OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Western North American Naturalist is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Molecular Taxonomy of Cottus in western North America	11
Cold Tolerance of Mountain Stoneflies (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from the High Rocky Mountains	7
Lower Predation with Increasing Altitude in the Mesquite Lizard Sceloporus grammicus	7
Nearshore Species Biodiversity of a Marine Protected Area Off Santa Catalina Island, California	7
Acarosporaceae of New Mexico: Eight New Species of Acarospora and Sarcogyne	6
Spatiotemporal Patterns of San Joaquin Kit Foxes and an Urban Canid Guild	5
Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) is a Confirmed Host to Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)	5
Differential Responses of Native Fishes in Two Headwater Tributaries of the Gila River Following Severe Wildfires	5
A Review of Home Range Sizes of Four Raptor Species of Regional Conservation Concern	5
Camera Traps Provide Insights into American Pika Site Occupancy, Behavior, Thermal Relations, and Associated Wildlife Diversity	4
Seasonal Activity and Diets of Bats at Uranium Mines and Adjacent Areas near the Grand Canyon	4
Baseline Biodiversity Assessment of South Texas Small Mammals and Host-Associated Hard Ticks with No Detection of Selected Tick-Borne Pathogens	4
Fisher Use of Postfire Landscapes: Implications for Habitat Connectivity and Restoration	3
Jaguars and Roads in the Calakmul Region: Evidence of Road Crossing and Collisions with Vehicles	3
Heterospecific Coprophagy: Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) Feeding on Cougar (Puma concolor) Feces	3
Injuries and Abnormalities of the Southwestern Pond Turtle (Actinemys pallida) in the Mojave River of California	3
An Observation of Spring Mating in Silver-Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans)	3
Integrative Biodiversity Inventories: Characterizing Lichen-Forming Fungal Diversity in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Using DNA Barcoding and Vouchered Specimens	3
Updating the Distribution of American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Texas Using Community Science, State Agencies, and Natural History Collections	3
A Noninvasive Genetic Technique Using Guano for Identification of Corynorhinus townsendii (Townsend's Big-Eared Bat) Maternity Roosts	3
Monitoring the Basking Behavior of Rio Grande Cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) through Game Cameras in Southeastern New Mexico, USA	3
San Bernardino Flying Squirrel Use of Residential Areas: A Citizen Science Approach	2
Monitoring Whitebark Pine Stand Health in the Central Washington Cascades	2
Climate Variation Influences Flowering Time Overlap in a Pair of Hybridizing Montane Plants	2
What North American Bees are Associated with Milkweed (Asclepias) Flowers?	2

Physical Habitat Complexity Partially Offsets the Negative Effect of Brook Trout on Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Peripheral Goose Creek Subbasin	2
Effect of Carpobrotus edulis Invasion History on Plant Communities	2
Acoustic Interaction between a Pair of Owls and a Wolf	2
Predictability of Invasive Argentine Ant Distribution Across Mediterranean Ecoregions of Southern California	2
Historic Methods of Trapping Plains Spotted Skunks: Implications for Modern Survey Methodology	2
Decline of the Northern Long-Eared Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in the Eastern Great Plains After the Arrival of White-Nose Syndrome	2
Livestock Depredation by Jaguars Associated with Dry-Season Core-Use Areas in a Northeastern Mexico Agrolandscape	2
Quantification of Eccentricity in Stems of Two Species of Purshia	2
Trace Elements in Walleye Tissues and Dietary Components from an Impoundment Located Downstream of the Leadville Mining District, Colorado, I: Hg and Se	2
Estimating Abundance of Desert Mule Deer Using Fecal DNA–Based Capture-Recapture	2
The History of Cougars in Yellowstone National Park	2
Use of Highway Infrastructure by Bats: A Literature Review and Survey of the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas	2
First Record and Diet of the Tri-Colored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) from Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Culberson County, Texas	2
Potential Local Extirpation of an Imperiled Freshwater Mussel Population from Wildfire Runoff	2
Active Trumpeter Swan Nest on an Active Muskrat Lodge	2
Asymmetrical Host Switching by two Groups of Obligate Ectosymbionts of Crayfishes	2
Citizen Science in Action: An Updated Distribution for Lampropeltis pyromelana	2
A Review of Psilochalcis Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from the Western United States with Descriptions of Three New Species from Utah and Surrounding States	2
Trace Elements in Walleye Tissues and Dietary Components from an Impoundment Located Downstream of the Leadville Mining District, Colorado, II: Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb	2
Marsupial Visitation to the Inflorescences of the Endemic Agave cupreata in Western Mexico	2
A Simple Method for Restraint of Small Mammals for Sampling Blood or Tissue in the Field	2
Effects of Annual Weather Variation on Peak Herbaceous Yield Date in Sagebrush Steppe	2
Detecting Rainbow Trout Introgression in Bonneville Cutthroat Trout of the Bear River Basin Using Field-Based Phenotypic Characteristics	2
Late Quaternary Voles from Persistence Cave, Black Hills, South Dakota	2
Prevalence and Intensity of Infection of the Parasitic Copepod Salmincola californiensis on Rainbow Trout in Birch Creek, Idaho	2
Threatened American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) Consumed by Northern Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda) and Trap Avoidance by Silphidae	1
Effects of Fire on Kangaroo Rats in the San Joaquin Desert of California	1
Reproductively Viable Population of American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Lowland Chihuahuan Desert Habitat of Trans-Pecos Texas	1
Using Trail Cameras to Document Meso and Large Mammal Use of Native and Nonnative Riparian Forest Types in Southeastern Arizona	1
Biology of Alniphagus aspericollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Alnus tenuifolia in Northern Idaho and Notes on Alniphagus hirsutus	1
Lichens and Allied Fungi of the North Fork Nooksack River Valley Bottom, Whatcom County, Washington: Important Biodiversity in a High-Use Area	1
Personality-Dependent Responses of Elk to Predatory Pursuits	1
Puma (Puma concolor) Sex Influences Diet in Southwest New Mexico	1
Noteworthy Records of Mammals from West-Central Mexico	1
Silver Sagebrush (Artemisia cana) Survival and Regrowth after Fire in the Mixed Grass Prairie	1
Native Fish Loss in a Transition-Zone Stream Following Century-Long Habitat Alterations and Nonnative Species Introductions	1
Are Canned Sardines or Dry Cat Food More Effective as Bait for Capturing Northwestern Pond Turtles (Actinemys marmorata) and Red-Eared Sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans)?	1
Harvester Ants Reduce Seed Survivorship in Slickspot Peppergrass, a Rare Mustard Endemic to Idaho	1
Two New Late Quaternary Avifaunas from the East-Central Great Basin with the Description of a New Species of Falco	1
Weather Effects on Herbaceous Yields: Wyoming Big Sagebrush Steppe, Southeastern Oregon	1
A Molecular and Morphological Guide to the Pilose Crayfishes of Western North America	1
Prescribed Fire and Changes in Annual Precipitation Alter Biocrust Cover in a Coastal Grassland	1
Lesser Long-Nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) Range Expansion into Northern Grant County, New Mexico	1
Using an Ultraviolet Light Test to Improve Sagebrush Identification and Predict Forage Quality for Wildlife	1
Southwestern Bats and Their External Bacteria	1
Scavenging of Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) by Desert Blonde Tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) in Arizona	1
Long-Term Soil Fungal Community Recovery After Fire is Impacted by Climate Change	1
Long-Term Persistence of Desert Rodent Species in a Great Basin Sagebrush Community: Potential Effects of Fire, Invasive Annuals, and Warming Temperatures	1
Time Required for Brown Bears to Capture and Consume Pacific Salmon	1
Effects of Elk and Bison Herbivory on Narrowleaf Cottonwood	1

Relative Influence of Precipitation and Grazing on a Salt Desert Shrub Plant Community	1
Whooping Crane (Grus americana) Family Consumes a Diversity of Aquatic Vertebrates During Fall Migration Stopover at the Platte River, Nebraska	1
Early Succession Following Prescribed Fire in Low Sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula var. Arbuscula) Steppe	1
Providing Context for Advancements in Arctomecon californica Conservation: A Comprehensive Literature Review with Case Studies	1
Distribution of the Native Freshwater Mussels Anodonta nuttalliana and Margaritifera falcata in Utah and Western Wyoming Using Environmental DNA	1
A Holocene Record of Vegetation Change and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks at Lake of the Woods, Montana, USA	1
Comparing Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Different Translocation Release Methods for Desert Bighorn Sheep	1
Floral Constancies of Flies and Native Bees Visiting Ceanothus perplexans (Rhamnaceae) Flowers in Western Arizona	1
Observations of Greater Sage-Grouse at a Solar Energy Facility in Wyoming	1
Landscape Genetics of the Camas Pocket Gopher (Thomomys bulbivorus), an Endemic Mammal of Oregon's Willamette Valley	1
First Shasta Ground Sloth (Nothrotheriops; Xenarthra) from the Eastern Great Basin, Nevada	1
Presence of Neotropical Otter (Lontra longicaudis) at High Elevation between Watersheds	1
Are Shrubs a Necessary Component of the Habitat for Ammospermophilus nelsoni in the San Joaquin Desert?	1
Postfire Breeding Behavior in Couch's Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus couchii) along the San Pedro River, Arizona	1
Monitoring Occupancy of Bats with Acoustic Data: Power and Sample Size Recommendations	1
Scavenging of Animal Carcasses by Gumaga nigricula (Sericostomatidae, Trichoptera), an Apparent Herbivore	1
Age-Dependent Search Behavior in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus)	1
Density and Subsurface Burrowing of a Desert-Dwelling Land Snail, Helminthoglypta greggi, in the Western Mohave Desert	1
Shrinkage of Rio Grande Silvery Minnow after Preservation in Formalin and Storage in Ethanol	1
Ultrasonic Vocalizations of Humboldt's Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys oregonensis)	1
The North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) is Recolonizing the Llano Estacado	1
Grazing Rotation on Restored Rangeland as a New Tool for Medusahead Control	1
Novel Prey and Foraging Behavior of the California Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris munda) Along Two Intermittent Streams	1
Variation in Trophic Niches of Fish in Lake Powell Prior to Full Colonization by Quagga Mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis)	1
Archaeological Data Suggest Seventeenth-Century Presence of Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) in the Middle Rio Grande	1
Female Puma (Puma concolor) Highway Crossings in the Yucatan Peninsula	1
Bats (Chiroptera) of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah and Arizona	1
The First Generation and Annual Cytogenetic Diversity of the Simulium arcticum Malloch Complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) at the Little Blackfoot River, Montana	1
Observations of Atypical Habitat Use by Foothill Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana boylii) in the Coast Range of California	1
Flowering by Dioecious Rhamnus ilicifolia (Rhamnaceae) and Pollen Transport to Female Flowers by Flies and Bees	1
First Documentation of Least Chub in the Snake River Drainage in Idaho	1
Distribution, Density, and Land Cover Associations of Wintering Golden Eagles in the Southern Great Plains	1