OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biotropica is 5. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function	53
Bird diversity and endemism along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar: The conservation value of vanilla agroforests	29
Bats and hawkmoths form mixed modules with flowering plants in a nocturnal interaction network	28
Primate life history, social dynamics, ecology, and conservation: Contributions from long‐term research in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica	25
Detecting aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in a tropical estuary using environmental DNA	25
Shade tree traits and microclimate modifications: Implications for pathogen management in biodiverse coffee agroforests	24
The mechanical stability of the world’s tallest broadleaf trees	24
On the floristic identity of Amazonian vegetation types	23
It is not just about time: Agricultural practices and surrounding forest cover affect secondary forest recovery in agricultural landscapes	22
Net benefits of a mutualism: Influence of the quality of extrafloral nectar on the colony fitness of a mutualistic ant	20
Testing the environmental prediction hypothesis for community‐wide mass flowering in South‐East Asia	19
Climate and plant structure determine the spatiotemporal butterfly distribution on a tropical mountain	19
The effect of flight efficiency on gap‐crossing ability in Amazonian forest birds	18
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the ant community in a dry forest differ by vertical strata but not by successional stage	18
Variation in leaf temperatures of tropical and subtropical trees are related to leaf thermoregulatory traits and not geographic distributions	17
Bat–flower interaction networks in Caatinga reveal generalized associations and temporal stability	17
Plant species specificity of ant–plant mutualistic interactions: Differential predation of termites by Camponotus crassus on five species of extrafloral nectaries plants	16
Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna	15
Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape	15
Fostering local involvement for biodiversity conservation in tropical regions: Lessons from Madagascar during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Evolutionary heritage shapes tree distributions along an Amazon‐to‐Andes elevation gradient	15
Genetic diversity and functional connectivity of a critically endangered salamander	15
Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas	15
Geography of roadkills within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot: Poorly known vertebrates are part of the toll	15
A meta‐analysis of tropical land‐use change effects on the soil microbiome: Emerging patterns and knowledge gaps	14

Habitat structure mediates vulnerability to climate change through its effects on thermoregulatory behavior	14
Improved household living standards can restore dry tropical forests	14
Long‐term monitoring of seed dispersal by Asian elephants in a Sundaland rainforest	14
Seasonal isotopic niche of a rodent: High between‐individual variation but no changes in individual niche width during the rich‐resource period	13
Flammability in tropical savannas: Variation among growth forms and seasons in Cerrado	13
When waterholes get busy, rare interactions thrive: Photographic evidence of a jaguar (Panthera onca) killing an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)	13
Insights into the functional ecology of páramo plants in Colombia	13
Permeability of Neotropical agricultural lands to a key native ungulate—Are well‐connected forests important?	12
Landscape heterogeneity shapes bird phylogenetic responses at forest–matrix interfaces in Atlantic Forest, Brazil	12
Temporal interactions and moon illumination effect on mammals in a tropical semievergreen forest of Manas National Park, Assam, India	12
Climate change induced elevational range shifts of Himalayan tree species	12
Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance	11
Arboreal monkeys facilitate foraging of terrestrial frugivores	11
Midges not only sucks, but may carry lethal pathogens to wild amphibians	11
Lost mutualisms: Seed dispersal by Sumatran rhinos, the world’s most threatened megafauna	11
Gamma, alpha, and beta diversity of ant assemblages response to a gradient of forest cover in human‐modified landscape in Brazilian Amazon	11
Detecting ecological thresholds for biodiversity in tropical forests: Knowledge gaps and future directions	11
Anticipating the potential impacts of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans on Neotropical salamander diversity	10
Native mammals disperse the highly invasive Senna spectabilis in the Western Ghats, India	10
Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia	10
Importance of interaction rewiring in determining spatial and temporal turnover of tritrophic (Piper‐caterpillar‐parasitoid) metanetworks in the Yucatán Península, México	10
Assessing the importance of reproductive modes for the evaluation of altitudinal distribution patterns in tropical frogs	10
Drought and soil nutrients effects on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in seedlings from eight Neotropical legume species	10
Landscape structure and local variables affect plant community diversity and structure in a Brazilian agricultural landscape	10
Different elevational environments dictate contrasting patterns of niche evolution in NeotropicalPithecopustreefrog species	10
Low‐intensity cattle grazing is better than cattle exclusion to drive secondary savannas toward the features of native Cerrado vegetation	10
Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient	10
The functional ecology of bat pollination in the African sausage tree Kigelia africana (Bignoniaceae)	10
Trick or treat? Pollinator attraction in Vanilla pompona (Orchidaceae)	10
Sharing sound: Avian acoustic niches in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	10
Spider diversity across an elevation gradient in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica	10
Community science data provide evidence for upward elevational range shifts by Eastern Himalayan birds	9
Role of the Andean uplift as an asymmetrical barrier to gene flow in the neotropical leaf‐cutting ant Atta cephalotes	9
Elevation and leaf litter interact in determining the structure of ant communities on a tropical mountain	9
Seasonality and interspecific competition shape individual niche variation in co‐occurring tetra fish in Neotropical streams	9
Forest biomass stocks and dynamics across the subtropical Andes	9
Drought and fire determine juvenile and adult woody diversity and dominance in a semi‐arid African savanna	9
Biotropica announces a new paper category: Natural History Field Notes	9
Conservation implications of living in forest remnants: Inbreeding and genetic structure of the northernmost mantled howler monkeys	9
Elevational distribution of birds in an Eastern African montane environment as governed by temperature, precipitation, and habitat availability	9
Thermal adaptations to extreme freeze–thaw cycles in the high tropical Andes	8
High spatial resolution mapping identifies habitat characteristics of the invasive vine Antigonon leptopus on St. Eustatius (Lesser Antilles)	8
Distinct leaf water potential regulation of tree species and vegetation types across the Cerrado–Amazonia transition	8
Abundance and composition of forest‐dwelling anurans in cashew plantations in a tropical semi‐evergreen forest landscape	8
Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why	8
Litter decomposition rates across tropical montane and lowland forests are controlled foremost by climate	8
Ant diversity decreases during the dry season: A meta‐analysis of the effects of seasonality on ant richness and abundance	8
Variation in trunk taper of buttressed trees within and among five lowland tropical forests	8
Shade alters the growth and architecture of tropical grasses by reducing root biomass	8
Sustainable harvesting and conservation of Laelia furfuracea, a rare epiphytic orchid from Oaxaca, Mexico	7

Uncovering the vertebrate scavenger guild composition and functioning in the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot	7
Mutualistic relationships in marine angiosperms: Enhanced germination of seeds by mega‐herbivores	7
Upward shifts in elevational limits of forest and grassland for Mexican volcanoes over three decades	7
Simulated chorus attracts conspecific and heterospecific Amazonian explosive breeding frogs	7
Structure of small tropical island freshwater fish and crustacean communities: A niche‐or dispersal‐based process?	7
Camera trapping reveals multispecies use of water‐filled tree holes by birds and mammals in a neotropical forest	7
Effects of habitat transitions on rainforest bird communities across an anthropogenic landscape mosaic	7
Wood species identity alters dominant factors driving fine wood decomposition along a tree diversity gradient in subtropical plantation forests	7
Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll	7
Leaf trait co‐variation and trade‐offs in gallery forest C₃ and CAM epiphytes	7
Species distribution models predict the geographic expansion of an enzootic amphibian pathogen	7
30 years brings changes to the arthropod community of Kibale National Park, Uganda	7
Conspecific negative density dependence of trees varies with plant functional traits and environmental conditions across scales in a 60‐ha tropical rainforest dynamics plot	7
Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities	7
Wildlife rehabilitation centers as a potential source of transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 into native wildlife of Latin America	7
Seed dispersal effectiveness by oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis) in the Southern Andes of Colombia	7
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	7
Human impacts alter the distribution of fish functional diversity in Neotropical stream system	7
Coarse woody debris density and carbon concentration by decay classes in mixed montane wet tropical forests	7
Ecological drivers of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal services of a common neotropical palm	7
Leaf damage by herbivore feeding guilds along gradients of elevation and plant species richness	7
Environmental filtering and deforestation shape frog assemblages in Amazonia: An empirical approach assessing species abundances and functional traits	6
Nonchalant neighbors: Space use and overlap of the critically endangered Elongated Tortoise	6
Spatial pattern of tree diversity and impacts of ecological disturbances on forest structure in tropical deciduous forests of Central India	6
Trophic cascades in tropical rainforests: Effects of vertebrate predator exclusion on arthropods and plants in Papua New Guinea	6
Interplay of environmental cues and wood density in the vegetative and reproductive phenology of seasonally dry tropical forest trees	6
Lizard and frog removal increases spider abundance but does not cascade to increase herbivory	6
Seed size and pubescence facilitate secondary dispersal by dung beetles	6
Drought‐induced reductions in plant defenses: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in the Caatinga dry forest	6
Litter‐trapping tank bromeliads in five different forests: Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes	6
Leaf litter decomposition in tropical freshwater swamp forests is slower in swamp than non‐swamp conditions	6
Out of steady state: Tracking canopy gap dynamics across Brazilian Amazon	6
Aboveground carbon stocks, woody and litter productivity along an elevational gradient in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda	6
Safe space in the woods: Mechanistic spatial models for predicting risks of human–bear conflicts in India	6
Even small forest patches increase bee visits to flowers in an oil palm plantation landscape	6
Insights into human‐wildlife coexistence through temporal activity pattern overlaps in a neglected tropical forest in India	6
Patterns and controls on island‐wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second‐growth forests of Puerto Rico	6
Influence of avocado orchard landscapes on amphibians and reptiles in the trans‐Mexican volcanic belt	6
Functional and genetic diversity changes through time in a cloud forest ant assemblage	6
Fruit trees drive small‐scale movement of elephants in Kibale National Park, Uganda	6
Interactions of the influences of habitat protection, habitat heterogeneity, and periodic flooding on waterbirds of the lower Paraná River, Argentina	6
Active modification of cavity nest‐entrances is a common strategy in arboreal ants	6
Crickets as indicators of ecological succession in tropical systems, New Caledonia	6
Small mammals reduce distance dependence and increase seed predation risk in tropical rainforest fragments	6
Logging leaves a fingerprint on the number, size, spatial configuration and geometry of tropical forest canopy gaps	6
Butterfly and moth communities differ in their response to habitat structure in rainforests of Mount Cameroon	6
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	6
Clearcutting and selective logging have inconsistent effects on liana diversity and abundance but not on liana–tree interaction networks	6
Forest fires facilitate growth of herbaceous bamboos in central Amazonia	6
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	5
Species richness and assemblages of bats along a forest elevational transect in Papua New Guinea	5
Fish communities critically depend on forest subsidies in small neotropical streams with high biodiversity value	5
The role of non‐natural foods in the nutritional strategies of monkeys in a human‐modified mosaic landscape	5
Tayra (Eira barbara) landscape use as a function of cover types, forest protection, and the presence of puma and free‐ranging dogs	5
Rainforest conversion to smallholder cash crops leads to varying declines of beetles (Coleoptera) on Sumatra	5
Non‐continuous reproductive phenology of animal‐dispersed species in young forest restoration plantings	5
Functional robustness of seed dispersal by a remnant frugivore population on a defaunated tropical island	5
Short flowers for long tongues: Functional specialization in a nocturnal pollination network of an asclepiad in long‐tongued hawkmoths	5
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	5
Vertical stratification of dung beetles in young secondary forests of Singapore	5
Reduced predation by arthropods and higher herbivory in burned Amazonian forests	5
Diversity patterns of epiphytic bryophytes across spatial scales: Species‐rich crowns and beta‐diverse trunks	5
Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees	5
Leaf‐cutting ant nests support less dense and impoverished seed assemblages in a human‐modified Caatinga dry forest	5
Can variation in seed removal patterns of Neotropical pioneer tree species be explained by local ant community composition?	5
Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	5
The empty forest three decades later: Lessons and prospects	5
The role of deterministic succession during forest development within a southern African savanna	5
Roost site use by Great (Buceros bicornis) and Wreathed (Rhyticeros undulatus) Hornbill and its implications for seed dispersal	5
Morphology of four common and phylogenetically distant ant species varies along disturbance and aridity gradients in the Caatinga dry forest	5
Forest structure predicts species richness and functional diversity in Amazonian mixed‐species bird flocks	5
Effects of temperature and precipitation on litterfall phenology in four evergreen broad‐leaved forests of southern China	5