OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Insect Conservation and Diversity is 6. 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
A global review of determinants of native bee assemblages in urbanised landscapes	53
Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network	41
Light pollution is the fastest growing potential threat to firefly conservation in the Atlantic Forest hotspot	38
Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of invertebrate population and biodiversity change: a comment on Seibold et al. 2019	37
Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there	32
Limited understanding of bushfire impacts on Australian invertebrates	31
Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation	31
Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?	30
What level of native beetle diversity can be supported by forestry plantations? A global synthesis	30
Reducing the blue spectrum of artificial light at night minimises insect attraction in a tropical lowland forest	27
A revised Red List of British butterflies	26
Forest hoverfly community collapse: Abundance and species richness drop over four decades	25
Narrow‐spectrum artificial light silences female fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)	25
Crop visitation by wild bees declines over an 8‐year time series: A dramatic trend, or just dramatic between‐year variation?	24
The isolated Erebia pandrose Apennine population is genetically unique and endangered by climate change	23
Dealing with host and food searching in a diurnal parasitoid: consequences of light at night at intra‐ and trans‐generational levels	22
Frequent prescribed fires favour ground‐nesting bees in southeastern U.S. forests	21
Diversity, ecology, distribution and biogeography of Diplura	20
Inventorying and monitoring crop pollinating bees: Evaluating the effectiveness of common sampling methods	18
Out of sight, out of mind: public and research interest in insects is negatively correlated with their conservation status	18
Aphidophagous ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and climate change: a review	18
Temperature and not landscape composition shapes wild bee communities in an urban environment	18
Impacts of artificial lighting at night on insect conservation	17
Fallows and permanent grasslands conserve the species composition and functional diversity of carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes	17
Saproxylic beetles trace deadwood and differentiate between deadwood niches before their arrival on potential hosts	17

A century of social wasp occupancy trends from natural history collections: spatiotemporal resolutions have little effect on model performance	17
A comparison of different Malaise trap types	17
Butterfly communities track climatic variation over space but not time in the Iberian Peninsula	17
Monitoring and conservation of cryophilous biodiversity: concerns when working with insect populations in vanishing glacial habitats	17
Bat–bat fly interactions in Central Panama: host traits relate to modularity in a highly specialised network	16
Quick recovery of a threatened butterfly in well‐connected patches following an extreme drought	15
Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades	15
National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation	15
Millipedes step up: species extend their upper elevational limit in the Alps in response to climate warming	15
Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding	14
Effects of short‐term managed honey bee deployment in a native ecosystem on wild bee foraging and plant–pollinator networks	14
Toxicity of ivermectin residues in aged farmyard manure to terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	14
Five years of citizen science and standardised field surveys in an informal urban green space reveal a threatened Eden for wild bees in Brussels, Belgium	13
Biology and conservation of the European stag beetle: recent advances and lessons learned	13
Abandonment of traditional land use and climate change threaten the survival of an endangered relict butterfly species	13
Illegalities in the online trade of stingless bees in Brazil	13
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa	12
Grazing impacts on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and diversity on semi‐natural grassland	12
Flattening the curve: approaching complete sampling for diverse beetle communities	12
A comparison of wild bee communities in sown flower strips and semi‐natural habitats: A pollination network approach	12
A sunny spot: habitat management through vegetation cuts increases oviposition in abandoned fields in an endemic Mediterranean butterfly	12
Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability	12
Spectral optimization of beacon lights for the protection of night‐swarming mayflies	12
Rapid assessment of the three‐dimensional distribution of dominant arboreal ants in tropical forests	12
A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe	12
Canopy sampling reveals hidden potential value of woodland trees for wild bee assemblages	11
Land‐use change differentially affects endemic, forest and open‐land butterflies in Madagascar	11
Community changes in odonate monitoring: why are long‐term studies so relevant?	11
Structure and robustness of the Neotropical ant‐gardens network under climate change	11
Non‐native ants drive dramatic declines in animal community diversity: A meta‐analysis	10
Ecological and life‐history traits predict temporal trends in biomass of boreal moths	10
Are patterns of sampling effort and completeness of inventories congruent? A test using databases for five insect taxa in the Iberian Peninsula	10
Recovery of dung beetle biodiversity and traits in a regenerating rainforest: a case study from Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula	10
Effects of climate change on the distribution of threatened invertebrates in a Mediterranean hotspot	10
Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance	9
From pastures to forests: Changes in Mediterranean wild bee communities after rural land abandonment	9
Climate and ice in the last glacial maximum explain patterns of isolation by distance inferred for alpine grasshoppers	9
The role of a rosette‐shaped plant (Eryngium horridum, Apiaceae) on grassland spiders along a grazing intensity gradient	9
Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf‐chewing insects	8
Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021	8
Prescribed fire increases the number of ground‐nesting bee nests in tallgrass prairie remnants	8
Butterflies on the dry edge of the Atlantic Forest: water availability determines community structure at the Northern limit of Atlantic Forest	8
‘Citizen identification’: online learning supports highly accurate species identification for insect‐focussed citizen science	7
Notes from rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis Cresson) nest observations	7
Woody encroachment affects multiple dimensions of ant diversity in a neotropical savanna	7
Restoring tree species mixtures mitigates the adverse effects of pine monoculture and drought on forest carabids	7
Conservation biogeography of high‐altitude longhorn beetles under climate change	7
A novel farmland wildflower seed mix attracts a greater abundance and richness of pollinating insects than standard mixes	7
What DNA barcodes reveal: microhabitat preference, hunting strategy and dispersal ability drive genetic variation across Iberian spider species	7
Incorporating genomics into insect conservation: Butterflies as a model group	7

Seasonal and spatial variation of stream macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional diversity across three boreal regions	7
Trends in butterfly populations in UK gardens—New evidence from citizen science monitoring	7
Ecological drivers of Odonata beta diversity in arid and semi‐arid regions of the Central Plateau of Iran	7
Depicting environmental gradients from Malaise trap samples: Is ethanol‐basedDNAmetabarcoding enough?	7
Urbanisation dampens the latitude‐diversity cline in ants	7
Wild bee visitors and their association with sown and unsown floral resources in reconstructed pollinator habitats within an agriculture landscape	7
Assemblages of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) along an elevational gradient in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea	6
Functional and taxonomic responses of tropical moth communities to deforestation	6
Dispersal constraints on the potential distribution of cold‐adapted stag beetles (genus Platycerus) in Japan and the implications of climate change	6
Grassland fallows as key for successful insect conservation	6
Effect of forest disturbance on ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) diversity in a Mexican tropical dry forest canopy	6
Horizontal and vertical variation in the structure of fruit‐feeding butterfly (Nymphalidae) assemblages in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Windthrows promote higher diversity of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in a Central Amazon forest	6
Speciation of the cold‐adapted scorpionfly Cerapanorpa brevicornis (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) via interglacial refugia	6
Odonata metacommunity structure in northern ecosystems is driven by temperature and latitude	6
My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities	6
Influence of human land use and invasive species on beta diversity of tropical ant assemblages	6