OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Community Ecology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationships of community diversity with distributions of rare species, non-native plants, and compositional stability in a temperate forest–open habitat landscape	21
Temporal integration analysis of environmental behavior and fish abundance in selected coastal systems of the southern Gulf of Mexico	21
From tweets to tings: Dissimilarity in recorded species community between social media platforms and implications for resource-limited conservation	15
Plant diversity and water quality of grassland ponds under different agri-environment schemes	12
May we improve trapping of drosophilid species (Insecta, Diptera)? A review of sampling protocols in Brazilian biomes	12
Community composition of aboveground ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dripline area of Taxus contorta Griff. in mixed coniferous forests of Northwest Himalaya	10
A review of the factors influencing invertebrate community structure in subterranean habitats	9
Birds’ ecological characteristics differ among habitats: an analysis based on national citizen science data	8
Ecological status estimation of minimally disturbed rivers of the Western Mediterranean Basin (Türkiye) using diatom indices	7
Importance of dynamics of acquired phototrophy amongst mixoplankton; a unique example of essential nutrient transmission in community ecology	7
The zooplankton of tropical streams: is it determinism or stochasticity that drives the spatial and temporal patterns in community structure?	6
Remote sensing supports spatially explicit mapping of arthropod distributions in a heterogeneous mire habitat: A case study of the Apšuciems mire, Latvia	6
Small mammals in a mountain ecosystem: the effect of topographic, micrometeorological, and biological correlates on their community structure	6
Comparison of leaf litter ant fauna in areas under ecological restoration and secondary forest	6
Temporal patterns of breeding bird assemblages in small urban parks reveal relatively low stability and asynchrony	5
The distribution of invasive alien plant species in peri-urban areas: a case study from the city of Kolkata	5
An eroding standard	5
Correction to: Community type and disturbance type interact to determine disturbance response: implications for extending the environmental filter metaphor	5
Mapping co-occurrence dynamics between crops and honeybees under climate change in North America	5
Dan Chapman: A road running southward: following John Muir’s journey through an endangered land	5
Structural and functional properties of foundation species (mussels vs. seaweeds) predict functional aspects of the associated communities	5
The effect of woody plants on the understory soil parameters is different between grazed and ungrazed areas	5
Extracting tea plantations in complex landscapes using Sentinel-2 imagery and machine learning algorithms	5
Mutualistic interactions between plants with extrafloral nectaries and ants: ecological impacts, ant sharing among neighboring plants, and the effects of environmental conditions	5
Joan Maloof: Nature’s temples: A natural history of old-growth forests	4

Close-to-nature forest management effects on soil nematodes and microbial activity in pine plantations on aeolian sands	4
How do the sympatric forest mongooses coexist in the Western Ghats landscape? Insights from spatio-temporal approach	4
The “R-evolution” in ecological research	4
Reconstruction and variability of tropical pollination networks in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	4
Fish community diversity assessment of protected Saraiyaman wetland in the Ganga River basin, India	4
The relationship between the functional diversity, functional redundancy and community stability in mountain rangelands	4
C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read and Charlotte Wheater: Animals Under Logs and Stones	4
Square-grid sampling to address the vegetation patterns of declined Mediterranean forest ecosystems	4
Paul A. Rees: Key questions in applied ecology and conservation: a study and revision guide	4
The city in the clouds: vascular epiphytes in Brazil’s highest urban area are highly influenced by the surrounding vegetation	4
“It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place”: a comprehensive overview of marine mammal research provides understanding of their behavioral strategies in the face of environmental c	3
Daniel C. Laughlin: Plant Strategies—the demographic consequences of functional traits in changing environments	3
Twelve-year changes in palm populations from a tropical lowland forest in the Philippines	3
Landscape connection and patch complexity explain plant community similarity in sandy grasslands better than habitat amount and landscape heterogeneity via network analysis	3
The nature of microbial diversity and assembly in the Nebraska Sandhills depends on organismal identity and habitat type	3
Impact of agricultural land use and monsoon on earthworms and crop production in West Bengal, India	3
The influence of Retama raetam (Fabaceae) and livestock grazing on species composition, yield and soil nutrients in arid environments of south Tunisia	3
Bernard J. Le Boeuf: Elephant seals: pushing the limits on land and at sea	3
Vertical stratification of the soil seed bank in wet grasslands and its implications for restoration	3
The limited local efficacy of flowering plants in biocontrol programs: The overriding role of landscape composition and configuration	3
Comparison of three modelling frameworks for aquatic ecosystems: practical aspects and applicability	3
Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher: The silken thread: five insects and their impacts on human history	3
Gina Louise Hunter: Edible insects: a global history	3
Temperate hyper-saline ecosystems induce spatial distribution and halo-thermotolerance potential in indigenous cultivable bacterial community	3
Interactions between Metisa plana, its hyperparasitoids and primary parasitoids from good agriculture practices (GAP) and non-gap oil palm plantations	3
A community under a pulse perturbation experiment: editorial	3
Chris Thorogood: Field guide to the wild flowers of the Western Mediterranean, second edition	2
Edward Struzik: Swampland: tundra beavers, quaking bogs, and the improbable world of peat	2
The effect of shrub community on understory soil seed bank with and without livestock grazing	2
Differential responses of temporal interaction networks between specialist and generalist hummingbirds and native and alien plants in a Mexican cloud forest	2
Quantifying the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors in landscape-based models of stream fish distributions	2
Precipitation fluctuations control aboveground net primary productivity in desert grassland	2
Land use increases macrophytes beta diversity in Amazon streams by favoring amphibious life forms species	2
David Grimaldi (Ed): The complete insect: anatomy, physiology, evolution, and ecology	2
J. Scott Armstrong and Kesten C. Green: The scientific method: A guide to finding useful knowledge	2
Thinking like a bee	2
Zoom into a twilight zone: a biodiversity survey of the Dohrn Canyon (Mediterranean sea) through environmental DNA metabarcoding	2
The challenge of life history traits: a small cladoceran, Ceriodaphnia rigaudi	2
Effects of anthropogenic disturbance and seasonality on alpha diversity of ant–plant interaction networks in Mexican temperate forests	2
Coral reef development influences the spatial pattern of echinoderms in the Central Mexican Pacific	2
Coral diversity and abundance patterns at the West Coast of Sabah: a case study of Kota Kinabalu coral reefs	2
Effects of post-mining forest restoration and alternative land uses on ground-dwelling arthropods in Ghana	2
The bed and board services of crinoids to their associated fauna: a case study from the Great Reef of Toliara, SW Madagascar	2