OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mammalian Biology is 5. 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
Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high-accuracy photo-identification matching system for humpback whales	46
Sharp decline in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) survival and reproductive success in southeastern Alaska during and after the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave	32
Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research—Part 1: Methods and concepts	25
Movement, space-use and resource preferences of European golden jackals in human-dominated landscapes: insights from a telemetry study	25
Flukebook: an open-source AI platform for cetacean photo identification	25
Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research—Part 2: Field studies and applications	25
Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals	22
“When the felid’s away, the mesocarnivores play”: seasonal temporal segregation in a neotropical carnivore guild	21
A review of the impacts of invasive wild pigs on native vertebrates	18
Can prey occupancy act as a surrogate for mesopredator occupancy? A case study of ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)	16
Effects of oil palm and human presence on activity patterns of terrestrial mammals in the Colombian Llanos	16
Camera traps reveal overlap and seasonal variation in the diel activity of arboreal and semi-arboreal mammals	16
Winter activity of boreal bats	15
Guest or pest? Spatio-temporal occurrence and effects on soil and vegetation of the wild boar on Elba island	14
Factors affecting the crop damage by wild boar (Sus scrofa) and effects of population control in the Ticino and Lake Maggiore Park (North-western Italy)	14
Predation of invasive raccoon (Procyon lotor) on hibernating bats in the Nietoperek reserve in Poland	13
Artificial intelligence for right whale photo identification: from data science competition to worldwide collaboration	13
Feasibility of using convolutional neural networks for individual-identification of wild Asian elephants	13
Growth trajectories of wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) determined from parallel laser photogrammetry	13
Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you…where you live: an updated review of the worldwide distribution and foraging ecology of the fallow deer (Dama dama)	13
Temporal overlap among small- and medium-sized mammals in a grassland and a forest–alpine meadow of Central Asia	12
The potential for acoustic individual identification in mammals	12
Adverse effects of noise pollution on foraging and drinking behaviour of insectivorous desert bats	11
Structure and inter-specific relationships of a felid community of the upper Amazonian basin under different scenarios of human impact	11
Dynamics of threatened mammalian distribution in Iran’s protected areas under climate change	11

spaceNtime: an R package for estimating abundance of unmarked animals using camera-trap photographs	11
The rhythm of the night: patterns of activity of the European wildcat in the Italian peninsula	10
Drone-based photogrammetry assessments of body size and body condition of Antillean manatees	10
Multispecies facial detection for individual identification of wildlife: a case study across ursids	10
Pre-trained models are not enough: active and lifelong learning is important for long-term visual monitoring of mammals in biodiversity research—Individual identification and attribute prediction with	10
Diet compositions of two sympatric ungulates, the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) and the sika deer (Cervus nippon), in a montane forest and an alpine grassland of Mt. Asama, central Japan	10
Similarity learning networks for animal individual re-identification: an ecological perspective	10
A novel technique for aging male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) using craniofacial photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics	10
Health conditions of Guiana dolphins facing cumulative anthropogenic impacts	9
Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh splits red panda into two phylogenetic species	9
The relative role of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers in regulating population change and survival of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)	9
The phylogenetic relationships within the Eastern Afromontane clade of Crocidura based on mitochondrial and nuclear data	9
Extreme moulting site fidelity of the Saimaa ringed seal	9
Genetic identifications challenge our assumptions of physical development and mother–calf associations and separation times: a case study of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)	9
Conservation status of the world’s carnivorous mammals (order Carnivora)	9
Automated, high-throughput image calibration for parallel-laser photogrammetry	9
Fine-scale habitat selection of a small mammalian urban adapter: the West European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)	9
Not avian but mammalian scavengers efficiently consume carcasses under heavy snowfall conditions: a case from northern Japan	9
From the Antarctic Peninsula to eastern Australia: the longest migration of a humpback whale through the South Pacific Ocean	9
Molecular and morphological revision of small Myotinae from the Himalayas shed new light on the poorly known genus Submyotodon (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)	9
Investigating local population dynamics of bottlenose dolphins in the northern Bahamas and the impact of hurricanes on survival	9
Dynamics of short-finned pilot whales long-term social structure in Madeira	8
En route to the North: modelling crested porcupine habitat suitability and dispersal flows across a highly anthropized area in northern Italy	8
Potential distribution models from two highly endemic species of subterranean rodents of Argentina: which environmental variables have better performance in highly specialized species?	8
An unknown component of a well-known population: socio-demographic parameters of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) at the western reaches of the Pearl River Delta region	8
Morphometrics and body condition of southern right whales on the calving grounds at Port Ross, Auckland Islands	8
Comprehensive cytogenetic analysis of the most chromosomally variable mammalian genus from South America: Ctenomys (Rodentia: Caviomorpha: Ctenomyidae)	8
Habitat use patterns and conservation of small carnivores in a human-dominated landscape of the semiarid Caatinga in Brazil	8
Habitat characteristics and life history explain reproductive seasonality in lagomorphs	7
Spatially explicit population estimates of African leopards and spotted hyenas in the Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area of southwestern Uganda	7
Influence of topography gradient and seasonality on primate habitat use in Central Amazonia	7
Kill rates and associated ecological factors for an apex predator	7
Social environment with high intrasexual competition enhances the positive relationship between faecal testosterone and cortisol metabolite levels in red deer	7
The longest recorded movement of an inshore common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)	7
Space use and movement patterns of translocated bighorn sheep	7
Threatened Andean bears are negatively affected by human disturbance and free-ranging cattle in a protected area in northwest Peru	7
Preserving identity in capture–mark–recapture studies: increasing the accuracy of minimum number alive (MNA) estimates by incorporating inter-census trapping efficiency variation	7
Effects on carrion consumption in a mammalian scavenger community when dominant species are excluded	7
Spatial distribution of the pine marten (Martes martes) and stone marten (Martes foina) in the Italian Alps	7
Camera-trapping reveals new insights in the ecology of three sympatric muntjacs in an overhunted biodiversity hotspot	7
An update on the distribution of the coypu, Myocastor coypus, in Asia and Africa through published literature, citizen-science and online platforms	7
Cannibalistic necrophagy in red foxes: do the nutritional benefits offset the potential costs of disease transmission?	7
Preliminary evidence for a forestomach washing mechanism in llamas (Lama glama)	7
Application of multi-species photo-ID database management systems: a user’s perspective	7
Challenging hibernation limits of hoary bats: the southernmost record of Lasiurus cinereus hibernating in North America	6
Adapting photo-identification methods to study poorly marked cetaceans: a case study for common dolphins and harbor porpoises	6
Spatial patterns of carnivore roadkill in a high-traffic-volume highway in the endangered Brazilian Atlantic Forest	6
Everyone matters: identification with facial wrinkles allows more accurate inference of elephant social dynamics	6
Human-canid relationship in the Americas: an examination of canid biological attributes and domestication	6
Sexual dimorphism in toothed whales (Odontoceti) follows Rensch’s rule	6

Using camera traps to study hyenas: challenges, opportunities, and outlook	6
Feeding ecology of the wolf (Canis lupus) in a near-natural ecosystem in Mongolia	6
Golden jackal expansion in northernmost Europe: records in Finland	6
Body length and growth pattern of free-ranging Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins off Mikura Island estimated using an underwater 3D camera	6
Influence of land use and artificial water bodies on the habitat use of Myocastor coypus and Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris in the Argentine Pampas	6
The value of individual identification in studies of free-living hyenas and aardwolves	6
Evolution of sexual size dimorphism and sexual segregation in artiodactyls: the chicken or the egg?	6
Assessing social structure: a data-driven approach to define associations between individuals	6
Proposing a framework for monitoring demographic parameters in local cetacean populations: the case of short-finned pilot whales in Madeira	6
Population density estimate of leopards (Panthera pardus) in north-western Mpumalanga, South Africa, determined using spatially explicit capture–recapture methods	6
Social integration of translocated wildlife: a case study of rehabilitated and released elephant calves in northern Kenya	6
Estimating population parameters of African elephants: a photographic mark-recapture application in a South African protected area	6
Genetic adaptation to urban living: molecular DNA analyses of wild boar populations in Budapest and surrounding area	5
Hair cortisol concentration as a marker of long-term stress: sex and body temperature are major determinants in wild-living Alpine marmots	5
Understanding the diversification pattern of three subspecies of swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii) during the Pleistocene–Holocene based on mitochondrial and Y chromosome markers	5
Structure and roles in pollination networks between phyllostomid bats and flowers: a systematic review for the Americas	5
Tracking red deer population size using deterministic cohort analysis	5
Phylogeography of subspecies of the sable (Martes zibellina L.) based on mitochondrial genomes: implications for evolutionary history	5
Assessing molar wear in narrow-headed voles as a proxy for diet and habitat in a changing Arctic	5
Predicting the individual identity of non-invasive faecal and hair samples using biotelemetry clusters	5
Climate refugia for two Colombian endemic tamarin primates are critically under-protected	5
Social responses to the natural loss of individuals in Barbary macaques	5
Habitat selection of jaguars in a seasonally flooded landscape	5
A system for designating taxonomic certainty in mammals and other taxa	5
Mammalian assemblages in Southern Mistbelt Forests of the northern Eastern Cape, and southern KwaZulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa, and their response to bordering land-use	5
Matching individual Ladoga ringed seals across short-term image sequences	5
The elephant at the dump: how does garbage consumption impact Asian elephants?	5
Molecular data reveal a structured puma (Puma concolor) population in northern Patagonia, Argentina	5
Bat selfies: photographic surveys of flying bats	5
Using camera trap bycatch data to assess habitat use and the influence of human activity on African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Kasungu National Park, Malawi	5
Seasonal and interannual survivorship in the common shrew: the early bird catches the worm	5
Assessment of social mixing and spatial overlap as a pathway for disease transmission in a northeast Florida estuarine dolphin community	5
Tree diversity mediates individual diet specialization of the maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus)	5
Signatures of genetic isolation of the three lineages of the narrow-headed vole Lasiopodomys gregalis (Cricetidae, Rodentia) in a mosaic steppe landscape of South Siberia	5