Standout Papers

Agricultural sustainability and intensive production ... 1984 2026 1998 2012 5.2k
  1. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices (2002)
    David Tilman, Kenneth G. Cassman et al. Nature
  2. Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture (2011)
    David Tilman, Christian Balzer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  3. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity (2012)
    Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy et al. Nature
  4. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology (2004)
    Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak et al. Ecology Letters
  5. Resource Competition and Community Structure (1984)
    M. P. Hassell, David Tilman Journal of Animal Ecology
  6. Resource Competition and Community Structure. (1983)
    John L. Harper, David Tilman Journal of Ecology
  7. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges (2001)
    Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem et al. Science
  8. Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change (2001)
    David Tilman, Joseph Fargione et al. Science
  9. Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt (2008)
    Joseph Fargione, Jason Hill et al. Science
  10. The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes (1997)
    David Tilman, David A. Wedin et al. Science
  11. Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health (2014)
    David Tilman, Michael Clark Nature
  12. Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems (1999)
    Val H. Smith, David Tilman et al. Environmental Pollution
  13. Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured Habitats (1994)
    David Tilman Ecology
  14. Habitat destruction and the extinction debt (1994)
    David Tilman, Robert M. May et al. Nature
  15. Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems (1996)
    David Tilman, David A. Wedin et al. Nature
  16. Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels (2006)
    Jason Hill, Erik Nelson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  17. Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment (2001)
    David Tilman, Peter B. Reich et al. Science
  18. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment (2006)
    David Tilman, Peter B. Reich et al. Nature
  19. Biodiversity and stability in grasslands (1994)
    David Tilman, John Downing Nature
  20. Challenges in the Quest for Keystones (1996)
    Mary E. Power, David Tilman et al. BioScience
  21. THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGES IN BIODIVERSITY: A SEARCH FOR GENERAL PRINCIPLES101 (1999)
    David Tilman Ecology
  22. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014)
    David Tilman, Forest Isbell et al. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  23. Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass (2006)
    David Tilman, Jason Hill et al. Science
  24. Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma (2009)
    David Tilman, Robert H. Socolow et al. Science
  25. Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: A stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assembly (2004)
    David Tilman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  26. Spatial ecology : the role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions (1997)
    David Tilman, Peter Kareiva Ecology
  27. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services (2011)
    Forest Isbell, Vincent Calcagno et al. Nature
  28. Biodiversity: Population Versus Ecosystem Stability (1996)
    David Tilman Ecology
  29. Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: Theoretical considerations (1997)
    David Tilman, Clarence Lehman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  30. COMMUNITY INVASIBILITY, RECRUITMENT LIMITATION, AND GRASSLAND BIODIVERSITY (1997)
    David Tilman Ecology
  31. PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: ARE THERE ANY LINKS? (2003)
    Donald R. Zak, William E. Holmes et al. Ecology
  32. Resource Competition between Plankton Algae: An Experimental and Theoretical Approach (1977)
    David Tilman Ecology
  33. Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being (2006)
    Sandra Dı́az, Joseph Fargione et al. PLoS Biology
  34. Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: The need for sustainable and efficient practices (1999)
    David Tilman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  35. The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation (2003)
    David R. Foster, Frederick J. Swanson et al. BioScience
  36. Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion (2002)
    Theodore A. Kennedy, Shahid Naeem et al. Nature
  37. Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands (2008)
    Christopher M. Clark, David Tilman Nature
  38. Secondary Succession and the Pattern of Plant Dominance Along Experimental Nitrogen Gradients (1987)
    David Tilman Ecological Monographs
  39. Resource competition and community structure. (1982)
    David Tilman PubMed
  40. Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention (2017)
    David Tilman, Michael Clark et al. Nature
  41. Phytoplankton Community Ecology: The Role of Limiting Nutrients (1982)
    David Tilman, S. S. Kilham et al. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
  42. Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems (1997)
    F. Stuart Chapin, Brian Walker et al. Science
  43. The Resource-Ratio Hypothesis of Plant Succession (1985)
    David Tilman The American Naturalist
  44. THE INVASION PARADOX: RECONCILING PATTERN AND PROCESS IN SPECIES INVASIONS (2007)
    Jason D. Fridley, John J. Stachowicz et al. Ecology
  45. Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2 (2006)
    Peter B. Reich, Sarah E. Hobbie et al. Nature
  46. The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value (2000)
    Gretchen C. Daily, Tore Söderqvist et al. Science
  47. The Ecological Consequences of Changes in Biodiversity: A Search for General Principles (1999)
    David Tilman Ecology
  48. Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice (2017)
    Michael Clark, David Tilman Environmental Research Letters
  49. Community assembly and invasion: An experimental test of neutral versus niche processes (2003)
    Joseph Fargione, Cynthia S. Brown et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  50. Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity (1999)
    Johannes M. H. Knops, David Tilman et al. Ecology Letters
  51. Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets (2020)
    Michael Clark, Sumil K Thakrar et al. Science
  52. Biodiversity, Stability, and Productivity in Competitive Communities (2000)
    Clarence Lehman, David Tilman The American Naturalist
  53. Perspectives on Plant Competition (1992)
    Stephen C. Bunting, James B. Grace et al. Journal of Range Management
  54. Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades (2012)
    Peter B. Reich, David Tilman et al. Science
  55. Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation (2008)
    Dario Fornara, David Tilman Journal of Ecology
  56. Constraints and Tradeoffs: Toward a Predictive Theory of Competition and Succession (1990)
    David Tilman Oikos
  57. Species effects on nitrogen cycling: a test with perennial grasses (1990)
    David A. Wedin, David Tilman Oecologia
  58. Plant diversity increases resistance to invasion in the absence of covarying extrinsic factors (2000)
    Shahid Naeem, Johannes M. H. Knops et al. Oikos
  59. Nexus approaches to global sustainable development (2018)
    Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull et al. Nature Sustainability
  60. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity (2015)
    Yann Hautier, David Tilman et al. Science
  61. Resource Competition and Community Structure. (MPB-17), Volume 17 (1982)
    David Tilman Princeton University Press eBooks
  62. Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity (2009)
    Marc W. Cadotte, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares et al. PLoS ONE
  63. Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods (2019)
    Michael Clark, Marco Springmann et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  64. Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species (2003)
    Eric W. Seabloom, W. Stanley Harpole et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  65. Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013)
    Forest Isbell, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  66. Resources: A Graphical-Mechanistic Approach to Competition and Predation (1980)
    David Tilman The American Naturalist
  67. Plant diversity and overyielding: insights from belowground facilitation of intercropping in agriculture (2014)
    Long Li, David Tilman et al. New Phytologist
  68. National food production stabilized by crop diversity (2019)
    Delphine Renard, David Tilman Nature
  69. Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production (2019)
    Jason R. Rohr, Christopher B. Barrett et al. Nature Sustainability
  70. Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability (2012)
    Marc W. Cadotte, Russell Dinnage et al. Ecology
  71. Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory (2012)
    David Tilman, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  72. Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity (2019)
    Yi Yang, David Tilman et al. Nature Communications
  73. Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products (2022)
    Michael Clark, Marco Springmann et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  74. Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility (2021)
    George N. Furey, David Tilman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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