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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Extensive clonal propagation and resprouting drive the regeneration of a Brazilian dry forest	18
Evaluating the fitness effects of seed size and maternal tree size on Polylepis tomentella (Rosaceae) seed germination and seedling performance	16
The role of edaphic factors on plant species richness and diversity along altitudinal gradients in the Brazilian semi-arid region	10
The palmSyagrus coronataproliferates and structures vascular epiphyte assemblages in a human-modified landscape of the Caatinga dry forest	10
Temperature and soils predict the distribution of plant species along the Himalayan elevational gradient	10
Nowhere to escape – Diversity and community composition of ferns and lycophytes on the highest mountain in Honduras	8
Dispersal patterns of large-seeded plants and the foraging behaviour of a frugivorous bat	7
Effect of Mosses on physical and chemical properties of soil in temperate forests of Garhwal Himalayas	7
Suffrutex grasslands in south-central Angola: belowground biomass, root structure, soil characteristics and vegetation dynamics of the ‘underground forests of Africa’	6
Height–diameter allometry in African monodominant forest close to mixed forest	5
The association between rainforest disturbance and recovery, tree community composition, and community traits in the Yangambi area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	5
Topography as a determinant of bird distribution in secondary Atlantic Forest fragments	5
Latitudinal shift in the timing of flowering of tree species across tropical Africa: insights from field observations and herbarium collections	5
Seed nutrient content rather than size influences seed dispersal by scatterhoarding rodents in a West African montane forest	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
Distance–decay patterns differ between canopy and ground ant assemblages in a tropical rainforest	5
Do secondary hemiepiphytes exist?	5
Prey–predator interaction suggests sacred groves are not functionally different from neighbouring used lands	5
Landscape forest loss changes sunfleck dynamics in forest fragments of southern Bahia, Brazil	4
Spatiotemporal co-occurrence of predators and prey in a neotropical mammal community in southern Mexico	4
Acacia invasion differentially impacts soil properties of two contrasting tropical lowland forests in Brunei Darussalam	4
Impact of weather conditions on cheetah monitoring with scat detection dogs	4
Critical role of air and soil temperature in the development of primary and secondary physical dormancy inAlbizia julibrissin(Fabaceae)	4
Fixed or mixed? Variation in tree functional types and vegetation structure in a forest-savanna ecotone in West Africa	4
Beyond four decades of Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Malaysian oil palm industry: a review	4

A half-day flowering pattern helps plants sharing pollinators in an oceanic island community	4
Roller dung beetles of dung piles suggest habitats are alike, but that of guarding pitfall traps suggest habitats are different	4
Lightly-harvested rustic cocoa is a valuable land cover for amphibian and reptile conservation in human-modified rainforest landscapes	4
Population age structures, persistence and flowering cues in Cerberiopsis candelabra (Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic rain-forest tree in New Caledonia	4
Forest canopy resists plant invasions: a case study ofChromolaena odoratain Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Nepal	4
Tree recruitment after native frugivore extinction? A field experiment to test the impact of fruit flesh persistence in a tropical oceanic island	3
Small mammals in fragments of Atlantic Forest: species richness answering to field methods and environment	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
The influence of environmental variables on bdelloid rotifers of the genus Rotaria in Thailand	3
Persisting while changing over time: modelling the historical biogeographic of cave crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea) in Neotropics	3
Taxonomic scale dependency of Bergmann’s patterns: a cross-scale comparison of hawkmoths and birds along a tropical elevational gradient	3
Evidence of sodium limitation in ants and termites in a Neotropical savanna	3
Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest	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
Fruit traits of tree species in lower montane rainforest at Doi Suthep–Pui, northern Thailand	3
Bat diversity is driven by elevation and distance to the nearest watercourse in aterra firmeforest in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon	3
Higher fire frequency impaired woody species regeneration in a south-eastern Amazonian forest	3
Comparisons of habitat types and host tree species across a threatened Caribbean orchid’s core and edge distribution	3
Habitat-dependent effects of predatory spiders on prey frogs in a Neotropical wet forest	3
Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon	3
Assessment of floral composition, structure and natural regeneration of the Tano Offin Globally Significant Biodiversity Area of Ghana	3
Freeze tolerance in neotropical frogs: an intrageneric comparison using Pristimantis species of high elevation and medium elevation	3
Acoustic competition within a tropical bird community: the case of the Resplendent QuetzalPharomachrus mocinnoin Guatemala	3
Variable detectability and El-Niño associations with riparian snakes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo	2
Activity patterns in a feline assemblage in south-west Mexico, and their relationship with prey species	2
Predicting the potential suitable habitats of forest spices Piper capense and Aframomum corrorima under climate change in Ethiopia	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
Selective logging does not alter termite response to soil gradients in Amazonia	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
Leaf and root attributes as growth and phosphorus uptake determinants in two grass species from South America’s natural grasslands	2
Bacteria associated with leaf-cutter ants drive natural antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria	2
Contrast to background influences predation on aposematic but not cryptic artificial caterpillars in a Brazilian coastal shrubland	2
Using photography to estimate above-ground biomass of small trees	2
Sex ratio and life history traits at reaching sexual maturity in the dioecious shrub Fuchsia parviflora: field and common garden experiments	2
Not only a listener: female frog-biting midges (Corethrellidae) also distinguish the shape of frogs	2
Influence of rhizosphere activity on litter decomposition in subtropical forest: implications of estimating soil organic matter contributions to soil respiration	2
The interplay of spatial scale and landscape transformation modulates the abundance and intraspecific variation in the ecomorphological traits of a phyllostomid bat	2
Interactions between ants and non-myrmecochorous diaspores in a West African montane landscape	2
Golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus chrysogaster) consume and share mammalian prey at LuiKotale, Democratic Republic of the Congo	2
Memory and habituation to harmful and non-harmful stimuli in a field population of the sensitive plant,Mimosa pudica	2
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	2
Local environmental context determines the colonisation of leaf shelters by arthropods: an experimental study	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
Hard to predict! No clear effects of home-field advantage on leaf litter decomposition in tropical heath vegetation	2
Termite transects from Buton Island, Sulawesi, have a low diversity compared with Sundaland sites	1
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	1
Conservation management and termites: a case study from central Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)	1
What happens to epiphytic bromeliads in a windy spot?	1
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	1

The dynamics of prey selection by the trap-building predatorGasteracantha hasselti	1
Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon	1
Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India	1
A review study on the design and control of optimised greenhouse environments	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
Herb–subshrub diversity in open savanna sites with distinct fire regimes in the Jalapão region, Brazil	1
The potential distribution of Cyclopes didactylus, a silky anteater, reveals a likely unknown population and urgent need for forest conservation in Northeast Brazil	1
Soil-litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) community response to reforested lands of Gishwati tropical montane forest, northern-western part of Rwanda	1
Microhabitat preferences and guild structure of a tropical reptile community from the Western Ghats of India: implications for conservation	1
Monitoring of small rock pools reveals differential effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on birds and mammals in the Calakmul region, southern Mexico	1
Females restrict the position of domatia and suffer more herbivory than hermaphrodites inMyriocarpa longipes,a neotropical facultative myrmecophyte	1
National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru	1
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	1
Trophic ecology of syntopic anurans of tropical stream communities	1
High level of daily heterothermy in desert gerbils	1
Litter production in successional forests of southern Bahia, Brazil	1
The influence of floral traits on insect foraging behaviour on medicinal plants in an urban garden of eastern India	1
Can an exotic tree (Jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) influence the non-volant small mammals assemblage in a protected area of Atlantic Forest?	1
Factors driving the discovery and utilization of a newly available area by African elephants	1
Sexual reproductive strategies ofPuya nitida(Bromeliaceae) in a Colombian paramo, a tropical high-elevation ecosystem	1
Successional dynamics shape tree diversity in evergreen forests of Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa	1
Phenological diversity among sub-tropical moist forest trees of north-eastern India	1
Diversity patterns of lizard assemblages from a protected habitat mosaic in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna	1
Wing shape differences along a migration route of the long-distance migrant Globe Skimmer DragonflyPantala flavescens	1
Correlates of plant β-diversity in Atlantic Forest patches in the Pernambuco Endemism Centre, Northeastern Brazil	1
Striped hyaena den site selection in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India	1
Decline and recovery in cell population densities of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae) as a novel bloom driver for the species	1