OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Basic and Applied Ecology is 8. 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
A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests	463
A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation	60
The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning	37
Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring	32
Insect abundance in managed forests benefits from multi-layered vegetation	32
Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas	29
Hand pollination of global crops – A systematic review	28
Arthropod functional traits shaped by landscape-scale field size, local agri-environment schemes and edge effects	24
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	23
So close and yet so different: The importance of considering temporal dynamics to understand habitat selection	23
A new indicator of the effectiveness of urban green infrastructure based on ecosystem services assessment	23
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	23
Bumble bee abundance and richness improves honey bee pollination behaviour in sweet cherry	23
Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites	22
Patterns and drivers of fungal disease communities on Arabica coffee along a management gradient	22
Redundancy in wildflower strip species helps support spatiotemporal variation in wild bee communities on diversified farms	22
Changes amid constancy: Flower and leaf microbiomes along land use gradients and between bioregions	22
Landscape heterogeneity and forest cover shape cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities in a multi-scale perspective	22
Response of bats and nocturnal insects to urban green areas in Europe	22
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses	21
Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	21
Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success	21
Biodiversity and carbon storage are correlated along a land use intensity gradient in a tropical montane forest watershed, Mexico	21
Saved by the pulse? Separating the effects of total and temporal food abundance on the growth and reproduction of bumble bee microcolonies	20
Effects of traffic-regulated street lighting on nocturnal insect abundance and bat activity	20

Livestock grazing constrains bird abundance and species richness: A global meta-analysis	20
Ecological preferences of neotropical cave bats in roost site selection and their implications for conservation	19
Biotic interactions with mycorrhizal systems as extended nutrient acquisition strategies shaping forest soil communities and functions	19
Bee communities in restored prairies are structured by landscape and management, not local floral resources	18
Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities	18
Different contributions of birds and mammals to seed dispersal of a fleshy-fruited tree	17
Forest fragments influence pollination and yield of soybean crops in Chaco landscapes	17
Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South	17
Islands in cities: Urbanization and fragmentation drive taxonomic and functional variation in ground arthropods	17
Effects of three flower field types on bumblebees and their pollen diets	16
Removing understory vegetation in oil palm agroforestry reduces ground-foraging ant abundance but not species richness	16
Population assessment without individual identification using camera-traps: A comparison of four methods	16
Landscapes with high amounts of mass-flowering fruit crops reduce the reproduction of two solitary bees	16
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards	15
Habitat quality and surrounding landscape structures influence wild bee occurrence in perennial wildflower strips	15
Seasonal variation in the diet of the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus): A high-resolution analysis using DNA metabarcoding	15
Effects of perennial wildflower strips and landscape structure on birds in intensively farmed agricultural landscapes	15
Response of honeybee colony size to flower strips in agricultural landscapes depends on areal proportion, spatial distribution and plant composition	15
Landscape and habitat affect frequency of artificial duck nest predation by native species, but not by an alien predator	15
Effects of urbanization–climate interactions on range expansion in the invasive European pavement ant	15
Establishment and management of wildflower areas for insect pollinators in commercial orchards	15
Meta-analysis of tree diversity effects on the abundance, diversity and activity of herbivores' enemies	14
Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity	14
Temperature affects both the Grinnellian and Eltonian dimensions of ecological niches – A tale of two Arctic wolf spiders	14
Long-term data shows increasing dominance of Bombus terrestris with climate warming	14
Can't bear the competition: Energetic losses from kleptoparasitism by a dominant scavenger may alter foraging behaviors of an apex predator	14
Trends in monthly abundance and species richness of carabids over 33 years at the Kaiserstuhl, southwest Germany	13
Local plant richness predicts bee abundance and diversity in a study of urban residential yards	13
Key factors influencing forager distribution across macadamia orchards differ among species of managed bees	13
Functional diversity, functional composition and functional β diversity drive aboveground biomass across different bioclimatic rangelands	13
Native flower strips increase visitation by non-bee insects to avocado flowers and promote yield	13
Species identity and composition effects on community productivity in a subtropical forest	13
Functional-structural plant models to boost understanding of complementarity in light capture and use in mixed-species forests	13
Plant-mediated indirect effects of climate change on an insect herbivore	13
Intra-specific leaf trait responses to species richness at two different local scales	13
Garden pond diversity: Opportunities for urban freshwater conservation	13
Achieving win-win outcomes for biodiversity and yield through diversified farming	12
Distribution of amphibians along an elevation gradient in the Eastern Himalaya, india	12
Urbanization negatively impacts frog diversity at continental, regional, and local scales	12
Plant traits and landscape simplification drive intraspecific trait diversity of Bombus terrestris in wildflower plantings	12
Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest	12
Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change	12
Can novel seed mixes provide a more diverse, abundant, earlier, and longer-lasting floral resource for bees than current mixes?	11
Threats and benefits of invasive alien plant species on pollinators	11
Temporal resource partitioning mediates vertebrate coexistence at carcasses: The role of competitive and facilitative interactions	11
Small wild bee abundance declines with distance into strawberry crops regardless of field margin habitat	11
A conceptual framework and experimental design for analysing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in agroforestry systems	11
Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe	11
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	11
Building food networks from molecular data: Bayesian or fixed-number thresholds for including links	10

Inadequate pollination services limit watermelon yields in northern Tanzania	10
Remote sensing variables improve species distribution models for alpine plant species	10
Grazing and aridity have contrasting effects on the functional and taxonomic diversity of ants	10
Insectivorous birds are not effective pest control agents in olive groves	10
Wild bees and natural enemies prefer similar flower species and respond to similar plant traits	10
How does oak mast seeding affect the feeding behavior of sympatric red and roe deer?	10
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	10
Intercropping drives plant phenotypic plasticity and changes in functional trait space	10
Woody elements benefit bird diversity to a larger extent than semi-natural grasslands in cereal-dominated landscapes	10
Variations in leaf morphological and chemical traits in response to life stages, plant functional types, and habitat types in an old-growth temperate forest	10
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	10
Causes and consequences of lags in basic and applied research into feral wildlife ecology: the case for feral horses	9
An interdisciplinary framework to describe and evaluate the functioning of forest ecosystems	9
Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	9
An agro-environmental mowing regime favors the number of inflorescences and flower-visiting insects but not ground beetles of herbaceous boundaries of arable fields	9
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	9
Taxonomic and functional approaches reveal different responses of ant assemblages to land-use changes	9
Leaf litter age regulates the effect of native and exotic tree species on understory herbaceous vegetation of riparian forests	9
Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines	9
Floral visitors in urban gardens and natural areas: Diversity and interaction networks in a neotropical urban landscape	9
Landscape- and time-dependent benefits of wildflower areas to ground-dwelling arthropods	9
Farmland in U.S. Conservation Reserve Program has unique floral composition that promotes bee summer foraging	9
Plant identity strongly structures the root-associated fungal community in a diverse subtropical forest	9
Mass-flowering red clover crops have positive effects on bumblebee richness and diversity after bloom	9
Long-term post-fire resprouting dynamics and reproduction of woody species in a Brazilian savanna	9
The impact of maize-bean intercropping on insect biodiversity	9
From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	9
Initial floral visitor identity and foraging time strongly influence blueberry reproductive success	8
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	8
An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient	8
Putative roles of bacteria in the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a tropical peat swamp forest	8
Vegetation-based ecosystem service delivery in urban landscapes: A systematic review	8
Top-down pressure by generalist and specialist natural enemies in relation to habitat heterogeneity and resource availability	8
Temporal changes of biodiversity in urban running waters – Results of a twelve-year monitoring study	8
Macroecological patterns of resource use in resident and migratory hummingbirds	8
Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China	8
Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops	8
Contrasting effects of grazing on the early stages of woody encroachment in a Neotropical savanna	8
Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	8
Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities along a gradient of crop management intensity	8
Increased canopy seed-storage in post-fire pine invaders suggests rapid selection mediated by fire	8