OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioscience is 9. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes	329
Global Overview of Ecosystem Services Provided by Riparian Vegetation	179
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021	147
Global Commitments to Conserving and Monitoring Genetic Diversity Are Now Necessary and Feasible	101
Observing the Observers: How Participants Contribute Data to iNaturalist and Implications for Biodiversity Science	91
The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics	84
Navigating Ecological Transformation: Resist–Accept–Direct as a Path to a New Resource Management Paradigm	84
The Biological Deserts Fallacy: Cities in Their Landscapes Contribute More than We Think to Regional Biodiversity	81
A Comprehensive Overview of Technologies for Species and Habitat Monitoring and Conservation	71
Indigenous Systems of Management for Culturally and Ecologically Resilient Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchusspp.) Fisheries	70
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022	66
Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems	66
Tree Transpiration and Urban Temperatures: Current Understanding, Implications, and Future Research Directions	64
The Invasion Ecology of Sleeper Populations: Prevalence, Persistence, and Abrupt Shifts	63
Mesophication of Oak Landscapes: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Research	60
The Ecology of Disturbance Interactions	60
Machine Learning Using Digitized Herbarium Specimens to Advance Phenological Research	58
Creating Synergies between Citizen Science and Indigenous and Local Knowledge	55
Integrating Biodiversity Infrastructure into Pathogen Discovery and Mitigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases	54
A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis	54
Connecting Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Environmental Observing	54
Climate-Friendly Seafood: The Potential for Emissions Reduction and Carbon Capture in Marine Aquaculture	53
A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates	50
Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus	48
Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide	46

Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions	46
Building Natural History Collections for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond	41
The Concept, Practice, Application, and Results of Locally Based Monitoring of the Environment	41
The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation	39
An Outcome-Oriented, Social–Ecological Framework for Assessing Protected Area Effectiveness	37
RAD Adaptive Management for Transforming Ecosystems	36
Expanding the Impact of Citizen Science	36
A Research Framework to Integrate Cross-Ecosystem Responses to Tropical Cyclones	34
Nine Maxims for the Ecology of Cold-Climate Winters	34
Towards Global Volunteer Monitoring of Odonate Abundance	33
Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet	33
Connected Carabids: Network Interactions and Their Impact on Biocontrol by Carabid Beetles	32
Design Criteria for Process-Based Restoration of Fluvial Systems	32
Global Cropland Connectivity: A Risk Factor for Invasion and Saturation by Emerging Pathogens and Pests	31
The Use of Digital Platforms for Community-Based Monitoring	31
Soil Seed Banks, Alternative Stable State Theory, and Ecosystem Resilience	30
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration	30
Key Principles for Managing Recovery of Kelp Forests through Restoration	30
Single-Stream Recycling Inspires Selective Fish Passage Solutions for the Connectivity Conundrum in Aquatic Ecosystems	29
The Evolutionary Consequences of Dams and Other Barriers for Riverine Fishes	28
A Science Agenda to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation	28
Conceptual Links between Landscape Diversity and Diet Diversity: A Roadmap for Transdisciplinary Research	28
Management Foundations for Navigating Ecological Transformation by Resisting, Accepting, or Directing Social–Ecological Change	27
Management Policies for Invasive Alien Species: Addressing the Impacts Rather than the Species	27
Trading Animal Lives: Ten Tricky Issues on the Road to Protecting Commodified Wild Animals	27
Fence Ecology: Frameworks for Understanding the Ecological Effects of Fences	27
Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction: Convergent or Divergent?	27
Advancing One Biosecurity to Address the Pandemic Risks of Biological Invasions	26
Not All Nitrogen Is Created Equal: Differential Effects of Nitrate and Ammonium Enrichment in Coastal Wetlands	26
The Promise and Pitfalls of Environmental DNA and RNA Approaches for the Monitoring of Human and Animal Pathogens from Aquatic Sources	26
Climate-Mediated Changes to Linked Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems across the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Margin	25
Viewing Emerging Human Infectious Epidemics through the Lens of Invasion Biology	24
Coding for Life: Designing a Platform for Projecting and Protecting Global Biodiversity	24
Advancing Landscape and Seascape Ecology from a 2D to a 3D Science	24
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory	24
Population Viability of Sea Turtles in the Context of Global Warming	23
The International Vertebrate Pet Trade Network and Insights from US Imports of Exotic Pets	23
Limitations to Propagule Dispersal Will Constrain Postfire Recovery of Plants and Fungi in Western Coniferous Forests	22
The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context	22
Long-Term Ecological Research on Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change	22
Responding to Ecological Transformation: Mental Models, External Constraints, and Manager Decision-Making	22
Using the Past to Understand the Present: Coping with Natural and Anthropogenic Noise	21
Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience	21
Gender Differences in Grant Submissions across Science and Engineering Fields at the NSF	21
Sea Change: Using Citizen Science to Inform Fisheries Management	21
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance	21
Convergence of Social Strategies in Carrion Breeding Insects	20
Context Dependence: A Conceptual Approach for Understanding the Habitat Relationships of Coastal Marine Fauna	19
Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2	19
The Open-Specimen Movement	19

Three Frontiers for the Future of Biodiversity Research Using Citizen Science Data	19
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation	19
Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future	19
Attracting Diverse Students to Field Experiences Requires Adequate Pay, Flexibility, and Inclusion	19
Engaging Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Environmental Management Could Alleviate Scale Mismatches in Social–Ecological Systems	19
Great Expectations: Deconstructing the Process Pathways Underlying Beaver-Related Restoration	19
Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks	18
Responses of Coastal Ecosystems to Climate Change: Insights from Long-Term Ecological Research	18
Reported Individual Costs and Benefits of Sharing Open Data among Canadian Academic Faculty in Ecology and Evolution	18
Considering the Case for Diversity in Natural Resources	18
Regional Collections Are an Essential Component of Biodiversity Research Infrastructure	17
At 50, Janzen–Connell Has Come of Age	17
The Jaw Epidemic: Recognition, Origins, Cures, and Prevention	17
Eutrophication on Coral Reefs: What Is the Evidence for Phase Shifts, Nutrient Limitation and Coral Bleaching	17
FKBP5: A Key Mediator of How Vertebrates Flexibly Cope with Adversity	17
Subconscious Biases in Coral Reef Fish Studies	17
Data Proliferation, Reconciliation, and Synthesis in Viral Ecology	16
Sustaining Transmission in Different Host Species: The Emblematic Case ofSarcoptes scabiei	16
Perception and Conflict in Conservation: The Rashomon Effect	16
Reciprocal Contributions between People and Nature: A Conceptual Intervention	16
A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function, and Ecosystem Service Models	16
The Hierarchy-of-Hypotheses Approach: A Synthesis Method for Enhancing Theory Development in Ecology and Evolution	15
Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene	15
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting	14
Rewilding the Sea with Domesticated Seagrass	14
Understanding Local Adaptation to Prepare Populations for Climate Change	14
Bringing Botany into Focus: Addressing Plant Blindness in Undergraduates Through an Immersive Botanical Experience	14
6&6: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Art–Science Collaboration	14
A Tool for Designing and Studying Student-Centered Undergraduate Field Experiences: The UFERN Model	14
Primary Forests Are Undervalued in the Climate Emergency	14
Decline of Amateur Lepidoptera Collectors Threatens the Future of Specimen-Based Research	14
Data Sovereignty in Community-Based Environmental Monitoring: Toward Equitable Environmental Data Governance	14
Why Coordinated Distributed Experiments Should Go Global	13
Forest and Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Variability at US LTER Sites	13
The Importance of Eco-evolutionary Potential in the Anthropocene	13
Provoking a Cultural Shift in Data Quality	13
Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change	13
The Forest of Unintended Consequences: Anthropogenic Actions Trigger the Rise and Fall of Black Cherry	13
Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems	13
A Framework for the Eltonian Niche of Humans	12
Five Steps to Inject Transformative Change into the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	12
Extinction Targets Are Not SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious, Realistic, and Time Bound)	12
Undergraduate Biology Instructors Still Use Mostly Teacher-Centered Discourse Even When Teaching with Active Learning Strategies	12
Stoichiometric Ecotoxicology for a Multisubstance World	12
Landsat 9 Satellite Continues Half-Century of Earth Observations	12
Connections and Feedback: Aquatic, Plant, and Soil Microbiomes in Heterogeneous and Changing Environments	11
The Olfactory Landscape Concept: A Key Source of Past, Present, and Future Information Driving Animal Movement and Decision-making	11
Advancing Equity in Faculty Hiring with Diversity Statements	11
RAD: A Paradigm, Shifting	11
The Drought Response of Eastern US Oaks in the Context of Their Declining Abundance	11
Data Science in Undergraduate Life Science Education: A Need for Instructor Skills Training	11
Is Active Learning Enough? The Contributions of Misconception-Focused Instruction and Active-Learning Dosage on Student Learning of Evolution	10
Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions	10
An Analysis of US State Regulated Weed Lists: A Discordance between Biology and Policy	10
Mapping and Monitoring Zero-Deforestation Commitments	10
On the Challenges of Identifying Benthic Dominance on Anthropocene Coral Reefs	10
Citizen Science in Postsecondary Education: Current Practices and Knowledge Gaps	10
Look Who's Talking: Teaching and Discourse Practices across Discipline, Position, Experience, and Class Size in STEM College Classrooms	10
Identifying the identifiers: How iNaturalist facilitates collaborative, research-relevant data generation and why it matters for biodiversity science	9
Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights	9
Mainstreaming Microbes across Biomes	9
Greater Consideration of Animals Will Enhance Coastal Restoration Outcomes	9
Culture and Quality Matter in Building Effective Mentorship Relationships with Native STEM Scholars	9
Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Biology	9
Six Principles for Embracing Gender and Sexual Diversity in Postsecondary Biology Classrooms	9
Science and Management Advancements Made Possible by the USA National Phenology Network's Nature's Notebook Platform	9
Behavioral Causes, Ecological Consequences, and Management Challenges Associated with Wildlife Foraging in Human-Modified Landscapes	9
Diverse Computer Simulation Models Provide Unified Lessons on University Operation during a Pandemic	9