OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Functional importance of bird-dispersed habitat for the early recruitment of Taxus chinensis in a fragmented forest	26
ttADAPTIVE PHNEOTYPIC plasticity of wild Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) to variable environments of water-light availability	16
Fleshy-fruited species increase with elevation for woody lianas but peak in mid-elevations for herbaceous vines in a subtropical forest system	14
Difficult times for amphibians: Effects of land-use change at the local and landscape scales in the Iberá Wetlands	13
Strategies in growth and reproduction of the native endangered plant species Scripus mariqueter and the driving factors in a coastal salt marsh wetland, eastern China	12
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	12
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	11
Ecological niche modelling and future scenarios of Cordia oncocalyx - A species of restricted distribution	11
Epigeal fauna and edaphic properties as possible soil quality indicators in forest restoration areas in Espírito Santo, Brazil	11
Soil seed banks along a woody plant removal gradient in a semi-arid savanna of South Africa: Implications for restoration	10
Does intraspecific trait variability affect understorey plant community assembly?	10
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	9
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	9
The different facets of native bird diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) as predictors of alien birds increasing richness and expanding range in Great Britain	8
Editorial Board	8
Patterns of guanaco distribution and microhabitat use in Tierra del Fuego: From protected to sheep ranching areas	8
Anthropogenic features are the most important drivers of striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) space use in a human-dominated Midwestern landscape	8
Discovering threatened freshwater turtles by an innovative floating camera trap system	8
Editorial Board	8
Christmas-related moss harvesting promotes the recruitment of the endangered conifer Abies hickelii	8
Biodiversity of polypores inhabiting Populus tremula L. within regenerating stands of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (E Poland)	7
Traditional rangeland management can conserve insect pollinators in a semi-arid rangeland, northern Tanzania	7
Impacts of seed-feeding beetles and their parasitoids on seed germination of Leucaena leucocephala and Senna multijuga (Fabaceae) in Brazil	7
A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland	7
Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees	7

English Ivy (Hedera helix) is fast, but ash (Fraxinus excelsior) too: Decomposition of English Ivy litter compared to four common host trees - A multisite citizen sciences project	7
Understorey-nesting bird community responses to land use in the Korup National Park, an Afrotropical rainforest in South-Western Cameroon	6
Assessing the fire resilience of the savanna tree component through a functional approach	6
How many seeds can birds disperse?: Determining the pattern of seed deposition by frugivorous birds	6
Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	6
Editorial Board	6
Soil properties and fine root morphological traits in relation to soil particle-size fractions in a broad-leaved beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) forest	6
Predator movements are impacted by anthropogenic disturbance in a managed, forested landscape of East Texas	6
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	6
Thermal-metabolic relationships in hatchling snapping turtles during simulated seasonal cooling	6
The effect of soil depth on stoichiometry was greater than that of elevation in Abies georgei var. Smithii forest in Southeastern Tibet, China	6
The role of nutrients, light, and litter in species loss in an alpine meadow community	6
Scattered trees as crucial elements in maintaining urban diversity: A case study with canopy ants in a biodiversity hotspot	5
Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta	5
Is endozoochoric seed dispersal by large herbivores an evolutionary adaptation? Revisiting the Janzen's ‘Foliage is the fruit’ hypothesis	5
Caves’ environmental stability shaping subterranean biodiversity in the neotropics	5
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	5
Seed dispersal mechanism of Erythronium japonicum in Northeast China	5
Functional structure of an herbaceous community on a natural regeneration gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest	5
Morphological and physiological adaptation of a desert shrub, Encelia farinosa, under drought stress	5
Editorial Board	5
The effects of seasonal changes on the dynamics of a fig tree's pollination	5
Influence of soil properties on millipede (Diplopoda) communities in forest stands of various tree species	5
How are arthropod communities structured in a modified wetland under different productive activities?	5
Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates	5
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on diaspore removal by ants: A meta-analysis	5
Editorial Board	5
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the Patagonian genus Onuris (Brassicaceae: Eudemeae) at different phylogenetic scales	5
Variation of canopy openness of tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka with altitude and azimuth angle	5
A neotropical canid as seed disperser in semiarid areas of Brazil	4
A matter of scale: Local biotic differentiation and potential regional homogenization of understory plant communities in a highly fragmented tropical landscape	4
The impact of rare and common species on the functional diversity of forest birds in a palm-dominated landscape in the Eastern Amazon	4
Microtopography and vegetation generate uneven predation pressure on forest insects	4
Entomogamy in wildflowers: What level of pollinator biodiversity is required?	4
Spatial patterns of structural diversity across the boreal forest-tundra ecotone in Churchill, Canada	4
Population density affects propensity to share gall space in a primitively social aphid	4
The effect of acid rain and fertilization on the performance of invasive Chromolaena odorata and two native plants	4
Crown complementarity rather than crown selection contributes to stem complementarity in genetic mixtures of Pinus taeda L	4
Small carnivores contribute surrogate seed dispersers for a megafaunal-fruited liana in subtropical Asia	4
Plant functional traits along an old-field succession in the high tropical andes	4
Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series	4
Where are my dragons? Replicating refugia to enhance the detection probability of an endangered cryptic reptile	4
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought	3
Editorial Board	3
The coexistence of two related fig wasp species sharing the same host fig species across a broad geographical area	3
Species-area relationship and richness persistence as a proxy of environmental carrying capacity: A case study in a neotropical show cave	3
Scale and representation of landscapes in mammal studies in Brazil	3
Novel diplochory: Native bats and non-native rats disperse seeds of an island tree	3
Effects of resource size on invertebrate assemblages in water-filled treeholes	3
Intraspecific pod and seed trait variation of two herbaceous legume seeds in response to competing neighbours and nutrient resource abundance	3

The effects of river regulation on diet diversity, dietary niche overlap and foraging habitat preferences of two sympatric plover species	3
Competition for resources: What factors lead honey bees to outcompete other insect competitors?	3
How is the community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi composed and ordered in phytophysiognomies in the transition between cerrado (savanna) and amazon biomes?	3
Demography of the dominant perennial grass species of a humid African savanna	3
Post-mine succession and short term effects of coal mining in a Guinea savanna ecosystem	3
Invasion in the riparian zone: What is the effect of Pteridium arachnoideum on topsoil permeability?	3
What do we know about seed dispersal by Carnivorans in Brazil?	3
Editorial Board	3
Widespread butterflies follow inconsistent trends in the Bergmann's rule and flight morphometry: Implications for conservation in the Western Himalaya	3
Plant richness and vegetation structure drive the topology of plant-herbivore networks in Neotropical savannas	3
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	3
Decoupled functional and phylogenetic diversity provide complementary information about community assembly mechanisms: A case study of Greek forests	3
Effects of fragmentation per se on slug movement	3
Effects of phylogeny, traits, and seasonality on invertebrate herbivory damage in a meadow community	3
Fast restore of the structure and composition of hemiepiphytes after a heavy-snowfall event in a subtropical forest	3
Anthropogenic termite mound erosion: Spatio-temporal distribution, biophysical characteristics and farmers’ perceptions in SW Uganda	3
Do the natural dynamics of West Carpathian forests affect the diversity of epiphytic lichens on Norway spruce?	3
The resilience of heathland ecosystems: A working hypothesis	3
Floral nectar and insect flower handling time change over the flowering season: Results from an exploratory study	3
Editorial Board	3
The effect of desert annual plant decomposition on soil microbial community	2
Soil heterogeneity and species composition jointly affect individual variation of three forage grasses	2
Specialist fig-consuming lepidopterans can inflict costs to plant reproductive success that are mitigated by ant bodyguards	2
Knock-down resistance to heat stress of Atta cephalotes in urban environments	2
Corrigendum to “How to be a fig nematode” [Acta Oecol. 119 (2023) 103916]	2
Seasonal patterns of scorpion diversity along a gradient of aridity in Algeria	2
Effects of simulated nitrogen deposition on the decomposition of leaf litter and release of nutrients in a cold temperate coniferous forest in the Jiaozi Snow Mountains National Nature Reserve in sout	2
Temporal changes in spatial scale and autocorrelation structure of forest openings based on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional turnover	2
Multiple mating does not benefit females of a polyandrous pollinating fig wasp	2
Abiotic factors similarly shape the distribution of fruit, seed and leaf traits in tropical fleshy-fruited tree communities	2
Differences in mutualistic or predatory interactions between tree and rodent species as revealed by using a double-duplex passive integrated transponder tagging technique	2
Spillover of avian seed dispersers between secondary forests and degraded areas in a tropical island	2
How to be a fig nematode	2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on seed germination under field conditions: A meta-analysis	2
Editorial Board	2
Isolation and self-regulation processes in simulated postfire microsites promote plant species diversity	2
Heavy metal pollution is more conducive to the independent invasion of Solidago canadensis L. than the co-invasion of two Asteraceae invasive plants	2
Experimental drought suppresses grass productivity and passive warming promotes tree sapling performance: Insights from African savanna species	2
No need for niches in new ecology	2
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network	2
Seed attachment by epizoochory depends on animal fur, body height, and plant phenology	2
Selected microhabitat and surface temperatures of two sympatric lizard species	2
Landscape configuration and composition shape mutualistic and antagonistic interactions among plants, bats, and ectoparasites in human-dominated tropical rainforests	2
Impact of 25 years of grazing on the forest structure of Pinus cembroides in northeast Mexico	2
Anuran assemblages in western Philippines: Unraveling the effects of habitat types, water availability, and elevation	2
Evaluating the relative importance of habitat filtering and niche differentiation in shaping the food web of dung-inhabiting predators	2
Genetic reconstruction of potential invasion pathways of Ligustrum lucidum into Argentina	2
Unraveling niche complementarity and mass ratio hypotheses along Amazon forest succession: Functional composition a key factor for restoration	2
Editorial Board	2
Response of soil microbes to Carex meyeriana meadow degeneration caused by overgrazing in inner Mongolia	2
Prevalence of stochastic processes in the fire-mediated reassemblage of the soil arthropod community of a pine forest	2
Environmental factors controlling structure, litter productivity, and phenology of mangroves in arid region of the Gulf of California	2
Differences in leaf phenological traits between trees and shrubs are closely related to functional traits in a temperate forest	2
Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrients across different shifting cultivation fallows in Montane Subtropical Forest of Mizoram, NE India	2
Keystone species in an urban environment: Do raptors control the Mexican gray squirrel in Mexico City?	2
Effects of fire on the population structure and abundance of Anogeissus leiocarpa and Vitellaria paradoxa in a West African savanna parkland	2
Diversity partitioning and distance-decay relationship of saprophytic flies (Insecta: Diptera) in the western Brazilian Amazon	2
Herbaceous vegetation under planted woody species on coal mine spoil acts as a source of organic matter	2
The role of arthropods in early colonization near melting glaciers: Contradictions between ecological assumptions and recent study results	2
The role of seed size in the performance of Ceiba aesculifolia seedlings subjected to foliar damage	2
Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight	2
Impact of the local environmental factors associated to plant-fungi communities on the conservation of Liparis loeselii (L.) Rich. In the French Rhône-Alpes region	2
Climate and soil nutrients generate distinct diversity patterns across four elevational gradients within the same region	2
Removal of diaspores by ants: What factors to evaluate?	2
Editorial Board	2