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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Jonathan B. Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis: National Parks Forever: Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence	15
Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrow associate communities are depauperate in modified landscapes	13
Jeff Ollerton: Pollinators & pollination: nature and society	13
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher: The silken thread: five insects and their impacts on human history	11
J. David Archibald: Charles Darwin	10
Spatiotemporal variation of tintinnid microzooplankton (Ciliophora: tintinnina) from Sarawak inshore water, South China Sea	9
Justin Pepper and Don Parker (eds): A healthy nature handbook: illustrated insights for ecological restoration from volunteer stewards of Chicago wilderness	9
One cave, multiple worlds: cave zonation, habitat selection and conservation of cave-dwelling fauna in a new hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in South America	8
Community composition of aboveground ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dripline area of Taxus contorta Griff. in mixed coniferous forests of Northwest Himalaya	7
Conservation status of birds in habitats along a successional gradient from bare ground to forest	7
Birds’ ecological characteristics differ among habitats: an analysis based on national citizen science data	6
Complementarity between mist-netting and low-cost acoustic recorders to sample bats in Amazonian rainforests and savannahs	6
Ecological status estimation of minimally disturbed rivers of the Western Mediterranean Basin (Türkiye) using diatom indices	6
Comparative analysis of benthic macroinvertebrate-based biotic and diversity indices used to evaluate the water quality of Kozluoluk Stream (West Anatolia of Turkey)	6
Relationships of community diversity with distributions of rare species, non-native plants, and compositional stability in a temperate forest–open habitat landscape	5
Importance of dynamics of acquired phototrophy amongst mixoplankton; a unique example of essential nutrient transmission in community ecology	5
Increased focus on measuring diversity may lead to a crisis in community ecology	5
Habitat characteristics, ecology and biodiversity drivers of plant communities associated with Cousinia edmondsonii, an endemic and critically endangered species in NE Iran	5
Similarity between soil seed bank and standing vegetation and their relationship with soil and topographical characteristics in a riparian zone	5
Effect of host tree traits on the abundance of epiphytic lichens in a tropical Atlantic rainforest	5
Temporal integration analysis of environmental behavior and fish abundance in selected coastal systems of the southern Gulf of Mexico	5
Investigating the trophic ecology of freshwater fish communities from central and eastern Indian streams using stable isotope analysis	4
The role of urban savannah fragments and their characteristics for the conservation of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in central Brazil	4
Slope aspect of a mountainous grassland landscape shapes the structure of an encroaching shrub (Euryops floribundus N.E. Br): insights from communal grazing sites located at varying distances from rur	4
Correction to: Forest cover positively affects the occurrence of understory insectivorous Passeriformes in bird communities of the Atlantic Forest	4

Black Manakin (Xenopipo atronitens) as a keystone species for seed dispersal in a white-sand vegetation enclave in Southwest Amazonia	4
The influence of Retama raetam (Fabaceae) and livestock grazing on species composition, yield and soil nutrients in arid environments of south Tunisia	4
L.S. Kubato, L.L. Knowles (Eds): Species tree inference: a guide to methods and applications	4
Effects of conventional and organic management on plant and insect communities in a traditional elephant garlic crop	4
Twelve-year changes in palm populations from a tropical lowland forest in the Philippines	4
Camera trapping of forest mammals in Bükk Mountain, Hungary	3
Daniel C. Laughlin: Plant Strategies—the demographic consequences of functional traits in changing environments	3
S. Andrew Inkpen and W. Ford Doolittle: Can microbial communities regenerate?	3
May we improve trapping of drosophilid species (Insecta, Diptera)? A review of sampling protocols in Brazilian biomes	3
Robert McCleery, Ara Monadjem, L. Mike Conner, James D. Austin, and Peter J. Taylor: Methods for ecological research on terrestrial small mammals	3
Gina Louise Hunter: Edible insects: a global history	3
Alexandre Antonelli: The hidden universe: adventures in biodiversity	3
Spatial scales drive zooplankton diversity in savanna Cerrado streams	3
An ecopath model for fisheries management in the Mogador marine protected area (Moroccan, Atlantic)	3
Maxwell V. L. Barclay and Patrice Bouchard: Beetles of the world: A natural history	3
Danielle J. Whittaker: The secret perfume of birds: Uncovering the science of avian scent	3
The environmental interpretation of Pinus yunnanensis community differentiation after the invasion of Ageratina adenophora in Panxi region, China	3
Editorial Expression of Concern: Specialization increases in a frugivorous bird–plant network from an isolated montane forest remnant	3
From tweets to tings: Dissimilarity in recorded species community between social media platforms and implications for resource-limited conservation	3
Small mammals in a mountain ecosystem: the effect of topographic, micrometeorological, and biological correlates on their community structure	2
Effects of Hurricane Dean and tropical storm Karl on the coral reef fish assemblage of Banco Chinchorro: temporal changes in rarity, and alpha and beta taxonomic diversity	2
Edaphic fauna and residue decomposition rate under different management of plant species in no-tillage system	2
Comparison of leaf litter ant fauna in areas under ecological restoration and secondary forest	2
Comparison of three modelling frameworks for aquatic ecosystems: practical aspects and applicability	2
Inter-specific competition between seeds and seedlings of two confamilial tropical trees	2
Landscape connection and patch complexity explain plant community similarity in sandy grasslands better than habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity via network analysis	2
Vertical stratification of the soil seed bank in wet grasslands and its implications for restoration	2
Erica Cirino: Thicker than water: the quest for solutions to the plastic crisis	2
Modelling the potential distribution of subalpine birches (Betula spp.) in the Caucasus	2
Bernard J. Le Boeuf: Elephant seals: pushing the limits on land and at sea	2
Spatial pattern in arboreal ant community at Mfou suburban agglomeration around Yaoundé city, Cameroon	2
Evaluating ecosystem health of estuaries: functional guild and multimetric analysis of fish communities in the Mahanadi and Devi estuaries of Odisha, India	2
Improved retrieval of phylogenetic signals from normalized foliar reflectance spectra in Neotropical forest gaps	2
Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King: Audubon at sea: The coastal and transatlantic adventures of John James Audubon	2
Remote sensing supports spatially explicit mapping of arthropod distributions in a heterogeneous mire habitat: A case study of the Apšuciems mire, Latvia	2
Seed dispersal and germination by yak gut passage in an alpine meadow community on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	2
Martin J. Gaywood, John G. Ewen, Peter M. Hollingsworth and Axel Moehrenschlager (eds): Conservation translocations	2
Wood-pasture abandonment changes bird functional diversity and composition with potential drawbacks to pest regulation	2
Tara Ivanochko: Think, do, and communicate environmental science	2
Temporal variation of daily activity on pollinator and frugivorous birds simultaneously interacting with a specialized mistletoe	2
Interactions between Metisa plana, its hyperparasitoids and primary parasitoids from good agriculture practices (GAP) and non-gap oil palm plantations	2
Diversity and composition of anuran communities in transformed landscapes in central Mexico	2
Determinants of bird beta diversity patterns in a landscape with a relict habitat in northern Argentina	2
Effects of shining pondweed (Potamogeton lucens) on fungal communities in water and rhizosphere sediments in Nansi Lake, China	2
Dietary niche overlap in an understudied Mustelidae community in the subboreal forests of western North America: does body size differentiate dietary niche?	2
Temperate hyper-saline ecosystems induce spatial distribution and halo-thermotolerance potential in indigenous cultivable bacterial community	2
A community under a pulse perturbation experiment: editorial	2