OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolutionary Ecology is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Non-visual crypsis: an updated review of current understanding	25
Intraspecific variation of reproductive interference capability in Callosobruchus species	25
Does the diversity of anuran iris patterns have an ecological function or is it just beauty in the eye of the beholder?	18
Right or left-handed: are locomotion type, body size, and microhabitat related to forelimb laterality in anurans?	17
History matters: evolutionary and demographic reconstruction of the Southwest Atlantic loggerheads (Testudinata: Cheloniidae)	13
Integrating ecological niche modeling and rates of evolution to model geographic regions of mimetic color pattern selection	13
Modeling defensive functions of alkaloids within diverse chemical portfolios	12
Eco-evolutionary dynamics at the altitudinal limit of a transcontinental boreal conifer	11
Eating to the beat of the drum: vibrational parameters of toe tapping behavior in Dendrobates truncatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)	11
Spatial trends in morphology do not predict species’ responses to climatic warming in Australian birds	10
Geographic variation of body size in a plateau anuran: evidence supporting the water availability and heat balance trade-off hypothesis	10
Body size in Batesian mimicry	10
Reproductive behaviors promote ecological and phenotypic sexual differentiation in the critically endangered Lehmann’s poison frog	10
Extrapair mating opportunity explains the evolutionary transition between the presence and absence of tail ornamentation in swallows	10
Evidence for an innate basis of prey preference in a desert ambush predator	10
Experimental evidence that spate-induced downstream dispersal drives spatial sorting of visual–cognitive traits in a stream fish	10
It’s all relative: the interpretation of Allen’s rule and its consequences for understanding morphological responses to climatic warming	9
A paradox of parasite resistance: disease-driven trophic cascades increase the cost of resistance, selecting for lower resistance with parasites than without them	9
Catching the red eye: field evidence that artificial prey with red eye-like markings are preferentially avoided by avian predators	9
Relationships between vocalization characteristics and sperm traits in a neotropical treefrog	8
Rapid cross-generational changes in morphology and mate choice following an extreme climatic event	8
Inter-population variation in fin sexual dimorphism in Medaka (Oryzias latipes)	8
Food availability in the nursery affects parental food allocation but not tadpole begging performance in a frog with facultative parental care	8
Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds	8
A model species in focus: the silver-thread moss Bryum argenteum as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies	8

Pollination inaccuracy: estimating male fitness in the movement-assisted dichogamous species Clerodendrum infortunatum	7
Partial ecological niche differentiation suggests incipient ecological divergence in Dianthus polylepis subspecies	7
Large brain in undisturbed headwaters: validation of general evolutionary predictions from a local-scale perspective	7
Sex-specific effects of antagonistic coevolution: insights from an insect host and a bacterial pathogen coevolution system	7
Variation in female-biased sexual size dimorphism of northern pike (Esox lucius) associated with environment and life history	7
Selective alarm call mimicry in the sexual display of the male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)	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
Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs	6
Random egg-laying in host nests by common cuckoo	6
Plumage coloration and parental provisioning effort in varied tit (Sittiparus varius)	6
Female preference for super-sized male ornaments and its implications for the evolution of ornament allometry	6
Aggressive behaviour in the skyhoppers of the Australian Alps	6
Environmental variation shapes and links parasitism to sexual selection	6
The size of hoverfly mimics relative to their models and its implications for the evolution of mimicry	6
An evolutionary approach by second derivatives of the population growth rate of Castilleja tenuiflora, a hemiparasitic plant with and without hosts	6
Habitat and local climate influence the activity and abundance of Baron’s Mantella frog (Mantella baroni)	5
Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles	5
Habitat effects on local adaptation and plasticity of thermal tolerance across life stages in tropical Bicyclus butterflies	5
Do common dispersal influences inform a large lizard’s landscape-scale gene flow?	5
Analysis of the leaf metabolome in Arabidopsis thaliana mutation accumulation lines reveals association of metabolic disruption and fitness consequence	5
Dispersal in small organisms: “varied, many, and often ingenious methods”	5
Intraspecies variation in cytoplasmic incompatibility intensity in the bean beetle Callosobruchus analis	5
Effect of rearing density on the expression of fitness-related traits in male sand field crickets (Gryllus firmus)	5
Resource availability for the mosquito Aedes aegypti affects the transmission mode evolution of a microsporidian parasite	5
Hybrid lizards with introgressed MtDNA show increased resistance to DNA damage from reactive oxygen species	4
Larval cannibalism in Phyllobates poison frogs	4
Effects of predator associative learning and innate aversion on mimicry complexes	4
Beyond color and pattern: elucidating the factors associated with intraspecific aggression in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)	4
Pollinator-mediated selection on flowering start and corolla tube length differed between mating systems in a primrose species	4
A model of optimal digestive strategy in infrequently-feeding snakes	4
Why do some funneliform flowers have petal folds accompanied with hierarchical surface microstructure?	4
Colours as aggregation signals in Lepidoptera: Are Heliconius Müllerian mimics?	4
Variation in soldier investment is linked to the evolution of termite soldier defense strategies	4
Tests of reproductive skew theory: a review and prospectus	4
Environmental gradients structure assemblages of Canidae across the planet	4
Mother strawberry poison frogs might supplement nutritive eggs with secretory provisioning	4
A call for more ecologically and evolutionarily relevant studies of immune costs	4
Self-fertilization does not lead to inbreeding depression in Typha parent species or hybrids	4