| Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability EM Bennett, W Cramer, A Begossi, G Cundill, S Díaz, BN Egoh, ... Current opinion in environmental sustainability 14, 76-85, 2015 | 930 | 2015 |
| Invasive alien trees and water resources in South Africa: case studies of the costs and benefits of management DC Le Maitre, BW van Wilgen, CM Gelderblom, C Bailey, RA Chapman, ... Forest Ecology and management 160 (1-3), 143-159, 2002 | 430 | 2002 |
| National Biodiversity Assessment 2011: An assessment of South Africa’s biodiversity and ecosystems. A Driver, KJ Sink, JL Nel, S Holness, L Van Niekerk, F Daniels, Z Jonas, ... | 394 | 2012 |
| Six modes of co-production for sustainability JM Chambers, C Wyborn, ME Ryan, RS Reid, M Riechers, A Serban, ... Nature Sustainability 4 (11), 983-996, 2021 | 382 | 2021 |
| A proposed classification of invasive alien plant species in South Africa: towards prioritizing species and areas for management action: working for water JL Nel, DM Richardson, M Rouget, TN Mgidi, N Mdzeke, DC Le Maitre, ... South African Journal of Science 100 (1), 53-64, 2004 | 334 | 2004 |
| Mapping the potential ranges of major plant invaders in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland using climatic suitability M Rouget, DM Richardson, JL Nel, DC Le Maitre, B Egoh, T Mgidi Diversity and Distributions 10 (5‐6), 475-484, 2004 | 268 | 2004 |
| The IUCN red list of ecosystems: Motivations, challenges, and applications DA Keith, JP Rodríguez, TM Brooks, MA Burgman, EG Barrow, L Bland, ... Conservation Letters 8 (3), 214-226, 2015 | 267 | 2015 |
| Rivers in peril inside and outside protected areas: a systematic approach to conservation assessment of river ecosystems JL Nel, DJ Roux, G Maree, CJ Kleynhans, J Moolman, B Reyers, ... Diversity and Distributions 13 (3), 341-352, 2007 | 266 | 2007 |
| National spatial biodiversity assessment 2004: priorities for biodiversity conservation in South Africa. A Driver, K Maze, M Rouget, AT Lombard, J Nel, JK Turpie, RM Cowling, ... | 266 | 2005 |
| Freshwater conservation planning: the case for systematic approaches S Linke, E Turak, J Nel Freshwater Biology 56 (1), 6-20, 2011 | 261 | 2011 |
| Progress and challenges in freshwater conservation planning JL Nel, DJ Roux, R Abell, PJ Ashton, RM Cowling, JV Higgins, M Thieme, ... Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19 (4), 474-485, 2009 | 255 | 2009 |
| Knowledge co‐production and boundary work to promote implementation of conservation plans JL Nel, DJ Roux, A Driver, L Hill, AC Maherry, K Snaddon, CR Petersen, ... Conservation Biology 30 (1), 176-188, 2016 | 233 | 2016 |
| Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into disaster risk reduction B Reyers, JL Nel, PJ O’Farrell, N Sitas, DC Nel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (24), 7362-7368, 2015 | 231 | 2015 |
| Technical report for the national freshwater ecosystem priority areas project JL Nel, KM Murray, AM Maherry, CP Petersen, DJ Roux, A Driver, L Hill, ... Water Research Commission Report 1081 (2), 11, 2011 | 231 | 2011 |
| Conservation planning as a transdisciplinary process B Reyers, DJ Roux, RM Cowling, AE Ginsburg, JL Nel, PO FARRELL Conservation biology 24 (4), 957-965, 2010 | 228 | 2010 |
| Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination LM Navarro, N Fernandez, C Guerra, R Guralnick, WD Kissling, ... Current opinion in environmental sustainability 29, 158-169, 2017 | 220 | 2017 |
| A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems DA Keith, JR Ferrer-Paris, E Nicholson, MJ Bishop, BA Polidoro, ... Nature 610 (7932), 513-518, 2022 | 218 | 2022 |
| The IUCN global ecosystem typology v1. 01: Descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups DA Keith, JR Ferrer, E Nicholson, MJ Bishop, BA Polidoro, ... | 216 | 2020 |
| Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations JM Chambers, C Wyborn, NL Klenk, M Ryan, A Serban, NJ Bennett, ... Global Environmental Change 72, 102422, 2022 | 207 | 2022 |
| Transdisciplinary research for systemic change: who to learn with, what to learn about and how to learn DJ Roux, JL Nel, G Cundill, P O’farrell, C Fabricius Sustainability Science 12, 711-726, 2017 | 177 | 2017 |
