OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Food Webs 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring co-evolutionary processes in ant-plant mutualism networks: Evidence from a phylogenetic analysis	33
Anthropogenic activities facilitate temporal overlaps and spatial partitions among sympatric canids in a human-modified landscape of Bulgaria	26
Novel observations of cleaning interactions between eastern grey kangaroos and three Australian bird species	17
Death from below: Sit-and-wait predatory behavior in a burrowing crayfish (Lacunicambarus thomai)	17
Updating the prey menu of the ophiophagous snake Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758) with two heterospecific snakes from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest	17
Insights into prey handling and feeding strategies by ghost crabs on sea turtle eggs and hatchlings	14
The great escape: Interspecific interaction and behavioral response to a semi-arboreal predator, the Tayra (Eira barbara), by a group of black-faced spider monkeys (Ateles chamek)	11
Consumption of terrestrial invertebrates by limnephilid caddisflies (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) indicate an overlooked link in stream-riparian food webs	11
Changes in the diet of the native sea urchin Arbacia dufresnii at different scenarios of the Undaria pinnatifida invasion (Patagonia, Argentina)	11
Indirect functional effects of neighbors on food web compartments could not overcome density-dependent limited growth of a grazing minnow	11
Specialization in Ciidae-host fungi communities in two Atlantic forest remnants of Southeast Brazil	11
Prey availability and diet composition of the Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola) during migration on the South-Western Black Sea coast, Bulgaria	11
Following the bear: The interspecific foraging associations between vertebrate predators of cicada nymphs	10
A review of the ecological role of the Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	10
Foraging association of Groove-billed Anis with a Giant Anteater in Cojedes, Central-western Venezuelan Llanos	10
Seasonal variability of invertebrate prey diet and selectivity of the dominant forage fishes in Lake Huron	10
Who feeds on whom in semi-aquatic moss ecosystems?	9
First documentation of acorn consumption by eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)	9
Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator	9
Avoidance of invasive prey reduces subsequent consumption of similar native prey	8
Diets of two non-native praying mantids (Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa) show consumption of arthropods across all ecological roles	8
Using camera traps to inform reintroduction success and recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)	8
Straight from the Güiñas mouth: Diet of a Neotropical carnivore documented through camera traps	8
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) predation on passerine birds in Namibia	8
Contribution of emergent aquatic insects to the trophic variation of tropical birds and bats	8

Structural but not functional resistance of frugivore-plant interaction networks to the defaunation process	8
Avoiding the enemy while searching for dinner: Understanding the temporal niche of the threatened clouded tiger-cat in protected cloud forests of the Middle Cauca, Colombia	7
Video observations of wolves hunting ungulates on linear features	7
Consistent foraging on marine resources by coyotes (Canis latrans) on the Southern California coast	7
A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider	7
Coastal hypoxia reduces trophic resource coupling and alters niche characteristics of an ecologically dominant omnivore	7
Predation of turtles by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Southeastern United States	7
Top-predator removal does not cause trophic cascades in Australian rangeland ecosystems	6
Predation of Carollia perspicillata (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) by South American Pepper Frog (Leptodactylus labyrinthicus): unraveling the predator-prey relationship in caves	6
Predation of oak acorns by Baird's tapir in one of the last remnants of mountain cloud forest in Southern Mexico	6
Predation on anurans by a giant water bug Belostoma sp. (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) in a forest management area in the eastern Amazon	6
Mineral licks as a potential nidus for parasite transmission	5
Cattle dung in aquatic habitats alters mosquito predatory biocontrol dynamics	5
Remote cameras capture dung burial by burrowing cricket	5
Trophic structure and biomagnification of cadmium, mercury and selenium in brown smooth hound shark (Mustelus henlei) within a trophic web	5
Ophiophagy in Bothrops mattogrossensis: Predation on Helicops angulatus and potential for reciprocal interactions among Neotropical snakes	5
Scale of effect matters: Forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks	5
Simple bulk pigment analysis suggests microphytobenthos contributions to food webs may be underestimated due to isotopic contamination by remineralized wetland carbon	5
Carbon sources supporting macrobenthic crustaceans in tropical eastern pacific mangroves	5
Trophic cascades and climate change	5
Association between arthropod densities suggests dominance of top-down control of predator-prey food-webs on pear trees during winter	5
Predatory behavior of the hellgrammite larva Corydalus batesii (McLachlan, 1868) (Insecta: Megaloptera: Corydalidae) in an Amazonian stream	5
Food webs speak of human impact: Using stable isotope-based tools to measure ecological consequences of environmental change	5
Joining to the web. Predation of Heterophrynus sp. (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) on a catfish Astroblepus sp. (Siluriformes: Astroblepidae), in a premontane river of the northern Andes of Colombia	4
Butterflies with a taste for elephant dung: Puddling of adult butterflies on elephant dung in India's Western Ghats	4
Trophic ecology of Caribbean polychaetes: responses to environmental changes driven by massive Sargassum arrivals	4
Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?	4
The influence of parasitism on producers and nutrients in mesocosm ecosystems	4
First record of nectar feeding by the exotic lizard Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) in urban environments in Brazil with notes on unusual feeding behaviors	4
Trophic chain of the pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean: An approach through stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen	4
The trophic ecology of an invasive predator in a novel ecosystem: Green sunfish Lepomis cyanellus in a restored urban stream	3
Predator-prey reversal between a venomous snake, Bitis caudalis, and an insectivorous skink, Trachylepis margaritifera	3
Applying network analysis to measure functional diversity in food webs	3
Trophic niche of four sympatric direct-developing frogs (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Eastern Brazilian Amazonia	3
A global citizen science effort via iNaturalist reveals food webs of large predatory rove beetles	3
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps	3
How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions?	3
Changes in food-web structure and energy flow in kelp forest ecosystems on the south-west coast of South Africa following the invasion of Jasus lalandii	3
Cascading carrion: Opportunistic predation at deer gut piles	3
Feeding behaviour of a large lizard drives the outcome of palm seeds dispersal, with comments on its ecosystem services	3
Zonation of protistan plankton in a productive area of the Patagonian shelf: Potential implications for the anchovy distribution	3
Editorial Board	3
Presence of mucilage and low omega-3 fatty acid contents in phytoplankton impair the quality of phytoplankton diet for zooplankton	3
Trophic transfer of microplastics in a model freshwater microcosm; lack of a consumer avoidance response	3
Sloths strike back: Predation attempt by an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) on a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at a mineral lick in Western Amazonia, Ecuador	3
A simple trail camera modification reveals red-bellied woodpeckers as important egg predators of box-nesting wood ducks	3
Diets that do not let benthivorous salmonid fish, Thymallus baicalensis, realize their potential for accumulating large content of omega-3 PUFAs in muscle tissue	3
Defying the superorganism: Harvestmen escape ant predation	3
Littoral resources, food chain length and top predator size - Are these connected with lake size?	3
Editorial Board	3

Year-round use of anthropogenic food sources in human modified landscapes by adult and young Kelp Gulls	3
New ecological interaction: Herbivory of Japanese knotweed by White-tailed Deer	2
Do invasive terrestrial invertebrates subsidize north-temperate fish populations? The case of the spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar)	2
Drinking to the last drop! Record of honeydew consumption by a ghost spider (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) in an urban environment in southeastern Brazil	2
Grey wolf feeding habits and their geographical variation in Northwest Spain	2
Functional diversity in herbivorous fishes on Caribbean reefs: The role of macroalgal traits in driving interspecific differences in feeding behavior	2
Predation of Gripopteryx sp. (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) by Argia claussenii Selys, 1865 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in Campo Rupestre, Minas Gerais	2
Isotopic niche partitioning between an invasive fish and two native mesopredators in the Colombian Caribbean	2
The carrion connection: Marine mammal carcasses provide an indirect subsidy to insectivorous birds	2
Baboons (Papio spp.) as a potentially underreported source of food loss and kleptoparasitism of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) kills	2
Spatial stream modeling of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) foraging substrate and aquatic prey in a watershed undergoing shale gas development	2
Disentangling the complexity of plant-bird relationships: From monolayer to multilayer network perspectives	2
The effects of intraguild interactions (or lack of) on prey diversity in experimental ponds food webs	2
Seasonal and taxonomic variation in arthropod macronutrient content	2
Dietary analysis using prey-DNA metabarcoding from fecal samples of the generalist arthropod predator, Eremias argus	2
Nature's fast food: frogs as invertebrate prey in a northern Atlantic Forest fragment	2
Integrating trophic data from the literature: The Danube River food web	2
Eating an elephant, one bite at a time: Predator interactions at carrion bonanzas	2
Unconventional bird predators are relevant to vertebrate trophic relationships? A community science platform helps to answer this question.	2
Coyotes eat flies at carrion	2
Individual trophic niche specialization in American beaver (Castor canadensis)	2
Diet and trophic niche overlap among a native waterbird and two non-native herbivores in Pampas grasslands	2
Does the Southern Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus, seek areas of high prey concentration in southeastern Peru?	2
Prey selection by the Indian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) outside protected areas in Indias Western Ghats: implications for conservation	2
Fatty acid analyses reveal differences in feeding ecology of North Sea squids that overlap in time and space	2
Microplastics are transferred in a trophic web between zooplankton and the amphibian Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum): Effects on their feeding behavior	2
Intraguild predation by a biocontrol predator is reduced at lower temperatures	2
Gammarus aequicauda (Amphipoda) and two different prey species: Is the ability of a predator to learn important?	2
Are seed-dispersing ants elaiosome-limited? An experimental test in a Connecticut forest dominated by myrmecochorous plants	2
Raccoons and opossums respond similarly to high and low development in the East Texas Pineywoods	1
Susceptibility to parasitism by the mistletoe Phoradendron quadrangulare (Kunth) Griseb on its host Guazuma ulmifolia Lam may increase with host size	1
Predators affect a plant virus through density and trait-mediated indirect effects on vectors	1
The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems	1
Fight or flight: Eastern wild Turkey repeatedly defends nest against raccoon	1
Iberian wild goat coprophagy on dove guano. A case report and insights from food analysis	1
Mutual links between microcystins-producing cyanobacteria and plankton community in clear and brown northern lakes	1
Between fruits, flowers and nectar: The extraordinary diet of the frog Xenohyla truncata	1
Diet of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) on farmlands in Namibia	1
Do marine food subsidies predict large scale distribution of scavenging seabirds within the Bay of Biscay?	1
Spectral radius is a better metric than weighted NODF to detect network nestedness: Linking species coexistence to network structure using a plant – larval sawfly bipartite	1
Seasonal frugivory drives both diet inconsistency and individual specialization in the generalist herbivore gopher tortoise	1
The effect of fish life-history structures on the topologies of aquatic food webs	1
Predation of Bibimys labiosus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) by Hoplias intermedius (Characiformes: Erythrinidae) in Cerrado with a review of Sigmodontinae predation by fishes	1
Predation of the social wasp Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera:Vespidae) by the water scorpion Ranatra obscura (Hemiptera:Nepidae)	1
Puma predation on Magellanic penguins: An unexpected terrestrial-marine linkage in Patagonia	1
Cross-habitat access modifies the ‘trophic relay’ in New England saltmarsh ecosystems	1
Grasshopper feeding preference affects cascading effects of predators on plant biomass in a mixed-grass prairie	1
Daily estuary tides orchestrate clients seeking service from facultative cleaners	1
Single and mixed diets of the toxic Cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii differently affect Daphnia feeding behavior	1
Divergent response trajectories of stream food webs following forest harvest	1
Assessing muskrat predation on a freshwater mussel assemblage in a southeastern United States river	1
A necropsy of negative human-puma interaction in the high Andes: Are pumas in poor body condition more likely to attack livestock?	1
A pilot study on the isotopic characterization of feeding habits of Diptera in a tropical rain forest	1
Effects of urbanization on the efficiency and composition of vertebrate scavengers	1
Spatio-temporal distribution, diet and human conflict of snow leopard (Panthera uncia) in the Khunjerab National Park, Gilgit Baltistan	1
Replicating nature's fabric: High information markets and the sustainability of global seafood	1
Predicted impacts of global change on bottom-up trophic interactions in the plant-ungulate-wolf food chain in boreal forests	1
Fishes in a seasonally pulsed wetland show spatiotemporal shifts in diet and trophic niche but not shifts in trophic position	1
Surplus killing of olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivace) by jaguar (Panthera onca) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica	1
Trophic ecology of small to large hylids from an Amazonia-Cerrado transitional zone in Brazil	1
Telescoping prey selection in invasive Burmese pythons spells trouble for endangered rodents	1
Short food chains, highly diverse and complex food web networks in coastal lagoons	1
More than Froot Loops: Keel-billed toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus) consume vertebrate carrion	1
Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers	1
Scavenging of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) on a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)	1
Predation and prey preference of the land snail Gulella bicolor - implication for land snail regulation	1