OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mammalian Biology is 5. 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
Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high-accuracy photo-identification matching system for humpback whales	41
Sharp decline in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) survival and reproductive success in southeastern Alaska during and after the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific marine heatwave	28
Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research—Part 2: Field studies and applications	25
Individual identification and photographic techniques in mammalian ecological and behavioural research—Part 1: Methods and concepts	25
Flukebook: an open-source AI platform for cetacean photo identification	22
Basic considerations on seasonal breeding in mammals including their testing by comparing natural habitats and zoos	21
The timing of breeding and independence for snow leopard females and their cubs	19
Movement, space-use and resource preferences of European golden jackals in human-dominated landscapes: insights from a telemetry study	19
Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals	19
“When the felid’s away, the mesocarnivores play”: seasonal temporal segregation in a neotropical carnivore guild	18
Estimating wild boar density and rooting activity in a Mediterranean protected area	16
First assessment of habitat suitability and connectivity for the golden jackal in north-eastern Italy	15
Camera traps reveal overlap and seasonal variation in the diel activity of arboreal and semi-arboreal mammals	15
Winter activity of boreal bats	14
Patterns of activity rhythms of invasive coypus Myocastor coypus inferred through camera-trapping	14
Effects of oil palm and human presence on activity patterns of terrestrial mammals in the Colombian Llanos	13
Changes in the social behavior of urban animals: more aggression or tolerance?	13
Guest or pest? Spatio-temporal occurrence and effects on soil and vegetation of the wild boar on Elba island	13
Factors affecting the crop damage by wild boar (Sus scrofa) and effects of population control in the Ticino and Lake Maggiore Park (North-western Italy)	13
Growth trajectories of wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) determined from parallel laser photogrammetry	12
Can prey occupancy act as a surrogate for mesopredator occupancy? A case study of ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)	12
A review of the impacts of invasive wild pigs on native vertebrates	12
Artificial intelligence for right whale photo identification: from data science competition to worldwide collaboration	12
Predation of invasive raccoon (Procyon lotor) on hibernating bats in the Nietoperek reserve in Poland	12
Feasibility of using convolutional neural networks for individual-identification of wild Asian elephants	11

Genetic diversity and population structure of the grey wolf (Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758) and evidence of wolf × dog hybridisation in the centre of European Russia	10
Diet compositions of two sympatric ungulates, the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) and the sika deer (Cervus nippon), in a montane forest and an alpine grassland of Mt. Asama, central Japan	10
Temporal overlap among small- and medium-sized mammals in a grassland and a forest–alpine meadow of Central Asia	10
Are Asian elephants afraid of honeybees? Experimental studies in northern Thailand	10
How the South was won: current and potential range expansion of the crested porcupine in Southern Italy	10
Adverse effects of noise pollution on foraging and drinking behaviour of insectivorous desert bats	9
Pre-trained models are not enough: active and lifelong learning is important for long-term visual monitoring of mammals in biodiversity research—Individual identification and attribute prediction with	9
Size matters: penis size, sexual maturity and their consequences for giant armadillo conservation planning	9
Ecological drivers of group size variation in sika deer: habitat structure, population density, or both?	9
Structure and inter-specific relationships of a felid community of the upper Amazonian basin under different scenarios of human impact	9
Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you…where you live: an updated review of the worldwide distribution and foraging ecology of the fallow deer (Dama dama)	9
Siang river in Arunachal Pradesh splits red panda into two phylogenetic species	9
Wolf diet and livestock depredation in North Bosnia and Herzegovina	8
The potential for acoustic individual identification in mammals	8
Not avian but mammalian scavengers efficiently consume carcasses under heavy snowfall conditions: a case from northern Japan	8
Conservation status of the world’s carnivorous mammals (order Carnivora)	8
From the Antarctic Peninsula to eastern Australia: the longest migration of a humpback whale through the South Pacific Ocean	8
spaceNtime: an R package for estimating abundance of unmarked animals using camera-trap photographs	8
Multispecies facial detection for individual identification of wildlife: a case study across ursids	8
Population genetics of the African wolf (Canis lupaster) across its range: first evidence of hybridization with domestic dogs in Africa	8
Morphometrics and body condition of southern right whales on the calving grounds at Port Ross, Auckland Islands	8
Drone-based photogrammetry assessments of body size and body condition of Antillean manatees	8
Dynamics of threatened mammalian distribution in Iran’s protected areas under climate change	8
A cat in paradise: hunting and feeding behaviour of Eurasian lynx among abundant naive prey	8
Automated, high-throughput image calibration for parallel-laser photogrammetry	8
Threatened Andean bears are negatively affected by human disturbance and free-ranging cattle in a protected area in northwest Peru	7
Similarity learning networks for animal individual re-identification: an ecological perspective	7
Preserving identity in capture–mark–recapture studies: increasing the accuracy of minimum number alive (MNA) estimates by incorporating inter-census trapping efficiency variation	7
En route to the North: modelling crested porcupine habitat suitability and dispersal flows across a highly anthropized area in northern Italy	7
Extreme moulting site fidelity of the Saimaa ringed seal	7
Potential distribution models from two highly endemic species of subterranean rodents of Argentina: which environmental variables have better performance in highly specialized species?	7
Space use and movement patterns of translocated bighorn sheep	7
Genetic identifications challenge our assumptions of physical development and mother–calf associations and separation times: a case study of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)	7
The rhythm of the night: patterns of activity of the European wildcat in the Italian peninsula	7
The phylogenetic relationships within the Eastern Afromontane clade of Crocidura based on mitochondrial and nuclear data	7
The longest recorded movement of an inshore common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)	7
Fine-scale habitat selection of a small mammalian urban adapter: the West European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)	7
First evaluation of the population structure, genetic diversity and landscape connectivity of the Endangered Arabian tahr	7
Influence of topography gradient and seasonality on primate habitat use in Central Amazonia	7
Cannibalistic necrophagy in red foxes: do the nutritional benefits offset the potential costs of disease transmission?	7
Molecular and morphological revision of small Myotinae from the Himalayas shed new light on the poorly known genus Submyotodon (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)	7
Methodological improvements for detecting and identifying scats of an expanding mesocarnivore in south-western Europe	7
Investigating local population dynamics of bottlenose dolphins in the northern Bahamas and the impact of hurricanes on survival	7
Social environment with high intrasexual competition enhances the positive relationship between faecal testosterone and cortisol metabolite levels in red deer	6
Application of multi-species photo-ID database management systems: a user’s perspective	6
Human-canid relationship in the Americas: an examination of canid biological attributes and domestication	6
No genetic signature of glacial refugia in current European fallow deer (Dama dama dama L., 1758) populations: a comment on Baker et al. (2017)	6
Tracing the geographic origin of common pipistrelles (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) swarming at a mass hibernaculum	6
Activity pattern, budget and diurnal rhythmicity of the brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in northeastern Brazil	6
Habitat use patterns and conservation of small carnivores in a human-dominated landscape of the semiarid Caatinga in Brazil	6

Everyone matters: identification with facial wrinkles allows more accurate inference of elephant social dynamics	6
Flexible habitat use and range extension by the striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) in Brazil	6
Sexual dimorphism in toothed whales (Odontoceti) follows Rensch’s rule	6
Predation and survival in reintroduced populations of the Common hamster Cricetus cricetus in the Netherlands	6
The relative role of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers in regulating population change and survival of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus)	6
Preliminary evidence for a forestomach washing mechanism in llamas (Lama glama)	6
Proposing a framework for monitoring demographic parameters in local cetacean populations: the case of short-finned pilot whales in Madeira	6
Comprehensive cytogenetic analysis of the most chromosomally variable mammalian genus from South America: Ctenomys (Rodentia: Caviomorpha: Ctenomyidae)	6
Camera-trapping reveals new insights in the ecology of three sympatric muntjacs in an overhunted biodiversity hotspot	6
The value of individual identification in studies of free-living hyenas and aardwolves	6
Feeding ecology of the wolf (Canis lupus) in a near-natural ecosystem in Mongolia	6
Effects on carrion consumption in a mammalian scavenger community when dominant species are excluded	6
Assessing social structure: a data-driven approach to define associations between individuals	6
Assessing molar wear in narrow-headed voles as a proxy for diet and habitat in a changing Arctic	5
Habitat characteristics and life history explain reproductive seasonality in lagomorphs	5
An unknown component of a well-known population: socio-demographic parameters of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) at the western reaches of the Pearl River Delta region	5
Health conditions of Guiana dolphins facing cumulative anthropogenic impacts	5
Challenging hibernation limits of hoary bats: the southernmost record of Lasiurus cinereus hibernating in North America	5
Using camera traps to study hyenas: challenges, opportunities, and outlook	5
Kill rates and associated ecological factors for an apex predator	5
The elephant at the dump: how does garbage consumption impact Asian elephants?	5
Matching individual Ladoga ringed seals across short-term image sequences	5
Predicting the individual identity of non-invasive faecal and hair samples using biotelemetry clusters	5
Spatially explicit population estimates of African leopards and spotted hyenas in the Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area of southwestern Uganda	5
Bat selfies: photographic surveys of flying bats	5
Adapting photo-identification methods to study poorly marked cetaceans: a case study for common dolphins and harbor porpoises	5
eDNA and metabarcoding for rewilding projects monitoring, a dietary approach	5
Phylogeography of subspecies of the sable (Martes zibellina L.) based on mitochondrial genomes: implications for evolutionary history	5
Spatial distribution of the pine marten (Martes martes) and stone marten (Martes foina) in the Italian Alps	5
Population density estimate of leopards (Panthera pardus) in north-western Mpumalanga, South Africa, determined using spatially explicit capture–recapture methods	5
Genetic adaptation to urban living: molecular DNA analyses of wild boar populations in Budapest and surrounding area	5
Estimating population parameters of African elephants: a photographic mark-recapture application in a South African protected area	5
Understanding the diversification pattern of three subspecies of swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii) during the Pleistocene–Holocene based on mitochondrial and Y chromosome markers	5
Evolution of sexual size dimorphism and sexual segregation in artiodactyls: the chicken or the egg?	5
Habitat selection of jaguars in a seasonally flooded landscape	5
Dynamics of short-finned pilot whales long-term social structure in Madeira	5