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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	150
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	144
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	80
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	56
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	43
Biogeographic history and habitat specialization shape floristic and phylogenetic composition across Amazonian forests	42
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	35
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	34
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	34
Erratum	32
Ecological and behavioral mechanisms of density‐dependent habitat expansion in a recovering African ungulate population	31
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	31
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	31
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	30
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	30
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	30
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Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	28
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Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	26
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	26
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	24
Complex multi‐predator effects on demographic habitat selection and community assembly in colonizing aquatic insects	24

Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	23
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	22
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	22
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	22
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	22
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	22
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	21
Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	20
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Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	20
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Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
Energy landscape analysis elucidates the multistability of ecological communities across environmental gradients	19
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Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	17
Multispecies integrated population model reveals bottom‐up dynamics in a seabird predator–prey system	17
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	17
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	17
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	16
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Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	15
Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors	15
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	15
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	15
Solving the fourth‐corner problem: forecasting ecosystem primary production from spatial multispecies trait‐based models	14
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	14
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The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	14
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	14
Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	14
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	14
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	14
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Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	13
Metapopulation dynamics of multiple species in a heterogeneous landscape	13
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	13
Metapopulation regulation acts at multiple spatial scales: Insights from a century of seabird colony census data	13
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	13
Imprints of latitude, host taxon, and decay stage on fungus‐associated arthropod communities	12
Off‐host survival of blacklegged ticks in eastern North America: A multistage, multiyear, multisite study	12
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	12
Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts	11
Disease‐mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host–pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy	11
Comparing the differing effects of host species richness on metrics of disease	10
Hierarchical drivers of cryptic biodiversity on coral reefs	10
Applying the structural causal model framework for observational causal inference in ecology	10
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First evidence of a genetic basis for thermal adaptation in a schistosome host snail	10
Estimation of pollen productivity and dispersal: How pollen assemblages in small lakes represent vegetation	10
A general, resource‐based explanation for density dependence in populations of large herbivores	9
A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes	9
Editorial	9
Static environments with limited resources select for multiple foraging strategies rather than conformity	9
El Niño and marine heatwaves: Ecological impacts on Oregon rocky intertidal kelp communities at local to regional scales	9
Tree symbioses sustain nitrogen fixation despite excess nitrogen supply	9
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Explaining the divergence of population trajectories for two interacting waterfowl species	8
Wildcards in climate change biology	8
A sequence of multiyear wet and dry periods provides opportunities for grass recovery and state change reversals	8
Character displacement when natural selection pushes in only one direction	8
Reexamining the storage effect: Why temporal variation in abiotic factors seems unlikely to cause coexistence	7
Social foraging and the associated benefits of group‐living in Cliff Swallows decrease over 40 years	7
Underlying geology and climate interactively shape climate change refugia in mountain streams	7
The units of biodiversity	7
From competition to facilitation and mutualism: a general theory of the niche	7
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Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird	7
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Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology	7
Novel analytic methods for predicting extinctions in ecological networks	7
Environmental context, parameter sensitivity, and structural sensitivity impact predictions of annual‐plant coexistence	7
New theoretical and analytical framework for quantifying and classifying ecological niche differentiation	6
Environmental variation structures reproduction and recruitment in long‐lived mega‐herbivores: Galapagos giant tortoises	6
Interspecific differences in microhabitat use expose insects to contrasting thermal mortality	6
Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards	5
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Defining, estimating, and understanding the fundamental niches of complex animals in heterogeneous environments	5
Predictive performance of presence‐only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code	5
Evaluating thermal performance of closely related taxa: Support for hotter is not better, but for unexpected reasons	5
Understanding woody plant encroachment: A plant functional trait approach	5
Erratum	4
Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels	4
Increasing disturbance frequency undermines coral reef recovery	4
Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics	4
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Temporal shifts in avian phenology across the circannual cycle in a rapidly changing climate: A global meta‐analysis	4
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Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming	4
The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world	4
A guide to state–space modeling of ecological time series	4