OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Basic and Applied Ecology is 10. 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
A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation	83
The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning	53
Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring	52
Hand pollination of global crops – A systematic review	39
Insect abundance in managed forests benefits from multi-layered vegetation	37
Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas	33
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	31
Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites	31
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses	31
A new indicator of the effectiveness of urban green infrastructure based on ecosystem services assessment	29
Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	28
Arthropod functional traits shaped by landscape-scale field size, local agri-environment schemes and edge effects	27
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	27
Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success	26
Changes amid constancy: Flower and leaf microbiomes along land use gradients and between bioregions	25
Biotic interactions with mycorrhizal systems as extended nutrient acquisition strategies shaping forest soil communities and functions	25
Landscape heterogeneity and forest cover shape cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities in a multi-scale perspective	24
Bee communities in restored prairies are structured by landscape and management, not local floral resources	23
Response of bats and nocturnal insects to urban green areas in Europe	23
Livestock grazing constrains bird abundance and species richness: A global meta-analysis	23
Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities	22
Forest fragments influence pollination and yield of soybean crops in Chaco landscapes	22
Meta-analysis of tree diversity effects on the abundance, diversity and activity of herbivores' enemies	21
Landscapes with high amounts of mass-flowering fruit crops reduce the reproduction of two solitary bees	21
Threats and benefits of invasive alien plant species on pollinators	21

Achieving win-win outcomes for biodiversity and yield through diversified farming	20
Population assessment without individual identification using camera-traps: A comparison of four methods	20
Can't bear the competition: Energetic losses from kleptoparasitism by a dominant scavenger may alter foraging behaviors of an apex predator	20
Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South	20
Landscape and habitat affect frequency of artificial duck nest predation by native species, but not by an alien predator	20
Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China	19
Intra-specific leaf trait responses to species richness at two different local scales	19
Habitat quality and surrounding landscape structures influence wild bee occurrence in perennial wildflower strips	18
Removing understory vegetation in oil palm agroforestry reduces ground-foraging ant abundance but not species richness	18
Establishment and management of wildflower areas for insect pollinators in commercial orchards	18
Effects of three flower field types on bumblebees and their pollen diets	18
Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe	18
Local plant richness predicts bee abundance and diversity in a study of urban residential yards	17
Long-term data shows increasing dominance of Bombus terrestris with climate warming	17
Temporal resource partitioning mediates vertebrate coexistence at carcasses: The role of competitive and facilitative interactions	17
Urbanization negatively impacts frog diversity at continental, regional, and local scales	16
Temperature affects both the Grinnellian and Eltonian dimensions of ecological niches – A tale of two Arctic wolf spiders	16
Garden pond diversity: Opportunities for urban freshwater conservation	16
Plant-mediated indirect effects of climate change on an insect herbivore	16
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	16
Functional diversity, functional composition and functional β diversity drive aboveground biomass across different bioclimatic rangelands	16
Native flower strips increase visitation by non-bee insects to avocado flowers and promote yield	16
Response of honeybee colony size to flower strips in agricultural landscapes depends on areal proportion, spatial distribution and plant composition	16
Effects of perennial wildflower strips and landscape structure on birds in intensively farmed agricultural landscapes	16
Functional-structural plant models to boost understanding of complementarity in light capture and use in mixed-species forests	15
Can novel seed mixes provide a more diverse, abundant, earlier, and longer-lasting floral resource for bees than current mixes?	15
Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest	15
Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops	15
Habitat heterogeneity promotes bird diversity in agricultural landscapes: Insights from remote sensing data	15
From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	15
A conceptual framework and experimental design for analysing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in agroforestry systems	15
Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity	15
Seasonal variation in the diet of the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus): A high-resolution analysis using DNA metabarcoding	15
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards	15
Trends in monthly abundance and species richness of carabids over 33 years at the Kaiserstuhl, southwest Germany	15
Vegetation-based ecosystem service delivery in urban landscapes: A systematic review	15
Key factors influencing forager distribution across macadamia orchards differ among species of managed bees	15
The impact of maize-bean intercropping on insect biodiversity	14
Remote sensing variables improve species distribution models for alpine plant species	14
Insectivorous birds are not effective pest control agents in olive groves	14
Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	14
Intercropping drives plant phenotypic plasticity and changes in functional trait space	13
Initial floral visitor identity and foraging time strongly influence blueberry reproductive success	13
Plant traits and landscape simplification drive intraspecific trait diversity of Bombus terrestris in wildflower plantings	13
Landscape-scale connectivity and fragment size determine species composition of grassland fragments	13
Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	13
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	13
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles mediate behavioral interactions between a leaf-chewing and a phloem-feeding herbivore	13
Species identity and composition effects on community productivity in a subtropical forest	13
Variations in leaf morphological and chemical traits in response to life stages, plant functional types, and habitat types in an old-growth temperate forest	13

Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines	12
Long-term post-fire resprouting dynamics and reproduction of woody species in a Brazilian savanna	12
Leaf litter age regulates the effect of native and exotic tree species on understory herbaceous vegetation of riparian forests	12
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	12
Taxonomic and functional approaches reveal different responses of ant assemblages to land-use changes	12
Mass-flowering red clover crops have positive effects on bumblebee richness and diversity after bloom	12
Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change	11
Farmland in U.S. Conservation Reserve Program has unique floral composition that promotes bee summer foraging	11
An interdisciplinary framework to describe and evaluate the functioning of forest ecosystems	11
No consistent diversity patterns in terrestrial mammal assemblages along rural-urban forest gradients	11
An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient	11
Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities along a gradient of crop management intensity	11
Single large AND several small habitat patches: A community perspective on their importance for biodiversity	11
Plant identity strongly structures the root-associated fungal community in a diverse subtropical forest	11
Temporal changes of biodiversity in urban running waters – Results of a twelve-year monitoring study	11
Wild bees and natural enemies prefer similar flower species and respond to similar plant traits	11
A review of global trends in the study types used to investigate bee nesting biology	11
Plant productivity is a key driver of soil respiration response to climate change in a nutrient-limited soil.	10
Mulching has negative impact on fungal and plant diversity in Slovak oligotrophic grasslands	10
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	10
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	10
Species ecological strategy and soil phosphorus supply interactively affect plant biomass and phosphorus concentration	10
Extensively managed or abandoned urban green spaces and their habitat potential for butterflies	10
The effects of morphology, phylogeny and prey availability on trophic resource partitioning in an anuran community	10
Asynchrony between solitary bee emergence and flower availability reduces flower visitation rate and may affect offspring size	10
Building food networks from molecular data: Bayesian or fixed-number thresholds for including links	10
Contrasting effects of grazing on the early stages of woody encroachment in a Neotropical savanna	10
Comparison of the pollination efficiency of Apis cerana with wild bees in oil-seed camellia fields	10
Grazing and aridity have contrasting effects on the functional and taxonomic diversity of ants	10