Conservation of Communities — The Importance of Edges, Surroundings and Landscape Mosaic Structure

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Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

1966 • 5,216 citations

Evolution in Changing Environments

1968 • 4,941 citations

The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics.

1986 • 4,097 citations

Evolution in Changing Environments

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Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

1960 • 3,384 citations

The distribution and abundance of animals

1974 • 2,811 citations

Fundamentals of Ecology

1972 • 2,503 citations

Density as a Misleading Indicator of Habitat Quality

1983 • 2,441 citations

Habitat, the Templet for Ecological Strategies?

1977 • 2,229 citations

Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity

1986 • 1,826 citations

Exploitation Ecosystems in Gradients of Primary Productivity

1981 • 1,725 citations

A hierarchical concept of ecosystems

1986 • 1,627 citations

Conservation Biology. An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective.

1981 • 1,626 citations

Viable populations for conservation

1988 • 1,407 citations

Avian Nest Dispersion and Fledging Success in Field‐Forest Ecotones

1978 • 1,142 citations

Nest Predation in Forest Tracts and the Decline of Migratory Songbirds

1985 • 1,073 citations

Population Responses to Patchy Environments

1976 • 1,060 citations

Principles of Animal Ecology

1950 • 1,006 citations

Conservation Strategy: The Effects of Fragmentation on Extinction

1985 • 1,001 citations

Alteration of North American Streams by Beaver

1988 • 958 citations

The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics.

1986 • 954 citations

COMPETITION, HABITAT SELECTION, AND CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT

1964 • 900 citations

The Ecology of Bird Communities

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Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity.

1987 • 874 citations

Single-species metapopulation dynamics: concepts, models and observations

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The Fragmented Forest: Island Biogeography Theory and the Preservation of Biotic Diversity

1984 • 831 citations

Creating landscape patterns by forest cutting: Ecological consequences and principles

1987 • 831 citations

Edge and other effects of isolation on Amazon forest fragments

1986 • 821 citations

Patches and Structural Components for a Landscape Ecology

1981 • 817 citations

Wildlife, Forests and Forestry: Principles of Managing Forests for Biological Diversity

1989 • 810 citations

Critical Loads for Sulphur and Nitrogen

1988 • 792 citations

Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral‐Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands

1988 • 779 citations

Ecological Uses of Vertebrate Indicator Species: A Critique

1988 • 770 citations

Landscape Ecology: Theory and Application

1983 • 759 citations

Multiple Stable Points in Natural Communities

1974 • 735 citations

THE CONTRIBUTION OF POPULATION AND COMMUNITY BIOLOGY TO CONSERVATION SCIENCE

1988 • 733 citations

Principles of Animal Ecology

1950 • 648 citations

Landscape Ecology

1987 • 636 citations

Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management.

1984 • 633 citations

Ecological Neighborhoods: Scaling Environmental Patterns

1987 • 629 citations

Have Cowbirds Caused Forest Songbirds to Decline?

1983 • 627 citations

Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management.

1984 • 611 citations

Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forests the Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington

1979 • 607 citations

Wildlife 2000: Modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates

1983 • 597 citations

A Regional Landscape Approach to Maintain Diversity

1983 • 596 citations

Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Avifauna of the Eastern Deciduous Forest

1981 • 594 citations

Avian Community Organization and Habitat Structure

1974 • 588 citations

Viable Populations for Conservation

1987 • 569 citations

Forests Too Deer: Edge Effects in Northern Wisconsin

1988 • 557 citations

Changes in Wildlife Communities Near Edges

1988 • 555 citations

The Fragmented Forest

1984 • 551 citations

The Structure and Development of the Plant Association

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

1986 • 540 citations

Patch Dynamics and Stability of Some California Kelp Communities

1984 • 535 citations

Elephants as Agents of Habitat and Landscape Change in East Africa

1970 • 530 citations

Pollination in Dianthus deltoides (Caryophyllaceae): Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Visitation and Seed Set

1988 • 525 citations

Nature conservation: the role of corridors

1990 • 511 citations

Area‐Dependent Changes in the Bird Communities and Vegetation of Southern Wisconsin Forests

1983 • 501 citations

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

1980 • 496 citations

Woodland Conservation and Management

1981 • 494 citations

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: THEORY AND APPLICATION

1985 • 445 citations

Elevated Predation Rates as an Edge Effect in Habitat Islands: Experimental evidence

1988 • 436 citations

The Introduction, Increase, and Crash of Reindeer on St. Matthew Island

1968 • 432 citations

Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography and Ecology

1974 • 431 citations

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

1961 • 431 citations

Refuge Design and Island Biogeographic Theory: Effects of Fragmentation

1982 • 430 citations

Age-class distribution and the forest fire cycle

1978 • 428 citations

Spatial Heterogeneity and Bird Species Diversity

1976 • 426 citations

The Importance of Edge in the Structure and Dynamics of Forest Islands

1981 • 425 citations

Wildlife 2000: Modeling Habitat Relationships of Terrestrial Vertebrates

1987 • 399 citations

Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective

1981 • 395 citations

Predation on Ground-Nesting Birds' Nests in Relation to Predator Densities and Habitat Edge

1986 • 393 citations

Eruption of Ungulate Populations, with Emphasis on Himalayan Thar in New Zealand

1970 • 391 citations

Hedgerows and hedgerow networks in landscape ecology

1984 • 381 citations

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

1974 • 375 citations

Landscape Heterogeneity and Disturbance

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Aleuts, Sea Otters, and Alternate Stable-State Communities

1978 • 362 citations

Rodent dynamics as community processes

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Modeling Dynamics of Habitat‐Interior Bird Populations in Fragmented Landscapes

1988 • 350 citations

Pattern in Vegetation

1979 • 345 citations

Americans and Their Forests. A Historical Geography.

1990 • 345 citations

No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from Outside as Park Size Decreases

1983 • 337 citations

Diversity of canopy trees in a neotropical forest and implications for conservation

1983 • 328 citations

Role of predation in short-term population fluctuations of some birds and mammals in Fennoscandia

1984 • 317 citations

Nature Conservation: The Role of Remnants of Native Vegetation.

1989 • 313 citations

Relevance of the Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography and Species-Area Relations to Conservation with a Case from Amazonia

1986 • 303 citations

Edge Effects and Conservation of Biotic Diversity

1988 • 299 citations

No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from outside as Park Size Decreases

1983 • 296 citations

Seed Predation and Cross‐Pollination in Mast‐Seeding Beech (Fagus Sylvatica) Patches

1987 • 296 citations

Moose, Microbes, and the Boreal Forest

1988 • 280 citations

Habitat and Area Effects on Forest Bird Assemblages: Is Nest Predation an Influence?

1988 • 266 citations

The Role of Habitat Patchiness in the Population Dynamics of Snowshoe Hares

1980 • 265 citations

Elevated Predation Rates as an Edge Effect in Habitat Islands: Experimental Evidence

1988 • 262 citations

Landscape Heterogeneity and Disturbance

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

1976 • 254 citations

Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Depredation of Artificial Nests

1988 • 249 citations

Feeding by Insects and Hares on Birches Earlier Affected by Moose Browsing

1985 • 247 citations

Metapopulation dynamics: Does it help to have more of the same?

1989 • 239 citations

Vegetation Dynamics in Temperate Lowland Primeval Forests: Ecological Studies in Białowieza Forest

1986 • 234 citations

Theories of Populations in Biological Communities

1977 • 218 citations

Perturbation and Recovery Patterns of Starfish-Dominated Intertidal Assemblages in Chile, New Zealand, and Washington State

1985 • 213 citations

THE ETERNAL EXTERNAL THREAT

1986 • 211 citations

Avian Extinction on Barro Colorado Island, Panama: A Reassessment

1982 • 207 citations

Differences in Predation Pressure in Relation to Habitat Fragmentation: An Experiment

1985 • 206 citations

Depredation on Artificial Ground Nests: Effects of Edge and Plot Age

1985 • 200 citations

Wildlife Ecology, An Analytical Approach

1974 • 199 citations

Biotic Communities of Kaibab Plateau, Arizona

1941 • 196 citations

Benign neglect: A model of faunal collapse in the game reserves of East Africa

1979 • 188 citations

Changes in the Avifauna of a region, district and remnant as a result of fragmentation of native vegetation: the wheatbelt of western Australia. A case study

1989 • 186 citations

Synchronous population fluctuations in voles, small game, owls, and tularemia in northern Sweden

1978 • 184 citations

The effects of feral goats (Capra hircus) on island ecosystems

1978 • 184 citations

Disturbance and Ecosystems

1983 • 169 citations

Animal Communities in Temperate America

1937 • 162 citations

Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography

1990 • 162 citations

Vegetation Analysis of North and South Edges in a Mature Oak‐Hickory Forest

1972 • 155 citations

Habitat Diversity or Area Per se? Species Richness of Woody Plants, Carabid Beetles and Land Snails on Islands

1988 • 147 citations

World deforestation in the twentieth century

1988 • 147 citations

Distribution and size of capercaillie leks in relation to old forest fragmentation

1987 • 146 citations

Woodlots as Biogeographic Islands in Southeastern Wisconsin

1981 • 144 citations

Synchronous short‐term population fluctuations of some birds and mammals in Fennoscandia ‐ occurrence and distribution

1985 • 139 citations

The Evolution of National Wildlife Law

1979 • 137 citations

The Ecological Web The Ecological Web: More on the Distribution and Abundance of Animals H. G. Andrewartha L. C. Birch

1986 • 125 citations

Latitudinal Gradients in Predator-Prey Interactions, Cyclicity and Synchronism in Voles and Small Game Populations in Finland

1988 • 114 citations

Activity and Prey Election in the Sea Otter: Influence of Population Status on Community Structure

1982 • 111 citations

Theories of Populations in Biological Communities

1977 • 109 citations

Survival of Snowshoe Hares at a Geographic Range Boundary

1985 • 106 citations

Landscape ecology as a theoretical basis for nature conservation

1991 • 97 citations

Avian Use of a Desert Riparian Island and Its Adjacent Scrub Habitat

1985 • 94 citations

Structure and Species Composition of Desert Heteromyid Rodent Species Assemblages: Effects of a Simple Habitat Manipulation

1982 • 94 citations

Cycles in voles and small game in relation to variations in plant production indices in Northern Sweden

1986 • 92 citations

Effect of Lizards on Spider Populations: Manipulative Reconstruction of a Natural Experiment

1987 • 92 citations

Landscape dynamics in Farmland

1988 • 91 citations

Disturbance and Ecosystems: Components of Response.

1984 • 88 citations

Bird Numbers across Edges between Mature Conifer Forest and Clearcuts in Central Sweden

1983 • 88 citations

A Twenty‐Year Record of Understory Vegetational Change in a Virgin Pennsylvania Forest

1965 • 88 citations

How Are Extensive, Human-Caused Habitat Alterations Expressed on the Scale of Local Bird Populations in Boreal Forests?

1986 • 82 citations

Borders and Openings of Beech-Maple Woodlands in Southern Michigan

1951 • 81 citations

Naturgeografisk regionindelning av Norden

1977 • 80 citations

Mammals in Forest Islands in Southeastern Wisconsin

1981 • 76 citations

Studies on the invertebrate fauna of fragmented heathland in Dorset, UK, and the implications for conservation

1989 • 76 citations

The future of the savannah ecosystems: ecological islands or faunal enclaves?

1981 • 76 citations

Control of arthropod abundance by Anolis lizards on St. Eustatius (Neth. Antilles)

1984 • 74 citations

Limitation in Small Habitat Islands: Chance or Competition?

1981 • 72 citations

The Interrelationships of Logging, Birds, and Timber Regeneration in the Douglas-Fir Region of Northwestern California

1960 • 71 citations

Changing landscapes and the cosmopolitism of the eastern Colorado avifauna

1986 • 68 citations

Do Predators Synchronize Vole and Grouse Fluctuations?: An Experiment

1987 • 67 citations

Wildlife conservation evaluation

1987 • 67 citations

Management Implications of Elk and Deer Use of Clear-Cuts in Montana

1980 • 67 citations

Observations on the Behavior of Some Species at the Edges of Their Ranges

1914 • 65 citations

Extinction-Mediated Competition: The Anolis Lizards and Insectivorous Birds of the West Indies

1981 • 61 citations

The nature of cumulative impacts on biotic diversity of wetland vertebrates

1988 • 61 citations

The greenhouse effect and biological diversity

1989 • 60 citations

Edge effect: a concept under scrutiny

1988 • 57 citations

Effects of forest regeneration on the structure of bird communities in northern Finland

1985 • 57 citations

Bird Population Patterns in Forest Edge and Strip Vegetation at Remington Farms, Maryland

1982 • 57 citations

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

1903 • 55 citations

Edge versus Age Effects in the Development of a Beech-Maple Forest

1981 • 51 citations

On the Importance of Landscape Heterogeneity in Northern Regions for the Breeding Population Densities of Homeotherms: A General Hypothesis

1979 • 51 citations

Wilderness and Natural Areas in the Eastern United States: A Management Challenge

1986 • 51 citations

Protecting biodiversity in multiple-use lands: Lessons from the US forest service

1989 • 51 citations

Latitudinal Gradients and Local Variations in Species Richness and Structure of Bird Communities on Raised Peat-Bogs in Sweden

1983 • 48 citations

Crown Encroachment into Openings Cut in Appalachian Hardwood Stands

1966 • 48 citations

Grazing Impact by Small Rodents in a Steep Cyclicity Gradient

1988 • 46 citations

Population dynamics of tetraonids, especially the black grouse Tetrao tetrix L., in boreal forests

1983 • 42 citations

Preparing for climate change

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Moose winter browsing patterns on clear-cuttings in northern Ontario

1980 • 40 citations

Species turnover of a continental bird fauna: Northern Europe, 1850–1970

1980 • 38 citations

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1975 • 34 citations

Insular Biogeography of Mammals in Canadian Parks

1989 • 34 citations

The Way to Game Abundance

1950 • 33 citations

Effects of Airborne Ammonium on Natural Vegetation and Forests

1988 • 33 citations

Effects of logging on capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) leks

1989 • 33 citations

Predation may link the cycles of lemmings and birds

1988 • 32 citations

A Functional Approach to Estimating Habitat Edge Width for Birds

1981 • 32 citations

Investigations on the Pollination of Ophrys Species

1950 • 32 citations

National park boundaries and ecological realities

1986 • 30 citations

World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century.

1989 • 28 citations

Bird community ecology on power-line corridors in East Tennessee

1982 • 27 citations

Effect of habitat area on breeding bird communities in Northeastern Finland

1984 • 25 citations

A latitudinal test of the fossorial rodent hypothesis of Mima mound origin

1987 • 24 citations

Managing Northern Forests for Wildlife

1986 • 23 citations

Effect of Mainland Population Changes on the Terrestrial Bird Fauna of a Northern Island

1979 • 22 citations

Feral sheep and cattle and royal albatrosses on Campbell Island; population trends and habitat changes

1979 • 22 citations

Peculiar Zonal Formations of the Great Plains

1897 • 22 citations

Effects of Habitat Patchiness Created by a Ruffed Grouse Management Plan on Breeding Bird Communities

1984 • 21 citations

What is conservation biology?

1987 • 20 citations

Practical Wildlife Management

1977 • 18 citations

The pair bond in ptarmigan

1984 • 16 citations

Dynamische Verbindung der Walder und Rasen.

1973 • 16 citations

Practice of Wildlife Conservation

1951 • 16 citations

Birds and woods

1962 • 16 citations

Patterns and processes in species assemblages on Northern Baltic islands

1987 • 13 citations

Species diversity preserved in different numbers of nature reserves of the same total area

1985 • 13 citations

Ecology of lichens in boreal coniferous forests with reference to spatial and temporal patterns

1983 • 12 citations

A proper scale

1989 • 12 citations

Interspecific competition and the structure of bird guilds in boreal Europe: the importance of doing fieldwork in the right season

1987 • 12 citations

Predation processes in fragmented boreal forest landscapes

1989 • 10 citations

Use of forest clear-cuts by White-tailed Deer in southern New Brunswick and central Nova Scotia

1978 • 9 citations

Practice of Wildlife Conservation

1951 • 7 citations

Conservation of fungi in Europe

1990 • 5 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations