OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 37. 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
COVID‐19 crisis demonstrates the urgent need for urban greenspaces	157
Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane	153
Wildfires and global change	149
Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible	99
Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?	87
Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks	87
Functional eradication as a framework for invasive species control	84
The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation	84
Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change	80
Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals	79
The role of species charisma in biological invasions	78
Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked	77
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework	75
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming	74
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales	71
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application	66
Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change	55
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters	55
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes	55
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species	51
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning	50
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges	48
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept	47
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades	46
Salvage logging effects on regulating ecosystem services and fuel loads	45

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires	45
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people	44
Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate‐change hazards	43
Validating climate‐change refugia: empirical bottom‐up approaches to support management actions	43
Urban evolution of invasive species	42
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding	41
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene	40
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions	39
Oases of the future? Springs as potential hydrologic refugia in drying climates	39
Managing climate refugia for freshwater fishes under an expanding human footprint	38
Diverse perspectives of cat owners indicate barriers to and opportunities for managing cat predation of wildlife	37
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions	37