OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecological Monographs 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	120
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	86
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	66
Drivers of metacommunity dynamics in river‐floodplain fish: A path modeling approach	52
Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs	52
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	49
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	46
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	45
Habitat heterogeneity and anthropogenic disturbance jointly affect species spatial associations and persistence	39
Neighbor density‐dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation	38
The contribution of metabolic theory to ecology	36
Erratum	36
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	29
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	27
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	27
Issue Information	26
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	26
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Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	25
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	24

How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	24
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	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
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	22
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	22
Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	22
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	22
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Issue Information	21
Multidimensional resource partitioning by Serengeti herbivores	21
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Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	20
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Issue Information	20
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	19
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	17
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	16
Issue Information	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	15
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
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	13
Global meta‐analysis reveals the impacts of ocean warming and acidification on kelps	13
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	13
Erratum	13
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Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	13
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An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	12
Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	12
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Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root‐associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions	11
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Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	11
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	10
First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	9
Root‐mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation	9
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	9
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Editorial	8
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	8

Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	8
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	8
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	8
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	8
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7
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Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	7
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New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	6
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	6
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	6
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	6
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	6
Issue Information	6
Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	5
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	5
The units of biodiversity	5
Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards	5
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	5
How interactions between temperature and resources scale from populations to communities in microbes	5
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Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	5
Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	4
Tree diversity, tree growth, and microclimate independently structure Lepidoptera herbivore community stability	4
Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	4
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	4
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Reply	4
Issue Information	4
Erratum	4
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	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	4