OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Functional Ecology is 33. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
	164
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	144
Cover Picture and Issue Information	129
Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	113
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	101
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	100
	85
Observational and experimental evidence that rapid mass loss is consistent with the flight efficiency hypothesis and not caused by reproductive effort in three passerine species	71
Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	66
Spatial and temporal variation in phenotypes and fitness in response to developmental thermal environments	65
Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	65
Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	55
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	53
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	47
Active regulation of ultraviolet light exposure overrides thermal preference behaviour in eastern fence lizards	47
Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	44
Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	44
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	44
Can body mass and skull morphology predict seed and fruit ingestion potential for mammal species? A test using extant species and its application to extinct species	43
The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	43
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	40
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate	40
The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	39
Unravelling biodiversity–productivity relationships across a large temperate forest region	39
Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities	39

Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	38
The fingerprint of functional strategies in Mediterranean seagrass fish assemblages	37
Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests	36
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	36
Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage	36
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability	35
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	33
Soil and microbial responses to wild ungulate trampling depend more on ecosystem type than trampling severity	33