OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is 4. 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
Wildfires and global change	219
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species	88
Managing for RADical ecosystem change: applying the Resist‐Accept‐Direct (RAD) framework	87
Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales	86
Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming	82
Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application	77
Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people	73
Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters	71
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding	71
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires	69
The “plastic cycle”: a watershed‐scale model of plastic pools and fluxes	68
What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning	65
Integrated pest and pollinator management – expanding the concept	63
Urban evolution of invasive species	63
Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges	61
From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene	59
Trends in ecology and conservation over eight decades	57
Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions	50
Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions	48
The global rise of crustacean fisheries	47
The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands	43
Site fidelity as a maladaptive behavior in the Anthropocene	42
A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands	42
Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity	41
Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems	40

Megafire‐induced interval squeeze threatens vegetation at landscape scales	40
The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe	38
Invaders for sale: the ongoing spread of invasive species by the plant trade industry	38
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable resource use	38
Toward a roadmap for diadromous fish conservation: the Big Five considerations	37
No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes	36
Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities	34
Climate‐change impacts exacerbate conservation threats in island systems: New Zealand as a case study	34
Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change?	32
Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change	31
Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains	31
A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity	30
COVID‐19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future	29
An overview of ecological traps in marine ecosystems	29
Increasing the resilience of ecological restoration to extreme climatic events	29
Over half of threatened species require targeted recovery actions to avert human‐induced extinction	28
Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire‐adapted landscape	28
The American Pond Belt: an untold story of conservation challenges and opportunities	27
Location matters: planting urban trees in the right places improves cooling	26
Toward an improved understanding of causation in the ecological sciences	25
The global fall and rise of oyster reefs	25
Iteratively forecasting biological invasions with PoPS and a little help from our friends	24
Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas	23
Multi‐scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems	23
Throughfall and stemflow are major hydrologic highways for particulate traffic through tree canopies	23
An operational framework for defining and forecasting phytoplankton blooms	22
Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems	22
Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity	22
Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates	21
COVID‐19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature	21
A farming systems approach to linking agricultural policies with biodiversity and ecosystem services	20
The consequences of predators without prey	19
Linking soil health and ecological resilience to achieve agricultural sustainability	19
Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems	18
Invasive Spartina alterniflora marshes in China: a blue carbon sink at the expense of other ecosystem services	17
Trade‐offs between utility‐scale solar development and ungulates on western rangelands	16
Coral conservation requires ecological climate‐change vulnerability assessments	16
Modulation of ecosystem services by animal personalities	16
Anticipating the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on wildlife	16
Cities as sanctuaries	16
Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development	15
The decline of a hidden and expansive microhabitat: the subnivium	15
The human–grass–fire cycle: how people and invasives co‐occur to drive fire regimes	15
Human‐caused mortality triggers pack instability in gray wolves	14
Arresting the spread of invasive species in continental systems	14
Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?	14
Higher incidence of high‐severity fire in and near industrially managed forests	14
Recognition and completeness: two key metrics for judging the utility of citizen science data	14
Policy action needed to unlock eDNA potential	14
Training macrosystems scientists requires both interpersonal and technical skills	14

Reconciling carbon‐cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales	13
Unlocking our understanding of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams with genomic tools	13
Expected demographic and genetic declines not found in most zoo and aquarium populations	13
The evolution of macrosystems biology	13
Adaptive foraging in the Anthropocene: can individual diet specialization compensate for biotic homogenization?	12
Ecosystem‐scale mapping of coral species and thermal tolerance	12
Riparian buffers can help mitigate biodiversity declines in oil palm agriculture	12
Climate change paves the way for a new inter‐ocean fish interchange	12
Wildlife gardening: an urban nexus of social and ecological relationships	12
Counteracting wildfire misinformation	12
Global Swimways for the conservation of migratory freshwater fishes	12
A global synthesis of trends in human experience of nature	12
Grassroots reserves rescue a river food web from cascading impacts of overharvest	11
Transience of public attention in conservation science	11
Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests	11
Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology	11
Impact assessment of coastal marine range shifts to support proactive management	11
Integrating climate‐change refugia into 30 by 30 conservation planning in North America	11
An expanded framework for wildland–urban interfaces and their management	11
What's in a name? The paradox of citizen science and community science	10
Toward cross‐realm management of coastal urban ecosystems	10
Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance	10
Drones address an observational blind spot for biological oceanography	10
Twitter data reveal six distinct environmental personas	10
The cost of war for biodiversity: a potential ecocide in Ukraine	9
Parasites of the past: 90 years of change in parasitism for English sole	9
Wild genes boost the survival of captive‐bred individuals in the wild	9
Managing animal movement conserves predator–prey dynamics	9
Biological invasion threatens keystone species indelibly entwined with Indigenous cultures	9
Responding to the US national pollinator plan: a case study in Michigan	9
An ecology of segregation	9
Responsibility, equity, justice, and inclusion in dynamic human–wildlife interactions	9
Cavity occupancy by wild honey bees: need for evidence of ecological impacts	9
Connecting ecosystem services science and policy in the field	9
Minding the boundary: social–ecological contexts for fence ecology and management	8
TheNEONEcological Forecasting Challenge	8
Plant–frugivore interactions revealed by arboreal camera trapping	8
Olfactory misinformation: creating “fake news” to reduce problem foraging by wildlife	8
Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework	8
Precise knowledge of commodity trade is needed to understand invasion flows	8
Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US	8
Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey	8
Canopy structure from space using GEDI lidar	8
Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum	7
Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions	7
Predator personalities alter ecosystem services	7
The impact of excessive protein consumption on human wastewater nitrogen loading of US waters	7
Disturbance–recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery	7
Tropical cyclone risk to global mangrove ecosystems: potential future regional shifts	7
Textured species range maps enhance interdisciplinary science capacity across scales	6
Aquatic fungi: largely neglected targets for conservation	6
The Fieldwork Wellness Framework: a new approach to field research in ecology	6
Plant selection for pollinator restoration in seminatural ecosystems	6
Antarctic biodiversity predictions through substrate qualities and environmental DNA	6
Mitigating soil greenhouse‐gas emissions from land‐use change in tropical peatlands	6
Plant pirates of the Caribbean: is Cuba sheltered by its revolutionary economy?	5
Environmental impacts of increasing numbers of artificial space objects	5
Tough questions for the “30 × 30” conservation agenda	5
Global knowledge gaps of herptile responses to land transformation	5
The public health implications of gentrification: tick‐borne disease risks for communities of color	5
Marine species introduction via reproduction and its response to ship transit routes	5
Managing multi‐species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact	4
Split personality	4
New forces influencing savanna conservation: increasing land prices driven by gentrification and speculation at the landscape scale	4
Air pollution: a threat to insect pollination	4
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge and why does it matter?	4
Participatory action research generates knowledge for Sustainable Development Goals	4
The Dasgupta Review: resetting the stage for a new paradigm	4
Tree crown economics	4
Historically excluded groups in ecology are undervalued and poorly treated	4
Prioritizing science efforts to inform decision making on public lands	4
Collateral damage: military invasions beget biological invasions	4