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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lantana camara and Ageratina adenophora invasion alter the understory species composition and diversity of chir pine forest in central Himalaya, India	31
What do you mean by “niche”? Modern ecological theories are not coherent on rhetoric about the niche concept	29
Multi-year monitoring land surface phenology in relation to climatic variables using MODIS-NDVI time-series in Mediterranean forest, Northeast Tunisia	20
Urban areas are favouring the spread of an alien mud-dauber wasp into climatically non-optimal latitudes	18
Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium	12
Quantifying responses of dung beetle assemblages to cattle grazing removal over a short-term in introduced Brazilian pastures	12
Epigeic fauna (with emphasis on ant community) response to land-use change for sugarcane expansion in Brazil	11
Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight	11
The role of arthropods in early colonization near melting glaciers: Contradictions between ecological assumptions and recent study results	10
Phylogenetic α- and β-diversity elevational gradients reveal consistent patterns of temperate forest community structure	10
Comparing germination metrics of Opuntia ficus-indica and O. robusta between two sets of bird species (Pied Crows and two smaller species)	10
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	9
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	9
Hummingbird-plant interactions along an altitudinal gradient in northwestern Mexico	9
Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in response to land use/cover changes	9
No apparent effect of invasive alien goldenrod on soil microbial communities or soil fauna feeding activity	8
Rare Pteridophytes are disproportionately frequent in the tropical forest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China	8
Seed fates of four rainforest tree species in the fragmented forests of Anamalais in the southern Western Ghats, India	8
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network	8
Nitrogen deposition is positively correlated to foliar nitrogen content in Vaccinium myrtillus and other understory species in temperate forests on acidic soil	8
Some like it hot: Drought-induced forest die-off influences reptile assemblages	7
Isolation and self-regulation processes in simulated postfire microsites promote plant species diversity	7
Does N deposition mitigate the adverse impacts of drought stress on plant seed germination and seedling growth?	7
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	7
Fine woody debris as a biogen reservoir in forest ecosystems	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
Everyone makes mistakes: Sampling errors in vegetation analysis - The effect of different sampling methods, abundance estimates, experimental manipulations, and data transformation	7
Impact of 25 years of grazing on the forest structure of Pinus cembroides in northeast Mexico	7
Feeding plasticity and temporal behaviour of the alien American mink in Europe	7
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	7
Biological soil crusts from the Monte desert affect soil moisture and nutrients, and improve Leptochloa crinita grass development	7
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	7
A review of seed ecology of poisonous plants in the world's grasslands	7
Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls	7
Extension of the EICA hypothesis for invasive Chromolaena odorata	6
Impacts of traditional practices on biodiversity and structural characteristics of sacred groves in northern Togo, West Africa	6
From the euclidean distance to compositional dissimilarity: What is gained and what is lost	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
Relationships between tree height and tree species richness at small scales	6
Ecological relevance of high and low nucleic acid content bacteria in a monsoon influenced tropical estuary: Implications on the β-Glucosidase activity	6
Ficus-frugivore interactions, especially in areas of land-use change, in Africa: A systematic review	6
Comparison of grassland plant-pollinator networks on dairy farms in three contrasting French landscapes	5
Drivers of songbird territory density in the boundaries of a lowland arable farm	5
Variations in the coverage of biological soil crusts along an aridity gradient in the central-west Argentina	5
Novel diplochory: Native bats and non-native rats disperse seeds of an island tree	5
Atlantic Forest birds are more functionally and taxonomically diverse in valley bottoms relative to uplands	5
Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrients across different shifting cultivation fallows in Montane Subtropical Forest of Mizoram, NE India	5
Ecological differentiation of Carex species coexisting in a wet meadow: Comparison of pot and field experiments	5
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	5
Climate change forecasts suggest that the conservation area network in the Cerrado-Amazon transition zone needs to be expanded	5
Alien pests and their influence on native biota in leaf litter of non-native trees	5
Environmental factors controlling structure, litter productivity, and phenology of mangroves in arid region of the Gulf of California	5
Outcomes of a native bamboo on biomass and carbon stocks of a neotropical biodiversity hotspot	5
Correlations between leaf economics, hydraulic, and shade-tolerance traits among co-occurring individual trees	5
Leafing intensity decreases with increasing water table depth and plant height in Populus euphratica, a desert riparian species	5
The stress gradient hypothesis explains plant-plant interaction networks in edapho climatic gradients	5
Response of soil microbes to Carex meyeriana meadow degeneration caused by overgrazing in inner Mongolia	5
Criteria to select vegetal species for restoration of plant-pollinator interactions in agricultural landscapes of the Pampa grassland (Argentina)	5
Effects of livestock on nitrogen and carbon cycling in a savanna in Burkina Faso	4
Predator-prey traits and foraging habitat shape the diet of a common insectivorous bat	4
Evaluating the relative importance of habitat filtering and niche differentiation in shaping the food web of dung-inhabiting predators	4
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought	4
Entomogamy in wildflowers: What level of pollinator biodiversity is required?	4
Genetic reconstruction of potential invasion pathways of Ligustrum lucidum into Argentina	4
Age-related changes in root traits are linked to internal nitrogen cycling in the perennial forb Physaria (Brassicaceae)	4
Functional diversity and species diversity in flooded and unflooded tropical forests	4
Effect of enriched CO2 atmosphere on morphological and chemical characteristics of Alternanthera philoxeroides	4
Dynamics of leaf litter decomposition in the timberline zone of western Himalaya	4
Plant functional traits along an old-field succession in the high tropical andes	4
Taxonomic and morphological diversity of the ground-dwelling ant fauna in Eastern Amazonian grasslands	4
Factors influencing seed predation in rainforest tree communities of subtropical Australia: Fragmentation, seed size and shifts in vertebrate assemblages	4
Spatial variability in foliar carbon and nitrogen isotope values on Tenerife reflects both climate and soils: Establishing a framework for future work	4
Effects of fragmentation per se on slug movement	4
Dynamics of plant ecology and soil conservation: Implications for cut-slope protection	4

Vulture numbers and densities in a large protected savannah in West Africa	4
An alternative, portable method for extracting microarthropods from forest soil	4
Litter decomposition above the treeline in alpine regions: A mini review	4
Correlation between body size and longevity: New analysis and data covering six taxonomic classes of vertebrates	4