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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	471
Issue Information	341
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	182
Issue Information	153
Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	69
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	46
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	43
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	41
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	38
Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests	38
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	36
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	35
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	33
Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population	33
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	32
Erratum	32
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	30
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	28
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	28
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	27
Complex multi‐predator effects on demographic habitat selection and community assembly in colonizing aquatic insects	26
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	25
Issue Information	25
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	24
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	24

Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	24
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	23
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	23
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	23
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How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	22
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Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	20
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	20
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	20
Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	19
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Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	18
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	18
Issue Information	17
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	17
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Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	16
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	16
Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors	16
Issue Information	16
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	16
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	15
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	15
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	15
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	15
Issue Information	15
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	14
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Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	14
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	14
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	14
Cover Image	14
Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape	13
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
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
Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	13
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	13
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	12
Cover Image	12
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	11
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	11
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Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	11
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	11
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	11
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	10
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10

A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	10
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	10
Static environments with limited resources select for multiple foraging strategies rather than conformity	10
Wildcards in climate change biology	9
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	9
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	9
First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	9
El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	8
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	8
Editorial	8
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	7
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
The units of biodiversity	7
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	7
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	7
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	7
Cover Image	7
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	7
Issue Information	7
Cover Image	7
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	7
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	6
Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	6
Cover Image	6
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	6
Predictive performance of presence‐only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code	6
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	5
Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards	5
Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	5
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	5
Evaluating thermal performance of closely related taxa: Support for hotter is not better, but for unexpected reasons	5
Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	5
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	5
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	4
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	4
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Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	4
A guide to state–space modeling of ecological time series	4
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Issue Information	4
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	4
Erratum	4
Advancing transdisciplinary research on Madagascar's grassy biomes to support resilience in ecosystems and livelihoods	4