| Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia B Villmoare, WH Kimbel, C Seyoum, CJ Campisano, EN DiMaggio, ... Science 347 (6228), 1352-1355, 2015 | 468 | 2015 |
| Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (43), 21478-21483, 2019 | 105 | 2019 |
| Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, J Rowan, O Middleton, SD Schowanek, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (14), 7871-7878, 2020 | 96 | 2020 |
| Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du, PL Koch Science 362 (6417), 938-941, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia EN DiMaggio, CJ Campisano, J Rowan, G Dupont-Nivet, AL Deino, F Bibi, ... Science 347 (6228), 1355-1359, 2015 | 82 | 2015 |
| Late Pliocene environmental change during the transition from Australopithecus to Homo JR Robinson, J Rowan, CJ Campisano, JG Wynn, KE Reed Nature ecology & evolution 1 (6), 0159, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
| Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution JT Faith, A Du, AK Behrensmeyer, B Davies, DB Patterson, J Rowan, ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36 (9), 797-807, 2021 | 54 | 2021 |
| Collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene EC Fricke, C Hsieh, O Middleton, D Gorczynski, CD Cappello, O Sanisidro, ... Science 377 (6609), 1008-1011, 2022 | 48 | 2022 |
| Strong influence of palaeoclimate on the structure of modern African mammal communities J Rowan, JM Kamilar, L Beaudrot, KE Reed Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1840), 20161207, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and subtropics J Rowan, L Beaudrot, J Franklin, KE Reed, IE Smail, A Zamora, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (3), 1559-1565, 2020 | 42 | 2020 |
| No sustained increase in zooarchaeological evidence for carnivory after the appearance of Homo erectus WA Barr, B Pobiner, J Rowan, A Du, JT Faith Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (5), e2115540119, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis–afarensis lineage A Du, J Rowan, SC Wang, BA Wood, Z Alemseged Journal of human evolution 138, 102688, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change CJ Sandom, O Middleton, E Lundgren, J Rowan, SD Schowanek, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190125, 2020 | 32 | 2020 |
| Feeding ecology of Tragelaphini (Bovidae) from the Shungura Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia: contribution of dental wear analyses C Blondel, J Rowan, G Merceron, F Bibi, E Negash, WA Barr, ... Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 496, 103-120, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
| Taxonomy and paleoecology of fossil Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Kibish Formation, southern Ethiopia: Implications for dietary change, biogeography, and the … J Rowan, JT Faith, Y Gebru, JG Fleagle Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 420, 210-222, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| Stable carbon isotopes from paleosol carbonate and herbivore enamel document differing paleovegetation signals in the eastern African Plio-Pleistocene A Du, JR Robinson, J Rowan, IA Lazagabaster, AK Behrensmeyer Review of palaeobotany and palynology 261, 41-52, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species SD Schowanek, M Davis, EJ Lundgren, O Middleton, J Rowan, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 (4), 896-908, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores EJ Lundgren, SD Schowanek, J Rowan, O Middleton, RØ Pedersen, ... Scientific data 8 (1), 17, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to Homo sapiens JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du, WA Barr Quaternary Research 96, 88-104, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Late Pliocene Bovidae from Ledi-Geraru (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia) and their implications for Afar paleoecology F Bibi, J Rowan, K Reed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (4), e1337639, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
