OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecological Monographs is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	409
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	294
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	137
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	133
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	79
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	62
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	52
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	41
Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests	41
Erratum	33
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	33
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	31
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	31
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	30
Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population	30
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	30
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	29
Issue Information	29
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	28
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Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	28
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	27
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	26
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	25
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	25

Complex multi‐predator effects on demographic habitat selection and community assembly in colonizing aquatic insects	24
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	24
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	22
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	21
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	21
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Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	20
Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients	20
Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	20
Issue Information	19
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Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
Multispecies integrated population model reveals bottom‐up dynamics in a seabird predator–prey system	18
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	18
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Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	17
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	17
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	17
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	16
Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors	16
Issue Information	16
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	16
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Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	14
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	14
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	14
Measurement and analysis of interspecific spatial associations as a facet of biodiversity	14
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	14
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	14
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Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	13
Solving the fourth‐corner problem: forecasting ecosystem primary production from spatial multispecies trait‐based models	13
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	13
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	13
Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities	13
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Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	13
Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	13
Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape	12
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	12
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	12
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	10
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	10
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	10
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	10
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Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	9

Static environments with limited resources select for multiple foraging strategies rather than conformity	9
First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	9
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	9
A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	9
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Issue Information	8
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	8
Wildcards in climate change biology	8
Editorial	7
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	7
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	7
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El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	7
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	7
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Issue Information	6
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	6
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	6
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	6
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	6
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	6
From competition to facilitation and mutualism: a general theory of the niche	6
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	5
Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	5
Predictive performance of presence‐only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code	5
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	5
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	5
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	4
Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	4
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Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	4
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	4
Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards	4
Evaluating thermal performance of closely related taxa: Support for hotter is not better, but for unexpected reasons	4
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	3
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	3
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Temporal dynamics of range expander and congeneric native plant responses during and after extreme drought events	3
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	3
Issue Information	3
Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation	3
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Reevaluating trophic discrimination factors (Δδ¹³CandΔδ¹⁵N) for diet reconstruction	3
Erratum	3
Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	3
A guide to state–space modeling of ecological time series	3
Issue Information	3
Climate warming may weaken stabilizing mechanisms in old forests	3