OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Functional Ecology is 10. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Soil and microbial responses to wild ungulate trampling depend more on ecosystem type than trampling severity	181
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Indirect control of decomposition by an invertebrate predator	135
Physiological responses of narwhals to anthropogenic noise: A case study with seismic airguns and vessel traffic in the Arctic	129
Active regulation of ultraviolet light exposure overrides thermal preference behaviour in eastern fence lizards	128
The structure and ecological function of the interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through multilayer networks	86
Warming modulates soil multifunctionality through assembly processes and co‐occurrence patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in drylands	75
Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests	74
Drivers of phenological transitions in the seedling life stage	56
Observational and experimental evidence that rapid mass loss is consistent with the flight efficiency hypothesis and not caused by reproductive effort in three passerine species	55
Odour information enables patch choice by mammalian herbivores from afar, leading to predictable plant associational effects	55
Spatial assembly of grassland communities and interrelationships with productivity	54
Can body mass and skull morphology predict seed and fruit ingestion potential for mammal species? A test using extant species and its application to extinct species	52
The temporal and spatial response of soil fungal community composition and potential function to wildfire in a permafrost region in Canada	50
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Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review	50
Beyond single host, single parasite interactions: Quantifying competence for complete multi‐host, multi‐parasite communities	49
Grazing disrupts the trade‐off between silica‐ and phenol‐based plant defences along an aridity gradient in grasslands	46
Abiotic stress rather than biotic interactions drives contrasting trends in chemical richness and variation in alpine willows	46
Responses to cold temperature determine clinal patterns of photosynthetic acclimation of a cosmopolitan grass genus and challenge the concept of quantifying phenotypic plasticity	44
En route to resources: Foraging strategies of plant‐associated insects to identify resources in complex dynamic environments	44
Herbivore species and patch heterogeneity modulate grazing‐induced shifts in soil nematode trophic structure and energy flux	40
The fingerprint of functional strategies in Mediterranean seagrass fish assemblages	38
Phylogeny of respiratory adaptations and local temperature extremes shape the thermal vulnerability of intertidal crabs	38

Spore production monitoring reveals contrasting seasonal strategies and a trade‐off between spore size and number in wood‐inhabiting fungi	38
Variation in leaf phosphorus fractions reflects plant adaptations and distribution in low‐phosphorus tropical forests	38
Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation	37
Contrasting effects of deadwood and gaps on the trophic structure of forest soil microarthropods	37
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate	37
Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types	35
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem	34
The eco‐evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems	34
Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta‐analysis	34
Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests	33
Sympatric finches increase trophic and spatiotemporal partitioning to enable coexistence through periods of low resource availability	32
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and below‐ground carbon sequestration	31
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Woodland wildfire enables fungal colonization of encroaching Douglas‐fir	31
Convergent remodelling of the gut microbiome is associated with host energetic condition over long‐distance migration	31
Growth enhancements of elevated atmospheric [CO₂] are reduced under drought‐like conditions in temperate eucalypts	31
CO₂‐fertilisation enhances resilience to browsing in the recruitment phase of an encroaching savanna tree	30
Has behavioural thermoregulation evolved solely to stay alive in insects, nothing more?	30
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The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands	28
Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish and North American breeding birds	27
Estimates of nectar productivity through a simulation approach differ from the nectar produced in 24 h	27
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Context‐dependent evolution of high trophic position drives functional disparity in subterranean crustaceans	27
Phenological research based on natural history collections: Practical guidelines and a lepidopteran case study	26
Ant handling changes myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi	25
The influence of pre‐exposure to marine heatwaves on the critical thermal maxima (CT_max) of marine foundation species	25
Seasonal community stability increased with water addition and shrub removal but reduced with nitrogen addition in semi‐arid grassland	25
Multiple mating rescues offspring sex ratio but not productivity in a haplodiploid exposed to developmental heat stress	25
Species provenance and traits mediate establishment and performance in an invaded grassland	25
Forest storm resilience depends on the interplay between functional composition and climate—Insights from European‐scale simulations	25
Dietary restriction fails to extend life in stressful environments	25
Niche complementarity among plants and animals can alter the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship	25
Shifts in wood anatomical traits after a major hurricane	25
Scaling the effects of size and temperature on animal consumption rates from individuals to populations in a subtropical reef fish	24
Meta‐analysis and critical review of trophic discrimination factors (Δ¹³C and Δ¹⁵N): Importance of tissue, trophic level and diet source	24
Higher vascular plant abundance associated with decreased ecosystem respiration after 20 years of warming in the forest–tundra ecotone	24
Soil microbial relative resource limitation exhibited contrasting seasonal patterns along an elevational gradient in Yulong Snow Mountain	24
Functional traits are moderate predictors of above‐ and below‐ground biomass in multispecies seagrass habitats	24
Seed dormancy revisited: Dormancy‐release pathways and environmental interactions	24
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Establishing cordgrass plants cluster their shoots to avoid ecosystem engineering	23
Red fruits exhibit lower colour diversity than red flowers as perceived by birds	23
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Why are vertebrates so big?	23
Interactions between protea plants and their animal mutualists and antagonists are structured more by energetic than morphological trait matching	23
Climate change and coastal wetland salinization: Physiological and ecological consequences for Arctic waterfowl	22
Naturalized alien plants experience less negative soil‐legacy effects and gain competitive advantages through spatial heterogeneity	22
Should I breed or should I go? Manipulating individual state during migration influences breeding decisions in a long‐lived bird species	22

Temporal dynamics of scent mark composition in field‐experimental lizard populations	22
Environmentally induced reconstruction of microbial communities alters particulate carbon flux of deep chlorophyll maxima in the South China sea	22
Large leaf hydraulic safety margins limit the risk of drought‐induced leaf hydraulic dysfunction in Neotropical rainforest canopy tree species	22
Bromeliad populations perform distinct ecological strategies across a tropical elevation gradient	22
Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants	21
The ontogenetic dimension of plant functional ecology	21
Flowering plant communities mediate the effects of habitat composition and configuration on wild pollinator communities	21
Foundation species support fauna across multiple trophic levels via trophic and non‐trophic mechanisms	21
Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients	21
Phenotypic evolution of agricultural crops	21
Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?	21
Differential root nutrient‐acquisition strategies underlie biogeochemical niche separation between grasses and forbs across grassland biomes	21
Top‐down cascading effects of seed‐feeding beetles and their parasitoids on plants and leaf herbivores	21
Conserved responses of nutrient resorption to extreme drought in a grassland: The role of community compositional changes	20
Experimental transplants demonstrate shifts in predation favour evolution of aggressive behaviours in Trinidadian killifish	20
Snake oil in action: Geographic and seasonal variability in epidermal lipids shape evaporative water loss in snakes	20
Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change	20
Nocturnal dissolved organic matter release by turf algae and its role in the microbialization of reefs	20
High metabolic sensitivity to hot drought in two declining pine species with constrained physiology	20
The effect of dead standing (marcescent) biomass on litter decomposition in herbaceous flora is governed by plant functional group	20
The vertebrate bone hypothesis: Understanding the impact of bone on vertebrate stoichiometry	20
Effects of warming and parasitism on root traits and the root economics space	19
Testing trade‐offs in amphibian metamorphic traits: Swimming performance and selection across metamorphic stages in the aquatic frog Xenopus laevis	19
Metacommunity dynamics and the detection of species associations in co‐occurrence analyses: Why patch disturbance matters	19
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Functional Ecology is moving to open access	19
Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole‐plant perspective on growth, nutrient‐use and size	19
How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?	19
Compensation alters estimates of the number of species required to maintain ecosystem functioning across an emersion gradient: A case study with intertidal macroalgae	19
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Eusociality and the transition from biparental to alloparental care in termites	19
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Implication of the myo‐inositol pathway in behavioural alterations of infected threespine sticklebacks	19
Meta‐analysis of effects of common mycorrhizal networks formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant and fungal parameters	18
Soil fungi lead to stronger ‘diminishing returns’ in fine‐root length versus mass allometry towards earlier successional tropical forests	18
Yeast and fruit fly mutual niche construction and antagonism against mould	18
Disentangling the roles of plant functional diversity and plaint traits in regulating plant nitrogen accumulation and denitrification in freshwaters	18
Using ecological restoration to disentangle the mechanisms and longevity of soil functional legacies	18
Responses of a widespread pest insect to extreme high temperatures are stage‐dependent and divergent among seasonal cohorts	18
Nitrogen‐transforming microorganisms potentially facilitate the invasion of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) into evergreen broadleaf forests	18
The nexus of decay and birth: Ecological and evolutionary significance of wood‐decaying fungi in green Calypsoinae orchid germination	18
Altered trait covariances between invasive and native ranges of a global plant invader	18
At the edge of darkness: A framework for the evolution of visual systems in dim light	18
Drought effects on root and shoot traits and their decomposability	18
The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data	17
Mycelium biomass and community composition impact nutrient concentration in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at fine spatial scale	17
It takes a community to maintain a tree hollow: Food web complexity enhances decomposition and wood mould production	17
Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data	17
Drought response in herbaceous plants: A test of the integrated framework of plant form and function	17
Warmer temperatures result in maladaptive learning of sexual preferences	17
Root trait shifts towards an avoidance strategy promote productivity and recovery in C₃ and C₄ pasture grasses under drought	17
Abiotic factors that prompt major ecological transitions: Are fish on land to escape an intolerable aquatic environment?	17
Shifts in the fungal community promote soil carbon accumulation in microaggregates during long‐term secondary succession	17
Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism	17
Nonstructural carbohydrates predict survival in saplings of temperate trees under carbon stress	17
Plant–microbe interactions drive the rhizosphere microbial assembly and nitrogen cycling in a subtropical forest	17
Variation of seedling recruitment in wet meadow species over 6 years: Positive effects of mowing and negative effects of fertilization	16
Functional traits explain both seedling and adult plant spatial patterns in gypsum annual species	16
Spiroacetals and the rise of Campanula specialists: Receptor sensitivity to host‐specific floral scents	16
Context‐dependent relationships between genomic traits and plant performance in temperate grasslands	16
Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling	16
Unravelling the mystery of red flowers in the Mediterranean Basin: How to be conspicuous in a place dominated by hymenopteran pollinators	16
Female preference for males with lower pattern contrast follows Weber's law of proportional processing in jumping spiders	16
Variation in a microbial mutualist has transcriptional and phenotypic consequences for host–parasite interactions	16
Dense afforestation reduces plant–pollinator network diversity and persistence	16
Adaptive immune response selects for postponed maturation and increased body size	16
Rooted disruptions: Below‐ground herbivory drives contrasting natural enemy foraging for hosts and prey	16
Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests	16
Microplastic additions modulate intraspecific variability in root traits and mycorrhizal responses across root‐life history strategies	15
We need a multidimensional view of the plant reproduction continuum	15
Might termites make us unintentional ‘Carbon Cowboys’?	15
Natural history and ecological effects on the establishment and fate of Florida carpenter ant cadavers infected by the parasitic manipulator Ophiocordyceps camponoti‐floridani	15
How melanism affects the sensitivity of lizards to climate change	15
Coarse woody debris decomposition along an elevation gradient alleviates soil microbial P limitation but intensifies C limitation at Wuyishan National Park	15
Perception of dead conspecifics increases reproductive investment in fruit flies	15
Increasing prevalence of severe fires change the structure of arthropod communities: Evidence from a meta‐analysis	15
Natural and experimental cold exposure in adulthood increase the sensitivity to future stressors in a free‐living songbird	15
Drought susceptibility of southern African C₄ grasses: Phylogenetically and photosynthetically determined?	15
Self‐pruning in tree crowns is influenced by functional strategies and neighbourhood interactions	15
Animal transparency: How should we define form and function?	15

ShareTrait : Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms	15
An extended epiphenotype for an extended phenotype inToxoplasma gondiiinfected feral house mice	15
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Novel climate–fire–vegetation interactions and their influence on forest ecosystems in the westernUSA	15
Rapid positive response of young trees growth to warming reverses nitrogen loss from subtropical soil	15
Seasonality of temperature dependence of methane fluxes from natural wetlands	15
Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems	15
Environment‐dependent relationships between corticosterone and energy expenditure during reproduction: Insights from seabirds in the context of climate change	15
Niche conservatism and sympatric parallel evolution may help to maintain eight nascent tree taxa along a sharp elevation gradient	15
Geographical variation in the trait‐based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities	15
Ecological succession shapes size–density scaling relationships of trees and soil invertebrates	15
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Riparian forests shape trophic interactions in detrital stream food webs	15
Environment‐driven plasticity in foraging behaviour: From individual‐level processes to community‐level consequences	14
Ecosystem engineers shape ecological network structure and stability: A framework and literature review	14
Shifts in risk sensitivity and resource availability alter fat stores for a large mammal following extreme winter conditions	14
Diet quality and conspecific larval density predict functional trait variation and performance in a polyphagous frugivorous fly	14
Opposite, but insufficient, phenological responses to climate in two circumpolar seabirds: Relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and selection	14
Differential early‐life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination in a long‐lived reptile	14
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The role of insularity: Plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands	14
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Differential selection on sprint speed and ad libitum feeding behaviour in active vs. sit‐and‐wait foraging spiders	14
Higher phosphorus and water use efficiencies and leaf stoichiometry contribute to legume success in drylands	14
The functionality of arbuscular mycorrhizal networks across scales of experimental complexity and ecological relevance	14
A trade‐off between growth and hydraulic resilience against freezing leads to divergent adaptations among temperate tree species	14
Host and parasite functional morphology jointly explain parasite specificity	14
Demographic rate directional change and its determinants reveal how plant species win in a patchy landscape with frequent droughts	14
Elevational variations in stem hydraulic efficiency and safety of Abies fabri	14
The potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to improve soil organic carbon in agricultural ecosystems: A meta‐analytical approach	14
Synchronous seasonal plasticity in coloration, behaviour and visual gene expression in a wild butterfly population	13
Interactive effects of plant litter type and yak excrement on litter decomposition in a shrub‐encroached alpine meadow	13
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Tree growth‐forms reveal dominant browsers shaping the vegetation	13
Neighbour‐detection causes shifts in allocation across multiple organs to prepare plants for light competition	13
Cognitive ecology of surprise in predator–prey interactions	13
Temperature‐dependent scaling of fitness traits with body size in hydra	13
Rooting for the little guy: Below‐ground traits predict juvenile grass demography in microsites	13
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Ecosystem‐level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland	13
Pigment molecular composition reveals significant information for visual communication	13
Pathogen load predicts host functional disruption: A meta‐analysis of an amphibian fungal panzootic	13
Visual ecology in challenging environments: How organisms evolve in extremes of light and adapt to shifting conditions	13
Water loss, not overheating, limits the activity period of an endothermic Sonoran Desert bee	13
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Below‐ground root nutrient‐acquisition strategies are more sensitive to long‐term grazing than above‐ground leaf traits across a soil nutrient gradient	13
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation	13
Predicting key ectotherm population mortality in response to dynamic marine heatwaves: A Bayesian‐enhanced thermal tolerance landscape approach	13
Mother–offspring conflict and body temperature regulation during gestation and lactation in a wild primate	13
Soil N enrichment mediates carbon allocation through respiration in a dominant grass during drought	12
Vegetation composition regulates the interaction of warming and nitrogen deposition on net carbon dioxide uptake in a boreal peatland	12
Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb	12
Indirect effects of trophic interactions govern carbon circulation in two beech forest soil ecosystems	12
Using ecosystem engineers to enhance multiple ecosystem processes	12
Rethinking the role of colour in avian fruit choices and foraging mechanisms	12
Extended epiphenotypes: Integrating epigenotypes into host behavioural manipulation by parasites	12
Mycorrhizal specialization toward each distinct Oliveonia fungus in two closely related photosynthetic Dactylostalix orchids	12
Diversity, species coexistence and functional composition patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forests invaded by non‐native trees	12
Light condition experienced by parent plants influences the response of offspring to light via both parental effects and soil legacy effects	12
Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland	12
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Coordination of hydraulic and morphological traits across dominant grasses in eastern Australia	12
Experimental designs for testing the interactive effects of temperature and light in ecology: The problem of periodicity	12
Relative contribution of high and low elevation soil microbes and nematodes to ecosystem functioning	12
Leaf economics in a three‐dimensional environment: Testing leaf trait responses in vascular epiphytes to land use, climate and tree zone	12
Disconnection between plant–microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes	12
Plant invasion modifies isohydricity in Mediterranean tree species	12
Luring cannibal: Dishonest sexual signalling in the springbok mantis	12
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Hanging out at the club: Breeding status and territoriality affect individual space use, multi‐species overlap and pathogen transmission risk at a seabird colony	12
Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest	12
Do seed dispersal strategies reflect adaptation to environmental variability?	12
To lose is to win: Long‐term co‐occurrence of two asexual populations realized by a dormant strategy of the inferior competitor	12
Excessive nutrient input induces an ecological cost for aphids by modifying their attractiveness towards mutualist ants	11
Mangrove restoration enhances blue carbon sequestration and its stability in a subtropical tidal wetland	11
Quantifying phenotypic plasticity: A call for consistency	11
Correction to ‘In utero accumulated steroids predict neonate anti‐predator response in a wild mammal’	11
Monitoring and modelling the effects of ecosystem engineers on ecosystem functioning	11
Dung beetles drive direct and indirect changes in ecosystem multifunctionality	11
Going across taxa in functional ecology: Review and perspectives of an emerging field	11
Fast‐risky versus slow‐safe life histories mediate resprouting among Caribbean tropical dry forest trees	11
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata	11
Predicting plant species climate niches on the basis of mechanistic traits	11
Individual behaviour shapes patterns of bird‐mediated seed dispersal	11
Potential of undersown species identity versus diversity to manage disease in crops	11
Plant attributes interact with fungal pathogens and nitrogen addition to drive soil enzymatic activities and their temporal variation	11
Investment in regeneration versus asexual reproduction is resource‐dependent in a freshwater annelid	11
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Searching while sick: How does disease affect foraging decisions and contact rates?	11
Plastic background colour matching in the springbok mantis	11
Nitrogen addition and experimental drought simplified arthropod network in temperate grassland	11
Morphological adaptations linked to flight efficiency and aerial lifestyle determine natal dispersal distance in birds	11
Environment, taxonomy and morphology constrain insect thermal physiology along tropical mountains	11
Same mesozooplankton functional groups, different functions in three Arctic marine ecosystems	10
True site fidelity in pollen‐feeding butterflies	10