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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	533
Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	403
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	235
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	81
Issue Information	59
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	51
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	48
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	46
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	43
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	41
Drivers of metacommunity dynamics in river‐floodplain fish: A path modeling approach	39
Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs	36
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	35
The contribution of metabolic theory to ecology	35
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	34
Erratum	33
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	32
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	32
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	29
Issue Information	27
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	27
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	27
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	27
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Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	25

Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	25
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	25
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	24
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	23
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	22
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	21
Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	21
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	21
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	21
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Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	19
Issue Information	19
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
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Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	18
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	18
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	18
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	17
Issue Information	17
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	17
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	17
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	17
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	16
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	16
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	16
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Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	16
Cover Image	15
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
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Erratum	14
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	14
Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	14
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	14
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	14
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	14
Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape	13
Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities	13
Global meta‐analysis reveals the impacts of ocean warming and acidification on kelps	13
Cover Image	13
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	12
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	12
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Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	12
Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root‐associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions	11
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	11
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	11
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	11
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Static environments with limited resources select for multiple foraging strategies rather than conformity	10
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	10
First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	10
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	10
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	10
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	9
Editorial	9
A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	9
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	8
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	8
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	8
The units of biodiversity	7
Issue Information	7
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	7
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	7
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Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	7
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	7
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Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	6
Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	6
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	6
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	6
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	6
Predictive performance of presence‐only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code	5
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	5
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	5
Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards	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
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Issue Information	5
Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	5
Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	5
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	4
Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	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	4
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Erratum	4
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	4