OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecological Monographs 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	141
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	101
The contribution of metabolic theory to ecology	70
Habitat heterogeneity and anthropogenic disturbance jointly affect species spatial associations and persistence	61
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	57
Drivers of metacommunity dynamics in river‐floodplain fish: A path modeling approach	49
Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs	49
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	45
Neighbor density‐dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation	43
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	41
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	41
Erratum	39
Plant elemental diversity increases ecosystem productivity and temporal stability	37
Missing data in ecology: Syntheses, clarifications, and considerations	33
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	33
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	31
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Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	27
A transcontinental experiment elucidates (mal)adaptation of a cosmopolitan plant to climate in space and time	25
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	25
Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	25
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	25

Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	25
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	25
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Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	24
Multidimensional resource partitioning by Serengeti herbivores	23
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A geometric approach to beta diversity: Comment	22
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	21
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Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	20
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Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	20
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	19
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	18
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	18
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	18
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Correction to “Life history traits influence environmental impacts on spatial population synchrony in European birds and butterflies”	16
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	16
Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	16
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	15
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
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Erratum	13
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An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	12
Global meta‐analysis reveals the impacts of ocean warming and acidification on kelps	12
Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	11
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	11
Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root‐associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions	10
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10
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Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	10
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	9
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	9
First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	9
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Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	8
Root‐mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation	8
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	8
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	7
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Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	7
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	7
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7

Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	7
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Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	7
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	7
Erratum for “Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients”	7
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	6
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	6
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	6
The units of biodiversity	6
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	6
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	5
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	5
How interactions between temperature and resources scale from populations to communities in microbes	4
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	4
Integrating biotic interactions in niche analyses unravels patterns of community composition in clownfishes	4
Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	4
Climate‐linked evolution and genetics in a warming Arctic	4
Microbial interactions as modular: Implications for ecosystem dynamics and evolution	4
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Reply	4
Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	4
Issue Information	4
Erratum	4
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	4
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Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	4
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The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	4
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	4