| Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology JJ Wiens, DD Ackerly, AP Allen, BL Anacker, LB Buckley, HV Cornell, ... Ecology letters 13 (10), 1310-1324, 2010 | 1866 | 2010 |
| Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction JM De Vos, LN Joppa, JL Gittleman, PR Stephens, SL Pimm Conservation biology 29 (2), 452-462, 2015 | 772 | 2015 |
| Explaining species richness from continents to communities: the time-for-speciation effect in emydid turtles PR Stephens, JJ Wiens The American Naturalist 161 (1), 112-128, 2003 | 397 | 2003 |
| The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals FA Smith, AG Boyer, JH Brown, DP Costa, T Dayan, SKM Ernest, ... science 330 (6008), 1216-1219, 2010 | 304 | 2010 |
| Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals LB Buckley, TJ Davies, DD Ackerly, NJB Kraft, SP Harrison, BL Anacker, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1691), 2131-2138, 2010 | 302 | 2010 |
| Ecological diversification and phylogeny of emydid turtles PR Stephens, JJ Wiens Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79 (4), 577-610, 2003 | 184 | 2003 |
| Discordant mitochondrial and nuclear gene phylogenies in emydid turtles: implications for speciation and conservation JJ Wiens, CA Kuczynski, PR Stephens Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99 (2), 445-461, 2010 | 181 | 2010 |
| The macroecology of infectious diseases: A new perspective on global‐scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts PR Stephens, S Altizer, KF Smith, A Alonso Aguirre, JH Brown, ... Ecology letters 19 (9), 1159-1171, 2016 | 172 | 2016 |
| Replicate patterns of species richness, historical biogeography, and phylogeny in Holarctic treefrogs SA Smith, PR Stephens, JJ Wiens Evolution 59 (11), 2433-2450, 2005 | 170 | 2005 |
| The maximum rate of mammal evolution AR Evans, D Jones, AG Boyer, JH Brown, DP Costa, SKM Ernest, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (11), 4187-4190, 2012 | 146 | 2012 |
| Evolution of sexual size dimorphisms in emydid turtles: ecological dimorphism, Rensch's rule, and sympatric divergence PR Stephens, JJ Wiens Evolution 63 (4), 910-925, 2009 | 137 | 2009 |
| Different evolutionary histories underlie congruent species richness gradients of birds and mammals BA Hawkins, CM McCain, TJ Davies, LB Buckley, BL Anacker, HV Cornell, ... Journal of biogeography 39 (5), 825-841, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| Global mammal parasite database version 2.0 PR Stephens, P Pappalardo, S Huang, JE Byers, MJ Farrell, A Gehman, ... Ecology 98 (5), 1476-1476, 2017 | 111 | 2017 |
| Phylogenetically related and ecologically similar carnivores harbour similar parasite assemblages S Huang, ORP Bininda‐Emonds, PR Stephens, JL Gittleman, S Altizer Journal of Animal Ecology 83 (3), 671-680, 2014 | 92 | 2014 |
| Sexual selection explains more functional variation in the mammalian major histocompatibility complex than parasitism JC Winternitz, SG Minchey, LZ Garamszegi, S Huang, PR Stephens, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1769), 20131605, 2013 | 88 | 2013 |
| Phylogeny meets ecotoxicology: evolutionary patterns of sensitivity to a common insecticide JI Hammond, DK Jones, PR Stephens, RA Relyea Evolutionary Applications 5 (6), 593-606, 2012 | 83 | 2012 |
| Bridging the gap between community ecology and historical biogeography: niche conservatism and community structure in emydid turtles PR Stephens, JJ Wiens Molecular ecology 18 (22), 4664-4679, 2009 | 75 | 2009 |
| Convergence, divergence, and homogenization in the ecological structure of emydid turtle communities: the effects of phylogeny and dispersal PR Stephens, JJ Wiens The American Naturalist 164 (2), 244-254, 2004 | 70 | 2004 |
| Parapatric divergence of sympatric morphs in a salamander: incipient speciation on Long Island? MC Fisher‐Reid, TN Engstrom, CA Kuczynski, PR Stephens, JJ Wiens Molecular ecology 22 (18), 4681-4694, 2013 | 64 | 2013 |
| Characterizing the phylogenetic specialism–generalism spectrum of mammal parasites AW Park, MJ Farrell, JP Schmidt, S Huang, TA Dallas, P Pappalardo, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1874), 20172613, 2018 | 60 | 2018 |
John J. WiensUniversity of ArizonaVerified email at email.arizona.edu
