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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds’ ecological characteristics differ among habitats: an analysis based on national citizen science data	16
Relationships of community diversity with distributions of rare species, non-native plants, and compositional stability in a temperate forest–open habitat landscape	15
Temporal integration analysis of environmental behavior and fish abundance in selected coastal systems of the southern Gulf of Mexico	13
Importance of dynamics of acquired phototrophy amongst mixoplankton; a unique example of essential nutrient transmission in community ecology	10
Community composition of aboveground ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dripline area of Taxus contorta Griff. in mixed coniferous forests of Northwest Himalaya	9
From tweets to tings: Dissimilarity in recorded species community between social media platforms and implications for resource-limited conservation	9
May we improve trapping of drosophilid species (Insecta, Diptera)? A review of sampling protocols in Brazilian biomes	9
A review of the factors influencing invertebrate community structure in subterranean habitats	8
Small mammals in a mountain ecosystem: the effect of topographic, micrometeorological, and biological correlates on their community structure	7
Plant diversity and water quality of grassland ponds under different agri-environment schemes	7
Remote sensing supports spatially explicit mapping of arthropod distributions in a heterogeneous mire habitat: A case study of the Apšuciems mire, Latvia	7
Ecological status estimation of minimally disturbed rivers of the Western Mediterranean Basin (Türkiye) using diatom indices	7
Editorial Expression of Concern: Specialization increases in a frugivorous bird–plant network from an isolated montane forest remnant	6
Correction to: Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor	5
Temporal patterns of breeding bird assemblages in small urban parks reveal relatively low stability and asynchrony	5
The zooplankton of tropical streams: is it determinism or stochasticity that drives the spatial and temporal patterns in community structure?	5
The distribution of invasive alien plant species in peri-urban areas: a case study from the city of Kolkata	5
Mutualistic interactions between plants with extrafloral nectaries and ants: ecological impacts, ant sharing among neighboring plants, and the effects of environmental conditions	5
Comparison of leaf litter ant fauna in areas under ecological restoration and secondary forest	5
The effect of woody plants on the understory soil parameters is different between grazed and ungrazed areas	5
Structural and functional properties of foundation species (mussels vs. seaweeds) predict functional aspects of the associated communities	5
Predicting the sign of trophic effects: individual-based simulation versus loop analysis	4
Dan Chapman: A road running southward: following John Muir’s journey through an endangered land	4
Fish community diversity assessment of protected Saraiyaman wetland in the Ganga River basin, India	4
Close-to-nature forest management effects on soil nematodes and microbial activity in pine plantations on aeolian sands	4

Square-grid sampling to address the vegetation patterns of declined Mediterranean forest ecosystems	4
Reconstruction and variability of tropical pollination networks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	4
Extracting tea plantations in complex landscapes using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning algorithms	4
Investigating the trophic ecology of freshwater fish communities from central and eastern Indian streams using stable isotope analysis	3
Joan Maloof: Nature’s temples: A natural history of old-growth forests	3
The city in the clouds: vascular epiphytes in Brazil’s highest urban area are highly influenced by the surrounding vegetation	3
“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	3
Twelve-year changes in palm populations from a tropical lowland forest in the Philippines	3
Gina Louise Hunter: Edible insects: a global history	3
Bernard J. Le Boeuf: Elephant seals: pushing the limits on land and at sea	3
Unique habitat and macroinvertebrate assemblage structures in spring-fed stream: a comparison among clastic lowland tributaries and mainstreams in northern Japan	3
How do the sympatric forest mongooses coexist in the Western Ghats landscape? Insights from spatio-temporal approach	3
An eroding standard	3
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher: The silken thread: five insects and their impacts on human history	3
Vertical stratification of the soil seed bank in wet grasslands and its implications for restoration	3
Temperate hyper-saline ecosystems induce spatial distribution and halo-thermotolerance potential in indigenous cultivable bacterial community	3
C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read and Charlotte Wheater: Animals Under Logs and Stones	3
Paul A. Rees: Key questions in applied ecology and conservation: a study and revision guide	3
The relationship between the functional diversity, functional redundancy and community stability in mountain rangelands	3
Comparative analysis of benthic macroinvertebrate-based biotic and diversity indices used to evaluate the water quality of Kozluoluk Stream (West Anatolia of Turkey)	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
A community under a pulse perturbation experiment: editorial	2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance and seasonality on alpha diversity of ant–plant interaction networks in Mexican temperate forests	2
David Shiffman: Why sharks matter: a deep dive with the world's most misunderstood predator	2
Arable plant communities of ultramafic and non-ultramafic soils in Beni Bousera (North Morocco)	2
The challenge of life history traits: a small cladoceran, Ceriodaphnia rigaudi	2
Land use increases macrophytes beta diversity in Amazon streams by favoring amphibious life forms species	2
Comparison of three modelling frameworks for aquatic ecosystems: practical aspects and applicability	2
Edward Struzik: Swampland: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat	2
The effect of shrub community on understory soil seed bank with and without livestock grazing	2
Zoom into a twilight zone: a biodiversity survey of the Dohrn Canyon (Mediterranean sea) through environmental DNA metabarcoding	2
Parasite association in non-volant small mammals in Brazil	2
Effects of post-mining forest restoration and alternative land uses on ground-dwelling arthropods in Ghana	2
Coral diversity and abundance patterns at the West Coast of Sabah: a case study of Kota Kinabalu coral reefs	2
Seed aggregation tips the scale in plant competition	2
The nature of microbial diversity and assembly in the Nebraska Sandhills depends on organismal identity and habitat type	2
Landscape connection and patch complexity explain plant community similarity in sandy grasslands better than habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity via network analysis	2
Interactions between Metisa plana, its hyperparasitoids and primary parasitoids from good agriculture practices (GAP) and non-gap oil palm plantations	2
David Grimaldi (Ed): The complete insect: anatomy, physiology, evolution, and ecology	2
Quantifying the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors in landscape-based models of stream fish distributions	2
Precipitation fluctuations control aboveground net primary productivity in desert grassland	2
J. Scott Armstrong and Kesten C. Green: The scientific method: A guide to finding useful knowledge	2
Coral reef development influences the spatial pattern of echinoderms in the Central Mexican Pacific	2
The bird community in a coastal wetland in East China and its spatial responses to a wind farm	2
Spatial pattern in arboreal ant community at Mfou suburban agglomeration around Yaoundé city, Cameroon	2