Ecology of Seed Dispersal

The Theory of Island Biogeography

2001 • 12,988 citations

Population Biology of Plants

1977 • 9,036 citations

Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs

1978 • 8,878 citations

Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes

1979 • 5,383 citations

Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1970 • 4,587 citations

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

1977 • 4,340 citations

Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought

2018 • 2,735 citations

Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants

1982 • 2,188 citations

Sex and evolution.

1975 • 2,162 citations

On the role of natural enemies in preventing competitive exclusion in some marine animals and in rain forest trees

1971 • 1,930 citations

Flower and Fruit Abortion: Proximate Causes and Ultimate Functions

1981 • 1,813 citations

The Evolution of Weeds

1974 • 1,581 citations

Diversity and the Coevolution of Competitors, or the Ghost of Competition Past

1980 • 1,512 citations

Flowering Plants of the World

1978 • 1,398 citations

Silvics of forest trees of the United States.

1965 • 1,358 citations

Angiosperm Biogeography and Past Continental Movements

1974 • 1,316 citations

The tropical rain forest

1952 • 1,291 citations

Comparative Phenological Studies of Trees in Tropical Wet and Dry Forests in the Lowlands of Costa Rica

1974 • 1,278 citations

The dispersal of plants throughout the world

1930 • 1,263 citations

Tree Dispersion, Abundance, and Diversity in a Tropical Dry Forest

1979 • 1,261 citations

Flora of Barro Colorado Island

1979 • 1,151 citations

Evolution of Dioecy in Flowering Plants

1980 • 967 citations

Gene Flow in Seed Plants

1974 • 940 citations

Patterns of Neotropical Plant Species Diversity

1982 • 916 citations

Neotropical Anachronisms: The Fruits the Gomphotheres Ate

1982 • 904 citations

Gap Partitioning among Tropical Rainforest Trees

1980 • 902 citations

WHEN IS IT COEVOLUTION?

1980 • 855 citations

Seeds of woody plants in the United States

1974 • 831 citations

The Reproductive Capacity of Plants

1943 • 828 citations

Seed Weight in Relation to Environmental Conditions in California

1972 • 782 citations

The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada

1958 • 711 citations

The Ecology of a Tropical Rain Forest: Seasonal Rhythms and Long Term Changes.

1984 • 707 citations

The evolutionary ecology of mast seeding in trees

1980 • 702 citations

Origin and Early Evolution of Angiosperms.

1976 • 568 citations

Tropical Trees as Living Systems.

1980 • 556 citations

EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF FRUIT‐EATING BY BIRDS

1971 • 533 citations

The Ecological and Genetic Consequences of Density-Dependent Regulation in Plants

1980 • 496 citations

Reproductive Synchrony of a Tropical Shrub: Experimental Studies on Effects of Pollinators and Seed Predators in Hybanthus Prunifolius (Violaceae)

1981 • 480 citations

Pollen dispersal and optimal outcrossing in Delphinium nelsoni

1979 • 478 citations

Copepodology for the Onithologist

1951 • 473 citations

Tropical Frugivorous Birds and Their Food Plants: A World Survey

1981 • 465 citations

Jays and Oaks: an Eco-Ethological Study of a Symbiosis

1979 • 454 citations

Morphology of the Angiosperms.

1961 • 448 citations

The Colonization and Formation of Equilibrium Plant Species Associations on Badger Disturbances in a Tall‐Grass Prairie

1975 • 410 citations

Pleistocene biogeography of temperate deciduous forests

1976 • 396 citations

Myrmecochorous plants in Australia and their dispersal by ants

1975 • 392 citations

Patterns of Fruit Presentation and Seed Dispersal in Bird-Disseminated Woody Plants in the Eastern Deciduous Forest

1980 • 380 citations

Comparative Phenological Studies of Treelet and Shrub Species in Tropical Wet and Dry Forests in the Lowlands of Costa Rica

1980 • 379 citations

Dispersal Versus Gene Flow in Plants

1981 • 366 citations

Coevolution of Animals and Plants.

1977 • 363 citations

Relationships between Fruiting Seasons and Seed Dispersal Methods in a Neotropical Forest

1970 • 362 citations

On Intraspecific Competition for Avian Dispersers in Tropical Trees

1977 • 361 citations

Seed Dispersal by Animals: Contrasts with Pollen Dispersal, Problems of Terminology, and Constraints on Coevolution

1982 • 354 citations

Coadaptations of the Clark's Nutcracker and the Pinon Pine for Efficient Seed Harvest and Dispersal

1977 • 347 citations

Why are adaptations for long-range seed dispersal rare in desert plants?

1981 • 346 citations

Seed Predation and the Coexistence of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1980 • 344 citations

Dispersal Properties of Mangrove Propagules

1978 • 342 citations

The Durian Theory or the Origin of the Modern Tree

1949 • 334 citations

Demography and Evolution in Plant Populations.

1981 • 327 citations

Removal of Wild Nutmeg (Virola Surinamensis) Crops by Birds

1981 • 325 citations

The Regulation of Recombination in Plants

1958 • 324 citations

Frugivorous Bats, Seed Shadows, and the Structure of Tropical Forests

1981 • 322 citations

The Coevolution of Pine Squirrels (Tamiasciurus) and Conifers

1970 • 315 citations

A Possible Selective Factor in the Evolution of Fruiting Seasons in Tropical Forest

1965 • 295 citations

A Model for Seed Scatterhoarding: Coevolution of Fox Squirrels and Black Walnuts

1978 • 294 citations

Environmental Certainty, Trophic Level, and Resource Availability in Life History Evolution

1974 • 292 citations

Ecological Relationships of Co-Occurring Goldenrods (Solidago: Compositae)

1976 • 289 citations

EVOLUTION OF TEMPERATE FRUIT/BIRD INTERACTIONS: PHENOLOGICAL STRATEGIES

1979 • 288 citations

Phenology and Other Characteristics of Tropical Semi-Deciduous Forest in North-Western Costa Rica

1972 • 286 citations

Phenology of a tropical rain forest in Malaya

1972 • 285 citations

Bird Activity and Seed Dispersal of a Tropical Wet Forest Tree

1977 • 284 citations

The Fishes and the Forest

1983 • 272 citations

Myrmecochory in Viola: Dynamics of Seed-Ant Interactions in Some West Virginia Species

1978 • 271 citations

ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF BREEDING SYSTEMS IN SEED PLANTS: DIOECY AND DISPERSAL IN GYMNOSPERMS

1980 • 265 citations

Seasonal Variation in the Quality of Fruits and Diffuse Coevolution Between Plants and Avian Dispersers

1982 • 262 citations

Resource Partitioning and Competition within a Guild of Fugitive Prairie Plants

1977 • 257 citations

Monkey Dispersal and Waste of a Neotropical Fruit

1980 • 255 citations

Foraging Ecology and Energetics of the Frugivorous Bat Artibeus Jamaicensis

1978 • 247 citations

Prunus mahaleb and Birds: The High‐Efficiency Seed Dispersal System of a Temperate Fruiting Tree

1981 • 245 citations

Seed Predation by Rodents on Three Ant‐Dispersed Plants

1981 • 244 citations

The Guild of Myrmecochores in the Herbaceous Flora of West Virginia Forests

1981 • 237 citations

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

1978 • 234 citations

Les mammifères frugivores arboricoles nocturnes d’une forêt guyanaise : inter-relations plantes-animaux

1981 • 229 citations

The Biota of Long-Distance Dispersal. V. Plant Dispersal to Pacific Islands

1967 • 225 citations

Flowering and Fruiting Periodicity in a Premontane Rain Forest in Pacific Colombia

1980 • 205 citations

Multalism between Harvester Ants and a Desert Ephemeral: Seed Escape from Rodents

1980 • 205 citations

Effects of seed size on seedling size in Virola surinamensis; a within and between tree analysis

1982 • 198 citations

Seed Dispersal by Fish in the Inundated Regions of Humaita, Amazonia

1978 • 186 citations

Ecology and Evolution of Food-storage Behavior in Conifer-seed-caching Corvids

2010 • 183 citations

Two Costa Rican Bat‐Generated Seed Shadows of Andira Inermis (Leguminosae)

1976 • 181 citations

Foraging Movements of a Frugivorous Bat, Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomatidae)

1978 • 179 citations

THE TERMINAL VELOCITY AND DISPERSAL OF SPINNING SAMARAS

1980 • 178 citations

Myrmecochory in some plants (F. chenopodiaceae) of the Australian arid zone

1981 • 173 citations

Nutmeg Dispersal by Tropical Birds

1980 • 172 citations

Ants Disperse a Majority of Herbs in a Mesic Forest Community in New York State

1981 • 169 citations

The Ecology of Fruit Pigeons in Tropical Northern Queensland.

1975 • 167 citations

Fecundity and Seed Dispersal of a Tropical Tree

1979 • 165 citations

Escape of Cassia Grandis L. Beans From Predators in Time and Space

1971 • 165 citations

Migrant Birds in the Neotropics

1982 • 164 citations

Disturbance and the Dispersal of Fleshy Fruits

1978 • 164 citations

Lunar phobia in a neotropical fruit bat, Artibevs jamaicensis (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

1978 • 163 citations

Do Tropical Frugivores Compete for Food?

1979 • 160 citations

Reproductive Interdependence of Pinon Jays and Pinon Pines

1978 • 158 citations

Rapports trophiques entre végétation et primates dans la forêt de Barro Colorado, Panama

1969 • 158 citations

SEED DISPERSAL IN VIOLA (VIOLACEAE): ADAPTATIONS AND STRATEGIES

1975 • 157 citations

THE FATE OF VIOLA SEEDS DISPERSED BY ANTS

1980 • 153 citations

Interactions between birds and fruit in a temperate woodland

1981 • 152 citations

AUTOROTATION, SELF‐STABILITY, AND STRUCTURE OF SINGLE‐WINGED FRUITS AND SEEDS (SAMARAS) WITH COMPARATIVE REMARKS ON ANIMAL FLIGHT

1973 • 145 citations

Pattern and Seral Composition in an Old‐growth Beech‐Maple Forest

1975 • 145 citations

DISPERSAL ABILITIES OF SEVEN SPARSE AND COMMON GRASSES FROM A MISSOURI PRAIRIE

1981 • 139 citations

Fear and Frugivory

1979 • 138 citations

Ecological and Nutritional Effects of Food Scarcity on a Tropical Frugivorous Bird and its Fruit Source

1977 • 136 citations

Fruit Variation and Competition for Dispersers in Natural Populations of Smilax Aspera

1981 • 136 citations

Dispersal of Acacia cyclops by birds

1981 • 134 citations

Dispersal of Stemmadenia donnell-smithii (Apocynaceae) by Birds

1977 • 134 citations

Fruit production, migrant bird visitation, and seed dispersal of Guarea glabra in Panama

1979 • 133 citations

Treefalls and Colonization Patterns of Temperate Forest Herbs

1980 • 133 citations

Seed Dispersal by Baboons in the Shai Hills, Ghana

1979 • 130 citations

Enterolobium Cyclocarpum Seed Passage Rate and Survival in Horses, Costa Rican Pleistocene Seed Dispersal Agents

1981 • 125 citations

Predation on Scheelea Palm Seeds by Bruchid Beetles: Seed Density and Distance from the Parent Palm

1972 • 125 citations

Invasion and Ecesis of Bird-Disseminated Woody Plants in a Temperate Forest Sere

1975 • 124 citations

Escape in Space by Sterculia Apetala Seeds from the Bug Dysdercus Fasciatus in a Costa Rican Deciduous Forest

1972 • 124 citations

Mortality and Initial Propagule Size in Mangrove Seedlings in Panama

1978 • 123 citations

Fecundity, fruiting pattern, and seed dispersal in Piper amalago (Piperaceae), a bat-dispersed tropical shrub

1981 • 116 citations

GALAPAGOS TOMATOES AND TORTOISES

1961 • 115 citations

Plant Reproductive Characteristics during Secondary Succession in Neotropical Lowland Forest Ecosystems

1980 • 112 citations

Differential Seed Dispersal by Birds of the Tree Casearia nitida (Flacourtiaceae)

1975 • 111 citations

Escape of Juvenile Dioclea megacarpa (Leguminosae) Vines from Predators in a Deciduous Tropical Forest

1971 • 107 citations

Comparative Experimental Study of Seed Dispersal on Animals

1977 • 105 citations

LUNAR PHOBIA IN A NEOTROPICAL FRUIT BAT, ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS (CHIROPTERA: PHYLLOSTOMIDAE)

1978 • 100 citations

Dispersal of a Neotropical Nutmeg (Virola sebifera) by Birds

1981 • 100 citations

WIND‐BORNE SEED AND FRUIT MOVEMENT

1975 • 100 citations

Competition for dispersal agents among tropical trees: influences of neighbors

1983 • 99 citations

Ecology of Plant Populations in Successional Environments

1976 • 94 citations

THE COMPETITIVE RELATIONSHIP OF THREE WOODLAND SEDGES AND ITS BEARING ON THE EVOLUTION OF ANT-DISPERSAL OF CAREX PEDUNCULATA

1978 • 87 citations

Are Tropical Fruits More Rewarding to Dispersers Than Temperature Ones?

1981 • 85 citations

Frugivory in Some Migrant Tropical Forest Wood Warblers

1981 • 79 citations

Colony Movements of some North American Ants

1979 • 73 citations

Evolution of Fruiting Strategies Among Fleshy‐Fruited Plant Species of Eastern Kansas

1982 • 73 citations

The Impact of Some North American Migrants at Fruiting Trees in Panama

1972 • 71 citations

The natural history of a fugitive prairie plant (Mirabilis hirsuta (Pursh) MacM.)

1976 • 69 citations

Fig Fruit Consumption and Seed Dispersal by Artibeus jamaicensis in the Llanos of Venezuela

1981 • 68 citations

Competition for Dispersal in Ant-Dispersed Plants

1981 • 67 citations

The Effect of Shade and Competition on Emigration Rate in the Ant Aphaenogaster Rudis

1982 • 66 citations

The Effects of Emus (Dromaius Novaehollandiae Latham) on the Distribution of the Nitre Bush (Nitraria Billardieri DC.)

1975 • 66 citations

Seed Size as a Correlate of Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Seed Fall in a Neotropical Forest

1981 • 66 citations

On the Biology of some Javanese Loranthaceae and the role birds play in their life-historie

1954 • 65 citations

The natural history of the oilbird, Steatornis caripensis, in Trinidad, W.I. Part 2. Population, breeding ecology and food

1962 • 60 citations

Elaiosomes and Fleshy Fruits: Phenology and Selection Pressures for Ant-Dispersed Seeds

1981 • 56 citations

Adaptations for animal dispersal of one-seed juniper seeds

1978 • 55 citations

Finch numbers, owl predation and plant dispersal on Isla Daphne Major, Gal�pagos

1975 • 54 citations

Observations on the Fruits and Seeds of Neotropical Lecythidaceae

1978 • 51 citations

TOPICS IN PLANT POPULATION BIOLOGY

1980 • 51 citations

Effects of seed dispersal by animals on the regeneration of Bursera graveolens (Burseraceae) on Santa Fe Island, Gal�pagos

1981 • 51 citations

Association of a Rainforest Palm and Seed-Eating Beetles in Puerto Rico

1972 • 49 citations

Wind-Dispersed Species in a Nigerian Forest

1957 • 40 citations

A Model for Fruiting Display: Seed Dispersal by Birds for Mulberry Trees

1982 • 38 citations

Prevernal Leafing of Aspen in Utah Mountains

1954 • 32 citations

Forests of the Illinoian Till Plain of Southwestern Ohio

1936 • 30 citations

Comparison of the Distribution of Seed and Parent-Plant Populations

1976 • 27 citations

Adaptation and evolution in Dicentra (Fumariaceae), with special reference to seed, fruit, and dispersal mechanism

1969 • 24 citations

Relative Isolation and Seed Predation in Calliandra grandiflora, a Mimosaceous Legume from the Highlands of Guatemala

1974 • 22 citations

Elm Trees and Elm Leaf Beetles: Patterns of Herbivory

1981 • 20 citations

ENVIRONMENTAL CERTAINTY, TROPHIC LEVEL, AND RESOURCE AVAILABILITY IN LIFE HISTORY

1974 • 8 citations

Phytosciology of the Cox woods: A remnant of forest primeval in Orange county, Indiana

1942 • 7 citations

An ecological study of the Klein woods, Jennings County, Indiana

1947 • 7 citations

Genetic architecture of yield and components of yield in mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss.)

1978 • 7 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations