OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecography is 30. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models	393
Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world	189
ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography	169
Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations	98
The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts	80
Modelling species presence‐only data with random forests	79
mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity	78
Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation	76
Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black‐box species distribution models	64
sampbias, a method for quantifying geographic sampling biases in species distribution data	62
Is more data always better? A simulation study of benefits and limitations of integrated distribution models	56
A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes	53
Testing the ability of species distribution models to infer variable importance	48
Geographic patterns and environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity for large‐scale angiosperm assemblages in China	48
Increasing synergistic effects of habitat destruction and hunting on mammals over three decades in the Gran Chaco	45
Mechanistic insights into the role of large carnivores for ecosystem structure and functioning	45
Artificial nightlight alters the predator–prey dynamics of an apex carnivore	43
Diatoms define a novel freshwater biogeography of the Antarctic	41
Mammal population densities at a global scale are higher in human‐modified areas	40
Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications	40
Dispersal–niche continuum index: a new quantitative metric for assessing the relative importance of dispersal versus niche processes in community assembly	39
Climate more important than soils for predicting forest biomass at the continental scale	38
A quantitative review of abundance‐based species distribution models	37
Blind assessment of vertebrate taxonomic diversity across spatial scales by clustering environmental DNA metabarcoding sequences	37
Ecological drivers of avian community assembly along a tropical elevation gradient	35

RangeShifter 2.0: an extended and enhanced platform for modelling spatial eco‐evolutionary dynamics and species' responses to environmental changes	34
Essential krill species habitat resolved by seasonal upwelling and ocean circulation models within the large marine ecosystem of the California Current System	34
Comprehensive estimation of spatial and temporal migratory connectivity across the annual cycle to direct conservation efforts	33
Warming‐induced shrubline advance stalled by moisture limitation on the Tibetan Plateau	33
Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: how human activities change equilibria of species richness	30
Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales	30
Phenology in freshwaters: a review and recommendations for future research	30
A complete inventory of North American butterfly occurrence data: narrowing data gaps, but increasing bias	30