OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theoretical Ecology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fundamental unpredictability in the vertical migration of cyanobacteria	18
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	14
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	10
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	9
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	9
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	8
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	8
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	7
A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	7
Managing range-shifting, competing species in marine reserve networks: the importance of reserve configuration and transient dynamics in age-structured populations	6
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	6
Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology	6
Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down	6
Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth	6
Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection	5
The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability	5
An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk	5
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	5
Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies	5
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	5
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs	5
Examining the generality of the biphasic transition from niche-structured to immigration-structured communities	4
Decoding the role of prey-refuge in food-web systems as stabilizing or destabilizing factor through the analysis of higher-dimensional food-web model	4
Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	3
Species richness − environmental diversity relationships are shaped by the underlying species − area curves and negative secondary effects	3

Understanding the management of fished populations with marine protected areas: the importance of accounting for transient versus equilibrium dynamics	3
Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system	3
Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes	2
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	2
Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains	2
How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect	2
The combined effects of dispersal and herbivores on stable states in coral reefs	2
Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species	2
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	2
The roles of population dynamics theory in the design and assessment of marine reserves	2
Quantifying local fishing mortality rates to inform monitoring design for marine reserves	2
Be different to be better: the effect of personality on optimal foraging with incomplete knowledge	2
The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology	2
Chemical contamination-mediated regime shifts in planktonic systems	2
Top-down and bottom-up coupling effects of subsidies on recipient ecosystems	2
Feasibility in MacArthur’s consumer-resource model	2
The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test	1
Intraspecific variation promotes coexistence under competition for essential resources	1
Effect of temporal and spatial noise colour in insect outbreak frequency	1
Ideal free flows of optimal foragers: Vertical migrations in the ocean	1
Predicting recoverability of collapsed food webs through perturbation and dimension reduction	1
Local interactions affect spread of resource in a consumer-resource system with group defense	1
Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers	1
Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions	1
The regulating effect of growth plasticity on the dynamics of structured populations	1
Should we account for mesozooplankton reproduction and ontogenetic growth in biogeochemical modeling?	1
What’s in a resource gradient? Comparing alternative cues for foraging in dynamic environments via movement, perception, and memory	1
Preferential cannibalism as a key stabilizing mechanism of intraguild predation systems with trophic polymorphic predators	1
On the mathematical properties of spatial Rao’s Q to compute ecosystem heterogeneity	1
The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model	1
A general model of treeline form and dynamics	1
Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study	1
Adaptation through organism-induced environmental transformations—a systems representation	1
Comments on: “Every variance function ... can be produced by any location-scale family ...”	1
Bilateral marine reserve agreements	1
An energetic approach to the evolution of growth curve plasticity	1