OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecological Monographs is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	50
Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients	39
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Land‐use changes influence climate resilience through altered population demography in a social insect	30
The primacy of density‐mediated indirect effects in a community of wolves, elk, and aspen	29
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	28
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	27
Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer‐blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments	27
Global change and China's terrestrial carbon sink: A quantitative review of 30 years' ecosystem manipulative experiments	27
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Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	26
Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	26
Combined influence of food availability and agricultural intensification on a declining aerial insectivore	26
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	25
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	24
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Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	24

Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	24
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	24
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Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	20
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	20
A guide to state–space modeling of ecological time series	19
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	18
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	18
First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	17
A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	17
Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests	17
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	17
Multispecies integrated population model reveals bottom‐up dynamics in a seabird predator–prey system	16
Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation	16
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	16
Sapling growth gradients interact with homogeneous disturbance regimes to explain savanna tree cover discontinuities	16
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	16
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Static environments with limited resources select for multiple foraging strategies rather than conformity	15
Habitat area more consistently affects seagrass faunal communities than fragmentation per se	15
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	14
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From microbes to mammals: Pond biodiversity homogenization across different land‐use types in an agricultural landscape	13
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Maintenance of high diversity in mechanistic forest dynamics models of competition for light	13
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Limits to species distributions on tropical mountains shift from high temperature to competition as elevation increases	12
Local endemism and ecological generalism in the assembly of root‐colonizing fungi	12
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	12
The power and pitfalls of amino acid carbon stable isotopes for tracing origin and use of basal resources in food webs	11
Temporal dynamics of range expander and congeneric native plant responses during and after extreme drought events	11
Phenological responses to climate change across taxa and local habitats in a high‐Arctic arthropod community	11
Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire	11
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	10
Mammalian predator co‐occurrence affected by prey and habitat more than competitor presence at multiple time scales	10
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	10
Stable isotopes of saproxylic beetles reveal low differences among trophic guilds and suggest a high dependence on fungi	10
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	10
Of wolves and bears: Seasonal drivers of interference and exploitation competition between apex predators	9
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change: Comment	9
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	9
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	9
Climate warming may weaken stabilizing mechanisms in old forests	9
Latitudinal embryonic thermal tolerance and plasticity shape the vulnerability of oviparous species to climate change	9

Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	8
Reevaluating trophic discrimination factors (Δδ¹³CandΔδ¹⁵N) for diet reconstruction	8
Resolving the consequences of gradual phenotypic plasticity for populations in variable environments	8
Abiotic and biotic drivers of tree trait effects on soil microbial biomass and soil carbon concentration	8
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Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	7
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Demography and dispersal at a grass‐shrub ecotone: A spatial integral projection model for woody plant encroachment	6
The effects of a half century of warming and fire exclusion on montane forests of the Klamath Mountains, California, USA	6
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	6
Phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, and spatial scale determine herbivore co‐occurrence in a subtropical forest	6
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Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	6
Wing transparency in butterflies and moths: structural diversity, optical properties, and ecological relevance	6
El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	6
Wildcards in climate change biology	6
Mycorrhizal fungi as critical biotic filters for tree seedling establishment during species range expansions	5
Hotter temperatures alter riparian plant outcomes under regulated river conditions	5
Parasites in kelp‐forest food webs increase food‐chain length, complexity, and specialization, but reduce connectance	5
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	5
Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population	5
Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors	5
Holocene lake phosphorus species and primary producers reflect catchment processes in a small, temperate lake	5
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Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	4
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	4
A flexible theory for the dynamics of social populations: Within‐group density dependence and between‐group processes	3
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	3
Widespread variation in stable isotope trophic position estimates: patterns, causes, and potential consequences	3
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	3
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Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	3
Climate and management changes over 40 years drove more stress‐tolerant and less ruderal weed communities in vineyards	3
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	3
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	3
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Thoughts on the evolution and ecological niche of diatoms	3
Evolution of increased competitive ability may explain dominance of introduced species in ruderal communities	3