OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Diversity and Distributions is 30. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions	148
Assessing the reliability of species distribution projections in climate change research	143
Trends in the detection of aquatic non‐indigenous species across global marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems: A 50‐year perspective	135
Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook	91
Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes	91
High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity	83
Predictor complexity and feature selection affect Maxent model transferability: Evidence from global freshwater invasive species	71
High stream flows dilute environmental DNA (eDNA) concentrations and reduce detectability	64
GAPeDNA: Assessing and mapping global species gaps in genetic databases for eDNA metabarcoding	63
Target‐group backgrounds prove effective at correcting sampling bias in Maxent models	62
A blueprint for securing Brazil's marine biodiversity and supporting the achievement of global conservation goals	59
Large‐scale eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals marine biogeographic break and transitions over tropical north‐western Australia	56
Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions	53
Lineage‐level distribution models lead to more realistic climate change predictions for a threatened crayfish	48
Invasion success and impacts depend on different characteristics in non‐native plants	46
The elevational ascent and spread of exotic annual grass dominance in the Great Basin, USA	44
Faunal responses to fire in Australian tropical savannas: Insights from field experiments and their lessons for conservation management	40
Can habitat suitability estimated from MaxEnt predict colonizations and extinctions?	40
Arthropod abundance modulates bird community responses to urbanization	38
Responding to the biodiversity impacts of a megafire: A case study from south‐eastern Australia’s Black Summer	38
Local contributions to beta diversity in urban pond networks: Implications for biodiversity conservation and management	36
Identifying fine‐scale habitat preferences of threatened butterflies using airborne laser scanning	35
Integrating citizen‐science and planned‐survey data improves species distribution estimates	35
Vegetation structure derived from airborne laser scanning to assess species distribution and habitat suitability: The way forward	34
Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany	33

When bigger isn’t better—Implications of large high‐severity wildfire patches for avian diversity and community composition	33
Niche shift of tephritid species after the Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) invasion in La Réunion	32
Habitat alteration facilitates the dominance of invasive species through disrupting niche partitioning in floodplain wetlands	32
Modelling species distributions and environmental suitability highlights risk of plant invasions in western United States	31
Evidence that post‐fire recovery of small mammals occurs primarily via in situ survival	31
Economic costs of invasive bivalves in freshwater ecosystems	30
Balancing transferability and complexity of species distribution models for rare species conservation	30