OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolutionary 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Intraspecific variation of reproductive interference capability in Callosobruchus species	34
Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder?	24
Genomic heterozygosity is associated with parasite abundance, but the effects are not mediated by host condition	23
Integrating ecological niche modeling and rates of evolution to model geographic regions of mimetic color pattern selection	22
Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding	22
Correction to: Methods for studying allometry in geometric morphometrics: a comparison of performance	19
History matters: evolutionary and demographic reconstruction of the Southwest Atlantic loggerheads (Testudinata: Cheloniidae)	18
A comparative study on insect longevity: tropical moths do not differ from their temperate relatives	18
Right or left-handed: are locomotion type, body size, and microhabitat related to forelimb laterality in anurans?	17
Modeling defensive functions of alkaloids within diverse chemical portfolios	15
Biocontrol exerts natural selection against fecundity traits in Cytisus scoparius (L.)	15
Evidence for an innate basis of prey preference in a desert ambush predator	14
Eco-evolutionary dynamics at the altitudinal limit of a transcontinental boreal conifer	13
Body size in Batesian mimicry	13
Variation in allometry along the weapon-signal continuum	12
Function predicts the allometry of contest-related traits, but not sexual or male dimorphism in the amazonian tusked harvestman	11
Host-associated morphological convergence in symbiotic pea crabs	10
Extrapair mating opportunity explains the evolutionary transition between the presence and absence of tail ornamentation in swallows	10
Eating to the beat of the drum: vibrational parameters of toe tapping behavior in Dendrobates truncatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)	10
Reproductive behaviors promote ecological and phenotypic sexual differentiation in the critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog	10
It’s all relative: the interpretation of Allen’s rule and its consequences for understanding morphological responses to climatic warming	9
A paradox of parasite resistance: disease-driven trophic cascades increase the cost of resistance, selecting for lower resistance with parasites than without them	9
Geographic variation of body size in a plateau anuran: evidence supporting the water availability and heat balance trade-off hypothesis	9
Rapid cross-generational changes in morphology and mate choice following an extreme climatic event	9
Catching the red eye: field evidence that artificial prey with red eye-like markings are preferentially avoided by avian predators	9

Food availability in the nursery affects parental food allocation but not tadpole begging performance in a frog with facultative parental care	8
Sex-specific effects of antagonistic coevolution: insights from an insect host and a bacterial pathogen coevolution system	8
Partial ecological niche differentiation suggests incipient ecological divergence in Dianthus polylepis subspecies	8
Relationships between vocalization characteristics and sperm traits in a neotropical treefrog	8
Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds	8
Pollination inaccuracy: estimating male fitness in the movement-assisted dichogamous species Clerodendrum infortunatum	8
Inter-population variation in fin sexual dimorphism in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)	8
Variation in female-biased sexual size dimorphism of northern pike (Esox lucius) associated with environment and life history	8
The size of hoverfly mimics relative to their models and its implications for the evolution of mimicry	7
Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs	7
An evolutionary approach by second derivatives of the population growth rate of Castilleja tenuiflora, a hemiparasitic plant with and without hosts	7
Female preference for super-sized male ornaments and its implications for the evolution of ornament allometry	7
Large brain in undisturbed headwaters: validation of general evolutionary predictions from a local-scale perspective	7
Aggressive behaviour in the skyhoppers of the Australian Alps	7
Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)	7
Across the Gobi Desert: impact of landscape features on the biogeography and phylogeographically-structured release calls of the Mongolian Toad, Strauchbufo raddei in East Asia	7
Intraspecies variation in cytoplasmic incompatibility intensity in the bean beetle Callosobruchus analis	6
Analysis of the leaf metabolome in Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines reveals association of metabolic disruption and fitness consequence	6
Relaxed selection and the evolution of the chasmogamous flower of Impatiens capensis (Balsaminaceae)	6
Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles	6
Habitat and local climate influence the activity and abundance of Baron’s Mantella frog (Mantella baroni)	6
Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection	6
Do common dispersal influences inform a large lizard’s landscape-scale gene flow?	6
Deceived, but not betrayed: static allometry suggests female ornaments in the long-tailed dance fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) exaggerate condition to males	6
A call for more ecologically and evolutionarily relevant studies of immune costs	5
Effects of predator associative learning and innate aversion on mimicry complexes	5
Beyond color and pattern: elucidating the factors associated with intraspecific aggression in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)	5
Effect of rearing density on the expression of fitness-related traits in male sand field crickets (Gryllus firmus)	5
Colours as aggregation signals in Lepidoptera: Are Heliconius Müllerian mimics?	5
Tests of reproductive skew theory: a review and prospectus	5
Self-fertilization does not lead to inbreeding depression in Typha parent species or hybrids	5
Resource availability for the mosquito Aedes aegypti affects the transmission mode evolution of a microsporidian parasite	5
Variation in behavioral traits across a broad latitudinal gradient in a livebearing fish	5
Why do some funneliform flowers have petal folds accompanied with hierarchical surface microstructure?	4
Pollinator-mediated selection on flowering start and corolla tube length differed between mating systems in a primrose species	4
Mother strawberry poison frogs might supplement nutritive eggs with secretory provisioning	4
Tufted titmice, black-crested titmice, and their hybrids occupy different types of habitat within their hybrid zone	4
The orchid mantis exhibits high ontogenetic colouration variety and intersexual life history differences	4
A model of optimal digestive strategy in infrequently-feeding snakes	4
Dispersal in small organisms: “varied, many, and often ingenious methods”	4
Larval cannibalism in Phyllobates poison frogs	4
Environmental gradients structure assemblages of Canidae across the planet	4
Which side are you on? Spider web positioning affects prey capture more than body colour	4
Acoustic and visual behavior in Boana albomarginata and Dendropsophus minutus (Anura: Hylidae) in response to conspecific playback in northeast Brazil	4
Habitat effects on local adaptation and plasticity of thermal tolerance across life stages in tropical Bicyclus butterflies	4
Hybrid lizards with introgressed MtDNA show increased resistance to DNA damage from reactive oxygen species	4
Nest Integration: a novel form of food acquisition by altricial fledglings	4
Behavioural consistency across metamorphosis in a neotropical poison frog	4
Brain anatomy of a clonal fish, the Amazon Molly (Poecilia formosa): effects of early-life environment	4
The molecular basis and evolution of toxin resistance in poison frogs	3

Multiple regression, not ratios, for analyzing relative appendage size	3
Correction to: Predator‑based selection and the impact of edge sympatry on components of coral snake mimicry	3
Evolution of the batoidea pectoral fin skeleton: convergence, modularity, and integration driving disparity trends	3
Revisiting and interpreting the role of female dominance in male mate choice: the importance of replication in ecology and evolution	3
Do past and present abiotic conditions explain variation in the nutritional quality of wildflower pollens for bees?	3
Perception of con- and heterospecific injury cues in tadpoles of dendrobatid, ranid and bufonid frogs (Anura)	3
How to move and when to escape: quantifying intraspecific exploratory and anti-predator behavior in an aposematic poison frog	3
Clutch size and the rejection of parasitic eggs: a comparative test of the maternal investment hypothesis	3
Developments in the study of poison frog evolutionary ecology II: decoding hidden messages in their coloration and unique behaviours	3
Size and dispersal-related traits have not evolved, but warmer developmental temperatures have implications for movement of Pieris rapae butterflies in urban landscapes	3
Spatio-temporal colour variation of arthropods and their environment	3
Estimating the volume of biological structures from a single 2D image: considering apparent cross-sectional area as an alternative to the ellipsoid method	3
Colonization patterns of epi- and endogenous habitats suggest extrinsic and intrinsic drivers to cavernicoly on Réunion island by Cixiidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha)	3
Definition, deviation and distraction: the burning questions in physical dormancy and fire ecology	3
Flight performance evolved with forked tails and opportunities for extrapair mating in swallows	3
Evolution under domestication of correlated traits in two edible columnar cacti in Mexico	3
Are mutations usually deleterious? A perspective on the fitness effects of mutation accumulation	3
Evidence for temporal morphological change in northern but not southern breeding crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia spp.)	3
Nest switching vs. nest integration: a comment on Fernandez-Duque et al.	3
Frequency distributions, dimorphisms, and allometric variation in size of the weapon on male harvestmen (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones)	3
From self-interest to cooperation: extra-pair mating as a driver of relaxed territorial aggression in social neighbourhoods	3
Assessing the speed of individual bacteria dispersing on mycelial networks	3
Nest thermal dynamics and predicted sex ratio in endemic freshwater crocodylian, gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) in Chambal River, India	2
Urban-rural gradients: how landscape changes drive adaptive evolution of plant competitive traits	2
Altered within- and between-host transmission under coinfection underpin parasite co-occurrence patterns in the wild	2
JNplots: an R package to visualize outputs from the Johnson–Neyman technique for categorical and continuous moderators, including options for phylogenetic regressions	2
The ability to sequester the alkaloid epibatidine is widespread among dendrobatid poison frogs	2
Under pressure: evidence for selection on color-related genes in poison frogs of the genus Ranitomeya	2
The interplay of multiple spatial scales influences plant–herbivore interactions	2
Ontogenetic scaling of disc width with total length in west African batoids	2
The impact of microplastics on small organism dispersal: mechanisms, risks, and research gaps	2
Ontogenetic allometry underlies trophic diversity in sea turtles (Chelonioidea)	2
Haste makes waste: shorter time for nest-site assessment leads to higher nest predation in a cavity nester	2
Evolution of koinobiont parasitoid host regulation and consequences for indirect plant defence	2
Correction to: Deceived, but not betrayed: static allometry suggests female ornaments in the long‑tailed dance fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) exaggerate condition to males	2
Complex landscape, instream and anthropogenic environmental features drive genetic and morphological structuring amongst brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in a dendritic river system	2
The evolution of body coloration in dung beetles: diel activity and sexual dimorphism	2
Commentary: The ecological and evolutionary implications of allometry	2
Virulence evolution during a naturally occurring parasite outbreak	2
The contribution of maternal and paternal body size to offspring early adulthood life histories in a parasitoid wasp, Lysiphlebus fabarum	2
Putting the energetic-savings hypothesis underground: fossoriality does not affect metabolic rates in amphibians	2
Size as a complex trait and the scaling relationships of its components across teleosts	2
The loss of female sperm storage ability as a potential driver for increased extinction in Chondrichthyes	2
Experimental evidence in a poison frog model suggests that tadpole transport on the dorsum may affects warning signal effectiveness in poison frogs	2
Grasping hold of functional trade-offs using the diversity of foot forms in Australian birds	2
Effects of long-term ethanol storage of blood samples on the estimation of telomere length	2
Recent past connections between Amazonian and Atlantic forests by comparative phylogeography and paleodistribution models for didelphid mammals	2
Automated workflows using Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA): a guide to batch processing and downstream data analysis	2
A well-studied parasitoid fly of field crickets uses multiple alternative hosts in its introduced range	2
Commentary: Infectious disease — the ecological theater and the evolutionary play	2
Phenotypic plasticity in shell morphometrics of the barnacle Coronula diadema (Linnaeus, 1767) reflects cetacean hydrodynamics	2
Thermal stress and mutation accumulation increase heat shock protein expression in Daphnia	2