OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Insect Conservation and Diversity is 6. 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
Is light pollution driving moth population declines? A review of causal mechanisms across the life cycle	88
Wild bee declines linked to plant‐pollinator network changes and plant species introductions	57
Field margin floral enhancements increase pollinator diversity at the field edge but show no consistent spillover into the crop field: a meta‐analysis	55
Increase of insular exotic arthropod diversity is a fundamental dimension of the current biodiversity crisis	45
A global review of determinants of native bee assemblages in urbanised landscapes	40
Light pollution is the fastest growing potential threat to firefly conservation in the Atlantic Forest hotspot	33
Diversity and conservation of saproxylic beetles in 42 European tree species: an experimental approach using early successional stages of branches	32
Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of invertebrate population and biodiversity change: a comment on Seibold et al. 2019	30
Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there	30
Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network	28
Limited understanding of bushfire impacts on Australian invertebrates	27
Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation	27
Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?	25
What level of native beetle diversity can be supported by forestry plantations? A global synthesis	24
Reducing the blue spectrum of artificial light at night minimises insect attraction in a tropical lowland forest	24
Narrow‐spectrum artificial light silences female fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)	22
A revised Red List of British butterflies	21
Dealing with host and food searching in a diurnal parasitoid: consequences of light at night at intra‐ and trans‐generational levels	20
The isolated Erebia pandrose Apennine population is genetically unique and endangered by climate change	19
Crop visitation by wild bees declines over an 8‐year time series: A dramatic trend, or just dramatic between‐year variation?	16
Aphidophagous ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and climate change: a review	16
Out of sight, out of mind: public and research interest in insects is negatively correlated with their conservation status	16
Diversity, ecology, distribution and biogeography of Diplura	16
Saproxylic beetles trace deadwood and differentiate between deadwood niches before their arrival on potential hosts	16
A century of social wasp occupancy trends from natural history collections: spatiotemporal resolutions have little effect on model performance	16

Habitat preferences of the endangered diving beetle Graphoderus bilineatus: implications for conservation management	16
Frequent prescribed fires favour ground‐nesting bees in southeastern U.S. forests	15
Forest hoverfly community collapse: Abundance and species richness drop over four decades	15
Predicting the distributions of regional endemic dragonflies using a combined model approach	15
Butterfly communities track climatic variation over space but not time in the Iberian Peninsula	15
Monitoring and conservation of cryophilous biodiversity: concerns when working with insect populations in vanishing glacial habitats	15
Millipedes step up: species extend their upper elevational limit in the Alps in response to climate warming	15
Impacts of artificial lighting at night on insect conservation	14
Thug life: bramble (Rubus fruticosus L. agg.) is a valuable foraging resource for honeybees and diverse flower‐visiting insects	14
One‐size does not fit all: at‐risk bumble bee habitat management requires species‐specific local and landscape considerations	14
Fallows and permanent grasslands conserve the species composition and functional diversity of carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes	13
A comparison of different Malaise trap types	13
Bat–bat fly interactions in Central Panama: host traits relate to modularity in a highly specialised network	13
Temperature and not landscape composition shapes wild bee communities in an urban environment	13
Multiple methods of assessing nectar foraging conditions indicate peak foraging difficulty in late season	12
A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe	12
Abandonment of traditional land use and climate change threaten the survival of an endangered relict butterfly species	12
Inventorying and monitoring crop pollinating bees: Evaluating the effectiveness of common sampling methods	12
Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades	12
Anthropogenic‐driven transformations of dragonfly (Insecta: Odonata) communities of low elevation mountain wetlands during the last century	11
Grazing impacts on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and diversity on semi‐natural grassland	11
Five years of citizen science and standardised field surveys in an informal urban green space reveal a threatened Eden for wild bees in Brussels, Belgium	11
Illegalities in the online trade of stingless bees in Brazil	11
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa	11
Farming system and soil management affect butterfly diversity in sloping olive groves	11
Toxicity of ivermectin residues in aged farmyard manure to terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	11
Recovery of dung beetle biodiversity and traits in a regenerating rainforest: a case study from Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula	10
Biology and conservation of the European stag beetle: recent advances and lessons learned	10
Effects of climate change on the distribution of threatened invertebrates in a Mediterranean hotspot	10
Native bee communities vary across three prairie ecoregions due to land use, climate, sampling method and bee life history traits	10
A sunny spot: habitat management through vegetation cuts increases oviposition in abandoned fields in an endemic Mediterranean butterfly	10
Structure and robustness of the Neotropical ant‐gardens network under climate change	10
Quick recovery of a threatened butterfly in well‐connected patches following an extreme drought	10
A comparison of wild bee communities in sown flower strips and semi‐natural habitats: A pollination network approach	10
Flattening the curve: approaching complete sampling for diverse beetle communities	10
The risk of rediscovery: fast population decline of the localized endemic Chilean stag beetle Sclerostomulus nitidus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) suggests trade as a threat	10
Spectral optimization of beacon lights for the protection of night‐swarming mayflies	10
Rapid assessment of the three‐dimensional distribution of dominant arboreal ants in tropical forests	9
Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability	9
The role of a rosette‐shaped plant (Eryngium horridum, Apiaceae) on grassland spiders along a grazing intensity gradient	8
Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding	8
Canopy sampling reveals hidden potential value of woodland trees for wild bee assemblages	8
National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation	8
From pastures to forests: Changes in Mediterranean wild bee communities after rural land abandonment	8
Are patterns of sampling effort and completeness of inventories congruent? A test using databases for five insect taxa in the Iberian Peninsula	8
Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021	8
Land‐use change differentially affects endemic, forest and open‐land butterflies in Madagascar	7
Open‐canopy ponds benefit diurnal pollinator communities in an agricultural landscape: implications for farmland pond management	7
Climate and ice in the last glacial maximum explain patterns of isolation by distance inferred for alpine grasshoppers	7
The use of sentinel logs to assess host shifts in early beetle colonisers of deadwood under climate‐ and forestry‐induced tree species substitutions	6

Speciation of the cold‐adapted scorpionfly Cerapanorpa brevicornis (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) via interglacial refugia	6
Functional and taxonomic responses of tropical moth communities to deforestation	6
Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance	6
Horizontal and vertical variation in the structure of fruit‐feeding butterfly (Nymphalidae) assemblages in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Grassland fallows as key for successful insect conservation	6
Dispersal constraints on the potential distribution of cold‐adapted stag beetles (genus Platycerus) in Japan and the implications of climate change	6
What DNA barcodes reveal: microhabitat preference, hunting strategy and dispersal ability drive genetic variation across Iberian spider species	6
Wild bee visitors and their association with sown and unsown floral resources in reconstructed pollinator habitats within an agriculture landscape	6
Conservation biogeography of high‐altitude longhorn beetles under climate change	6
Community changes in odonate monitoring: why are long‐term studies so relevant?	6
Ecological drivers of Odonata beta diversity in arid and semi‐arid regions of the Central Plateau of Iran	6
A novel farmland wildflower seed mix attracts a greater abundance and richness of pollinating insects than standard mixes	6
Native and agricultural grassland use by stable and declining bumble bees in Midwestern North America	6
Non‐native ants drive dramatic declines in animal community diversity: A meta‐analysis	6
Linear habitats across a range of farming intensities contribute differently to dipteran abundance and diversity	6
Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf‐chewing insects	6
Notes from rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis Cresson) nest observations	6