| Terrestrial ecosystems through time: evolutionary paleoecology of terrestrial plants and animals JD Damuth, WA DiMichele, R Potts University of Chicago Press, 1992 | 578 | 1992 |
| CO2-forced climate and vegetation instability during Late Paleozoic deglaciation IP Montañez, NJ Tabor, D Niemeier, WA DiMichele, TD Frank, ... Science 315 (5808), 87-91, 2007 | 570 | 2007 |
| Early evolution of land plants: phylogeny, physiology, and ecology of the primary terrestrial radiation RM Bateman, PR Crane, WA DiMichele, PR Kenrick, NP Rowe, T Speck, ... Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29 (1), 263-292, 1998 | 415 | 1998 |
| Stratigraphic and interregional changes in Pennsylvanian coal-swamp vegetation: environmental inferences TL Phillips, RA Peppers, WA Dimichele International Journal of Coal Geology 5 (1-2), 43-109, 1985 | 384 | 1985 |
| Paleobotanical and paleoecological constraints on models of peat formation in the Late Carboniferous of Euramerica WA DiMichele, TL Phillips Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 106 (1-4), 39-90, 1994 | 364 | 1994 |
| On the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type JMK O'Keefe, A Bechtel, K Christanis, S Dai, WA DiMichele, CF Eble, ... International Journal of Coal Geology 118, 58-87, 2013 | 290 | 2013 |
| Out of the icehouse into the greenhouse: a late Paleozoic analogue for modern global vegetational change RA Gastaldo, WA DiMichele, HW Pfefferkorn Gsa today, 1996 | 279 | 1996 |
| Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems WA DiMichele, RW Hook, R Beerbower, JA Boy, RA Gastaldo, N Hotton III, ... Terrestrial ecosystems through time. University of Chicago Press, Chicago …, 1992 | 253 | 1992 |
| Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian plant communities to climate change WA DiMichele, HW Pfefferkorn, RA Gastaldo Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 29 (1), 461-487, 2001 | 246 | 2001 |
| Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history SF Greb, WA DiMichele, RA Gastaldo | 240 | 2006 |
| Comparative ecology and life-history biology of arborescent lycopsids in Late Carboniferous swamps of Euramerica TL Phillips, WA DiMichele Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 560-588, 1992 | 228 | 1992 |
| Heterospory: the most iterative key innovation in the evolutionary history of the plant kingdom RM Bateman, WA DiMICHELE Biological Reviews 69 (3), 345-417, 1994 | 218 | 1994 |
| Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth WA DiMichele, IP Montañez, CJ Poulsen, NJ Tabor Geobiology 7 (2), 200-226, 2009 | 199 | 2009 |
| From wetlands to wet spots: environmental tracking and the fate of Carboniferous elements in Early Permian tropical floras WA DiMichele, NJ Tabor, DS Chaney, WJ Nelson | 192 | 2006 |
| Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles IP Montañez, JC McElwain, CJ Poulsen, JD White, WA DiMichele, ... Nature Geoscience 9 (11), 824-828, 2016 | 187 | 2016 |
| The Pennsylvanian‐Permian vegetational transition: a terrestrial analogue to the onshore‐offshore hypothesis WA DiMichele, RB Aronson Evolution 46 (3), 807-824, 1992 | 186 | 1992 |
| Experimental cladistic analysis of anatomically preserved arborescent lycopsids from the Carboniferous of Euramerica: an essay on paleobotanical phylogenetics RM Bateman, WA DiMichele, DA Willard Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 500-559, 1992 | 186 | 1992 |
| Arborescent lycopod reproduction and paleoecology in a coal-swamp environment of late Middle Pennsylvanian age (Herrin Coal, Illinois, USA) WA Dimichele, TL Phillips Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 44 (1-2), 1-26, 1985 | 186 | 1985 |
| Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts S Kathleen Lyons, KL Amatangelo, AK Behrensmeyer, A Bercovici, ... Nature 529 (7584), 80-83, 2016 | 174 | 2016 |
| Wetland-dryland vegetational dynamics in the Pennsylvanian ice age tropics WA DiMichele International Journal of Plant Sciences 175 (2), 123-164, 2014 | 166 | 2014 |
