OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest	26
Ecological niche modelling and future scenarios of Cordia oncocalyx - A species of restricted distribution	24
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil	16
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability	15
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	14
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands	13
Strategies in growth and reproduction of the native endangered plant species Scripus mariqueter and the driving factors in a coastal salt marsh wetland, eastern China	13
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas	12
Editorial Board	12
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	11
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	11
The different facets of native bird diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) as predictors of alien birds increasing richness and expanding range in Great Britain	11
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration	11
Discovering threatened freshwater turtles by an innovative floating camera trap system	11
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?	10
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape	10
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	9
Editorial Board	8
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii	8
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)	8
English Ivy (Hedera helix) is fast, but ash (Fraxinus excelsior) too: Decomposition of English Ivy litter compared to four common host trees - A multisite citizen sciences project	7
Traditional rangeland management can conserve insect pollinators in a semi-arid rangeland, northern Tanzania	7
Understorey-nesting bird community responses to land use in the Korup National Park, an Afrotropical rainforest in South-Western Cameroon	7
Earthworm: a keystone species of soil quality, health and functions	7
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	7

Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees	7
Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil	7
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland	7
Mechanisms facilitating ant species coexistence in the burnt and unburnt grassland	6
How are arthropod communities structured in a modified wetland under different productive activities?	6
Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates	6
The effect of soil depth on stoichiometry was greater than that of elevation in Abies georgei var. Smithii forest in Southeastern Tibet, China	6
Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot	6
Is endozoochoric seed dispersal by large herbivores an evolutionary adaptation? Revisiting the Janzen's ‘Foliage is the fruit’ hypothesis	6
Editorial Board	6
Thermal-metabolic relationships in hatchling snapping turtles during simulated seasonal cooling	6
Soil properties and fine root morphological traits in relation to soil particle-size fractions in a broad-leaved beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forest	6
Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed, forested landscape of East Texas	6
Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest	6
How many seeds can birds disperse?: Determining the pattern of seed deposition by frugivorous birds	6
The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community	6
Morphological and physiological adaptation of a desert shrub, Encelia farinosa, under drought stress	5
Editorial Board	5
Variation of canopy openness of tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka with altitude and azimuth angle	5
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid	5
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	5
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada	5
Caves’ environmental stability shaping subterranean biodiversity in the neotropics	5
Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta	5
Seed dispersal mechanism of Erythronium japonicum in Northeast China	5
The impact of rare and common species on the functional diversity of forest birds in a palm-dominated landscape in the Eastern Amazon	5
Soil macronutrient dynamics across diverse Ethiopian vegetation types: A synthesis for sustainable forest ecosystem management	5
Influence of soil properties on millipede (Diplopoda) communities in forest stands of various tree species	5
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on diaspore removal by ants: A meta-analysis	5
Editorial Board	5
A matter of scale: Local biotic differentiation and potential regional homogenization of understory plant communities in a highly fragmented tropical landscape	5
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the Patagonian genus Onuris (Brassicaceae: Eudemeae) at different phylogenetic scales	5
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia	5
The effects of seasonal changes on the dynamics of a fig tree's pollination	5
Competition for resources: What factors lead honey bees to outcompete other insect competitors?	4
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests	4
Post-mine succession and short term effects of coal mining in a Guinea savanna ecosystem	4
Editorial Board	4
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series	4
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	4
Crown complementarity rather than crown selection contributes to stem complementarity in genetic mixtures of Pinus taeda L	4
What do we know about seed dispersal by Carnivorans in Brazil?	4
The coexistence of two related fig wasp species sharing the same host fig species across a broad geographical area	4
The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants	4
Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects	4
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes	4
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile	4
Anthropogenic termite mound erosion: Spatio-temporal distribution, biophysical characteristics and farmers’ perceptions in SW Uganda	4
Scale and representation of landscapes in mammal studies in Brazil	4
Toxicological impact of elutriate from wooded soil with the exotic plants Pinus spp. and Eucalyptus spp.	4

Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought