OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology is 4. 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
Habitat selection of large herbivores evidenced as threats to alpine ecosystem	12
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
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
Influence of environmental predictors on hyphomycete assemblages in subtropical streams	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
Mutualistic interaction network structure between bird and plant species in a semi-arid Neotropical environment	9
Rainfall and soil properties driver the temporal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in a seasonally dry tropical forest	9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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