| Quaternary palaeoecology HJB Birks, HH Birks Edward Arnold, 1980 | 1442 | 1980 |
| Holocene isochrone maps and patterns of tree-spreading in the British Isles HJB Birks Journal of Biogeography, 503-540, 1989 | 474 | 1989 |
| Future uses of pollen analysis must include plant macrofossils HH Birks, HJB Birks Journal of biogeography, 31-35, 2000 | 411 | 2000 |
| The cultural landscape: past, present and future HH Birks, HJB Birks, PE Kaland, D Moe Cambridge University Press, 1988 | 370 | 1988 |
| Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology HH Birks, HJB Birks Vegetation history and Archaeobotany 15 (4), 235-251, 2006 | 344 | 2006 |
| Life and times of the Bering land bridge SA Elias, SK Short, CH Nelson, HH Birks Nature 382 (6586), 60-63, 1996 | 331 | 1996 |
| Plant macrofossils HH Birks Tracking environmental change using lake sediments, 49-74, 2002 | 296 | 2002 |
| 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 | 264 | 2009 |
| 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 (1), 91-114, 2000 | 259 | 2000 |
| 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 | 226 | 2000 |
| 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 | 223 | 1996 |
| 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 | 211 | 2001 |
| Plant macrofossils in Quaternary lake sediments HH Birks | 200 | 1980 |
| 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 | 190 | 2014 |
| Modern macrofossil assemblages in lake sediments in Minnesota HH Birks | 181 | 1973 |
| 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 | 180 | 2006 |
| 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 | 175 | 1991 |
| 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 | 169 | 1994 |
| A calendar age estimate of the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary at Kråkenes, western Norway S Gulliksen, HH Birks, G Possnert, J Mangerud The Holocene 8 (3), 249-259, 1998 | 162 | 1998 |
| Studies in the vegetational history of Scotland IV. Pine stumps in Scottish blanket peats HH Birks Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological …, 1975 | 160 | 1975 |
