OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Insect Conservation and Diversity is 4. 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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Floral richness drives pollinator diversity after fire in upland forests and meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California	33
Answering key bumble bee conservation questions by studying discovered wild nests: A Bombus affinis case study	30
Saproxylic beetles trace deadwood and differentiate between deadwood niches before their arrival on potential hosts	30
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Mixed responses among closely related Neotropical butterflies under extreme climate and land cover changes	26
Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?	25
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Limestone quarries are the most important refuge for a formerly widespread grassland butterfly	23
When ice and sea are not barriers for flies: First report of Trichocera maculipennis (Diptera) in South America	21
Variation in pollen load composition carried by wild bee species in native and nearby agricultural environments in south‐eastern Australia	20
Differential response of plant and insect pollinator communities to fragmentation in coastal dune slacks	18
Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered saproxylic beetle L. cervus in a fragmented landscape	18
Living on the edge—Genomic and ecological delineation of cryptic lineages in the high‐elevation specialist Erebia nivalis	18
Consistent imprints of elevation, soil temperature and moisture on plant and arthropod communities across two subarctic landscapes	17
When a threatened species becomes a threat: a key to reading the Habitats Directive based on occurrence and distribution of Cerambyx cerdo L. in Mediterranean urban and peri‐urban areas	17
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Mosaic landscapes provide conservation pockets for an endangered species: Colias myrmidone in Romania	17
Existing flower preference metrics disagree on best plants for pollinators: which metric to choose?	17
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Idiosyncratic trends of woodland invertebrate biodiversity in Britain over 45 years	17
Ecological communities in white‐sand Amazonian rainforests are sensitive to deforestation—A dung beetle case	16
Pollinators differentially respond to local and landscape grassland features	16

Pollinator visits increase with bloom amount but decline with building height on extensive green roofs	15
Revealing suitable micro‐ and macrohabitat characteristics to save the critically endangered Chilean saproxylic beetle Sclerostomulus nitidus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)	15
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Taxonomic and functional homogenization of butterfly communities along an urban gradient	13
Thriving in the heat: How high temperatures and habitat disturbance shape odonate taxonomic and functional diversity in the tropics	12
Effects of climate change on the distribution of threatened invertebrates in a Mediterranean hotspot	12
Insect ecology and conservation in urban areas: An overview of knowledge and needs	12
Aphidophagous ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and climate change: a review	12
Contrasting patterns of habitat use in a threatened carabid (Carabus intricatus) and a sympatric congener in ancient temperate rainforest	12
Ecologically sustainable retention forestry supports spider biodiversity in the Lower Morava UNESCO Biosphere Reserve	11
What can an analysis of Australian tropical rainforest bark beetles suggest about the missing millions of Earth's insect species?	11
Extensive mismatch between protected areas and biodiversity hotspots of Iranian Lepidoptera	11
Monitoring and conservation of cryophilous biodiversity: concerns when working with insect populations in vanishing glacial habitats	10
Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal	10
Ecological and life‐history traits predict temporal trends in biomass of boreal moths	10
Scorpion assemblages in threatened Brazilian forests: The role of environmental factors in explaining beta‐diversity patterns	10
National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation	10
Resource gaps pose the greatest threat for bumblebees during the colony establishment phase	10
Captive propagation and observations of the endangered species Cicindela (Abroscelis) anchoralis (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) in South Ko	8
A colourful world with a dark future: Unregulated trade as an emerging threat for woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea) of Spain	8
Local floral abundance influences bumble bee occupancy more than urban‐agricultural landscape context	8
Higher bee species richness in conservation areas compared with non‐conservation areas in south‐west Germany	8
Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding	8
Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability	8
Identifying key forage plants to support wild bee diversity and a species at risk in the Prairie Pothole Region	8
Accounting for dispersal and intraspecific variation in forecasts of species distribution under climate change	8
Canadian goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) invasion affects millipedes and symphylans more than centipedes in an urban meadow	8
Temporal ecological processes have different seasonal influences on multiple dimensions of riverine insect diversity in China	8
Wetland cover in agricultural landscapes is positively associated with bumblebee abundance	7
An integrative framework for dark taxa biodiversity assessment at scale: A case study using Megaselia (Diptera, Phoridae)	7
Implementing a novel approach to long‐term monitoring of butterfly communities in the Neotropics	7
Quick recovery of a threatened butterfly in well‐connected patches following an extreme drought	7
Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands	7
My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities	7
Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American temperate forest ecosystem	7
Toxicity of ivermectin residues in aged farmyard manure to terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	7
Species traits to guide moth conservation in anthropogenic regions: A multi‐species approach using distribution trends in Flanders (northern Belgium)	7
Identifying conservation hotspots and assessing species commonness and rarity: Baseline arthropod diversity in German nature reserves via national Malaise trap monitoring	7
Ant–plant relationships in an Amazonian rainforest understory: A network approach	6
A revised Red List of British butterflies	6
A comparison of summer, fall and winter estimates of monarch population size before and after milkweed eradication from crop fields in North America	6
Trends in butterfly populations in UK gardens—New evidence from citizen science monitoring	6
Towards reliable estimates of abundance trends using automated non‐lethal moth traps	6
Horizontal and vertical variation in the structure of fruit‐feeding butterfly (Nymphalidae) assemblages in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Towards a functional classification of poorly known tropical insects: The case of rhinoceros beetles (Coleoptera, Dynastinae) in Panama	6
Dry grassland within the urban matrix acts as favourable habitat for different pollinators including endangered species	6
Examining the bias of pitfall traps with enclosure experiments and removal sampling	6
The last hideout: Abundance patterns of the not‐quite‐yet extinct mayfly Prosopistoma pennigerum in the Albanian Vjosa River network	5
Cryptic diversity of Oxythyrea flower chafers and its implication for conservation of non‐forest biotopes in the Balkans	5
Oviposition preferences and larval survival of the marsh fritillary butterfly: The adverse impact of grazing	5

Are thermal constraints shaping foraging ant assemblages in tropical regions? Integrating thermal and morphological traits to understand consequences of land‐use transformation	5
Does monitoring of saproxylic beetles benefit from inclusion of larvae?	5
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Rejuvenation and restoration measures foster specialised and threatened carabid beetle species in montane heathland ecosystems	5
Comparison of microscopy and metabarcoding to identify pollen used by the critically endangered rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis	5
What level of native beetle diversity can be supported by forestry plantations? A global synthesis	5
Conservation implications of a genomic‐based taxonomy for threatened allopatric Agriades butterflies	4
Mulching time of forest meadows influences insect diversity	4
Are patterns of sampling effort and completeness of inventories congruent? A test using databases for five insect taxa in the Iberian Peninsula	4
The effects of land use change on ant communities in New England	4
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Local abundance of neotropical orchid bees in Amazon forests not related to large‐scale climate suitability	4
Pollinators respond positively to urban green space enhancements using wild and ornamental flowers	4
Modelling decisions and density dependence in monarch butterflies: A comment on Meehan and Crossley (2023)	4
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Vertical stratification of leaf physical traits exerts bottom–up pressures on insect herbivory in a sugar maple temperate forest	4
Species traits influence the process of biodiversity inventorying: a case study using the British butterfly database	4
Local and landscape drivers of natural enemy communities in Indonesian oil palm plantation	4
A novel low‐cost effective trap to capture sarcosaprophagous Diptera alive	4
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Intraspecific trait variation of carrion beetle species and communities across elevations	4
The ecological functions of dung beetles are shaped by multiple dimensions of diversity	4
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Genetic diversity and gene flow of the soil arthropod (Scolopendra mutilans) in urban landscapes: The roles of rivers, mountains and fragmentation	4
Odonata responses to dispersal and niche processes differ across Amazonian endemism regions	4
Phylogeography of the Iberian endemic butterfly Erebia palarica Chapman, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): An integrative approach	4
Host plants and landscape predict use of roadside habitat by breeding monarchs	4
Evolutionary genomics analysis reveals a unique lineage of Megachile pruina found in an isolated population in Bermuda	4