow

1995 • 1,250 citations

Mechanics of wave forces on offshore structures

1982 • 1,192 citations

Size and Shape in Biology

1973 • 1,165 citations

Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern

1981 • 1,127 citations

Scale Effects in Animal Locomotion.

1978 • 1,062 citations

An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

1968 • 1,030 citations

Disturbance, Patch Formation, and Community Structure

1974 • 973 citations

Competition on Marine Hard Substrata: The Adaptive Significance of Solitary and Colonial Strategies

1977 • 841 citations

Marine algae of California

1978 • 747 citations

Evolution and Development

1982 • 729 citations

Forces on cylinders and plates in an oscillating fluid

1958 • 695 citations

Hurricane Allen's Impact on Jamaican Coral Reefs

1981 • 618 citations

AN EXPLANATION FOR COPE'S RULE

1973 • 607 citations

The Adequacy of Body Size as a Niche Difference

1975 • 567 citations

Adult Body Mass and Annual Production/Biomass Relationships of Field Populations

1980 • 511 citations

Mathematical Ideas in Biology

1968 • 510 citations

The Pisaster‐Tegula Interaction: Prey Patches, Predator Food Preference, and Intertidal Community Structure

1969 • 502 citations

A Theoretical Ecological Model of Size Distributions Among Species of Animals

1959 • 499 citations

Preferential Feeding: An Optimization Strategy in Sea Urchins

1977 • 453 citations

The ecology of Mytilus edulis L. (Lamellibranchiata) on exposed rocky shores

1969 • 335 citations

Size-selective Predation on Daphnia by Rainbow Trout and Yellow Perch

1967 • 334 citations

Fish Predation on Bosmina longirostris: Body-Size Selection Versus Visibility Selection

1975 • 301 citations

FISH PREDATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF GASTROPOD SHELL SCULPTURE: EXPERIMENTAL AND GEOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

1979 • 281 citations

Simple Flow Tanks for Research and Teaching

1978 • 280 citations

Fluid-Dynamic Lift

1985 • 276 citations

On Being the Right Size

1981 • 268 citations

Scaling in biology: The consequences of size

1975 • 255 citations

Growth Rates of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus Related to Food Availability and Spine Abrasion

1968 • 251 citations

Drag and Flexibility in Sessile Organisms

1984 • 244 citations

Some relationships between growth, metabolism and food in the mussel Mytilus edulis

1974 • 237 citations

Coral Reef Morphogenesis: A Multidimensional Model

1978 • 236 citations

BODY SIZE AND NUMBERS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS

1973 • 218 citations

Breakage and propagation of the stony coral Acropora cervicornis

1981 • 214 citations

Boundary-Layer Theory (Seventh Edition)

1980 • 201 citations

Mechanical adaptations of a giant kelp

1977 • 200 citations

Foraging Strategy of a Starfish in Relation to Actual Prey Availability and Environmental Predictability

1972 • 194 citations

Equations for Water Waves and the Approximation behind Them

1972 • 192 citations

Survival of hurricane-generated coral fragments and a disturbance model of reef calcification/growth rates

1980 • 190 citations

Effects of Sea Anemones On the Flow Forces They Encounter

1977 • 180 citations

The Physics of Vibrations and Waves

1970 • 164 citations

The Biodemography of an Intertidal Snail Population

1965 • 163 citations

Dynamics of High and Low Populations of the Limpet, Acmaea scabra (Gould)

1970 • 163 citations

Intraspecific Shore‐Level Size Gradients in Intertidal Molluscs

1972 • 162 citations

Prediction of Fish Growth Efficiency in Nature

1971 • 153 citations

An ‘entraining plume’ model of a spilling breaker

1974 • 152 citations

ASPECTS OF THE ECOLOGY OF CORAL REEFS IN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC REGION

1973 • 132 citations

Wave Breaking in Shallow Water

1972 • 130 citations

Tenacity and shell shape in six Patella species: Adaptive features

1978 • 126 citations

Forces on Cylinders and Spheres in a Sinusoidally Oscillating Fluid

1975 • 121 citations

The Energetics of Asexual Reproduction and Colony Formation in Benthic Marine Invertebrates

1979 • 121 citations

Adaptive design of locomotion and foot form in prosobranch gastropods

1974 • 120 citations

Natural History, Limiting Factors and Energetics of the Opisthobranch Navanax Inermis

1965 • 118 citations

Effect of Wave Action and Competition on Brooding and Reproductive Effort in the Seastar, Leptasterias Hexactis

1974 • 116 citations

THE EFFECT OF WAVE IMPACT ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE BIOLOGY OF SEA MUSSELS

1970 • 116 citations

Motion of a bore over a sloping beach

1960 • 110 citations

Mechanical properties of coral skeleton: compressive strength and its adaptive significance

1978 • 107 citations

Some relationships between size, food availability and energy balance in the ribbed musselAulacomya ater

1979 • 107 citations

An experimental investigation into the effect of crevice availability on abundance and size-structure in a population of Littorina rudis (Maton): Gastropoda: Prosobranchia

1976 • 101 citations

The tenacity of the limpet, Patella vulgata L.: An experimental approach

1981 • 99 citations

Water movements and their role in rocky shore ecology

1968 • 68 citations

Parametric solutions for breaking waves

1982 • 67 citations

Ecology, physiology, allometry and dimensionality

1981 • 66 citations

The Nature of Flow and the Reaction of Benthic Cnidaria to It

1976 • 66 citations

Factors Limiting Distribution and Size in the Starfish

1940 • 65 citations

THE EFFECT OF STORMS AS A DENSITY DEPENDENT MORTALITY FACTOR ON POPULATIONS OF SEA MUSSELS

1971 • 64 citations

DIVERSITY, UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES, AND ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN SPIALLOW‐WATER MARINE INVERTEBRATES OF TROPICAL OCEANIC ISLANDS1

1971 • 60 citations

Barnacle ecology: is competition important? The forgotten roles of disturbance and predation

1981 • 58 citations

The Adhesion of the Barnacle, Balanus Balanoides, to Slate Surfaces

1984 • 58 citations

The size of man.

1968 • 57 citations

CRAB PREDATION ON LIMPETS: PREDATOR BEHAVIOR AND DEFENSIVE FEATURES OF THE SHELL MORPHOLOGY OF THE PREY

1986 • 56 citations

Passive colonization and asexual colony multiplication in the massive coral Porites lutea Milne Edwards & Haime

1980 • 54 citations

Behavioral and Ecological Aspects of Shore‐Level Size Gradients in Thais Lamellosa and Thais Emarginata

1977 • 51 citations

Structural Modification of Corals in Relation to Waves and Currents1

1977 • 49 citations

Size change in development and evolution

1968 • 45 citations

Coral Bioerosion at Enewetak: Agents and Dynamics

1981 • 43 citations

BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON A SUBTIDAL MYTILUS-CALIFORNIANUS BED

1976 • 42 citations

Calcium Carbonate Production of the Mare Incognitum, the Upper Windward Reef Slope, at Enewetak Atoll

1977 • 40 citations

Acropora reticulata : structure, mechanics and ecology of a reef coral

1982 • 32 citations

Experiments with the Stipes of Fucus and Laminaria

1932 • 28 citations

On the “surface law” and basal metabolic rate

1981 • 19 citations

Stiffness or extensibility of intertidal algae: A comparative study of modes of withstanding wave action

1979 • 17 citations