OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology is 5. 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
Soil aggregation, ecosystem engineers and the C cycle	55
Bee hotels host a high abundance of exotic bees in an urban context	35
Land cover composition, local plant community composition and honeybee colony density affect wild bee species assemblages in a Mediterranean biodiversity hot-spot	27
Lantana camara and Ageratina adenophora invasion alter the understory species composition and diversity of chir pine forest in central Himalaya, India	22
What do you mean by “niche”? Modern ecological theories are not coherent on rhetoric about the niche concept	21
How biased is our perception of plant-pollinator networks? A comparison of visit- and pollen-based representations of the same networks	20
Herbaceous seeds dominates the soil seed bank after long-term prescribed fire, grazing and selective tree cutting in savanna-woodlands of West Africa	18
The apiary influence range: A new paradigm for managing the cohabitation of honey bees and wild bee communities	17
Urban areas are favouring the spread of an alien mud-dauber wasp into climatically non-optimal latitudes	16
Functional traits vary among fleshy-fruited invasive plant species and their potential avian dispersers	16
Multi-year monitoring land surface phenology in relation to climatic variables using MODIS-NDVI time-series in Mediterranean forest, Northeast Tunisia	15
The impact of pollen quality on the sensitivity of bumblebees to pesticides	15
Foraging efficiency of white stork Ciconia ciconia significantly increases in pastures containing cows	14
Contrasting effects of herbivore damage type on extrafloral nectar production and ant attendance	12
Nematode metabolic footprints, ecological and functional indices in tropical maize-beans agro-ecosystems under different farming practices	11
Sudanian versus Zambezian woodlands of Africa: Composition, ecology, biogeography and use	10
Fruiting phenology and consumption of zoochoric fruits by wild vertebrates in a seasonally dry tropical forest in the Brazilian Caatinga	10
Comparing germination metrics of Opuntia ficus-indica and O. robusta between two sets of bird species (Pied Crows and two smaller species)	10
Different responses of dung beetle diversity and feeding guilds from natural and disturbed habitats across a subtropical elevational gradient	10
Differential ontogenetic effects of gut passage through fish on seed germination	9
Similitudes and differences between two closely related Ficus species in the synthesis by the ostiole of odors attracting their host-specific pollinators: A transcriptomic based investigation	9
Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight	9
Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium	9
Plant-pollinator interactions on green roofs are mediated by substrate characteristics and plant community composition	9
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	8

Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in response to land use/cover changes	8
Bat-fruit networks structure resist habitat modification but species roles change in the most transformed habitats	8
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	8
Orchid-pollinator network in Euro-Mediterranean region: What we know, what we think we know, and what remains to be done	8
Epigeic fauna (with emphasis on ant community) response to land-use change for sugarcane expansion in Brazil	8
Quantifying responses of dung beetle assemblages to cattle grazing removal over a short-term in introduced Brazilian pastures	8
Troubles in pear pollination: Effects of collection and storage method on pollen viability and fruit production	8
Some like it hot: Drought-induced forest die-off influences reptile assemblages	7
Cave lithology effect on subterranean biodiversity: A case study in quartzite and granitoid caves	7
Are native nectar robbers against the alien? Effects of floral larceny on the reproductive success of the invasive yellow bells (Tecoma stans, Bignoniaceae)	7
Phylogenetic α- and β-diversity elevational gradients reveal consistent patterns of temperate forest community structure	7
Assessing the role of a mammalian frugivorous species on seed germination potential depends on study design: A case study using wild samango monkeys	7
Disentangling the determinants of litter decomposition among invaded and uninvaded habitats: A field experiment from the Kashmir Himalaya	7
Assessing the fire resilience of the savanna tree component through a functional approach	7
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network	7
2D or not 2D? Three-dimensional home range analysis better represents space use by an arboreal mammal	7
Variable soil pH can drive changes in slope aspect preference of plants in alpine desert of the Central Great Caucasus (Kazbegi district, Georgia)	7
Nitrogen deposition is positively correlated to foliar nitrogen content in Vaccinium myrtillus and other understory species in temperate forests on acidic soil	7
Hummingbird-plant interactions along an altitudinal gradient in northwestern Mexico	7
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	7
Frugivores vary in their response to neighborhood effects in a novel ecosystem	7
From the euclidean distance to compositional dissimilarity: What is gained and what is lost	6
Does N deposition mitigate the adverse impacts of drought stress on plant seed germination and seedling growth?	6
Resource partitioning among a pollinator guild: A case study of monospecific flower crops under high honeybee pressure	6
Impact of 25 years of grazing on the forest structure of Pinus cembroides in northeast Mexico	6
Effects of locality and stone surface structure on the distribution of Collembola inhabiting a novel habitat – the stone-ice border on an alpine glacier	6
Differences in mutualistic or predatory interactions between tree and rodent species as revealed by using a double-duplex passive integrated transponder tagging technique	6
A review of seed ecology of poisonous plants in the world's grasslands	6
Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls	6
Feeding plasticity and temporal behaviour of the alien American mink in Europe	6
Height-diameter allometric relationships for seedlings and trees across China	6
Rare Pteridophytes are disproportionately frequent in the tropical forest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China	6
The importance of the standardizing sampling methodology to detect altitudinal gradients in mountains: A study case for the resident bird community in a hotspot (Atlantic forest) and the Middle Domain	6
No apparent effect of invasive alien goldenrod on soil microbial communities or soil fauna feeding activity	6
Seed fates of four rainforest tree species in the fragmented forests of Anamalais in the southern Western Ghats, India	5
Variations in the coverage of biological soil crusts along an aridity gradient in the central-west Argentina	5
Alien pests and their influence on native biota in leaf litter of non-native trees	5
The impact of a catastrophic flood on species and size composition of the diet of fish-eating birds	5
Extension of the EICA hypothesis for invasive Chromolaena odorata	5
Isolation and self-regulation processes in simulated postfire microsites promote plant species diversity	5
Seasonally dry tropical forests of the Gulf of Mexico: A degraded landscape undergoing homogenization or a promising, resilient reservoir?	5
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	5
Relationships between tree height and tree species richness at small scales	5
Sources of floral scent variation in the food-deceptive orchid Orchis mascula	5
Evaluating whether MPA management measures meet ecological principles for effective biodiversity protection	5
Disentangling the architecture of the frugivorous bird-plant interaction networks in a savanna-forest mosaic in the Neotropical savanna	5
Everyone makes mistakes: Sampling errors in vegetation analysis - The effect of different sampling methods, abundance estimates, experimental manipulations, and data transformation	5
Fine woody debris as a biogen reservoir in forest ecosystems	5
Impacts of traditional practices on biodiversity and structural characteristics of sacred groves in northern Togo, West Africa	5
The contribution of small shrubby patches to the functional diversity of wood-pastures	5

Novel diplochory: Native bats and non-native rats disperse seeds of an island tree	5
Ecological relevance of high and low nucleic acid content bacteria in a monsoon influenced tropical estuary: Implications on the β-Glucosidase activity	5
The role of arthropods in early colonization near melting glaciers: Contradictions between ecological assumptions and recent study results	5
Male-biased adult sex ratio in non-breeding areas of an extreme long-distance migratory shorebird population	5
Comparison of grassland plant-pollinator networks on dairy farms in three contrasting French landscapes	5
Fruit bat diversity patterns for assessing restoration success in reforestation areas in the Philippines	5