| Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems NM Haddad, LA Brudvig, J Clobert, KF Davies, A Gonzalez, RD Holt, ... Science advances 1 (2), e1500052, 2015 | 4361 | 2015 |
| Species richness in a successional grassland: effects of nitrogen enrichment and plant litter BL Foster, KL Gross Ecology 79 (8), 2593-2602, 1998 | 677 | 1998 |
| Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness LH Fraser, J Pither, A Jentsch, M Sternberg, M Zobel, D Askarizadeh, ... Science 349 (6245), 302-305, 2015 | 465 | 2015 |
| Dynamic and static views of succession: testing the descriptive power of the chronosequence approach BL Foster, D Tilman Plant Ecology 146, 1-10, 2000 | 446 | 2000 |
| Island theory, matrix effects and species richness patterns in habitat fragments WM Cook, KT Lane, BL Foster, RD Holt Ecology letters 5 (5), 619-623, 2002 | 353 | 2002 |
| Seed limitation and the regulation of community structure in oak savanna grassland BL Foster, D Tilman Journal of Ecology 91 (6), 999-1007, 2003 | 269 | 2003 |
| Constraints on colonization and species richness along a grassland productivity gradient: the role of propagule availability BL Foster Ecology Letters 4 (6), 530-535, 2001 | 230 | 2001 |
| Propagule pools mediate community assembly and diversity-ecosystem regulation along a grassland productivity gradient BL Foster, TL Dickson, CA Murphy, IS Karel, VH Smith Journal of Ecology, 435-449, 2004 | 227 | 2004 |
| Coexistence through spatio‐temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities EJ Questad, BL Foster Ecology letters 11 (7), 717-726, 2008 | 213 | 2008 |
| Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed KJ Komatsu, ML Avolio, NP Lemoine, F Isbell, E Grman, GR Houseman, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (36), 17867-17873, 2019 | 211 | 2019 |
| Secondary succession in an experimentally fragmented landscape: community patterns across space and time WM Cook, J Yao, BL Foster, RD Holt, LB Patrick Ecology 86 (5), 1267-1279, 2005 | 186 | 2005 |
| Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world's oceans VH Smith, BL Foster, JP Grover, RD Holt, MA Leibold, F deNoyelles Jr Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (12), 4393-4396, 2005 | 174 | 2005 |
| Restoration of prairie community structure and ecosystem function in an abandoned hayfield: a sowing experiment BL Foster, CA Murphy, KR Keller, TA Aschenbach, EJ Questad, ... Restoration Ecology 15 (4), 652-661, 2007 | 164 | 2007 |
| Invasibility and compositional stability in a grassland community: relationships to diversity and extrinsic factors BL Foster, VH Smith, TL Dickson, T Hildebrand Oikos 99 (2), 300-307, 2002 | 162 | 2002 |
| Metapopulations and metacommunities: combining spatial and temporal perspectives in plant ecology HM Alexander, BL Foster, F Ballantyne IV, CD Collins, J Antonovics, ... Journal of Ecology 100 (1), 88-103, 2012 | 148 | 2012 |
| Establishment, competition and the distribution of native grasses among Michigan old‐fields BL Foster Journal of Ecology 87 (3), 476-489, 1999 | 146 | 1999 |
| PARTITIONING THE EFFECTS OF PLANT BIOMASS AND LITTER ON ANDROPOGON GERARDI IN OLD‐FIELD VEGETATION BL Foster, KL Gross Ecology 78 (7), 2091-2104, 1997 | 128 | 1997 |
| Fertilization decreases plant biodiversity even when light is not limiting TL Dickson, BL Foster Ecology letters 14 (4), 380-388, 2011 | 124 | 2011 |
| Community‐level consequences of mycorrhizae depend on phosphorus availability CD Collins, BL Foster Ecology 90 (9), 2567-2576, 2009 | 122 | 2009 |
| Grassland diversity and productivity: the interplay of resource availability and propagule pools BL Foster, TL Dickson Ecology 85 (6), 1541-1547, 2004 | 118 | 2004 |