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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	119
Developing hierarchical density‐structured models to study the national‐scale dynamics of an arable weed	93
A guide to state–space modeling of ecological time series	70
A critical comparison of integral projection and matrix projection models for demographic analysis	65
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	58
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Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	27
Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients	26
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Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	25
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Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	22
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	21
Combined influence of food availability and agricultural intensification on a declining aerial insectivore	21
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Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	21
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	20
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	20

Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	18
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	18
Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	18
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Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	17
Land‐use changes influence climate resilience through altered population demography in a social insect	17
Static environments with limited resources select for multiple foraging strategies rather than conformity	16
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Latitudinal embryonic thermal tolerance and plasticity shape the vulnerability of oviparous species to climate change	16
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	16
A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	16
The primacy of density‐mediated indirect effects in a community of wolves, elk, and aspen	16
Host neighborhood shapes bacterial community assembly and specialization on tree species across a latitudinal gradient	15
Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation	15
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	15
Resolving the consequences of gradual phenotypic plasticity for populations in variable environments	15
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	14
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	14
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The power and pitfalls of amino acid carbon stable isotopes for tracing origin and use of basal resources in food webs	13
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Lessons from four decades of monitoring vegetation and fire: maintaining diversity and resilience in Florida’s uplands	13
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	13
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Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change: Comment	13
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From microbes to mammals: Pond biodiversity homogenization across different land‐use types in an agricultural landscape	12
Sapling growth gradients interact with homogeneous disturbance regimes to explain savanna tree cover discontinuities	12
Abiotic and biotic drivers of tree trait effects on soil microbial biomass and soil carbon concentration	12
Reevaluating trophic discrimination factors (Δδ¹³CandΔδ¹⁵N) for diet reconstruction	12
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Local endemism and ecological generalism in the assembly of root‐colonizing fungi	11
Of wolves and bears: Seasonal drivers of interference and exploitation competition between apex predators	11
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	11
Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests	11
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	10
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	10
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	10
Multispecies integrated population model reveals bottom‐up dynamics in a seabird predator–prey system	10
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Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	10
Limits to species distributions on tropical mountains shift from high temperature to competition as elevation increases	10
Climate warming may weaken stabilizing mechanisms in old forests	9
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	9
Mammalian predator co‐occurrence affected by prey and habitat more than competitor presence at multiple time scales	9
Maintenance of high diversity in mechanistic forest dynamics models of competition for light	9

Phenological responses to climate change across taxa and local habitats in a high‐Arctic arthropod community	9
Autopolyploidy‐driven range expansion of a temperate‐originated plant to pan‐tropic under global change	9
Habitat area more consistently affects seagrass faunal communities than fragmentation per se	9
Temporal dynamics of range expander and congeneric native plant responses during and after extreme drought events	9
Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire	9
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Wildcards in climate change biology	8
Species interactions across trophic levels mediate rainfall effects on dryland vegetation dynamics	8
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The effects of a half century of warming and fire exclusion on montane forests of the Klamath Mountains, California, USA	7
El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	7
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Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	7
Phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, and spatial scale determine herbivore co‐occurrence in a subtropical forest	7
Holocene lake phosphorus species and primary producers reflect catchment processes in a small, temperate lake	6
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	6
A flexible theory for the dynamics of social populations: Within‐group density dependence and between‐group processes	6
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	6
Parasites in kelp‐forest food webs increase food‐chain length, complexity, and specialization, but reduce connectance	6
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	6
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Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors	6
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Widespread variation in stable isotope trophic position estimates: patterns, causes, and potential consequences	6
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	5
Demography and dispersal at a grass‐shrub ecotone: A spatial integral projection model for woody plant encroachment	5
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Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population	5
Mycorrhizal fungi as critical biotic filters for tree seedling establishment during species range expansions	5
Evolution of increased competitive ability may explain dominance of introduced species in ruderal communities	5
Wing transparency in butterflies and moths: structural diversity, optical properties, and ecological relevance	4
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	4
Thoughts on the evolution and ecological niche of diatoms	4
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Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	4
Climate and management changes over 40 years drove more stress‐tolerant and less ruderal weed communities in vineyards	3
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	3
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	3
Hotter temperatures alter riparian plant outcomes under regulated river conditions	3
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Drivers of contrasting boreal understory vegetation in coniferous and broadleaf deciduous alternative states	3