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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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
Citizen science and color pattern analysis indicate unreported Batesian mimicry between Neotropical snakes	27
Soil Enzyme Stoichiometry Indicates the Alleviation of Microbial Carbon and Nutrient Limitations After Forest Restoration in Rubber Monocultures, Southwest China	20
Spatiotemporal patterns of trophic niche variation within and among species of tropical coastal fishes	19
Fallen trees as “natural bridges” for the movement of mammals crossing rivers	18
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Landscape heterogeneity increases survival of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis juveniles in a frequently burned, humid savanna	17
Seed dispersal of Madagascar's iconic baobab species, Adansonia grandidieri	17
2023 Julie S Denslow & Peter Ashton Prizes for the outstanding articles published in Biotropica	17
Taxonomic and functional avian diversity vary with cattle management practices in humid Chaco forests of Argentina	17
Habitat Conditions and Neighborhood Interactions Drive the Phylogenetic Structure of Seedling Assemblages in a Tropical Forest Mosaic	16
Vertebrate seed predation can limit recruitment of later‐successional species in tropical forest restoration	16
Weak edge effects on trees in Bornean rainforest remnants bordering oil palm	14
Issue Information	14
Use of the Alternative Stable States Concept in Tropical Terrestrial Ecosystem Research—A Systematic Literature Review	14
Forest‐Associated Understorey Birds Persist in Agroforestry Orchards Within Tropical Rubber and Oil Palm Landscapes	14
Silviculture Simplifies Anuran–Prey Networks and Increases Niche Partitioning in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	14
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Impacts of large dams on Amazonian floodplain bird communities	13
Impact of human foraging on tree diversity, composition, and abundance in a tropical rainforest	13
Beans with bugs: Covert carnivory and infested seed selection by the red‐nosed cuxiú monkey	13
Patterns of Leaf, Flower, and Fruit Phenology and Environmental Relationships in a Seasonal Tropical Forest in the Indian Eastern Himalaya	13
Bioacoustic Assessment of Mangrove Health: Influence of Habitat Characteristics on Bird Richness	13

Phenotypic, Floristic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of the Pollen Niche of Amazonian Stingless Bees	13
Abundance variations within feeding guilds reveal ecological mechanisms behind avian species richness pattern along the elevational gradient of Mount Cameroon	12
Land‐use changes impact responses of termite functional and taxonomic diversity in the Colombian Amazon	12
Migration Patterns of Epiphyllous Bryophyte Metapopulations in Amazonian Fragmented Landscape Inferred From Census and Genomic Data	12
Geophagy by a large herbivore (capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) driven by a human sodium supply	11
Do experimental drought stress and species' drought sensitivity influence herbivory in tropical tree seedlings?	11
Virtual special issue: Insights from a landscape ecological perspective for tropical biology and conservation	11
Moderate anthropogenic impacts alter temporal niche without affecting spatial distribution of ocelots in the Amazon rainforest	11
Decadienal afforestation and risks to montane grassland amphibians in the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania	11
Non‐floral scent sources of orchid bees: Observations and significance	11
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Vegetation Structure and Soil Composition Influence Opiliones Diversity Across Spatial Scales in Amazonia	10
Knowledge gaps and opportunities for conservation with orchid collectors in Vietnam	10
Habitat differences in seed‐dispersing vertebrates indicate dispersal limitation in tropical bracken‐dominated deforested areas	10
2025 Julie S. Denslow and Peter Ashton Prizes for the Outstanding Articles Published in Biotropica	10
Forest resistance to drought in a humid tropical dipterocarp forest in the Western Ghats of India	10
Escape behavior lateralization of pointed‐belly frog (Leptodactylus podicipinus) (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in the southern Pantanal	10
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico	9
Directed vertebrate‐mediated seed dispersal of a fleshy‐fruited amaryllid in a heterogenous habitat	9
Lepidoptera research in Puerto Rico: Reconnecting with historical legacies to guide future priorities	9
Height–diameter allometry for a dominant palm to improve understanding of carbon and forest dynamics in forests of Puerto Rico	9
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2025 ATBC Honorary Fellows	9
Proximate cues of flowering in a subtropical rain forest	9
Where Art Thou? Urbanization Decreases Attacks on Sentinel Prey by Arthropods, but Not Birds, in a Tropical City	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
Consuming and consumed: Biotic interactions of African mistletoes across different trophic levels	9
Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna	8
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Cattle Disperse Seeds and Aquatic Plants in Neotropical Wetlands	8
ATBC Code of Conduct	8
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Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama	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
Strangler Figs and Their Spirits: How Indigenous Beliefs and Practices Influence an Iban Landscape, West Kalimantan, Indonesia	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
An unprecedented and unprovoked attack by a free‐ranging ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) in the Peruvian Amazon	7
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Role of Rivers as Geographical Barriers in Shaping Molecular Divergence of Neotropical Primates	7
Rapoport's rule explains the range size distribution of butterflies along the Eastern Himalayan elevation gradient	7
Effects of pasture‐burning management on anuran communities in subtropical Brazilian grasslands	7
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non‐breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland	7
How can academics contribute to biodiversity science?	7
Predictive mapping of tree species assemblages in an African montane rainforest	7
Radiocarbon estimates of age and growth for a dominant Amazon palm species	7
Thomas E. Lovejoy III (1941–2021)—An individual for all times and places, especially in the tropics	7

Large Yearly Fluctuations in Congregation Sizes of Migratory Danainae Butterflies in the Western Ghats, India	7
Variations in the reproductive cycle of Bornean montane tree species along elevational gradients on ultrabasic and non‐ultrabasic soils	7
Clades That Frequently Accumulate Metals Do Not Have Low Abundance in the Tropical Forests of Sulawesi, Indonesia	7
Native forest and proximity to humans are stronger drivers of Brazilian cottontail habitat use than invasive European hare	7
Coastal dry tropical forests in Florida and the Caribbean in peril: A review	7
Distribution, social organization, and management of Semnopithecus johnii: An umbrella species of fragmented landscape of the Western Ghats	7
Lost in Amazon: Evidencing the southern extension of the geographic distribution of Linné's two‐toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)	7
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
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More the merrier? influence of mango orchards on the composition of the reptile communities of the lateritic plateaus, Maharashtra, India	6
Distance sampling from curving transects in dense tropical forests	6
Drivers of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) predation on endangered primates within a transformed landscape in southern Mexico	6
Biotropica Announces a New Editor‐In‐Chief	6
The Rapid Recovery of a Caatinga Dry Forest is Mediated by Disturbance‐Adapted Species	6
Exploratory Movements and Natal Dispersal of Gray Hawks (Buteo plagiatus) in South Texas, USA	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
ATBC 2025 Student and Early Career Awards	6
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A predominantly diurnal tropical mammal increases nocturnality in response to high temperatures	6
Increasing fire severity alters the species composition and decreases richness of seeds potentially dispersed by small mammals	5
Correction to “Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient”	5
Regional variation in responses of a vulnerable bird species to land‐use and climate change	5
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A New Method of Fruit Marking for Studies on Chiropterochory	5
Contribution of small nocturnal lemurs to seed dispersal in Madagascar: A review	5
Seabird presence and seasonality influence nutrient dynamics of atoll habitats	5
Correction to “Racing Amidst Change: Urbanization and Climate Alter Functional Traits and Distribution of an Amazonian Parthenogenetic Lizard”	5
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Factors limiting plant recruitment in a tropical Afromontane Forest	5
Genetic inference of orchid population dynamics on different‐aged lava flows in Costa Rica	5
2023 ATBC Honorary Fellows	5
Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests	5
Supporting inclusive scientific communities: Insights from the ATBC society survey	5
Mangrove Pollinator Functional Diversity Decreases With Patch Size and Landscape Anthropization	5
A universal pharmacy: Possible self‐medication using tree balsam by multiple Atlantic Forest mammals	5
Population Variability and Apparent Recent Decline of River Birds in the Indian Himalaya	5
Anthropogenic landscape features affect the ground habitat use of Penelope superciliaris (Cracidae), a large seed disperser bird in southeastern Brazil	5
Variation of seasonal litterfall in subtropical montane cloud forests to typhoon severity and environmental factors	5
Seasonal plasticity in sympatric Bicyclus butterflies in a tropical forest where temperature does not predict rainfall	5
Chytrid prevalence and infection intensity in treefrogs from three environments with different degrees of conservation in Mexico	5
Direct and indirect plant defenses reduce damage by a generalist but not by a specialist pod borer	5
Recruitment limitation in three large‐seeded plant species in a tropical moist forest	5
Chronic browsing by an introduced mammalian herbivore in a tropical island alters species composition and functional traits of forest understory plant communities	5
The eco‐evolutionary history of Madagascar presents unique challenges to tropical forest restoration	5
Seed fate in ant‐mediated dispersal: Seed dispersal effectiveness in the Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae)—Zanthoxylum ekmanii (Rutaceae) system	4
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Impoverished woody seedling assemblages and the regeneration of Caatinga dry forest in a human‐modified landscape	4
Biotropica's first open call for editorial service	4
A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar	4
Short flowers for long tongues: Functional specialization in a nocturnal pollination network of an asclepiad in long‐tongued hawkmoths	4
Spatial density patterns of herbivore response to seasonal dynamics in the tropical deciduous forest of central India	4
Sampling local ant diversities and the importance of trait analyses	4
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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
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
Experimental Determination of Labidus coecus Army Ant Diet: Novel Evidence for a Feeding Strategy	4
Anthropogenic extinctions explain most size and trophic mismatches between large mammalian primary consumers from Amazonian and African rainforests	4
The Influence of Litter Diversity on Leaf Breakdown and the Colonization of Decomposer Communities in Subtropical Highland Grassland Streams	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
The legacy of forest logging on organic matter inputs and storage in tropical streams	4
Changes in tropical terrestrial vertebrate communities along two anthropogenic gradients: Forest degradation and accessibility	4
Ants mediate community composition of root‐associated fungi in an ant‐plant mutualism	4
One ant's trash is another ant's treasure: Army ant middens provide resources for diverse ant assemblages	4
Foliar Pathogen Incidence on Woody Seedlings Across a Tropical Forest Chronosequence	4
Canopy Openings Reduce Functional Volume in Amphibian Populations of a Neotropical Forest	4
Neo‐tropical felid activity patterns in relation to potential prey and intraguild competitors in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	4