OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Tropical Ecology is 3. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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