| Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years D Verschuren, KR Laird, BF Cumming Nature 403 (6768), 410-414, 2000 | 829 | 2000 |
| Greater drought intensity and frequency before AD 1200 in the Northern Great Plains, USA KR Laird, SC Fritz, KA Maasch, BF Cumming Nature 384 (6609), 552-554, 1996 | 340 | 1996 |
| Tracking long‐term changes in climate using algal indicators in lake sediments JP Smol, BF Cumming Journal of Phycology 36 (6), 986-1011, 2000 | 325 | 2000 |
| Diatoms from British Columbia (Canada) lakes and their relationship to salinity, nutrients and other limnological variables BF Cumming Bibliotheca diatomologica 31, 1-207, 1995 | 305 | 1995 |
| The widespread threat of calcium decline in fresh waters A Jeziorski, ND Yan, AM Paterson, AM DeSellas, MA Turner, DS Jeffries, ... science 322 (5906), 1374-1377, 2008 | 302 | 2008 |
| Diatomsasindicatorsof surface-wateracidity RW BATTARBEE, F DONALD, CB CHARLES, BF CUMMING, I Renberg The diatoms: applications for the environmental and earth sciences, 98, 2010 | 253 | 2010 |
| Assessing the reliability of salinity inference models from diatom assemblages: an examination of a 219-lake data set from western North America SE Wilson, BF Cumming, JP Smol Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53 (7), 1580-1594, 1996 | 191 | 1996 |
| How much acidification has occurred in Adirondack region lakes (New York, USA) since preindustrial times? BF Cumming, JP Smol, JC Kingston, DF Charles, HJB Birks, KE Camburn, ... Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49 (1), 128-141, 1992 | 191 | 1992 |
| Lake sediments record large-scale shifts in moisture regimes across the northern prairies of North America during the past two millennia KR Laird, BF Cumming, S Wunsam, JA Rusak, RJ Oglesby, SC Fritz, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (5), 2483-2488, 2003 | 179 | 2003 |
| A high-resolution 11,400-yr diatom record from Lake Victoria, East Africa JC Stager, B Cumming, L Meeker Quaternary research 47 (1), 81-89, 1997 | 178 | 1997 |
| Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes SC FRITZ The diatoms: applications for the environmental and earth sciences, 1999 | 159 | 1999 |
| A 10,000-year high-resolution diatom record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa JC Stager, BF Cumming, LD Meeker Quaternary Research 59 (2), 172-181, 2003 | 142 | 2003 |
| Solar variability and the levels of Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the last millenium JC Stager, D Ryves, BF Cumming, LD Meeker, J Beer Journal of Paleolimnology 33 (2), 243-251, 2005 | 137 | 2005 |
| Do spectrally inferred determinations of chlorophyll a reflect trends in lake trophic status? N Michelutti, JM Blais, BF Cumming, AM Paterson, K Rühland, AP Wolfe, ... Journal of Paleolimnology 43 (2), 205-217, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| A diatom-based reconstruction of drought intensity, duration, and frequency from Moon Lake, North Dakota: a sub-decadal record of the last 2300 years KR Laird, SC Fritz, BF Cumming Journal of Paleolimnology 19 (2), 161-179, 1998 | 136 | 1998 |
| Diatom-salinity relationships in 111 lakes from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada: the development of diatom-based models for paleosalinity reconstructions SE Wilson, BF Cumming, JP Smol Journal of Paleolimnology 12 (3), 197-221, 1994 | 126 | 1994 |
| Development of diatom-based salinity models for paleoclimatic research from lakes in British Columbia (Canada) BF Cumming, JP Smol Twelfth international diatom symposium, 179-196, 1993 | 121 | 1993 |
| Diatom assemblages from Adirondack lakes (New York, USA) and the development of inference models for retrospective environmental assessment SS Dixit, BF Cumming, HJB Birks, JP Smol, JC Kingston, AJ Uutala, ... Journal of Paleolimnology 8 (1), 27-47, 1993 | 113 | 1993 |
| Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 C anthropogenic warming and beyond H Fischer, KJ Meissner, AC Mix, NJ Abram, J Austermann, V Brovkin, ... Nature geoscience 11 (7), 474-485, 2018 | 107 | 2018 |
| Tracking recorded fires using charcoal morphology from the sedimentary sequence of Prosser Lake, British Columbia (Canada) MD Enache, BF Cumming Quaternary Research 65 (2), 282-292, 2006 | 99 | 2006 |
John SmolDistinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, Queen'sVerified email at queensu.ca
