OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Entomology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review	124
Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities	98
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation	70
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline	61
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction	58
Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?	57
Some considerations on the terminology applied to dung beetle functional groups	32
Potential range expansion and niche shift of the invasive Hyphantria cunea between native and invasive countries	28
Low moisture stress influences plant volatile emissions affecting herbivore interactions in tomato, Solanum lycopersicum	23
Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions	20
Functional resin use in solitary bees	17
The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel environment	15
Ivermectin impacts on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions in two distinct Brazilian ecosystems	15
Reciprocal microbiome transplants differentially rescue fitness in two syntopic dung beetle sister species (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus)	15
Changes in land use affect dung beetle communities but do not affect ecosystem services in the Cerrado of Central Brazil	14
Gallers as leaf rollers: ecosystem engineering in a tropical system and its effects on arthropod biodiversity	13
Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles	13
Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behaviour of ants	13
Is elevation a strong environmental filter? Combining taxonomy, functional traits and phylogeny of butterflies in a tropical mountain	12
Invasive paper wasps have strong cascading effects on the host plant of monarch butterflies	12
Dung beetle trophic ecology: are we misunderstanding resources attraction?	12
Evaluating intraspecific variation in insect trait analysis	12
Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem	12
Low‐temperature tolerance in coprophagic beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): implications for ecological services	11
Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long‐term insect declines	11

Largest on earth: Discovery of a new type of fairy circle in Angola supports a termite origin	10
Species associations in arthropod ectoparasite infracommunities are spatially and temporally variable and affected by environmental factors	10
Summer drought affects abundance of grassland grasshoppers differently along an elevation gradient	10
Wild bee functional diversity and plant associations in native and conventional plant nurseries	10
How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid	10
Insect predation reduces the abundance of a nidicolous ectoparasite	10
Floral resource continuity boosts bumble bee colony performance relative to variable floral resources	10
Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration	10
Between locality variations in the seasonal patterns of dung beetles: the role of phenology in mitigating global warming effects	9
Bottom‐up and top‐down forces in plant‐gall relationships: testing the hypotheses of resource concentration, associational resistance, and host fitness reduction	9
Research networks should improve connectivity for halting freshwater insect extinctions	9
The puzzle of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and their association with plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids	8
Dung or carrion? Sex and age determine resource attraction in dung beetles	8
Role of ants as dispersers of native and exotic seeds in an understudied dryland	8
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 (	8
Do Apis and non‐Apis bees provide a similar contribution to crop production with different levels of pollination dependency? A review using meta‐analysis	8
Metabolic cost of holding nuptial food gifts for male spiders	8
Microclimate in hollow trees and how it affects an inhabiting beetle species,Osmoderma eremita	8
Increasing temperature reduces cuticular melanism and immunity to fungal infection in a migratory insect	8
Phenological imbalance in the supply and demand of floral resources: Half the pollen and nectar produced by the main autumn food source, Hedera helix, is uncollected by insects	8
Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant‐plant interaction networks: A global overview	8
Correlates of Odonata species composition in Amazonian streams depend on dissimilarity coefficient and oviposition strategy	8
Short‐term positive effects of wildfire on diurnal insects and pollen transport in a Mediterranean ecosystem	8
Agonistic responses to potential co‐foundresses in a cooperatively brooding quasi‐social parasitoid	8
Differing non‐linear, lagged effects of temperature and precipitation on an insect herbivore and its host plant	7
On the role of direct sunlight for egg‐laying behaviour: lessons and ideas from the Speckled wood	7
Host patch quality increases parasitoid locomotor activity despite risk of egg limitation	7
Carabid adaptation to a collembolan diet: hunting efficiency and nutritional value	7
Bee‐associated fungi mediate effects of fungicides on bumble bees	7
Movements and occurrence in two closely related fritillary species	7
Individual‐resource network between Xylocopa bees and plant resources: generalist species, specialist individuals?	7
Effects of light and nutrients on intraspecific competition among midges from a shallow eutrophic lake	7
Trait‐based characterisation of parasitoid wasp communities in natural and agricultural areas	7
Towards more intimacy: moderate elevation of temperature drives increases in foraging and mutualistic interactions between Lasius niger and Aphis fabae	7
Quantifying the post‐fire recovery of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in the Brazilian Pantanal	7
Heatwaves increase larval mortality and delay development of a solitary bee	7
Parasitoid pressure does not elicit defensive polyphenism in the green peach aphid	7
Friend and foe? The effects of grassland management on global patterns of spider diversity	7
Adult monarch butterflies show high tolerance to neonicotinoid insecticides	7
Ant attendance does not necessarily imply protection of aphids from their arthropod natural enemies	7
Probing the role of propagule pressure, stochasticity, and Allee effects on invasion success using experimental introductions of a biological control agent	7
Light alters activity but does not disturb tandem coordination of termite mating pairs	6
Aridity could have driven the local extinction of a common and multivoltine butterfly	6
Massive spider web aggregations in South American grasslands after flooding	6
Dung beetles can sow: the potential of secondary seed dispersers to assist ecological restoration	6
Eating versus heating: a study of the allocation of workers between foraging and nest incubation in bumble bees	6
Trophic ecology of the arboreal and ground ant communities in forests and savannas of central Brazil	6
The effect of urbanisation and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts	6
Core‐marginal dynamics interact with sex and temperature to influence morphology of the rapidly expanding invasive kudzu bug (Megacopta cribraria)	6
Testing the migration syndrome: Comparative fecundity of migratory and non‐migratory nymphaline butterflies	6

High temperature and soil moisture reduce host‐plant quality for an insect herbivore	6
Diverging facets of grassland ant diversity along a Mediterranean elevational gradient	6
Aestivation as a response to climate change: the Great Banded Grayling Brintesia circe in Central Europe	6
Developmental temperature predicts body size, flight, and pollen load in a widespread butterfly	6
Re‐evaluation of a method used to study nutritional effects on bumble bees	6
More than meets the eye: decrypting diversity reveals hidden interaction specificity between frogs and frog‐biting midges	6
Response of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity to livestock grazing in an arid ecosystem	6
Body size, metabolic rate and diapause in the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), in two extreme climatic regions	6
Variability in activity differs between castes in the ant Linepithema humile	6
Pollen analysis of cavity‐nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) and their food webs in a city	6
Ratios rather than concentrations of nutritionally important elements may shape honey bee preferences for ‘dirty water’	6
Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants	6
A test of the competitive ability–cold tolerance trade‐off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles	6
Consistent shift in nutritional ecology of ants reveals trophic flexibility across alpine tree‐line ecotones	6
Warming is here: using locomotor performance to infer thermal parameters and vulnerability for an endemic Argentinean tarantula Grammostola vachoni	5
Insect‐plant‐fungus interactions in mycorrhizal associations, with a focus on spittlebugs and ectomycorrhizal host plants	5
The effect of temperature and behaviour on the interaction between two dragonfly larvae species within the native and expanded range	5
Proboscis curling in a pollinator causes extensive pollen movement and loss	5
Ant nest distribution and richness have opposite effects on a Neotropical plant with extrafloral nectaries	5
Dynamic distribution modelling of the swamp tigertail dragonflySynthemis eustalacta(Odonata: Anisoptera: Synthemistidae) over a 20‐year bushfire regime	5
Invasive intraguild predators: Evidence of their effects, not assumptions	5
Strong impact of temperature and resource specialisation on patterns of voltinism within an oak‐associated insect community	5
Homing ability in a tropical Asian stingless bee is influenced by interaction between release distances and urbanisation	5
Discordant pattern between realised and fundamental saline niches in two supralittoral Ochthebius species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)	5
Ant preference for seeds without awns increases removal of exotic relative to native grass seeds	5
The population dynamics of the yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a tropical island in Malaysia	5
Differential survival and dispersal of avian feather mites with contrasting host specificities	5
Cold tolerance and winter survival of seasonally‐acclimatised second‐instar larvae of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana	5
Multi‐species occupancy models: an effective and flexible framework for studies of insect communities	5
The specialist of a specialist: the natural history of the predispersal seed predator weevil Hemicolpus abdominalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	5
Propagule pressure rather than population growth determines colonisation ability: a case study using two phytophagous mite species differing in their invasive potential	5
Differential ecophysiological syndromes explain the partition of the thermal niche resource in coexisting Eucraniini dung beetles	5
Environmental and evolutionary factors favouring the coexistence of sarcosaprophagous Calliphoridae species competing for animal necromass	5
Assessing how changes in temporal resource quality influence the reproductive performance of the dung beetleOnthophagus binodis	4
No water, no eggs: insights from a warming outdoor mesocosm experiment	4
A higher taxonomic richness does not ensure the functional resilience of saproxylic beetle communities in evergreenQuercusforests	4
Not all matrix habitat is created equal for rare bee species in forest habitat	4
Experimental viral spillover can harmBombus terrestrisworkers under field conditions	4
Microclimatic edge effects in a fragmented forest: disentangling the drivers of ecological processes in plant‐leafminer‐parasitoid food webs	4
The thermal ecology of burying beetles: temperature influences reproduction and daily activity in Nicrophorus marginatus	4
Bloodmeal‐stealing in wild‐caught Mepraia spinolai (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a sylvatic vector of Trypanosoma cruzi	4
Pollen specialisation is associated with later phenology in Osmia bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)	4
Exploring the power of moth samples to reveal community patterns along shallow ecological gradients	4
Wariness to colour patterns: birds versus European red‐and‐black insects	4
Where to overwinter: burrows of medium‐sized carnivores as winter places for invertebrates in temperate environment	4
Contrasting patterns of food and macronutrient limitation in the field among co‐existing omnivorous carnivores	4
Testing three hypotheses of rarity among the Buprestidae species of a tropical dry forest	4
The structure and importance of nest mounds in a tropical ant Diacamma indicum	4
Environmental drivers of ant dominance in a tropical rainforest canopy at different spatial scales	4
Microbial volatiles and succession of beetles on small carrion	4
Centris pallida(Hymenoptera: Apidae) male body size decreases across five decades	4
A citizen science project reveals contrasting latitudinal gradients of wing deformity and parasite infection of monarch butterflies in New Zealand	4
Longer daylengths associated with poleward range shifts accelerate aphid extinction by parasitoid wasps	4
Differential thermal tolerance across life stages under extreme high temperatures crossed with feeding status in corn leaf aphid	4
Carry‐over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar‐feeding butterfly	4
Population and movement ecology of two life‐history contrasting dung beetle species in a tropical human‐modified landscape	4
Assessment of pupal mortality in Hypena opulenta: An obstacle for establishment of a classical biological control agent against invasive swallow‐worts	4
Elevational boundaries influence richness patterns at large spatial scales evinced by madicolous insects of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	4
Sexual conflict and the evolution of monandry: The case of the damselfly Ischnura hastata (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in the Galápagos Islands	4
Blacklegged tick population synchrony between oak forest and non‐oak forest	4
On the influence of environmental factors on the oviposition activity of necrophagous flies	4
Genetic mixing facilitates adaptation to a novel environmental constraint	4
Contrasting effects of nitrogen fertiliser application on the performance of closely related grasshoppers through changes in plant nutrient concentrations	4
The introduced oak Quercus rubra and acorn‐associated arthropods in Europe: An opportunity for both carpophagous insects and their ant predators	4