| Biodiversity may regulate the temporal variability of ecological systems KL Cottingham, BL Brown, JT Lennon Ecology Letters 4 (1), 72-85, 2001 | 548 | 2001 |
| Dendritic network structure constrains metacommunity properties in riverine ecosystems BL Brown, CM Swan Journal of Animal Ecology 79 (3), 571-580, 2010 | 512 | 2010 |
| Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments KL Cottingham, JT Lennon, BL Brown Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3 (3), 145-152, 2005 | 419 | 2005 |
| Metacommunity theory as a multispecies, multiscale framework for studying the influence of river network structure on riverine communities and ecosystems BL Brown, CM Swan, DA Auerbach, EH Campbell Grant, NP Hitt, ... Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30 (1), 310-327, 2011 | 274 | 2011 |
| Spatial heterogeneity reduces temporal variability in stream insect communities BL Brown Ecology letters 6 (4), 316-325, 2003 | 217 | 2003 |
| Making sense of metacommunities: dispelling the mythology of a metacommunity typology BL Brown, ER Sokol, J Skelton, B Tornwall Oecologia 183, 643-652, 2017 | 149 | 2017 |
| The fine line between mutualism and parasitism: complex effects in a cleaning symbiosis demonstrated by multiple field experiments BL Brown, RP Creed, J Skelton, MA Rollins, KJ Farrell Oecologia 170, 199-207, 2012 | 105 | 2012 |
| Branchiobdellid annelids and their crayfish hosts: are they engaged in a cleaning symbiosis? BL Brown, RP Creed, WE Dobson Oecologia 132, 250-255, 2002 | 103 | 2002 |
| Multiple diversity–stability mechanisms enhance population and community stability in aquatic food webs AL Downing, BL Brown, MA Leibold Ecology 95 (1), 173-184, 2014 | 99 | 2014 |
| Environmental fluctuations induce scale‐dependent compensation and increase stability in plankton ecosystems AL Downing, BL Brown, EM Perrin, TH Keitt, MA Leibold Ecology 89 (11), 3204-3214, 2008 | 90 | 2008 |
| Habitat heterogeneity and disturbance influence patterns of community temporal variability in a small temperate stream BL Brown Hydrobiologia 586, 93-106, 2007 | 88 | 2007 |
| Metacommunity theory meets restoration: isolation may mediate how ecological communities respond to stream restoration CM Swan, BL Brown Ecological Applications 27 (7), 2209-2219, 2017 | 66 | 2017 |
| Positive biotic interactions in freshwaters: A review and research directive S Silknetter, RP Creed, BL Brown, EA Frimpong, J Skelton, BK Peoples Freshwater Biology 65 (4), 811-832, 2020 | 57 | 2020 |
| Does stream size really explain biodiversity patterns in lotic systems? A call for mechanistic explanations R Vander Vorste, P McElmurray, S Bell, KM Eliason, BL Brown Diversity 9 (3), 26, 2017 | 51 | 2017 |
| Servants, scoundrels, and hitchhikers: current understanding of the complex interactions between crayfish and their ectosymbiotic worms (Branchiobdellida) J Skelton, KJ Farrell, RP Creed, BW Williams, C Ames, BS Helms, ... Freshwater Science 32 (4), 1345-1357, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| Compensatory dynamics stabilize aggregate community properties in response to multiple types of perturbations BL Brown, AL Downing, MA Leibold Ecology 97 (8), 2021-2033, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| Habitat heterogeneity and activity of an omnivorous ecosystem engineer control stream community dynamics BL Brown, RL Lawson Ecology 91 (6), 1799-1810, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| Ontogenetic shift in host tolerance controls initiation of a cleaning symbiosis J Skelton, RP Creed, BL Brown Oikos 123 (6), 677-686, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Trends in stream biodiversity research since the river continuum concept B Tornwall, E Sokol, J Skelton, BL Brown Diversity 7 (1), 16-35, 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
| The missing wetlands: using local ecological knowledge to find cryptic ecosystems AL Pitt, RF Baldwin, DJ Lipscomb, BL Brown, JE Hawley, ... Biodiversity and Conservation 21, 51-63, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
Robert CreedDepartment of Biology, Appalachian State UniversityVerified email at appstate.edu
