OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Research is 3. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Complementary combination of multiplex high‐throughput DNA sequencing for molecular phylogeny	81
Ecological impacts of fungal wood decay types: A review of current knowledge and future research directions	43
Museum specimens: An overlooked and valuable material for conservation genetics	30
Elevation and aspect determine the differences in soil properties and plant species diversity on Himalayan mountain summits	27
Compilation of real‐time PCR conditions toward the standardization of environmental DNA methods	17
Relative importance of soil microbes and litter quality on decomposition and nitrogen cycling in grasslands	16
Risk of misinterpreting the Tea Bag Index: Field observations and a random simulation	16
Charcoal ecology: Its function as a hub for plant succession and soil nutrient cycling in boreal forests	16
Illuminating the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of ecological stability across scales	15
The Asia‐Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network: 10‐year achievements and new strategies to 2030	14
Ecological niche modeling for assessing potential distribution ofPterocarpus marsupiumRoxb. In Ranchi, eastern India	14
The effects of temporal continuities of grasslands on the diversity and species composition of plants	14
Toward more data publication of long‐term ecological observations	13
Outcrossing syndrome in alpine plants: Implications for flowering phenology and pollination success	13
Effects of life history and individual development on community dynamics: A review of counterintuitive consequences	13
Macroalgal and mangrove provenances demonstrate their relevance in contributing to the blue carbon pool of a tropical seagrass meadow	13
The forest gardener: A marsupial with a key seed‐dispersing role in the Patagonian temperate forest	12
Animal linguistics: Exploring referentiality and compositionality in bird calls	11
Latitudinal diversity gradients for five taxonomic levels of marine fish in depth zones	11
Local adaptation to contrasting climatic conditions in Sakhalin fir (Abies sachalinensis) revealed by long‐term provenance trials	11
Evolutionary bet‐hedging reconsidered: What is the mean–variance trade‐off of fitness?	11
Mismatched spatial scales can limit the utility of citizen science data for estimating wildlife‐habitat relationships	11
Carbon sequestration potential in the rehabilitated mangroves in Indonesia	10
Review: Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural forests of Cryptomeria japonica	10
Potential risks of Tithonia diversifolia in Yunnan Province under climate change	9

Ecosystem engineering structures facilitate ecological resilience: A coral reef model	9
Phytotoxic effect of invasive speciesAmorpha fruticosaL. on germination and the early growth of forage and agricultural crop plants	8
Spatial modeling of road collisions of striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in Israel	8
Wider crown shyness between broad‐leaved tree species than between coniferous tree species in a mixed forest of Castanopsis cuspidata and Chamaecyparis obtusa	8
Intraspecific variation in growth‐related traits—from leaf to whole‐tree—in three provenances of Cryptomeria japonica canopy trees grown in a common garden	8
Environmental DNA methods for detecting two invasive alien species (American bullfrog and red swamp crayfish) in Japanese ponds	8
Towards linking species traits to demography and assembly in diverse tree communities: Revisiting the importance of size and allocation	8
The invisible enemy: Understanding bird‐window strikes through citizen science in a focal city	8
Architectural plasticity in response to population density in Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae)	8
Red foxes in Japan show adaptability in prey resource according to geography and season: A meta‐analysis	8
Utility of commercial high‐resolution satellite imagery for monitoring general flowering in Sarawak, Borneo	7
The discovery and global distribution of hyperaccumulator plants: A personal account	7
Understanding rural and urban perceptions of seagrass ecosystem services for their blue carbon conservation strategies in the Philippines	7
Geographical personality gradient in herbivorous animals: Implications for selective culling to reduce crop damage	7
Livestock‐exclusion duration required for restoring grassland in semiarid, loess region in China: Estimate based on species composition measured from small‐scale vegetation patterns	7
Ups and downs of non‐native and native stream‐dwelling salmonids: Lessons from two contrasting rivers	7
Estimation of total fine root production using continuous inflow methods in tropical mangrove forest on Pohnpei Island, Micronesia: Fine root necromass accumulation is a substantial contributor to blu	7
Preface: Blue carbon studies in Asia‐Pacific regions: Current status, gaps, and future perspectives	7
Intermediate dispersal hypothesis of species diversity: New insights	7
Estimation of fine root production, mortality, and decomposition by using two core methods and litterbag experiments in a mangrove forest	7
Evaluation of the baseline carbon sequestration rates of Indo‐Pacific temperate and tropical seagrass meadow sediments	7
Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929	7
Dietary differences between grasshoppers are associated with life history tradeoffs in an alpine meadow	7
Bilberry seed production explains spatiotemporal synchronicity in bank vole population fluctuations in Norway	7
Preface: Functional biogeography in Japanese cedar	7
Why species richness of plants and herbivorous insects do or do not correlate	7
Spatiotemporal activity of the pine marten Martes martes: Insights from an island population	6
Increased grazing intensities induce differentiation of the relationships between functional traits and aboveground plant biomass in shrub‐ and grass‐dominated community in desert steppe	6
Scavenging and carcass caching behavior by European wildcat (Felis silvestris)	6
Relative importance of host‐dependent versus physical environmental characteristics affecting the distribution of an ectoparasitic copepod infecting the mouth cavity of stream salmonid	6
High variation of mitochondrial DNA diversity as compared to nuclear microsatellites in mammalian populations	6
Fine‐scale distribution of tropical seagrass beds in Southeast Asia	6
Canopy conductance and gas exchange of a Japanese cypress forest after rainfall‐induced wetness	6
Phylogenetic structure of lichen metacommunities in Amazonian and Northeast Brazil	6
Ecological niche differentiation of two salamanders (Caudata: Hynobiidae) from Hokkaido Island, Japan	6
Management and landscape of shelterbelts contribute to butterfly and flowering plant diversity in northern Japan	6
Comparison of macroinvertebrate assemblages in a stream before and after fine sedimentation by deer‐induced forest floor degradation	5
Leaf trait variability explains how plant community composition changes under the intense pressure of deer herbivory	5
Low spatial congruence between temporal functional β‐diversity and temporal taxonomic and phylogenetic β‐diversity in British avifauna	5
Review: Vegetation history of Cryptomeria japonica in Japan since the last interglacial period	5
Contrasting metacommunity patterns of fish and aquatic insects in drainage ditches of paddy fields	5
The effects of functional differences in cultivar of Cryptomeria japonica on nutrient dynamics and soil invertebrates in a common garden	5
Review: Monitoring of land cover changes and plant phenology by remote‐sensing in East Asia	5
Lead isotope ratios in moss for the assessment of transboundary pollutants in the Yatsugatake Mountains, central Japan	5
Quantitative evaluation of species composition dissimilarity within a community and among communities	5
Relation of leaf terpene contents to terpene emission profiles in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)	4
Idea paper: How are ecosystem services related to biodiversity and ecological integrity in each site under climate change?	4
Blood trail of expansion? Long‐term patterns of livestock depredation by wolves in Poland	4
The symbiotic nitrogen fixation by legumes in a legume‐companion and a legume‐dominant alpine steppe on the central Tibetan Plateau	4
Idea paper: Monitoring and databasing nonnative species to manage establishment debt in aquatic ecosystems	4

Large‐scale ecological field data for satellite validation in deciduous forests and grasslands	4
Biotic resistance in a stochastic world: Do rodents act as a filter to alien tree invasion in pampean old fields?	4
The significance of building behavior in the evolution of animal architecture	4
Vegetation change on mountaintops in northern Sweden: Stable vascular‐plant but reordering of lichen and bryophyte communities	4
Annual variability in the sound acorn production of Quercus serrata is regulated by a seed‐predatory weevil in western Japan	4
Seasonal variations of ¹³⁷Cs concentration in freshwater charr through uptake and metabolism in 1–2 years after the Fukushima accident	4
Phytoplankton species abundance in Tokyo Bay (Japan) from 1998 to 2019	4
Physiological responses of the xero‐halophyte Salsola drummondii to seasonal alterations of environmental conditions in a salt desert	4
Concordant genetic structures of sika deer and Japanese land leeches suggest that the current range expansion of Haemadipsa japonica is dependent on sika deer migration: A case study	4
Bee occurrence data collected in citizen science program “Hanamaru‐Maruhana national census” in Japan	4
Seagrass biomass and sediment carbon in conserved and disturbed seascape	4
Blue carbon stock in sediments of mangroves and seagrass ecosystems at Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia	4
Variations in effects of ectosymbiotic microbes on the growth rates among different species and genotypes of Daphnia fed different algal diets	4
Changes in stable nitrogen isotopes of plants, bulk soil and soil dissolved N during ecosystem retrogression in boreal forest	4
New directions for the Tea Bag Index: Alternative teabags and concepts can advance citizen science	3
Geographical and seasonal variation of plant taxa detected in faces of Cervus nippon yakushimae based on plant DNA analysis in Yakushima Island	3
Quantitative records of habitat‐forming seaweeds found in Japanese temperate and subtropical zones (fucoids and kelps)	3
Modeling dispersal using capture–recapture data: A comparison of dispersal models	3
Acoustic monitoring data of anuran species inside and outside the evacuation zone of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident	3
Understanding community awareness of seagrass ecosystem services for their blue carbon conservation in marine protected areas: A case study of Karimunjawa National Park	3
Grazing alters seedling emergence number, dynamics, and diversity of herbaceous plants in a semiarid sandy grassland	3
Spatial hierarchical partitioning of macrobenthic diversity of clam (Ruditapes) fishing grounds over a large geographical range of Japan	3
The combined effects of artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise on life history traits in ground crickets	3
Traits database of tidal flat macrobenthos along the Northwest Pacific coast of Japan	3
Mycorrhizal associates of Cephalanthera falcata (Orchidaceae) in a habitat with giant individuals	3
Ecology with artificial intelligence and machine learning in Asia: A historical perspective and emerging trends	3
Variation of community assembly rules of a whole turtle family (Pelomedusidae) from continental to local scales in Africa	3
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on group densities of Thomas' langurs (Presbytis thomasi) within a lowland tropical forest, north Sumatra	3
Soil chemical properties drive the structure of bacterial communities in the cotton soil of arid Northwest China	3
Diversity of co‐flowering plants at field margins potentially sustains an abundance of insects visiting buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, in an agricultural landscape	3
Review: Phytogeography and history of Japanese beech forests: Recent advances and implications for vegetation ecology	3
Soil respiration response to nitrogen fertilization experiment in tropical grassland	3
Ecological correlates of the alpha and beta diversity of zooplankton hatchling communities in seasonal subtropical ponds	3
“Mining” the herbarium for hyperaccumulators: Discoveries of nickel and zinc (hyper)accumulation in the genus Noccaea (Brassicaceae) through X‐ray fluorescence herbarium scanning	3
Potential persistence of high‐mountain lizards	3
Findings from long‐term monitoring studies of Micronesian mangrove forests with special reference to carbon sequestration and sea‐level rise	3
Low‐elevation warm‐edge Fagus crenata populations in the core of the species range are glacial relicts with high conservation value	3
Biodiversity dataset of vascular plants and birds in Chinese urban greenspace	3
Environmental filtering both indirectly and directly drives the Dry Tropical Forest species composition and functional composition	3