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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	20
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	11
Fundamental unpredictability in the vertical migration of cyanobacteria	11
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	10
A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	9
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	8
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	8
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	7
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	7
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	7
Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology	6
An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk	6
Managing range-shifting, competing species in marine reserve networks: the importance of reserve configuration and transient dynamics in age-structured populations	6
Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down	6
Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth	6
Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies	5
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs	5
The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability	5
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	4
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	3
Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	3
Species richness − environmental diversity relationships are shaped by the underlying species − area curves and negative secondary effects	3
Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection	3
Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes	3
Population dynamics of a honeybee colony Apis mellifera under pesticide-induced environmental stress	3

Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities	3
Decoding the role of prey-refuge in food-web systems as stabilizing or destabilizing factor through the analysis of higher-dimensional food-web model	3
Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system	3
Understanding the management of fished populations with marine protected areas: the importance of accounting for transient versus equilibrium dynamics	3
Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species	2
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	2
Quantifying local fishing mortality rates to inform monitoring design for marine reserves	2
A general model of treeline form and dynamics	2
Effect of temporal and spatial noise colour in insect outbreak frequency	2
Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers	2
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	2
Top-down and bottom-up coupling effects of subsidies on recipient ecosystems	2
The roles of population dynamics theory in the design and assessment of marine reserves	2
Intraspecific variation promotes coexistence under competition for essential resources	2
The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test	2
Feasibility in MacArthur’s consumer-resource model	2
The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology	2
A spatially explicit game-theoretic model of optimal defense strategies in herbaceous plants with herbivore movement	2
The combined effects of dispersal and herbivores on stable states in coral reefs	2
How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect	2
The regulating effect of growth plasticity on the dynamics of structured populations	2
The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model	2
Coexistence and alternative stable states in the bioeconomics of fisheries and aquaculture	1
Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions	1
Predicting recoverability of collapsed food webs through perturbation and dimension reduction	1
Local interactions affect spread of resource in a consumer-resource system with group defense	1
On the mathematical properties of spatial Rao’s Q to compute ecosystem heterogeneity	1
When growing pains and sick days collide: infectious disease can stabilize host population oscillations caused by stage structure	1
Comments on: “Every variance function ... can be produced by any location-scale family ...”	1
Adaptation through organism-induced environmental transformations—a systems representation	1
Preferential cannibalism as a key stabilizing mechanism of intraguild predation systems with trophic polymorphic predators	1
Bilateral marine reserve agreements	1
Threshold-based disease treatment approach modulates economic, conservation and evolutionary trade-offs in sea louse-salmon aquaculture system	1
Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study	1
What’s in a resource gradient? Comparing alternative cues for foraging in dynamic environments via movement, perception, and memory	1
Ideal free flows of optimal foragers: Vertical migrations in the ocean	1
An energetic approach to the evolution of growth curve plasticity	1