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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests	481
A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation	65
The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning	38
Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring	37
Insect abundance in managed forests benefits from multi-layered vegetation	33
Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas	30
Hand pollination of global crops – A systematic review	30
Arthropod functional traits shaped by landscape-scale field size, local agri-environment schemes and edge effects	25
Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites	25
Time since establishment drives bee and hoverfly diversity, abundance of crop-pollinating bees and aphidophagous hoverflies in perennial wildflower strips	24
Patterns and drivers of fungal disease communities on Arabica coffee along a management gradient	24
Changes amid constancy: Flower and leaf microbiomes along land use gradients and between bioregions	23
Landscape heterogeneity and forest cover shape cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities in a multi-scale perspective	23
A new indicator of the effectiveness of urban green infrastructure based on ecosystem services assessment	23
Effects of traffic-regulated street lighting on nocturnal insect abundance and bat activity	23
The importance of blue and green landscape connectivity for biodiversity in urban ponds	23
Redundancy in wildflower strip species helps support spatiotemporal variation in wild bee communities on diversified farms	22
Tree-tree interactions and crown complementarity: The role of functional diversity and branch traits for canopy packing	22
Attractiveness of sown wildflower strips to flower-visiting insects depends on seed mixture and establishment success	22
Response of bats and nocturnal insects to urban green areas in Europe	22
Biodiversity and carbon storage are correlated along a land use intensity gradient in a tropical montane forest watershed, Mexico	21
Intercropping in high input agriculture supports arthropod diversity without risking significant yield losses	21
Livestock grazing constrains bird abundance and species richness: A global meta-analysis	20
Saved by the pulse? Separating the effects of total and temporal food abundance on the growth and reproduction of bumble bee microcolonies	20
Ecological preferences of neotropical cave bats in roost site selection and their implications for conservation	20

Biotic interactions with mycorrhizal systems as extended nutrient acquisition strategies shaping forest soil communities and functions	19
Bee communities in restored prairies are structured by landscape and management, not local floral resources	18
Forest fragments influence pollination and yield of soybean crops in Chaco landscapes	18
Reconciling conservation and development in protected areas of the Global South	18
Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities	18
Landscape and habitat affect frequency of artificial duck nest predation by native species, but not by an alien predator	17
Population assessment without individual identification using camera-traps: A comparison of four methods	16
Landscapes with high amounts of mass-flowering fruit crops reduce the reproduction of two solitary bees	16
Effects of three flower field types on bumblebees and their pollen diets	16
Removing understory vegetation in oil palm agroforestry reduces ground-foraging ant abundance but not species richness	16
Habitat quality and surrounding landscape structures influence wild bee occurrence in perennial wildflower strips	15
Seasonal variation in the diet of the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus): A high-resolution analysis using DNA metabarcoding	15
Effects of perennial wildflower strips and landscape structure on birds in intensively farmed agricultural landscapes	15
Establishment and management of wildflower areas for insect pollinators in commercial orchards	15
Meta-analysis of tree diversity effects on the abundance, diversity and activity of herbivores' enemies	15
Effects of urbanization–climate interactions on range expansion in the invasive European pavement ant	15
Response of honeybee colony size to flower strips in agricultural landscapes depends on areal proportion, spatial distribution and plant composition	15
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards	15
Local plant richness predicts bee abundance and diversity in a study of urban residential yards	14
Long-term data shows increasing dominance of Bombus terrestris with climate warming	14
Spatial configuration and landscape context of wildflower areas determine their benefits to pollinator α- and β-diversity	14
Temperature affects both the Grinnellian and Eltonian dimensions of ecological niches – A tale of two Arctic wolf spiders	14
Intra-specific leaf trait responses to species richness at two different local scales	14
Can't bear the competition: Energetic losses from kleptoparasitism by a dominant scavenger may alter foraging behaviors of an apex predator	14
Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe	13
Functional-structural plant models to boost understanding of complementarity in light capture and use in mixed-species forests	13
Radial growth response of trees to seasonal soil humidity in a subtropical forest	13
Plant-mediated indirect effects of climate change on an insect herbivore	13
Threats and benefits of invasive alien plant species on pollinators	13
Garden pond diversity: Opportunities for urban freshwater conservation	13
Trends in monthly abundance and species richness of carabids over 33 years at the Kaiserstuhl, southwest Germany	13
Species identity and composition effects on community productivity in a subtropical forest	13
Key factors influencing forager distribution across macadamia orchards differ among species of managed bees	13
Functional diversity, functional composition and functional β diversity drive aboveground biomass across different bioclimatic rangelands	13
Achieving win-win outcomes for biodiversity and yield through diversified farming	13
Native flower strips increase visitation by non-bee insects to avocado flowers and promote yield	13
Urbanization negatively impacts frog diversity at continental, regional, and local scales	12
Plant traits and landscape simplification drive intraspecific trait diversity of Bombus terrestris in wildflower plantings	12
Distribution of amphibians along an elevation gradient in the Eastern Himalaya, india	12
Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change	12
Temporal resource partitioning mediates vertebrate coexistence at carcasses: The role of competitive and facilitative interactions	12
Small wild bee abundance declines with distance into strawberry crops regardless of field margin habitat	12
Insectivorous birds are not effective pest control agents in olive groves	11
Woody elements benefit bird diversity to a larger extent than semi-natural grasslands in cereal-dominated landscapes	11
Can novel seed mixes provide a more diverse, abundant, earlier, and longer-lasting floral resource for bees than current mixes?	11
Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities	11
Island biogeography theory predicts plant species richness of remnant grassland patches in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China	11
A conceptual framework and experimental design for analysing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in agroforestry systems	11
Intercropping drives plant phenotypic plasticity and changes in functional trait space	10
Farmland in U.S. Conservation Reserve Program has unique floral composition that promotes bee summer foraging	10

Drivers of within-tree leaf trait variation in a tropical planted forest varying in tree species richness	10
The impact of maize-bean intercropping on insect biodiversity	10
Pollinator supplementation mitigates pollination deficits in smallholder avocado (Persea americana Mill.) production systems in Kenya	10
Grazing and aridity have contrasting effects on the functional and taxonomic diversity of ants	10
Wild bees and natural enemies prefer similar flower species and respond to similar plant traits	10
Mass-flowering red clover crops have positive effects on bumblebee richness and diversity after bloom	10
Remote sensing variables improve species distribution models for alpine plant species	10
Proximity to wildflower strips did not boost crop pollination on small, diversified farms harboring diverse wild bees	10
Long-term post-fire resprouting dynamics and reproduction of woody species in a Brazilian savanna	10
Building food networks from molecular data: Bayesian or fixed-number thresholds for including links	10
Inadequate pollination services limit watermelon yields in northern Tanzania	10
How does oak mast seeding affect the feeding behavior of sympatric red and roe deer?	10
Variations in leaf morphological and chemical traits in response to life stages, plant functional types, and habitat types in an old-growth temperate forest	10
Facilitation by a dwarf shrub enhances plant diversity of human-valued species at high elevations in the Himalayas of Nepal	10
Putative roles of bacteria in the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a tropical peat swamp forest	9
Causes and consequences of lags in basic and applied research into feral wildlife ecology: the case for feral horses	9
Leaf litter age regulates the effect of native and exotic tree species on understory herbaceous vegetation of riparian forests	9
Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops	9
Contrasting effects of grazing on the early stages of woody encroachment in a Neotropical savanna	9
From pattern to process: Towards mechanistic design principles for pest suppressive landscapes	9
Landscape-scale connectivity and fragment size determine species composition of grassland fragments	9
Vegetation-based ecosystem service delivery in urban landscapes: A systematic review	9
Initial floral visitor identity and foraging time strongly influence blueberry reproductive success	9
Plant identity strongly structures the root-associated fungal community in a diverse subtropical forest	9
A green design of city squares increases abundance and diversity of birds	9
An agro-environmental mowing regime favors the number of inflorescences and flower-visiting insects but not ground beetles of herbaceous boundaries of arable fields	9
Taxonomic and functional approaches reveal different responses of ant assemblages to land-use changes	9
Plant productivity is a key driver of soil respiration response to climate change in a nutrient-limited soil.	9
Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines	9
An interdisciplinary framework to describe and evaluate the functioning of forest ecosystems	9
Landscape- and time-dependent benefits of wildflower areas to ground-dwelling arthropods	9