| 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 | 1273 | 2010 |
| Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots F Forest, R Grenyer, M Rouget, TJ Davies, RM Cowling, DP Faith, ... Nature 445 (7129), 757-760, 2007 | 801 | 2007 |
| Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change EM Wolkovich, BI Cook, JM Allen, TM Crimmins, JL Betancourt, ... Nature 485 (7399), 494-497, 2012 | 695 | 2012 |
| Darwin's abominable mystery: insights from a supertree of the angiosperms TJ Davies, TG Barraclough, MW Chase, PS Soltis, DE Soltis, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (7), 1904-1909, 2004 | 615 | 2004 |
| Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data LJ Harmon, JB Losos, T Jonathan Davies, RG Gillespie, JL Gittleman, ... Evolution 64 (8), 2385-2396, 2010 | 614 | 2010 |
| Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates R Grenyer, CDL Orme, SF Jackson, GH Thomas, RG Davies, TJ Davies, ... Nature 444 (7115), 93-96, 2006 | 513 | 2006 |
| Phylogenetic diversity metrics for ecological communities: integrating species richness, abundance and evolutionary history MW Cadotte, T Jonathan Davies, J Regetz, SW Kembel, E Cleland, ... Ecology letters 13 (1), 96-105, 2010 | 334 | 2010 |
| A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology CM Tucker, MW Cadotte, SB Carvalho, TJ Davies, S Ferrier, SA Fritz, ... Biological Reviews 92 (2), 698-715, 2017 | 311 | 2017 |
| Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science S Pau, EM Wolkovich, BI Cook, TJ Davies, NJB Kraft, K Bolmgren, ... Global Change Biology 17 (12), 3633-3643, 2011 | 290 | 2011 |
| Multigene analyses of monocot relationships MW Chase, MF Fay, DS Devey, O Maurin, N Rønsted, TJ Davies, Y Pillon, ... Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany 22 (1), 63-75, 2006 | 264 | 2006 |
| 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 | 241 | 2010 |
| Phylogeny and geography predict pathogen community similarity in wild primates and humans TJ Davies, AB Pedersen Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1643), 1695-1701, 2008 | 237 | 2008 |
| Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plants TJ Davies, V Savolainen, MW Chase, J Moat, TG Barraclough Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 209 | 2004 |
| Global drivers of human pathogen richness and prevalence RR Dunn, TJ Davies, NC Harris, MC Gavin Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1694), 2587-2595, 2010 | 204 | 2010 |
| Species co‐existence and character divergence across carnivores T Jonathan Davies, S Meiri, TG Barraclough, JL Gittleman Ecology letters 10 (2), 146-152, 2007 | 199 | 2007 |
| The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes IA Hatton, KS McCann, JM Fryxell, TJ Davies, M Smerlak, ARE Sinclair, ... Science 349 (6252), 2015 | 167 | 2015 |
| Rarest of the rare: advances in combining evolutionary distinctiveness and scarcity to inform conservation at biogeographical scales MW Cadotte, T Jonathan Davies Diversity and Distributions 16 (3), 376-385, 2010 | 161 | 2010 |
| Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity TJ Davies, SA Fritz, R Grenyer, CDL Orme, J Bielby, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (Supplement 1), 11556-11563, 2008 | 159 | 2008 |
| Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology TJ Davies, EM Wolkovich, NJB Kraft, N Salamin, JM Allen, TR Ault, ... Journal of ecology 101 (6), 1520-1530, 2013 | 145 | 2013 |
| Iridaceae'Out of Australasia'? Phylogeny, biogeography, and divergence time based on plastid DNA sequences P Goldblatt, A Rodriguez, MP Powell, JT Davies, JC Manning, ... Systematic Botany 33 (3), 495-508, 2008 | 145 | 2008 |
Michelle Van der BankProfessor of Botany, University of JohannesburgVerified email at uj.ac.za
