| The ecology of individuals: incidence and implications of individual specialization DI Bolnick, R Svanbäck, JA Fordyce, LH Yang, JM Davis, CD Hulsey, ... The American Naturalist 161 (1), 1-28, 2003 | 3190 | 2003 |
| Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts DL Wagner, EM Grames, ML Forister, MR Berenbaum, D Stopak Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (2), e2023989118, 2021 | 1100 | 2021 |
| The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores ML Forister, V Novotny, AK Panorska, L Baje, Y Basset, PT Butterill, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (2), 442-447, 2015 | 599 | 2015 |
| Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity ML Forister, AC McCall, NJ Sanders, JA Fordyce, JH Thorne, J O’Brien, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (5), 2088-2092, 2010 | 467 | 2010 |
| Insects and recent climate change CA Halsch, AM Shapiro, JA Fordyce, CC Nice, JH Thorne, DP Waetjen, ... Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 118 (2), e2002543117, 2021 | 413 | 2021 |
| Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat Z Gompert, JA Fordyce, ML Forister, AM Shapiro, CC Nice Science 314 (5807), 1923-1925, 2006 | 336 | 2006 |
| Declines in insect abundance and diversity: We know enough to act now ML Forister, EM Pelton, SH Black Conservation Science and Practice 1 (8), e80, 2019 | 328 | 2019 |
| Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect–plant interactions ML Forister, LA Dyer, MS Singer, JO Stireman III, JT Lill Ecology 93 (5), 981-991, 2012 | 327 | 2012 |
| Climatic trends and advancing spring flight of butterflies in lowland California ML Forister, AM Shapiro Global change biology 9 (7), 1130-1135, 2003 | 320 | 2003 |
| Phytochemical diversity drives plant–insect community diversity LA Richards, LA Dyer, ML Forister, AM Smilanich, CD Dodson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (35), 10973-10978, 2015 | 311 | 2015 |
| Scientists' warning on climate change and insects JA Harvey, K Tougeron, R Gols, R Heinen, M Abarca, PK Abram, Y Basset, ... Ecological monographs 93 (1), e1553, 2023 | 278 | 2023 |
| Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants Z Gompert, LK Lucas, CA Buerkle, ML Forister, JA Fordyce, CC Nice Molecular ecology 23 (18), 4555-4573, 2014 | 217 | 2014 |
| Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species Z Gompert, LK Lucas, CC Nice, JA Fordyce, ML Forister, CA Buerkle Evolution 66 (7), 2167-2181, 2012 | 195 | 2012 |
| Widespread mito‐nuclear discordance with evidence for introgressive hybridization and selective sweeps in Lycaeides Z Gompert, ML Forister, JA Fordyce, CC Nice Molecular ecology 17 (24), 5231-5244, 2008 | 186 | 2008 |
| Interest exceeds understanding in public support of bee conservation JS Wilson, ML Forister, OM Carril Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15 (8), 460-466, 2017 | 159 | 2017 |
| Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West ML Forister, CA Halsch, CC Nice, JA Fordyce, TE Dilts, JC Oliver, ... Science 371 (6533), 1042-1045, 2021 | 155 | 2021 |
| The significance of wing pattern diversity in the Lycaenidae: mate discrimination by two recently diverged species JA Fordyce, CC Nice, ML Forister, AM Shapiro Journal of evolutionary biology 15 (5), 871-879, 2002 | 155 | 2002 |
| Increasing neonicotinoid use and the declining butterfly fauna of lowland California ML Forister, B Cousens, JG Harrison, K Anderson, JH Thorne, D Waetjen, ... Biology letters 12 (8), 20160475, 2016 | 152 | 2016 |
| Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome of Lycaeides butterflies Z Gompert, ML Forister, JA Fordyce, CC Nice, RJ Williamson, ... Molecular ecology 19 (12), 2455-2473, 2010 | 147 | 2010 |
| Identifying units for conservation using molecular systematics: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly Z Gompert, CC Nice, JA Fordyce, ML Forister, AM Shapiro Molecular ecology 15 (7), 1759-1768, 2006 | 131 | 2006 |