OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolutionary Ecology is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Intraspecific variation of reproductive interference capability in Callosobruchus species	18
Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding	15
Right or left-handed: are locomotion type, body size, and microhabitat related to forelimb laterality in anurans?	12
Integrating ecological niche modeling and rates of evolution to model geographic regions of mimetic color pattern selection	11
Evidence for an innate basis of prey preference in a desert ambush predator	10
History matters: evolutionary and demographic reconstruction of the Southwest Atlantic loggerheads (Testudinata: Cheloniidae)	10
Eco-evolutionary dynamics at the altitudinal limit of a transcontinental boreal conifer	10
Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder?	10
Modeling defensive functions of alkaloids within diverse chemical portfolios	9
Are contest-related trait exaggeration and intrasexual dimorphism evolutionarily correlated across harvestman species?	9
Body size in Batesian mimicry	9
Eating to the beat of the drum: vibrational parameters of toe tapping behavior in Dendrobates truncatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)	9
A paradox of parasite resistance: disease-driven trophic cascades increase the cost of resistance, selecting for lower resistance with parasites than without them	8
Spatial trends in morphology do not predict species’ responses to climatic warming in Australian birds	8
Catching the red eye: field evidence that artificial prey with red eye-like markings are preferentially avoided by avian predators	8
Experimental evidence that spate-induced downstream dispersal drives spatial sorting of visual–cognitive traits in a stream fish	8
Reproductive behaviors promote ecological and phenotypic sexual differentiation in the critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog	8
A model species in focus: the silver-thread moss Bryum argenteum as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies	7
Inter-population variation in fin sexual dimorphism in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)	7
Geographic variation of body size in a plateau anuran: evidence supporting the water availability and heat balance trade-off hypothesis	7
Food availability in the nursery affects parental food allocation but not tadpole begging performance in a frog with facultative parental care	7
Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds	7
Rapid cross-generational changes in morphology and mate choice following an extreme climatic event	7
It’s all relative: the interpretation of Allen’s rule and its consequences for understanding morphological responses to climatic warming	7
Relationships between vocalization characteristics and sperm traits in a neotropical treefrog	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	6
The size of hoverfly mimics relative to their models and its implications for the evolution of mimicry	6
Pollination inaccuracy: estimating male fitness in the movement-assisted dichogamous species Clerodendrum infortunatum	6
Large brain in undisturbed headwaters: validation of general evolutionary predictions from a local-scale perspective	6
Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs	6
Wing membrane thickness, allometric scaling and wing interference patterns in damselflies: a target of sexual selection?	6
Partial ecological niche differentiation suggests incipient ecological divergence in Dianthus polylepis subspecies	6
An evolutionary approach by second derivatives of the population growth rate of Castilleja tenuiflora, a hemiparasitic plant with and without hosts	6
Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection	6
Sex-specific effects of antagonistic coevolution: insights from an insect host and a bacterial pathogen coevolution system	6
Variation in female-biased sexual size dimorphism of northern pike (Esox lucius) associated with environment and life history	6
Do common dispersal influences inform a large lizard’s landscape-scale gene flow?	5
Habitat and local climate influence the activity and abundance of Baron’s Mantella frog (Mantella baroni)	5
Intraspecies variation in cytoplasmic incompatibility intensity in the bean beetle Callosobruchus analis	5
Quantity discrimination, decision-making, and the role of early-life conditions in a lizard	5
Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles	5
Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)	5
Plumage coloration and parental provisioning effort in varied tit (Sittiparus varius)	5
Habitat effects on local adaptation and plasticity of thermal tolerance across life stages in tropical Bicyclus butterflies	5
Effects of predator associative learning and innate aversion on mimicry complexes	5
Random egg-laying in host nests by common cuckoo	5
Analysis of the leaf metabolome in Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines reveals association of metabolic disruption and fitness consequence	5
Geometric morphometrics enables accurate predictions of palaeoecology and reveals unique adaptations to an expanded niche space in extinct waterfowl	5
Self-fertilization does not lead to inbreeding depression in Typha parent species or hybrids	5
Tests of reproductive skew theory: a review and prospectus	4
Variation in soldier investment is linked to the evolution of termite soldier defense strategies	4
Why do some funneliform flowers have petal folds accompanied with hierarchical surface microstructure?	4
A model of optimal digestive strategy in infrequently-feeding snakes	4
Effect of rearing density on the expression of fitness-related traits in male sand field crickets (Gryllus firmus)	4
Beyond color and pattern: elucidating the factors associated with intraspecific aggression in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)	4
Larval cannibalism in Phyllobates poison frogs	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
A call for more ecologically and evolutionarily relevant studies of immune costs	4
Multilevel phenotypic responses of lizards to recurrent burned landscapes	4
Dispersal in small organisms: “varied, many, and often ingenious methods”	4
Hybrid lizards with introgressed MtDNA show increased resistance to DNA damage from reactive oxygen species	4
Environmental gradients structure assemblages of Canidae across the planet	4
Pollinator-mediated selection on flowering start and corolla tube length differed between mating systems in a primrose species	4
Phenological divergence in the rice stem borer correlates with rice domestication	4