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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Mathematical modeling shows that ball-rolling dung beetles can use dances to avoid competition	16
Analyzing the effect of restrictions on the COVID-19 outbreak for some US states	12
Dynamics of a discrete-time pioneer–climax model	9
Introduction for special issue: integro-difference equation models in ecology	9
Host plant limitation of butterflies in highly fragmented landscapes	8
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	7
Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions	7
Fire mitigates bark beetle outbreaks in serotinous forests	7
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	7
The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model	6
Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers	6
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	6
Efficacy of dynamic eigenvalue in anticipating and distinguishing tipping points	5
Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study	5
The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test	5
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	5
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	5
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	5
Modeling the interactive effects of sea surface temperature, fishing effort, and spatial closures on reef fish populations	4
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of autotomy	4
Biphasic range expansions with short- and long-distance dispersal	4
Chemical contamination-mediated regime shifts in planktonic systems	4
Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities	4
A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	3
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	3

Applying symmetries of elasticities in matrix population models	3
Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains	2
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	2
Coupling strength between omnivory loops and their one-species-delete subloops drives real food web stability	2
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	2
Quantifying the effects of sensory stress on trophic cascades	2
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	2
The effect of non-linear competitive interactions on quantifying niche and fitness differences	2
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	2
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	2
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	2
Nonspreading solutions and patch formation in an integro-difference model with a strong Allee effect and overcompensation	2
Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation communities with adaptive prey defense	2
Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledge	2
Should we account for mesozooplankton reproduction and ontogenetic growth in biogeochemical modeling?	1
Social-ecological models with social hierarchy and spatial structure applied to small-scale fisheries	1
Size-dependent fitness trade-offs of foraging in the presence of predators for prey with different growth patterns	1
Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology	1
Noise can create or erase long transient dynamics	1
Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	1
Delayed maturity does not offset negative impact afflicted by ectoparasitism in salmon	1
Predicted effects of marine protected areas on conservation and catches are sensitive to model structure	1
What’s in a resource gradient? Comparing alternative cues for foraging in dynamic environments via movement, perception, and memory	1
Demographic signals of population decline and time to extinction in a seasonal, density-dependent model	1
Analysis of the invasion of a city by Aedes aegypti via mathematical models and Bayesian statistics	1
Adaptation through organism-induced environmental transformations—a systems representation	1
Transients in ecology: stochasticity, management, and understanding	1
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	1
The effect of colonization dynamics in competition for space in metacommunities	1
Patch isolation and periodic environmental disturbances have idiosyncratic effects on local and regional population variabilities in meta-food chains	1