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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	490
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	361
Issue Information	200
Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	75
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	47
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	45
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	44
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	42
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	40
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	38
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	37
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	34
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	33
Erratum	32
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	32
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	31
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	31
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	27
Issue Information	26
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	25
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	25
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	25
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How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	24
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	23

Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	23
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	22
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	21
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	20
Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	20
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	20
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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
Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	18
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	17
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	17
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	17
Issue Information	17
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Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	16
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	16
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	15
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	15
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	15
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	15
Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	15
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	15
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	14
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	14
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	14
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Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	14
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Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities	13
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Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape	13
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	12
Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	12
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Erratum	11
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	11
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	10
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	10
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	10
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	10
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	10
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10
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A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	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
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	8
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	8
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	8
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El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	7
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	7
The units of biodiversity	7
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	7
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	7
Editorial	7
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7
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
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Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	7
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	6
Issue Information	6
Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	6
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	5
Predictive performance of presence‐only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code	5
Evaluating thermal performance of closely related taxa: Support for hotter is not better, but for unexpected reasons	5
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	5
Cover Image	5
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	5
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	5
Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	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	4
Erratum	4
Tree diversity, tree growth, and microclimate independently structure Lepidoptera herbivore community stability	4
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	4
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	4
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	4
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	4
Issue Information	4
Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	4
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	4