OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	39
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest	20
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands	20
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
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability	14
Fleshy-fruited species increase with elevation for woody lianas but peak in mid-elevations for herbaceous vines in a subtropical forest system	13
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil	13
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?	12
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	12
The different facets of native bird diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) as predictors of alien birds increasing richness and expanding range in Great Britain	11
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape	11
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas	11
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration	11
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	10
Editorial Board	10
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	10
Traditional rangeland management can conserve insect pollinators in a semi-arid rangeland, northern Tanzania	9
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii	9
Editorial Board	9
Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil	8
Greenhouse gas emissions from termite mounds in a transition area between the Cerrado Savanna and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil	8
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	8
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)	8
Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees	8
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

Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	8
Vulture numbers and densities in a large protected savannah in West Africa	8
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland	8
Understorey-nesting bird community responses to land use in the Korup National Park, an Afrotropical rainforest in South-Western Cameroon	8
How many seeds can birds disperse?: Determining the pattern of seed deposition by frugivorous birds	7
Editorial Board	7
Thermal-metabolic relationships in hatchling snapping turtles during simulated seasonal cooling	7
Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot	7
A review of seed ecology of poisonous plants in the world's grasslands	7
Assessing the fire resilience of the savanna tree component through a functional approach	7
The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community	7
Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta	7
How are arthropod communities structured in a modified wetland under different productive activities?	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
Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed, forested landscape of East Texas	7
Soil properties and fine root morphological traits in relation to soil particle-size fractions in a broad-leaved beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forest	7
Abiotic controls, but not species richness, shape niche overlap and breadth of ant assemblages along an elevational gradient in central Spain	7
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on diaspore removal by ants: A meta-analysis	6
Editorial Board	6
Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates	6
Morphological and physiological adaptation of a desert shrub, Encelia farinosa, under drought stress	6
Seed dispersal mechanism of Erythronium japonicum in Northeast China	6
Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest	6
What do you mean by “niche”? Modern ecological theories are not coherent on rhetoric about the niche concept	6
Editorial Board	6
Is endozoochoric seed dispersal by large herbivores an evolutionary adaptation? Revisiting the Janzen's ‘Foliage is the fruit’ hypothesis	6
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	5
Ecological relevance of high and low nucleic acid content bacteria in a monsoon influenced tropical estuary: Implications on the β-Glucosidase activity	5
A neotropical canid as seed disperser in semiarid areas of Brazil	5
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia	5
Plant functional traits along an old-field succession in the high tropical andes	5
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series	5
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada	5
Caves’ environmental stability shaping subterranean biodiversity in the neotropics	5
A matter of scale: Local biotic differentiation and potential regional homogenization of understory plant communities in a highly fragmented tropical landscape	5
Disentangling the determinants of litter decomposition among invaded and uninvaded habitats: A field experiment from the Kashmir Himalaya	5
Correlations between leaf economics, hydraulic, and shade-tolerance traits among co-occurring individual trees	5
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid	5
Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls	5
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the Patagonian genus Onuris (Brassicaceae: Eudemeae) at different phylogenetic scales	5
The effects of seasonal changes on the dynamics of a fig tree's pollination	5
Influence of soil properties on millipede (Diplopoda) communities in forest stands of various tree species	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
Editorial Board	5
The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants	5
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile	4
Epigeic fauna (with emphasis on ant community) response to land-use change for sugarcane expansion in Brazil	4
How steady is the nested pattern in saline grassland true bug communities? Effects of sampling effort and data completeness on nestedness	4
Network analysis highlights increased generalisation and evenness of plant-pollinator interactions after conservation measures	4
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	4

Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species	4
Scale and representation of landscapes in mammal studies in Brazil	4
Post-mine succession and short term effects of coal mining in a Guinea savanna ecosystem	4
Entomogamy in wildflowers: What level of pollinator biodiversity is required?	4
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes	4
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought	4
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests	4
Effects of phylogeny, traits, and seasonality on invertebrate herbivory damage in a meadow community	4
Editorial Board	4
Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects	4
Crown complementarity rather than crown selection contributes to stem complementarity in genetic mixtures of Pinus taeda L	4