OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology 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
Soil aggregation, ecosystem engineers and the C cycle	56
Bee hotels host a high abundance of exotic bees in an urban context	35
Lantana camara and Ageratina adenophora invasion alter the understory species composition and diversity of chir pine forest in central Himalaya, India	23
What do you mean by “niche”? Modern ecological theories are not coherent on rhetoric about the niche concept	22
How biased is our perception of plant-pollinator networks? A comparison of visit- and pollen-based representations of the same networks	21
Herbaceous seeds dominates the soil seed bank after long-term prescribed fire, grazing and selective tree cutting in savanna-woodlands of West Africa	20
The apiary influence range: A new paradigm for managing the cohabitation of honey bees and wild bee communities	17
Urban areas are favouring the spread of an alien mud-dauber wasp into climatically non-optimal latitudes	16
Functional traits vary among fleshy-fruited invasive plant species and their potential avian dispersers	16
Multi-year monitoring land surface phenology in relation to climatic variables using MODIS-NDVI time-series in Mediterranean forest, Northeast Tunisia	15
The impact of pollen quality on the sensitivity of bumblebees to pesticides	15
Contrasting effects of herbivore damage type on extrafloral nectar production and ant attendance	12
Sudanian versus Zambezian woodlands of Africa: Composition, ecology, biogeography and use	11
Nematode metabolic footprints, ecological and functional indices in tropical maize-beans agro-ecosystems under different farming practices	11
Quantifying responses of dung beetle assemblages to cattle grazing removal over a short-term in introduced Brazilian pastures	10
Fruiting phenology and consumption of zoochoric fruits by wild vertebrates in a seasonally dry tropical forest in the Brazilian Caatinga	10
Comparing germination metrics of Opuntia ficus-indica and O. robusta between two sets of bird species (Pied Crows and two smaller species)	10
Plant-pollinator interactions on green roofs are mediated by substrate characteristics and plant community composition	10
Epigeic fauna (with emphasis on ant community) response to land-use change for sugarcane expansion in Brazil	9
Differential ontogenetic effects of gut passage through fish on seed germination	9
Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium	9
Auditory predator cues affect monarch (Danaus plexippus; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) development time and pupal weight	9
Similitudes and differences between two closely related Ficus species in the synthesis by the ostiole of odors attracting their host-specific pollinators: A transcriptomic based investigation	9
Orchid-pollinator network in Euro-Mediterranean region: What we know, what we think we know, and what remains to be done	9
Nitrogen deposition is positively correlated to foliar nitrogen content in Vaccinium myrtillus and other understory species in temperate forests on acidic soil	8

Metacommunity structure reveals that temperature affects the landscape compositional patterns of avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites across elevations	8
Troubles in pear pollination: Effects of collection and storage method on pollen viability and fruit production	8
The role of arthropods in early colonization near melting glaciers: Contradictions between ecological assumptions and recent study results	8
2D or not 2D? Three-dimensional home range analysis better represents space use by an arboreal mammal	8
Bat-fruit networks structure resist habitat modification but species roles change in the most transformed habitats	8
Short-term modifications of mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin and soil attributes in a tropical agroforestry	8
Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in response to land use/cover changes	8
Assessing the fire resilience of the savanna tree component through a functional approach	7
Splitting hares: Current and future ecological niches predicted as distinctly different for two congeneric lagomorphs	7
No apparent effect of invasive alien goldenrod on soil microbial communities or soil fauna feeding activity	7
Disentangling the determinants of litter decomposition among invaded and uninvaded habitats: A field experiment from the Kashmir Himalaya	7
Cave lithology effect on subterranean biodiversity: A case study in quartzite and granitoid caves	7
Hummingbird-plant interactions along an altitudinal gradient in northwestern Mexico	7
Phylogenetic α- and β-diversity elevational gradients reveal consistent patterns of temperate forest community structure	7
Frugivores vary in their response to neighborhood effects in a novel ecosystem	7
Height-diameter allometric relationships for seedlings and trees across China	7
The importance of the standardizing sampling methodology to detect altitudinal gradients in mountains: A study case for the resident bird community in a hotspot (Atlantic forest) and the Middle Domain	7
Influence of sampling methods on the description of a Neotropical seed dispersal network	7
Are native nectar robbers against the alien? Effects of floral larceny on the reproductive success of the invasive yellow bells (Tecoma stans, Bignoniaceae)	7
Assessing the role of a mammalian frugivorous species on seed germination potential depends on study design: A case study using wild samango monkeys	7
Variable soil pH can drive changes in slope aspect preference of plants in alpine desert of the Central Great Caucasus (Kazbegi district, Georgia)	7
Some like it hot: Drought-induced forest die-off influences reptile assemblages	7
From the euclidean distance to compositional dissimilarity: What is gained and what is lost	6
Does N deposition mitigate the adverse impacts of drought stress on plant seed germination and seedling growth?	6
Fine woody debris as a biogen reservoir in forest ecosystems	6
Impact of 25 years of grazing on the forest structure of Pinus cembroides in northeast Mexico	6
On the natural selection of body mass allometries	6
A review of seed ecology of poisonous plants in the world's grasslands	6
Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls	6
Feeding plasticity and temporal behaviour of the alien American mink in Europe	6
Effects of locality and stone surface structure on the distribution of Collembola inhabiting a novel habitat – the stone-ice border on an alpine glacier	6
Differences in mutualistic or predatory interactions between tree and rodent species as revealed by using a double-duplex passive integrated transponder tagging technique	6
Rare Pteridophytes are disproportionately frequent in the tropical forest of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China	6
Impacts of traditional practices on biodiversity and structural characteristics of sacred groves in northern Togo, West Africa	6
Emerging issues in grassland ecology research: Perspectives for advancing grassland studies in Nigeria	5
Comparison of grassland plant-pollinator networks on dairy farms in three contrasting French landscapes	5
Seasonally dry tropical forests of the Gulf of Mexico: A degraded landscape undergoing homogenization or a promising, resilient reservoir?	5
Seed fates of four rainforest tree species in the fragmented forests of Anamalais in the southern Western Ghats, India	5
Variations in the coverage of biological soil crusts along an aridity gradient in the central-west Argentina	5
The impact of a catastrophic flood on species and size composition of the diet of fish-eating birds	5
Sources of floral scent variation in the food-deceptive orchid Orchis mascula	5
Disentangling the architecture of the frugivorous bird-plant interaction networks in a savanna-forest mosaic in the Neotropical savanna	5
Isolation and self-regulation processes in simulated postfire microsites promote plant species diversity	5
Epiphytic suspended soils from Borneo and Amazonia differ in their microbial community composition	5
Alien invasive plant Amaranthus spinosus mainly altered the community structure instead of the α diversity of soil N-fixing bacteria under drought	5
Fruit bat diversity patterns for assessing restoration success in reforestation areas in the Philippines	5
Relationships between tree height and tree species richness at small scales	5
Spatio-temporal variation in seed traits affects the occurrence and body-size pattern of a seed-feeding beetle (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) in Brazilian Cerrado	5
Novel diplochory: Native bats and non-native rats disperse seeds of an island tree	5
Evaluating whether MPA management measures meet ecological principles for effective biodiversity protection	5

Criteria to select vegetal species for restoration of plant-pollinator interactions in agricultural landscapes of the Pampa grassland (Argentina)	5
Everyone makes mistakes: Sampling errors in vegetation analysis - The effect of different sampling methods, abundance estimates, experimental manipulations, and data transformation	5
Outcomes of a native bamboo on biomass and carbon stocks of a neotropical biodiversity hotspot	5
The drivers of soil microbial communities structure on forest stands along the altitudinal gradient in western carpathians	5
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	5
The contribution of small shrubby patches to the functional diversity of wood-pastures	5
Alien pests and their influence on native biota in leaf litter of non-native trees	5
Ecological relevance of high and low nucleic acid content bacteria in a monsoon influenced tropical estuary: Implications on the β-Glucosidase activity	5
Extension of the EICA hypothesis for invasive Chromolaena odorata	5
Male-biased adult sex ratio in non-breeding areas of an extreme long-distance migratory shorebird population	5