OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Community Ecology is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporal integration analysis of environmental behavior and fish abundance in selected coastal systems of the southern Gulf of Mexico	23
Relationships of community diversity with distributions of rare species, non-native plants, and compositional stability in a temperate forest–open habitat landscape	21
May we improve trapping of drosophilid species (Insecta, Diptera)? A review of sampling protocols in Brazilian biomes	17
Plant diversity and water quality of grassland ponds under different agri-environment schemes	13
Ecological status estimation of minimally disturbed rivers of the Western Mediterranean Basin (Türkiye) using diatom indices	11
From tweets to tings: Dissimilarity in recorded species community between social media platforms and implications for resource-limited conservation	10
Importance of dynamics of acquired phototrophy amongst mixoplankton; a unique example of essential nutrient transmission in community ecology	8
Community composition of aboveground ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dripline area of Taxus contorta Griff. in mixed coniferous forests of Northwest Himalaya	8
A review of the factors influencing invertebrate community structure in subterranean habitats	8
Remote sensing supports spatially explicit mapping of arthropod distributions in a heterogeneous mire habitat: A case study of the Apšuciems mire, Latvia	8
Tree richness shapes weevil diversity during early post-mining forest regeneration in Eastern Amazonia	8
Comparison of leaf litter ant fauna in areas under ecological restoration and secondary forest	8
Correction to: Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor	7
Nicholas Mathevon: The voices of nature: how and why animals communicate	7
Structural and functional properties of foundation species (mussels vs. seaweeds) predict functional aspects of the associated communities	7
Temporal patterns of breeding bird assemblages in small urban parks reveal relatively low stability and asynchrony	7
Small mammals in a mountain ecosystem: the effect of topographic, micrometeorological, and biological correlates on their community structure	7
The distribution of invasive alien plant species in peri-urban areas: a case study from the city of Kolkata	6
Mutualistic interactions between plants with extrafloral nectaries and ants: ecological impacts, ant sharing among neighboring plants, and the effects of environmental conditions	5
Dan Chapman: A road running southward: following John Muir’s journey through an endangered land	5
Reconstruction and variability of tropical pollination networks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
Minimum variance clustering of plant community data with non-Euclidean distance measures: Ward’s method and PERMANOVA	5
The zooplankton of tropical streams: is it determinism or stochasticity that drives the spatial and temporal patterns in community structure?	5
Joan Maloof: Nature’s temples: A natural history of old-growth forests	5
Close-to-nature forest management effects on soil nematodes and microbial activity in pine plantations on aeolian sands	5

An eroding standard	5
Mapping co-occurrence dynamics between crops and honeybees under climate change in North America	5
Copepods of a creek and an inter-tidal beach: perspectives from Sagar Island of Ganges estuary, India	5
Paul A. Rees: Key questions in applied ecology and conservation: a study and revision guide	4
The “R-evolution” in ecological research	4
Impact of agricultural land use and monsoon on earthworms and crop production in West Bengal, India	4
How do the sympatric forest mongooses coexist in the Western Ghats landscape? Insights from spatio-temporal approach	4
The relationship between the functional diversity, functional redundancy and community stability in mountain rangelands	4
The increasing stability of large food webs: generation time as a possible explanation	4
Square-grid sampling to address the vegetation patterns of declined Mediterranean forest ecosystems	4
The city in the clouds: vascular epiphytes in Brazil’s highest urban area are highly influenced by the surrounding vegetation	4
“It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place”: a comprehensive overview of marine mammal research provides understanding of their behavioral strategies in the face of environmental c	4
C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read and Charlotte Wheater: Animals Under Logs and Stones	4
From virtuality-to-reality: testing the effects of occurrence-based temporal settings on species distribution modeling prediction	3
Local contribution to the beta diversity of Odonata assemblages in a subtropical alluvial river stretch	3
Bernard J. Le Boeuf: Elephant seals: pushing the limits on land and at sea	3
A community under a pulse perturbation experiment: editorial	3
Temperate hyper-saline ecosystems induce spatial distribution and halo-thermotolerance potential in indigenous cultivable bacterial community	3
Comparison of three modelling frameworks for aquatic ecosystems: practical aspects and applicability	3
Seasonal dynamics of foliar arthropod communities on Prunus Serotina (Ehrh.) in Mexican temperate forests	3
Relationship between macrofauna taxonomic and functional diversity and secondary production in estuaries along a freshwater inflow gradient	3
Twelve-year changes in palm populations from a tropical lowland forest in the Philippines	3
Landscape connection and patch complexity explain plant community similarity in sandy grasslands better than habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity via network analysis	3
Vertical stratification of the soil seed bank in wet grasslands and its implications for restoration	3
Community structure of oak gall wasps along an elevational gradient shaped by habitat heterogeneity	3
The influence of Retama raetam (Fabaceae) and livestock grazing on species composition, yield and soil nutrients in arid environments of south Tunisia	3
Daniel C. Laughlin: Plant Strategies—the demographic consequences of functional traits in changing environments	3
The limited local efficacy of flowering plants in biocontrol programs: The overriding role of landscape composition and configuration	3
Crucial factors determining colonisation patterns of bird species on oceanic islands in the Anthropocene	3
John A. Vucetich: The biology and conservation of animal populations	3
Land use increases macrophytes beta diversity in Amazon streams by favoring amphibious life forms species	2
Edward Struzik: Swampland: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat	2
The challenge of life history traits: a small cladoceran, Ceriodaphnia rigaudi	2
Thinking like a bee	2
Quantifying the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors in landscape-based models of stream fish distributions	2
The nature of microbial diversity and assembly in the Nebraska Sandhills depends on organismal identity and habitat type	2
Angela E. Douglas: Insects and their beneficial microbes	2
David Grimaldi (Ed): The complete insect: anatomy, physiology, evolution, and ecology	2
J. Scott Armstrong and Kesten C. Green: The scientific method: A guide to finding useful knowledge	2
Differential responses of temporal interaction networks between specialist and generalist hummingbirds and native and alien plants in a Mexican cloud forest	2
Zoom into a twilight zone: a biodiversity survey of the Dohrn Canyon (Mediterranean sea) through environmental DNA metabarcoding	2
Chris Thorogood: Field guide to the wild flowers of the Western Mediterranean, second edition	2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance and seasonality on alpha diversity of ant–plant interaction networks in Mexican temperate forests	2
Coral reef development influences the spatial pattern of echinoderms in the Central Mexican Pacific	2
Coral diversity and abundance patterns at the West Coast of Sabah: a case study of Kota Kinabalu coral reefs	2
Effects of post-mining forest restoration and alternative land uses on ground-dwelling arthropods in Ghana	2
Safeguarding Sicily’s biodiversity: challenges in monitoring the global asymmetric warming in drying Mediterranean hotspots	2