| Parasitology meets ecology on its own terms: Margolis et al. revisited AO Bush, KD Lafferty, JM Lotz, AW Shostak The Journal of parasitology, 575-583, 1997 | 9885 | 1997 |
| Introduced species and their missing parasites ME Torchin, KD Lafferty, AP Dobson, VJ McKenzie, AM Kuris Nature 421 (6923), 628-630, 2003 | 1720 | 2003 |
| The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases KD Lafferty Ecology 90 (4), 888-900, 2009 | 1437 | 2009 |
| Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites? PJ Hudson, AP Dobson, KD Lafferty Trends in ecology & evolution 21 (7), 381-385, 2006 | 1135 | 2006 |
| Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links KD Lafferty, S Allesina, M Arim, CJ Briggs, G De Leo, AP Dobson, ... Ecology letters 11 (6), 533-546, 2008 | 1054 | 2008 |
| Parasites dominate food web links KD Lafferty, AP Dobson, AM Kuris Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (30), 11211-11216, 2006 | 972 | 2006 |
| Homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts? A Dobson, KD Lafferty, AM Kuris, RF Hechinger, W Jetz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (supplement_1), 11482-11489, 2008 | 909 | 2008 |
| Infectious diseases affect marine fisheries and aquaculture economics KD Lafferty, CD Harvell, JM Conrad, CS Friedman, ML Kent, AM Kuris, ... Annual review of marine science 7 (1), 471-496, 2015 | 811 | 2015 |
| Decadal trends in marine reserves reveal differential rates of change in direct and indirect effects RC Babcock, NT Shears, AC Alcala, NS Barrett, GJ Edgar, KD Lafferty, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (43), 18256-18261, 2010 | 724 | 2010 |
| Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries AM Kuris, RF Hechinger, JC Shaw, KL Whitney, L Aguirre-Macedo, ... Nature 454 (7203), 515-518, 2008 | 701 | 2008 |
| Altered behavior of parasitized killifish increases susceptibility to predation by bird final hosts KD Lafferty, AK Morris Ecology 77 (5), 1390-1397, 1996 | 696 | 1996 |
| Evidence for the role of infectious disease in species extinction and endangerment KF Smith, DF Sax, KD Lafferty Conservation biology 20 (5), 1349-1357, 2006 | 687 | 2006 |
| Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted EA Mordecai, KP Paaijmans, LR Johnson, C Balzer, T Ben‐Horin, ... Ecology letters 16 (1), 22-30, 2013 | 673 | 2013 |
| Environmental parasitology: what can parasites tell us about human impacts on the environment? KD Lafferty Parasitology today 13 (7), 251-255, 1997 | 664 | 1997 |
| Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves CM Roberts, S Andelman, G Branch, RH Bustamante, J Carlos Castilla, ... Ecological applications 13 (sp1), 199-214, 2003 | 640 | 2003 |
| Applying ecological criteria to marine reserve design: a case study from the California Channel Islands S Airamé, JE Dugan, KD Lafferty, H Leslie, DA McArdle, RR Warner Ecological applications 13 (sp1), 170-184, 2003 | 536 | 2003 |
| Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts RF Hechinger, KD Lafferty Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1567), 1059-1066, 2005 | 523 | 2005 |
| How environmental stress affects the impacts of parasites KD Lafferty, AM Kuris Limnology and Oceanography 44 (3part2), 925-931, 1999 | 521 | 1999 |
| Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease C Packer, RD Holt, PJ Hudson, KD Lafferty, AP Dobson Ecology Letters 6 (9), 797-802, 2003 | 518 | 2003 |
| Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks CM Roberts, G Branch, RH Bustamante, JC Castilla, J Dugan, BS Halpern, ... Ecological applications 13 (sp1), 215-228, 2003 | 483 | 2003 |
