OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Age-related changes in root traits are linked to internal nitrogen cycling in the perennial forb Physaria (Brassicaceae)	29
Bursera fruit traits as drivers of fruit removal by flycatchers	20
Effects of road and woodland type on the invasibility of woodlands invaded by Lantana camara in southern Africa	18
Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight	12
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia	12
Abiotic factors similarly shape the distribution of fruit, seed and leaf traits in tropical fleshy-fruited tree communities	11
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands	11
Editorial Board	11
Factors affecting variability in fleshy cone production of Juniperus macrocarpa	10
The impact of coppice management on spatial structure and intraspecific interactions of Brant's oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) semi-arid woodlands	9
Editorial Board	9
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability	9
Anuran assemblages in western Philippines: Unraveling the effects of habitat types, water availability, and elevation	8
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest	8
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada	8
Do the natural dynamics of West Carpathian forests affect the diversity of epiphytic lichens on Norway spruce?	8
Factors influencing seed predation in rainforest tree communities of subtropical Australia: Fragmentation, seed size and shifts in vertebrate assemblages	7
Editorial Board	7
Circadian pattern in attendance of aphid colonies by ants	7
Climate and soil nutrients generate distinct diversity patterns across four elevational gradients within the same region	7
Seed fates of four rainforest tree species in the fragmented forests of Anamalais in the southern Western Ghats, India	7
Genetic reconstruction of potential invasion pathways of Ligustrum lucidum into Argentina	7
Landscape configuration and composition shape mutualistic and antagonistic interactions among plants, bats, and ectoparasites in human-dominated tropical rainforests	7
Editorial Board	7
Correlation between body size and longevity: New analysis and data covering six taxonomic classes of vertebrates	7

Fleshy-fruited species increase with elevation for woody lianas but peak in mid-elevations for herbaceous vines in a subtropical forest system	7
A neotropical canid as seed disperser in semiarid areas of Brazil	7
Taxonomic and morphological diversity of the ground-dwelling ant fauna in Eastern Amazonian grasslands	7
Editorial Board	7
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil	6
Effects of tree density and the topography of the sites of host trees on epiphytic orchid communities on Schima wallichii in a forest in West Java, Indonesia	6
Feeding plasticity and temporal behaviour of the alien American mink in Europe	6
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	6
Litter decomposition above the treeline in alpine regions: A mini review	6
Strategies in growth and reproduction of the native endangered plant species Scripus mariqueter and the driving factors in a coastal salt marsh wetland, eastern China	6
Climatic seasonality and dominant species drive the temporal dynamics in a lizard assemblage in the Arid Chaco - Monte ecotone	5
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	5
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape	5
Butterflies of fragmented wet grassland in Western European lowland forests: Effects of vegetation, connectivity and plot size	5
Insect pest predation by arthropods and birds in different land use types with varying woody vegetation composition in agroecosystems of central Oromia, Ethiopia	5
How to be a fig nematode	5
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid	5
Entomogamy in wildflowers: What level of pollinator biodiversity is required?	5
Intraspecific pod and seed trait variation of two herbaceous legume seeds in response to competing neighbours and nutrient resource abundance	5
Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species	5
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration	5
Keystone species in an urban environment: Do raptors control the Mexican gray squirrel in Mexico City?	5
Editorial Board	5
Population trends of four species of amphibians in western France; results from a 15 year time series derived from road mortality counts	5
Impacts of traditional practices on biodiversity and structural characteristics of sacred groves in northern Togo, West Africa	5
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series	5
Influence of breeding time, nest size, and egg size on the breeding success of the Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus	4
The different facets of native bird diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) as predictors of alien birds increasing richness and expanding range in Great Britain	4
Drivers of songbird territory density in the boundaries of a lowland arable farm	4
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	4
Species-area relationship and richness persistence as a proxy of environmental carrying capacity: A case study in a neotropical show cave	4
Invasion in the riparian zone: What is the effect of Pteridium arachnoideum on topsoil permeability?	4
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas	4
Editorial Board	4
The role of seed size in the performance of Ceiba aesculifolia seedlings subjected to foliar damage	4
Goat browsing does not induce physical defences but reduces leaf size in Vachellia trees	4
Editorial Board	4
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	4
Fast restore of the structure and composition of hemiepiphytes after a heavy-snowfall event in a subtropical forest	4
The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants	4
Effect of seed size and fungicide on germination and survival of buried seeds of two grassland species on the Loess Plateau, China	4
Editorial Board	4
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?	4
Habitat and food resource type, rather than sampling date, drive co-occurrence of dung beetle species in a tropical ecosystem mosaic	3
Fine woody debris as a biogen reservoir in forest ecosystems	3
Sympatric munias in tropical areas segregate spatially through different nest site selections to achieve coexistence	3
Relationships between reproduction, growth, and tolerance to herbivory for the endangered plant clay phacelia (Phacelia argillacea)	3
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	3
Ecological differentiation of Carex species coexisting in a wet meadow: Comparison of pot and field experiments	3
Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium	3

Impact of 25 years of grazing on the forest structure of Pinus cembroides in northeast Mexico	3
Ficus-frugivore interactions, especially in areas of land-use change, in Africa: A systematic review	3
Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls	3
Ecology of morphological fruit types, and fruit and seed colors in 27 Venezuelan plant communities	3
Quantifying responses of dung beetle assemblages to cattle grazing removal over a short-term in introduced Brazilian pastures	3
Winners and losers: Competition and the invasive grass Bromus inermis	3
“Farming with alternative pollinators” provides benefits also in large-scale fields	3
Facilitation in Brazilian semiarid zone: remnant trees show a positive effect on caatinga regeneration	3
Effects of conspecifics and rocks on seedling recruitment of Brachystegia spiciformis Benth.in a dry miombo woodland in southern Africa	3
Correlations between leaf economics, hydraulic, and shade-tolerance traits among co-occurring individual trees	3
Multiple mating does not benefit females of a polyandrous pollinating fig wasp	3
Plant functional traits along an old-field succession in the high tropical andes	3
Landscape factors affecting the amphibian occurrence on roads: An assessment focusing on differences between live and dead animals	3
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)	3
Pollination service and soybean yields	2
Estimating mistletoe biomass in a semi-arid savanna woodland, southwest Zimbabwe	2
Long-term nucleation effect of remnant trees in a temperate forest established on abandoned grassland	2
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests	2
Comparing germination metrics of Opuntia ficus-indica and O. robusta between two sets of bird species (Pied Crows and two smaller species)	2
Host functional traits affect plant responses to pathogen stress: A meta-analysis	2
Editorial Board	2
Seasonal patterns of scorpion diversity along a gradient of aridity in Algeria	2
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii	2
Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil	2
Outcomes of a native bamboo on biomass and carbon stocks of a neotropical biodiversity hotspot	2
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought	2
Vulture numbers and densities in a large protected savannah in West Africa	2
From acquisitive to conservative: The ontogenetic trajectory of root syndrome of annual and perennial co-generic species	2
Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects	2
Extrafloral nectar secretion does not mediate ant predatory activity on Pityrocarpa moniliformis plants in a seasonally dry forest	2
Seed attachment by epizoochory depends on animal fur, body height, and plant phenology	2
Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees	2
Rare Pteridophytes are disproportionately frequent in the tropical forest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China	2
The effect of the temperature on local differences in the sex ratio of Mallards Anas platyrhynchos wintering in an urban habitat	2
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes	2
Wildfires affect mesocarnivores habitat use and mammalian predator-prey relationships in a Mediterranean ecosystem	2
Effects of fire on the population structure and abundance of Anogeissus leiocarpa and Vitellaria paradoxa in a West African savanna parkland	2
Ant utilization of tree trunks in relation to environmental factors in a temperate forest	2
Traditional rangeland management can conserve insect pollinators in a semi-arid rangeland, northern Tanzania	2
Functional divergence exists in mucilage-mediated seed dispersal, but not in germination of myxospermic Lepidium campestre and Lepidium draba (Brassicaceae)	2
Diversity partitioning and distance-decay relationship of saprophytic flies (Insecta: Diptera) in the western Brazilian Amazon	2
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	2
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Radon as a possible link between peak spring tides and lemming cycles	2
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	2
Genetic isolation between conspecific populations and their relationship to climate heterogeneity	2
Environmental factors and non-chemical methods to suppress growth of the invasive plant Gutenbergia cordifolia	2
Hummingbird-plant interactions along an altitudinal gradient in northwestern Mexico	2
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network	2
Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrients across different shifting cultivation fallows in Montane Subtropical Forest of Mizoram, NE India	2
Network analysis highlights increased generalisation and evenness of plant-pollinator interactions after conservation measures	2
A new player in the Panamanian fig tree – fig wasp mutualism; a study on the effect of gall midges on Ficus citrifolia	2
Comparison of grassland plant-pollinator networks on dairy farms in three contrasting French landscapes	2
A review of seed ecology of poisonous plants in the world's grasslands	2
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile	2
Among us: How to find an optimal clutch sex ratio when the clutch sex ratios of co-foundress wasps are not known beforehand?	2
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland	2
Greenhouse gas emissions from termite mounds in a transition area between the Cerrado Savanna and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil	2
English Ivy (Hedera helix) is fast, but ash (Fraxinus excelsior) too: Decomposition of English Ivy litter compared to four common host trees - A multisite citizen sciences project	2
Experimental drought suppresses grass productivity and passive warming promotes tree sapling performance: Insights from African savanna species	2
Short-term impacts of a record-shattering flood and dam removal on a river turtle assemblage and population placed within the context of a 50 year study	2