OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Northeastern Naturalist is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Status and Distribution of Cisco (Coregonus artedi) and Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in Inland Lakes of Wisconsin	14
Bat Activity Correlates with Moth Abundance on an Urban Green Roof	11
Future of Winter in Northeastern North America: Climate Indicators Portray Warming and Snow Loss That Will Impact Ecosystems and Communities	9
Climate Trends on the Highest Peak of the Northeast: Mount Washington, NH	8
Use of Artificial Roost Boxes Installed as Alternative Habitat for Bats Evicted from Buildings	7
Diet of Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) among Three Colonies in Atlantic Canada	7
Using CMECS to Create Benthic Habitat Maps for Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts	6
The Use of Multimodal Data to Augment Shallow-Water Benthic Habitat Maps for Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Stratigraphic Data and Seafloor Maps	6
Emigration and First-Year Movements of Initial Wolf Translocations to Isle Royale	5
Plant Responses to Climate Change and an Elevational Gradient in Mont Mégantic National Park, Québec, Canada	5
Tidal Inlet Evolution and Impacts of Anthropogenic Alteration: An Example from Nauset Beach and Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts	5
Can Disruption of an Ant–Plant Mutualism Explain a Lack of Recovery of Forest Herbs in Post-Agricultural Forests of New York?	5
Vertical Zonation of Some Crustose Lichens (Verrucariaceae) in Bay of Fundy Littoral Zones of Nova Scotia	4
Tree Removal Likely Improves Thermal Quality of Basking Sites for an Imperiled Timber Rattlesnake Population at the Northern Edge of Its Range	4
Long-Distance Dispersal by Eastern Gray Squirrels in Suburban Habitats	4
Relationships between Species Communities as Determined by Analysis of Data from Multiple Surveys of Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, MA	4
Effects of Farmland and Seasonal Phenology on Wild Bees in Blueberry Orchards	3
Macrolichens of Forillon National Park, Quebec, Canada	3
Changes in Population Size and Clustering Behavior of Hibernating Bats in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan After Arrival of White-Nose Syndrome	3
The Nonindigenous Asian Clam, Corbicula fluminea, in New Hampshire	3
Demographics of Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Packs Recolonizing Variable Habitats in Central Wisconsin	3
An Examination of Shallow-Water Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina) in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Using Morphology and DNA Barcoding	3
Lepidoptera Host Records Accurately Predict Tree Use by Foraging Birds	3
Camera Traps Detect Prey of Northern Carnivores	3
The Effects of Host Plant Species and Plant Quality on Growth and Development in the Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius) on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy	3

First Breeding Record of the Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) in Vermont	3
Changes in Black Cherry Seed Production: Is Stand Age a Factor?	3
Biophysical Features Determining Avian Use of Roadside Verges in Southern Québec's Suburban and Rural Landscapes	3
Four New Species of North American Fireflies from Isolated Peatlands with Reference to Species Determination of Photuris Dejean (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)	3
Understanding Northeastern US Alpine Mountains: Context, Causal Agents of Treeline, and Meteorology to Approximate Their Response to Climate Change	3
Demography of Meadow and Spotted Knapweed Populations in New York	3
Live-Capture Techniques for Colonizing Nine-Banded Armadillos	3
Movements of Juvenile Winter Flounder in a Southern Maine Estuary	3
Metabarcoding Fecal DNA Reveals Extent of Halichoerus grypus (Gray Seal) Foraging on Invertebrates and Incidence of Parasite Exposure	3
Documenting Emerging Insects, Environmental DNA, and Metal Concentrations in a Small Appalachian Stream	2
Assessing Microhabitat Characteristics as Predictors of Nest-Box Occupancy in a Declining Bird Species, the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)	2
Landscape and Microsite Characteristics of American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Nest-Box Sites along Highway Corridors in Southeast Ohio	2
Bioblitz Assessment of Rocky Intertidal Biodiversity within the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area	2
Effects of Intertidal Elevation on Barnacle Recruit Density and Size in Wave-Exposed Habitats on the Atlantic Canadian Coast	2
Seasonal Occurrence and Relative Abundance of Fishes and Macroinvertebrates in Pleasant Bay (Massachusetts)	2
Sentinel Research Sites in Global Change Research: Whiteface Mountain, New York	2
First Observation of Movement Rates and Repeated Migration in a Western Atlantic Torpedo (Tetronarce occidentalis) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean	2
Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Rockwood Park, New Brunswick: An Assessment of Species Richness and Habitat	2
Stable Isotope Values Suggest Opossums (Didelphis virginiana) at the Northern Edge of their Range do not Seasonally Molt	2
Woody Plant Communities after 40 Years of Pollution Control and Restoration in Smelter-Denuded Landscapes	2
Characteristics of Day-Roosts Used by Northern Long-Eared Bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in Coastal New York	2
Novel Use of Species Distribution Modeling to Identify High Priority Sites for American Woodcock Habitat Management	2
Detection of a Mature Atlantic Sturgeon in the Patuxent River, Maryland, Using Passive Acoustic Telemetry	2
Bird Use of Highway Rights-of-Way is Influenced by Surrounding Adjacent Habitats and Seasons in Human-Dominated Landscapes of Southern Quebec	2
Endophytic Fungi from Marine Macroalgae in Nova Scotia	2
Observation of a Sea Lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, on a Pelagic Blue Shark, Prionace glauca	2
Life History of an Invasive Population of Allegheny Crayfish (Faxonius obscurus) in an Eastern Pennsylvania Stream	2
Calculating Rates of Shoreline Change in a Coastal Embayment with Fringing Salt Marsh Using the “Marshline”, a Proxy-Based Shoreline Indicator	2
Social Media Reports Inform the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Leach's Storm-Petrel Strandings Across the Island of Newfoundland	2
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Face of Local Uncertainty: A Phenomenological Study	2
Northeastern High-Elevation Areas: Ecological Values and Conservation Priorities	2
Home Range of a Breeding Male Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Tracked via Satellite Telemetry in Kentucky	2
Opening the Door: Alosa pseudoharengus (Alewife) Passage through Tide Gates in Two Adjacent Rivers on the Chignecto Isthmus, Bay of Fundy, Canada	2
Growth Rates for Quahogs (Mercenaria mercenaria) in a Reduced Nitrogen Environment in Narragansett Bay, RI	2
Multiple Cases of Hypomelanism in Wood Frog Larvae (Rana sylvatica) Associated with Developmental Retardation and Mortality	2
Low Breeding-Site Fidelity Suggests Dispersal of Cerulean Warblers	1
Interspecific Killing of Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox) Kits at a Den Site by Canis lupus (Gray Wolf) in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan	1
Long-Distance Movement over a Period of Days by a Female Myotis lucifugus in Newfoundland, Canada	1
Soil Characteristics of North American Sites Colonized by the Non-Native, Invasive Vines Black Swallow-Wort and Pale Swallow-Wort	1
Diversity, Distribution and Habitat Use of Freshwater Crayfish in the Upper Appomattox River Basin, Virginia	1
Xylariales (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) of the Boston Harbor Islands	1
Evaluation of Plot-Scale Methods for Assessing and Monitoring Salt Marsh Vegetation Composition and Cover	1
Phenological Differences in Wood Frog and Spotted Salamander Egg-Mass Onset and Peak Accumulation	1
Diet of Striped Bass in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) with Emphasis on the Spring Spawning Aggregation	1
Exploratory Survey of Salamanders in Pennsylvanian Forests with Dense Understories of Berberis thunbergii (Japanese Barberry), an Invasive Shrub	1
Seasonal Variation in Sex Ratio for Gray Bats (Myotis grisescens) at a Hibernaculum	1
A Longitudinal Assessment of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Water Quality along the Bronx River	1
Microhabitat Relationships of the Endangered Hemiparasite Schwalbea americana (American Chaffseed) in the New Jersey Pine Barrens	1
Demographic and Trophic Analysis of Adult Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) from Living Shoreline and Natural Tidal Marshes in the Chesapeake Bay	1
Updated Data on Mercury and DDE in Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in Relation to Consumption Advisories for the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada	1

Comparing the Effectiveness of Fitch and Sherman Traps in a Grassland Ecosystem	1
Observations of Snakes Associated With Active Nests of Allegheny Mound Ant (Formica exsectoides) in Northeastern Pennsylvania	1
Population Genetics and Spatial Ecology of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in a Landscape with a High Density of Humans in New England	1
Introduction: Climate Change in the Mountains of Maine and the Northeast	1
The Ecology and Distribution of Stylurus spiniceps (Walsh, 1862) (Odonata: Gomphidae)	1
Checklist of Lichens and Associated Fungi from Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve, Québec, Canada	1
Estimating Abundance and Occupancy of Northern Barrens Tiger Beetles in an Isolated New York Population	1
First Documentation of Mating Blue Crabs, Callinectes sapidus, in Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire	1
An eDNA-Based Assessment of the Impact of a 207,000-Liter Gasoline Spill on Local Populations of Eastern Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis), an Imperiled Giant Salamander	1
Activity Patterns of Allegheny Woodrats (Neotoma magister) and Two Potential Competitors in Virginia	1
Ecology of an Isolated Muskrat Population during Regional Population Declines	1
Shallow Corms of Erythronium americanum (Trout Lily) Die from Herbivory in the Summer and Freezing in the Winter	1
Species Distributions on Successional and Flooding Gradients in Connecticut River Floodplain Forests	1
Long-Term Coastal Breeding Bird Monitoring in the Boston Harbor Islands, 2007–2019	1
Forest Succession and Tree Identity Shape Species and Functional Group Richness of Ant Communities in New England	1
Salad with Clams: Prey Choice of an Intentionally Carnivorous Turtle	1
Plant Species Composition and Interactions within Communities Invaded by Persicaria perfoliata (Polygonaceae)	1
Use of Tree Cavities and Nest Boxes by Wood Ducks at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge	1
Are Rare Northern Plant Species Retreating from the Southern Edge of Their Ranges in Southern New England?	1
Late Ice-Off Negatively Influences Breeding in Common Loons (Gavia immer)	1
Emerald Ash Borer in the Ash (Fraxinus spp.)-Dominated Tidal Swamps of the Lower Patuxent River, Maryland	1
Foreword: Message from the Superintendent of the National Parks of Boston	1
Population Dynamics of an Isolated Population of Blackbanded Sunfish, Enneacanthus chaetodon, in Eastern Maryland	1
Dietary Variability of the Rainbow Darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) in Northwestern Pennsylvania	1
Importation of Dragonfly Nymphs (Odonata: Anisoptera) to Control Mosquito Larvae (Diptera: Culicidae) in Southern Maine	1
First Record of White-Tailed Deer Depredating Saltmarsh Sparrow Nests	1
Chaenothecopsis ochroleuca, Haematomma ochroleucum, and Multiclavula vernalis Reported for the First Time from Maine	1
Genetic Diversity and Clonal Structure of Spartina alterniflora in a Virginia Marsh	1
Records of Fleas (Siphonaptera) and Other Ectoparasites from Maine	1
New and Notable Records of Odonata from New Brunswick, Canada, with a Significant Eastern Range Extension of Enallagma anna	1
Agroecosystem Ecology of Northern Deermice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii) and White-Footed Deermice (P. leucopus noveboracensis) in the Inner Bluegrass of Kentucky	1
Post-Natal Movement, Habitat Use, and Hibernacula Selection of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in Southern New England	1