OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Landscape Ecology is 15. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Binary space partitioning generates hierarchical and rectilinear neutral landscape models suitable for human-dominated landscapes	81
Prolonged coastal inundation detected with synthetic aperture radar significantly retarded functional recovery of mangroves after major hurricanes	56
A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder	55
Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany	55
The relationship between spatial patterns of urban land uses and air pollutants in the Tehran metropolis, Iran	53
A framework for linking dispersal biology to connectivity across landscapes	52
Does land-use and land cover affect vector-borne diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis	50
Inferring future changes in gene flow under climate change in riverscapes: a pilot case study in fluvial sculpin	48
Floral resource discontinuity contributes to spatial mismatch between pollinator supply and pollination demand in a pollinator-dependent agricultural landscapes	43
Handling ecosystem service trade-offs: the importance of the spatial scale at which no-loss constraints are posed	40
Automated habitat monitoring systems linked to adaptive management: a new paradigm for species conservation in an era of rapid environmental change	40
Translating the landscape. The reciprocity of representations and other realities	36
Navigating agricultural landscapes: responses of critically endangered giant tortoises to farmland vegetation and infrastructure	36
Drivers of invasion by laurel wilt of redbay and sassafras in the southeastern US	35
New methods for quantifying the effects of catchment spatial patterns on aquatic responses	33
Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology	33
The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders	32
How landscape and biotic interactions shape a Mediterranean reptile community	31
Key attributes of greenspace pattern for heat mitigation vary with urban functional zones	31
Estimating statewide carrying capacity of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using improved maximum clique algorithms	31
Aggregation of organically managed fields promotes aphid parasitism in cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions	29
Lithology modulates the response of water limited Mediterranean ecosystems to aridification	29
Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration	28
Management linked to ecological intensification supports insect pollinators in Iberian wood-pastures	28
Spatial vulnerability assessment of silver fir and Norway spruce dieback driven by climate warming	27

Potential cougar habitats and dispersal corridors in Eastern North America	27
Floral identity and availability along with surrounding landscapes affect pollinator communities in eastern Tennessee	27
Scaling of classification systems—effects of class precision on detection accuracy from medium resolution multispectral data	26
Amount and isolation of aquatic habitat drive anuran diversity in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	26
Dynamics in the landscape ecology of institutions: lags, legacies, and feedbacks drive path-dependency of forest landscapes in British Columbia, Canada 1858–2020	25
Species–genetic diversity correlations through the lens of spatial autocorrelation: insights from high Andean wetlands	25
The supply and demand of water purification service in an urbanizing basin on the Tibetan Plateau	25
Socio-spatial factors influence climate change adaptation decisions of rural coastal landowners	24
Effects of spatial patterning within working pine forests on priority avian species in Mississippi	24
Using neutral landscape models to evaluate the umbrella species concept in an ecotone	24
Evaluating climate-driven fallowing for ecological connectivity of species at risk	23
The discontinuum of river networks: the importance of geomorphic boundaries	22
Maintaining functional connectivity in grassland corridors between plantation forests promotes high-quality habitat and conserves range restricted grasshoppers	22
Southern spatial stories: interdisciplinary perceptions of shifting spatial awareness and values	22
Housing or habitat: what drives patterns of avian species richness in urbanized landscapes?	21
Corridor width and orientation are complementary design variables for butterflies in conservation corridors	21
Looking for a magic island in the sea of agriculture: factors affecting forest patch attractiveness for wild boar in human-dominated landscape	21
The Portuguese forest and the Common Agricultural Policy	21
Uncertainties in research between urban landscape and air quality: summary, demonstration, and expectation	21
Unraveling a paradox of habitat relationships: scale-dependent drivers of temporal occupancy-abundance relationships in a cooperatively breeding bird	20
Legacy land use predicts occupancy patterns of prairie-associated herpetofauna in Western Arkansas	20
Forecasting natural regeneration of sagebrush after wildfires using population models and spatial matching	20
Floral resource maps: a tool to explain flower-visiting insect abundance at multiple spatial scales	20
Landscape models can predict the distribution of aquatic insects across agricultural areas	19
Landscape features drive insectivorous bat activity in Indian rice fields	19
Entropy in landscape ecology: a response to Stepinski	19
Landscape characteristics and predation risk influence spatial variation in auditory courtship of an upland game bird	19
Aiming for the optimum: examining complex relationships among sampling regime, sampling density and landscape complexity to accurately model resource availability	19
Simulation-based insights into community uniqueness within fragmented landscapes	19
River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China	18
Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests	18
Pollination efficiency in farmland landscapes: exploring the relative roles of spillover, dilution and complementarity between habitats	18
Developing landscape-scale forest restoration targets that embrace spatial pattern	18
Effects of sample size, data quality, and species response in environmental space on modeling species distributions	18
Predators do not benefit from crop diversity but respond to configurational heterogeneity in wheat and cotton fields	18
Landscape resistance to gene flow in a snow leopard population from Qilianshan National Park, Gansu, China	18
Landscape-based solutions are needed for meeting water challenges of China’s expanding and thirsty cities	18
A three-step approach for assessing landscape connectivity via simulated dispersal: African wild dog case study	17
Impacts of agricultural intensification on soil erosion and sustainability of olive groves in Alentejo (Portugal)	17
Spatial and temporal scales of landscape structure affect the biodiversity-landscape relationship across ecologically distinct species groups	17
What drives phylogenetic and trait clustering on islands?	17
Back and forth: day–night alternation between cover types reveals complementary use of habitats in a large herbivore	17
Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous-dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska	17
Improved topographic ruggedness indices more accurately model fine-scale ecological patterns	16
Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale	16
Dung beetle community patterns in Western Europe: responses of Scarabaeinae to landscape and environmental filtering	16
Remote sensing in landscape ecology	16
Accounting for sex-specific differences in gene flow and functional connectivity for cougars and implications for management	16
Responses of avian assemblages to spatiotemporal landscape dynamics in urban ecosystems	16
Effects of counter-urbanization on Mediterranean rural landscapes	16

Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network	16
Identifying habitat preferences and core areas of Amazon River dolphin activity using spatial ecology analysis	15
Spatiotemporal patterns of rising annual plant abundance in grasslands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (USA)	15
Canopy gap patterns in Mediterranean forests: a spatio-temporal characterization using airborne LiDAR data	15
Landscape simplification increases the risk of infestation by the polyphagous pest Helicoverpa armigera for walnut, a novel marginal host	15
Human impact on forests in early twentieth century Finland	15
Effect of landscape composition and configuration on biodiversity at multiple scales: a case study with amphibians from Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico	15
Leaving disturbance legacies conserves boreal conifers and maximizes net CO2 absorption under climate change and more frequent and larger windthrow regimes	15
Pygmy rabbit habitat network reveals threats and opportunities for management and conservation	15
Examining primate community occurrence patterns in agroforest landscapes using arboreal and terrestrial camera traps	15
Integrating land use and climate change models with stakeholder priorities to evaluate habitat connectivity change: a case study in southern Québec	15
Habitat connectivity supports the local abundance of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) but also the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans	15
Landscape anthropization explains the genetic structure of an endemic Mexican bird (Thryophilus sinaloa: Troglodytidae) across the tropical dry forest biodiversity hotspot	15
Participatory landscape sustainability assessment: where do we stand? A systematic literature review	15