OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Insect Conservation 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of diet and temperature on monarch butterfly wing morphology and flight ability	24
‘First Known Photographs of Living Specimens’: the power of iNaturalist for recording rare tropical butterflies	23
Sown mini-meadows increase pollinator diversity in gardens	20
Grassland restorations improve pollinator communities: a meta-analysis	18
Long-term effects of abandonment and restoration of Mediterranean meadows on butterfly-plant interactions	16
Can cattle grazing benefit grassland butterflies?	16
The impact of reduced tillage and distance to field margin on predator functional diversity	16
Land use changes disrupt streams and affect the functional feeding groups of aquatic insects in the Amazon	16
White LED light intensity, but not colour temperature, interferes with mate‐finding by glow‐worm (Lampyris noctiluca L.) males	14
Tolerant semiaquatic bugs species (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) are associated to pasture and conventional logging in the Eastern Amazon	13
Conservation of a strongly declining butterfly species depends on traditionally managed grasslands	13
Quantifying the entrapment effect of anthropogenic beach litter on sand‐dwelling beetles according to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive	12
The role of adult noctuid moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and their food plants in a nocturnal pollen-transport network on a Mediterranean island	11
“Farming with Alternative Pollinators” approach increases pollinator abundance and diversity in faba bean fields	11
Rainfall seasonality drives the spatiotemporal patterns of dung beetles in Amazonian forests in the arc of deforestation	11
For the love of insects: gardening grows positive emotions (biophilia) towards invertebrates	10
The effects of cattle ranching on the communities of necrophagous flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae and Sarcophagidae) in Northeastern Brazil	10
Drastic loss of insects (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in urban landscapes in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	10
Canopy arthropod diversity associated with Quercus laurina: importance of an oak species diversity gradient on abundance, species richness and guild composition	10
Lost and found: 160 years of Lepidoptera observations in Wuppertal (Germany)	10
Partial mowing of urban lawns supports higher abundances and diversities of insects	9
Understanding the effects of human disturbance on scorpion diversity in Brazilian tropical forests	9
Calculating population reductions of invertebrate species for IUCN Red List assessments	9
Population dynamics of an alpine grasshopper (Orthoptera) community over 30 years and the effects of climate warming and grazing	9
Sublethal doses of glyphosate impair olfactory memory retention, but not learning in the honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)	9

Agricultural land use affects the heterogeneity of Odonata communities in the Brazilian Pampa	8
Gene-flow within a butterfly metapopulation: the marsh fritillary Euphydryas aurinia in western Bohemia (Czech Republic)	8
Mobility, habitat selection and population connectivity of the butterfly Lycaena helle in central Sweden	8
An assessment of the invasive alien tree, Robinia pseudoacacia canopy traits and its effect on grassland microclimates and subsequent arthropod assemblages	8
Is grazing always the answer to grassland management for arthropod biodiversity? Lessons from a gravel pit restoration project	8
Does climate change influence the current and future projected distribution of an endangered species? The case of the southernmost bumblebee in the world	8
Clover in agriculture: combined benefits for bees, environment, and farmer	8
Threatened endemic water beetles from Morocco	8
Between perfect habitat and ecological trap: even wildflower strips mulched annually increase pollinating insect numbers in intensively used agricultural landscapes	8
Macrohabitat associations and phenology of carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae, Leiodidae: Cholevinae)	8
How to prioritize areas for new ant surveys? Integrating historical data on species occurrence records and habitat loss	7
An overview of Neotropical arthropod conservation efforts using risk assessment lists	7
Forest-pasture shifting alters the assemblages of seed-removing ants in southwestern Brazilian Amazon	7
Sown wildflower strips offer promising long term results for butterfly conservation	7
Abandonment of cultural landscapes: butterfly communities track the advance of forest over grasslands	7
Effects of mining and reduced turnover of Ephemeroptera (Insecta) in streams of the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	7
Residential sites increase species loss and cause high temporal changes in functional diversity of dung beetles in an urbanized Brazilian Cerrado landscape	7
Changes in phenology and abundance of an at-risk butterfly	7
Flower plantings promote insect pollinator abundance and wild bee richness in Canadian agricultural landscapes	7
Comparing three collection methods for pollinating insects within electric transmission rights-of-ways	6
Habitat type and altitude work in tandem to drive the community structure of dung beetles in Afromontane forest	6
Relationship between moth (night active Lepidoptera) diversity and vegetation characteristics in southern Sweden	6
Impacts of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina on native wasp species: a first effort to understand population-level effects in an invaded area of Europe	6
Current and future distributions of a native Andean bumble bee	6
What do monarchs feed on in winter? Nectar sources at hibernation sites	6
Farmland biodiversity: wildflower-sown islands within arable fields and grassy field margins both promote spider diversity	6
Increased arthropod biomass, abundance and species richness in an agricultural landscape after 32 years	6
Sheep herding in small grasslands promotes dung beetle diversity in a mountain forest landscape	6
Two common bee-sampling methods reflect different assemblages of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) community in mixed-grass prairie systems and are dependent on surrounding floral resource availability	6
Do surveys of adult dragonflies and damselflies yield repeatable data? Variation in monthly counts of abundance and species richness	5
Positive shifts in species richness and abundance of moths over five decades coincide with community-wide phenotypic trait homogenisation	5
Necrophagous flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae) as indicators of the conservation or anthropization of environments in eastern Amazonia, Brazil	5
The use of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in adapting hotspot conservation to global, regional, and local scales	5
Ecological monitoring and indicator taxa: butterfly communities in heterogeneous landscapes of the Western Ghats and Malabar coast, India	5
Video surveillance reveals a community of largely nocturnal Danaus plexippus (L.) egg predators	5
Synergistic effects of climate and human-induced landscape changes on the spatial distribution of an endangered dung beetle	5
Extent of Dakota skipper, Hesperia dacotae, distribution in Southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada	5
Diversity of mosquitoes from Porto Alegre region, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: ecological and public health perspectives	5
Defining the baseline for river restoration: comparing carabid beetle diversity of natural and human-impacted riparian habitats	5
Impact of “non-lethal” tarsal clipping on bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) may depend on queen stage and worker size	5
Singing in the suburbs: point count surveys efficiently reveal habitat associations for nocturnal Orthoptera across an urban-to-rural gradient	5
How data curation and new geographical records can change the conservation status of threatened brazilian butterflies	5
Landscape characteristics predict body sizes in wild bees: implications for pollination services and foraging range	5
Effects of experimental rewilding on butterflies, bumblebees and grasshoppers	5
Preserving Colias myrmidone in European cultural landscapes: requirements for the successful development from egg to higher larval stages at a Natura 2000 site in Romania	5
Seasonal variation of ground and arboreal ants in forest fragments in the highly-threatened Cerrado-Amazon transition	5
Predicting climate effects on aquatic true bugs in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	5
Population biology and natural history of the grassland butterfly Euryades corethrus (Papilionidae: Troidini), an endangered species from South American Campos	5
Moth species richness and diversity decline in a 30-year time series in Norway, irrespective of species’ latitudinal range extent and habitat	5
Power line corridors in conifer plantations as important habitats for butterflies	4

A demographic and ecological study of an Italian population of Polyommatus ripartii: the ESU Polyommatus exuberans	4
What are the main factors limiting the distribution of Bembix rostrata (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) at early-succession sites?	4
Transfer of invertebrates with hay during restoration operations of extensively managed grasslands in Switzerland	4
Biodiversity and community composition of native bee populations vary among human-dominated land uses within the seasonally dry tropics	4
Insects from the southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot: a barometer of diversity and threat status of nine host-dependent families across three orders	4
Effects of dispersed and aggregated retention-cuttings and differently sized clear-cuttings in conifer plantations on necrophagous silphid and dung beetle assemblages	4
Livestock systems preserving natural grasslands are biodiversity reservoirs that promote spiders’ conservation	4
Effects of the loss of forest cover on odonate communities in eastern Amazonia	4
Small-scale traditional maize farming fosters greater arthropod diversity value than conventional maize farming	4
Eucorna sanarita (Schaus) (Riodinidae: Riodininae): Distribution, systematic position, and conservation of a threatened brazilian butterfly in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	4
Climate change may cause the extinction of the butterfly Lasiommata petropolitana in the Apennines	4
Forecasts of butterfly future richness change in the southwest Mediterranean. The role of sampling effort and non-climatic variables	4
Population assessment and foraging ecology of nest aggregations of the rare solitary bee, Eucera longicornis at Gatwick Airport, and implications for their management	4
Within-habitat vegetation structure and adult activity patterns of the declining butterfly Euphydryas aurinia	4
Sex-biased recapture rates present challenges to quantifying population sizes and dispersal behavior of the regal fritillary butterfly (Speyeria idalia)	4
Effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbances on flesh fly (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) assemblages in areas of seasonally dry tropical forest	4
Proposed Multipurpose Project at Pancheshwar in the Western Himalaya affects rich butterfly diversity: a conservation concern	4
Current distribution, microhabitat requirements and vulnerability of the Keeled Plump Bush-cricket (Isophya costata) at the north-western periphery of its range	4
Insect diversity in vineyards, almond orchards, olive orchards, alfalfa fields, and pastures in the San Joaquin Valley of California	4
Effect of dramatic alteration of landscape structure on the Orthoptera assemblages of Transcarpathian lowland meadows (West Ukraine)	4
Relict of primeval forests in an intensively farmed landscape: what affects the survival of the hermit beetle (Osmoderma barnabita) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in pollard willows?	4