OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theoretical 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Inferring species interactions using Granger causality and convergent cross mapping	26
Higher order interactions and species coexistence	23
Persistence and extinction dynamics driven by the rate of environmental change in a predator–prey metacommunity	15
Differences among species in seed dispersal and conspecific neighbor effects can interact to influence coexistence	13
Evolutionary rescue can prevent rate-induced tipping	12
Transient disease dynamics across ecological scales	11
Species dynamics and interactions via metabolically informed consumer-resource models	10
Towards better representations of carbon allocation in vegetation: a conceptual framework and mathematical tool	9
Optimal navigation and behavioural traits in oceanic migrations	9
Consequences of barriers and changing seasonality on population dynamics and harvest of migratory ungulates	9
Threshold harvesting as a conservation or exploitation strategy in population management	8
Infect while the iron is scarce: nutrient-explicit phage-bacteria games	8
Analysis of the invasion of a city by Aedes aegypti via mathematical models and Bayesian statistics	7
Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains	7
Harvesting a remote renewable resource	7
Parasitism within mutualist guilds explains the maintenance of diversity in multi-species mutualisms	7
Fire mitigates bark beetle outbreaks in serotinous forests	7
Selection and biodiversity change	7
Persistence and stability of interacting species in response to climate warming: the role of trophic structure	7
Trait correlations and landscape fragmentation jointly alter expansion speed via evolution at the leading edge in simulated range expansions	6
Transients in ecology: stochasticity, management, and understanding	6
Host plant limitation of butterflies in highly fragmented landscapes	6
Density regulation of co-occurring herbivores via two indirect effects mediated by biomass and non-specific induced plant defenses	6
Patch centrality affects metapopulation dynamics in small freshwater ponds	6
Local control of resource allocation is sufficient to model optimal dynamics in syntrophic systems	6

The role of host phenology for parasite transmission	6
Indirect facilitation drives species composition and stability in drylands	5
Ecological management of stochastic systems with long transients	5
Small-scale spatial structure affects predator-prey dynamics and coexistence	5
Spatial heterogeneity of mortality and diffusion rates determines larval delivery to adult habitats for coastal marine populations	5
Impact of plant defense level variability on specialist and generalist herbivores	5
Viewing communities as coupled oscillators: elementary forms from Lotka and Volterra to Kuramoto	5
Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down	4
Ecotourism development and the heterogeneity of tourists	4
Modelling the evolution of naturally bounded traits in a population	4
The effects of intraspecific and interspecific diversity on food web stability	4
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	4
The combined effects of dispersal and herbivores on stable states in coral reefs	4
Cohort splitting from plastic bet-hedging: insights from empirical and theoretical investigations in a wolf spider	4
Coexistence, dispersal and spatial structure in metacommunities: a stochastic model approach	4
Mapping the distinct origins of bimodality in a classic model with alternative stable states	3
Colonization limitation of specialized enemies reduces species richness	3
Noise can create or erase long transient dynamics	3
Resource-harvester cycles caused by delayed knowledge of the harvested population state can be dampened by harvester forecasting	3
When growing pains and sick days collide: infectious disease can stabilize host population oscillations caused by stage structure	3
Individual heterogeneity affects the outcome of small mammal pest eradication	3
Chemical contamination-mediated regime shifts in planktonic systems	3
Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities	3
How intra-stage and inter-stage competition affect overcompensation in density and hydra effects in single-species, stage-structured models	3
Should we account for mesozooplankton reproduction and ontogenetic growth in biogeochemical modeling?	3
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	3
Ideal free flows of optimal foragers: Vertical migrations in the ocean	2
Simulating the relative effects of movement and sociality on the distribution of animal-transported subsidies	2
Biphasic range expansions with short- and long-distance dispersal	2
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	2
Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies	2
Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledge	2
Competition and pollen wars: simulations reveal the dynamics of competition mediated through heterospecific pollen transfer by non-flower constant insects	2
Dynamics of a discrete-time pioneer–climax model	2
Seasonal effects on the stoichiometry of microbes, primary production, and nutrient cycling	2
Patch isolation and periodic environmental disturbances have idiosyncratic effects on local and regional population variabilities in meta-food chains	2
Exploring the dimensions of metapopulation persistence: a comparison of structural and temporal measures	2
Non-king elimination, intransitive triad interactions, and species coexistence in ecological competition networks	2