| The history of the Holocene vegetation in northern Spain from pollen analysis MC Penalba Journal of Ecology, 815-832, 1994 | 204 | 1994 |
| Termination of the last glaciation in the Iberian Peninsula inferred from the pollen sequence of Quintanar de la Sierra MC Peñalba, M Arnold, J Guiot, JC Duplessy, JL de Beaulieu Quaternary Research 48 (2), 205-214, 1997 | 158 | 1997 |
| Dynamique de vegetation Tardiglaciaire et Holocene du centre-nord de l’Espagne d’apres l’analyse pollinique MC Penalba Unpublished thesis, Aix-Marseille III, 1989 | 121 | 1989 |
| A 16,000 14C yr BP packrat midden series from the USA–Mexico Borderlands CA Holmgren, MC Penalba, KA Rylander, JL Betancourt Quaternary Research 60 (3), 319-329, 2003 | 95 | 2003 |
| Late quaternary vegetation history of Rough Canyon, south-central New Mexico, USA JL Betancourt, KA Rylander, C Peñalba, JL McVickar Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 165 (1-2), 71-95, 2001 | 94 | 2001 |
| Holocene altitudinal shifts in vegetation belts and environmental changes in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Northwestern Mexico, based on modern and fossil pollen data CI Ortega-Rosas, MC Peñalba, J Guiot Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 151 (1-2), 1-20, 2008 | 50 | 2008 |
| Evidence against a Pleistocene desert refugium in the Lower Colorado River Basin CA Holmgren, JL Betancourt, MC Peñalba, J Delgadillo, K Zuravnsky, ... Journal of Biogeography 41 (9), 1769-1780, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Resource availability, population dynamics and diet of the nectar-feeding bat Leptonycteris curasoae in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico MC Peñalba, F Molina-Freaner, LL Rodríguez Biodiversity & Conservation 15, 3017-3034, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| Biomization and quantitative climate reconstruction techniques in northwestern Mexico—With an application to four Holocene pollen sequences CI Ortega-Rosas, J Guiot, MC Penalba, ME Ortiz-Acosta Global and Planetary Change 61 (3-4), 242-266, 2008 | 33 | 2008 |
| The Cienega de Camilo: a threatened habitat in the Sierra Madre Occidental of eastern Sonora, Mexico TR Van Devender, AL Reina G, MC Peñalba G, CI Ortega R Madroño, 187-195, 2003 | 28 | 2003 |
| Late-Holocene expansion of eastern larch (Larix laricina [Du Roi] K. Koch) in northwestern Québec MC Peñalba, S Payette Quaternary Research 48 (1), 114-121, 1997 | 23 | 1997 |
| Cambios de vegetación y clima en Baja California, México, durante los últimos 20 000 años MC Peñalba, TR Van Devender Geología del Noroeste 2 (2), 21-23, 1998 | 19 | 1998 |
| Retrospectiva del bosque de pino y encino de la Sierra Madre Occidental, Sonora, noroeste de México, hace 1000 años CI Ortega-Rosas, MC Peñalba, JA López-Sáez, TR Van Devender Acta botánica mexicana, 69-92, 2008 | 17 | 2008 |
| Reproductive ecology of Agave colorata: the importance of nectar-feeding bats and the germination consequences of self-pollination DB Borbón-Palomares, F Laborin-Sivirian, C Tinoco-Ojanguren, ... Plant ecology 219, 927-939, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| La vegetación y el clima en los montes vascos durante el Pleistoceno superior y el Holoceno según los análisis polínicos MC PEÑALBA The Late Quaternary in the western Pyrenean region, 171-182, 1992 | 14 | 1992 |
| The Lateglacial interstadial at the southeastern limit of the Sonoran Desert, Mexico: vegetation and climate reconstruction based on pollen sequences from Ciénega San Marcial … CI Ortega‐Rosas, MC Peñalba, J Guiot Boreas 45 (4), 773-789, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| Airborne fungal spores from an urban locality in southern Sonora, Mexico M Moreno-Sarmiento, MC Peñalba, J Belmonte, I Rosas-Pérez, ... Revista mexicana de micología 44, 11-20, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Pollen profile of propolis produced on the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert in central Sonora, Mexico RD Vargas-Sánchez, MC Peñalba-Garmendia, JJ Sánchez-Escalante, ... Acta botánica mexicana, 69-85, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| Biogeografía holocena de las principales especies forestales del Norte de la Península Ibérica MC Peñalba Vasconia. Cuadernos de Historia-Geografía, 1993 | 8 | 1993 |
| Urban airborne pollen in a semiarid environment M Moreno-Sarmiento, MC Peñalba, J Belmonte, I Rosas, ... Aerobiologia 32, 363-370, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
