OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Monographs is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	294
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	137
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	133
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	79
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	62
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	52
Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests	41
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	33
Erratum	33
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	31
Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population	30
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	30
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	30
Issue Information	29
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	29
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	28
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Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	28
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	27
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	26
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	25
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	25

Complex multi‐predator effects on demographic habitat selection and community assembly in colonizing aquatic insects	24
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	24
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	22
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	21
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	21
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Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	20
Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients	20
Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	20
Issue Information	19
Issue Information	19
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	18
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Multispecies integrated population model reveals bottom‐up dynamics in a seabird predator–prey system	18
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	17
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	17
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	17
Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors	16
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Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	16
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	16
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Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	14
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	14
Measurement and analysis of interspecific spatial associations as a facet of biodiversity	14
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	14
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	14
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	14
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Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	13
Solving the fourth‐corner problem: forecasting ecosystem primary production from spatial multispecies trait‐based models	13
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	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
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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