| The social significance of avian winter plumage variability S Rohwer Evolution, 593-610, 1975 | 587 | 1975 |
| Parent cannibalism of offspring and egg raiding as a courtship strategy S Rohwer The American Naturalist 112 (984), 429-440, 1978 | 428 | 1978 |
| The evolution of reliable and unreliable badges of fighting ability S Rohwer American Zoologist 22 (3), 531-546, 1982 | 388 | 1982 |
| The cost of dominance and advantage of subordination in a badge signaling system S Rohwer, PW Ewald Evolution, 441-454, 1981 | 357 | 1981 |
| Status signaling in Harris sparrows: some experiments in deception S Rohwer Behaviour 61 (1-2), 107-129, 1977 | 353 | 1977 |
| The evolution of conspicuous and distinctive coloration for communication in birds GS Butcher, S Rohwer Current ornithology, 51-108, 1989 | 341 | 1989 |
| Status signalling in Harris sparrows: experimental deceptions achieved S Rohwer, FC Rohwer Animal behaviour 26, 1012-1022, 1978 | 341 | 1978 |
| Delayed maturation in passerine plumages and the deceptive acquisition of resources S Rohwer, SD Fretwell, DM Niles The American Naturalist 115 (3), 400-437, 1980 | 305 | 1980 |
| Evolutionary lag versus bill-size constraints: a comparative study of the acceptance of cowbird eggs by old hosts S Rohwer, CD Spaw Evolutionary Ecology 2, 27-36, 1988 | 251 | 1988 |
| Plumage and mitochondrial DNA haplotype variation across a moving hybrid zone S Rohwer, E Bermingham, C Wood Evolution 55 (2), 405-422, 2001 | 226 | 2001 |
| Effects of supplemental feeding on timing of breeding, clutch-size and polygyny in red-winged blackbirds Agelaius phoeniceus PW Ewald, S Rohwer The Journal of Animal Ecology, 429-450, 1982 | 211 | 1982 |
| Allometry of the duration of flight feather molt in birds S Rohwer, RE Ricklefs, VG Rohwer, MM Copple PLoS biology 7 (6), e1000132, 2009 | 197 | 2009 |
| Vicariance biogeography in the Pleistocene and speciation in North American wood warblers: a test of Mengel's model. E Bermingham, S Rohwer, S Freeman, C Wood Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89 (14), 6624-6628, 1992 | 183 | 1992 |
| A comparative study of eggshell thickness in cowbirds and other passerines CD Spaw, S Rohwer The Condor 89 (2), 307-318, 1987 | 179 | 1987 |
| Ecology and demography of east–west differences in molt scheduling of Neotropical migrant passerines S Rohwer, LK Butler, DR Froehlich, R Greenberg, PP Marra Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migration (R. Greenberg …, 2005 | 170 | 2005 |
| Complex biogeographic history of a Holarctic passerine SV Drovetski, RM Zink, S Rohwer, IV Fadeev, EV Nesterov, I Karagodin, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 150 | 2004 |
| Trans-Beringia comparisons of mitochondrial DNA differentiation in birds RM Zink, S Rohwer, AV Andreev, DL Dittmann The Condor 97 (3), 639-649, 1995 | 148 | 1995 |
| Asymmetries in male aggression across an avian hybrid zone SF Pearson, S Rohwer Behavioral Ecology 11 (1), 93-101, 2000 | 147 | 2000 |
| Coverable badges and resource defence in birds AJ Hansen, S Rohwer Animal Behaviour 34, 69-76, 1986 | 138 | 1986 |
| Three hybrid zones between Hermit and Townsend's warblers in Washington and Oregon S Rohwer, C Wood The Auk 115 (2), 284-310, 1998 | 137 | 1998 |
