| BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene M Dornelas, LH Antao, F Moyes, AE Bates, AE Magurran, D Adam, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 27 (7), 760-786, 2018 | 363 | 2018 |
| Aboveground net primary production dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem EH Muldavin, DI Moore, SL Collins, KR Wetherill, DC Lightfoot Oecologia 155, 123-132, 2008 | 251 | 2008 |
| Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland AD Davidson, DC Lightfoot Journal of Arid Environments 72 (7), 1133-1145, 2008 | 132 | 2008 |
| Rapid response of a grassland ecosystem to an experimental manipulation of a keystone rodent and domestic livestock AD Davidson, E Ponce, DC Lightfoot, EL Fredrickson, JH Brown, ... Ecology 91 (11), 3189-3200, 2010 | 128 | 2010 |
| Keystone rodent interactions: prairie dogs and kangaroo rats structure the biotic composition of a desertified grassland AD Davidson, DC Lightfoot Ecography 29 (5), 755-765, 2006 | 111 | 2006 |
| Interactive effects of keystone rodents on the structure of desert grassland arthropod communities AD Davidson, DC Lightfoot Ecography 30 (4), 515-525, 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
| Diversity of arthropod responses to host-plant water stress in a desert ecosystem in southern New Mexico TD Schowalter, DC Lightfoot, WG Whitford The American Midland Naturalist 142 (2), 281-290, 1999 | 96 | 1999 |
| Variation in insect densities on desert creosotebush: is nitrogen a factor? DC Lightfoot, WG Whitford Ecology 68 (3), 547-557, 1987 | 90 | 1987 |
| Effect of increased soil moisture and reduced soil temperature on a desert soil arthropod community WP Mackay, S Silva, DC Lightfoot, MI Pagani, WG Whitford American Midland Naturalist, 45-56, 1986 | 88 | 1986 |
| Bottom‐up regulation of plant community structure in an aridland ecosystem S Báez, SL Collins, D Lightfoot, TL Koontz Ecology 87 (11), 2746-2754, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| Changes in rodent community structure in the Chihuahuan Desert Mexico: comparisons between two habitats L Hernández, AG Romero, JW Laundré, D Lightfoot, E Aragón, JL Portillo Journal of Arid Environments 60 (2), 239-257, 2005 | 76 | 2005 |
| Engineering rodents create key habitat for lizards AD Davidson, DC Lightfoot, JL McIntyre Journal of arid environments 72 (12), 2142-2149, 2008 | 73 | 2008 |
| Fruit abortion in Yucca elata and its implications for the mutualistic association with yucca moths CD James, MT Hoffman, DC Lightfoot, GS Forbes, WG Whitford Oikos, 207-216, 1994 | 73 | 1994 |
| Productivity of creosotebush foliage and associated canopy arthropods along a desert roadside DC Lightfoot, WG Whitford American Midland Naturalist, 310-322, 1991 | 70 | 1991 |
| Coyote diets in the Chihuahuan Desert, more evidence for optimal foraging L Hernández, RR Parmenter, JW Dewitt, DC Lightfoot, JW Laundré Journal of Arid Environments 51 (4), 613-624, 2002 | 62 | 2002 |
| Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts EAR Welti, A Joern, AM Ellison, DC Lightfoot, S Record, N Rodenhouse, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 (5), 589-591, 2021 | 48* | 2021 |
| Bottom-up regulation of desert grassland and shrubland rodent communities: implications of species-specific reproductive potentials DC Lightfoot, AD Davidson, DG Parker, L Hernández, JW Laundré Journal of Mammalogy 93 (4), 1017-1028, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| Interplant variation in creosotebush foliage characteristics and canopy arthropods DC Lightfoot, WG Whitford Oecologia 81, 166-175, 1989 | 40 | 1989 |
| Pollination ecology of Yucca elata An experimental study of a mutualistic association CD James, MT Hoffman, DC Lightfoot, GS Forbes, WG Whitford Oecologia 93, 512-517, 1993 | 39 | 1993 |
| Phytophagous insects enhance nitrogen flux in a desert creosotebush community DC Lightfoot, WG Whitford Oecologia 82, 18-25, 1990 | 34 | 1990 |
