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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Can energy density influence treefrog distribution and species functional traits?	26
Perception of con- and heterospecific injury cues in tadpoles of dendrobatid, ranid and bufonid frogs (Anura)	19
Complex landscape, instream and anthropogenic environmental features drive genetic and morphological structuring amongst brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in a dendritic river system	19
Large brain in undisturbed headwaters: validation of general evolutionary predictions from a local-scale perspective	19
Ecological and genetic distinctiveness of socially hybridogenetic lineages of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants at regional and local scales	16
Integrating ecological niche modeling and rates of evolution to model geographic regions of mimetic color pattern selection	15
Definition, deviation and distraction: the burning questions in physical dormancy and fire ecology	14
Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder?	13
Do past and present abiotic conditions explain variation in the nutritional quality of wildflower pollens for bees?	13
Aggressive behaviour in the skyhoppers of the Australian Alps	13
Correction to: Methods for studying allometry in geometric morphometrics: a comparison of performance	12
Multivariate selection and the making and breaking of mutational pleiotropy	12
Sexual dichromatism in a cryptic poison frog is correlated with female tadpole transport	12
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in two-species mutualistic systems: one-sided population decline triggers joint interaction disinvestment	10
Right or left-handed: are locomotion type, body size, and microhabitat related to forelimb laterality in anurans?	10
The ability to sequester the alkaloid epibatidine is widespread among dendrobatid poison frogs	10
Novel and classical methods similarly describe variation in territory size among males in Neotropical poison frogs with contrasting reproductive and behavioral strategies	9
An evolutionary approach by second derivatives of the population growth rate of Castilleja tenuiflora, a hemiparasitic plant with and without hosts	9
The molecular basis and evolution of toxin resistance in poison frogs	9
Eco-evolutionary dynamics further weakens mutualistic interaction and coexistence under population decline	8
A common measure of prey immune function is not constrained by the cascading effects of predators	8
Genomic heterozygosity is associated with parasite abundance, but the effects are not mediated by host condition	8
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	8
Female preference for super-sized male ornaments and its implications for the evolution of ornament allometry	8
The resilience of reproductive interference	8

Correction to: Evolutionary allometry of sexual dimorphism of jumping performance in anurans	7
Beyond canonical models: why a broader understanding of Diptera-microbiota interactions is essential for vector-borne disease control	7
Body size traits in the flightless bush-cricket are plastic rather than locally adapted along an elevational gradient	7
Thermal stress and mutation accumulation increase heat shock protein expression in Daphnia	6
Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs	6
Size as a complex trait and the scaling relationships of its components across teleosts	6
Clutch size and the rejection of parasitic eggs: a comparative test of the maternal investment hypothesis	6
Temporal stability in color patterns and body size variation in a six-year monitored population of the aposematic toad (Melanophryniscus rubriventris)	6
Intraspecific variation of reproductive interference capability in Callosobruchus species	6
Phenotypic shifts following admixture in recombinant offspring of Arabidopsis thaliana	6
Riverine barriers to gene flow in a salamander with both aquatic and terrestrial reproduction	5
History matters: evolutionary and demographic reconstruction of the Southwest Atlantic loggerheads (Testudinata: Cheloniidae)	5
Impact of developmental temperatures on thermal plasticity and repeatability of metabolic rate	5
Could adult or juvenile dispersal shape geographical parthenogenesis? Evidence from the facultatively parthenogenetic phasmid Megacrania batesii	5
Capture tolerance: A neglected third component of aposematism?	5
Vision in dim light and the evolution of color pattern in a crepuscular/nocturnal frog	5
Recent past connections between Amazonian and Atlantic forests by comparative phylogeography and paleodistribution models for didelphid mammals	5
Complex eco-evolutionary dynamics induced by the coevolution of predator–prey movement strategies	5
A comparative study on insect longevity: tropical moths do not differ from their temperate relatives	5
Effects of long-term ethanol storage of blood samples on the estimation of telomere length	5
Does reproductive output differ between related and unrelated male-female pairs of guppies, Poecilia reticulata?	4
Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding	4
Commentary: Infectious disease — the ecological theater and the evolutionary play	4
From self-interest to cooperation: extra-pair mating as a driver of relaxed territorial aggression in social neighbourhoods	4
Habitat and local climate influence the activity and abundance of Baron’s Mantella frog (Mantella baroni)	4
Revisiting and interpreting the role of female dominance in male mate choice: the importance of replication in ecology and evolution	4
Body size in Batesian mimicry	4
Ontogenetic scaling of disc width with total length in west African batoids	4
The contribution of maternal and paternal body size to offspring early adulthood life histories in a parasitoid wasp, Lysiphlebus fabarum	4
Adult poison frogs can capture and consume aquatic tadpoles	4
Eating to the beat of the drum: vibrational parameters of toe tapping behavior in Dendrobates truncatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)	4
Assessing the speed of individual bacteria dispersing on mycelial networks	4
Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)	4
A well-studied parasitoid fly of field crickets uses multiple alternative hosts in its introduced range	4
Putting the energetic-savings hypothesis underground: fossoriality does not affect metabolic rates in amphibians	4
The interplay of multiple spatial scales influences plant–herbivore interactions	4
Plasticity in thermal hardening of the invasive Asian house gecko	4
Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection	4
Modeling defensive functions of alkaloids within diverse chemical portfolios	4
Deceived, but not betrayed: static allometry suggests female ornaments in the long-tailed dance fly (Rhamphomyia longicauda) exaggerate condition to males	4
Biocontrol exerts natural selection against fecundity traits in Cytisus scoparius (L.)	4
Function predicts the allometry of contest-related traits, but not sexual or male dimorphism in the amazonian tusked harvestman	3
Under pressure: evidence for selection on color-related genes in poison frogs of the genus Ranitomeya	3
Transitions and its indicators in mutualistic meta-networks: effects of network topology, size of metacommunities and species dispersal	3
Sigmoid allometries generate male dimorphism in secondary sexual traits: a comment on Packard (2023)	3
Commentary: The ecological and evolutionary implications of allometry	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
Ontogenetic shift in diet of a large elapid snake is facilitated by allometric change in skull morphology	3
Should I stay, should I go, or something in between? The potential for parasite-mediated and age-related differential migration strategies	3
Evidence for an innate basis of prey preference in a desert ambush predator	3

Sex- and trait-specific silver-spoon effects of developmental environments, on ageing	3
Chemical defense and tonic immobility in early life stages of the Harlequin cabbage bug, Murgantia histrionica (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)	3
Eco-evolutionary dynamics at the altitudinal limit of a transcontinental boreal conifer	3
Automated workflows using Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA): a guide to batch processing and downstream data analysis	3
The role of pictorial cues and contrast for camouflage	3
Relaxed selection and the evolution of the chasmogamous flower of Impatiens capensis (Balsaminaceae)	3
Frequency distributions, dimorphisms, and allometric variation in size of the weapon on male harvestmen (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Opiliones)	2
How does access to water at different life-stages affect male investment in reproduction and survival?	2
Reproductive ecology of treefrogs: egg size promotes reproductive effort differences between females	2
Correction: Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs	2
Fledgling integration in altricial birds: a response to Redondo and Amat	2
Methodological inconsistencies define thermal bottlenecks in fish life cycle: a comment on Dahlke et al. 2020	2
Comment on: Assessment of the dunnocks’ introduction to New Zealand using innate immune-gene diversity, by Lara et al	2
Ecological and behavioral correlates of homing performance in the egg-feeding poison frog Oophaga histrionica	2
Climate and habitat niche diversification in a southwest European squamate assemblage	2
Resource availability for the mosquito Aedes aegypti affects the transmission mode evolution of a microsporidian parasite	2
Behaviourally mediated camouflage in the furrowed crab (Xantho Hydrophilus)	2
Reproductive behaviors promote ecological and phenotypic sexual differentiation in the critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog	2
Relationship between model noxiousness and mimetic accuracy in myrmecomorphic spiders	2
Correction to: Variation in female-biased sexual size dimorphism of northern pike (Esox lucius) associated with environment and life history	2
Intraspecific competitive interactions rapidly evolve via spontaneous mutations	2
Flight performance evolved with forked tails and opportunities for extrapair mating in swallows	2
Intraspecific divergence of sexual size dimorphism and reproductive strategies in a polytypic poison frog	2
A model for evolutionary rescue through plant mating system	2
Reproductive trade-offs in the colorado checkered whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus): an examination of the relationship between clutch and follicle size	2
Spatio-temporal colour variation of arthropods and their environment	2
Variation in allometry along the weapon-signal continuum	2
Analysis of the leaf metabolome in Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines reveals association of metabolic disruption and fitness consequence	2
Leaf toughness is a better predictor of herbivory and plant performance than leaf mass per area (LMA) in temperate evergreens	2
Evolution under domestication of correlated traits in two edible columnar cacti in Mexico	2
Virulence evolution during a naturally occurring parasite outbreak	2
Fish scale shape follows predictable patterns of variation based on water column position, body size, and phylogeny	2
Mutualism enhances Wolbachia infection rates in ant-attended Tuberculatus aphid species (Hemiptera: Aphididae)	2
Intraspecies variation in cytoplasmic incompatibility intensity in the bean beetle Callosobruchus analis	2
The evolution of body coloration in dung beetles: diel activity and sexual dimorphism	2
Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles	2
Eco-evolutionary feedback as a driver of periodic state shifts in tri-trophic food chains	2
High relative humidity and temperature limit disease development and mortality in golden frogs of Panama, Atelopus zeteki, infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	2
Predator-based selection and the impact of edge sympatry on components of coral snake mimicry	2
Conserved worker policing in African carpenter ants with drastically different egg chemotypes	2
Size and shape variation in the male dimorphic head weapons of an anthribid weevil (Hoherius meinertzhageni)	2
How to move and when to escape: quantifying intraspecific exploratory and anti-predator behavior in an aposematic poison frog	2
Do common dispersal influences inform a large lizard’s landscape-scale gene flow?	2