OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Monographs is 14. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	533
Correction to “Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems”	403
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change	235
Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning	81
Issue Information	59
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	51
Accidental epiphytes: Ecological insights and evolutionary implications	48
Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988–2019	46
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	43
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments	41
Drivers of metacommunity dynamics in river‐floodplain fish: A path modeling approach	39
Fatty acid biomarkers reveal landscape influences on linkages between aquatic and terrestrial food webs	36
Linking aerial hyperspectral data to canopy tree biodiversity: An examination of the spectral variation hypothesis	35
The contribution of metabolic theory to ecology	35
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	34
Erratum	33
Linking spatial variations in life‐history traits to environmental conditions across American black bear populations	32
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	32
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	29
How to map biomes: Quantitative comparison and review of biome‐mapping methods	27
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	27
Issue Information	27
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	27
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Toward a “modern coexistence theory” for the discrete and spatial	25

Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	25
Ecological dynamic regimes: Identification, characterization, and comparison	25
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	24
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest	23
Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	22
Partitioning species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities	21
Environmental drivers of biseasonal anthrax outbreak dynamics in two multihost savanna systems	21
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Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	21
Latitudinal patterns in a reproductive trait driven by sexual selection	21
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Issue Information	19
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology	19
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Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	19
Does restoring apex predators to food webs restore ecosystems? Large carnivores in Yellowstone as a model system	18
Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox	18
Carbon dynamics in high‐Andean tropical cushion peatlands: A review of geographic patterns and potential drivers	18
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	17
Issue Information	17
Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	17
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	17
Using mobile acoustic monitoring and false‐positive N‐mixture models to estimate bat abundance and population trends	17
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility	16
Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change	16
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Cumulative impacts across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: a mechanistic evaluation	16
Shorebird food energy shortfalls and the effectiveness of habitat incentive programs in record wet, dry, and warm years	16
Cover Image	15
Climatic versus biotic drivers' effect on fitness varies with range size but not position within range in terrestrial plants	14
Quantitative biogeography: Decreasing and more variable dynamics of critical species in an iconic meta‐ecosystem	14
Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus	14
The enigmatic life history of the bamboo explained as a strategy to arrest succession	14
An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge	14
Impacts of host availability and temperature on mosquito‐borne parasite transmission	14
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Erratum	14