Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience

Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields

1983 • 15,918 citations

Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

1973 • 15,387 citations

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

1992 • 3,245 citations

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

1994 • 2,776 citations

Alternative equilibria in shallow lakes

1993 • 2,645 citations

Mathematical Models in Biology

2005 • 2,010 citations

Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment

1995 • 1,852 citations

The Trophic Cascade in Lakes

1993 • 879 citations

Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in Alaska: Generality and Variation in a Community Ecological Paradigm

1995 • 781 citations

The balance of nature

1961 • 754 citations

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

1990 • 707 citations

Phase shifts in coral reef communities and their ecological significance

1992 • 667 citations

Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems.

1993 • 495 citations

Steppe-Tundra Transition: A Herbivore-Driven Biome Shift at the End of the Pleistocene

1995 • 457 citations

The influence of humic substances on lacustrine planktonic food chains

1992 • 348 citations

Experimental Perturbations of Whole Lakes as Tests of Hypotheses concerning Ecosystem Structure and Function

1990 • 337 citations

Eutrophication of Freshwaters

1992 • 291 citations

Effect of Sea Urchin Reductions on Algae, Coral, and Fish Populations

1996 • 153 citations