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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	18
Fundamental unpredictability in the vertical migration of cyanobacteria	14
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	13
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	10
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	9
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	9
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	8
A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	8
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	8
Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down	7
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	7
Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth	6
Managing range-shifting, competing species in marine reserve networks: the importance of reserve configuration and transient dynamics in age-structured populations	6
Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology	6
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs	5
Decoding the role of prey-refuge in food-web systems as stabilizing or destabilizing factor through the analysis of higher-dimensional food-web model	5
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	5
Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies	5
Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection	5
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	5
An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk	5
Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities	5
The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability	5
Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system	4
The effect of colonization dynamics in competition for space in metacommunities	4

Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	4
Understanding the management of fished populations with marine protected areas: the importance of accounting for transient versus equilibrium dynamics	3
Species richness − environmental diversity relationships are shaped by the underlying species − area curves and negative secondary effects	3
Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes	3
Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species	2
Applying symmetries of elasticities in matrix population models	2
Top-down and bottom-up coupling effects of subsidies on recipient ecosystems	2
The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology	2
Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains	2
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	2
Chemical contamination-mediated regime shifts in planktonic systems	2
How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect	2
Feasibility in MacArthur’s consumer-resource model	2
Transient disease dynamics across ecological scales	2
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	2
The roles of population dynamics theory in the design and assessment of marine reserves	2
The combined effects of dispersal and herbivores on stable states in coral reefs	2
Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledge	2
Preferential cannibalism as a key stabilizing mechanism of intraguild predation systems with trophic polymorphic predators	1
Bilateral marine reserve agreements	1
The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test	1
A general model of treeline form and dynamics	1
Should we account for mesozooplankton reproduction and ontogenetic growth in biogeochemical modeling?	1
Ideal free flows of optimal foragers: Vertical migrations in the ocean	1
Coexistence and alternative stable states in the bioeconomics of fisheries and aquaculture	1
Local interactions affect spread of resource in a consumer-resource system with group defense	1
Predicting recoverability of collapsed food webs through perturbation and dimension reduction	1
Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers	1
Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study	1
Intraspecific variation promotes coexistence under competition for essential resources	1
Effect of temporal and spatial noise colour in insect outbreak frequency	1
What’s in a resource gradient? Comparing alternative cues for foraging in dynamic environments via movement, perception, and memory	1
An energetic approach to the evolution of growth curve plasticity	1
When does spillover from marine protected areas indicate benefits to fish abundance and catch?	1
Comments on: “Every variance function ... can be produced by any location-scale family ...”	1
The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model	1
Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions	1
The regulating effect of growth plasticity on the dynamics of structured populations	1
Adaptation through organism-induced environmental transformations—a systems representation	1
When growing pains and sick days collide: infectious disease can stabilize host population oscillations caused by stage structure	1
On the mathematical properties of spatial Rao’s Q to compute ecosystem heterogeneity	1