| Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress Q He, MD Bertness, AH Altieri Ecology Letters 16 (5), 695-706, 2013 | 920 | 2013 |
| Climate change, human impacts, and coastal ecosystems in the Anthropocene Q He, BR Silliman Current Biology 29 (19), R1021-R1035, 2019 | 619 | 2019 |
| Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China Q He, MD Bertness, JF Bruno, B Li, G Chen, TC Coverdale, AH Altieri, ... Scientific reports 4, 5995, 2014 | 291 | 2014 |
| Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts BR Silliman, E Schrack, Q He, R Cope, A Santoni, T van der Heide, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (46), 14295-14300, 2015 | 284 | 2015 |
| Extreme stresses, niches, and positive species interactions along stress gradients Q He, MD Bertness Ecology 95 (6), 1437-1443, 2014 | 269 | 2014 |
| Heavy metal pollution in coastal wetlands: a systematic review of studies globally over the past three decades C Li, H Wang, X Liao, R Xiao, K Liu, J Bai, B Li, Q He Journal of Hazardous Materials 424, 127312, 2022 | 187 | 2022 |
| China’s Coastal Wetlands: Understanding Environmental Changes and Human Impacts for Management and Conservation B Cui, Q He, B Gu, J Bai, X Liu Wetlands 36 (1), 1-9, 2016 | 143 | 2016 |
| Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity MS Thomsen, AH Altieri, C Angelini, MJ Bishop, PE Gribben, G Lear, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 2 (4), 634-639, 2018 | 133 | 2018 |
| Harnessing Positive Species Interactions to Enhance Coastal Wetland Restoration JJ Renzi, Q He, BR Silliman Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 131, 2019 | 125 | 2019 |
| Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide Q He, BR Silliman Ecological Monographs 86 (3), 278-294, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| Community structure and abiotic determinants of salt marsh plant zonation vary across topographic gradients BS Cui, Q He, Y An Estuaries and Coasts 34 (3), 459-469, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Shifting paradigms in coastal restoration: Six decades' lessons from China Z Liu, B Cui, Q He Science of The Total Environment 566, 205-214, 2016 | 89 | 2016 |
| Impacts of climate change on marine foundation species T Wernberg, MS Thomsen, JK Baum, MJ Bishop, JF Bruno, MA Coleman, ... Annual Review of Marine Science 16, 247-282, 2024 | 85 | 2024 |
| Field experiments and meta-analysis reveal wetland vegetation as a crucial element in the coastal protection paradigm BR Silliman, Q He, C Angelini, CS Smith, ML Kirwan, P Daleo, JJ Renzi, ... Current Biology 29 (11), 1800-1806. e3, 2019 | 85 | 2019 |
| Herbivory drives zonation of stress-tolerant marsh plants Q He, AH Altieri, B Cui Ecology 96 (5), 1318-1328, 2015 | 85 | 2015 |
| Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts Q He, BR Silliman, Z Liu, B Cui Ecology letters 20 (2), 194-201, 2017 | 82 | 2017 |
| Testing the importance of plant strategies on facilitation using congeners in a coastal community Q He, B Cui, MD Bertness, Y An Ecology 93 (9), 2023-2029, 2012 | 82 | 2012 |
| An invasive species erodes the performance of coastal wetland protected areas J Ren, J Chen, C Xu, J van de Koppel, MS Thomsen, S Qiu, F Cheng, ... Science advances 7 (42), eabi8943, 2021 | 78 | 2021 |
| Heterogeneity within and among co-occurring foundation species increases biodiversity MS Thomsen, AH Altieri, C Angelini, MJ Bishop, F Bulleri, R Farhan, ... Nature communications 13 (1), 581, 2022 | 71 | 2022 |
| Are the ghosts of nature’s past haunting ecology today? BR Silliman, BB Hughes, LC Gaskins, Q He, MT Tinker, A Read, J Nifong, ... Current Biology 28 (9), R532-R537, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |