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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ecological niche modelling and future scenarios of Cordia oncocalyx - A species of restricted distribution	29
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil	19
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability	19
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest	17
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands	16
Editorial Board	15
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	14
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	14
Soil seed bank diversity and physicochemical properties in the Dichrostachys cinerea-encroached savanna: Implications for vegetation restoration in the semi-arid of central Tanzania	14
Editorial Board	13
Niche partitioning in scorpions across neotropical dry-wet forests: an intra- and interspecific analysis	13
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape	11
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	11
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?	10
Editorial Board	9
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration	9
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)	9
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas	9
Discovering threatened freshwater turtles by an innovative floating camera trap system	9
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii	9
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	9
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	8
Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees	8
Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil	8
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland	7

The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community	7
Editorial Board	7
How are arthropod communities structured in a modified wetland under different productive activities?	7
Urbanization increases gross primary production and biomass of Atlantic forest fragments	7
Earthworm: a keystone species of soil quality, health and functions	7
Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed, forested landscape of East Texas	7
The effect of soil depth on stoichiometry was greater than that of elevation in Abies georgei var. Smithii forest in Southeastern Tibet, China	7
How many seeds can birds disperse?: Determining the pattern of seed deposition by frugivorous birds	7
Thermal-metabolic relationships in hatchling snapping turtles during simulated seasonal cooling	7
Understorey-nesting bird community responses to land use in the Korup National Park, an Afrotropical rainforest in South-Western Cameroon	7
Editorial Board	7
Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot	7
Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates	6
Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest	6
The effects of seasonal changes on the dynamics of a fig tree's pollination	6
A matter of scale: Local biotic differentiation and potential regional homogenization of understory plant communities in a highly fragmented tropical landscape	6
Mechanisms facilitating ant species coexistence in the burnt and unburnt grassland	6
Is endozoochoric seed dispersal by large herbivores an evolutionary adaptation? Revisiting the Janzen's ‘Foliage is the fruit’ hypothesis	6
Morphological and physiological adaptation of a desert shrub, Encelia farinosa, under drought stress	6
Variation of canopy openness of tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka with altitude and azimuth angle	6
Caves’ environmental stability shaping subterranean biodiversity in the neotropics	6
Soil properties and fine root morphological traits in relation to soil particle-size fractions in a broad-leaved beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forest	6
Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta	6
Seed dispersal mechanism of Erythronium japonicum in Northeast China	6
Identification of differences in habitat use patterns by individuals from separate animal populations through machine learning techniques	6
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on diaspore removal by ants: A meta-analysis	6
Soil macronutrient dynamics across diverse Ethiopian vegetation types: A synthesis for sustainable forest ecosystem management	5
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid	5
Miombo woodlands conversion to tree-based shifting cultivation causes a shift in species diversity-productivity relationship	5
Crown complementarity rather than crown selection contributes to stem complementarity in genetic mixtures of Pinus taeda L	5
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile	5
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	5
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada	5
The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants	5
Salinity effects on arbuscular mycelium network-mediated performance of Saltcedar and Camelhorn seedlings	5
Ecology of photosynthetic pathways in contrasting Venezuelan plant communities	5
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes	5
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the Patagonian genus Onuris (Brassicaceae: Eudemeae) at different phylogenetic scales	5
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia	5
Toxicological impact of elutriate from wooded soil with the exotic plants Pinus spp. and Eucalyptus spp.	5
The impact of rare and common species on the functional diversity of forest birds in a palm-dominated landscape in the Eastern Amazon	5
Competition for resources: What factors lead honey bees to outcompete other insect competitors?	5
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series	5
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests	4
Anthropogenic termite mound erosion: Spatio-temporal distribution, biophysical characteristics and farmers’ perceptions in SW Uganda	4
Effects of phylogeny, traits, and seasonality on invertebrate herbivory damage in a meadow community	4
Mesohabitat structure may be as important as stream riparian habitats in driving the variation in functional diversity of Neotropical stream fish	4
Afforestation with tropical N-fixing species in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: carbon and nitrogen in the soil profile	4
Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects	4
Editorial Board	4

The coexistence of two related fig wasp species sharing the same host fig species across a broad geographical area	4
How is the community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi composed and ordered in phytophysiognomies in the transition between cerrado (savanna) and amazon biomes?	4
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	4
What do we know about seed dispersal by Carnivorans in Brazil?	4
Scale and representation of landscapes in mammal studies in Brazil	4
Demography of the dominant perennial grass species of a humid African savanna	4
Plant richness and vegetation structure drive the topology of plant-herbivore networks in Neotropical savannas	3
Editorial Board	3
Widespread butterflies follow inconsistent trends in the Bergmann's rule and flight morphometry: Implications for conservation in the Western Himalaya	3
Editorial Board	3
Species-area relationship and richness persistence as a proxy of environmental carrying capacity: A case study in a neotropical show cave	3
Specialist fig-consuming lepidopterans can inflict costs to plant reproductive success that are mitigated by ant bodyguards	3
Impact of the local environmental factors associated to plant-fungi communities on the conservation of Liparis loeselii (L.) Rich. In the French Rhône-Alpes region	3
Experimental drought suppresses grass productivity and passive warming promotes tree sapling performance: Insights from African savanna species	3
Invasion in the riparian zone: What is the effect of Pteridium arachnoideum on topsoil permeability?	3
The resilience of heathland ecosystems: A working hypothesis	3
Floral nectar and insect flower handling time change over the flowering season: Results from an exploratory study	3
Effects of simulated nitrogen deposition on the decomposition of leaf litter and release of nutrients in a cold temperate coniferous forest in the Jiaozi Snow Mountains National Nature Reserve in sout	3
Seasonal variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in three Asteraceae species in a temperate secondary forest	3
Corrigendum to “How to be a fig nematode” [Acta Oecol. 119 (2023) 103916]	3
Seed attachment by epizoochory depends on animal fur, body height, and plant phenology	3
Herbaceous vegetation under planted woody species on coal mine spoil acts as a source of organic matter	3
Role of biomass allocation strategy in enhancing the invasiveness of Croftonweed (Ageratina adenophora) across diverse habitats of Kumaun Himalaya	3
The effects of river regulation on diet diversity, dietary niche overlap and foraging habitat preferences of two sympatric plover species	3
Do the natural dynamics of West Carpathian forests affect the diversity of epiphytic lichens on Norway spruce?	3
Expansion of avocado monoculture threatens the overwintering habitat of monarch butterflies in central Mexico	3
Unraveling niche complementarity and mass ratio hypotheses along Amazon forest succession: Functional composition a key factor for restoration	3
Isolation and self-regulation processes in simulated postfire microsites promote plant species diversity	3
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network	3
Habitat selection as a reduction in habitat variance	2
Abiotic factors similarly shape the distribution of fruit, seed and leaf traits in tropical fleshy-fruited tree communities	2
Prevalence of stochastic processes in the fire-mediated reassemblage of the soil arthropod community of a pine forest	2
Natural factors or human disturbance: What shapes the occurrence of black grouse Lyrurus tetrix on the edge of its continuous range?	2
The effect of desert annual plant decomposition on soil microbial community	2
Spillover of avian seed dispersers between secondary forests and degraded areas in a tropical island	2
Temporal changes in spatial scale and autocorrelation structure of forest openings based on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional turnover	2
Keystone species in an urban environment: Do raptors control the Mexican gray squirrel in Mexico City?	2
Validating ranges, georeferenced records, and species distribution models, for vertebrate and plant species globally	2
Editorial Board	2
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Heavy metal pollution is more conducive to the independent invasion of Solidago canadensis L. than the co-invasion of two Asteraceae invasive plants	2
Selected microhabitat and surface temperatures of two sympatric lizard species	2
Knock-down resistance to heat stress of Atta cephalotes in urban environments	2
Effects of anthropogenic edges on pollination by insects	2
Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrients across different shifting cultivation fallows in Montane Subtropical Forest of Mizoram, NE India	2
No need for niches in new ecology	2
Soil heterogeneity and species composition jointly affect individual variation of three forage grasses	2
Climate and soil nutrients generate distinct diversity patterns across four elevational gradients within the same region	2
Anuran assemblages in western Philippines: Unraveling the effects of habitat types, water availability, and elevation	2
Editorial Board	2
Invertebrate herbivore damage of lowland plant species decreases after an experimental shift to higher altitudes	2
The role of arthropods in early colonization near melting glaciers: Contradictions between ecological assumptions and recent study results	2
The estimation of light transmittance through grassland canopy: Searching for a suitable indirect indicator	2
Scorpions in urbanized landscapes: influence of habitat type and landscape on body condition, diversity and functional traits in a Neotropical submontane forest	2
Environmental factors controlling structure, litter productivity, and phenology of mangroves in arid region of the Gulf of California	2
Response of soil microbes to Carex meyeriana meadow degeneration caused by overgrazing in inner Mongolia	2
Influence of abiotic variables on the diversity and co-occurrence of fish assemblages in streams of the paranapanema basin, Brazil	2