OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Food Webs 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Raccoons and opossums respond similarly to high and low development in the East Texas Pineywoods	31
Food webs speak of human impact: Using stable isotope-based tools to measure ecological consequences of environmental change	23
Changes in the diet of the native sea urchin Arbacia dufresnii at different scenarios of the Undaria pinnatifida invasion (Patagonia, Argentina)	15
Specialization in Ciidae-host fungi communities in two Atlantic forest remnants of Southeast Brazil	14
Sources partitioning in the diet of the mudskipper Periophthalmus waltoni in an arid mangrove system: Evidence from stable isotope analysis	13
Anthropogenic activities facilitate temporal overlaps and spatial partitions among sympatric canids in a human-modified landscape of Bulgaria	13
Diet and trophic niche overlap among a native waterbird and two non-native herbivores in Pampas grasslands	13
A pilot study on the isotopic characterization of feeding habits of Diptera in a tropical rain forest	10
Seasonal frugivory drives both diet inconsistency and individual specialization in the generalist herbivore gopher tortoise	10
Novel observations of cleaning interactions between eastern grey kangaroos and three Australian bird species	10
Simple bulk pigment analysis suggests microphytobenthos contributions to food webs may be underestimated due to isotopic contamination by remineralized wetland carbon	10
Endemic and elusive trophic interactions: The first comprehensive description of the diet of short-eared dogs (Atelocynus microtis) in Amazon rainforests	10
Spectral radius is a better metric than weighted NODF to detect network nestedness: Linking species coexistence to network structure using a plant – larval sawfly bipartite	9
Unknown scavenging habits of an elusive tropical Andean mammal	9
Predation of the social wasp Polybia occidentalis (Hymenoptera:Vespidae) by the water scorpion Ranatra obscura (Hemiptera:Nepidae)	9
Contrasting dynamical responses of sympatric caribou and muskoxen to winter weather and earlier spring green-up in the Arctic	8
Trophic structure and biomagnification of cadmium, mercury and selenium in brown smooth hound shark (Mustelus henlei) within a trophic web	8
Remote cameras capture dung burial by burrowing cricket	8
Presence of mucilage and low omega-3 fatty acid contents in phytoplankton impair the quality of phytoplankton diet for zooplankton	7
Tayra behavior preying on a cavity nest in the subtropical forest of the Southern Yungas	7
Replicating nature's fabric: High information markets and the sustainability of global seafood	7
Revisiting trophic cascades and aspen recovery in northern Yellowstone	7
Responses of dingo (Canis familiaris) populations to landscape-scale baiting	7
Wing buzzing as a potential antipredator defense against an invasive predator	7
Death from below: Sit-and-wait predatory behavior in a burrowing crayfish (Lacunicambarus thomai)	7

A necropsy of negative human-puma interaction in the high Andes: Are pumas in poor body condition more likely to attack livestock?	6
Exploring co-evolutionary processes in ant-plant mutualism networks: Evidence from a phylogenetic analysis	6
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps	6
Trophic cascades and climate change	6
Carbon sources supporting macrobenthic crustaceans in tropical eastern pacific mangroves	5
Updating the prey menu of the ophiophagous snake Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758) with two heterospecific snakes from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest	5
Cross-habitat access modifies the ‘trophic relay’ in New England saltmarsh ecosystems	5
Temporal and spatial variations of soil nematode assemblages across distinct forest ecosystems	5
Future impacts of reduced freshwater inflow and sea level rise on forage fish and their predators in Apalachicola Bay, Florida	5
Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers	5
Littoral resources, food chain length and top predator size - Are these connected with lake size?	5
Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator	4
Seasonal variability of invertebrate prey diet and selectivity of the dominant forage fishes in Lake Huron	4
Does feeding type matter? Contribution of organic matter sources to benthic invertebrates on the Arctic Chukchi Sea shelf	4
Diet of the Arabian collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris kalbaensis): Insights from trail cameras and regurgitation pellets	4
Small stream predators rely heavily on terrestrial matter energy input in the fall, regardless of riparian buffer size	4
A review of the ecological role of the Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	3
Zebra jumping spiders opportunistically forage on different sized midges	3
Nature's fast food: frogs as invertebrate prey in a northern Atlantic Forest fragment	3
First documentation of acorn consumption by eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)	3
The great escape: Interspecific interaction and behavioral response to a semi-arboreal predator, the Tayra (Eira barbara), by a group of black-faced spider monkeys (Ateles chamek)	3
Are seed-dispersing ants elaiosome-limited? An experimental test in a Connecticut forest dominated by myrmecochorous plants	3
The effect of fish life-history structures on the topologies of aquatic food webs	3
Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) diet composition in red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) groups in Mississippi and Alabama	3
Who feeds on whom in semi-aquatic moss ecosystems?	3
Indirect functional effects of neighbors on food web compartments could not overcome density-dependent limited growth of a grazing minnow	3
The carrion connection: Marine mammal carcasses provide an indirect subsidy to insectivorous birds	3
Understanding the feeding ecology of the broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) in Patagonia, Argentina	3
Unconventional bird predators are relevant to vertebrate trophic relationships? A community science platform helps to answer this question.	3
Invasive Brook Stickleback Culaea inconstans minimally alters the trophic ecology of four native fishes in Wyoming, USA	3
Prey availability and diet composition of the Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola) during migration on the South-Western Black Sea coast, Bulgaria	3
Effects of urbanization on the trophic niche of the brown anole, a widespread invasive lizard	3
Consumption of terrestrial invertebrates by limnephilid caddisflies (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) indicate an overlooked link in stream-riparian food webs	3
Do marine food subsidies predict large scale distribution of scavenging seabirds within the Bay of Biscay?	3
Predicting prey diversity with multiple predator effects	3
Yellowfin bream, Acanthopagrus australis, reorientate individual shells in search of prey	3
Functional diversity in herbivorous fishes on Caribbean reefs: The role of macroalgal traits in driving interspecific differences in feeding behavior	3
Coyotes eat flies at carrion	3
A network of biological traits: Profiling consumer-resource interactions	2
Scale of effect matters: Forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks	2
Structural but not functional resistance of frugivore-plant interaction networks to the defaunation process	2
Fatty acid analyses reveal differences in feeding ecology of North Sea squids that overlap in time and space	2
The diet of Mustelus schmitti in areas with and without commercial bottom trawling (Central Patagonia, Southwestern Atlantic): Is it evidence of trophic interaction with the Patagonian shrimp fishery?	2
Human-derived food shrinks home ranges and alters resource selection of mammals at the urban-wild interface	2
Beachside banquet: Ants' appetite for shipwrecked siphonophores	2
Trophic hierarchy in a marine community revealed by network analysis on co-occurrence data	2
Joining to the web. Predation of Heterophrynus sp. (Amblypygi: Phrynidae) on a catfish Astroblepus sp. (Siluriformes: Astroblepidae), in a premontane river of the northern Andes of Colombia	2
Prey-carrying behavior of Lycalopex foxes in Chilean Patagonia	2
Recovering an endangered vole and its habitat may help control invasive house mice	2
Mineral licks as a potential nidus for parasite transmission	2

Foraging association of Groove-billed Anis with a Giant Anteater in Cojedes, Central-western Venezuelan Llanos	2
Association between arthropod densities suggests dominance of top-down control of predator-prey food-webs on pear trees during winter	2
Using camera traps to inform reintroduction success and recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)	2
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) predation on passerine birds in Namibia	2
Mutual links between microcystins-producing cyanobacteria and plankton community in clear and brown northern lakes	2
Trophic ecology of small to large hylids from an Amazonia-Cerrado transitional zone in Brazil	2
Putting a lake together: Integrating synthetic data and field observations to build a better food web	2
Following the bear: The interspecific foraging associations between vertebrate predators of cicada nymphs	2
Avoidance of invasive prey reduces subsequent consumption of similar native prey	1
Hygrophilous springtails (Arthropoda: Collembola) with different diets are a potential source of eicosapentaenoic fatty acid for terrestrial consumers	1
Predator-prey reversal between a venomous snake, Bitis caudalis, and an insectivorous skink, Trachylepis margaritifera	1
Dietary partitioning of fishers and martens in a rapidly changing landscape	1
Frog eat frogs: the relationship among the Neotropical frogs of the genus Leptodactylus and their anuran prey	1
Morphological variables of the butterfly guild and their functional role in foraging behavior on the visiting plants: Optimization by Artificial Neural Network Model	1
Predation of turtles by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Southeastern United States	1
Building urban predator-prey networks using camera traps	1
Effects of red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) control on carrion use by vertebrate scavengers	1
High-throughput sequencing reveals prey diversity overlap between sympatric Sulids in the tropical Atlantic	1
Butterflies with a taste for elephant dung: Puddling of adult butterflies on elephant dung in India's Western Ghats	1
Diet of spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) on farmlands in Namibia	1
Straight from the Güiñas mouth: Diet of a Neotropical carnivore documented through camera traps	1
Increased nutrient availability correlates with increased growth of the benthic jellyfish Cassiopea spp.	1
The role of Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) in the vertical microplastic transfer: A plankton-benthos linkage laboratory protocol	1
Isotopic niche partitioning between an invasive fish and two native mesopredators in the Colombian Caribbean	1
Terrestrial generalist predators have larger isotopic niches but rely less on aquatic prey at a natural compared to a post-mining lakeshore	1
Trophic chain of the pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean: An approach through stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen	1
Disentangling the complexity of plant-bird relationships: From monolayer to multilayer network perspectives	1
Does the Southern Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus, seek areas of high prey concentration in southeastern Peru?	1
The influence of parasitism on producers and nutrients in mesocosm ecosystems	1
Diving beetles strip eel to the bone	1
Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?	1
Cicada feast and food links: Grey-headed flying fox preys on black prince in south-East Australia	1
Beyond the Bites: Rethinking seed-dispersal networks in plant-frugivore studies	1
Cattle dung in aquatic habitats alters mosquito predatory biocontrol dynamics	1
Food web of lizard species in a land-bridge island from Western Mexico	1
Short food chains, highly diverse and complex food web networks in coastal lagoons	1
Vertebrate prey capture by Latrodectus mactans (Walckenaer, 1805) and Steatoda triangulosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae, Theridiidae) provide further insights into the immobilization and hoisting mecha	1
Video observations of wolves hunting ungulates on linear features	1
‘The human shield effect’: Human-wildlife co-occurrence patterns in the coffee forests of southwestern Ethiopia	1
Effects of urbanization on the efficiency and composition of vertebrate scavengers	1
Seasonal and taxonomic variation in arthropod macronutrient content	1
Do invasive terrestrial invertebrates subsidize north-temperate fish populations? The case of the spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar)	1
Phoresy and interactions between Scotocryptus beetles and stingless bees	1
Using stable isotopes to examine movement and prey usage of cormorants breeding in the southeastern United States	1
More than Froot Loops: Keel-billed toucans (Ramphastos sulfuratus) consume vertebrate carrion	1
Stable isotopes point to anthropogenic subsidies in northern raccoons at the urban-wild interface	1
Contribution of emergent aquatic insects to the trophic variation of tropical birds and bats	1
Baboons (Papio spp.) as a potentially underreported source of food loss and kleptoparasitism of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) kills	1
Single and mixed diets of the toxic Cyanobacteria Microcystis aeruginosa and Raphidiopsis raciborskii differently affect Daphnia feeding behavior	1
Diets of two non-native praying mantids (Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa) show consumption of arthropods across all ecological roles	1