OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds in agroscapes: effects of forest cover and landscape heterogeneity on dryland bird diversity and composition	51
Effects of human activities on zooplankton biodiversity in aquatic systems across three vegetation domains: A landscape analysis approach	31
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	31
Landscape structure coupled to instream features shape freshwater biodiversity in Cerrado agricultural landscapes	21
Does spring bring colors? Seasonal bird plumage color variation along urban-rural gradients	18
Patterns of endemism in Amazonian floodplain birds	16
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	15
Brazil’s Belo Monte license renewal and the need to recognize the immense impacts of dams in Amazonia	13
Do thermal drones outperform traditional surveys in detecting and estimating population density of sloths?	13
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	13
Mapping the threat: projecting invasive plant distribution in the tropical Andes under climate change	12
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	12
Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach	12
Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	11
From whom and for what? Deforestation in Dry Chaco from local-urban inhabitants’ perception	11
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	11
High-diversity Atlantic Forest restoration plantings fail to represent local floras	11
Spatial networks reveal how forest cover decreases the spread of agricultural pests	11
Climate-driven loss of taxonomic and functional richness in Brazilian Atlantic Forest anurans	11
Conserving biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems: Insights from a herpetofauna study in the Colombian Andes with sustainable management proposal	10
Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon	10
Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean	10
Predicting the range expansion of invasive alien grasses under climate change in the Neotropics	10
Insectivorous birds and potential pest control services: An occupancy study of functional groups in a coffee landscape in Oaxaca, Mexico	10
Populations across bird species distribution ranges respond differently to habitat loss and fragmentation: implications for conservation strategies	10

Neutral processes and reduced dispersal across Amazonian rivers may explain how rivers maintain species diversity after secondary contact	9
From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers	9
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	8
Human-wildlife conflicts in Brazil: Navigating through shared and spared landscapes	8
Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	8
Fire reduces taxonomic and functional diversity in Neotropical moist seasonally flooded forests	8
Why is it so easy to undergo devegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado?	8
Habitat loss and distribution of the Ornate Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata): implications for its conservation in South American temperate grasslands	7
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	7
Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	7
Identifying areas for multidimensional biodiversity conservation, with a case study in Oaxaca, Mexico	7
Landscape composition drives taxonomic and functional diversity of bats and small rodents in human-modified tropical landscapes	7
The Protected Areas network may be insufficient to protect bird diversity in a fragmented tropical hotspot under different climate scenarios	7
Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil	7
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	7
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	7
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	7
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	7
Bird taxonomic and functional diversity in urban settlements within a forest biome vary with the landscape matrix	6
Estimating mammal density from track counts collected by Indigenous Amazonian hunters	6
Peatlands in the Brazilian Cerrado: insights into knowledge, status and research needs	6
Açaí palm management and the multidimensional erosion of beta diversity across tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest	6
Reducing negative economic and equity implications associated with conserving 30% of the planet by 2030	6
Guiding transdisciplinary synthesis processes for social-ecological policy decisions	6
Shark hotspot: Drivers for distribution and conservation in a tropical oceanic archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean	6
Beyond data labor: sowing synthesis science in the Global South	6
Business, biodiversity, and innovation in Brazil	6
Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes	6
Edges as hotspots and drivers of forest cover change in a tropical landscape	6
Forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon: Trends and conservation strategies	6