Published in Nature on April 05, 2001
Invariant scaling relationships for interspecific plant biomass production rates and body size. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2001) 3.65
Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2004) 3.49
Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2004) 3.36
Protein family expansions and biological complexity. PLoS Comput Biol (2006) 2.69
Long-term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights from natural and anthropogenic gradients. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 2.59
Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.20
Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 2.16
Disease ecology, biodiversity, and the latitudinal gradient in income. PLoS Biol (2012) 2.00
Multicellularity and the functional interdependence of motility and molecular transport. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.87
Sizing up allometric scaling theory. PLoS Comput Biol (2008) 1.84
A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.81
The fractal nature of nature: power laws, ecological complexity and biodiversity. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2002) 1.67
Predicting maximum tree heights and other traits from allometric scaling and resource limitations. PLoS One (2011) 1.59
Metabolic scaling: consensus or controversy? Theor Biol Med Model (2004) 1.52
Biomass and morphology of fine roots in temperate broad-leaved forests differing in tree species diversity: is there evidence of below-ground overyielding? Oecologia (2009) 1.39
Ecological importance of large-diameter trees in a temperate mixed-conifer forest. PLoS One (2012) 1.17
Why are there so many species in the tropics? J Biogeogr (2014) 1.14
Distributions of observed death tolls govern sensitivity to human fatalities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.13
Latitudinal variation in lifespan within species is explained by the metabolic theory of ecology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.12
The leaf size-twig size spectrum of temperate woody species along an altitudinal gradient: an invariant allometric scaling relationship. Ann Bot (2005) 1.12
Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870. Nat Commun (2014) 1.11
Species-specific allometric scaling under self-thinning: evidence from long-term plots in forest stands. Oecologia (2005) 1.10
Niche overlap estimates based on quantitative functional traits: a new family of non-parametric indices. Oecologia (2005) 1.08
How stand productivity results from size- and competition-dependent growth and mortality. PLoS One (2011) 1.08
Insights into plant size-density relationships from models and agricultural crops. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.04
Self-similarity and scaling in forest communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.98
Non-random walks in monkeys and humans. J R Soc Interface (2011) 0.96
Trade-offs between the metabolic rate and population density of plants. PLoS One (2008) 0.95
Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees. Sci Rep (2015) 0.95
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Controls on coarse wood decay in temperate tree species: birth of the LOGLIFE experiment. Ambio (2012) 0.92
An integrative framework for stochastic, size-structured community assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 0.91
Near isometric biomass partitioning in forest ecosystems of China. PLoS One (2014) 0.90
How selection structures species abundance distributions. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.89
Plant interactions alter the predictions of metabolic scaling theory. PLoS One (2013) 0.87
An allometry-based approach for understanding forest structure, predicting tree-size distribution and assessing the degree of disturbance. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 0.86
Using multiple trait associations to define hydraulic functional types in plant communities of south-western Australia. Oecologia (2008) 0.86
Evidence of variant intra- and interspecific scaling of tree crown structure and relevance for allometric theory. Oecologia (2012) 0.85
The allometry of coarse root biomass: log-transformed linear regression or nonlinear regression? PLoS One (2013) 0.84
Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Carbon Balance Manag (2014) 0.83
Fitness-maximizing foragers can use information about patch quality to decide how to search for and within patches: optimal Levy walk searching patterns from optimal foraging theory. J R Soc Interface (2012) 0.82
Contrasting patterns of diameter and biomass increment across tree functional groups in Amazonian forests. Oecologia (2008) 0.81
On the challenge of fitting tree size distributions in ecology. PLoS One (2013) 0.81
Dynamic relationships between body size, species richness, abundance, and energy use in a shallow marine epibenthic faunal community. Ecol Evol (2014) 0.81
Self-thinning and community persistence in a simple size-structured dynamical model of plant growth. J Math Biol (2005) 0.80
Covariations in ecological scaling laws fostered by community dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2017) 0.80
Variation of maximum tree height and annual shoot growth of Smith fir at various elevations in the Sygera Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. PLoS One (2012) 0.79
From species to communities: the signature of recreational use on a tropical river ecosystem. Ecol Evol (2015) 0.75
The structure of tropical forests and sphere packings. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2015) 0.75
Size matters: relationships between body size and body mass of common coastal, aquatic invertebrates in the Baltic Sea. PeerJ (2017) 0.75
Effects of biophysical constraints, climate and phylogeny on forest shrub allometries along an altitudinal gradient in Northeast China. Sci Rep (2017) 0.75
Pattern and control of biomass allocation across global forest ecosystems. Ecol Evol (2017) 0.75
Fire controls population structure in four dominant tree species in a tropical savanna. Oecologia (2009) 0.75
The epidermal-growth-control theory of stem elongation: an old and a new perspective. J Plant Physiol (2007) 1.54
Simulated wind pollination and airflow around ovules of some early seed plants. Science (1981) 1.49
Endosymbiosis, cell evolution, and speciation. Theory Biosci (2005) 1.22
Mechanical behaviour of plant tissues: composite materials or structures? J Exp Biol (1999) 1.08
Pollination and airflow patterns around conifer ovulate cones. Science (1982) 0.94
Geochemistry and thermolysis of flavonoids. Science (1977) 0.91
Adaptation, plant evolution, and the fossil record. Rev Palaeobot Palynol (1987) 0.87
Flavonoids and other chemical constituents of fossil miocene zelkova (ulmaceae). Science (1977) 0.87
Phanerozoic land-plant diversity in north america. Science (1979) 0.82
Ontogenetic changes in the scaling of cellular respiration with respect to size among sunflower seedlings. Plant Signal Behav (2011) 0.79
Macroevolution via secondary endosymbiosis: a Neo-Goldschmidtian view of unicellular hopeful monsters and Darwin's primordial intermediate form. Theory Biosci (2008) 0.78
Darwin-Wallace Demons: survival of the fastest in populations of duckweeds and the evolutionary history of an enigmatic group of angiosperms. Plant Biol (Stuttg) (2014) 0.76
Early plant history: something borrowed, something new? Science (1999) 0.75
Taxing debate for taxonomists. Science (2001) 0.75
Photosynthesis research on yellowtops: macroevolution in progress. Theory Biosci (2006) 0.75
Evidence for lignin-like constituents in early silurian (llandoverian) plant fossils. Science (1980) 0.75