| The history of neotropical vegetation: new developments and status RJ Burnham, A Graham Annals of the Missouri botanical Garden, 546-589, 1999 | 424 | 1999 |
| South American palaeobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests RJ Burnham, KR Johnson Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2004 | 326 | 2004 |
| A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses1 JJ Gerwing, SA Schnitzer, RJ Burnham, F Bongers, J Chave, SJ DeWalt, ... Biotropica: The Journal of Biology and Conservation 38 (2), 256-261, 2006 | 324 | 2006 |
| Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling S Fauset, MO Johnson, M Gloor, TR Baker, A Monteagudo M, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 1-9, 2015 | 307 | 2015 |
| Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan‐tropical patterns of liana density and basal area SJ DeWalt, SA Schnitzer, J Chave, F Bongers, RJ Burnham, Z Cai, ... Biotropica 42 (3), 309-317, 2010 | 209 | 2010 |
| The reflection of deciduous forest communities in leaf litter: implications for autochthonous litter assemblages from the fossil record RJ Burnham, SL Wing, GG Parker Paleobiology 18 (1), 30-49, 1992 | 191 | 1992 |
| Relationships between standing vegetation and leaf litter in a paratropical forest: implications for paleobotany RJ Burnham Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 58 (1), 5-32, 1989 | 188 | 1989 |
| Habitat‐related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margins in a humid tropical forest RJ Burnham, NCA Pitman, KR Johnson, P Wilf American Journal of Botany 88 (6), 1096-1102, 2001 | 159 | 2001 |
| Dominance, diversity and distribution of lianas in Yasuní, Ecuador: who is on top? RJ Burnham Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 (6), 845-864, 2002 | 129 | 2002 |
| Biogeographical patterns of liana abundance and diversity SJ DeWalt, SA Schnitzer, LF Alves, F Bongers, RJ Burnham, Z Cai, ... Ecology of lianas, 131-146, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
| Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots C Blundo, J Carilla, R Grau, A Malizia, L Malizia, O Osinaga-Acosta, ... Biological Conservation 260, 108849, 2021 | 100 | 2021 |
| Alpha and beta diversity of lianas in Yasunı, Ecuador RJ Burnham Forest Ecology and Management 190 (1), 43-55, 2004 | 97 | 2004 |
| Ecology of lianas S Schnitzer, F Bongers, RJ Burnham, FE Putz John Wiley & Sons, 2014 | 90 | 2014 |
| Forest litter preserved by volcanic activity at El Chichon, Mexico: A potentially accurate record of the pre-eruption vegetation RJ Burnham, RA Spicer Palaios, 158-161, 1986 | 87 | 1986 |
| Reconstructing richness in the plant fossil record RJ Burnham Palaios, 376-384, 1993 | 82 | 1993 |
| Stand characteristics and leaf litter composition of a dry forest hectare in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica RJ Burnham Biotropica 29 (4), 384-395, 1997 | 77 | 1997 |
| Patterns in tropical leaf litter and implications for angiosperm paleobotany RJ Burnham Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 81 (1), 99-113, 1994 | 73 | 1994 |
| Miocene winged fruits of Loxopterygium (Anacardiaceae) from the Ecuadorian Andes RJ Burnham, NL Carranco American journal of Botany 91 (11), 1767-1773, 2004 | 69 | 2004 |
| A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the early Neogene of northwestern Venezuela MR Sánchez-Villagra, RJ Burnham, DC Campbell, RM Feldmann, ... Journal of Paleontology 74 (5), 957-968, 2000 | 69 | 2000 |
| An overview of the fossil record of climbers: bejucos, sogas, trepadoras, lianas, cipós, and vines RJ Burnham Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12 (2), 149-160, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
