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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Host plant selection by Cerambycidae in two different strata in association with seasonality and physical wood characteristics in a tropical dry forest	24
Bee abundance and diversity respond to extremes in temperature and precipitation in the Urban Chihuahuan Desert	22
Species distribution modelling reveals the influence of climatic and geographic factors on scarab beetle beta diversity along altitudinal gradients	21
Changes in pollinators' flower visits and activities potentially drive a diurnal turnover of plant‐pollinator interactions	19
High plasticity in diapause responses benefits bark beetles in a changing climate	19
Testing the migration syndrome: Comparative fecundity of migratory and non‐migratory nymphaline butterflies	17
Previous infestation by conspecifics leads to a transient increase of the performance of Sitobion avenae aphids on wheat leaves	16
The response to fire by two eusocial bee species	16
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Warming promotes non‐native invasive ants while inhibiting native ant communities	14
Wildfires induce a reduction in body size and morphological variation of an insular endemic insect	14
Seasonal constraints on maternal body size induce transgenerational fitness penalties in a sheet‐web spider	13
Management and tree dieback alter beetle assemblage structure and body size distribution in a temperate German forest	13
Mistletoes benefit from initiating cascading effects in a cactus–stem borers–arthropods system: A positive feedback	13
Distinct diurnal and nocturnal flower visitor communities provide pollination services in urban gardens	13
The Great Dividing Range as a driver of genetic divergence in a low‐dispersing dragonfly	13
Warming accelerates development but alters synchrony in a season‐dependent manner in a damselfly	12
Female mate choice is affected by male condition but not female condition in an assassin bug	12
Spatio‐temporal species aggregations do not rule out interspecific competition in tree hollow spider assemblages	12
No evidence of a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation for beetle (Coleoptera) families	12
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Diet C:N ratio and temperature influence the performance and colouration of tobacco hornworms	11
Making a healthy choice: Tactical host selection behaviour of a parasitoid wasp	10

Resilience that goes beyond prophylaxis: Benefits of faecal accumulation within termite nests	10
Linking disturbances in neotropical landscapes with ecosystem functional traits: A preliminary assessment using epigaeic and leaf‐litter ant communities	10
How does ageing affect life history traits and cold tolerance in summer‐versus winter‐acclimated fruit flies?	10
Amino acid substitutions in the Na ⁺ /K ⁺ ‐ ATPase	10
Host plant phenology drives risky larval dispersal in an outbreaking insect defoliator	10
OlfactionROOM: An optimised, low‐cost olfactometer and easy‐to‐apply setup to mitigate the escape behaviour of insects	9
Flying to greener pastures: Spider ballooning in the city	9
Heat is deadlier than hypoxia for an elevationally migrating moth	9
Correction to ‘Specialisation in frog‐biting midges (Diptera: Corethrellidae): A landscape perspective’	9
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Spatial variation in ant–tree bipartite networks is driven by a bottom‐up process	9
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Ants do not prey upon an extrafloral‐nectar‐feeding predatory mite	8
Diversity and partner selection of environmentally‐derived Burkholderia sensu lato in stinkbugs	8
Host plant use is driven by microclimate not nutritional quality in a grassland butterfly	8
Where water meets rock: Ecological niches and diversity hotspots of hygropetric beetles in the Neotropics	8
Pollen associated with a Texas population of blow flies‐ (Diptera: Calliphoridae ) highlights unde	8
The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies	8
Adaptation to host's chemical defences as a driver of wing morphological evolution and developmental instability in cactophilic Drosophila	7
Fluctuating asymmetry in spider‐hunting wasps as a possible indicator of stress in Brazilian Atlantic Forest landscapes	7
A defensive symbiont and a plant virus confer direct and discrete phenotypes to a cereal aphid in a context‐dependent manner	7
Correction to “Unilateral exclusion of three leaf beetle species due to resource competition for oviposition sites”	7
Inferring long‐distance movements of insects using combined hydrogen isotope and genetic analyses: A case study of the African edible bush‐cricket	7
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Greenhouse gas emissions from ant nests: A systematic review	7
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Insect‐plant‐fungus interactions in mycorrhizal associations, with a focus on spittlebugs and ectomycorrhizal host plants	7
Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains	7
A trait‐based understanding of the vulnerability of a Paleotropical moth community to predation by a sympatric bat with flexible foraging strategies	7
Abiotic drivers of co‐occurrence and diversity patterns of Calopterygidae species in Amazonian protected freshwaters	7
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Multiple foundresses and multiple hosts: The influences of kinship and host quality on group reproduction in a quasi‐social parasitoid	6
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Carrion type and extent of breeding success together influence subsequent carrion choice by adult burying beetles	6
What determines the antipredator strategy in antlion larvae? Burrowing ability decreases the duration of post‐contact immobility	6
Lessons from long‐term research: Diptera species turnover and dominance shifts with respect to climate‐driven changes	6
Oviposition fluids from adult wasps mediate interspecific competition between parasitoid larvae	6
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Forest edges buffer effects of agricultural management on bee–plant interaction networks	6
Interspecific competition leads to more long‐winged morphs in two sympatric cricket species	6
Winter moth populations are isolated on co‐occurring tree species with contrasting budburst‐phenology	6
Intraspecific competition in antlion larvae: Effects on substrate choice, movement and trap size	6
Fire favours the native bee community in a semi‐arid ecosystem	6
Vegetation biomass and landscape context influence web‐building spider dietary breadth in urban vacant lots	6
Spiders in the mosaic: How habitat heterogeneity and structure drive local spider diversity in a Mediterranean forest	6
In plateaus, land cover replaced climate as the vital environmental factor on the spatial composition of bumblebees with the altitude rising	6
Height and phytotelm size affect the invertebrate communities of epiphytic bromeliads in the Amazon rainforest	6
Suboptimal macronutrient ratios promote cannibalism in a generalist herbivore ( Trichoplusia ni )	6
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Increasing stability of northern Austrian Lepidoptera populations over three decades	5

Flooding affects fluctuating asymmetry but not growth of a riparian orbweaving spider	5
Free ride without raising a thumb: A citizen science project reveals the pattern of active ant hitchhiking on vehicles and its ecological implications	5
Viral prevalence is higher, while relative infection loads are lower, in later developmental stages of a univoltine insect herbivore	5
Fire ants mediate competition between scale insects and fruit flies	5
Divergent effects of leaf‐cutting ant herbivory and soil engineering on the reproductive success of plants in a Caatinga dry forest	5
Size and location of host‐plant shape the spatial pattern of forest insect	5
Correction to “Cascading effects of grazing intensity on predatory arthropod and parasitoid densities”	5
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Correction to ‘Effect of the host plant on the life history, behaviour and fungal community of a fungus‐farming ambrosia beetle’	5
Predation and immunocompetence: Grasshoppers increase Mormon cricket resistance to a fungal pathogen	5
Impact of temperature and season on ant foraging activity of two invasive species in a Mediterranean urban area	5
Warm or bright – Temperature and light microhabitat use in insect pollinators	5
Quantification of invertebrates on fungal fruit bodies by the use of time‐lapse cameras	5
Effect of the host plant on the life history, behaviour and fungal community of a fungus‐farming ambrosia beetle	5
Aggregative oviposition varies with density in processionary moths—Implications for insect outbreak propensity	5
Ecosystem functions and functional traits for the study of phytophagous scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)	5
Environmental stress influences reproductive success in male spider mites	5
Ecological and functional effects of habitat conversion and seasons on fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages in tropical dry forests	4
Prolonged flow intermittency undermines the habitat potential of forested landscapes for a stream‐dwelling dragonfly	4
Phenological imbalance in the supply and demand of floral resources: Half the pollen and nectar produced by the main autumn food source, Hedera helix , i	4
Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic mosquito abundance	4
Living in an urban pod: Seed predation and parasitism of bruchid beetles in a native tree species	4
Soil conditions and the emergence phenology and survival of a solitary, ground‐nesting bee in a coastal dune environment	4
Balancing risk and opportunity: Nasute termite responses to predator and competitor chemical cues	4
Population responses to temperature in 12‐year insect time series	4
Biparental care improves major male paternity in a burying beetle, testing a hypothesis of paternity assurance	4
Bottom‐up effects shift top‐down community structure of the parasitoid guild that attacks Asphondylia borrichiae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on	4
Invasion of the coccinellid community associated with a tropical annual agroecosystem	4
Mixed effects of urbanization on pollination services among four native plant species	4
Physiological condition drives ecological functions of two highly abundant and widespread dung beetles of South American pasturelands	4
Seasonality as a structuring factor of the dung beetle community in burned neotropical savannas	4
Solving the trophic puzzle: Host–parasite associations in Neotropical fig wasps associated with fig trees of section Americanae	4
Contrasting effects of nitrogen fertiliser application on the performance of closely related grasshoppers through changes in plant nutrient concentrations	4
Induced drought in an Amazonian forest affects diversity but not foraging distance of generalist ants	4
Discordant pattern between realised and fundamental saline niches in two supralittoral Ochthebius species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)	4
Differential egg cannibalism by hatchlings in a burrower bug: Trophic and viable eggs	4
Sun exposure as a main driver influencing the arriving communities of saproxylic beetles on deadwood	4
The effect of habitat amount on flight‐related traits in the butterfly Hamadryas februa is sex‐dependent	4
Effects of temperature and humidity on the presence and prevalence of a common fungal parasite on an invasive ladybird	4
Adaptations to water gradient in three Rorippa plant species correspond with plant resistance against insect herbivory under drought and waterlogged cond	4
Seasonal time constraints reduce the impact of warming on life history but not on physiology	4
Soil‐ and ground‐dwelling arthropod diversity on green roofs: Functional groups are strongly influenced by substrate depth and plant community	4
To stay or not to stay? Temporal shifts in dung beetle occupancy in a cloud forest landscape	4