OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Insect Conservation 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
More eyes on the prize: an observation of a very rare, threatened species of Philippine Bumble bee, Bombus irisanensis, on iNaturalist and the importance of citizen science in conservation biology	37
Effects of diet and temperature on monarch butterfly wing morphology and flight ability	23
‘First Known Photographs of Living Specimens’: the power of iNaturalist for recording rare tropical butterflies	21
Dung beetles: functional identity, not functional diversity, accounts for ecological process disruption caused by the use of veterinary medical products	19
Low impact of two LED colors on nocturnal insect abundance and bat activity in a peri-urban environment	19
Grassland restorations improve pollinator communities: a meta-analysis	18
Sown mini-meadows increase pollinator diversity in gardens	17
Land use changes disrupt streams and affect the functional feeding groups of aquatic insects in the Amazon	15
Long-term effects of abandonment and restoration of Mediterranean meadows on butterfly-plant interactions	15
The impact of reduced tillage and distance to field margin on predator functional diversity	14
Conservation of a strongly declining butterfly species depends on traditionally managed grasslands	13
Edge effects on insects depend on life history traits: a global meta-analysis	13
White LED light intensity, but not colour temperature, interferes with mate‐finding by glow‐worm (Lampyris noctiluca L.) males	13
Tolerant semiaquatic bugs species (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) are associated to pasture and conventional logging in the Eastern Amazon	12
Can cattle grazing benefit grassland butterflies?	11
Quantifying the entrapment effect of anthropogenic beach litter on sand‐dwelling beetles according to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive	11
“Farming with Alternative Pollinators” approach increases pollinator abundance and diversity in faba bean fields	10
The effects of cattle ranching on the communities of necrophagous flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae and Sarcophagidae) in Northeastern Brazil	10
Rainfall seasonality drives the spatiotemporal patterns of dung beetles in Amazonian forests in the arc of deforestation	10
Canopy arthropod diversity associated with Quercus laurina: importance of an oak species diversity gradient on abundance, species richness and guild composition	9
Lost and found: 160 years of Lepidoptera observations in Wuppertal (Germany)	9
For the love of insects: gardening grows positive emotions (biophilia) towards invertebrates	9
Population dynamics of an alpine grasshopper (Orthoptera) community over 30 years and the effects of climate warming and grazing	9
Sublethal doses of glyphosate impair olfactory memory retention, but not learning in the honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)	9
Between perfect habitat and ecological trap: even wildflower strips mulched annually increase pollinating insect numbers in intensively used agricultural landscapes	8

The role of adult noctuid moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and their food plants in a nocturnal pollen-transport network on a Mediterranean island	8
Mobility, habitat selection and population connectivity of the butterfly Lycaena helle in central Sweden	8
Understanding the effects of human disturbance on scorpion diversity in Brazilian tropical forests	8
Is grazing always the answer to grassland management for arthropod biodiversity? Lessons from a gravel pit restoration project	8
Drastic loss of insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in urban landscapes in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	8
Calculating population reductions of invertebrate species for IUCN Red List assessments	8
Threatened endemic water beetles from Morocco	8
Gene-flow within a butterfly metapopulation: the marsh fritillary Euphydryas aurinia in western Bohemia (Czech Republic)	8
Macrohabitat associations and phenology of carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae, Leiodidae: Cholevinae)	8
Clover in agriculture: combined benefits for bees, environment, and farmer	8
Effects of mining and reduced turnover of Ephemeroptera (Insecta) in streams of the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	7
Vegetation composition and structure determine wild bee communities in a tropical dry forest	7
Abandonment of cultural landscapes: butterfly communities track the advance of forest over grasslands	7
An assessment of the invasive alien tree, Robinia pseudoacacia canopy traits and its effect on grassland microclimates and subsequent arthropod assemblages	7
Does climate change influence the current and future projected distribution of an endangered species? The case of the southernmost bumblebee in the world	7
How to prioritize areas for new ant surveys? Integrating historical data on species occurrence records and habitat loss	7
An overview of Neotropical arthropod conservation efforts using risk assessment lists	7
Forest-pasture shifting alters the assemblages of seed-removing ants in southwestern Brazilian Amazon	7
Nestedness-patterns of Odonata assemblages in artificial and natural aquatic habitats reveal the potential role of drinking troughs for aquatic insect conservation	7
Vegetation composition and structure are important predictors of oviposition site selection in an alpine butterfly, the Mountain Ringlet Erebia epiphron	7
Farmland biodiversity: wildflower-sown islands within arable fields and grassy field margins both promote spider diversity	6
Residential sites increase species loss and cause high temporal changes in functional diversity of dung beetles in an urbanized Brazilian Cerrado landscape	6
Sheep herding in small grasslands promotes dung beetle diversity in a mountain forest landscape	6
What do monarchs feed on in winter? Nectar sources at hibernation sites	6
Comparing three collection methods for pollinating insects within electric transmission rights-of-ways	6
Flower plantings promote insect pollinator abundance and wild bee richness in Canadian agricultural landscapes	6
Current and future distributions of a native Andean bumble bee	6
Changes in phenology and abundance of an at-risk butterfly	6
Impacts of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina on native wasp species: a first effort to understand population-level effects in an invaded area of Europe	6
Bee species decrease and increase between the 1990s and 2018 in large urban protected sites	6
Sown wildflower strips offer promising long term results for butterfly conservation	6
Relationship between moth (night active Lepidoptera) diversity and vegetation characteristics in southern Sweden	6
The genus Cyclocephala Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) in Brazil: diversity and spatio-temporal distribution	6
Agricultural land use affects the heterogeneity of Odonata communities in the Brazilian Pampa	6
Do surveys of adult dragonflies and damselflies yield repeatable data? Variation in monthly counts of abundance and species richness	5
Moth species richness and diversity decline in a 30-year time series in Norway, irrespective of species’ latitudinal range extent and habitat	5
Increased arthropod biomass, abundance and species richness in an agricultural landscape after 32 years	5
Impact of “non-lethal” tarsal clipping on bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) may depend on queen stage and worker size	5
Population biology, natural history and conservation of two endangered high elevation Neotropical butterflies	5
Video surveillance reveals a community of largely nocturnal Danaus plexippus (L.) egg predators	5
Two common bee-sampling methods reflect different assemblages of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) community in mixed-grass prairie systems and are dependent on surrounding floral resource availability	5
Synergistic effects of climate and human-induced landscape changes on the spatial distribution of an endangered dung beetle	5
Positive shifts in species richness and abundance of moths over five decades coincide with community-wide phenotypic trait homogenisation	5
Seasonal variation of ground and arboreal ants in forest fragments in the highly-threatened Cerrado-Amazon transition	5
Defining the baseline for river restoration: comparing carabid beetle diversity of natural and human-impacted riparian habitats	5
Ecological monitoring and indicator taxa: butterfly communities in heterogeneous landscapes of the Western Ghats and Malabar coast, India	5
Singing in the suburbs: point count surveys efficiently reveal habitat associations for nocturnal Orthoptera across an urban-to-rural gradient	5
Landscape characteristics predict body sizes in wild bees: implications for pollination services and foraging range	5
Long-term changes of steppe-associated wild bees differ between shell-nesting and ground-nesting species	5
Habitat type and altitude work in tandem to drive the community structure of dung beetles in Afromontane forest	5

Predicting climate effects on aquatic true bugs in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	5
How data curation and new geographical records can change the conservation status of threatened brazilian butterflies	5
Population biology and natural history of the grassland butterfly Euryades corethrus (Papilionidae: Troidini), an endangered species from South American Campos	5
Forecasts of butterfly future richness change in the southwest Mediterranean. The role of sampling effort and non-climatic variables	4
Partial mowing of urban lawns supports higher abundances and diversities of insects	4
Habitat suitability of an at-risk, monolectic, ground-nesting bee Hesperapis oraria and its floral host Balduina angustifolia at two spatial scales along the Northern Gulf of Mexico	4
Power line corridors in conifer plantations as important habitats for butterflies	4
Diversity of mosquitoes from Porto Alegre region, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: ecological and public health perspectives	4
What are the main factors limiting the distribution of Bembix rostrata (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) at early-succession sites?	4
Transfer of invertebrates with hay during restoration operations of extensively managed grasslands in Switzerland	4
Current distribution, microhabitat requirements and vulnerability of the Keeled Plump Bush-cricket (Isophya costata) at the north-western periphery of its range	4
Insect diversity in vineyards, almond orchards, olive orchards, alfalfa fields, and pastures in the San Joaquin Valley of California	4
Population assessment and foraging ecology of nest aggregations of the rare solitary bee, Eucera longicornis at Gatwick Airport, and implications for their management	4
Relict of primeval forests in an intensively farmed landscape: what affects the survival of the hermit beetle (Osmoderma barnabita) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in pollard willows?	4
Extent of Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae, distribution in Southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada	4
Small-scale traditional maize farming fosters greater arthropod diversity value than conventional maize farming	4
Eucorna sanarita (Schaus) (Riodinidae: Riodininae): Distribution, systematic position, and conservation of a threatened brazilian butterfly in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	4
Necrophagous flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae) as indicators of the conservation or anthropization of environments in eastern Amazonia, Brazil	4
Biodiversity and community composition of native bee populations vary among human-dominated land uses within the seasonally dry tropics	4
Insects from the southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot: a barometer of diversity and threat status of nine host-dependent families across three orders	4
Effect of dramatic alteration of landscape structure on the Orthoptera assemblages of Transcarpathian lowland meadows (West Ukraine)	4
Sex-biased recapture rates present challenges to quantifying population sizes and dispersal behavior of the regal fritillary butterfly (Speyeria idalia)	4
Effects of experimental rewilding on butterflies, bumblebees and grasshoppers	4
Proposed Multipurpose Project at Pancheshwar in the Western Himalaya affects rich butterfly diversity: a conservation concern	4
Preserving Colias myrmidone in European cultural landscapes: requirements for the successful development from egg to higher larval stages at a Natura 2000 site in Romania	4
The use of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in adapting hotspot conservation to global, regional, and local scales	4