OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Landscape Ecology is 12. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Inferring future changes in gene flow under climate change in riverscapes: a pilot case study in fluvial sculpin	80
Prolonged coastal inundation detected with synthetic aperture radar significantly retarded functional recovery of mangroves after major hurricanes	71
Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany	70
Handling ecosystem service trade-offs: the importance of the spatial scale at which no-loss constraints are posed	67
Binary space partitioning generates hierarchical and rectilinear neutral landscape models suitable for human-dominated landscapes	54
Propagule pressure and land-use are more important than climate for invasive bryophytes regional distributions	53
Butterfly biodiversity in the city is driven by the interaction of the urban landscape and species traits: a call for contextualised management	51
The relationship between spatial patterns of urban land uses and air pollutants in the Tehran metropolis, Iran	49
Does land-use and land cover affect vector-borne diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis	48
Automated habitat monitoring systems linked to adaptive management: a new paradigm for species conservation in an era of rapid environmental change	46
A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder	43
A framework for linking dispersal biology to connectivity across landscapes	43
Floral resource discontinuity contributes to spatial mismatch between pollinator supply and pollination demand in a pollinator-dependent agricultural landscapes	42
How to assess the temporal dynamics of landscape connectivity in ever-changing landscapes: a literature review	41
The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders	40
Linking acoustic diversity to compositional and configurational heterogeneity in mosaic landscapes	40
Drivers of invasion by laurel wilt of redbay and sassafras in the southeastern US	40
Navigating agricultural landscapes: responses of critically endangered giant tortoises to farmland vegetation and infrastructure	39
New methods for quantifying the effects of catchment spatial patterns on aquatic responses	37
Aggregation of organically managed fields promotes aphid parasitism in cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions	37
Translating the landscape. The reciprocity of representations and other realities	37
Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology	35
Estimating statewide carrying capacity of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using improved maximum clique algorithms	35
Using Bayesian Belief Networks to assess the influence of landscape connectivity on ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes in the UK	34
Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands	34

How landscape and biotic interactions shape a Mediterranean reptile community	29
Key attributes of greenspace pattern for heat mitigation vary with urban functional zones	29
Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient	28
Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration	27
Spatial vulnerability assessment of silver fir and Norway spruce dieback driven by climate warming	27
Lithology modulates the response of water limited Mediterranean ecosystems to aridification	27
The impact of typhoon on post-volcanic-eruption forest landscape recovery: a study in Changbai mountain through 300 years of historic landscape reconstruction	26
Socio-spatial factors influence climate change adaptation decisions of rural coastal landowners	26
Potential risks to endemic conifer montane forests under climate change: integrative approach for conservation prioritization in southwestern China	26
Floral identity and availability along with surrounding landscapes affect pollinator communities in eastern Tennessee	26
Effects of adaptive multiple paddock and continuous grazing on fine-scale spatial patterns of vegetation species and biomass in commercial ranches	26
Management linked to ecological intensification supports insect pollinators in Iberian wood-pastures	26
Potential cougar habitats and dispersal corridors in Eastern North America	26
Novel pollen analogue technique shows bumblebees display low floral constancy and prefer sites with high floral diversity	25
Testing the effect of wetland spatiotemporal variability on amphibian occurrence across scales	24
The supply and demand of water purification service in an urbanizing basin on the Tibetan Plateau	23
Rectifying I: three point and continuous fit of the spatial autocorrelation metric, Moran’s I, to ideal form	23
Effects of spatial patterning within working pine forests on priority avian species in Mississippi	23
Using neutral landscape models to evaluate the umbrella species concept in an ecotone	23
Scaling of classification systems—effects of class precision on detection accuracy from medium resolution multispectral data	23
Effects of compositional and configurational heterogeneity of the urban matrix on the species richness of woody plants in urban remnant forest patches	22
Species–genetic diversity correlations through the lens of spatial autocorrelation: insights from high Andean wetlands	22
Dynamics in the landscape ecology of institutions: lags, legacies, and feedbacks drive path-dependency of forest landscapes in British Columbia, Canada 1858–2020	22
Problems seeded in the past: lagged effects of historical land-use changes can cause an extinction debt in long-lived species due to movement limitation	22
Loss of winter wonderland: proximity to different road types has variable effects on winter soundscapes	21
Integrating ecosystem service supply and demand into ecological risk assessment: a comprehensive framework and case study	21
Amount and isolation of aquatic habitat drive anuran diversity in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	21
Legacy land use predicts occupancy patterns of prairie-associated herpetofauna in Western Arkansas	20
Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle	20
The Portuguese forest and the Common Agricultural Policy	20
Southern spatial stories: interdisciplinary perceptions of shifting spatial awareness and values	20
Jaguar distribution, biological corridors and protected areas in Mexico: from science to public policies	20
Evaluating climate-driven fallowing for ecological connectivity of species at risk	19
Maintaining functional connectivity in grassland corridors between plantation forests promotes high-quality habitat and conserves range restricted grasshoppers	19
Uncertainties in research between urban landscape and air quality: summary, demonstration, and expectation	19
The discontinuum of river networks: the importance of geomorphic boundaries	19
Looking for a magic island in the sea of agriculture: factors affecting forest patch attractiveness for wild boar in human-dominated landscape	19
Scaling-up ecosystem functions of coastal heterogeneous sediments: testing practices using high resolution data	18
The varying roles of ecosystem services in poverty alleviation among rural households in urbanizing watersheds	18
Scale-dependent seasonal habitat selection by jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) in Panama	18
Corridor width and orientation are complementary design variables for butterflies in conservation corridors	17
Insectivorous songbirds as early indicators of future defoliation by spruce budworm	17
Aiming for the optimum: examining complex relationships among sampling regime, sampling density and landscape complexity to accurately model resource availability	17
Housing or habitat: what drives patterns of avian species richness in urbanized landscapes?	17
Fine temporal resolution satellite sensors with global coverage: an opportunity for landscape ecologists	17
Dredging fundamentally reshapes the ecological significance of 3D terrain features for fish in estuarine seascapes	17
A landscape connectivity approach to mitigating the urban heat island effect	17
Simulation-based insights into community uniqueness within fragmented landscapes	17
Landscape models can predict the distribution of aquatic insects across agricultural areas	16
Large felid habitat connectivity in the transboundary Dawna-Tanintharyi landscape of Myanmar and Thailand	16

Forecasting natural regeneration of sagebrush after wildfires using population models and spatial matching	16
Entropy in landscape ecology: a response to Stepinski	16
Landscape features drive insectivorous bat activity in Indian rice fields	16
The influence of landscape context on the production of cultural ecosystem services	16
Landscape characteristics and predation risk influence spatial variation in auditory courtship of an upland game bird	16
Landscape floral resources provided by rapeseed correlate with next-year reproduction of cavity-nesting pollinators in a national participatory monitoring program	16
The scale effects of landscape variables on landscape experiences: a multi-scale spatial analysis of social media data in an urban nature park context	16
Floral resource maps: a tool to explain flower-visiting insect abundance at multiple spatial scales	16
Unraveling a paradox of habitat relationships: scale-dependent drivers of temporal occupancy-abundance relationships in a cooperatively breeding bird	15
Predators do not benefit from crop diversity but respond to configurational heterogeneity in wheat and cotton fields	15
Landscape resistance to gene flow in a snow leopard population from Qilianshan National Park, Gansu, China	15
Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds	15
Native-exotic richness relationships in second-growth forests differ along a gradient of land-use history	15
Climate and land change impacts on future managed wetland habitat: a case study from California’s Central Valley	15
River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China	15
Quantifying and predicting population connectivity of an outbreaking forest insect pest	15
Landscape-based solutions are needed for meeting water challenges of China’s expanding and thirsty cities	15
Developing landscape-scale forest restoration targets that embrace spatial pattern	15
Responses of avian assemblages to spatiotemporal landscape dynamics in urban ecosystems	14
Pollination efficiency in farmland landscapes: exploring the relative roles of spillover, dilution and complementarity between habitats	14
Effects of sample size, data quality, and species response in environmental space on modeling species distributions	14
Forest cover and non-forest landscape heterogeneity modulate pollination of tropical understory plants	14
Wind erosion response to past and future agro-pastoral trajectories in the Sahel (Niger)	14
Impacts of agricultural intensification on soil erosion and sustainability of olive groves in Alentejo (Portugal)	14
Back and forth: day–night alternation between cover types reveals complementary use of habitats in a large herbivore	14
Dung beetle community patterns in Western Europe: responses of Scarabaeinae to landscape and environmental filtering	14
Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests	14
Interactions between landscape and local factors inform spatial action planning in post-fire forest environments	14
Improved topographic ruggedness indices more accurately model fine-scale ecological patterns	13
Spatial and temporal scales of landscape structure affect the biodiversity-landscape relationship across ecologically distinct species groups	13
What drives phylogenetic and trait clustering on islands?	13
Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale	13
Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous-dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska	13
Bee functional groups respond to vegetation cover and landscape diversity in a Brazilian metropolis	13
Spatially explicit correlates of plant functional traits inform landscape patterns of resource quality	13
Governing the landscape: potential and challenges of integrated approaches to landscape sustainability in Indonesia	13
Does agricultural intensification cause tipping points in ecosystem services?	13
Impacts of large-scale landscape restoration on spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau	13
A three-step approach for assessing landscape connectivity via simulated dispersal: African wild dog case study	13
Day versus night use of forest by red and roe deer as determined by Corine Land Cover and Copernicus Tree Cover Density: assessing use of geographic layers in movement ecology	13
Landscape complementation is a driver of bumble bee (Bombus sp.) abundance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains	13
Ecological corridors and landscape planning: a model to select priority areas for connectivity maintenance	12
Identifying habitat preferences and core areas of Amazon River dolphin activity using spatial ecology analysis	12
Integrating landscape resistance and multi-scale predictor of habitat selection for amphibian distribution modelling at large scale	12
Spatiotemporal patterns of rising annual plant abundance in grasslands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (USA)	12
Threshold and weighted-distance methods: a combined multiscale approach improves explanatory power of forest carabid beetle abundance in agricultural landscape	12
Management diversification increases habitat availability for multiple biodiversity indicator species in production forests	12
Remote sensing in landscape ecology	12
Canopy gap patterns in Mediterranean forests: a spatio-temporal characterization using airborne LiDAR data	12
Comparing floral resource maps and land cover maps to predict predators and aphid suppression on field bean	12
Habitat connectivity supports the local abundance of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) but also the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans	12
Effects of counter-urbanization on Mediterranean rural landscapes	12
Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network	12
Cultural ecosystem services in an urban park: understanding bundles, trade-offs, and synergies	12
Participatory landscape sustainability assessment: where do we stand? A systematic literature review	12
Leaving disturbance legacies conserves boreal conifers and maximizes net CO2 absorption under climate change and more frequent and larger windthrow regimes	12
Orchid bees respond to landscape composition differently depending on the multiscale approach	12
Accounting for sex-specific differences in gene flow and functional connectivity for cougars and implications for management	12