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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	14
Beetle rhythms in the rain: time series analysis and seasonal activity patterns of sympatric large-sized Goliathinae in Uganda’s forests	13
Tree density-dependence effects on seed dispersal of a large-seeded tropical tree	12
Timing, magnitude, and sources of coarse particulate organic matter in tropical montane streams	11
Population genetics of the endangered black walnut Juglans neotropica (Juglandaceae) based on plastid data from the Amazonas region	11
Spatiotemporal effects on the assemblage heterogeneity of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	11
Diversity patterns of lizard assemblages from a protected habitat mosaic in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna	9
Litter production in successional forests of southern Bahia, Brazil	9
A natural hybrid of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes benstonei × rafflesiana (Nepenthaceae) emits vivid gre	8
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	8
Land snail abundance and diversity across varied land-use types in and around Lamto Reserve, Central Côte d’Ivoire	8
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	7
Seasonal dietary niche changes in Neotropical bats	7
Differences in the structure of bat assemblages among habitats in the Caatinga dry forest	7
Changes in spinescence across leaf ontogeny support the optimal defence hypothesis in blackberries (Rubus adenotrichos)	7
The effect of tree-on-tree interactions and abiotic conditions on woody communities in Brazilian savannas	7
Blending in – an unobtrusive method for observing behaviour in nocturnal arboreal mammals in the tropics using thermal optics from an elevated platform	6
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	6
Evolution and emergence of mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance: towards a routine metagenomic surveillance approach	6
Bat diversity is driven by elevation and distance to the nearest watercourse in aterra firmeforest in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon	6
Microhabitat preferences and guild structure of a tropical reptile community from the Western Ghats of India: implications for conservation	6
Foliar characteristics of neotropical forest affect assemblages structure of parasitoid insects	6
The influence of burial depth on germination and establishment of seeds in chimpanzee faeces, Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	5
Potential seed dispersal agents of Monoon liukiuense on Iriomote Island, Japan	5
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?	4

Impacts of invasive alien species on riparian plant communities in South African savanna	4
Tree height effects on vascular anatomy of upper-canopy twigs across a wide range of tropical rainforest species	4
Pollen movement of the endemic Agave cupreata by bats and birds in western Mexico	4
High level of daily heterothermy in desert gerbils	4
Report on an outbreak of coral-killing sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa in an unprotected reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India	4
Herb–subshrub diversity in open savanna sites with distinct fire regimes in the Jalapão region, Brazil	4
Bacteria associated with leaf-cutter ants drive natural antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria	4
Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon	3
Variation in soil organic carbon stocks in Singapore with forest succession and land management	3
How do macrophyte cover and environmental variables influence the microcrustacean community across wet and dry seasons in a tropical marginal lake?	3
Climate and vegetation collectively drive soil respiration in montane forest-grassland landscapes of the southern Western Ghats, India	3
Compositional distinctiveness and patterns of woody species abundance distribution in Ghana’s Mole National Park, Savannah Region	3
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	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
Revisiting the phenology of El Triunfo cloud forest, Mexico, 30 years later	3
Elevation and cation exchange capacity determine diversity of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador	3
Predicted distribution of the endemic fern Elaphoglossum beddomei reveals threats to rainforests of Western Ghats of India	3
Nest density ofAtta sexdens(Linnaeus, 1758) in Atlantic Forest restoration sites depends on the surrounding landscape	3
Turnover in fish species composition is related to water colour of Amazonian rivers	3
Bioclimatic predictors of forest structure, composition and phenology in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco	3
Conservation management and termites: a case study from central Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)	3
Plant defence traits among discrete vegetation assemblages in a mesic savanna landscape in Kenya	3
The association between rainforest disturbance and recovery, tree community composition, and community traits in the Yangambi area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Differentiating nectar from pollen foraging affects estimates of specialization in plant-pollinator networks: a case study from the Bornean peat swamp forest canopy	2
Tokenisation of forest carbon project: a blockchain-based approach for community engagement	2
Divergent litterfall nutrient responses to rainfall seasonality revealed through long-term observations in a tropical dry forest	2
Photosynthetic acclimation, leaf turnover and growth in tree seedlings suddenly exposed to gaps in Jamaican montane rainforest	2
Andean bears hunt wild guinea pigs in Colombian paramos	2
Factors influencing tropical lizard reproduction vary by microhabitat but not forest type	2
Statistical analysis of species association indices	2
El Niño oscillations impact anti-predator defences to alter survival of an herbivorous beetle in a neotropical wet forest	2
Avian use of honeydew (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil	2
Functional diversity in relation to the longitudinal gradient of a species-rich Neotropical river	2
Tree recruitment after native frugivore extinction? A field experiment to test the impact of fruit flesh persistence in a tropical oceanic island	2
Light penetration and topography shape juvenile tree species assemblies in the understory of the tropical Andean cloud forest	2
Hail-caused greenfall leaves, litterfall, nutrients, and leaf decomposition in tropical cloud forest and a restoration planting	2
Phenotypic plasticity and insect herbivory of trees in contrasting light environments in a Mexican rainforest	2
Population size of the endangered narrow-range endemic tree Semecarpus Calcicola Kochummen (Anacardiaceae), Mantanani Island, Malaysia	2
Assessing forest restoration effectiveness in the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest ecoregion using epigaeic ant assemblages	2
Contrasting assemblages of Pinanga palms in lowland tropical forests of Brunei Darussalam, Borneo	2
Water column biogeochemistry in a tropical urban estuary	2
Lightly-harvested rustic cocoa is a valuable land cover for amphibian and reptile conservation in human-modified rainforest landscapes	2
Soil nutrient transect from Ngorongoro crater to the centre of Serengeti	2
Environmental factors influencing invertebrate communities in caves and surrounding habitats in the Neotropics	1
Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India	1
Contrasting patterns of species, functional and phylogenetic bird diversities in two Tropical dry vegetation types	1
Revising the role of the endemic New Caledonian imperial pigeon (Ducula goliath Gray, 1859) as a key disperser of tropical rainforest trees	1
Changes in soil chemical properties and their spatial distribution after logging and conversion to oil palm plantation in Sabah (Borneo)	1
Mangrove propagules are limited in their capacity to disperse across long distances	1
Diversity and abundance of arthropod communities from Rugezi Marshland, Northern Rwanda: call for effective and sustainable biodiversity conservation planning	1

Effects of seed size and toucan regurgitation on the germination of the tropical tree Eugenia uniflora	1
Pinangapalms revisited 20 years on: what can changes inPinangaspecies populations tell us about rainforest understory palm persistence?	1
Breaking down to build up: litter decomposition drives soil organic carbon accumulation in young secondary forests	1
Spatiotemporal co-occurrence of predators and prey in a neotropical mammal community in southern Mexico	1
National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru	1
Estimation of the number of tree species in French Guiana by extrapolation of permanent plots richness	1
Sex ratios, damage and distribution ofMyrianthus holstiiEngl.: a dioecious afromontane forest tree	1
Soil respiration is correlated with rainfall and soil moisture at multiple temporal scales in a seasonal wet tropical forest	1
Plant community and native primate as drivers of habitat use by an exotic primate (Saimirispp. Linnaeus, 1758) in an Atlantic Forest fragment	1
Biotic and abiotic drivers of dung beetle assemblage structure in Kenyan Afromontane forest: trees and elephants matter	1
Assessing interactions between wild host plants and stemborer species in East Africa	1
Landscape and microhabitat structure dictate lizard diversity in semiarid in Caatinga	1
Scaling of indirect defences in Central American swollen-thorn acacias	1
Planktonic ciliate response to initial filling of a Neotropical water reservoir	1
Strengthening ecologically based rodent management in the Philippines using maximum entropy (MaxEnt) predictions	1
Importance of litter dynamics of economically important trees for sustainable land management in dry tropics	1