OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Ecology is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Fundamental unpredictability in the vertical migration of cyanobacteria	12
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	12
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	11
A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	9
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	9
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	8
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	7
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	7
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	7
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	7
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
An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk	5
Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down	5
Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth	5
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs	5
Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies	4
The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability	4
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	4
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	3
Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection	3
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	3
Species richness − environmental diversity relationships are shaped by the underlying species − area curves and negative secondary effects	3
Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species	3
Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes	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
Understanding the management of fished populations with marine protected areas: the importance of accounting for transient versus equilibrium dynamics	3
The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology	3
A spatially explicit game-theoretic model of optimal defense strategies in herbaceous plants with herbivore movement	3
Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	3
Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system	3
Population dynamics of a honeybee colony Apis mellifera under pesticide-induced environmental stress	3