Standout Papers

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  1. Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness (2001)
    Nicholas J. Gotelli, Robert K. Colwell Ecology Letters
  2. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation (1994)
    Robert K. Colwell, Jonathan A. Coddington Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  3. Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies (2013)
    Anne Chao, Nicholas J. Gotelli et al. Ecological Monographs
  4. Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map (2006)
    Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Brendan J. M. Bohannan et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology
  5. A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data (2004)
    Anne Chao, Robin L. Chazdon et al. Ecology Letters
  6. Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages (2012)
    Robert K. Colwell, Anne Chao et al. Journal of Plant Ecology
  7. INTERPOLATING, EXTRAPOLATING, AND COMPARING INCIDENCE-BASED SPECIES ACCUMULATION CURVES (2004)
    Robert K. Colwell, Chang Xuan Mao et al. Ecology
  8. On the Measurement of Niche Breadth and Overlap (1971)
    Robert K. Colwell, Douglas J. Futuyma Ecology
  9. Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics (2008)
    Robert K. Colwell, Gunnar Brehm et al. Science
  10. Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation (2014)
    Jennifer M. Sunday, Amanda E. Bates et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness (2000)
    Robert K. Colwell, David C. Lees Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  12. Terrestrial Arthropod Assemblages: Their Use in Conservation Planning (1993)
    Claire Kremen, Robert K. Colwell et al. Conservation Biology
  13. Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? (2019)
    Carsten Rahbek, Michael K. Borregaard et al. Science
  14. Nonbiological Gradients in Species Richness and a Spurious Rapoport Effect (1994)
    Robert K. Colwell, G. C. Hurtt The American Naturalist
  15. Hutchinson's duality: The once and future niche (2009)
    Robert K. Colwell, Thiago F. Rangel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  16. Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes (2019)
    Carsten Rahbek, Michael K. Borregaard et al. Science
  17. Predictability, Constancy, and Contingency of Periodic Phenomena (1974)
    Robert K. Colwell Ecology
  18. Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves (2018)
    Thiago F. Rangel, Neil R. Edwards et al. Science
  19. Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages (2020)
    Anne Chao, Yasuhiro Kubota et al. Ecological Research

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Robert K. Colwell 15291 12832 9032 15977 131 35.9k
Nicholas J. Gotelli 13193 11093 6475 11893 219 27.3k
Robert H. MacArthur 18505 13736 7020 19852 54 40.8k
Robert D. Holt 16679 14651 7174 20603 288 43.8k
Stephen P. Hubbell 21000 12964 5458 9540 198 32.3k
David D. Ackerly 19098 14235 8286 9541 173 33.1k
Michel Loreau 24112 14151 5598 20320 283 47.8k
John H. Lawton 20270 17170 6470 20702 271 45.6k
Jonathan M. Chase 12225 7754 4666 12952 185 24.6k
Robert J. Hijmans 10774 9481 14828 12357 116 36.8k
Daniel Simberloff 21435 14431 6770 24708 371 50.3k

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