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

Article	Citations
Exploring co-evolutionary processes in ant-plant mutualism networks: Evidence from a phylogenetic analysis	31
Death from below: Sit-and-wait predatory behavior in a burrowing crayfish (Lacunicambarus thomai)	24
Anthropogenic activities facilitate temporal overlaps and spatial partitions among sympatric canids in a human-modified landscape of Bulgaria	16
Specialization in Ciidae-host fungi communities in two Atlantic forest remnants of Southeast Brazil	14
Changes in the diet of the native sea urchin Arbacia dufresnii at different scenarios of the Undaria pinnatifida invasion (Patagonia, Argentina)	14
Updating the prey menu of the ophiophagous snake Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758) with two heterospecific snakes from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest	13
Novel observations of cleaning interactions between eastern grey kangaroos and three Australian bird species	13
Who feeds on whom in semi-aquatic moss ecosystems?	10
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)	10
Indirect functional effects of neighbors on food web compartments could not overcome density-dependent limited growth of a grazing minnow	10
Consumption of terrestrial invertebrates by limnephilid caddisflies (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) indicate an overlooked link in stream-riparian food webs	10
First documentation of acorn consumption by eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)	10
Following the bear: The interspecific foraging associations between vertebrate predators of cicada nymphs	9
A review of the ecological role of the Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	9
Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator	9
Foraging association of Groove-billed Anis with a Giant Anteater in Cojedes, Central-western Venezuelan Llanos	9
Seasonal variability of invertebrate prey diet and selectivity of the dominant forage fishes in Lake Huron	8
Prey availability and diet composition of the Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola) during migration on the South-Western Black Sea coast, Bulgaria	8
Structural but not functional resistance of frugivore-plant interaction networks to the defaunation process	8
Using camera traps to inform reintroduction success and recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)	8
Coastal hypoxia reduces trophic resource coupling and alters niche characteristics of an ecologically dominant omnivore	7
Avoidance of invasive prey reduces subsequent consumption of similar native prey	7
Diets of two non-native praying mantids (Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa) show consumption of arthropods across all ecological roles	7
A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider	7
Predation of turtles by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Southeastern United States	7

Straight from the Güiñas mouth: Diet of a Neotropical carnivore documented through camera traps	7
Video observations of wolves hunting ungulates on linear features	7
Contribution of emergent aquatic insects to the trophic variation of tropical birds and bats	7
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) predation on passerine birds in Namibia	7
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	6
Consistent foraging on marine resources by coyotes (Canis latrans) on the Southern California coast	6
Predation of oak acorns by Baird's tapir in one of the last remnants of mountain cloud forest in Southern Mexico	6
Top-predator removal does not cause trophic cascades in Australian rangeland ecosystems	6
Simple bulk pigment analysis suggests microphytobenthos contributions to food webs may be underestimated due to isotopic contamination by remineralized wetland carbon	5
Food webs speak of human impact: Using stable isotope-based tools to measure ecological consequences of environmental change	5
Remote cameras capture dung burial by burrowing cricket	5
Predation on anurans by a giant water bug Belostoma sp. (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) in a forest management area in the eastern Amazon	5
Carbon sources supporting macrobenthic crustaceans in tropical eastern pacific mangroves	5
Trophic cascades and climate change	5
Scale of effect matters: Forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks	5
Trophic structure and biomagnification of cadmium, mercury and selenium in brown smooth hound shark (Mustelus henlei) within a trophic web	5
Association between arthropod densities suggests dominance of top-down control of predator-prey food-webs on pear trees during winter	4
Butterflies with a taste for elephant dung: Puddling of adult butterflies on elephant dung in India's Western Ghats	4
The influence of parasitism on producers and nutrients in mesocosm ecosystems	4
Mineral licks as a potential nidus for parasite transmission	4
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
Trophic chain of the pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean: An approach through stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen	4
Cattle dung in aquatic habitats alters mosquito predatory biocontrol dynamics	4
Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?	4
Predator-prey reversal between a venomous snake, Bitis caudalis, and an insectivorous skink, Trachylepis margaritifera	3
Trophic transfer of microplastics in a model freshwater microcosm; lack of a consumer avoidance response	3
The trophic ecology of an invasive predator in a novel ecosystem: Green sunfish Lepomis cyanellus in a restored urban stream	3
Applying network analysis to measure functional diversity in food webs	3
Zonation of protistan plankton in a productive area of the Patagonian shelf: Potential implications for the anchovy distribution	3
Tayra behavior preying on a cavity nest in the subtropical forest of the Southern Yungas	3
Review of post-metamorphic frog-eat-frog predation, with a description of a new cases of anurophagy	3
How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions?	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
Editorial Board	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
Littoral resources, food chain length and top predator size - Are these connected with lake size?	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
A simple trail camera modification reveals red-bellied woodpeckers as important egg predators of box-nesting wood ducks	3
Cascading carrion: Opportunistic predation at deer gut piles	3
Year-round use of anthropogenic food sources in human modified landscapes by adult and young Kelp Gulls	3
Trophic niche of four sympatric direct-developing frogs (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Eastern Brazilian Amazonia	3
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps	3
Individual diet specialization drives population trophic niche responses to environmental change in a predator fish population	3
Fatty acid analyses reveal differences in feeding ecology of North Sea squids that overlap in time and space	2
Are seed-dispersing ants elaiosome-limited? An experimental test in a Connecticut forest dominated by myrmecochorous plants	2
The carrion connection: Marine mammal carcasses provide an indirect subsidy to insectivorous birds	2
Seasonal and taxonomic variation in arthropod macronutrient content	2
Do invasive terrestrial invertebrates subsidize north-temperate fish populations? The case of the spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar)	2
Diving beetles strip eel to the bone	2
Does the Southern Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus, seek areas of high prey concentration in southeastern Peru?	2

Presence of mucilage and low omega-3 fatty acid contents in phytoplankton impair the quality of phytoplankton diet for zooplankton	2
Unconventional bird predators are relevant to vertebrate trophic relationships? A community science platform helps to answer this question.	2
Nature's fast food: frogs as invertebrate prey in a northern Atlantic Forest fragment	2
Individual trophic niche specialization in American beaver (Castor canadensis)	2
Isotopic niche partitioning between an invasive fish and two native mesopredators in the Colombian Caribbean	2
Gammarus aequicauda (Amphipoda) and two different prey species: Is the ability of a predator to learn important?	2
Responses of dingo (Canis familiaris) populations to landscape-scale baiting	2
Functional diversity in herbivorous fishes on Caribbean reefs: The role of macroalgal traits in driving interspecific differences in feeding behavior	2
Coyotes eat flies at carrion	2
Disentangling the complexity of plant-bird relationships: From monolayer to multilayer network perspectives	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
Contrasting dynamical responses of sympatric caribou and muskoxen to winter weather and earlier spring green-up in the Arctic	1
Short food chains, highly diverse and complex food web networks in coastal lagoons	1
Between fruits, flowers and nectar: The extraordinary diet of the frog Xenohyla truncata	1
Do marine food subsidies predict large scale distribution of scavenging seabirds within the Bay of Biscay?	1
Grasshopper feeding preference affects cascading effects of predators on plant biomass in a mixed-grass prairie	1
Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers	1
The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems	1
Dietary analysis using prey-DNA metabarcoding from fecal samples of the generalist arthropod predator, Eremias argus	1
Telescoping prey selection in invasive Burmese pythons spells trouble for endangered rodents	1
Grey wolf feeding habits and their geographical variation in Northwest Spain	1
Eating an elephant, one bite at a time: Predator interactions at carrion bonanzas	1
Diet of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) on farmlands in Namibia	1
Seasonal frugivory drives both diet inconsistency and individual specialization in the generalist herbivore gopher tortoise	1
Diet of the Arabian collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris kalbaensis): Insights from trail cameras and regurgitation pellets	1
Cross-habitat access modifies the ‘trophic relay’ in New England saltmarsh ecosystems	1
Single and mixed diets of the toxic Cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii differently affect Daphnia feeding behavior	1
Predators affect a plant virus through density and trait-mediated indirect effects on vectors	1
Mutual links between microcystins-producing cyanobacteria and plankton community in clear and brown northern lakes	1
Fight or flight: Eastern wild Turkey repeatedly defends nest against raccoon	1
The effect of fish life-history structures on the topologies of aquatic food webs	1
Effects of urbanization on the efficiency and composition of vertebrate scavengers	1
Raccoons and opossums respond similarly to high and low development in the East Texas Pineywoods	1
Interactions between plants and pollinators across urban and rural farming landscapes	1
Microplastics are transferred in a trophic web between zooplankton and the amphibian Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum): Effects on their feeding behavior	1
Puma predation on Magellanic penguins: An unexpected terrestrial-marine linkage in Patagonia	1
Fighting like cats and dogs? Dingoes do not constrain spatial and temporal movements of feral cats	1
Predation of Gripopteryx sp. (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) by Argia claussenii Selys, 1865 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in Campo Rupestre, Minas Gerais	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
Susceptibility to parasitism by the mistletoe Phoradendron quadrangulare (Kunth) Griseb on its host Guazuma ulmifolia Lam may increase with host size	1
Understanding the feeding ecology of the broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) in Patagonia, Argentina	1
Replicating nature's fabric: High information markets and the sustainability of global seafood	1
A pilot study on the isotopic characterization of feeding habits of Diptera in a tropical rain forest	1
Fishes in a seasonally pulsed wetland show spatiotemporal shifts in diet and trophic niche but not shifts in trophic position	1
Trophic ecology of small to large hylids from an Amazonia-Cerrado transitional zone in Brazil	1
Predation of the social wasp Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera:Vespidae) by the water scorpion Ranatra obscura (Hemiptera:Nepidae)	1
A necropsy of negative human-puma interaction in the high Andes: Are pumas in poor body condition more likely to attack livestock?	1
Daily estuary tides orchestrate clients seeking service from facultative cleaners	1
Diet and trophic niche overlap among a native waterbird and two non-native herbivores in Pampas grasslands	1
Predicted impacts of global change on bottom-up trophic interactions in the plant-ungulate-wolf food chain in boreal forests	1
Iberian wild goat coprophagy on dove guano. A case report and insights from food analysis	1
Prey selection by the Indian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) outside protected areas in Indias Western Ghats: implications for conservation	1
Surplus killing of olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivace) by jaguar (Panthera onca) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica	1
The effects of intraguild interactions (or lack of) on prey diversity in experimental ponds food webs	1
Integrating trophic data from the literature: The Danube River food web	1
More than Froot Loops: Keel-billed toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus) consume vertebrate carrion	1
Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) diet composition in red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) groups in Mississippi and Alabama	1
Invasive Brook Stickleback Culaea inconstans minimally alters the trophic ecology of four native fishes in Wyoming, USA	1