OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Journal of Ecology is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
DNA metabarcoding reveals that African leopard diet varies between habitats	17
Pangolins and bats living together in underground burrows in Lopé National Park, Gabon	16
The landscape configuration and lethality of snare poaching of sympatric guilds of large carnivores and ungulates	14
Use of multispectral satellite datasets to improve ecological understanding of the distribution of Invasive Alien Plants in a water‐limited catchment, South Africa	13
Wild meat hunting levels and trade in a West African protected area in Togo	12
Local community involvement in nature conservation under the auspices of Community‐Based Natural Resource Management: A state of the art review	12
Causes of admission to a raptor rehabilitation centre and factors that can be used to predict the likelihood of release	11
Assessment of land use and land cover changes in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon forest ecosystem	11
Surviving at the extreme: Chimpanzee ranging is not restricted in a deforested human‐dominated landscape in Uganda	10
Use of maximum entropy (Maxent) niche modelling to predict the occurrence of threatened freshwater species in a biodiversity hotspot of Zimbabwe	9
Assessing local knowledge on the diversity and abundance of bushmeat species and hunting pressure in the fragmented forest islands of southern Benin (Dahomey Gap)	9
Woody vegetation damage by the African elephant during severe drought at Pongola Game Reserve, South Africa	9
Using local ecological knowledge to improve the effectiveness of detecting white‐bellied pangolins (Phataginus tricuspis) using camera traps: A case study from Deng‐Deng National Park, Cameroon	8
Anthropogenic impact on wildlife resource use: Spatial and temporal shifts in elephants’ access to water	8
Continued availability and sale of pangolins in a major urban bushmeat market in Cameroon despite national bans and the COVID‐19 outbreak	8
The influence of physical–chemical variables on phytoplankton and lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaiasminor) abundances in Lake Natron, Tanzania	8
The Chief Goliath and the future of African ecology	8
Wildfires in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania: Burned areas, underlying causes and management challenges	8
Dietary partitioning of three large carnivores in Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi	7
Effectiveness of wildlife underpasses and culverts in connecting elephant habitats: a case study of new railway through Kenya’s Tsavo National Parks	7
Predicting the fine‐scale factors that correlate with multiple carnivore depredation of livestock in their enclosures	7
Metal strip fences for preventing African elephant (Loxodonta africana) crop foraging in the Kasigau Wildlife Corridor, Kenya	7
Distribution of the critically endangered Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) across a fragmented landscape in NW Madagascar	7
Spatiotemporal sharing and partitioning of scent‐marking sites by cheetahs and leopards in north‐central Namibia	7
Diversity, distribution and regional conservation status of the Egyptian tree flora	7

Empty laws and empty forests: Reconsidering rights and governance for sustainable wildlife management in the Republic of the Congo	7
Diet of nestling African woolly‐necked storks in suburban areas of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa	6
Local community attitudes and perceptions towards benefits and challenges associated with biodiversity conservation in Blouberg Nature Reserve, South Africa	6
New geographical range of geladas (Theropithecus gelada) in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia	6
Combining offtake and participatory data to assess the sustainability of a hunting system in northern Congo	6
Rhino birth recovery and resilience to drought impact	6
High abundance and large proportion of medium and large duikers in an intact and unhunted afrotropical protected area: Insights into monitoring methods	6
The effects of human disturbance on the species composition, species diversity and functional diversity of a Miombo woodland in northern Malawi	6
Density estimates of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) on arid farmlands of Namibia	6
Few figs for frugivores: Riparian fig trees in Zimbabwe may not be a dry season keystone resource	6
Community forests as beacons of conservation: Enabling local populations monitor their biodiversity	6
Toad‐kill: Prey diversity and preference of invasive guttural toads (Sclerophrys gutturalis) in Mauritius	6
Giraffe taxonomy, geographic distribution and conservation	6
Seed dispersal phenology of encroaching woody species in the Free State National Botanical Garden, South Africa	6
Insights into the status and distribution of pangolins in Togo (West Africa)	6
Effects of age and sex on site fidelity, movement ranges and home ranges of white and black rhinoceros translocated to the Okavango Delta, Botswana	6
The Rough Bent‐toed Gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827) (Squamata: Gekkonidae): First records in Algeria and NW Africa with morphometric and meristic description of population	6
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on livelihoods and wild meat use in communities surrounding the Dja Faunal Reserve, South‐East Cameroon	6
Assessing the status of leopard in the Cape Fold Mountains using a Bayesian spatial capture–recapture model in Just Another Gibbs Sampler	6
Time budgets and activity patterns of the southern gelada (Theropithecus gelada obscurus) in a human‐modified landscape, Wollo, Ethiopia	6
Profiling the types of restaurants that sell wild meat in Central African cities	6
Bat activity and species richness in different land‐use types in and around Chome Nature Forest Reserve, Tanzania	6
Amphibian assemblages and diversity patterns in two forest ecosystems of South‐Eastern Nigeria	6
Using by‐catch camera trapping data for estimating the population size of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta)	5
Codon‐based analysis of selection pressure and genetic structure in the Psammobates tentorius (Bell, 1828) species complex, and phylogeny inferred from both codons and amino acid sequences	5
Of meat and ritual: Consumptive and religious uses of pangolins in Mali	5
Do black‐backed jackals exhibit spatial partitioning with African wild dogs and lions?	5
Trophic ecology of an introduced top predator (Felis catus) on a small African oceanic islet (Santa Luzia, Cabo Verde Islands)	5
The future representativeness of Madagascar's protected area network in the face of climate change	5
Relationships of reproductive performance indicators in black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) with plant available moisture, plant available nutrients and woody cover	5
WILDMEAT interventions database: A new database of interventions addressing unsustainable wild meat hunting, consumption and trade	5
Impact of end‐of‐century climate change on priority non‐timber forest product species across tropical Africa	5
Pattern of seedling emergence and early growth in Avicennia germinans and Rhizophora racemosa along an experimental salinity gradient	5
Resource managers' and users' perspectives on factors contributing to unauthorised hunting in western Tanzania	5
Potential impact of climate change on the distribution of some selected legumes in Cameroon and adjoining Nigeria border	5
A camera trap appraisal of species richness and community composition of medium and large mammals in a Miombo woodland reserve	5
Coexistence in an African pastoral landscape: Evidence that livestock and wildlife temporally partition water resources	5
The effects of the invasive species, Lantana camara, on regeneration of an African rainforest	5
Monitoring human disturbance: Factors affecting escape behaviour of waterbirds in North African wetlands	5
Species Diversity and Relative Abundance of Medium and Large‐Sized Wild Mammals: a study from Adaba Community Forest, West Arsi Zone, Southeast Ethiopia	5
A range’s core should not only be important in research	5
Vertical stratification and seasonal changes of the avian community in Mount Cameroon lowland rainforest	5
Deriving observation distances for camera trap distance sampling	5
Illegal wildlife trade in Algeria, insight via online selling platforms	5
Human–wildlife conflict in Mhokwe Ward, Mbire District, North‐East Zimbabwe	5
Human depredation risk and flight initiation distance of birds in rural areas, Zimbabwe	5
A new method to determine the diet of pygmy hippopotamus in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	5
Re‐assessment of the endemic taxa in the Egyptian Flora	5
An assessment of human–wildlife conflicts in local communities bordering Chewore and Dande Safari areas in Mbire District, northern Zimbabwe	5
Trends in use of remotely sensed data in wetlands assessment and monitoring in Zimbabwe	4

Role of termites in the restoration of soils and plant richness on bowé in West Africa	4
Economic value of tropical inland freshwater shallow lakes: Lesson from Lake Malombe, Malawi	4
A learning network approach to resolve conservation challenges in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area	4
Remote sensing of aboveground grass biomass between protected and non‐protected areas in savannah rangelands	4
Factors influencing the diurnal behaviour of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) in Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe	4
Multidimensional analysis of landscape dynamics in a Central African forest‐savannah mosaic	4
Effects of humans and large carnivores on the survival of black‐backed jackals	4
Awareness of traditional knowledge and attitudes towards wildlife conservation among Maasai communities: The case of Enkusero Sampu Conservancy, Kajiado County in Kenya	4
Coupling paraecology and hunter GPS self‐follows to quantify village bushmeat hunting dynamics across the landscape scale	4
Spatial and temporal overlap of caracal and serval in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania	4
Fine‐scale variation in soil and topography influences herbaceous vegetation and the distribution of large mammalian herbivores	4
Local people’s knowledge of topi (Damaliscus lunatus) and their illegal hunting for bushmeat consumption in the Serengeti Ecosystem	4
Effect of high population density of eastern black rhinoceros, a mega‐browser, on the quality of its diet	4
Seasonal variation in grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) abundance in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania	4
An assessment of avian species sold in the South African pet trade	4
Distribution of Temminck's pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) in South Africa, with evaluation of questionable historical and contemporary occurrence records	4
Human–hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) conflict in the Wonchit Valley, South Wollo, Ethiopia	4
New observations of four waterbird species in Algerian Sahara	4
Hyaenas play unique ecosystem role by recycling key nutrients in bones	4
Mapping rangeland ecosystems vulnerability to Lantana camara invasion in semi‐arid savannahs in South Africa	4
Morph frequencies, sex ratios and infections in Danaus chrysippus populations in Rwanda	4
Ecological networks as planning tools for African fragmented landscapes: Overcoming weaknesses for an effective connectivity conservation	4
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) select less fragmented landscapes to connect core habitats in human‐dominated landscapes	4
Effects of wildfire on vegetation and understory avian communities in montane rainforests, north‐eastern Tanzania	3
Effect of disturbance on bird feeding guilds in a West African dry forest	3
Insights into the status and distribution of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in an understudied potential stronghold in southern Tanzania	3
Male impala (Aepyceros melampus) vocal activity throughout the rutting period in Namibia: daily and hourly patterns	3
Community knowledge on factors behind extirpation of lion Panthera leo in Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa)	3
Optimal foraging of lions at the human wildlands interface	3
Early insights into the movements of Malawi’s transboundary elephants	3
Assessment of the wild plants in the Egyptian botanic gardens; Nile region	3
Impacts of African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) on tall trees and their recovery within a small, fenced reserve in South Africa	3
Does tenure influence sustainable use? The ecological impacts of harvesting baobab (Adansonia digitata)	3
First appearance of the American blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in fresh water of Western Mediterranean—Algeria	3
Wildlife‐vehicle collisions in Moroccan Atlantic Sahara: Impact on resident species and Afro‐Palearctic birds for conservation purposes	3
Low diversity of fishes in high elevation Afrotromontane streams renders them unsuitable for biomonitoring	3
First photographed record of the naked‐rumped tomb bat, Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Grand Maghreb	3
Are elephants attracted by deforested areas in miombo woodlands?	3
Influence of ant–grass association on soil microbial activity through organic matter decomposition dynamics in Lamto savannah (Côte d’Ivoire)	3
Five small antelope species diets indicate different levels of anthrodependence in the Overberg Renosterveld, South Africa	3
Demographic consequences of habitat loss and crowding in large carnivores: A natural experiment	3
Several black servals from a single survey at the Luando Strict Nature Reserve, Angola	3
Progress in the remote sensing of veld fire occurrence and detection: A review	3
Mitigating crop raiding by forest elephants and baboons at Kibale National Park	3
Not all black and white: Records of several melanistic honey badgers in Niokolo‐Koba National Park, Senegal	3
Human‐wildlife conflicts in communities bordering a Savannah‐Fenced wildlife conservancy	3
Promoting harmony between local people and wild animals around the Humbo Community Managed Forest area, southern Ethiopia	3
Small‐ and medium‐sized mammals of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia	3
Environmental, structural, and taxonomic diversity factors drive aboveground carbon stocks in semi‐deciduous tropical rainforest strata in Cameroon	3
Masai giraffe population change over 40 years in Arusha National Park	3
The effects of fire frequency on vegetation structure and mammal assemblages in a savannah‐woodland system	3
Insights into the illegal ivory trade and status of elephants in Togo, West Africa	3
A camera trap survey in the community zone of Lobéké National Park (Cameroon) reveals a nearly intact mammalian community	3
Long‐distance African wild dog dispersal within the Kavango‐Zambezi transfrontier conservation area	3
Spatial distribution of an assemblage of an endemic genus of birds: an example from Madagascar	3
Ant and termite prey of the giant pangolin Smutsia gigantea Illiger, 1815 in forest–savannah mosaics of Cameroon	3
Coprophagy of African wild dog faeces by spotted hyaenas and hooded vultures in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe	3
Diet overlap of non‐native common carp and native Nile tilapia: A potential cause for population reduction of Nile tilapia stock in Lake Ziway, Ethiopia	3
Diversity and distribution of Fruit‐feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda	3
Estimating the distribution and habitat suitability for aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) in Kruger National Park, South Africa	3
Marula (Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra, Anacardiaceae) thrives under climate change in sub‐Saharan Africa	3
Land use induced land cover changes and future scenarios in extent of Miombo woodland and Dambo ecosystems in the Copperbelt province of Zambia	3
Survey of non‐native small mammals traded in South Africa	3
Land cover change of arid environment in Tunisia based on analysis of Landsat images	3
Rainfall, fire and large‐mammal‐induced drivers of Vachellia drepanolobium establishment: Implications for woody plant encroachment in Maswa, Tanzania	3
Above‐ground biomass and vegetation attributes in the forest‐savannah mosaic of Togo, West Africa	3
Vouchers control for illegal bushmeat transport and reveal dynamics of authorised wild meat trade in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)	3