OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biotropica is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Short‐Term Effects of El Niño (2023–2024 ENSO) Drought on Predation Patterns of Lepidopteran Prey in an Urban‐Agricultural Ecosystems	27
Soil Enzyme Stoichiometry Indicates the Alleviation of Microbial Carbon and Nutrient Limitations After Forest Restoration in Rubber Monocultures, Southwest China	25
Use of the Alternative Stable States Concept in Tropical Terrestrial Ecosystem Research—A Systematic Literature Review	19
Fallen trees as “natural bridges” for the movement of mammals crossing rivers	18
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Spatiotemporal patterns of trophic niche variation within and among species of tropical coastal fishes	18
Vertebrate seed predation can limit recruitment of later‐successional species in tropical forest restoration	17
2023 Julie S Denslow & Peter Ashton Prizes for the outstanding articles published in Biotropica	17
Litter‐trapping tank bromeliads in five different forests: Carbon and nutrient pools and fluxes	17
Taxonomic and functional avian diversity vary with cattle management practices in humid Chaco forests of Argentina	16
Landscape heterogeneity increases survival of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis juveniles in a frequently burned, humid savanna	16
Citizen science and color pattern analysis indicate unreported Batesian mimicry between Neotropical snakes	16
Habitat Conditions and Neighborhood Interactions Drive the Phylogenetic Structure of Seedling Assemblages in a Tropical Forest Mosaic	15
Silviculture Simplifies Anuran–Prey Networks and Increases Niche Partitioning in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	14
Seed dispersal of Madagascar's iconic baobab species, Adansonia grandidieri	14
Phenotypic, Floristic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of the Pollen Niche of Amazonian Stingless Bees	13
Bioacoustic Assessment of Mangrove Health: Influence of Habitat Characteristics on Bird Richness	13
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	13
Land‐use changes impact responses of termite functional and taxonomic diversity in the Colombian Amazon	13
Forest‐Associated Understorey Birds Persist in Agroforestry Orchards Within Tropical Rubber and Oil Palm Landscapes	13
Abundance variations within feeding guilds reveal ecological mechanisms behind avian species richness pattern along the elevational gradient of Mount Cameroon	13
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Migration Patterns of Epiphyllous Bryophyte Metapopulations in Amazonian Fragmented Landscape Inferred From Census and Genomic Data	12

Beans with bugs: Covert carnivory and infested seed selection by the red‐nosed cuxiú monkey	12
Impact of human foraging on tree diversity, composition, and abundance in a tropical rainforest	12
Moderate anthropogenic impacts alter temporal niche without affecting spatial distribution of ocelots in the Amazon rainforest	12
Impacts of large dams on Amazonian floodplain bird communities	12
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Patterns of Leaf, Flower, and Fruit Phenology and Environmental Relationships in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in the Indian Eastern Himalaya	12
Decadienal afforestation and risks to montane grassland amphibians in the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania	11
Geophagy by a large herbivore (capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) driven by a human sodium supply	11
Virtual special issue: Insights from a landscape ecological perspective for tropical biology and conservation	11
Escape behavior lateralization of pointed‐belly frog (Leptodactylus podicipinus) (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in the southern Pantanal	10
Vegetation Structure and Soil Composition Influence Opiliones Diversity Across Spatial Scales in Amazonia	10
Proximate cues of flowering in a subtropical rain forest	10
Do experimental drought stress and species' drought sensitivity influence herbivory in tropical tree seedlings?	10
Non‐floral scent sources of orchid bees: Observations and significance	10
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2025 Julie S. Denslow and Peter Ashton Prizes for the Outstanding Articles Published in Biotropica	10
Habitat differences in seed‐dispersing vertebrates indicate dispersal limitation in tropical bracken‐dominated deforested areas	10
Issue Information	9
2025 ATBC Honorary Fellows	9
Knowledge gaps and opportunities for conservation with orchid collectors in Vietnam	9
Directed vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal of a fleshy‐fruited amaryllid in a heterogenous habitat	9
Isolated Trees in a Fragmented Tropical Landscape: A View Through the Soil Seed Bank	9
Niche expansion of capuchin monkeys to forest floor on guild‐reduced islands increases interspecific spatio‐temporal overlap	9
Lepidoptera research in Puerto Rico: Reconnecting with historical legacies to guide future priorities	9
Forest resistance to drought in a humid tropical dipterocarp forest in the Western Ghats of India	9
Where Art Thou? Urbanization Decreases Attacks on Sentinel Prey by Arthropods, but Not Birds, in a Tropical City	9
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico	9
Height–diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico	8
Consuming and consumed: Biotic interactions of African mistletoes across different trophic levels	8
Challenges in the Early Ontogeny of a Mutualistic Plant: Resource Availability and Plant Defense in Juvenile Cecropia Ant‐Plants	8
Seeding success: Integrating seed dispersal networks in tropical forest restoration	8
Epizoochorous seed dispersal by an Afroalpine savanna primate	8
Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama	8
Issue Information	8
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ATBC Code of Conduct	8
Cattle Disperse Seeds and Aquatic Plants in Neotropical Wetlands	8
Strangler Figs and Their Spirits: How Indigenous Beliefs and Practices Influence an Iban Landscape, West Kalimantan, Indonesia	8
ATBC 2022 Student and Early Career Awards	8
Effects of Vegetation Density on the Diversity of Lizards in an Area of the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Cactus height increases the modularity of a plant–frugivore network in the Caatinga dry forest	8
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Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna	7
Thomas E. Lovejoy III (1941–2021)—An individual for all times and places, especially in the tropics	7
An unprecedented and unprovoked attack by a free‐ranging ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the Peruvian Amazon	7
Native forest and proximity to humans are stronger drivers of Brazilian cottontail habitat use than invasive European hare	7
How can academics contribute to biodiversity science?	7
Rapoport's rule explains the range size distribution of butterflies along the Eastern Himalayan elevation gradient	7
Distribution, social organization, and management of Semnopithecus johnii: An umbrella species of fragmented landscape of the Western Ghats	7
Clades That Frequently Accumulate Metals Do Not Have Low Abundance in the Tropical Forests of Sulawesi, Indonesia	7

Coastal dry tropical forests in Florida and the Caribbean in peril: A review	7
Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing‐based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain	7
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	7
Role of Rivers as Geographical Barriers in Shaping Molecular Divergence of Neotropical Primates	7
Predictive mapping of tree species assemblages in an African montane rainforest	7
Variations in the reproductive cycle of Bornean montane tree species along elevational gradients on ultrabasic and non‐ultrabasic soils	7
Radiocarbon estimates of age and growth for a dominant Amazon palm species	7
Exploratory Movements and Natal Dispersal of Gray Hawks (Buteo plagiatus) in South Texas, USA	6
Degradation and Fragmentation Effects on Structural Complexity in West‐African Forest Patches	6
Seedling Trait Variation and Functional Space Occupation Responses to Topographic Water Shifts in A Tropical Dry Forest	6
ATBC 2025 Student and Early Career Awards	6
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Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	6
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Drivers of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) predation on endangered primates within a transformed landscape in southern Mexico	6
Effects of pasture‐burning management on anuran communities in subtropical Brazilian grasslands	6
Large Yearly Fluctuations in Congregation Sizes of Migratory Danainae Butterflies in the Western Ghats, India	6
Genetic inference of orchid population dynamics on different‐aged lava flows in Costa Rica	6
More the merrier? influence of mango orchards on the composition of the reptile communities of the lateritic plateaus, Maharashtra, India	6
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Regional variation in responses of a vulnerable bird species to land‐use and climate change	6
Biotropica Announces a New Editor‐In‐Chief	6
Lost in Amazon: Evidencing the southern extension of the geographic distribution of Linné's two‐toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)	6
The Rapid Recovery of a Caatinga Dry Forest is Mediated by Disturbance‐Adapted Species	6
Distance sampling from curving transects in dense tropical forests	6
A universal pharmacy: Possible self‐medication using tree balsam by multiple Atlantic Forest mammals	6
A predominantly diurnal tropical mammal increases nocturnality in response to high temperatures	6
Inga and Lianas Are Key Players in the Tropical Nitrogen Cycle of Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Insights From Linking Rates of Nitrogen Fixation With DNA Barcoding Root Identification	6
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	5
Mangrove Pollinator Functional Diversity Decreases With Patch Size and Landscape Anthropization	5
One ant's trash is another ant's treasure: Army ant middens provide resources for diverse ant assemblages	5
Correction to “Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient”	5
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Chytrid prevalence and infection intensity in treefrogs from three environments with different degrees of conservation in Mexico	5
Seabird presence and seasonality influence nutrient dynamics of atoll habitats	5
Spatial density patterns of herbivore response to seasonal dynamics in the tropical deciduous forest of central India	5
Direct and indirect plant defenses reduce damage by a generalist but not by a specialist pod borer	5
Factors limiting plant recruitment in a tropical Afromontane Forest	5
2023 ATBC Honorary Fellows	5
Population Variability and Apparent Recent Decline of River Birds in the Indian Himalaya	5
Increasing fire severity alters the species composition and decreases richness of seeds potentially dispersed by small mammals	5
Evidence for hawkmoth pollination in the chiropterophilous African baobab (Adansonia digitata)	5
Contribution of small nocturnal lemurs to seed dispersal in Madagascar: A review	5
Supporting inclusive scientific communities: Insights from the ATBC society survey	5
Ants mediate community composition of root‐associated fungi in an ant‐plant mutualism	5
Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests	5
Anthropogenic landscape features affect the ground habitat use of Penelope superciliaris (Cracidae), a large seed disperser bird in southeastern Brazil	5
Seasonal plasticity in sympatric Bicyclus butterflies in a tropical forest where temperature does not predict rainfall	5
Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities	5
Experimental Determination of Labidus coecus Army Ant Diet: Novel Evidence for a Feeding Strategy	4
Predation on artificial caterpillars following understorey fires in human‐modified Amazonian forests	4
Predatory Spiders Limit Bromeliad‐Dwelling Frog Assemblages in the Absence of Habitat Effects	4
Coarse woody debris density and carbon concentration by decay classes in mixed montane wet tropical forests	4
Limited seed dispersal shapes fine‐scale spatial genetic structure in a Neotropical dioecious large‐seeded palm	4
When are buttresses and stilt roots necessary for a tree in terra‐firme Amazonian forests?	4
Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees	4
Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape	4
Changes in tropical terrestrial vertebrate communities along two anthropogenic gradients: Forest degradation and accessibility	4
Anthropogenic extinctions explain most size and trophic mismatches between large mammalian primary consumers from Amazonian and African rainforests	4
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	4
The Influence of Litter Diversity on Leaf Breakdown and the Colonization of Decomposer Communities in Subtropical Highland Grassland Streams	4
Size and crown shape predict reproductive maturity of Carapa guianensis in upland and floodplain forests in the northeastern Amazon	4
Season's Greetings—Diet and Its Links to Reproductive Timing of the Small‐Island Endemic Christmas Island Flying‐Fox ( Pteropus natalis	4
Leaf Size and Shape Interact to Control Flammability: An Experiment With Artificial Leaves Cut From the Large‐Leaved Species Sapranthus palanga	4
Neo‐tropical felid activity patterns in relation to potential prey and intraguild competitors in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	4
Foliar Pathogen Incidence on Woody Seedlings Across a Tropical Forest Chronosequence	4
Short flowers for long tongues: Functional specialization in a nocturnal pollination network of an asclepiad in long‐tongued hawkmoths	4
Recruitment limitation in three large‐seeded plant species in a tropical moist forest	4
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar	4
Biotropica's first open call for editorial service	4
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Physiological and Growth Responses of Tropical Dry Forest Tree Seedlings to Water and Nutrient Additions: Comparisons Between Nitrogen Fixers and Non‐Fixers	4
Chimpanzees as ecosystem service providers: Seed dispersal of an economically important plant resource	4
Sampling local ant diversities and the importance of trait analyses	4
Seed fate in ant‐mediated dispersal: Seed dispersal effectiveness in the Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae)—Zanthoxylum ekmanii (Rutaceae) system	4
Canopy Openings Reduce Functional Volume in Amphibian Populations of a Neotropical Forest	4
Population structure and dynamics, breeding activity and phenology of the blue‐sided treefrog (Agalychnis annae)	4
Population Estimate and Spatial Distribution of Capybaras in Lake Paranoá, Brasília, Brazil	4