| Predation determines the outcome of 10 reintroduction attempts in arid South Australia KE Moseby, JL Read, DC Paton, P Copley, BM Hill, HA Crisp Biological Conservation 144 (12), 2863-2872, 2011 | 308 | 2011 |
| Weight gain and adjustment of feeding territory size in migrant hummingbirds FL Carpenter, DC Paton, MA Hixon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 80 (23), 7259-7263, 1983 | 278 | 1983 |
| Honeybees in the Australian environment DC Paton Bioscience 43 (2), 95-103, 1993 | 269 | 1993 |
| Birds as pollinators of Australian plants HA Ford, DC Paton, N Forde New Zealand journal of botany 17 (4), 509-519, 1979 | 267 | 1979 |
| Territory area, flower density, and time budgeting in hummingbirds: an experimental and theoretical analysis MA Hixon, FL Carpenter, DC Paton The American Naturalist 122 (3), 366-391, 1983 | 249 | 1983 |
| How many birds are killed by cats in Australia? JCZ Woinarski, BP Murphy, SM Legge, ST Garnett, MJ Lawes, S Comer, ... Biological Conservation 214, 76-87, 2017 | 188 | 2017 |
| The importance of manna, honeydew and lerp in the diets of honeyeaters DC Paton Emu 80 (4), 213-226, 1980 | 175 | 1980 |
| Pollination by birds of native plants in South Australia DC Paton, HA Ford Emu-Austral Ornithology 77 (2), 73-85, 1977 | 151 | 1977 |
| The diet of the New Holland honeyeater, Phylidonyris novaehollandiae DC PATON Australian Journal of Ecology 7 (3), 279-298, 1982 | 149 | 1982 |
| Effects of landscape pattern on bird species distribution in the Mt. Lofty Ranges, South Australia MI Westphal, SA Field, AJ Tyre, D Paton, HP Possingham Landscape ecology 18, 413-426, 2003 | 140 | 2003 |
| Bills and tongues of nectar‐feeding birds: A review of morphology, function and performance, with intercontinental comparisons DC Paton, BG Collins Australian journal of ecology 14 (4), 473-506, 1989 | 128 | 1989 |
| Peripheral foraging by territorial rufous hummingbirds: defense by exploitation DC Paton, FL Carpenter Ecology 65 (6), 1808-1819, 1984 | 121 | 1984 |
| Temporal changes to spatially stratified waterbird communities of the Coorong, South Australia: implications for the management of heterogenous wetlands DC Paton, DJ Rogers, BM Hill, CP Bailey, M Ziembicki Animal Conservation 12 (5), 408-417, 2009 | 120 | 2009 |
| Overview of feral and managed honeybees in Australia: distribution, abundance, extent of interactions with native biota, evidence of impacts and future research D Paton Australian Nature Conservation Agency, 1996 | 120 | 1996 |
| Biphasic mass gain in migrant hummingbirds: body composition changes, torpor, and ecological significance FL Carpenter, MA Hixon, CA Beuchat, RW Russell, DC Paton Ecology 74 (4), 1173-1182, 1993 | 116 | 1993 |
| Partitioning of nectar sources in an Australian honeyeater community HA Ford, DC Paton Australian Journal of Ecology 7 (2), 149-159, 1982 | 112 | 1982 |
| Pollination of Banksia ericifolia Smith: birds, mammals and insects as pollen vectors DC Paton, V Turner Australian Journal of Botany 33 (3), 271-286, 1985 | 111 | 1985 |
| Disruption of bird-plant pollination systems in southern Australia DC Paton Conservation Biology 14 (5), 1232-1234, 2000 | 100 | 2000 |
| Impact of off-road vehicles on the nesting success of Hooded Plovers Charadrius rubricollis in the Coorong region of South Australia AM Buick, DC Paton Emu 89 (3), 159-172, 1989 | 97 | 1989 |
| Interference asymmetries among age-sex classes of rufous hummingbirds during migratory stopovers FL Carpenter, MA Hixon, RW Russell, DC Paton, EJ Temeles Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 33, 297-304, 1993 | 92 | 1993 |
