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

Article	Citations
Issue Information	440
Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	281
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	89
Issue Information	66
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	56
Neighbor density‐dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation	53
The contribution of metabolic theory to ecology	43
Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs	40
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	39
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	38
Drivers of metacommunity dynamics in river‐floodplain fish: A path modeling approach	35
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	35
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	33
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	32
Missing data in ecology: Syntheses, clarifications, and considerations	30
Erratum	30
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	29
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	26
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	26
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	25
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	24
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	24
Issue Information	24
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	22
Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	22

Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	22
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How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	21
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	21
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	21
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	21
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Multidimensional resource partitioning by Serengeti herbivores	19
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	19
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Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	19
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	19
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	18
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Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	17
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Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	16
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	16
Issue Information	16
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	16
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	16
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	16
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	16
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	15
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	15
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	14
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	14
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Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	14
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Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	13
Correction to “Life history traits influence environmental impacts on spatial population synchrony in European birds and butterflies”	13
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	13
Global meta‐analysis reveals the impacts of ocean warming and acidification on kelps	12
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	12
Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape	12
Erratum	12
Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	11
Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities	11
Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root‐associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions	10
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	10
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	10
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	10
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Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	9
Correction to “First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail”	9
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	9

First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	9
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	9
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	9
A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	8
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	8
El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	8
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Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	8
Editorial	8
Root‐mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation	8
Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
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A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	7
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7
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A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	7
Issue Information	6
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	6
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	6
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	6
The units of biodiversity	6
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	6
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	6
Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	5
Evaluating thermal performance of closely related taxa: Support for hotter is not better, but for unexpected reasons	5
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	5
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	5
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	5
How interactions between temperature and resources scale from populations to communities in microbes	5
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	5
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Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	5
Generalized plant–pollinator phenological climate‐driven advances still lead to a decline in phenological overlap	4
Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards	4
Erratum	4
Recent Sphagnum expansion into the tundra on the North Slope of Alaska	4
Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects	4
Issue Information	4
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	4
Tree diversity, tree growth, and microclimate independently structure Lepidoptera herbivore community stability	4
Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	4
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	4