OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theoretical Ecology is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical modeling shows that ball-rolling dung beetles can use dances to avoid competition	12
Host plant limitation of butterflies in highly fragmented landscapes	12
Estimation of the present status of the species based on the theoretical bounds of environmental noise intensity: An illustration through a big abundance data and simulation	9
Analyzing the effect of restrictions on the COVID-19 outbreak for some US states	9
Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions	7
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	7
Coexistence, dispersal and spatial structure in metacommunities: a stochastic model approach	7
Introduction for special issue: integro-difference equation models in ecology	7
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	6
Dynamics of a discrete-time pioneer–climax model	6
The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test	6
The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model	5
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	5
Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study	4
Efficacy of dynamic eigenvalue in anticipating and distinguishing tipping points	4
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of autotomy	4
Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers	4
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	4
Fire mitigates bark beetle outbreaks in serotinous forests	4
Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation communities with adaptive prey defense	3
Applying symmetries of elasticities in matrix population models	3
Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities	3
Nonspreading solutions and patch formation in an integro-difference model with a strong Allee effect and overcompensation	3
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	3
Coupling strength between omnivory loops and their one-species-delete subloops drives real food web stability	3

A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	3
The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences	3
Quantifying the effects of sensory stress on trophic cascades	2
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	2
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	2
Eco-evolutionary dynamics may show an irreversible regime shift, illustrated by salmonids facing climate change	2
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	2
Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains	2
Modeling the interactive effects of sea surface temperature, fishing effort, and spatial closures on reef fish populations	2
Biphasic range expansions with short- and long-distance dispersal	2
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	2
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	2
Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	1
Analysis of the invasion of a city by Aedes aegypti via mathematical models and Bayesian statistics	1
Size-dependent fitness trade-offs of foraging in the presence of predators for prey with different growth patterns	1
Predicted effects of marine protected areas on conservation and catches are sensitive to model structure	1
Should we account for mesozooplankton reproduction and ontogenetic growth in biogeochemical modeling?	1
Demographic signals of population decline and time to extinction in a seasonal, density-dependent model	1
Patch isolation and periodic environmental disturbances have idiosyncratic effects on local and regional population variabilities in meta-food chains	1
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	1
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	1
How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect	1
Chemical contamination-mediated regime shifts in planktonic systems	1
Adaptation through organism-induced environmental transformations—a systems representation	1
Noise can create or erase long transient dynamics	1
Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledge	1
Social-ecological models with social hierarchy and spatial structure applied to small-scale fisheries	1
Transients in ecology: stochasticity, management, and understanding	1
Correction to: Every variance function, including Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling, can be produced by any location-scale family of distributions with positive mean and variance	1