OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Entomology is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review	97
Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities	86
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation	64
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction	51
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline	49
Do non‐native plants contribute to insect declines?	49
Stable isotope ecology in insects: a review	35
Money spider dietary choice in pre‐ and post‐harvest cereal crops using metabarcoding	31
Some considerations on the terminology applied to dung beetle functional groups	29
Potential range expansion and niche shift of the invasive Hyphantria cunea between native and invasive countries	24
Low moisture stress influences plant volatile emissions affecting herbivore interactions in tomato, Solanum lycopersicum	21
Bidirectional plant‐mediated interactions between rhizobacteria and shoot‐feeding herbivorous insects: a community ecology perspective	20
Microbes make the meal: oligolectic bees require microbes within their host pollen to thrive	20
Plant water stress intensity mediates aphid host choice and feeding behaviour	19
Host repertoires and changing insect–plant interactions	19
Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in worker and queen but not male bumble bees	18
Pollen composition significantly impacts the development and survival of the native small carpenter bee, Ceratina calcarata	17
Novel evidence for systemic induction of silicon defences in cucumber following attack by a global insect herbivore	15
Reciprocal microbiome transplants differentially rescue fitness in two syntopic dung beetle sister species (Scarabaeidae: Onthophagus)	15
Predator pheromone elicits a temporally dependent non‐consumptive effect in prey	15
Spatio‐temporal responses of butterflies to global warming on a Mediterranean island over two decades	14
Companion planting to attract pollinators increases the yield and quality of strawberry fruit in gardens and allotments	14
Functional resin use in solitary bees	14
Changes in land use affect dung beetle communities but do not affect ecosystem services in the Cerrado of Central Brazil	14
Dung beetle trophic ecology: are we misunderstanding resources attraction?	13

Evaluating intraspecific variation in insect trait analysis	12
Adaptive plasticity in wing melanisation of a montane butterfly across a Himalayan elevational gradient	12
Mutualism is not restricted to tree‐killing bark beetles and fungi: the ecological stoichiometry of secondary bark beetles, fungi, and a scavenger	12
Thermal tolerance regulates foraging behaviour of ants	11
Ivermectin impacts on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions in two distinct Brazilian ecosystems	11
Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles	11
Testing effects of invasive fire ants and disturbance on ant communities of the longleaf pine ecosystem	11
Largest on earth: Discovery of a new type of fairy circle in Angola supports a termite origin	10
The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel environment	10
Determinants of Delphacidae richness and endemism in China	10
Larviposition site selection mediated by volatile semiochemicals in Glossina palpalis gambiensis	10
Gallers as leaf rollers: ecosystem engineering in a tropical system and its effects on arthropod biodiversity	10
Invasive paper wasps have strong cascading effects on the host plant of monarch butterflies	10
Preference, performance, and impact of the water‐lily aphid on multiple species of duckweed	10
Switching roles from antagonist to mutualist: a harvester ant as a key seed disperser of a myrmecochorous plant	10
Habitat disturbance modifies dominance, coexistence, and competitive interactions in tropical ant communities	10
Is elevation a strong environmental filter? Combining taxonomy, functional traits and phylogeny of butterflies in a tropical mountain	9
Termite salinity tolerance and potential for transoceanic dispersal through rafting	9
What to do if streams go dry? Behaviour of Balkan Goldenring (Cordulegaster heros, Odonata) larvae in a simulated drought experiment in SW Hungary	9
Facial area and hairiness of pollinators visiting semi‐natural grassland wild plants predict their facial pollen load	9
Species associations in arthropod ectoparasite infracommunities are spatially and temporally variable and affected by environmental factors	9
Intraspecific interference between native parasitoids modified by a non‐native parasitoid and its consequence on population dynamics	9
Low‐temperature tolerance in coprophagic beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): implications for ecological services	9
Effects of large herbivore grazing on grasshopper behaviour and abundance in a meadow steppe	9
Dung beetles as hydrological engineers: effects of tunnelling on soil infiltration	9
How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid	8
Role of ants as dispersers of native and exotic seeds in an understudied dryland	8
Wild bee functional diversity and plant associations in native and conventional plant nurseries	8
The puzzle of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and their association with plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids	8
The benefits of intraguild predation for a top predator spider	8
Insect predation reduces the abundance of a nidicolous ectoparasite	8
Strong impacts of smoke polluted air demonstrated on the flight behaviour of the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui L.)	8
Using trapped drones to assess the density of honey bee colonies: a simulation and empirical study to evaluate the accuracy of the method	8
Different groups of ground‐dwelling spiders share similar trophic niches in temperate forests	8
Management actions shape dung beetle community structure and functional traits in restored tallgrass prairie	7
Short‐term positive effects of wildfire on diurnal insects and pollen transport in a Mediterranean ecosystem	7
Metabolic cost of holding nuptial food gifts for male spiders	7
Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant‐plant interaction networks: A global overview	7
Probing the role of propagule pressure, stochasticity, and Allee effects on invasion success using experimental introductions of a biological control agent	7
Dung or carrion? Sex and age determine resource attraction in dung beetles	7
Chemical convergence between a guild of facultative myrmecophilous caterpillars and host plants	7
Differential flight responses of two ambrosia beetles to ethanol as indicators of invasion biology: the case with Kuroshio shot hole borer (Euwallacea kuroshio) and fruit‐tree pinhole borer (	7
Rapid photogrammetry of morphological traits of free‐ranging moths	7
Predation and avoidance behaviour in aphid‐ladybird interactions of native and invasive ladybirds in Europe	7
The upper thermal tolerance for a Texas population of the hairy maggot blow fly Chrysomya rufifacies Macquart (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	7
Summer drought affects abundance of grassland grasshoppers differently along an elevation gradient	7
Between locality variations in the seasonal patterns of dung beetles: the role of phenology in mitigating global warming effects	7
Bottom‐up and top‐down forces in plant‐gall relationships: testing the hypotheses of resource concentration, associational resistance, and host fitness reduction	7
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) seek sodium at carrion baits in Costa Rica	7
Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale	7

Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long‐term insect declines	6
A test of the competitive ability–cold tolerance trade‐off hypothesis in seasonally breeding beetles	6
More than meets the eye: decrypting diversity reveals hidden interaction specificity between frogs and frog‐biting midges	6
Eating versus heating: a study of the allocation of workers between foraging and nest incubation in bumble bees	6
Quantifying the post‐fire recovery of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in the Brazilian Pantanal	6
Floral resource continuity boosts bumble bee colony performance relative to variable floral resources	6
Massive spider web aggregations in South American grasslands after flooding	6
Dung beetles can sow: the potential of secondary seed dispersers to assist ecological restoration	6
Spatial partitioning of perching on plants by tropical dung beetles depends on body size and leaf characteristics: a sit‐and‐wait strategy for food location	6
Do Apis and non‐Apis bees provide a similar contribution to crop production with different levels of pollination dependency? A review using meta‐analysis	6
Increasing temperature reduces cuticular melanism and immunity to fungal infection in a migratory insect	6
Towards more intimacy: moderate elevation of temperature drives increases in foraging and mutualistic interactions between Lasius niger and Aphis fabae	6
Intraspecific variation in host plant traits mediates taxonomic and functional composition of local insect herbivore communities	6
Ant attendance does not necessarily imply protection of aphids from their arthropod natural enemies	6
Pollen analysis of cavity‐nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) and their food webs in a city	6
Defence variation within a guild of aphid‐tending ants explains aphid population growth	6
Morphological matching and phenological overlap promote niche partitioning and shape a mutualistic plant–hawkmoth network	6
Effects of light and nutrients on intraspecific competition among midges from a shallow eutrophic lake	6
Exposure to nectar‐realistic sugar concentrations negatively impacts the ability of the trypanosome parasite (Crithidia bombi) to infect its bumblebee host	6
Agonistic responses to potential co‐foundresses in a cooperatively brooding quasi‐social parasitoid	6
Body size, metabolic rate and diapause in the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), in two extreme climatic regions	6
On the role of direct sunlight for egg‐laying behaviour: lessons and ideas from the Speckled wood	6
Bee‐associated fungi mediate effects of fungicides on bumble bees	6
Cannibalism and potential predation in larval drosophilids	6
Parasitoid pressure does not elicit defensive polyphenism in the green peach aphid	6
Differing non‐linear, lagged effects of temperature and precipitation on an insect herbivore and its host plant	5
Isotope evidence for latitudinal migrations of the dragonfly Sympetrum fonscolombii (Odonata: Libellulidae) in Middle Asia	5
Ant preference for seeds without awns increases removal of exotic relative to native grass seeds	5
Predation yields greater population performance: what are the contributions of density‐ and trait‐mediated effects?	5
Ant nest distribution and richness have opposite effects on a Neotropical plant with extrafloral nectaries	5
Differential survival and dispersal of avian feather mites with contrasting host specificities	5
Movements and occurrence in two closely related fritillary species	5
Differential ecophysiological syndromes explain the partition of the thermal niche resource in coexisting Eucraniini dung beetles	5
Variability in activity differs between castes in the ant Linepithema humile	5
Individual‐resource network between Xylocopa bees and plant resources: generalist species, specialist individuals?	5
Re‐evaluation of a method used to study nutritional effects on bumble bees	5
How climate change affects the occurrence of a second generation in the univoltine Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)	5
Research networks should improve connectivity for halting freshwater insect extinctions	5
Proboscis curling in a pollinator causes extensive pollen movement and loss	5
Consistent shift in nutritional ecology of ants reveals trophic flexibility across alpine tree‐line ecotones	5
Insect diversity over 36 years at a protected Sierra Nevada (California) site: towards an evaluation of the insect apocalypse hypothesis	5
Testing the migration syndrome: Comparative fecundity of migratory and non‐migratory nymphaline butterflies	5
Invasive intraguild predators: Evidence of their effects, not assumptions	5
Microclimate in hollow trees and how it affects an inhabiting beetle species,Osmoderma eremita	5
Aestivation as a response to climate change: the Great Banded Grayling Brintesia circe in Central Europe	5
Neutral and niche‐based factors simultaneously drive seed and invertebrate removal by red harvester ants	5
Friend and foe? The effects of grassland management on global patterns of spider diversity	5
The specialist of a specialist: the natural history of the predispersal seed predator weevil Hemicolpus abdominalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	5
The effect of urbanisation and seasonality on wild bee abundance, body size and foraging efforts	5
Phenology of feeding preference in post‐diapause Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton) caterpillars	5
Core‐marginal dynamics interact with sex and temperature to influence morphology of the rapidly expanding invasive kudzu bug (Megacopta cribraria)	5
Response of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity to livestock grazing in an arid ecosystem	5
Foragers of the stingless bee Plebeia droryana inform nestmates about the direction, but not the distance to food sources	5
High temperature and soil moisture reduce host‐plant quality for an insect herbivore	5