| Landscape evolution, soil formation, and ecological patterns and processes in Sonoran Desert bajadas JR McAuliffe Ecological Monographs 64 (2), 111-148, 1994 | 443 | 1994 |
| Competition for space, disturbance, and the structure of a benthic stream community JR McAuliffe Ecology 65 (3), 894-908, 1984 | 386 | 1984 |
| Markovian dynamics of simple and complex desert plant communities JR McAuliffe The American Naturalist 131 (4), 459-490, 1988 | 351 | 1988 |
| Sahuaro-nurse tree associations in the Sonoran Desert: competitive effects of sahuaros JR McAuliffe Oecologia 64, 319-321, 1984 | 270 | 1984 |
| Resource depression by a stream herbivore: effects on distributions and abundances of other grazers JR McAuliffe Oikos, 327-333, 1984 | 188 | 1984 |
| Herbivore-limited establishment of a Sonoran Desert tree, Cerciduium Microphyllum JR McAuliffe Ecology 67 (1), 276-280, 1986 | 181 | 1986 |
| Ecological responses of two Mojave Desert shrubs to soil horizon development and soil water dynamics EP Hamerlynck, JR McAuliffe, EV McDonald, SD Smith Ecology 83 (3), 768-779, 2002 | 160 | 2002 |
| Competition, colonization patterns, and disturbance in stream benthic communities JR McAuliffe Stream ecology: application and testing of general ecological theory, 137-156, 1983 | 135 | 1983 |
| Perennial plant mortality in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts in response to severe, multi-year drought JR McAuliffe, EP Hamerlynck Journal of Arid Environments 74 (8), 885-896, 2010 | 118 | 2010 |
| A 22,000-year record of vegetation change in the north-central Sonoran Desert JR McAuliffe, TR Van Devender Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 141 (3-4), 253-275, 1998 | 112 | 1998 |
| Prey refugia and the distributions of two Sonoran Desert cacti JR McAuliffe Oecologia 65, 82-85, 1984 | 107 | 1984 |
| Tree-ring record of hillslope erosion and valley floor dynamics: landscape responses to climate variation during the last 400 yr in the Colorado Plateau, northeastern Arizona JR McAuliffe, LA Scuderi, LD McFadden Global and Planetary Change 50 (3-4), 184-201, 2006 | 106 | 2006 |
| Lithologically influenced geomorphic responses to Holocene climatic changes in the Southern Colorado Plateau, Arizona: a soil-geomorphic and ecologic perspective LD McFadden, JR McAuliffe Geomorphology 19 (3-4), 303-332, 1997 | 91 | 1997 |
| Distributional associates of the saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) RL Hutto, JR McAuliffe, L Hogan The Southwestern Naturalist, 469-476, 1986 | 87 | 1986 |
| Carbon isotope discrimination and foliar nutrient status of Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) in contrasting Mojave Desert soils EP Hamerlynck, TE Huxman, JR McAuliffe, SD Smith Oecologia 138, 210-215, 2004 | 83 | 2004 |
| Effects of surface and sub‐surface soil horizons on the seasonal performance of Larrea tridentata (creosotebush) EP Hamerlynck, JR Mcauliffe, SD Smith Functional Ecology 14 (5), 596-606, 2000 | 82 | 2000 |
| A rapid survey method for the estimation of density and cover in desert plant communities JR McAuliffe Journal of Vegetation Science 1 (5), 653-656, 1990 | 76 | 1990 |
| Landscape evolution, soil formation and Arizona’s desert grasslands JR McAuliffe The desert grassland, 100-129, 1995 | 70 | 1995 |
| Pre-columbian soil erosion, persistent ecological changes, and collapse of a subsistence agricultural economy in the semi-arid Tehuacán Valley, Mexico's ‘Cradle of Maize’ JR McAuliffe, PC Sundt, A Valiente-Banuet, A Casas, JL Viveros Journal of Arid Environments 47 (1), 47-75, 2001 | 68 | 2001 |
| Paloverdes, pocket mice, and bruchid beetles: interrelationships of seeds, dispersers, and seed predators JR McAuliffe The Southwestern Naturalist, 329-337, 1990 | 67 | 1990 |
