| Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the Northern Line Islands SA Sandin, JE Smith, EE DeMartini, EA Dinsdale, SD Donner, ... PloS one 3 (2), e1548, 2008 | 998 | 2008 |
| Habitat characteristics affecting fish assemblages on a Hawaiian coral reef AM Friedlander, JD Parrish Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology 224 (1), 1-30, 1998 | 913 | 1998 |
| Contrasts in density, size, and biomass of reef fishes between the northwestern and the main Hawaiian islands: the effects of fishing down apex predators AM Friedlander, EE DeMartini Marine Ecology Progress Series 230, 253-264, 2002 | 897 | 2002 |
| Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate E Sala, J Mayorga, D Bradley, RB Cabral, TB Atwood, A Auber, ... Nature 592 (7854), 397-402, 2021 | 550 | 2021 |
| Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs JE Cinner, C Huchery, MA MacNeil, NAJ Graham, TR McClanahan, ... Nature 535 (7612), 416-419, 2016 | 524 | 2016 |
| Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs D Mouillot, S Villéger, V Parravicini, M Kulbicki, JE Arias-González, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (38), 13757-13762, 2014 | 521 | 2014 |
| Effects of habitat, wave exposure, and marine protected area status on coral reef fish assemblages in the Hawaiian archipelago AM Friedlander, EK Brown, PL Jokiel, WR Smith, KS Rodgers Coral reefs 22, 291-305, 2003 | 458 | 2003 |
| The structure of Mediterranean rocky reef ecosystems across environmental and human gradients, and conservation implications E Sala, E Ballesteros, P Dendrinos, A Di Franco, F Ferretti, D Foley, ... PloS one 7 (2), e32742, 2012 | 386 | 2012 |
| Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes MA MacNeil, NAJ Graham, JE Cinner, SK Wilson, ID Williams, J Maina, ... Nature 520 (7547), 341-344, 2015 | 368 | 2015 |
| Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes C Mora, O Aburto-Oropeza, A Ayala Bocos, PM Ayotte, S Banks, ... PLoS biology 9 (4), e1000606, 2011 | 341 | 2011 |
| Recent region-wide declines in Caribbean reef fish abundance MJ Paddack, JD Reynolds, C Aguilar, RS Appeldoorn, J Beets, ... Current Biology 19 (7), 590-595, 2009 | 340 | 2009 |
| Evaluation of a conservation strategy: a spawning aggregation closure for red hind, Epinephelus guttatus, in the US Virgin Islands J Beets, A Friedlander Environmental Biology of Fishes 55, 91-98, 1999 | 309 | 1999 |
| Differences in fish-assemblage structure between fished and unfished atolls in the northern Line Islands, central Pacific EE DeMartini, AM Friedlander, SA Sandin, E Sala Marine Ecology Progress Series 365, 199-215, 2008 | 289 | 2008 |
| The location and protection status of Earth’s diminishing marine wilderness KR Jones, CJ Klein, BS Halpern, O Venter, H Grantham, CD Kuempel, ... Current Biology 28 (15), 2506-2512. e3, 2018 | 287 | 2018 |
| Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins JM Gove, MA McManus, AB Neuheimer, JJ Polovina, JC Drazen, ... Nature communications 7 (1), 10581, 2016 | 272 | 2016 |
| Global assessment of the status of coral reef herbivorous fishes: evidence for fishing effects CB Edwards, AM Friedlander, AG Green, MJ Hardt, E Sala, HP Sweatman, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1774), 20131835, 2014 | 267 | 2014 |
| Global biogeography of reef fishes: a hierarchical quantitative delineation of regions M Kulbicki, V Parravicini, DR Bellwood, E Arias-Gonzàlez, P Chabanet, ... PloS one 8 (12), e81847, 2013 | 248 | 2013 |
| Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains JE Cinner, E Maire, C Huchery, MA MacNeil, NAJ Graham, C Mora, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (27), E6116-E6125, 2018 | 246 | 2018 |
| Scale‐dependent effects of habitat on movements and path structure of reef sharks at a predator‐dominated atoll YP Papastamatiou, CG Lowe, JE Caselle, AM Friedlander Ecology 90 (4), 996-1008, 2009 | 244 | 2009 |
| The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean K Grorud-Colvert, J Sullivan-Stack, C Roberts, V Constant, ... Science 373 (6560), eabf0861, 2021 | 227 | 2021 |
