| Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits BJ McGill, BJ Enquist, E Weiher, M Westoby Trends in ecology & evolution 21 (4), 178-185, 2006 | 2945 | 2006 |
| Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework BJ McGill, RS Etienne, JS Gray, D Alonso, MJ Anderson, HK Benecha, ... Ecology letters 10 (10), 995-1015, 2007 | 1018 | 2007 |
| The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology C Violle, BJ Enquist, BJ McGill, LIN Jiang, CH Albert, C Hulshof, V Jung, ... Trends in ecology & evolution 27 (4), 244-252, 2012 | 879 | 2012 |
| Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment AE Magurran, BJ McGill Oxford University Press, 2011 | 736 | 2011 |
| Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change EM Wolkovich, BI Cook, JM Allen, TM Crimmins, JL Betancourt, ... Nature 485 (7399), 494, 2012 | 577 | 2012 |
| Assemblage time series reveal biodiversity change but not systematic loss M Dornelas, NJ Gotelli, B McGill, H Shimadzu, F Moyes, C Sievers, ... Science 344 (6181), 296-299, 2014 | 574 | 2014 |
| A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity BJ McGill Nature 422 (6934), 881, 2003 | 486 | 2003 |
| How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait‐based ecology J Messier, BJ McGill, MJ Lechowicz Ecology letters 13 (7), 838-848, 2010 | 483 | 2010 |
| Empirical evaluation of neutral theory BJ McGill, BA Maurer, MD Weiser Ecology 87 (6), 1411-1423, 2006 | 372 | 2006 |
| Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene BJ McGill, M Dornelas, NJ Gotelli, AE Magurran Trends in ecology & evolution 30 (2), 104-113, 2015 | 284 | 2015 |
| Matters of scale BJ McGill Science 328 (5978), 575-576, 2010 | 233 | 2010 |
| Null versus neutral models: what's the difference? NJ Gotelli, BJ McGill Ecography 29 (5), 793-800, 2006 | 215 | 2006 |
| Towards a unification of unified theories of biodiversity BJ McGill Ecology letters 13 (5), 627-642, 2010 | 205 | 2010 |
| Strong and weak tests of macroecological theory B McGill Oikos 102 (3), 679-685, 2003 | 195 | 2003 |
| Can niche‐based distribution models outperform spatial interpolation? V Bahn, BJ McGill Global Ecology and Biogeography 16 (6), 733-742, 2007 | 170 | 2007 |
| Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient C Lamanna, B Blonder, C Violle, NJB Kraft, B Sandel, I Šímová, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (38), 13745-13750, 2014 | 160 | 2014 |
| Evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics of continuous traits BJ McGill, JS Brown Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38, 403-435, 2007 | 158 | 2007 |
| Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities M Dornelas, AE Magurran, ST Buckland, A Chao, RL Chazdon, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1750), 20121931, 2013 | 139 | 2013 |
| Community ecology GG Mittelbach, BJ McGill Oxford University Press, 2019 | 135 | 2019 |
| The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants OL Petchey, M Pontarp, TM Massie, S Kéfi, A Ozgul, M Weilenmann, ... Ecology letters 18 (7), 597-611, 2015 | 135 | 2015 |