List of highly cited ecologists

List of the top cited ecologists identified within the Clarivate analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) list of “Highly cited researchers 2016 (http://hcr.stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com) in the category Environment/Ecology (n = 113) and sorted them into three groups: 1) researchers that only apply modelling approaches; 2) researchers that only apply experimental approaches in the laboratory or in the field; and 3) researchers that apply both modelling and experimental approaches. We further discriminated between researchers that collect their own observational data from non-manipulative descriptive studies (e.g. monitoring) and those that do not use observations or obtain them from other sources (e.g. databases). Information about research approaches was gathered by studying their publication lists and websites.