Published in Am Nat on April 19, 2004
An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 3.36
Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.01
Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.78
Recombination difference between sexes: a role for haploid selection. PLoS Biol (2005) 1.57
The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.39
Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2013) 1.23
A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.21
Niche conservatism above the species level. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.19
How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.15
Niches, body sizes, and the disassembly of mammal communities on the Sunda Shelf islands. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 0.92
Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2015) 0.89
Intraspecific body size frequency distributions of insects. PLoS One (2011) 0.84
Metabolic dominance of bivalves predates brachiopod diversity decline by more than 150 million years. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.83
Expected time-invariant effects of biological traits on mammal species duration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2015) 0.81
Can unified theories of biodiversity explain mammalian macroecological patterns? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 0.81
Ecological interactions in dinosaur communities: influences of small offspring and complex ontogenetic life histories. PLoS One (2013) 0.80
An advanced shape-fitting algorithm applied to quadrupedal mammals: improving volumetric mass estimates. R Soc Open Sci (2015) 0.79
Body size diversity and frequency distributions of Neotropical cichlid fishes (Cichliformes: Cichlidae: Cichlinae). PLoS One (2014) 0.77
What are the factors determining the probability of discovering a flea species (Siphonaptera)? Parasitol Res (2005) 0.76
The role of local versus biogeographical processes in influencing diversity and body-size variation in mammal assemblages. Ecol Evol (2016) 0.75
Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem. Proc Biol Sci (2016) 0.75
Bone-associated gene evolution and the origin of flight in birds. BMC Genomics (2016) 0.75
The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature (2007) 15.98
Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of global importance. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 15.02
Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map. Nat Rev Microbiol (2006) 14.24
Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity. Nature (2004) 10.66
Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends Ecol Evol (2006) 10.52
Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule. Science (2002) 9.53
Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species. Science (2005) 8.18
Don't judge species on their origins. Nature (2011) 7.65
Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. Nature (2010) 6.55
Effects of size and temperature on developmental time. Nature (2002) 5.79
Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature (2006) 5.71
Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning in seed plants. Science (2002) 5.64
Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecol Lett (2007) 5.29
Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere. Nature (2012) 5.25
Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control. New Phytol (2011) 5.10
The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology. Front Plant Sci (2011) 4.16
A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 4.00
Effects of body size and temperature on population growth. Am Nat (2004) 3.94
The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer "cold-blooded" animals against climate warming. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 3.88
Colloquium paper: microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 3.71
Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends Ecol Evol (2007) 3.71
The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 3.62
Species invasions exceed extinctions on islands worldwide: a comparative study of plants and birds. Am Nat (2002) 3.59
The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology. Trends Ecol Evol (2012) 3.57
The scaling of animal space use. Science (2004) 3.52
Kinetic effects of temperature on rates of genetic divergence and speciation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 3.36
The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization. J Exp Biol (2005) 3.30
Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology. Trends Ecol Evol (2007) 3.20
Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links. Ecol Lett (2008) 3.08
Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny. Science (2008) 3.04
Climate change, wine, and conservation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 2.99
On estimating the exponent of power-law frequency distributions. Ecology (2008) 2.95
Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science (2002) 2.90
The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals. Proc Biol Sci (2008) 2.89
Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Science (2006) 2.85
Conserving biodiversity efficiently: what to do, where, and when. PLoS Biol (2007) 2.80
On the vegetative biomass partitioning of seed plant leaves, stems, and roots. Am Nat (2002) 2.72
Allometric scaling of metabolic rate from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 2.62
Supertrees are a necessary not-so-evil: a comment on Gatesy et al. Syst Biol (2003) 2.62
Phylogenetic and growth form variation in the scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus in the seed plants. Am Nat (2006) 2.60
The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names. BMC Bioinformatics (2013) 2.59
Relationship between cystic fibrosis respiratory tract bacterial communities and age, genotype, antibiotics and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Environ Microbiol (2010) 2.55
The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science (2010) 2.53
The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization. Trends Ecol Evol (2013) 2.45
The effect of energy and seasonality on avian species richness and community composition. Am Nat (2002) 2.45
Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.38
Pediatric cervical spine: normal anatomy, variants, and trauma. Radiographics (2003) 2.37
Effects of body size and lifestyle on evolution of mammal life histories. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 2.33
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature (2011) 2.31
Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecol Lett (2007) 2.30
The complex structure of hunter-gatherer social networks. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 2.27
The influence of spatial and size scale on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities. Ecology (2007) 2.26
Heat freezes niche evolution. Ecol Lett (2013) 2.22
Ecology. Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals. Science (2009) 2.22
Dinosaur fossils predict body temperatures. PLoS Biol (2006) 2.21
Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.20
A new model for the body size-metabolism relationship. Physiol Biochem Zool (2010) 2.20
Multiple ecological pathways to extinction in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.18
Serial SimCoal: a population genetics model for data from multiple populations and points in time. Bioinformatics (2004) 2.18
Colloquium paper: phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.14
The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics. Ecology (2006) 2.13
Mating system and brain size in bats. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 2.08
Revisiting a model of ontogenetic growth: estimating model parameters from theory and data. Am Nat (2008) 2.03
Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.01
Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation. Am J Bot (2007) 2.00
Empirical evaluation of neutral theory. Ecology (2006) 1.92
General patterns of taxonomic and biomass partitioning in extant and fossil plant communities. Nature (2002) 1.91
Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primates. Am Nat (2003) 1.90
Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes. New Phytol (2011) 1.90
Scaling mass and morphology in leaves: an extension of the WBE model. Ecology (2007) 1.87
Ecology. Domains of diversity. Science (2004) 1.81
Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter-gatherers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.81
A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.81
Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.80
The allometry of ornaments and weapons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.80
Macrophysiology: a conceptual reunification. Am Nat (2009) 1.76
A general model for allometric covariation in botanical form and function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.68
Ecological and biogeographical inferences on two sympatric and enigmatic Andean cat species using genetic identification of faecal samples. Mol Ecol (2008) 1.68
Scaling of number, size, and metabolic rate of cells with body size in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.67
Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology. Ecol Lett (2009) 1.67
Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule? Nature (2007) 1.67
Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.66
A reevaluation of the key factors that influence tomato fruit softening and integrity. Plant Physiol (2007) 1.66
Opposing assembly mechanisms in a neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology. Ecology (2009) 1.64
A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.63
A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2012) 1.61
The metabolic basis of whole-organism RNA and phosphorus content. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.61