OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Tropical Ecology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon	24
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	11
The interplay of spatial scale and landscape transformation modulates the abundance and intraspecific variation in the ecomorphological traits of a phyllostomid bat	11
Tree density-dependence effects on seed dispersal of a large-seeded tropical tree	10
Litter production in successional forests of southern Bahia, Brazil	10
Population genetics of the endangered black walnut Juglans neotropica (Juglandaceae) based on plastid data from the Amazonas region	10
Diversity patterns of lizard assemblages from a protected habitat mosaic in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna	9
A natural hybrid of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes benstonei × rafflesiana (Nepenthaceae) emits vivid gre	8
The effect of tree-on-tree interactions and abiotic conditions on woody communities in Brazilian savannas	7
Acaciainvasion differentially impacts soil properties of two contrasting tropical lowland forests in Brunei Darussalam	7
Foliar characteristics of neotropical forest affect assemblages structure of parasitoid insects	7
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	7
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	6
Evolution and emergence of mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance: towards a routine metagenomic surveillance approach	6
Changes in spinescence across leaf ontogeny support the optimal defence hypothesis in blackberries (Rubus adenotrichos)	6
Seasonal dietary niche changes in Neotropical bats	6
Predicting the potential suitable habitats of forest spices Piper capense and Aframomum corrorima under climate change in Ethiopia	6
Differences in the structure of bat assemblages among habitats in the Caatinga dry forest	6
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	6
Bat diversity is driven by elevation and distance to the nearest watercourse in aterra firmeforest in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon	6
Limited influence of experimentally induced predation risk on granivory in a tropical forest	5
Bacteria associated with leaf-cutter ants drive natural antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria	5
Potential seed dispersal agents of Monoon liukiuense on Iriomote Island, Japan	5
High level of daily heterothermy in desert gerbils	5
Microhabitat preferences and guild structure of a tropical reptile community from the Western Ghats of India: implications for conservation	5

Variable detectability and El-Niño associations with riparian snakes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo	5
The influence of burial depth on germination and establishment of seeds in chimpanzee faeces, Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	5
Temperature and soils predict the distribution of plant species along the Himalayan elevational gradient	4
The potential distribution of Cyclopes didactylus, a silky anteater, reveals a likely unknown population and urgent need for forest conservation in Northeast Brazil	4
Herb–subshrub diversity in open savanna sites with distinct fire regimes in the Jalapão region, Brazil	4
Pollen movement of the endemic Agave cupreata by bats and birds in western Mexico	4
Comparisons of habitat types and host tree species across a threatened Caribbean orchid’s core and edge distribution	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
Influence of rhizosphere activity on litter decomposition in subtropical forest: implications of estimating soil organic matter contributions to soil respiration	4
Predicted distribution of the endemic fern Elaphoglossum beddomei reveals threats to rainforests of Western Ghats of India	3
Elevation and cation exchange capacity determine diversity of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador	3
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	3
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
Climate and vegetation collectively drive soil respiration in montane forest-grassland landscapes of the southern Western Ghats, India	3
Nest density ofAtta sexdens(Linnaeus, 1758) in Atlantic Forest restoration sites depends on the surrounding landscape	3
Tokenisation of forest carbon project: a blockchain-based approach for community engagement	3
Report on an outbreak of coral-killing sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa in an unprotected reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India	3
Revisiting the phenology of El Triunfo cloud forest, Mexico, 30 years later	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
Golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus chrysogaster) consume and share mammalian prey at LuiKotale, Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Plant defence traits among discrete vegetation assemblages in a mesic savanna landscape in Kenya	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
Evidence of sodium limitation in ants and termites in a Neotropical savanna	3
Turnover in fish species composition is related to water colour of Amazonian rivers	3
Females restrict the position of domatia and suffer more herbivory than hermaphrodites inMyriocarpa longipes,a neotropical facultative myrmecophyte	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
Avian use of honeydew (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil	2
Forest canopy resists plant invasions: a case study ofChromolaena odoratain Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Nepal	2
Andean bears hunt wild guinea pigs in Colombian paramos	2
Factors influencing tropical lizard reproduction vary by microhabitat but not forest type	2
Diversity and abundance of arthropod communities from Rugezi Marshland, Northern Rwanda: call for effective and sustainable biodiversity conservation planning	2
Light penetration and topography shape juvenile tree species assemblies in the understory of the tropical Andean cloud forest	2
Functional diversity in relation to the longitudinal gradient of a species-rich Neotropical river	2
Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest	2
El Niño oscillations impact anti-predator defences to alter survival of an herbivorous beetle in a neotropical wet forest	2
Wing shape differences along a migration route of the long-distance migrant Globe Skimmer DragonflyPantala flavescens	2
Differentiating nectar from pollen foraging affects estimates of specialization in plant-pollinator networks: a case study from the Bornean peat swamp forest canopy	2
Phenotypic plasticity and insect herbivory of trees in contrasting light environments in a Mexican rainforest	2
Lightly-harvested rustic cocoa is a valuable land cover for amphibian and reptile conservation in human-modified rainforest landscapes	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
Contrasting assemblages of Pinanga palms in lowland tropical forests of Brunei Darussalam, Borneo	2
Divergent litterfall nutrient responses to rainfall seasonality revealed through long-term observations in a tropical dry forest	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
Hail-caused greenfall leaves, litterfall, nutrients, and leaf decomposition in tropical cloud forest and a restoration planting	2
Soil nutrient transect from Ngorongoro crater to the centre of Serengeti	2
Statistical analysis of species association indices	2

Tree recruitment after native frugivore extinction? A field experiment to test the impact of fruit flesh persistence in a tropical oceanic island	2
Photosynthetic acclimation, leaf turnover and growth in tree seedlings suddenly exposed to gaps in Jamaican montane rainforest	2
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	2