OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolutionary Ecology is 2. 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
Intraspecific variation of reproductive interference capability in Callosobruchus species	18
Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding	15
Right or left-handed: are locomotion type, body size, and microhabitat related to forelimb laterality in anurans?	12
Integrating ecological niche modeling and rates of evolution to model geographic regions of mimetic color pattern selection	11
Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder?	10
Evidence for an innate basis of prey preference in a desert ambush predator	10
History matters: evolutionary and demographic reconstruction of the Southwest Atlantic loggerheads (Testudinata: Cheloniidae)	10
Eco-evolutionary dynamics at the altitudinal limit of a transcontinental boreal conifer	10
Body size in Batesian mimicry	9
Eating to the beat of the drum: vibrational parameters of toe tapping behavior in Dendrobates truncatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)	9
Modeling defensive functions of alkaloids within diverse chemical portfolios	9
Are contest-related trait exaggeration and intrasexual dimorphism evolutionarily correlated across harvestman species?	9
Reproductive behaviors promote ecological and phenotypic sexual differentiation in the critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog	8
A paradox of parasite resistance: disease-driven trophic cascades increase the cost of resistance, selecting for lower resistance with parasites than without them	8
Spatial trends in morphology do not predict species’ responses to climatic warming in Australian birds	8
Catching the red eye: field evidence that artificial prey with red eye-like markings are preferentially avoided by avian predators	8
Experimental evidence that spate-induced downstream dispersal drives spatial sorting of visual–cognitive traits in a stream fish	8
Rapid cross-generational changes in morphology and mate choice following an extreme climatic event	7
It’s all relative: the interpretation of Allen’s rule and its consequences for understanding morphological responses to climatic warming	7
Relationships between vocalization characteristics and sperm traits in a neotropical treefrog	7
A model species in focus: the silver-thread moss Bryum argenteum as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies	7
Inter-population variation in fin sexual dimorphism in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)	7
Geographic variation of body size in a plateau anuran: evidence supporting the water availability and heat balance trade-off hypothesis	7
Food availability in the nursery affects parental food allocation but not tadpole begging performance in a frog with facultative parental care	7
Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds	7

Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection	6
Sex-specific effects of antagonistic coevolution: insights from an insect host and a bacterial pathogen coevolution system	6
Variation in female-biased sexual size dimorphism of northern pike (Esox lucius) associated with environment and life history	6
Across the Gobi Desert: impact of landscape features on the biogeography and phylogeographically-structured release calls of the Mongolian Toad, Strauchbufo raddei in East Asia	6
The size of hoverfly mimics relative to their models and its implications for the evolution of mimicry	6
Pollination inaccuracy: estimating male fitness in the movement-assisted dichogamous species Clerodendrum infortunatum	6
Large brain in undisturbed headwaters: validation of general evolutionary predictions from a local-scale perspective	6
Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs	6
Wing membrane thickness, allometric scaling and wing interference patterns in damselflies: a target of sexual selection?	6
Partial ecological niche differentiation suggests incipient ecological divergence in Dianthus polylepis subspecies	6
An evolutionary approach by second derivatives of the population growth rate of Castilleja tenuiflora, a hemiparasitic plant with and without hosts	6
Random egg-laying in host nests by common cuckoo	5
Analysis of the leaf metabolome in Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines reveals association of metabolic disruption and fitness consequence	5
Geometric morphometrics enables accurate predictions of palaeoecology and reveals unique adaptations to an expanded niche space in extinct waterfowl	5
Self-fertilization does not lead to inbreeding depression in Typha parent species or hybrids	5
Do common dispersal influences inform a large lizard’s landscape-scale gene flow?	5
Habitat and local climate influence the activity and abundance of Baron’s Mantella frog (Mantella baroni)	5
Intraspecies variation in cytoplasmic incompatibility intensity in the bean beetle Callosobruchus analis	5
Quantity discrimination, decision-making, and the role of early-life conditions in a lizard	5
Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles	5
Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)	5
Plumage coloration and parental provisioning effort in varied tit (Sittiparus varius)	5
Habitat effects on local adaptation and plasticity of thermal tolerance across life stages in tropical Bicyclus butterflies	5
Effects of predator associative learning and innate aversion on mimicry complexes	5
Dispersal in small organisms: “varied, many, and often ingenious methods”	4
Hybrid lizards with introgressed MtDNA show increased resistance to DNA damage from reactive oxygen species	4
Environmental gradients structure assemblages of Canidae across the planet	4
Pollinator-mediated selection on flowering start and corolla tube length differed between mating systems in a primrose species	4
Phenological divergence in the rice stem borer correlates with rice domestication	4
Tests of reproductive skew theory: a review and prospectus	4
Variation in soldier investment is linked to the evolution of termite soldier defense strategies	4
Why do some funneliform flowers have petal folds accompanied with hierarchical surface microstructure?	4
A model of optimal digestive strategy in infrequently-feeding snakes	4
Effect of rearing density on the expression of fitness-related traits in male sand field crickets (Gryllus firmus)	4
Beyond color and pattern: elucidating the factors associated with intraspecific aggression in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)	4
Larval cannibalism in Phyllobates poison frogs	4
Mother strawberry poison frogs might supplement nutritive eggs with secretory provisioning	4
Tufted titmice, black-crested titmice, and their hybrids occupy different types of habitat within their hybrid zone	4
A call for more ecologically and evolutionarily relevant studies of immune costs	4
Multilevel phenotypic responses of lizards to recurrent burned landscapes	4
Definition, deviation and distraction: the burning questions in physical dormancy and fire ecology	3
The orchid mantis exhibits high ontogenetic colouration variety and intersexual life history differences	3
Scaling and developmental integration of a secondary sexual sensory trait	3
The molecular basis and evolution of toxin resistance in poison frogs	3
Prey vigilance and predator deterrence	3
From self-interest to cooperation: extra-pair mating as a driver of relaxed territorial aggression in social neighbourhoods	3
Revisiting and interpreting the role of female dominance in male mate choice: the importance of replication in ecology and evolution	3
Nest Integration: a novel form of food acquisition by altricial fledglings	3
Which side are you on? Spider web positioning affects prey capture more than body colour	3
Behavioural consistency across metamorphosis in a neotropical poison frog	3

Brain anatomy of a clonal fish, the Amazon Molly (Poecilia formosa): effects of early-life environment	3
The color of attraction: carotenoid-based coloration in the black Cherry (Prunus serotina) fruit ripening and its interaction with the gray silky-flycatcher (Ptiliogonys cinereus)	3
Phylogenetic analysis of the “winter moth syndrome”: ecological correlates of female flightlessness and cold-season activity in Geometridae	3
Do past and present abiotic conditions explain variation in the nutritional quality of wildflower pollens for bees?	3
Acoustic and visual behavior in Boana albomarginata and Dendropsophus minutus (Anura: Hylidae) in response to conspecific playback in northeast Brazil	3
Established Barriers: Does fine-scale acoustic partitioning facilitate syntopy in two closely related Neotropical treefrogs?	3
Perception of con- and heterospecific injury cues in tadpoles of dendrobatid, ranid and bufonid frogs (Anura)	3
Cyanogenesis variation in white clover is decoupled from regional climate and human footprint across a longitudinal gradient	3
Proximate drivers of elevational variation in body size in a Mediterranean lizard	3
Estimating the volume of biological structures from a single 2D image: considering apparent cross-sectional area as an alternative to the ellipsoid method	3
Nest switching vs. nest integration: a comment on Fernandez-Duque et al.	2
Flight performance evolved with forked tails and opportunities for extrapair mating in swallows	2
Grasping hold of functional trade-offs using the diversity of foot forms in Australian birds	2
Assessing the speed of individual bacteria dispersing on mycelial networks	2
Density-dependent selection at low food levels leads to the evolution of population stability in Drosophila melanogaster even without an inverse r-K relationship	2
JNplots: an R package to visualize outputs from the Johnson–Neyman technique for categorical and continuous moderators, including options for phylogenetic regressions	2
Genetic signatures of bufadienolide resistance are poor predictors of cane toad toxin resistance in crocodilians	2
Urban-rural gradients: how landscape changes drive adaptive evolution of plant competitive traits	2
Size and dispersal-related traits have not evolved, but warmer developmental temperatures have implications for movement of Pieris rapae butterflies in urban landscapes	2
Evolution of the batoidea pectoral fin skeleton: convergence, modularity, and integration driving disparity trends	2
Colonization patterns of epi- and endogenous habitats suggest extrinsic and intrinsic drivers to cavernicoly on Réunion island by Cixiidae (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha)	2
Effects of body size and larval diet type on reproductive traits in two diverse clades of European Lepidoptera	2
Multiple regression, not ratios, for analyzing relative appendage size	2
Recent past connections between Amazonian and Atlantic forests by comparative phylogeography and paleodistribution models for didelphid mammals	2
Phenotypic plasticity in shell morphometrics of the barnacle Coronula diadema (Linnaeus, 1767) reflects cetacean hydrodynamics	2
Hidden costs of regeneration: mate choice context determines reproductive success and population growth in Cheilomenes sexmaculata	2
Variable infections but no evidence of immune priming in bumble bee hosts against novel exposure to a honey bee virus	2
How to move and when to escape: quantifying intraspecific exploratory and anti-predator behavior in an aposematic poison frog	2
Frequency distributions, dimorphisms, and allometric variation in size of the weapon on male harvestmen (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones)	2
Nest thermal dynamics and predicted sex ratio in endemic freshwater crocodylian, gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) in Chambal River, India	2
Evidence for temporal morphological change in northern but not southern breeding crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia spp.)	2
Experimental evidence in a poison frog model suggests that tadpole transport on the dorsum may affects warning signal effectiveness in poison frogs	2
The loss of female sperm storage ability as a potential driver for increased extinction in Chondrichthyes	2
Sexually attractive males produce relatively more sons in an externally fertilising fish	2
Developments in the study of poison frog evolutionary ecology II: decoding hidden messages in their coloration and unique behaviours	2