| Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands FT Maestre, JL Quero, NJ Gotelli, A Escudero, V Ochoa, ... Science 335 (6065), 214-218, 2012 | 1536 | 2012 |
| Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis DJ Eldridge, MA Bowker, FT Maestre, E Roger, JF Reynolds, WG Whitford Ecology letters 14 (7), 709-722, 2011 | 1325 | 2011 |
| Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands FT Maestre, M Delgado-Baquerizo, TC Jeffries, DJ Eldridge, V Ochoa, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (51), 15684-15689, 2015 | 1015 | 2015 |
| Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands M Delgado-Baquerizo, FT Maestre, A Gallardo, MA Bowker, ... Nature 502 (7473), 672-676, 2013 | 1000 | 2013 |
| Resource limitation is a driver of local adaptation in mycorrhizal symbioses NC Johnson, GWT Wilson, MA Bowker, JA Wilson, RM Miller Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (5), 2093-2098, 2010 | 799 | 2010 |
| Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought FT De Vries, ME Liiri, L Bjørnlund, MA Bowker, S Christensen, HM Setälä, ... Nature climate change 2 (4), 276-280, 2012 | 671 | 2012 |
| Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world FT Maestre, DJ Eldridge, S Soliveres, S Kéfi, M Delgado-Baquerizo, ... Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics 47 (1), 215-237, 2016 | 487 | 2016 |
| Biological soil crust rehabilitation in theory and practice: an underexploited opportunity MA Bowker Restoration Ecology 15 (1), 13-23, 2007 | 486 | 2007 |
| Mycorrhizal phenotypes and the l aw of the m inimum NC Johnson, GWT Wilson, JA Wilson, RM Miller, MA Bowker New Phytologist 205 (4), 1473-1484, 2015 | 483 | 2015 |
| Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi‐arid Mediterranean grasslands FT Maestre, MA Bowker, MD Puche, M Belén Hinojosa, I Martínez, ... Ecology letters 12 (9), 930-941, 2009 | 414 | 2009 |
| From patterns to causal understanding: structural equation modeling (SEM) in soil ecology N Eisenhauer, MA Bowker, JB Grace, JR Powell Pedobiologia 58 (2-3), 65-72, 2015 | 381 | 2015 |
| Mortality gradients within and among dominant plant populations as barometers of ecosystem change during extreme drought AR Gitlin, CM Sthultz, MA Bowker, S Stumpf, KL Paxton, K Kennedy, ... Conservation Biology 20 (5), 1477-1486, 2006 | 327 | 2006 |
| Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain FT Maestre, MA Bowker, Y Cantón, AP Castillo-Monroy, J Cortina, ... Journal of arid environments 75 (12), 1282-1291, 2011 | 302 | 2011 |
| Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern FT Maestre, AP Castillo‐Monroy, MA Bowker, R Ochoa‐Hueso Journal of Ecology 100 (2), 317-330, 2012 | 261 | 2012 |
| Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils MA Bowker, FT Maestre, C Escolar Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42 (3), 405-417, 2010 | 246 | 2010 |
| Biological soil crusts decrease erodibility by modifying inherent soil properties on the Loess Plateau, China L Gao, MA Bowker, M Xu, H Sun, D Tuo, Y Zhao Soil Biology and Biochemistry 105, 49-58, 2017 | 238 | 2017 |
| Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect F Bastida, C García, N Fierer, DJ Eldridge, MA Bowker, S Abades, ... Nature communications 10 (1), 3481, 2019 | 236 | 2019 |
| Untangling the biological contributions to soil stability in semiarid shrublands VB Chaudhary, MA Bowker, TE O'Dell, JB Grace, AE Redman, MC Rillig, ... Ecological Applications 19 (1), 110-122, 2009 | 235 | 2009 |
| What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community B Weber, J Belnap, B Büdel, AJ Antoninka, NN Barger, VB Chaudhary, ... Biological Reviews 97 (5), 1768-1785, 2022 | 221 | 2022 |
| Temporal Variation in Community Composition, Pigmentation, and Fv/Fm of Desert Cyanobacterial Soil Crusts MA Bowker, SC Reed, J Belnap, SL Phillips Microbial Ecology, 13-25, 2002 | 211 | 2002 |
