| Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress Q He, MD Bertness, AH Altieri Ecology Letters 16 (5), 695-706, 2013 | 778 | 2013 |
| Climate change, human impacts, and coastal ecosystems in the Anthropocene Q He, BR Silliman Current Biology 29 (19), R1021-R1035, 2019 | 282 | 2019 |
| Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China Q He, MD Bertness, JF Bruno, B Li, G Chen, TC Coverdale, AH Altieri, ... Scientific reports 4, 5995, 2014 | 241 | 2014 |
| Extreme stresses, niches, and positive species interactions along stress gradients Q He, MD Bertness Ecology 95 (6), 1437-1443, 2014 | 227 | 2014 |
| Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts BR Silliman, E Schrack, Q He, R Cope, A Santoni, T van der Heide, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (46), 14295-14300, 2015 | 208 | 2015 |
| China’s Coastal Wetlands: Understanding Environmental Changes and Human Impacts for Management and Conservation B Cui, Q He, B Gu, J Bai, X Liu Wetlands 36 (1), 1-9, 2016 | 118 | 2016 |
| Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity MS Thomsen, AH Altieri, C Angelini, MJ Bishop, PE Gribben, G Lear, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 2 (4), 634-639, 2018 | 99 | 2018 |
| Harnessing Positive Species Interactions to Enhance Coastal Wetland Restoration JJ Renzi, Q He, BR Silliman Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 131, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
| Consumer control as a common driver of coastal vegetation worldwide Q He, BR Silliman Ecological Monographs 86 (3), 278-294, 2016 | 77 | 2016 |
| Herbivory drives zonation of stress-tolerant marsh plants Q He, AH Altieri, B Cui Ecology 96 (5), 1318-1328, 2015 | 75 | 2015 |
| Community structure and abiotic determinants of salt marsh plant zonation vary across topographic gradients BS Cui, Q He, Y An Estuaries and Coasts 34 (3), 459-469, 2011 | 72 | 2011 |
| Testing the importance of plant strategies on facilitation using congeners in a coastal community Q He, B Cui, MD Bertness, Y An Ecology 93 (9), 2023-2029, 2012 | 70 | 2012 |
| Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts Q He, BR Silliman, Z Liu, B Cui Ecology letters 20 (2), 194-201, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Shifting paradigms in coastal restoration: Six decades' lessons from China Z Liu, B Cui, Q He Science of The Total Environment 566, 205-214, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
| Field experiments and meta-analysis reveal wetland vegetation as a crucial element in the coastal protection paradigm BR Silliman, Q He, C Angelini, CS Smith, ML Kirwan, P Daleo, JJ Renzi, ... Current Biology 29 (11), 1800-1806. e3, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| Heavy metal pollution in coastal wetlands: a systematic review of studies globally over the past three decades C Li, H Wang, X Liao, R Xiao, K Liu, J Bai, B Li, Q He Journal of Hazardous Materials 424, 127312, 2022 | 53 | 2022 |
| Are the ghosts of nature’s past haunting ecology today? BR Silliman, BB Hughes, LC Gaskins, Q He, MT Tinker, A Read, J Nifong, ... Current Biology 28 (9), R532-R537, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
| What confines an annual plant to two separate zones along coastal topographic gradients? Q He, B Cui, Y Cai, J Deng, T Sun, Z Yang Hydrobiologia 630, 327-340, 2009 | 49 | 2009 |
| Physical stress, consumer control, and new theory in ecology BR Silliman, Q He Trends in ecology & evolution 33 (7), 492-503, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant–herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands Q He, BR Silliman Ecology letters 18 (5), 462-471, 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
