| Quaternary palaeoecology HJB Birks, HH Birks Edward Arnold, 1980 | 1672 | 1980 |
| Future uses of pollen analysis must include plant macrofossils HH Birks, HJB Birks Journal of biogeography, 31-35, 2000 | 502 | 2000 |
| Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology HH Birks, HJB Birks Vegetation history and Archaeobotany 15, 235-251, 2006 | 470 | 2006 |
| The cultural landscape: past, present and future HH Birks Cambridge University Press, 1988 | 451 | 1988 |
| Life and times of the Bering land bridge SA Elias, SK Short, CH Nelson, HH Birks Nature 382 (6586), 60-63, 1996 | 396 | 1996 |
| Rapid oceanic and atmospheric changes during the Younger Dryas cold period J Bakke, Ø Lie, E Heegaard, T Dokken, GH Haug, HH Birks, P Dulski, ... Nature Geoscience 2 (3), 202-205, 2009 | 359 | 2009 |
| Plant macrofossils HH Birks Tracking environmental change using lake sediments: terrestrial, algal, and …, 2001 | 358 | 2001 |
| The development of the aquatic ecosystem at Kråkenes Lake, western Norway, during the late glacial and early Holocene-a synthesis HH Birks, RW Battarbee, HJB Birks Journal of Paleolimnology 23, 91-114, 2000 | 288 | 2000 |
| Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology AWR Seddon, AW Mackay, AG Baker, HJB Birks, E Breman, CE Buck, ... Journal of Ecology 102 (1), 256-267, 2014 | 270 | 2014 |
| Two terrestrial records of rapid climatic change during the glacial–Holocene transition (14,000–9,000 calendar years BP) from Europe HH Birks, B Ammann Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 (4), 1390-1394, 2000 | 256 | 2000 |
| Species–environmental relationships of aquatic macrophytes in Northern Ireland E Heegaard, HH Birks, CE Gibson, SJ Smith, S Wolfe-Murphy Aquatic botany 70 (3), 175-223, 2001 | 250 | 2001 |
| New radiocarbon dates for the Vedde Ash and the Saksunarvatn Ash from western Norway HH Birks, S Gulliksen, H Haflidason, J Mangerud, G Possnert Quaternary research 45 (2), 119-127, 1996 | 244 | 1996 |
| Plant macrofossils in Quaternary lake sediments HH Birks | 215 | 1980 |
| Stay or go–how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change BJ Graae, V Vandvik, WS Armbruster, WL Eiserhardt, JC Svenning, ... Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 30, 41-50, 2018 | 207 | 2018 |
| Holocene vegetational history and climatic change in west Spitsbergen-plant macrofossils from Skardtjørna, an Arctic lake HH Birks The Holocene 1 (3), 209-218, 1991 | 205 | 1991 |
| Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene–Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes AP Wolfe, WO Hobbs, HH Birks, JP Briner, SU Holmgren, Ó Ingólfsson, ... Earth-Science Reviews 116, 17-34, 2013 | 203 | 2013 |
| Changes in North Atlantic radiocarbon reservoir ages during the Allerød and Younger Dryas S Bondevik, J Mangerud, HH Birks, S Gulliksen, P Reimer Science 312 (5779), 1514-1517, 2006 | 203 | 2006 |
| Climatic changes in areas adjacent to the North Atlantic during the last glacial‐interglacial transition (14‐9 ka BP): a contribution to IGCP‐253 JJ Lowe, B Ammann, HH Birks, S Björck, GR Coope, L Cwynar, ... Journal of Quaternary Science 9 (2), 185-198, 1994 | 202 | 1994 |
| Modern macrofossil assemblages in lake sediments in Minnesota HH Birks Quaternary plant ecology, 173-189, 1973 | 197 | 1973 |
| The importance of plant macrofossils in the reconstruction of Lateglacial vegetation and climate: examples from Scotland, western Norway, and Minnesota, USA HH Birks Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (5-7), 453-473, 2003 | 190 | 2003 |
