OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Entomology is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review	91
Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities	72
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation	62
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline	47
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction	44
Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?	43
Stable isotope ecology in insects: a review	33
Money spider dietary choice in pre‐ and post‐harvest cereal crops using metabarcoding	31
Some considerations on the terminology applied to dung beetle functional groups	27
Low moisture stress influences plant volatile emissions affecting herbivore interactions in tomato, Solanum lycopersicum	21
Microbes make the meal: oligolectic bees require microbes within their host pollen to thrive	19
Potential range expansion and niche shift of the invasive Hyphantria cunea between native and invasive countries	19
Bidirectional plant‐mediated interactions between rhizobacteria and shoot‐feeding herbivorous insects: a community ecology perspective	19
Plant water stress intensity mediates aphid host choice and feeding behaviour	18
Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in worker and queen but not male bumble bees	18
Forests do not limit bumble bee foraging movements in a montane meadow complex	17
Pollen composition significantly impacts the development and survival of the native small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata	17
Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions	17
Predator pheromone elicits a temporally dependent non‐consumptive effect in prey	15
Novel evidence for systemic induction of silicon defences in cucumber following attack by a global insect herbivore	15
Changes in land use affect dung beetle communities but do not affect ecosystem services in the Cerrado of Central Brazil	14
Spatio‐temporal responses of butterflies to global warming on a Mediterranean island over two decades	13
Reciprocal microbiome transplants differentially rescue fitness in two syntopic dung beetle sister species (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus)	12
Traits reveal ecological strategies driving carrion insect community assembly	12
Functional resin use in solitary bees	12

Mutualism is not restricted to tree‐killing bark beetles and fungi: the ecological stoichiometry of secondary bark beetles, fungi, and a scavenger	12
Companion planting to attract pollinators increases the yield and quality of strawberry fruit in gardens and allotments	12
Flies on vacation: evidence for the migration of Australian Syrphidae (Diptera)	12
Negative effects of urbanisation on the physical condition of an endemic dung beetle from a neotropical hotspot	11
Evaluating intraspecific variation in insect trait analysis	11
Dung beetle trophic ecology: are we misunderstanding resources attraction?	11
Largest on earth: Discovery of a new type of fairy circle in Angola supports a termite origin	10
Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy	10
Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles	10
Switching roles from antagonist to mutualist: a harvester ant as a key seed disperser of a myrmecochorous plant	10
Habitat disturbance modifies dominance, coexistence, and competitive interactions in tropical ant communities	10
Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behaviour of ants	10
Effects of predation pressure and prey density on short‐term indirect interactions between two prey species that share a common predator	10
Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem	10
Gallers as leaf rollers: ecosystem engineering in a tropical system and its effects on arthropod biodiversity	9
Intraspecific interference between native parasitoids modified by a non‐native parasitoid and its consequence on population dynamics	9
Preference, performance, and impact of the water‐lily aphid on multiple species of duckweed	9
Determinants of Delphacidae richness and endemism in China	9
Larviposition site selection mediated by volatile semiochemicals in Glossina palpalis gambiensis	9
What to do if streams go dry? Behaviour of Balkan Goldenring (Cordulegaster heros, Odonata) larvae in a simulated drought experiment in SW Hungary	9
Using trapped drones to assess the density of honey bee colonies: a simulation and empirical study to evaluate the accuracy of the method	8
The benefits of intraguild predation for a top predator spider	8
The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel environment	8
Different groups of ground‐dwelling spiders share similar trophic niches in temperate forests	8
Species associations in arthropod ectoparasite infracommunities are spatially and temporally variable and affected by environmental factors	8
Strong impacts of smoke polluted air demonstrated on the flight behaviour of the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui L.)	8
Role of ants as dispersers of native and exotic seeds in an understudied dryland	8
Ivermectin impacts on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions in two distinct Brazilian ecosystems	8
Facial area and hairiness of pollinators visiting semi‐natural grassland wild plants predict their facial pollen load	8
Termite salinity tolerance and potential for transoceanic dispersal through rafting	8
Effects of large herbivore grazing on grasshopper behaviour and abundance in a meadow steppe	8
The puzzle of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and their association with plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids	8
Invasive paper wasps have strong cascading effects on the host plant of monarch butterflies	8
Adaptive plasticity in wing melanisation of a montane butterfly across a Himalayan elevational gradient	8
Insect predation reduces the abundance of a nidicolous ectoparasite	8
The effect of parasite density on host colonisation success by a mobile avian ectoparasite	8
How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid	8
Low‐temperature tolerance in coprophagic beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): implications for ecological services	7
Differential flight responses of two ambrosia beetles to ethanol as indicators of invasion biology: the case with Kuroshio shot hole borer (Euwallacea kuroshio) and fruit‐tree pinhole borer (	7
Bottom‐up and top‐down forces in plant‐gall relationships: testing the hypotheses of resource concentration, associational resistance, and host fitness reduction	7
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) seek sodium at carrion baits in Costa Rica	7
Temporal and dietary niche is context‐dependent in tropical ants	7
Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale	7
Chemical convergence between a guild of facultative myrmecophilous caterpillars and host plants	7
Is elevation a strong environmental filter? Combining taxonomy, functional traits and phylogeny of butterflies in a tropical mountain	7
Metabolic cost of holding nuptial food gifts for male spiders	7
Between locality variations in the seasonal patterns of dung beetles: the role of phenology in mitigating global warming effects	7
Probing the role of propagule pressure, stochasticity, and Allee effects on invasion success using experimental introductions of a biological control agent	7
Conservatism and stability of the symbiotic system of the invasive alien treehopper Stictocephala bisonia (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Membracidae)	7
Management actions shape dung beetle community structure and functional traits in restored tallgrass prairie	7

Seasonal changes in arthropod diversity patterns along an Alpine elevation gradient	7
Rapid photogrammetry of morphological traits of free‐ranging moths	7
Wild bee functional diversity and plant associations in native and conventional plant nurseries	7
The upper thermal tolerance for a Texas population of the hairy maggot blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	7
Dung or carrion? Sex and age determine resource attraction in dung beetles	7
Massive spider web aggregations in South American grasslands after flooding	6
Defence variation within a guild of aphid‐tending ants explains aphid population growth	6
Effects of light and nutrients on intraspecific competition among midges from a shallow eutrophic lake	6
On the role of direct sunlight for egg‐laying behaviour: lessons and ideas from the Speckled wood	6
Do Apis and non‐Apis bees provide a similar contribution to crop production with different levels of pollination dependency? A review using meta‐analysis	6
Exposure to nectar‐realistic sugar concentrations negatively impacts the ability of the trypanosome parasite (Crithidia bombi) to infect its bumblebee host	6
Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration	6
Pollen analysis of cavity‐nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) and their food webs in a city	6
Parasitoid pressure does not elicit defensive polyphenism in the green peach aphid	6
The use of volatile cues in recognition of kin eggs by predatory mites	6
Agonistic responses to potential co‐foundresses in a cooperatively brooding quasi‐social parasitoid	6
Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long‐term insect declines	6
Morphological matching and phenological overlap promote niche partitioning and shape a mutualistic plant–hawkmoth network	6
Ant attendance does not necessarily imply protection of aphids from their arthropod natural enemies	6
Bee‐associated fungi mediate effects of fungicides on bumble bees	6
Cannibalism and potential predation in larval drosophilids	6
Summer drought affects abundance of grassland grasshoppers differently along an elevation gradient	6
Spatial partitioning of perching on plants by tropical dung beetles depends on body size and leaf characteristics: a sit‐and‐wait strategy for food location	6
Eating versus heating: a study of the allocation of workers between foraging and nest incubation in bumble bees	6
Floral resource continuity boosts bumble bee colony performance relative to variable floral resources	6
Changes in phenology and abundance of suction‐trapped Diptera from a farmland site in the UK over four decades	6
Predation and avoidance behaviour in aphid‐ladybird interactions of native and invasive ladybirds in Europe	6
Experimental field test of the influence of generalist stingless bees (Meliponini) on the topology of a bee–flower mutualistic network in the tropics	6
Dung beetles can sow: the potential of secondary seed dispersers to assist ecological restoration	6
Feeding patterns revealed host partitioning in a community of frog‐biting mosquitoes	5
Short‐term positive effects of wildfire on diurnal insects and pollen transport in a Mediterranean ecosystem	5
Isotope evidence for latitudinal migrations of the dragonfly Sympetrum fonscolombii (Odonata: Libellulidae) in Middle Asia	5
Ant preference for seeds without awns increases removal of exotic relative to native grass seeds	5
Towards more intimacy: moderate elevation of temperature drives increases in foraging and mutualistic interactions between Lasius niger and Aphis fabae	5
Body size, metabolic rate and diapause in the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), in two extreme climatic regions	5
Differential survival and dispersal of avian feather mites with contrasting host specificities	5
Foragers of the stingless bee Plebeia droryana inform nestmates about the direction, but not the distance to food sources	5
Differing non‐linear, lagged effects of temperature and precipitation on an insect herbivore and its host plant	5
Increasing temperature reduces cuticular melanism and immunity to fungal infection in a migratory insect	5
Intraspecific variation in host plant traits mediates taxonomic and functional composition of local insect herbivore communities	5
How climate change affects the occurrence of a second generation in the univoltine Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)	5
Predation yields greater population performance: what are the contributions of density‐ and trait‐mediated effects?	5
Core‐marginal dynamics interact with sex and temperature to influence morphology of the rapidly expanding invasive kudzu bug (Megacopta cribraria)	5
Movements and occurrence in two closely related fritillary species	5
Microclimate in hollow trees and how it affects an inhabiting beetle species,Osmoderma eremita	5
Variability in activity differs between castes in the ant Linepithema humile	5
Assessment of the biocontrol effects of three aromatic plants on multiple trophic levels of the arthropod community in an agroforestry ecosystem	5
Friend and foe? The effects of grassland management on global patterns of spider diversity	5
A test of the competitive ability–cold tolerance trade‐off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles	5
Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants	5
Proboscis curling in a pollinator causes extensive pollen movement and loss	5
Insect diversity over 36 years at a protected Sierra Nevada (California) site: towards an evaluation of the insect apocalypse hypothesis	5
Testing the migration syndrome: Comparative fecundity of migratory and non‐migratory nymphaline butterflies	5
Invasive intraguild predators: Evidence of their effects, not assumptions	5