| Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity P Chesson Annual review of Ecology and Systematics 31 (1), 343-366, 2000 | 7148 | 2000 |
| Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions K Shea, P Chesson Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17 (4), 170-176, 2002 | 2861 | 2002 |
| Environmental variability promotes coexistence in lottery competitive systems PL Chesson, RR Warner The American Naturalist 117 (6), 923-943, 1981 | 1538 | 1981 |
| General theory of competitive coexistence in spatially-varying environments P Chesson Theoretical population biology 58 (3), 211-237, 2000 | 1063 | 2000 |
| The roles of harsh and fluctuating conditions in the dynamics of ecological communities P Chesson, N Huntly The American Naturalist 150 (5), 519-553, 1997 | 980 | 1997 |
| Coexistence mediated by recruitment fluctuations: a field guide to the storage effect RR Warner, PL Chesson The American Naturalist 125 (6), 769-787, 1985 | 915 | 1985 |
| The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis JM Chase, PA Abrams, JP Grover, S Diehl, P Chesson, RD Holt, ... Ecology letters 5 (2), 302-315, 2002 | 862 | 2002 |
| Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments P Chesson, RLE Gebauer, S Schwinning, N Huntly, K Wiegand, ... Oecologia 141, 236-253, 2004 | 854 | 2004 |
| Forecasting the effects of global warming on biodiversity DB Botkin, H Saxe, MB Araújo, R Betts, RHW Bradshaw, T Cedhagen, ... Bioscience 57 (3), 227-236, 2007 | 831 | 2007 |
| Multispecies competition in variable environments P Chesson Theoretical population biology 45 (3), 227-276, 1994 | 783 | 1994 |
| Biological control in theory and practice WW Murdoch, J Chesson, PL Chesson The American Naturalist 125 (3), 344-366, 1985 | 729 | 1985 |
| The interaction between predation and competition P Chesson, JJ Kuang Nature 456 (7219), 235-238, 2008 | 586 | 2008 |
| Spatial heterogeneity explains the scale dependence of the native–exotic diversity relationship KF Davies, P Chesson, S Harrison, BD Inouye, BA Melbourne, KJ Rice Ecology 86 (6), 1602-1610, 2005 | 533 | 2005 |
| Environmental variation and the coexistence of species PL Chesson Community ecology 240, 54, 1986 | 500 | 1986 |
| Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect AL Angert, TE Huxman, P Chesson, DL Venable Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (28), 11641-11645, 2009 | 490 | 2009 |
| Coexistence of competitors in spatially and temporally varying environments: a look at the combined effects of different sorts of variability PL Chesson Theoretical Population Biology 28 (3), 263-287, 1985 | 484 | 1985 |
| Overview: nonequilibrium community theories: chance, variability, history PL Chesson, TJ Case Community ecology, 229-239, 1986 | 424 | 1986 |
| A need for niches? P Chesson Trends in ecology & evolution 6 (1), 26-28, 1991 | 346 | 1991 |
| Aggregation of risk: relationships among host-parasitoid models PL Chesson, WW Murdoch The American Naturalist 127 (5), 696-715, 1986 | 336 | 1986 |
| MacArthur's consumer-resource model P Chesson Theoretical Population Biology 37 (1), 26-38, 1990 | 298 | 1990 |
