OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Western North American Naturalist is 1. 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
Rapid Invasion by The Annual Grass Ventenata dubia into Protected-Area, Low-Elevation Sagebrush Steppe	8
A Molecular Taxonomy of Cottus in western North America	8
Headwaters Fed by Subterranean Ice: Potential Climate Refugia for Mountain Stream Communities?	7
Nearshore Species Biodiversity of a Marine Protected Area Off Santa Catalina Island, California	7
Small-Bodied Fish Surveys Demonstrate Native Fish Dominance Over 300 Kilometers of the Colorado River Through Grand Canyon, Arizona	6
Reproductive Failure Predicts Intracolony Dispersal of Female Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) in a Northern Population	6
Cold Tolerance of Mountain Stoneflies (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from the High Rocky Mountains	6
Behavioral Response to High Temperatures in a Desert Grassland Bird: Use of Shrubs as Thermal Refugia	6
Microclimate and Summer Surface Activity in the American Pika (Ochotona princeps)	5
A Review of Home Range Sizes of Four Raptor Species of Regional Conservation Concern	5
Lower Predation with Increasing Altitude in the Mesquite Lizard Sceloporus grammicus	5
Distribution and Population Structure of Ambystoma altamirani from the Llano de Lobos, State of México, Mexico	5
Acarosporaceae of New Mexico: Eight New Species of Acarospora and Sarcogyne	4
Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) is a Confirmed Host to Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)	4
Flower Color Variation in Jones' Penstemon, Penstemon ×jonesii Pennell (P. eatonii A. Gray × P. laevis Pennell) (Plantaginaceae)	4
Updating the Distribution of American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Texas Using Community Science, State Agencies, and Natural History Collections	3
A Noninvasive Genetic Technique Using Guano for Identification of Corynorhinus townsendii (Townsend's Big-Eared Bat) Maternity Roosts	3
Camera Traps Provide Insights into American Pika Site Occupancy, Behavior, Thermal Relations, and Associated Wildlife Diversity	3
An Observation of Spring Mating in Silver-Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans)	3
Fisher Use of Postfire Landscapes: Implications for Habitat Connectivity and Restoration	3
Jaguars and Roads in the Calakmul Region: Evidence of Road Crossing and Collisions with Vehicles	3
Relentless Predation on Gunnison's Prairie Dogs (Cynomys Gunnisoni) by a Single American Badger (Taxidea Taxus)	3
Body Mass and Primary Molt Patterns of Greater Sage-Grouse in Colorado	3
Baseline Biodiversity Assessment of South Texas Small Mammals and Host-Associated Hard Ticks with No Detection of Selected Tick-Borne Pathogens	3
Spatiotemporal Patterns of San Joaquin Kit Foxes and an Urban Canid Guild	3

Heterospecific Coprophagy: Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) Feeding on Cougar (Puma concolor) Feces	3
Integrative Biodiversity Inventories: Characterizing Lichen-Forming Fungal Diversity in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Using DNA Barcoding and Vouchered Specimens	2
Geographic Distribution, Reproduction, and Seasonal Activity of Bats in Iowa	2
Predictability of Invasive Argentine Ant Distribution Across Mediterranean Ecoregions of Southern California	2
Late Quaternary Voles from Persistence Cave, Black Hills, South Dakota	2
Asymmetrical Host Switching by two Groups of Obligate Ectosymbionts of Crayfishes	2
Quantification of Eccentricity in Stems of Two Species of Purshia	2
Trace Elements in Walleye Tissues and Dietary Components from an Impoundment Located Downstream of the Leadville Mining District, Colorado, II: Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb	2
Seasonal Activity and Diets of Bats at Uranium Mines and Adjacent Areas near the Grand Canyon	2
Monitoring the Basking Behavior of Rio Grande Cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi) through Game Cameras in Southeastern New Mexico, USA	2
Acoustic Interaction between a Pair of Owls and a Wolf	2
Historic Methods of Trapping Plains Spotted Skunks: Implications for Modern Survey Methodology	2
The Age and Vertebrate Paleontology of Labor-of-Love Cave, White Pine County, Nevada	2
Differential Responses of Native Fishes in Two Headwater Tributaries of the Gila River Following Severe Wildfires	2
Late Miocene to Late Pliocene (Hemphillian to Blancan) Borophagine Canids (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Idaho	2
Estimating Abundance of Desert Mule Deer Using Fecal DNA–Based Capture-Recapture	2
A Simple Method for Restraint of Small Mammals for Sampling Blood or Tissue in the Field	2
First Record and Diet of the Tri-Colored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus) from Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Culberson County, Texas	2
Prevalence and Intensity of Infection of the Parasitic Copepod Salmincola californiensis on Rainbow Trout in Birch Creek, Idaho	2
Active Trumpeter Swan Nest on an Active Muskrat Lodge	2
Trace Elements in Walleye Tissues and Dietary Components from an Impoundment Located Downstream of the Leadville Mining District, Colorado, I: Hg and Se	2
An Inventory of Springsnails (Pyrgulopsis spp.) in and Adjacent to the Spring Mountains, Nevada	2
The History of Cougars in Yellowstone National Park	1
Physical Habitat Complexity Partially Offsets the Negative Effect of Brook Trout on Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Peripheral Goose Creek Subbasin	1
Biology of Alniphagus aspericollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Alnus tenuifolia in Northern Idaho and Notes on Alniphagus hirsutus	1
Presence of Neotropical Otter (Lontra longicaudis) at High Elevation between Watersheds	1
Relative Influence of Precipitation and Grazing on a Salt Desert Shrub Plant Community	1
Postfire Breeding Behavior in Couch's Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus couchii) along the San Pedro River, Arizona	1
The North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) is Recolonizing the Llano Estacado	1
Bats (Chiroptera) of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah and Arizona	1
The First Generation and Annual Cytogenetic Diversity of the Simulium arcticum Malloch Complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) at the Little Blackfoot River, Montana	1
Landscape Genetics of the Camas Pocket Gopher (Thomomys bulbivorus), an Endemic Mammal of Oregon's Willamette Valley	1
Native Fish Loss in a Transition-Zone Stream Following Century-Long Habitat Alterations and Nonnative Species Introductions	1
Flowering by Dioecious Rhamnus ilicifolia (Rhamnaceae) and Pollen Transport to Female Flowers by Flies and Bees	1
Climate Variation Influences Flowering Time Overlap in a Pair of Hybridizing Montane Plants	1
Declines of Black-Billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) and Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) in the North-Central United States Following the Invasion of West Nile Virus	1
What North American Bees are Associated with Milkweed (Asclepias) Flowers?	1
Current Distribution of the California Vole (Microtus californicus) in Baja California, Mexico	1
Time Required for Brown Bears to Capture and Consume Pacific Salmon	1
Using Trail Cameras to Document Meso and Large Mammal Use of Native and Nonnative Riparian Forest Types in Southeastern Arizona	1
Age-Dependent Search Behavior in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus)	1
Reproduction and Age Structure of the Plains Killifish Fundulus zebrinus from Two Tributaries of the Upper Red River, Texas	1
Decline of the Northern Long-Eared Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in the Eastern Great Plains After the Arrival of White-Nose Syndrome	1
Effects of Elk and Bison Herbivory on Narrowleaf Cottonwood	1
Whooping Crane (Grus americana) Family Consumes a Diversity of Aquatic Vertebrates During Fall Migration Stopover at the Platte River, Nebraska	1
Archaeological Data Suggest Seventeenth-Century Presence of Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) in the Middle Rio Grande	1
Noteworthy Records of Mammals from West-Central Mexico	1
Novel Prey and Foraging Behavior of the California Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris munda) Along Two Intermittent Streams	1
A Molecular and Morphological Guide to the Pilose Crayfishes of Western North America	1
Southwestern Bats and Their External Bacteria	1

Monitoring Whitebark Pine Stand Health in the Central Washington Cascades	1
Distribution, Density, and Land Cover Associations of Wintering Golden Eagles in the Southern Great Plains	1
Female Puma (Puma concolor) Highway Crossings in the Yucatan Peninsula	1
Early Succession Following Prescribed Fire in Low Sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula var. Arbuscula) Steppe	1
Are Shrubs a Necessary Component of the Habitat for Ammospermophilus nelsoni in the San Joaquin Desert?	1
Life History Variation in Two Populations of California Newt, Taricha torosa	1
Reproductively Viable Population of American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in Lowland Chihuahuan Desert Habitat of Trans-Pecos Texas	1
Long-Term Persistence of Desert Rodent Species in a Great Basin Sagebrush Community: Potential Effects of Fire, Invasive Annuals, and Warming Temperatures	1
Scavenging of Animal Carcasses by Gumaga nigricula (Sericostomatidae, Trichoptera), an Apparent Herbivore	1
Detecting Rainbow Trout Introgression in Bonneville Cutthroat Trout of the Bear River Basin Using Field-Based Phenotypic Characteristics	1
First Recorded Observations of Conspecific Egg and Nestling Consumption in Common Ravens (Corvus corax)	1
Variable Uptake of Selenium: Exposing Bryophytes in Situ to a Se-Gradient Watershed	1
Comparing Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Different Translocation Release Methods for Desert Bighorn Sheep	1
Harvester Ants Reduce Seed Survivorship in Slickspot Peppergrass, a Rare Mustard Endemic to Idaho	1
Variation in Trophic Niches of Fish in Lake Powell Prior to Full Colonization by Quagga Mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis)	1
Observations of Atypical Habitat Use by Foothill Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana boylii) in the Coast Range of California	1
Lichens and Allied Fungi of the North Fork Nooksack River Valley Bottom, Whatcom County, Washington: Important Biodiversity in a High-Use Area	1
Lesser Long-Nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) Range Expansion into Northern Grant County, New Mexico	1
A Holocene Record of Vegetation Change and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks at Lake of the Woods, Montana, USA	1
San Bernardino Flying Squirrel Use of Residential Areas: A Citizen Science Approach	1
A Review of Psilochalcis Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) from the Western United States with Descriptions of Three New Species from Utah and Surrounding States	1
First Documentation of Least Chub in the Snake River Drainage in Idaho	1
Using an Ultraviolet Light Test to Improve Sagebrush Identification and Predict Forage Quality for Wildlife	1
Marsupial Visitation to the Inflorescences of the Endemic Agave cupreata in Western Mexico	1