Evolution of Species Diversity in Land Communities

Measurement of Diversity

1949 • 12,517 citations

An Ordination of the Upland Forest Communities of Southern Wisconsin

1957 • 10,478 citations

Diversity and Evenness: A Unifying Notation and Its Consequences

1973 • 5,584 citations

Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

1966 • 5,216 citations

The Strategy of Ecosystem Development

1969 • 5,209 citations

Concluding Remarks

1957 • 5,079 citations

EVOLUTION AND MEASUREMENT OF SPECIES DIVERSITY

1972 • 5,053 citations

The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections

1966 • 4,787 citations

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

1973 • 4,709 citations

Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

1970 • 4,587 citations

On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment

1966 • 4,287 citations

The Nonconcept of Species Diversity: A Critique and Alternative Parameters

1971 • 4,087 citations

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

1959 • 4,021 citations

Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities

1974 • 3,872 citations

An Introduction to Mathematical Ecology.

1970 • 3,756 citations

Vegetation of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon and California

1960 • 3,545 citations

On Bird Species Diversity

1961 • 3,466 citations

The Relation Between the Number of Species and the Number of Individuals in a Random Sample of an Animal Population

1943 • 3,331 citations

Ecology and Evolution of Communities

1976 • 2,929 citations

Organization of a Plant‐Arthropod Association in Simple and Diverse Habitats: The Fauna of Collards (Brassica Oleracea)

1973 • 2,907 citations

The Structure of Lizard Communities

1973 • 2,623 citations

Marine Benthic Diversity: A Comparative Study

1968 • 2,412 citations

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

1971 • 2,384 citations

Speciation in Amazonian Forest Birds

1969 • 2,115 citations

The Measurement of Species Diversity

1974 • 2,068 citations

AN EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF INSULAR ZOOGEOGRAPHY

1963 • 2,020 citations

Vegetation of the Great Smoky Mountains

1956 • 1,875 citations

The Niche Exploitation Pattern of the Blue‐Gray Gnatcatcher

1967 • 1,789 citations

Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species.

1973 • 1,723 citations

GRADIENT ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION*

1967 • 1,677 citations

A Note on Trophic Complexity and Community Stability

1969 • 1,631 citations

Dominance and Diversity in Land Plant Communities

1965 • 1,558 citations

Population Ecology of Some Warblers of Northeastern Coniferous Forests

1958 • 1,486 citations

PATTERNS OF SPECIES DIVERSITY

1965 • 1,433 citations

Morphological Variation and Width of Ecological Niche

1965 • 1,309 citations

Allelochemics: Chemical Interactions between Species

1971 • 1,187 citations

Niche Overlap and Diffuse Competition

1974 • 1,104 citations

Species-diversity and pattern-diversity in the study of ecological succession

1966 • 1,068 citations

Reciprocal Averaging: An Eigenvector Method of Ordination

1973 • 1,030 citations

Disturbance, Patch Formation, and Community Structure

1974 • 973 citations

Evolution of Niche Width

1972 • 919 citations

The Demography of Plants

1974 • 794 citations

On Certain Unifying Principles in Ecology

1963 • 794 citations

LATITUDINAL VARIATIONS IN ORGANIC DIVERSITY

1960 • 787 citations

Mammals on Mountaintops: Nonequilibrium Insular Biogeography

1971 • 769 citations

Niche, Habitat, and Ecotope

1973 • 710 citations

Community Equilibria and Stability, and an Extension of the Competitive Exclusion Principle

1970 • 697 citations

Niche Overlap as a Function of Environmental Variability

1972 • 681 citations

The origin of land plants: A matter of mycotrophism

1975 • 676 citations

Communities and Ecosystems

2013 • 671 citations

Biogeographic Kinetics: Estimation of Relaxation Times for Avifaunas of Southwest Pacific Islands

1972 • 642 citations

A Study of Summer Foliage Insect Communities in the Great Smoky Mountains

1952 • 636 citations

Density Compensation in Island Faunas

1972 • 632 citations

The Fungi, An Advanced Treatise

1966 • 631 citations

Island Biogeography Theory and Conservation Practice

1976 • 624 citations

On the Relative Abundance of Species

1960 • 617 citations

The Ecological Regulation of Species Diversity

1964 • 615 citations

Plant Species Diversity in Old‐Field Successional Ecosystems in Southern Illinois

1975 • 610 citations

Avian Community Organization and Habitat Structure

1974 • 588 citations

Taxonomic Diversity during the Phanerozoic

1972 • 580 citations

Stochastic Models of Phylogeny and the Evolution of Diversity

1973 • 572 citations

Species Density of North American Recent Mammals

1964 • 519 citations

Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications

1977 • 510 citations

A Table for Calculating the `Equitability' Component of Species Diversity

1964 • 508 citations

Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona: A Gradient Analysis of the South Slope

1965 • 506 citations

On the Relation between Habitat Selection and Species Diversity

1966 • 505 citations

Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. V. Biomass, Production, and Diversity along the Elevation Gradient

1975 • 504 citations

Environmental Factors Affecting Bird Species Diversity

1964 • 499 citations

Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications.

1977 • 488 citations

The Tropical Rain Forest, An Ecological Study.

1953 • 484 citations

The Number of Species of Insect Associated with Various Trees

1961 • 482 citations

The Theory of Diversity-Stability Relationships in Ecology

1975 • 480 citations

Distribution on Environmental Gradients: Theory and a Preliminary Interpretation of Distributional Patterns in the Avifauna of the Cordillera Vilcabamba, Peru

1971 • 480 citations

Distributional Ecology of New Guinea Birds

1973 • 478 citations

Differences in Insect Abundance and Diversity Between Wetter and Drier Sites During a Tropical Dry Season

1968 • 478 citations

The Self-Adjustment of Populations to Change

1957 • 465 citations

Evolution of Diversity, Efficiency, and Community Stability

1970 • 464 citations

Diversity and Pattern in Plants and Insects

1972 • 457 citations

Speciation among tropical forest trees: some deductions in the light of recent evidence

1969 • 450 citations

Pleistocene Changes in the Fauna and Flora of South America

1971 • 441 citations

The Canonical Distribution of Commonness and Rarity: Part II

1962 • 439 citations

Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography and Ecology

1974 • 431 citations

Forest Overstory Vegetation and Environment on the Missouri River Floodplain in North Dakota

1976 • 419 citations

Convexity, Desert Lizards, and Spatial Heterogeneity

1966 • 419 citations

Succession

1973 • 419 citations

Vegetation Structure and Avian Diversity in Several New World Areas

1971 • 418 citations

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF MEDITERRANEAN-CLIMATE EVERGREEN SCLEROPHYLL SHRUBS

1970 • 416 citations

Island Biogeography and Conservation: Strategy and Limitations

1976 • 409 citations

The Role of Chemical Inhibition (Allelopathy) in Vegetational Composition

1966 • 408 citations

Populations and Local Extinctions of Birds on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

1974 • 375 citations

Ecological Competition Between Algae: Experimental Confirmation of Resource-Based Competition Theory

1976 • 373 citations

Structure of Avian Communities in Selected Panama and Illinois Habitats

1971 • 371 citations

A Comparative Study of Reciprocal Averaging and Other Ordination Techniques

1977 • 370 citations

Patterns of communities in the tropics

1969 • 368 citations

Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: Effects of Island Size

1976 • 365 citations

On the Methods of Resource Division in Grassland Bird Communities

1968 • 365 citations

On the Notion of Favorableness in Plant Ecology

1973 • 363 citations

Sympatry of Desert Lizards (Ctenotus) in Western Australia

1969 • 354 citations

Relationships among Functional Properties of Californian Grassland

1967 • 336 citations

Ordination and Classification of Communities

1973 • 336 citations

On Lizard Species Diversity: North American Flatland Deserts

1967 • 333 citations

Succession: An Evolutionary Interpretation

1976 • 331 citations

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

1970 • 322 citations

On Bird Species Diversity. II. Prediction of Bird Census from Habitat Measurements

1962 • 321 citations

Breeding Bird Populations in Relation to Plant Succession on the Piedmont of Georgia

1956 • 311 citations

A Short‐Term Experimental Investigation of Resource Partitioning in a New Zealand Rocky Intertidal Habitat

1971 • 306 citations

Diversity: A Sampling Study

1972 • 291 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF BILL SIZE DIFFERENCES AMONG SYMPATRIC CONGENERIC SPECIES OF BIRDS

1965 • 285 citations

Vegetation of the Earth in Relation to Climate and the Eco-Physiological Conditions.

1975 • 285 citations

AVIFAUNAL EQUILIBRIA AND SPECIES TURNOVER RATES ON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS OF CALIFORNIA

1969 • 280 citations

Pattern and Process in Grassland Bird Communities

1973 • 272 citations

Host Plants as Islands in Evolutionary and Contemporary Time

1968 • 268 citations

The Biochemical Ecology of Higher Plants

1970 • 267 citations

Structure and Function in California Grasslands

1968 • 267 citations

The Ecology of Colonization as Seen in the Zoogeography of Anoline Lizards on Small Islands.

1969 • 263 citations

Plate Tectonics and Australasian Paleobiogeography

1972 • 260 citations

Bird Species Diversity and Habitat Diversity in Australia and North America

1969 • 255 citations

Forest size and avian diversity in New Jersey woodlots with some land use implications

1976 • 254 citations

Fish Species Diversity in Lakes

1974 • 254 citations

Seasonality, Resource Availability, and Community Diversity in Tropical Bird Communities

1976 • 252 citations

The Number of Bird Species in Some Tropical Forests

1969 • 249 citations

Diversity, stability and maturity in natural ecosystems

1975 • 241 citations

The scientific management of animal and plant communities for conservation

1972 • 240 citations

Population and Community Ecology: Principles and Methods.

1975 • 226 citations

A Physiognomic Analysis of the `Cerrado' Vegetation of Central Brasil

1971 • 224 citations

The Structure of the Tropical Rain Forest and Speciation in the Humid Tropics

1966 • 222 citations

Relative Diversity Indices

1975 • 216 citations

Ecological Consequences of Island Colonization by Southwest Pacific Birds, I. Types of Niche Shifts

1970 • 216 citations

On the theory of niche overlap

1974 • 214 citations

Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Africa and South America: A Comparative Review

1974 • 207 citations

Species Packing and Predation Pressure

1975 • 207 citations

THE ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOME SIZE TRENDS IN ISLAND BIRDS

1965 • 200 citations

Turnover and Equilibria in Insular Avifaunas, with Special Reference to the California Channel Islands

1974 • 200 citations

Diversity Statistics and the Log-Series Model

1976 • 199 citations

Resource Division in an Understory Herb Community: Responses to Temporal and Microtopographic Gradients

1976 • 198 citations

Diversity Relations of Upland Forests in the Western Great Lakes Area

1971 • 192 citations

Plant Diversity in a Chronosequence at Glacier Bay, Alaska

1971 • 188 citations

Habitat and Avian Diversity on Strip-Mined Land in East-Central Illinois

1968 • 182 citations

Habitat Heterogeneity and Avian Community Structure in North American Grasslands

1974 • 180 citations

Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: Defaunation and Monitoring Techniques

1969 • 178 citations

Relationships of Environment to Composition, Structure, and Diversity of Forest Communities of the Central Western Cascades of Oregon

1976 • 178 citations

Global Tectonics and the Fossil Record

1972 • 176 citations

Size Patterns in West Indian Anolis Lizards. II. Correlations with the Sizes of Particular Sympatric Species-Displacement and Convergence

1970 • 174 citations

Climatic Instability and the "Ecological Saturation" of Bird Communities in North American Grasslands

1974 • 171 citations

Numbers of Mammal Species in North and Central American Forest Communities

1973 • 168 citations

Tree Species Diversity in the Eastern Deciduous Forest with Particular Reference to North Central Florida

1967 • 164 citations

Ordinating Forest Communities by Means of Environmental Scalars and Phytosociological Indices

1962 • 161 citations

Taxonomy and Geography

1962 • 160 citations

Nutrient Concentrations in Plants in the Brookhaven Oak-Pine Forest

1975 • 158 citations

Habitat Specificity, Speciation, and Species Density in Australian Desert Lizards

1969 • 157 citations

Ecosystem Structure and Function

1973 • 156 citations

Determinants of Community Structure for Coral Reef Fishes in an Experimental Habitat

1975 • 156 citations

History of the Mediterranean Ecosystem in California

1973 • 154 citations

The Human Degradation of Mediterranean Landscapes in Israel

1973 • 151 citations

Rapid Asymptotic Species Accumulation in Phytophagous Insect Communities: The Pests of Cacao

1974 • 147 citations

Mediterranean type ecosystems, origin and structure

1974 • 145 citations

Diversity, Floristic Richness, and Species Evenness During a Secondary (Post‐Fire) Succession

1973 • 144 citations

Avian Species Diversity in Desert Scrub

1974 • 129 citations

Species Number and Endemism: The Galápagos Archipelago Revisited

1973 • 129 citations

Tropical ecological systems: Trends in terrestrial and aquatic research

1976 • 128 citations

Host Plants as Islands. II. Competition in Evolutionary and Contemporary Time

1973 • 128 citations

The Relation of Foliage Complexity to Ecological Diversity of Three Amazonian Bird Communities

1975 • 126 citations

Alternate Derivations of a Species-Abundance Relation

1968 • 126 citations

Bill Size, Body Size, and the Ecological Adaptations of Bird Species to Competitive Situations on Islands

1968 • 118 citations

NUMBERS OF BIRD SPECIES ON THE CALIFORNIA ISLANDS

1972 • 110 citations

Turnover and Ecological Release in the Avifauna of Mona Island, Puerto Rico

1973 • 110 citations

The Relationship Between Sample Similarity and Ecological Distance

1973 • 109 citations

Bird Community Dynamics and Energetics in a Northern Hardwoods Ecosystem

1975 • 109 citations

ANALYTICAL ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS

1974 • 105 citations

Ecological Parameters and Plant Species Diversity

1968 • 104 citations

Species Abundance: Natural Regulation of Insular Variation

1963 • 101 citations

Plant Species Diversity in Old‐Field Succession on the Georgia Piedmont

1974 • 96 citations

Glacial Migrations of Plants: Island Biogeographical Evidence

1974 • 95 citations

The Paradox of the Plankton: An Equilibrium Hypothesis

1975 • 94 citations

Convergence in Vegetation Structure along Analogous Climatic Gradients in California and Chile

1975 • 92 citations

Nonasymptotic Species Richness Models and the Insects of British Trees

1974 • 91 citations

Ecological Consequences of Island Colonization by Southwest Pacific Birds, II. The Effect of Species Diversity on Total Population Density

1970 • 89 citations

The Niche-Variation Model-Is It Valid?

1973 • 86 citations

Foliage Use by Birds of the Oak-Juniper Woodland and Ponderosa Pine Forest in Southeastern Arizona

1969 • 84 citations

Comparative Species Richness in Fluctuating and Constant Environments: Coral-Associated Decapod Crustaceans

1976 • 83 citations

EXTINCTION-ORIGINATION EQUILIBRIA IN LATE CENOZOIC LAND MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA

1969 • 83 citations

An Elementary Theory of Interspecific Competition

1957 • 82 citations

Comparison of Faunal Equilibrium Turnover Rates on a Tropical Island and a Temperate Island

1971 • 81 citations

Nonequilibrial Bird Faunas on Islands

1976 • 81 citations

Vegetation of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona: IV. Limestone and Acid Soils

1968 • 80 citations

A quantitative analysis of altitudinal zonation in Uganda forests

1975 • 80 citations

AN ESTIMATE OF THE POTENTIAL EVOLUTIONARY INCREASE IN SPECIES DENSITY IN THE POLYNESIAN ANT FAUNA

1967 • 79 citations

The Foraging of Warblers Isolated on Small Island

1971 • 75 citations

Edaphic Climax Pattern of the Pygmy Forest Region of California

1975 • 75 citations

Chilean Bird Distribution

1970 • 73 citations

The design and stability of plant communities

1975 • 72 citations

VARIATION IN VEGETATION AND SPECIES DIVERSITY ALONG A LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT

1967 • 70 citations

Lizard Species Density in the Kalahari Desert

1971 • 69 citations

On Latitudinal Gradients in Avian Diversity

1974 • 67 citations

THE TEMPORAL COMPONENT OF DIVERSITY AMONG SPECIES OF BIRDS

1966 • 62 citations

THE NUMBERS OF SPECIES OF HUMMINGBIRDS IN THE WEST INDIES

1973 • 62 citations

Evolution in the Tropics

1970 • 60 citations

The Regulation of Plant Species Diversity on an Early Successional Old‐field

1975 • 59 citations

The Effect of the Cleaner-Fish Labroides dimidiatus on the Point Diversity of Fishes on the Reef Front at Eilat

1974 • 59 citations

Avian Niche Size and Morphological Variation

1969 • 57 citations

Introduction

1973 • 57 citations

Succession: Similarities of Species Turnover Rates

1973 • 56 citations

Large-Billed Insectivorous Birds: A Precipitous Diversity Gradient

1971 • 56 citations

Competition and the Structure of Bird Communities. (MPB-7), Volume 7

1974 • 56 citations

ORDINAL AND FAMILIAL DIVERSITY OF CENOZOIC MAMMALS

1972 • 55 citations

Diversity Patterns in Forest Vegetation of the Wenatchee Mountains, Washington

1972 • 55 citations

Biochemical Coevolution

1971 • 53 citations

An Ecological Analysis of Chaparral and Pine Forest Bird Communities on Santa Cruz Island and Mainland California

1974 • 53 citations

Phanerozoic Taxonomic Diversity: A Test of Alternate Models

1973 • 52 citations

Bird Populations and Biotic Communities in Northern Lower Michigan

1948 • 51 citations

A Comparison of the Beta Diversity Functions of the Overstory and Herbaceous Understory of a Deciduous Forest

1975 • 50 citations

RECENT EVOLUTION OF ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN RELATION TO THE EASTERN FORESTS OF NORTH AMERICA

1957 • 48 citations

Production, Energy Pathways, and Community Diversity in Forest Birds

1975 • 46 citations

Integration in the Plant Community

1964 • 45 citations

The Consistency of Intra- And Inter-Continental Grassland Bird Species Counts

1966 • 44 citations

A Phytosociological Study of the Cape Fynbos and other Vegetation at Jonkershoek, Stellenbosch

1972 • 44 citations

Community Diversity of Coastal Plain Forests in Southern East Texas

1975 • 43 citations

NUTRIENT UPTAKE KINETICS IN PHYTOPLANKTON: A BASIS FOR NICHE SEPARATION¹

1974 • 43 citations

The statistics of relative abundance and diversity

1974 • 41 citations

Model Estimation of Energy Flow in Northwestern Coniferous Forest Bird Communities

1975 • 38 citations

Recent Planktonic Foraminifera: Dominance and Diversity in North Atlantic Surface Sediments

1969 • 38 citations

Diversity, richness, and evenness during a primary sand dune succession at Grand Bend, Ontario

1973 • 38 citations

Species Richness on the Nondisturbed Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

1975 • 37 citations

Annual Energy Expenditure by the Avifauna of a Northern Hardwoods Ecosystem

1973 • 35 citations

Parallel Evolution and Bird Niches

1973 • 33 citations

An Evaluation of Quantitative Studies in Birds

1957 • 32 citations

The Finnish School and Forest Site-Types

1973 • 32 citations

THE EFFECTS OF REDUCED COMPETITION IN BIRDS

1961 • 32 citations

The ecology of terricolous lichens of the Northern Conifer – Hardwood forests of central Eastern Canada

1968 • 32 citations

History and Evalution of Various Concepts of Plant and Animal Communities in North America

1954 • 31 citations

Forest Associations of Southeast Lublin Province, Poland

1968 • 30 citations

The Grassland Vegetation of the Sheffield Region: I. General Features

1971 • 30 citations

Summer Bird Species Diversity in Relation to Secondary Succession on the New Jersey Piedmont

1973 • 29 citations

Maximum Plant Species Diversity in Terrestrial Communities

1974 • 26 citations

Vegetationsstatistische Untersuchungen über die Waldtypen

1922 • 25 citations

Warbler Ecology: Diversity, Similarity, and Seasonal Differences in Habitat Segregation

1971 • 24 citations

Pattern and Diversity in Swamp and Dune Vegetation, North Stradbroke Island

1975 • 23 citations

The Response of Understory Herbs to Soil Depth Gradients in High and Low Diversity Communities

1976 • 23 citations

VARIATION IN SOME SALTMARSH AND DUNE VEGETATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GRADIENT SITUATIONS

1971 • 20 citations

A Trophic Comparison of Avifaunas

1972 • 15 citations

Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 3.

1971 • 15 citations

Wisconsin Comparative Ordination

1973 • 13 citations

Apparent abundance of different species and heterogeneity

1953 • 12 citations

Pflanzensoziologische Studie der Fynbosvegetation am Kap der guten Hoffnung

1972 • 8 citations