| Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally JR Mayor, NJ Sanders, AT Classen, RD Bardgett, JC Clement, A Fajardo, ... Nature 542 (7639), 91-95, 2017 | 159 | 2017 |
| High efficiency in water use and carbon gain in a wet year for a desert halophyte community R Liu, LP Pan, GD Jenerette, QX Wang, E Cieraad, Y Li Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 162, 127-135, 2012 | 63 | 2012 |
| Soil heterotrophic respiration is insensitive to changes in soil water content but related to microbial access to organic matter GYK Moinet, E Cieraad, JE Hunt, A Fraser, MH Turnbull, D Whitehead Geoderma 274, 68-78, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| An updated assessment of indigenous cover remaining and legal protection in New Zealand’s land environments E Cieraad, S Walker, R Price, J Barringer New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39 (2), 309-315, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Precipitation pattern determines the inter-annual variation of herbaceous layer and carbon fluxes in a phreatophyte-dominated desert ecosystem R Liu, E Cieraad, Y Li, J Ma Ecosystems 19 (4), 601-614, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| Effects of irrigation and addition of nitrogen fertiliser on net ecosystem carbon balance for a grassland GYK Moinet, E Cieraad, MH Turnbull, D Whitehead Science of The Total Environment 579, 1715-1725, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Thermal environment of New Zealand's gradual and abrupt treeline ecotones E Cieraad, M McGlone New Zealand Journal of Ecology 38 (1), 12-25, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Secondary woody vegetation patterns in New Zealand’s South Island dryland zone SSN WalkeR, N King, A Monks, S Williams, L Burrows, E Cieraad, ... New Zealand Journal of Botany 47 (4), 367-393, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| The next generation of action ecology: novel approaches towards global ecological research RL White, AE Sutton, R Salguero-Gómez, TC Bray, H Campbell, ... Ecosphere 6 (8), 1-16, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| Long-term dynamics and rehabilitation of woody ecosystems in dryland South Island, New Zealand S Walker, E Cieraad, A Monks, L Burrows, J WOOD, R PRICE, ... New models for ecosystem dynamics and restoration, 99, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| Addition of nitrogen fertiliser increases net ecosystem carbon dioxide uptake and the loss of soil organic carbon in grassland growing in mesocosms GYK Moinet, E Cieraad, GND Rogers, JE Hunt, P Millard, MH Turnbull, ... Geoderma 266, 75-83, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Guide for users of the threatened environment classification S Walker, E Cieraad, P Grove, K Lloyd, S Myers, T Park, T Porteous Landcare Research, 2007 | 25 | 2007 |
| The New Zealand fossil record of ferns for the past 85 million years E Cieraad, DE Lee New Zealand Journal of Botany 44 (2), 143-170, 2006 | 24 | 2006 |
| Scotch broom facilitates indigenous tree and shrub germination and establishment in dryland New Zealand L Burrows, E Cieraad, N Head New Zealand Journal of Ecology 39 (1), 61-70, 2015 | 23 | 2015 |
| Sudden cold temperature delays plant carbon transport and shifts allocation from growth to respiratory demand M Barthel, E Cieraad, A Zakharova, JE Hunt Biogeosciences 11 (5), 1425-1433, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Factors controlling labile soil organic matter vulnerability to loss following disturbance as assessed by measurement of soil‐respired δ13CO2 A Zakharova, MH Beare, E Cieraad, D Curtin, MH Turnbull, P Millard European Journal of Soil Science 66 (1), 135-144, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Southern Hemisphere temperate tree lines are not climatically depressed E Cieraad, MS McGlone, B Huntley Journal of biogeography 41 (8), 1456-1466, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
| Global patterns of the leaf economics spectrum in wetlands Y Pan, E Cieraad, J Armstrong, W Armstrong, BR Clarkson, TD Colmer, ... Nature communications 11 (1), 1-9, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Are ecophysiological adaptive traits decoupled from leaf economics traits in wetlands? Y Pan, E Cieraad, PM van Bodegom Functional Ecology 33 (7), 1202-1210, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands Y Pan, E Cieraad, BR Clarkson, TD Colmer, O Pedersen, EJW Visser, ... Functional Ecology 34 (5), 956-967, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
