OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Basic and Applied Ecology is 9. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Nature-based solutions to increase sustainability and resilience of vineyard-dominated landscapes	104
Resource availability and competition shape pollinator trophic specialization in longleaf pine savannas	73
Effects of plant functional group removal on caterpillars (Gynaephora alpherakii) performance and plant production in an alpine meadow	67
Bird guilds need different features on city squares	50
Dynamic interactions at birdfeeders: Attracting both prey and predators across urban and rural habitats	39
Editorial Board	33
Severe drought and conventional farming affect detritivore feeding activity and its vertical distribution	33
Editorial Board	33
Nematode dynamics in an African dolomite cave: What is the role of environmental filtering in spatial and temporal distribution?	32
BOOK REVIEW	31
Editorial Board	30
Tracking sucking herbivory with nitrogen isotope labelling: Lessons from an individual trait-based approach	27
BOOK REVIEW	26
Partitioning of arthropod species diversity in temperate meadows, wildflower areas and pastures	26
Microclimate influences plant reproductive performance via an antagonistic interaction	26
Human-Wildlife Conflicts Management: Prevention and Problem Solving, 2nd ed., Russell F. Reidinger, Jr. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland (2022). 272 pp., ISBN 978-1421445250, US$89.	25
Editorial Board	25
Better red than dead: Plasticine moths are attacked less under HPS streetlights than LEDs	25
Tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning–Introduction	24
Special issue: Urban ecosystems: potentials, challenges, and solutions	24
Editorial Board	24
Recalling twenty-three years of Basic and Applied Ecology	23
Urban threats and conservation measures relating to aquatic arthropods on the iconic Table Mountain, South Africa: A review	23
Short-term fate of nitrogen fixed by moss-cyanobacteria associations under different rainfall regimes	21
Irrigation decreases flower cover and beneficial arthropod abundances in Mediterranean vineyards	21

Resolving the identity and breeding habitats of cryptic dipteran cacao flower visitors in a neotropical cacao agroforestry system	21
Not only hedgerows, but also flower fields can enhance bat activity in intensively used agricultural landscapes	20
Corrigendum to “Understanding ground-nesting habitat selection by waterbirds to prioritize invasive predator control on islands” [Basic and Applied Ecology Volume 78, August 2024, Pages 14-22]	20
Enhanced invertebrate activity-densities and weed seed predation in an integrated cropping system	20
A multi-site experiment to test biocontrol effects of wildflower strips in different French climate zones	20
Bees improve oil quality of oilseed rape	20
An unfortunate alliance: Native shrubs increase the abundance, performance, and apparent impacts of Bromus tectorum across a regional aridity gradient	20
The German insect monitoring scheme: Establishment of a nationwide long-term recording of arthropods	19
Landscape- and time-dependent benefits of wildflower areas to ground-dwelling arthropods	19
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	19
Reprint of: Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	19
Genomic patterns and the evolutionary origin of an invasive fungal pathogen (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) in Europe	19
Nutrient status not secondary metabolites drives herbivory and pathogen infestation across differently mycorrhized tree monocultures and mixtures	18
Development of a new apparatus to partition ant body size reveals their respective functional role within ant communities	18
Reprint of: Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: the role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	17
The risk of invasion by angiosperms peaks at intermediate levels of human influence	17
Responses of hover fly diversity and abundance to urbanisation and local attributes of urban greenspaces	17
The relationship between moose browsing, habitat structure and predation pressure on insect herbivores	17
Using spatially-explicit plant competition models to optimise crop productivity in intercropped systems	17
Non-crop habitats concurrently drive crop colonization by the millet head miner and regulation by natural enemies	17
Current and legacy effects of neighborhood communities on plant growth and aboveground herbivory	17
Quantifying the mutualism-antagonism continuum for seed removal by a granivorous disperser	17
Semi-natural habitats are key to breeding bird diversity in intensified vineyard landscapes across Europe	16
Short-term response of ground-dwelling arthropods to storm-related disturbances is mediated by topography and dispersal	16
Soil nutrients and variation in biomass rather than native species richness influence introduced plant richness in a semi-arid grassland	16
Distance decay effects predominantly shape spider but not carabid community composition in crop fields in north-western Europe	16
A global assessment of the species composition and effectiveness of watermelon pollinators and the management strategies to inform effective pollination service delivery	16
Challenges and opportunities when studying movement ecology in science and practical conservation	16
Exogenous application of plant defense hormones alters the effects of live soils on plant performance	16
Social predation by ants as a mortality source for an arboreal gregarious forest pest	15
The contribution of pollinators varies among soybean cultivar traits	15
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	15
Functional diversity, functional composition and functional β diversity drive aboveground biomass across different bioclimatic rangelands	15
Tree diversity promotes predatory wasps and parasitoids but not pollinator bees in a subtropical experimental forest	15
Testing standard growth substrates for establishing native dry sandy grassland species on extensive green roofs in Northern Germany	14
Understanding ground-nesting habitat selection by waterbirds to prioritize invasive predator control on islands	14
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	14
Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change	14
Habitat quality mediates demographic response to climate in a declining large herbivore	14
Traffic noise induces oxidative stress and phytohormone imbalance in two urban plant species	13
Long-term post-fire resprouting dynamics and reproduction of woody species in a Brazilian savanna	13
From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	13
Corrigendum to Traffic noise induces oxidative stress and phytohormone imbalance in two urban plant species, Basic and Applied Ecology Volume 60, May 2022, Pages 1-12	13
Evolutionary Agroecology: Individual fitness, population yield and resource availability in wheat	13
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	13
Dwarf shrubs may mitigate the negative effects of climate change on spiders by moderating microclimate	13
The positive plant diversity/consumer relationship is independent of grassland age	12
Garden pond diversity: Opportunities for urban freshwater conservation	12
Drivers of cultivated and wild plant pollination in urban agroecosystems	12
Refugia for non-timber forest product populations: Prevalence and efficacy	12

A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation	12
Asynchrony between solitary bee emergence and flower availability reduces flower visitation rate and may affect offspring size	12
Artificial light at night increases the nighttime feeding of monarch butterfly caterpillars without affecting host plant quality	12
Abundance and trait-matching both shape interaction frequencies between plants and birds in seed-dispersal networks	12
Shrub canopy matrix decreases reproductive output of a sheltered plant via pollinator exclusion	12
Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the Worlds First National Park. Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler and Daniel R. MacNulty. 339 pages, London: University of Chicago Press [2020]	11
Changes in community composition and prey capture of web-building spiders during rice field development	11
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	11
BOOK REVIEW	11
Editorial Board	11
Ecology for future cities	11
Editorial Board	11
Managing agrobiodiversity: integrating field and landscape scales for biodiversity-yield synergies	11
Biodiversity in urban blue space – increasing knowledge and species richness	11
An observational assessment of winter human-nature interaction in urban parks	11
BOOK REVIEW	11
Non-additive effects of multiple predators alter the biological control of the coffee leaf miner (Leucoptera coffeella)	11
Soil microbial biomass and enzyme kinetics for the assessment of temporal diversification in agroecosystems	10
Carnivores cross irrigation canals more often through overpasses than through culverts	10
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	10
Mycorrhizal fungi improve growth of Juniperus communis but only at sufficiently high soil element concentrations	10
Exploring trade-offs in agro-ecological landscapes: Using a multi-objective land-use allocation model to support agroforestry research	10
Agricultural intensification affects birds' trait diversity across Europe	10
Landscape attributes shape dung beetle diversity at multiple spatial scales in agricultural drylands	10
Contrasting responses of terrestrial and aquatic consumers in riparian – stream networks to local and landscape level drivers of environmental change	10
Effects of sown and spontaneous inter-row vegetation on weeds and beneficial arthropods in vineyards	9
Structure of a metacommunity of urban bees: Species diversity and spatio-temporal modularity	9
Comparison of pasture types in the tropical Andes: Species composition, distribution, nutritive value and responses to environmental change	9
What plant–pollinator network structure tells us about the mechanisms underlying the bidirectional biodiversity productivity relationship?	9
Glyphosate reduces the biodiversity of soil macrofauna and benefits exotic over native species in a tropical agroecosystem	9
Conservation translocations in urban environments: State of the knowledge and future directions	9
Impacts of local and landscape grassland management on the structure of plant-pollinator networks	9
No consistent diversity patterns in terrestrial mammal assemblages along rural-urban forest gradients	9
Intraspecific interactions in the annual legume Medicago minima are shaped by both genetic variation for competitive ability and reduced competition among kin	9
Comparison of the pollination efficiency of Apis cerana with wild bees in oil-seed camellia fields	9
Olive grove intensification negatively affects wintering bird communities in central Spain	9
Recovery of local dragonfly diversity following restoration of an artificial lake in an urban area near Buenos Aires	9
Allometric constraints on carabid diets: interspecific differences in carabid-to-seed mass ratios impact seed choice	9
Ant taxonomic and functional beta-diversity respond differently to changes in forest cover and spatial distance	9
Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society, J. Ollerton. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, UK (2021). 286 pp., €31 (Softcover), ISBN: 978-1-78427-228-9	9
Does weed suppression by high crop density depend on crop spatial pattern and soil water availability?	9
Numbers and presence of guarding dogs affect wolf and leopard predation on livestock in northeastern Iran	9
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	9
Plant traits and landscape simplification drive intraspecific trait diversity of Bombus terrestris in wildflower plantings	9