OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Ecology is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Fundamental unpredictability in the vertical migration of cyanobacteria	20
Biological invasions forming intraguild predation communities in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes	12
Suppressing evolution of antibiotic resistance through environmental switching	12
`Spatial patterns as long transients in submersed-floating plant competition with biocontrol	10
Equilibrium population dynamics of site-dependent species	9
A general mathematical model for coevolutionary dynamics of mutualisms with partner discrimination	9
Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient	8
Adding species to an intransitive triplet: competition, hierarchy, and recoupling	7
Diverse perspectives from diverse scholars are vital for theoretical biology	7
Coexistence in spatiotemporally fluctuating environments	7
Transient patterns and delayed herbivore response in plant-herbivore systems	7
An assessment of the contact rates between individuals when movement is modelled by a correlated random walk	6
Managing range-shifting, competing species in marine reserve networks: the importance of reserve configuration and transient dynamics in age-structured populations	6
Effects of noise correlation and imperfect data sampling on indicators of critical slowing down	6
Transient dynamics mask the resilience of coral reefs	5
The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability	5
Universal ontogenetic growth without fitted parameters: implications for life history invariants and population growth	5
Herbivore population dynamics in response to plant allocation strategies	5
Complex ecological communities and the emergence of island species-area relationships	4
Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases	4
Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection	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
Temporal variability of carabid beetles as a function of geography, environment, and species	3
Post-disturbance recovery dynamics of connected coral subpopulations	3

Understanding the management of fished populations with marine protected areas: the importance of accounting for transient versus equilibrium dynamics	3
Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes	3
A hybrid dynamical system approach to predicting the resilience of community dynamics with seasonal migrations under climate change	3
The maximum entropy principle to predict forager spatial distributions: an alternate perspective for movement ecology	3
Decoding the role of prey-refuge in food-web systems as stabilizing or destabilizing factor through the analysis of higher-dimensional food-web model	3
Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system	3
Population dynamics of a honeybee colony Apis mellifera under pesticide-induced environmental stress	3
A spatially explicit game-theoretic model of optimal defense strategies in herbaceous plants with herbivore movement	3