OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Tropical Ecology is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Attracted to feed, not to be fed upon – on the biology of Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’ (Diptera: Syrphidae)	16
Distribution and community structure of fish in relation with water physico-chemical parameters of floodplain rivers in the Alitash National Park, Ethiopia	10
Pollen movement of the endemic Agave cupreata by bats and birds in western Mexico	10
Early successional habitat supports unique avian communities dominated by wintering migrants in a premontane tropical forest	9
How can the copepod Mesocyclops longisetus (Thiébaud, 1912) be used to control mosquito production effectively in pots, plates, and slabs?	9
El Niño oscillations impact anti-predator defences to alter survival of an herbivorous beetle in a neotropical wet forest	8
Interaction networks between solitary hymenopterans and their natural enemies in different restoration areas	7
The interplay of spatial scale and landscape transformation modulates the abundance and intraspecific variation in the ecomorphological traits of a phyllostomid bat	7
Plant defence traits among discrete vegetation assemblages in a mesic savanna landscape in Kenya	6
Forest canopy resists plant invasions: a case study ofChromolaena odoratain Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Nepal	6
Termitaria enhance soil and forest diversity in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest, Northern Thailand	5
Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon	5
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	5
Hard to predict! No clear effects of home-field advantage on leaf litter decomposition in tropical heath vegetation	5
Biogeographic and fragmentation-related research biases on antbirds and non-flying small mammals in Brazil	5
Functional and phylogenetic metrics to evaluate the potential of flagship species: the case of the salamander Ambystoma ordinarium	5
Belowground carbon stored in a tropical mountain cloud forest of east-central Mexico	4
Topography as a determinant of bird distribution in secondary Atlantic Forest fragments	4
Correlates of plant β-diversity in Atlantic Forest patches in the Pernambuco Endemism Centre, Northeastern Brazil	4
Assessing forest restoration effectiveness in the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest ecoregion using epigaeic ant assemblages	4
Nowhere to escape – Diversity and community composition of ferns and lycophytes on the highest mountain in Honduras	4
Influence of rhizosphere activity on litter decomposition in subtropical forest: implications of estimating soil organic matter contributions to soil respiration	4
The impact of roads on the movement of arboreal fauna in protected areas: the case of lar and pileated gibbons in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand	4
Short duration overnight cattle kraaling in natural rangelands leads to increased tree damage by elephants	4
Impact of weather conditions on cheetah monitoring with scat detection dogs	3

Tree height effects on vascular anatomy of upper-canopy twigs across a wide range of tropical rainforest species	3
Comparisons of habitat types and host tree species across a threatened Caribbean orchid’s core and edge distribution	3
Photosynthetic acclimation, leaf turnover and growth in tree seedlings suddenly exposed to gaps in Jamaican montane rainforest	3
Evidence of sodium limitation in ants and termites in a Neotropical savanna	3
Favourable climatic niche in low elevations outside the flood zone characterises the distribution pattern of venomous snakes in Bangladesh	3
Litter production in successional forests of southern Bahia, Brazil	3
Population age structures, persistence and flowering cues inCerberiopsis candelabra(Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic rain-forest tree in New Caledonia	3
Frugivory and seed predation of fishtail palm (Caryota mitis Lour.) on the remote oceanic island of Narcondam, India	3
Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest	3
Macrotermes termite mounds influence the spatial pattern of tree species in two African rainforest sites, in northern Congo. But were they really forests in the past?	3
Do epiphytes affect the fitness of their phorophytes? The case of Tillandsia recurvata on Bursera copallifera	3
Do secondary hemiepiphytes exist?	3
Habitat-dependent effects of predatory spiders on prey frogs in a Neotropical wet forest	3
Report on an outbreak of coral-killing sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa in an unprotected reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India	3
Divergent litterfall nutrient responses to rainfall seasonality revealed through long-term observations in a tropical dry forest	3
Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India	3
An insight into the quality of sacred groves – an island habitat – using leaf-litter ants as an indicator in a context of urbanization	3
Decline and recovery in cell population densities of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae) as a novel bloom driver for the species	3
Evaluating the utility of protected area status and conservation legislation in tropical forest conservation using satellite data: a case study of the great hornbill in Thailand	3
Tree density-dependence effects on seed dispersal of a large-seeded tropical tree	3
Leaf-litter frog abundance increases during succession of regenerating pastures	2
Nest density, egg conspicuity, vegetation structure and seasonality affect artificial nest predation in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Influence of temperature changes on symbiotic Symbiodiniaceae and bacterial communities’ structure: an experimental study on soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum (Anthozoa: Alcyoniidae)	2
Turnover in fish species composition is related to water colour of Amazonian rivers	2
Herpetofaunal community response to hurricanes Irma and Maria in Virgin Islands National Park	2
Trophic ecology of syntopic anurans of tropical stream communities	2
Functional diversity in relation to the longitudinal gradient of a species-rich Neotropical river	2
Acoustic competition within a tropical bird community: the case of the Resplendent QuetzalPharomachrus mocinnoin Guatemala	2
Niche partitioning between hummingbirds and well-matched flowers is independent of hummingbird traits	2
Taxonomic scale dependency of Bergmann’s patterns: a cross-scale comparison of hawkmoths and birds along a tropical elevational gradient	2
Diversity of ground-dwelling ants in sugarcane plantations under different management systems	2
Microhabitat partitioning is driven by preferences, not competition, in two Costa Rican millipede species	2
Diversity of understory herbaceous plants during succession in rubber plantations in National Park of Hainan Tropical Rainforest, China	2
A comparison of inter- and intraspecific variation in seed dispersal in three South American primates	2
Diversity patterns of lizard assemblages from a protected habitat mosaic in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna	2
Wing shape differences along a migration route of the long-distance migrant Globe Skimmer DragonflyPantala flavescens	2
Variation in soil organic carbon stocks in Singapore with forest succession and land management	2
The potential distribution of Cyclopes didactylus, a silky anteater, reveals a likely unknown population and urgent need for forest conservation in Northeast Brazil	2
National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru	1
Light penetration and topography shape juvenile tree species assemblies in the understory of the tropical Andean cloud forest	1
Revisiting the phenology of El Triunfo cloud forest, Mexico, 30 years later	1
Andean bears hunt wild guinea pigs in Colombian paramos	1
Factors influencing tropical lizard reproduction vary by microhabitat but not forest type	1
Growing population of the critically endangered white-thighed colobus monkey (Colobus vellerosus) from forest fragments in Ghana	1
Living in the edge: large terrestrial mammal and bird species traits and the ability to cope with extreme environmental conditions and human disturbance in a tropical dry forest in Colombia	1
Seasonal dietary niche changes in Neotropical bats	1
Females restrict the position of domatia and suffer more herbivory than hermaphrodites inMyriocarpa longipes,a neotropical facultative myrmecophyte	1
Spatiotemporal co-occurrence of predators and prey in a neotropical mammal community in southern Mexico	1
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	1
Scaling of indirect defences in Central American swollen-thorn acacias	1

Tree recruitment after native frugivore extinction? A field experiment to test the impact of fruit flesh persistence in a tropical oceanic island	1
Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon	1
Phenological diversity among sub-tropical moist forest trees of north-eastern India	1
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	1
Acaciainvasion differentially impacts soil properties of two contrasting tropical lowland forests in Brunei Darussalam	1
Environmental correlates of some selected fish species in the Jebba Dam, North-Central Nigeria	1
Kaya forests: nucleus of cultural and biological diversity and functionality	1
The effect of tree-on-tree interactions and abiotic conditions on woody communities in Brazilian savannas	1
Hail-caused greenfall leaves, litterfall, nutrients, and leaf decomposition in tropical cloud forest and a restoration planting	1
Lightly-harvested rustic cocoa is a valuable land cover for amphibian and reptile conservation in human-modified rainforest landscapes	1
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	1
Avifaunal feeding guilds’ response to landscape compositional heterogeneity and their drivers in forest mosaic, Uttarakhand, India	1
Abiotic niche partitioning among congeneric species in an Atlantic forest fragment	1
Bioclimatic predictors of forest structure, composition and phenology in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco	1
Overcoming the regeneration barriers of tropical dry forest: effects of water stress and herbivory on seedling performance and allocation of key tree species for restoration	1
Changes in spinescence across leaf ontogeny support the optimal defence hypothesis in blackberries (Rubus adenotrichos)	1
Not only a listener: female frog-biting midges (Corethrellidae) also distinguish the shape of frogs	1
Evolution and emergence of mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance: towards a routine metagenomic surveillance approach	1
Local environmental context determines the colonisation of leaf shelters by arthropods: an experimental study	1