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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fundamental unpredictability in the vertical migration of cyanobacteria	13
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	12
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	10
Correction to: Environmental variability can prolong parasite co-occurrence within hosts and promote transmission among hosts	9
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	9
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	9
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	9
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	8
Managing range-shifting, competing species in marine reserve networks: the importance of reserve configuration and transient dynamics in age-structured populations	7
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs	6
Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth	6
An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk	5
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	5
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
Decoding the role of prey-refuge in food-web systems as stabilizing or destabilizing factor through the analysis of higher-dimensional food-web model	5
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	5
Food-web complexity, consumer behavior, and diet specialism: impacts on ecosystem stability	5
Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species	4
Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes	4
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	4
The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology	4
Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system	4
Population dynamics of a honeybee colony Apis mellifera under pesticide-induced environmental stress	4
Species richness − environmental diversity relationships are shaped by the underlying species − area curves and negative secondary effects	4

Understanding the management of fished populations with marine protected areas: the importance of accounting for transient versus equilibrium dynamics	4
The importance of exploration: model predictions for ecosystem services and forager fitness	3
Historical surveys support population modeling in a woodland salamander: comparing age-structured and individual-based approaches	3
A spatially explicit game-theoretic model of optimal defense strategies in herbaceous plants with herbivore movement	3
Top-down and bottom-up coupling effects of subsidies on recipient ecosystems	3
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	3
The combined effects of dispersal and herbivores on stable states in coral reefs	2
Quantifying local fishing mortality rates to inform monitoring design for marine reserves	2
An age-structured model within a spatially explicit landscape: the case study of the black cherry invasion in France	2
Effect of temporal and spatial noise colour in insect outbreak frequency	2
Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study	2
Intraspecific variation promotes coexistence under competition for essential resources	2
How mutation shapes the rate of population spread in the presence of a mate-finding Allee effect	2
The roles of population dynamics theory in the design and assessment of marine reserves	2
Symbiosis emergence and abandonment in nature: a coordination game approach	2
Sea-level rise can reverse the conditions that promote the spread of ecosystem engineers	2
Thermal asymmetries influence effects of warming on stage and size-dependent predator–prey interactions	2
Feasibility in MacArthur’s consumer-resource model	2
A general model of treeline form and dynamics	2
The dynamics of evolutionary branching in an ecological model	2
The biological cropping hypothesis over evolutionary time: an experimental test	2
Adaptation through organism-induced environmental transformations—a systems representation	2
Many weak and few strong links: the importance of link strength distributions for stabilising patterns in competition networks	1
An energetic approach to the evolution of growth curve plasticity	1
Coexistence and alternative stable states in the bioeconomics of fisheries and aquaculture	1
Mathematical model for the spread of nosemosis in a honeybee population considering the effects of agrochemicals and control measures	1
Predicting recoverability of collapsed food webs through perturbation and dimension reduction	1
Preferential cannibalism as a key stabilizing mechanism of intraguild predation systems with trophic polymorphic predators	1
Comments on: “Every variance function ... can be produced by any location-scale family ...”	1
Effects of costly and density-dependent dispersal on metapopulation dynamics: a mathematical and numerical analysis	1
When does spillover from marine protected areas indicate benefits to fish abundance and catch?	1
On the mathematical properties of spatial Rao’s Q to compute ecosystem heterogeneity	1
What’s in a resource gradient? Comparing alternative cues for foraging in dynamic environments via movement, perception, and memory	1
Local interactions affect spread of resource in a consumer-resource system with group defense	1
Coexistence of bacteria with a competition-colonization tradeoff on a dynamic coral host	1
Threshold-based disease treatment approach modulates economic, conservation and evolutionary trade-offs in sea louse-salmon aquaculture system	1
Bilateral marine reserve agreements	1
Correction: Environmental variability can prolong parasite co-occurrence within hosts and promote transmission among hosts	1