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 2021-06-01 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
Cross‐boundary connections of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal ecosystems	34
Herbivore regulation of savanna vegetation: Structural complexity, diversity, and the complexity–diversity relationship	34
Erratum	32
Climate change weakens the impact of disturbance interval on the growth rate of natural populations of Venus flytrap	31
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
Reproductive effort and terminal investment in a multispecies assemblage of Amazon electric fish	30
Pan‐amphibia distribution of the fungal parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis varies with species and temperature	30
Rethinking biodiversity patterns and processes in stream ecosystems	30
Linking climate variability to demography in cooperatively breeding meerkats	28
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Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?	26
Seasonal density‐dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species	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
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
Synthesizing the effects of individual‐level variation on coexistence	22
Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities	21
Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape	20
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Upwelling and the persistence of coral‐reef frameworks in the eastern tropical Pacific	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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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
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
Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts	16
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Herbivory mediates direct and indirect interactions in long‐unburned chaparral	15
Quantifying eco‐evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems	15
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
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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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