OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 38. 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
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A Trophic and Non‐Trophic Seasonal Interaction Network Reveals Potential Management Units and Functionally Important Species	90
Land‐Use Impacts on Plant Functional Diversity Throughout Europe	84
Rising Atmospheric CO₂ Alleviates Drought Impact on Autumn Leaf Senescence Over Northern Mid‐High Latitudes	83
The biome inventory – Standardizing global biogeographical land units	83
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Biogeographic pattern of living vegetation carbon turnover time in mature forests across continents	78
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects	69
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Three‐dimensional distribution of mesoplankton assemblages in the Central Atlantic	66
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Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive—A new database of plant community composition and environmental conditions	62
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Contrasting effects of host or local specialization: Widespread haemosporidians are host generalist, whereas local specialists are locally abundant	61
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Marked Variability in Distance‐Decay Patterns Suggests Contrasting Dispersal Ability in Abyssal Taxa	54
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Phylogenetic structure of alien and native species in regional plant assemblages across China: Testing niche conservatism hypothesis versus niche convergence hypothesis	53
Does island ontogeny dictate the accumulation of both species richness and functional diversity?	49

Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts	47
The carbon cost of the 2019–20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type	47
Evolutionary history and environmental variability structure contemporary tropical vertebrate communities	46
Geometric effects of fragmentation are likely to mitigate diversity loss following habitat destruction in real‐world landscapes	46
Human food use increases plant geographical ranges in the Sonoran Desert	43
Phenological similarity and distinctiveness facilitate plant invasions	43
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Earthquake disturbance shifts metabolic energy use and partitioning in a monodominant forest	41
Deterministic assembly processes shaping habitat‐specific glycoside hydrolase composition	40
Increasing winter temperatures explain body size decrease in wintering bird populations of Northern Europe—But response patterns vary along the spatioclimatic gradient	40
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