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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Extensive clonal propagation and resprouting drive the regeneration of a Brazilian dry forest	23
Temperature and soils predict the distribution of plant species along the Himalayan elevational gradient	16
Nowhere to escape – Diversity and community composition of ferns and lycophytes on the highest mountain in Honduras	10
Effect of Mosses on physical and chemical properties of soil in temperate forests of Garhwal Himalayas	9
Suffrutex grasslands in south-central Angola: belowground biomass, root structure, soil characteristics and vegetation dynamics of the ‘underground forests of Africa’	9
Forest canopy resists plant invasions: a case study ofChromolaena odoratain Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Nepal	8
Do secondary hemiepiphytes exist?	7
A half-day flowering pattern helps plants sharing pollinators in an oceanic island community	7
The association between rainforest disturbance and recovery, tree community composition, and community traits in the Yangambi area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	7
Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest	6
Topography as a determinant of bird distribution in secondary Atlantic Forest fragments	6
Impact of weather conditions on cheetah monitoring with scat detection dogs	6
Spatiotemporal co-occurrence of predators and prey in a neotropical mammal community in southern Mexico	5
Taxonomic scale dependency of Bergmann’s patterns: a cross-scale comparison of hawkmoths and birds along a tropical elevational gradient	5
Critical role of air and soil temperature in the development of primary and secondary physical dormancy inAlbizia julibrissin(Fabaceae)	5
Beyond four decades of Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Malaysian oil palm industry: a review	5
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	5
Memory and habituation to harmful and non-harmful stimuli in a field population of the sensitive plant,Mimosa pudica	5
Lightly-harvested rustic cocoa is a valuable land cover for amphibian and reptile conservation in human-modified rainforest landscapes	5
Height–diameter allometry in African monodominant forest close to mixed forest	5
Landscape forest loss changes sunfleck dynamics in forest fragments of southern Bahia, Brazil	4
Freeze tolerance in neotropical frogs: an intrageneric comparison using Pristimantis species of high elevation and medium elevation	4
Population age structures, persistence and flowering cues inCerberiopsis candelabra(Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic rain-forest tree in New Caledonia	4
Persisting while changing over time: modelling the historical biogeographic of cave crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea) in Neotropics	4
Acaciainvasion differentially impacts soil properties of two contrasting tropical lowland forests in Brunei Darussalam	4

Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon	4
Roller dung beetles of dung piles suggest habitats are alike, but that of guarding pitfall traps suggest habitats are different	4
Tree recruitment after native frugivore extinction? A field experiment to test the impact of fruit flesh persistence in a tropical oceanic island	4
Assessment of floral composition, structure and natural regeneration of the Tano Offin Globally Significant Biodiversity Area of Ghana	3
Fruit traits of tree species in lower montane rainforest at Doi Suthep–Pui, northern Thailand	3
Evolution and emergence of mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance: towards a routine metagenomic surveillance approach	3
Phenological diversity among sub-tropical moist forest trees of north-eastern India	3
Trophic ecology of syntopic anurans of tropical stream communities	3
Evidence of sodium limitation in ants and termites in a Neotropical savanna	3
Short duration overnight cattle kraaling in natural rangelands leads to increased tree damage by elephants	3
What can the abundance of Grey Parrots on Príncipe Island tell us about large parrot conservation?	3
The influence of environmental variables on bdelloid rotifers of the genus Rotaria in Thailand	3
Bat diversity is driven by elevation and distance to the nearest watercourse in aterra firmeforest in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon	3
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	3
Diversity patterns of lizard assemblages from a protected habitat mosaic in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna	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
Comparisons of habitat types and host tree species across a threatened Caribbean orchid’s core and edge distribution	3
Influence of rhizosphere activity on litter decomposition in subtropical forest: implications of estimating soil organic matter contributions to soil respiration	3
Striped hyaena den site selection in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	3
Predicting the potential suitable habitats of forest spices Piper capense and Aframomum corrorima under climate change in Ethiopia	3
Not only a listener: female frog-biting midges (Corethrellidae) also distinguish the shape of frogs	3
Selective logging does not alter termite response to soil gradients in Amazonia	3
Acoustic competition within a tropical bird community: the case of the Resplendent QuetzalPharomachrus mocinnoin Guatemala	3
Habitat-dependent effects of predatory spiders on prey frogs in a Neotropical wet forest	3
The potential distribution of Cyclopes didactylus, a silky anteater, reveals a likely unknown population and urgent need for forest conservation in Northeast Brazil	3
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	3
Herb–subshrub diversity in open savanna sites with distinct fire regimes in the Jalapão region, Brazil	3
Interactions between ants and non-myrmecochorous diaspores in a West African montane landscape	2
Variable detectability and El-Niño associations with riparian snakes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo	2
What happens to epiphytic bromeliads in a windy spot?	2
Local environmental context determines the colonisation of leaf shelters by arthropods: an experimental study	2
Favourable climatic niche in low elevations outside the flood zone characterises the distribution pattern of venomous snakes in Bangladesh	2
An insight into the quality of sacred groves – an island habitat – using leaf-litter ants as an indicator in a context of urbanization	2
Leaf and root attributes as growth and phosphorus uptake determinants in two grass species from South America’s natural grasslands	2
High level of daily heterothermy in desert gerbils	2
A review study on the design and control of optimised greenhouse environments	2
Sex ratio and life history traits at reaching sexual maturity in the dioecious shrub Fuchsia parviflora: field and common garden experiments	2
Nest density, egg conspicuity, vegetation structure and seasonality affect artificial nest predation in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Litter production in successional forests of southern Bahia, Brazil	2
Hard to predict! No clear effects of home-field advantage on leaf litter decomposition in tropical heath vegetation	2
Attracted to feed, not to be fed upon – on the biology of Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’ (Diptera: Syrphidae)	2
Golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus chrysogaster) consume and share mammalian prey at LuiKotale, Democratic Republic of the Congo	2
Bacteria associated with leaf-cutter ants drive natural antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria	2
Impacts of invasive alien species on riparian plant communities in South African savanna	2
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	2
Wing shape differences along a migration route of the long-distance migrant Globe Skimmer DragonflyPantala flavescens	2
Tree density-dependence effects on seed dispersal of a large-seeded tropical tree	2
The interplay of spatial scale and landscape transformation modulates the abundance and intraspecific variation in the ecomorphological traits of a phyllostomid bat	2
Divergent litterfall nutrient responses to rainfall seasonality revealed through long-term observations in a tropical dry forest	1
Correlates of plant β-diversity in Atlantic Forest patches in the Pernambuco Endemism Centre, Northeastern Brazil	1

Assessing forest restoration effectiveness in the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest ecoregion using epigaeic ant assemblages	1
Termite transects from Buton Island, Sulawesi, have a low diversity compared with Sundaland sites	1
Pinangapalms revisited 20 years on: what can changes inPinangaspecies populations tell us about rainforest understory palm persistence?	1
Microhabitat preferences and guild structure of a tropical reptile community from the Western Ghats of India: implications for conservation	1
Belowground structure and determinants of woody plant height at a tropical dry forest site in Zambia, southern Africa	1
National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru	1
Females restrict the position of domatia and suffer more herbivory than hermaphrodites inMyriocarpa longipes,a neotropical facultative myrmecophyte	1
Variation in soil organic carbon stocks in Singapore with forest succession and land management	1
Bioclimatic predictors of forest structure, composition and phenology in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco	1
Decline and recovery in cell population densities of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae) as a novel bloom driver for the species	1
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?	1
Biogeographic and fragmentation-related research biases on antbirds and non-flying small mammals in Brazil	1
Soil-litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) community response to reforested lands of Gishwati tropical montane forest, northern-western part of Rwanda	1
Conservation management and termites: a case study from central Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)	1
Sexual reproductive strategies ofPuya nitida(Bromeliaceae) in a Colombian paramo, a tropical high-elevation ecosystem	1
Growing population of the critically endangered white-thighed colobus monkey (Colobus vellerosus) from forest fragments in Ghana	1
Monitoring of small rock pools reveals differential effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on birds and mammals in the Calakmul region, southern Mexico	1
Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon	1
Kaya forests: nucleus of cultural and biological diversity and functionality	1
Niche partitioning between hummingbirds and well-matched flowers is independent of hummingbird traits	1
Report on an outbreak of coral-killing sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa in an unprotected reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India	1
Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India	1
The influence of floral traits on insect foraging behaviour on medicinal plants in an urban garden of eastern India	1
Estimation of the number of tree species in French Guiana by extrapolation of permanent plots richness	1
Nocturnal activity and behaviour of the elusive bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia Venusta)	1
Effect of ants on herbivory levels ofInga laurina: the interplay between space and time in an urban area	1
Avifaunal feeding guilds’ response to landscape compositional heterogeneity and their drivers in forest mosaic, Uttarakhand, India	1
Changes in soil chemical properties and their spatial distribution after logging and conversion to oil palm plantation in Sabah (Borneo)	1
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	1
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	1