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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Recovering trophic structure through habitat restoration: A review	27
Trophic transfer of microplastics in a model freshwater microcosm; lack of a consumer avoidance response	27
Green vs brown food web: Effects of habitat type on multidimensional stability proxies for a highly-resolved Antarctic food web	24
Food webs speak of human impact: Using stable isotope-based tools to measure ecological consequences of environmental change	20
If you build it, they will come: Restoration positively influences free-living and parasite diversity in a restored tidal marsh	18
Secondary production is an underutilized metric to assess restoration initiatives	16
Individual diet specialization drives population trophic niche responses to environmental change in a predator fish population	14
Interactions between plants and pollinators across urban and rural farming landscapes	12
A review of the ecological role of the Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	12
Beyond sticks and stones: Integrating physical and ecological conditions into watershed restoration assessments using a food web modeling approach	12
Prey preferences of modern human hunter-gatherers	12
Stable isotopes point to anthropogenic subsidies in northern raccoons at the urban-wild interface	11
Small mammals and ungulates respond to and interact with revegetation processes following dam removal	10
Reinstating trophic cascades as an applied conservation tool to protect forest ecosystems from invasive grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)	10
Diazotrophic cyanobacteria in planktonic food webs	10
Does feeding type matter? Contribution of organic matter sources to benthic invertebrates on the Arctic Chukchi Sea shelf	9
Contrasting dynamical responses of sympatric caribou and muskoxen to winter weather and earlier spring green-up in the Arctic	9
Zonation of protistan plankton in a productive area of the Patagonian shelf: Potential implications for the anchovy distribution	8
Mutual links between microcystins-producing cyanobacteria and plankton community in clear and brown northern lakes	7
Death from below: Sit-and-wait predatory behavior in a burrowing crayfish (Lacunicambarus thomai)	7
Fighting like cats and dogs? Dingoes do not constrain spatial and temporal movements of feral cats	7
Cross-habitat access modifies the ‘trophic relay’ in New England saltmarsh ecosystems	7
Carbon sources supporting macrobenthic crustaceans in tropical eastern pacific mangroves	7
Single and mixed diets of the toxic Cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii differently affect Daphnia feeding behavior	7
Wing buzzing as a potential antipredator defense against an invasive predator	7

Functional diversity in herbivorous fishes on Caribbean reefs: The role of macroalgal traits in driving interspecific differences in feeding behavior	6
Linking plant and animal functional diversity with an experimental community restoration in a Hawaiian lowland wet forest	6
Measuring the occurrence and strength of intraguild predation in modern food webs	6
Responses of dingo (Canis familiaris) populations to landscape-scale baiting	6
Trophic hierarchy in a marine community revealed by network analysis on co-occurrence data	6
Camera trap serendipity and citizen science point to broader effects of urban heat islands on food webs	6
Spatio-temporal variation in macrofauna community structure in Mediterranean seagrass wrack	6
Between fruits, flowers and nectar: The extraordinary diet of the frog Xenohyla truncata	5
The diet of Mustelus schmitti in areas with and without commercial bottom trawling (Central Patagonia, Southwestern Atlantic): Is it evidence of trophic interaction with the Patagonian shrimp fishery?	5
Microplastics are transferred in a trophic web between zooplankton and the amphibian Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum): Effects on their feeding behavior	5
Unexpected case of cancrivory in a lotic tropical ecosystem: First record of predation of Strengeriana maniformis by the frog Rheobates palmatus	5
Fisheries restoration potential: Optimizing fisheries profits while maintaining food web structure	5
Fishes in a seasonally pulsed wetland show spatiotemporal shifts in diet and trophic niche but not shifts in trophic position	5
Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?	5
Grey wolf feeding habits and their geographical variation in Northwest Spain	4
Review of post-metamorphic frog-eat-frog predation, with a description of a new cases of anurophagy	4
Contribution of emergent aquatic insects to the trophic variation of tropical birds and bats	4
Association between arthropod densities suggests dominance of top-down control of predator-prey food-webs on pear trees during winter	4
Functional and trophic diversity of tropical headwater stream communities inferred from carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios	4
Year-round use of anthropogenic food sources in human modified landscapes by adult and young Kelp Gulls	4
Integrating trophic data from the literature: The Danube River food web	4
Increased nutrient availability correlates with increased growth of the benthic jellyfish Cassiopea spp.	4
Nature's fast food: frogs as invertebrate prey in a northern Atlantic Forest fragment	4
New mapping metrics to test functional response of food webs to coastal restoration	4
Vertebrate prey capture by Latrodectus mactans (Walckenaer, 1805) and Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae, Theridiidae) provide further insights into the immobilization and hoisting mecha	4
Building urban predator-prey networks using camera traps	4
Effects of urbanization on the trophic niche of the brown anole, a widespread invasive lizard	4
A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider	3
The role of Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) in the vertical microplastic transfer: A plankton-benthos linkage laboratory protocol	3
The effect of fish life-history structures on the topologies of aquatic food webs	3
The ecology of bladderworts: The unique hunting-gathering-farming strategy in plants	3
Predators affect a plant virus through density and trait-mediated indirect effects on vectors	3
Biological invasions disrupt activity patterns of native wildlife: An example from wild pigs	3
Ungulate herbivores reduce fruit production of shrubs in dry conifer forests of the interior Pacific Northwest, USA	3
High-throughput sequencing reveals prey diversity overlap between sympatric Sulids in the tropical Atlantic	3
Scale of effect matters: Forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks	3
Crabs assimilating cellulose materials drive the detritus food chain in a mangrove estuary	3
Predicted impacts of global change on bottom-up trophic interactions in the plant-ungulate-wolf food chain in boreal forests	3
Telescoping prey selection in invasive Burmese pythons spells trouble for endangered rodents	3
Mycorrhizal fungi and invertebrates: Impacts on Tuber melanosporum ascospore dispersal and lifecycle by isopod mycophagy	3
Effects of red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) control on carrion use by vertebrate scavengers	3
Raptors, doves and fragmented landscapes: Overabundance of native birds elicit numerical and functional responses of avian top predators	3
Food habits of wintering double-crested cormorants in the Mississippi Delta	3
Trophic structure and biomagnification of cadmium, mercury and selenium in brown smooth hound shark (Mustelus henlei) within a trophic web	3
The predatory impacts of invasive European wasps on flies are facilitated by carcasses with open wounds	3
A simple trail camera modification reveals red-bellied woodpeckers as important egg predators of box-nesting wood ducks	3
Trophic interactions at avian carcasses: Do scavengers feed on vulture carrion?	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	2
Individual trophic niche specialization in American beaver (Castor canadensis)	2
Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator	2

Mineral licks as a potential nidus for parasite transmission	2
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	2
Prey selection by the Indian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) outside protected areas in Indias Western Ghats: implications for conservation	2
The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems	2
Fight or flight: Eastern wild Turkey repeatedly defends nest against raccoon	2
Eating an elephant, one bite at a time: Predator interactions at carrion bonanzas	2
Recovering an endangered vole and its habitat may help control invasive house mice	2
Small stream predators rely heavily on terrestrial matter energy input in the fall, regardless of riparian buffer size	2
Changes in the diet of the native sea urchin Arbacia dufresnii at different scenarios of the Undaria pinnatifida invasion (Patagonia, Argentina)	2
Sources partitioning in the diet of the mudskipper Periophthalmus waltoni in an arid mangrove system: Evidence from stable isotope analysis	2
Moving beyond semantics: Advancing restoration with food web approaches	2
Grasshopper feeding preference affects cascading effects of predators on plant biomass in a mixed-grass prairie	2
Specialist shorebird respond to prey and habitat availability through trophic plasticity	2
Habitat complexity mediates spatiotemporal niche partitioning among native and invasive seed predators	2
Diets of two non-native praying mantids (Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa) show consumption of arthropods across all ecological roles	2
Changes in motile benthic faunal community structure following large-scale oyster reef restoration in a subtropical estuary	2
Revisiting trophic cascades and aspen recovery in northern Yellowstone	2
Diet and trophic niche overlap among a native waterbird and two non-native herbivores in Pampas grasslands	2
The effects of intraguild interactions (or lack of) on prey diversity in experimental ponds food webs	2
Top-predator removal does not cause trophic cascades in Australian rangeland ecosystems	2
‘The human shield effect’: Human-wildlife co-occurrence patterns in the coffee forests of southwestern Ethiopia	1
How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions?	1
Seasonal and taxonomic variation in arthropod macronutrient content	1
Beachside banquet: Ants' appetite for shipwrecked siphonophores	1
Who feeds on whom in semi-aquatic moss ecosystems?	1
Seasonal variability of invertebrate prey diet and selectivity of the dominant forage fishes in Lake Huron	1
Predation on anurans by a giant water bug Belostoma sp. (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) in a forest management area in the eastern Amazon	1
Putting a lake together: Integrating synthetic data and field observations to build a better food web	1
Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers	1
Footprints of predatory lady beetles stimulate increased dispersal of aphid prey, but do not alter feeding behavior or spread of a non-persistently transmitted plant virus	1
The trophic ecology of an invasive predator in a novel ecosystem: Green sunfish Lepomis cyanellus in a restored urban stream	1
Coastal hypoxia reduces trophic resource coupling and alters niche characteristics of an ecologically dominant omnivore	1
Using stable isotopes to examine movement and prey usage of cormorants breeding in the southeastern United States	1
Cicada feast and food links: Grey-headed flying fox preys on black prince in south-East Australia	1
Effects of urbanization on the efficiency and composition of vertebrate scavengers	1
Structural but not functional resistance of frugivore-plant interaction networks to the defaunation process	1
Livestock prevalence in the Egyptian vulture diet during European sanitary restrictions on carcass disposal	1
Unconventional bird predators are relevant to vertebrate trophic relationships? A community science platform helps to answer this question.	1
Coyotes eat flies at carrion	1
Kleptoparasitism from condors to eagles mediated by an exotic prey	1
Understanding the feeding ecology of the broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) in Patagonia, Argentina	1
Tayra behavior preying on a cavity nest in the subtropical forest of the Southern Yungas	1
Evidence for interspecific modulation of carcass consumption among facultative scavengers in Asian temperate forest	1
A geometric morphometric approach to identify uncomplete snake vertebrae from raptor bird feeding remains	1
Avoidance of invasive prey reduces subsequent consumption of similar native prey	1
Using camera traps to assess carcass use and the intraguild dynamics of understudied African mesocarnivores	1
Video observations of wolves hunting ungulates on linear features	1
Morphological variables of the butterfly guild and their functional role in foraging behavior on the visiting plants: Optimization by Artificial Neural Network Model	1
Cattle dung in aquatic habitats alters mosquito predatory biocontrol dynamics	1
Are seed-dispersing ants elaiosome-limited? An experimental test in a Connecticut forest dominated by myrmecochorous plants	1
Yellowfin bream, Acanthopagrus australis, reorientate individual shells in search of prey	1
Consumption of terrestrial invertebrates by limnephilid caddisflies (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) indicate an overlooked link in stream-riparian food webs	1
Surplus killing of olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivace) by jaguar (Panthera onca) in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica	1
Raccoons and opossums respond similarly to high and low development in the East Texas Pineywoods	1
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps	1
Effect of ant-attendance on the occurrence of intraguild predation	1
Diet of the puma (Puma concolor) in the alpine highlands of the Salinas y Aguada Blanca National Reserve, Peru	1
The influence of parasitism on producers and nutrients in mesocosm ecosystems	1