OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Tropical Ecology is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beetle rhythms in the rain: time series analysis and seasonal activity patterns of sympatric large-sized Goliathinae in Uganda’s forests	15
Tree density-dependence effects on seed dispersal of a large-seeded tropical tree	14
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	14
Timing, magnitude, and sources of coarse particulate organic matter in tropical montane streams	12
Population genetics of the endangered black walnut Juglans neotropica (Juglandaceae) based on plastid data from the Amazonas region	12
Spatiotemporal effects on the assemblage heterogeneity of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	10
A natural hybrid of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes benstonei × rafflesiana (Nepenthaceae) emits vivid gre	9
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	9
Land snail abundance and diversity across varied land-use types in and around Lamto Reserve, Central Côte d’Ivoire	9
Forest dynamics during the thinning phase of succession following a severe windstorm in a hurricane-free tropical forest	9
The effect of tree-on-tree interactions and abiotic conditions on woody communities in Brazilian savannas	8
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	7
Differences in the structure of bat assemblages among habitats in the Caatinga dry forest	7
Evolution and emergence of mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance: towards a routine metagenomic surveillance approach	7
Foliar characteristics of neotropical forest affect assemblages structure of parasitoid insects	7
Living in the edge: large terrestrial mammal and bird species traits and the ability to cope with extreme environmental conditions and human disturbance in a tropical dry forest in Colombia	7
Changes in spinescence across leaf ontogeny support the optimal defence hypothesis in blackberries (Rubus adenotrichos)	6
Potential seed dispersal agents of Monoon liukiuense on Iriomote Island, Japan	6
Seasonal dietary niche changes in Neotropical bats	6
Bat diversity is driven by elevation and distance to the nearest watercourse in aterra firmeforest in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon	6
Blending in – an unobtrusive method for observing behaviour in nocturnal arboreal mammals in the tropics using thermal optics from an elevated platform	6
First records of tent-roosting bats from the northern Atlantic Forest, Brazil	5
Impacts of invasive alien species on riparian plant communities in South African savanna	5
The influence of burial depth on germination and establishment of seeds in chimpanzee faeces, Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	5
High level of daily heterothermy in desert gerbils	5

Report on an outbreak of coral-killing sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa in an unprotected reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India	4
Revisiting the phenology of El Triunfo cloud forest, Mexico, 30 years later	4
The potential distribution of Cyclopes didactylus, a silky anteater, reveals a likely unknown population and urgent need for forest conservation in Northeast Brazil	4
Pollen movement of the endemic Agave cupreata by bats and birds in western Mexico	4
Strategies for cave prospecting and non-troglobitic biodiversity surveys in Brazil	4
How do macrophyte cover and environmental variables influence the microcrustacean community across wet and dry seasons in a tropical marginal lake?	3
Predicted distribution of the endemic fern Elaphoglossum beddomei reveals threats to rainforests of Western Ghats of India	3
Climate and vegetation collectively drive soil respiration in montane forest-grassland landscapes of the southern Western Ghats, India	3
El Niño oscillations impact anti-predator defences to alter survival of an herbivorous beetle in a neotropical wet forest	3
Avian use of honeydew (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in the Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil	3
Functional diversity in relation to the longitudinal gradient of a species-rich Neotropical river	3
Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon	3
Turnover in fish species composition is related to water colour of Amazonian rivers	3
Bioclimatic predictors of forest structure, composition and phenology in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco	3
Elevation and cation exchange capacity determine diversity of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador	3
Population size of the endangered narrow-range endemic tree Semecarpus Calcicola Kochummen (Anacardiaceae), Mantanani Island, Malaysia	3
Assessing forest restoration effectiveness in the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest ecoregion using epigaeic ant assemblages	3
Nest density ofAtta sexdens(Linnaeus, 1758) in Atlantic Forest restoration sites depends on the surrounding landscape	3
Compositional distinctiveness and patterns of woody species abundance distribution in Ghana’s Mole National Park, Savannah Region	3
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	3
Assessing the short-term body condition of lowland tapirs in relation to selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon	3
Plant defence traits among discrete vegetation assemblages in a mesic savanna landscape in Kenya	3
Tokenisation of forest carbon project: a blockchain-based approach for community engagement	3
Contrasting assemblages of Pinanga palms in lowland tropical forests of Brunei Darussalam, Borneo	3
The association between rainforest disturbance and recovery, tree community composition, and community traits in the Yangambi area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Divergent litterfall nutrient responses to rainfall seasonality revealed through long-term observations in a tropical dry forest	2
Andean bears hunt wild guinea pigs in Colombian paramos	2
Soil nutrient transect from Ngorongoro crater to the centre of Serengeti	2
Hail-caused greenfall leaves, litterfall, nutrients, and leaf decomposition in tropical cloud forest and a restoration planting	2
Strengthening ecologically based rodent management in the Philippines using maximum entropy (MaxEnt) predictions	2
Water column biogeochemistry in a tropical urban estuary	2
Light penetration and topography shape juvenile tree species assemblies in the understory of the tropical Andean cloud forest	2
Plant litter diversity increases arthropod abundance and litter decomposition in a tropical rainforest	2
Statistical analysis of species association indices	2
Choice of carrion bait for monitoring tropical butterflies	2
Soil respiration is correlated with rainfall and soil moisture at multiple temporal scales in a seasonal wet tropical forest	2
Photosynthetic acclimation, leaf turnover and growth in tree seedlings suddenly exposed to gaps in Jamaican montane rainforest	2
Differentiating nectar from pollen foraging affects estimates of specialization in plant-pollinator networks: a case study from the Bornean peat swamp forest canopy	2
Factors influencing tropical lizard reproduction vary by microhabitat but not forest type	2
Phenotypic plasticity and insect herbivory of trees in contrasting light environments in a Mexican rainforest	2
Sex ratios, damage and distribution ofMyrianthus holstiiEngl.: a dioecious afromontane forest tree	2
Mangrove propagules are limited in their capacity to disperse across long distances	1
Planktonic ciliate response to initial filling of a Neotropical water reservoir	1
Revising the role of the endemic New Caledonian imperial pigeon (Ducula goliath Gray, 1859) as a key disperser of tropical rainforest trees	1
Elevated litterfall phosphorus reduces litter and soil organic matter pools in exotic-dominated novel forests in Singapore	1
Contrasting patterns of species, functional and phylogenetic bird diversities in two Tropical dry vegetation types	1
Estimation of the number of tree species in French Guiana by extrapolation of permanent plots richness	1
Importance of litter dynamics of economically important trees for sustainable land management in dry tropics	1
Limited conservation value of traveller’s palm ( Ravenala spp.) on post-forest land in north-eastern Madagascar	1
National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru	1

Assessing interactions between wild host plants and stemborer species in East Africa	1
Changes in soil chemical properties and their spatial distribution after logging and conversion to oil palm plantation in Sabah (Borneo)	1
Diversity and abundance of arthropod communities from Rugezi Marshland, Northern Rwanda: call for effective and sustainable biodiversity conservation planning	1
Effects of seed size and toucan regurgitation on the germination of the tropical tree Eugenia uniflora	1
Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India	1
Landscape and microhabitat structure dictate lizard diversity in semiarid in Caatinga	1
Breaking down to build up: litter decomposition drives soil organic carbon accumulation in young secondary forests	1
Biotic and abiotic drivers of dung beetle assemblage structure in Kenyan Afromontane forest: trees and elephants matter	1
Environmental factors influencing invertebrate communities in caves and surrounding habitats in the Neotropics	1
Availability of oxygen and temperature shape the C-mineralization of the aquatic macrophyte leachates	1