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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ecological niche modelling and future scenarios of Cordia oncocalyx - A species of restricted distribution	26
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest	22
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability	16
Fleshy-fruited species increase with elevation for woody lianas but peak in mid-elevations for herbaceous vines in a subtropical forest system	15
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands	13
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	12
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil	12
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	12
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?	11
Discovering threatened freshwater turtles by an innovative floating camera trap system	11
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration	11
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	11
Editorial Board	10
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas	10
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	10
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape	10
The different facets of native bird diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) as predictors of alien birds increasing richness and expanding range in Great Britain	9
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	9
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)	8
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii	8
Editorial Board	8
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	8
Traditional rangeland management can conserve insect pollinators in a semi-arid rangeland, northern Tanzania	7
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	7
Understorey-nesting bird community responses to land use in the Korup National Park, an Afrotropical rainforest in South-Western Cameroon	7

Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil	7
Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees	7
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland	7
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	7
Editorial Board	7
The effect of soil depth on stoichiometry was greater than that of elevation in Abies georgei var. Smithii forest in Southeastern Tibet, China	6
How are arthropod communities structured in a modified wetland under different productive activities?	6
Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest	6
Morphological and physiological adaptation of a desert shrub, Encelia farinosa, under drought stress	6
Thermal-metabolic relationships in hatchling snapping turtles during simulated seasonal cooling	6
Assessing the fire resilience of the savanna tree component through a functional approach	6
Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot	6
Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates	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
The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community	6
Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed, forested landscape of East Texas	6
How many seeds can birds disperse?: Determining the pattern of seed deposition by frugivorous birds	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	5
A matter of scale: Local biotic differentiation and potential regional homogenization of understory plant communities in a highly fragmented tropical landscape	5
Variation of canopy openness of tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka with altitude and azimuth angle	5
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia	5
The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants	5
Influence of soil properties on millipede (Diplopoda) communities in forest stands of various tree species	5
Editorial Board	5
Caves’ environmental stability shaping subterranean biodiversity in the neotropics	5
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	5
A neotropical canid as seed disperser in semiarid areas of Brazil	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
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid	5
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on diaspore removal by ants: A meta-analysis	5
Editorial Board	5
The effects of seasonal changes on the dynamics of a fig tree's pollination	5
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the Patagonian genus Onuris (Brassicaceae: Eudemeae) at different phylogenetic scales	5
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada	5
Plant functional traits along an old-field succession in the high tropical andes	5
Entomogamy in wildflowers: What level of pollinator biodiversity is required?	5
Is endozoochoric seed dispersal by large herbivores an evolutionary adaptation? Revisiting the Janzen's ‘Foliage is the fruit’ hypothesis	5
Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects	4
Competition for resources: What factors lead honey bees to outcompete other insect competitors?	4
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought	4
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series	4
Editorial Board	4
What do we know about seed dispersal by Carnivorans in Brazil?	4
The coexistence of two related fig wasp species sharing the same host fig species across a broad geographical area	4
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	4
Crown complementarity rather than crown selection contributes to stem complementarity in genetic mixtures of Pinus taeda L	4
Editorial Board	4
Anthropogenic termite mound erosion: Spatio-temporal distribution, biophysical characteristics and farmers’ perceptions in SW Uganda	4
How is the community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi composed and ordered in phytophysiognomies in the transition between cerrado (savanna) and amazon biomes?	4

Post-mine succession and short term effects of coal mining in a Guinea savanna ecosystem	4
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes	4
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile	4
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests	4
Novel diplochory: Native bats and non-native rats disperse seeds of an island tree	4
Effects of phylogeny, traits, and seasonality on invertebrate herbivory damage in a meadow community	4
Scale and representation of landscapes in mammal studies in Brazil	4