| Fine root architecture of nine North American trees KS Pregitzer, JL DeForest, AJ Burton, MF Allen, RW Ruess, RL Hendrick Ecological monographs 72 (2), 293-309, 2002 | 1342 | 2002 |
| Large mammals and process dynamics in African ecosystems SJ McNaughton, RW Ruess, SW Seagle BioScience 38 (11), 794-800, 1988 | 588 | 1988 |
| A first comprehensive census of fungi in soil reveals both hyperdiversity and fine‐scale niche partitioning DL Taylor, TN Hollingsworth, JW McFarland, NJ Lennon, C Nusbaum, ... Ecological monographs 84 (1), 3-20, 2014 | 434 | 2014 |
| Soil stocks of glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a tropical rain forest landscape CE Lovelock, SF Wright, DA Clark, RW Ruess Journal of ecology, 278-287, 2004 | 402 | 2004 |
| The changing global carbon cycle: linking plant–soil carbon dynamics to global consequences F Stuart Chapin III, J McFarland, A David McGuire, ES Euskirchen, ... Journal of Ecology 97 (5), 840-850, 2009 | 394 | 2009 |
| Root respiration in North American forests: effects of nitrogen concentration and temperature across biomes A Burton, K Pregitzer, R Ruess, R Hendrick, M Allen Oecologia 131, 559-568, 2002 | 378 | 2002 |
| Coupling fine root dynamics with ecosystem carbon cycling in black spruce forests of interior Alaska RW Ruess, RL Hendrick, AJ Burton, KS Pregitzer, B Sveinbjornssön, ... Ecological Monographs 73 (4), 643-662, 2003 | 345 | 2003 |
| Contributions of fine root production and turnover to the carbon and nitrogen cycling in taiga forests of the Alaskan interior RW Ruess, KV Cleve, J Yarie, LA Viereck Canadian journal of forest research 26 (8), 1326-1336, 1996 | 345 | 1996 |
| Grazing and the dynamics of nutrient and energy regulated microbial processes in the Serengeti grasslands RW Ruess, SJ McNaughton Oikos, 101-110, 1987 | 324 | 1987 |
| Landscape heterogeneity of shrub expansion in Arctic Alaska KD Tape, M Hallinger, JM Welker, RW Ruess Ecosystems 15, 711-724, 2012 | 276 | 2012 |
| The role of balsam poplar secondary chemicals in controlling soil nutrient dynamics through succession in the Alaskan taiga JP Schimel, RG Cates, R Ruess Biogeochemistry 42, 221-234, 1998 | 246 | 1998 |
| Ecological conditions that determine when grazing stimulates grass production NJ Georgiadis, RW Ruess, SJ McNaughton, D Western Oecologia 81 (3), 316-322, 1989 | 219 | 1989 |
| CO2 Efflux from Cleared Mangrove Peat CE Lovelock, RW Ruess, IC Feller PloS one 6 (6), e21279, 2011 | 209 | 2011 |
| Resilience of Alaska’s boreal forest to climatic change FS Chapin, AD McGuire, RW Ruess, TN Hollingsworth, MC Mack, ... Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40 (7), 1360-1370, 2010 | 209 | 2010 |
| Regulation of fine root dynamics by mammalian browsers in early successional Alaskan taiga forests RW Ruess, RL Hendrick, JP Bryant Ecology 79 (8), 2706-2720, 1998 | 196 | 1998 |
| Rapid cycling of organic nitrogen in taiga forest ecosystems K Kielland, JW McFarland, RW Ruess, K Olson Ecosystems 10, 360-368, 2007 | 171 | 2007 |
| Limitations to symbiotic nitrogen fixation in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain DD Uliassi, RW Ruess Ecology 83 (1), 88-103, 2002 | 168 | 2002 |
| Climate change and caribou: effects of summer weather on forage EA Lenart, RT Bowyer, JV Hoef, RW Ruess Canadian Journal of Zoology 80 (4), 664-678, 2002 | 161 | 2002 |
| Interactive effects of wildfire and climate on permafrost degradation in Alaskan lowland forests DRN Brown, MT Jorgenson, TA Douglas, VE Romanovsky, K Kielland, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120 (8), 1619-1637, 2015 | 157 | 2015 |
| Simulated effects of grazing on soil nitrogen and mineralization in contrasting Serengeti grasslands SW Seagle, SJ McNaughton, RW Ruess Ecology 73 (3), 1105-1123, 1992 | 149 | 1992 |