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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	130
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	91
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	67
Drivers of metacommunity dynamics in river‐floodplain fish: A path modeling approach	53
Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs	51
The contribution of metabolic theory to ecology	47
Habitat heterogeneity and anthropogenic disturbance jointly affect species spatial associations and persistence	45
Neighbor density‐dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation	42
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	39
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	37
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	37
Erratum	33
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	32
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	30
Missing data in ecology: Syntheses, clarifications, and considerations	28
Plant elemental diversity increases ecosystem productivity and temporal stability	28
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	28
Issue Information	27
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	27
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Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	25
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	24
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	24

Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	23
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	23
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	23
A transcontinental experiment elucidates (mal)adaptation of a cosmopolitan plant to climate in space and time	23
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Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	22
Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	22
Multidimensional resource partitioning by Serengeti herbivores	21
Issue Information	20
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
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Issue Information	17
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	16
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	16
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	16
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	16
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	16
Issue Information	16
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	16
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	15
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Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	15
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Correction to “Life history traits influence environmental impacts on spatial population synchrony in European birds and butterflies”	14
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	14
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	14
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Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	13
Erratum	13
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Global meta‐analysis reveals the impacts of ocean warming and acidification on kelps	11
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Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	11
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	11
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	10
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	9
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	9
Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root‐associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions	9
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	9
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First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	9
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	8
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	8
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	8
Cover Image	8
Root‐mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation	8
Editorial	8
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	8

Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
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A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	7
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	7
Issue Information	6
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	6
Erratum for “Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients”	6
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	6
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	6
The units of biodiversity	6
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	5
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	5
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	5
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	5
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	5
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Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Reply	4
Microbial interactions as modular: Implications for ecosystem dynamics and evolution	4
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	4
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Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	4
How interactions between temperature and resources scale from populations to communities in microbes	4
Issue Information	4
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	4
Evaluating thermal performance of closely related taxa: Support for hotter is not better, but for unexpected reasons	4
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	4
Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	4
Tree diversity, tree growth, and microclimate independently structure Lepidoptera herbivore community stability	4
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	3
Generalized plant–pollinator phenological climate‐driven advances still lead to a decline in phenological overlap	3
Issue Information	3
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Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	3
Erratum	3
Integrating biotic interactions in niche analyses unravels patterns of community composition in clownfishes	3
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Recent Sphagnum expansion into the tundra on the North Slope of Alaska	3
Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	3
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	3
Climate‐linked evolution and genetics in a warming Arctic	3