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

Article	Citations
The interplay of spatial scale and landscape transformation modulates the abundance and intraspecific variation in the ecomorphological traits of a phyllostomid bat	19
Palm functional trait responses to local environmental factors in the Colombian Amazon	11
Population age structures, persistence and flowering cues inCerberiopsis candelabra(Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic rain-forest tree in New Caledonia	9
Habitat heterogeneity supports day-flying Lepidoptera in oil palm plantations	9
Acaciainvasion differentially impacts soil properties of two contrasting tropical lowland forests in Brunei Darussalam	8
Tree density-dependence effects on seed dispersal of a large-seeded tropical tree	8
Niche partitioning between hummingbirds and well-matched flowers is independent of hummingbird traits	8
Litter production in successional forests of southern Bahia, Brazil	8
Attack rates on artificial caterpillars in urban areas are higher than in suburban areas in Colombia	7
The effect of tree-on-tree interactions and abiotic conditions on woody communities in Brazilian savannas	6
Diversity patterns of lizard assemblages from a protected habitat mosaic in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna	6
Bat diversity is driven by elevation and distance to the nearest watercourse in aterra firmeforest in the northeastern Brazilian Amazon	6
Foliar characteristics of neotropical forest affect assemblages structure of parasitoid insects	6
Seasonal dietary niche changes in Neotropical bats	5
Microhabitat preferences and guild structure of a tropical reptile community from the Western Ghats of India: implications for conservation	5
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	5
Predicting the potential suitable habitats of forest spices Piper capense and Aframomum corrorima under climate change in Ethiopia	5
Potential seed dispersal agents of Monoon liukiuense on Iriomote Island, Japan	5
Evolution and emergence of mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance: towards a routine metagenomic surveillance approach	5
Changes in spinescence across leaf ontogeny support the optimal defence hypothesis in blackberries (Rubus adenotrichos)	5
Fruit traits of tree species in lower montane rainforest at Doi Suthep–Pui, northern Thailand	5
Body mass determines the role of mammal species in a frugivore-large fruit interaction network in a Neotropical savanna	5
Differences in the structure of bat assemblages among habitats in the Caatinga dry forest	5
The influence of burial depth on germination and establishment of seeds in chimpanzee faeces, Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	4
Variable detectability and El-Niño associations with riparian snakes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo	4

Temperature and soils predict the distribution of plant species along the Himalayan elevational gradient	4
Limited influence of experimentally induced predation risk on granivory in a tropical forest	4
Impacts of invasive alien species on riparian plant communities in South African savanna	4
High level of daily heterothermy in desert gerbils	4
Bacteria associated with leaf-cutter ants drive natural antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria	4
Report on an outbreak of coral-killing sponge Clathria (Microciona) aceratoobtusa in an unprotected reef of the Gulf of Mannar, India	3
Biogeographic and fragmentation-related research biases on antbirds and non-flying small mammals in Brazil	3
Pollen movement of the endemic Agave cupreata by bats and birds in western Mexico	3
Taxonomic scale dependency of Bergmann’s patterns: a cross-scale comparison of hawkmoths and birds along a tropical elevational gradient	3
Turnover in fish species composition is related to water colour of Amazonian rivers	3
Spatial association of bamboos with trees in a commercial tree plantation forest in Myanmar	3
Elevation and cation exchange capacity determine diversity of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador	3
Macrotermes termite mounds influence the spatial pattern of tree species in two African rainforest sites, in northern Congo. But were they really forests in the past?	3
Tree height effects on vascular anatomy of upper-canopy twigs across a wide range of tropical rainforest species	3
Influence of rhizosphere activity on litter decomposition in subtropical forest: implications of estimating soil organic matter contributions to soil respiration	3
Habitat-dependent effects of predatory spiders on prey frogs in a Neotropical wet forest	3
Bioclimatic predictors of forest structure, composition and phenology in the Paraguayan Dry Chaco	3
Revisiting the phenology of El Triunfo cloud forest, Mexico, 30 years later	3
Females restrict the position of domatia and suffer more herbivory than hermaphrodites inMyriocarpa longipes,a neotropical facultative myrmecophyte	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
Herb–subshrub diversity in open savanna sites with distinct fire regimes in the Jalapão region, Brazil	3
The potential distribution of Cyclopes didactylus, a silky anteater, reveals a likely unknown population and urgent need for forest conservation in Northeast Brazil	3
Evidence of sodium limitation in ants and termites in a Neotropical savanna	3
Comparisons of habitat types and host tree species across a threatened Caribbean orchid’s core and edge distribution	3
Variation in soil organic carbon stocks in Singapore with forest succession and land management	3
Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon	3
Conservation management and termites: a case study from central Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)	3
Acoustic competition within a tropical bird community: the case of the Resplendent QuetzalPharomachrus mocinnoin Guatemala	3
Soil-litter ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) community response to reforested lands of Gishwati tropical montane forest, northern-western part of Rwanda	2
Predicted distribution of the endemic fern Elaphoglossum beddomei reveals threats to rainforests of Western Ghats of India	2
Plant defence traits among discrete vegetation assemblages in a mesic savanna landscape in Kenya	2
Response of avian and mammal seed dispersal networks to human-induced forest edges in a sub-humid tropical forest	2
Divergent litterfall nutrient responses to rainfall seasonality revealed through long-term observations in a tropical dry forest	2
Tree recruitment after native frugivore extinction? A field experiment to test the impact of fruit flesh persistence in a tropical oceanic island	2
Lightly-harvested rustic cocoa is a valuable land cover for amphibian and reptile conservation in human-modified rainforest landscapes	2
The impact of roads on the movement of arboreal fauna in protected areas: the case of lar and pileated gibbons in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand	2
Golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus chrysogaster) consume and share mammalian prey at LuiKotale, Democratic Republic of the Congo	2
Forest canopy resists plant invasions: a case study ofChromolaena odoratain Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Nepal	2
Assessing forest restoration effectiveness in the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest ecoregion using epigaeic ant assemblages	2
Functional diversity in relation to the longitudinal gradient of a species-rich Neotropical river	2
Wing shape differences along a migration route of the long-distance migrant Globe Skimmer DragonflyPantala flavescens	2
Light penetration and topography shape juvenile tree species assemblies in the understory of the tropical Andean cloud forest	2
Soil nutrient transect from Ngorongoro crater to the centre of Serengeti	2
Nest density ofAtta sexdens(Linnaeus, 1758) in Atlantic Forest restoration sites depends on the surrounding landscape	2
Climate and vegetation collectively drive soil respiration in montane forest-grassland landscapes of the southern Western Ghats, India	2
El Niño oscillations impact anti-predator defences to alter survival of an herbivorous beetle in a neotropical wet forest	2
Evaluating the utility of protected area status and conservation legislation in tropical forest conservation using satellite data: a case study of the great hornbill in Thailand	2
Photosynthetic acclimation, leaf turnover and growth in tree seedlings suddenly exposed to gaps in Jamaican montane rainforest	2
Microhabitat partitioning is driven by preferences, not competition, in two Costa Rican millipede species	2
Andean bears hunt wild guinea pigs in Colombian paramos	2

Overcoming the regeneration barriers of tropical dry forest: effects of water stress and herbivory on seedling performance and allocation of key tree species for restoration	2
Topography as a determinant of bird distribution in secondary Atlantic Forest fragments	1
Diversity and abundance of arthropod communities from Rugezi Marshland, Northern Rwanda: call for effective and sustainable biodiversity conservation planning	1
Attracted to feed, not to be fed upon – on the biology of Toxomerus basalis (Walker, 1836), the kleptoparasitic ‘sundew flower fly’ (Diptera: Syrphidae)	1
Mangrove propagules are limited in their capacity to disperse across long distances	1
Habitat use by mixed-species bird flocks in tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India	1
Phenotypic plasticity and insect herbivory of trees in contrasting light environments in a Mexican rainforest	1
Distribution and community structure of fish in relation with water physico-chemical parameters of floodplain rivers in the Alitash National Park, Ethiopia	1
Strengthening ecologically based rodent management in the Philippines using maximum entropy (MaxEnt) predictions	1
Biotic and abiotic drivers of dung beetle assemblage structure in Kenyan Afromontane forest: trees and elephants matter	1
What happens to epiphytic bromeliads in a windy spot?	1
Avifaunal feeding guilds’ response to landscape compositional heterogeneity and their drivers in forest mosaic, Uttarakhand, India	1
Hail-caused greenfall leaves, litterfall, nutrients, and leaf decomposition in tropical cloud forest and a restoration planting	1
Interaction networks between solitary hymenopterans and their natural enemies in different restoration areas	1
Sex ratios, damage and distribution ofMyrianthus holstiiEngl.: a dioecious afromontane forest tree	1
Plant community and native primate as drivers of habitat use by an exotic primate (Saimirispp. Linnaeus, 1758) in an Atlantic Forest fragment	1
Pinangapalms revisited 20 years on: what can changes inPinangaspecies populations tell us about rainforest understory palm persistence?	1
Revising the role of the endemic New Caledonian imperial pigeon (Ducula goliath Gray, 1859) as a key disperser of tropical rainforest trees	1
Statistical analysis of species association indices	1
Impact of weather conditions on cheetah monitoring with scat detection dogs	1
Factors influencing tropical lizard reproduction vary by microhabitat but not forest type	1
Environmental factors influencing invertebrate communities in caves and surrounding habitats in the Neotropics	1
Effects of seed size and toucan regurgitation on the germination of the tropical tree Eugenia uniflora	1
Importance of litter dynamics of economically important trees for sustainable land management in dry tropics	1
National parks and conservation concessions: a comparison between mammal populations in two types of tropical protected areas in Ucayali, Peru	1
Estimation of the number of tree species in French Guiana by extrapolation of permanent plots richness	1