Title	Publication Date	Language	Citations
The effects of plant litter on vegetation: a meta‐analysis	1999/12/01	English	381
Floral diversity and the facilitation of pollination	2006/01/30	English	380
Photosynthetic Light Environments in a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest in Costa Rica	1984/07/01		377
Differential tree mortality in response to severe drought: evidence for long‐term vegetation shifts	2005/07/05	English	375
An Experimental Comparison of Leaf Decomposition Rates in a Wide Range of Temperate Plant Species and Types	1996/08/01		372
Large‐scale spatial dynamics of plants: metapopulations, regional ensembles and patchy populations	2002/05/19	English	370
Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition	2015/11/27	English	369
To die or not to die: early warnings of tree dieback in response to a severe drought	2015/01/01	English	366
Socialism in soil? The importance of mycorrhizal fungal networks for facilitation in natural ecosystems	2009/10/13	English	365
Morphological Plasticity in Clonal Plants: The Foraging Concept Reconsidered	1995/02/01		361
Occupation of Biological Space During Seedling Establishment	1972/03/01		360
Host-Dependent Sporulation and Species Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Mown Grassland	1996/02/01		358
Historical Factors Affecting the Number and Distribution of Vascular Plant Species in the Woodlands of Central Lincolnshire	1984/03/01		358
Rapid recent range‐margin rise of tree and shrub species in the Swedish Scandes	2002/02/01	English	357
Indices of plant competition	2003/09/19	English	354
Plant zonation in low‐latitude salt marshes: disentangling the roles of flooding, salinity and competition	2004/12/21	English	353
Measuring Beta Diversity with Presence-Absence Data	1984/11/01		349
Plant Life-History Attributes: Their Relationship to Disturbance Response in Herbaceous Vegetation	1995/02/01		348
Responses of Mediterranean Grassland Plants to Grazing and Protection	1989/03/01		347
Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador	2004/03/23	English	343
Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum	2016/03/11	English	342
Linking litter decomposition of above‐ and below‐ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide	2013/06/07	English	338
Geostatistical Patterns of Soil Heterogeneity Around Individual Perennial Plants	1993/12/01		331
Tropical Forest Structure and Composition on a Large-Scale Altitudinal Gradient in Costa Rica	1996/04/01		331
The Ecological Flora Database	1994/06/01		329
The freezer defrosting: global warming and litter decomposition rates in cold biomes	2006/05/23	English	328
The Behaviour of Seeds in Soil: I. The Heterogeneity of Soil surfaces and its Role in Determining the Establishment of Plants from Seed	1965/07/01		328
Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland	2008/08/12	English	327
Tragedy of the commons as a result of root competition	2001/08/01	English	327
A Quantitative Analysis of Shoot Phenology and Dominance in Herbaceous Vegetation	1977/11/01		325