OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Food Webs is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Updating the prey menu of the ophiophagous snake Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758) with two heterospecific snakes from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest	38
Exploring co-evolutionary processes in ant-plant mutualism networks: Evidence from a phylogenetic analysis	26
Insights into prey handling and feeding strategies by ghost crabs on sea turtle eggs and hatchlings	20
Novel observations of cleaning interactions between eastern grey kangaroos and three Australian bird species	18
Specialization in Ciidae-host fungi communities in two Atlantic forest remnants of Southeast Brazil	17
Death from below: Sit-and-wait predatory behavior in a burrowing crayfish (Lacunicambarus thomai)	15
Changes in the diet of the native sea urchin Arbacia dufresnii at different scenarios of the Undaria pinnatifida invasion (Patagonia, Argentina)	15
Anthropogenic activities facilitate temporal overlaps and spatial partitions among sympatric canids in a human-modified landscape of Bulgaria	15
Foraging association of Groove-billed Anis with a Giant Anteater in Cojedes, Central-western Venezuelan Llanos	14
A review of the ecological role of the Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	14
Consumption of terrestrial invertebrates by limnephilid caddisflies (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) indicate an overlooked link in stream-riparian food webs	12
Indirect functional effects of neighbors on food web compartments could not overcome density-dependent limited growth of a grazing minnow	12
Prey availability and diet composition of the Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola) during migration on the South-Western Black Sea coast, Bulgaria	12
Who feeds on whom in semi-aquatic moss ecosystems?	11
First documentation of acorn consumption by eastern screech owl (Megascops asio)	11
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)	11
Using camera traps to inform reintroduction success and recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)	10
Following the bear: The interspecific foraging associations between vertebrate predators of cicada nymphs	10
Editorial Board	10
Structural but not functional resistance of frugivore-plant interaction networks to the defaunation process	10
Straight from the Güiñas mouth: Diet of a Neotropical carnivore documented through camera traps	10
Biodiversity benefits of an ecosystem engineer are negated by an invasive predator	10
Diets of two non-native praying mantids (Tenodera sinensis and Mantis religiosa) show consumption of arthropods across all ecological roles	9
Predation of turtles by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the Southeastern United States	9
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) predation on passerine birds in Namibia	9

Video observations of wolves hunting ungulates on linear features	8
Natural diet, trophic niche and prey selectivity of a euryphagous bark predator, Neotama mexicana (Araneae: Hersiliidae), in a semi-urban forest of Caldas, Colombia	8
Predation of oak acorns by Baird's tapir in one of the last remnants of mountain cloud forest in Southern Mexico	8
Avoidance of invasive prey reduces subsequent consumption of similar native prey	8
Coastal hypoxia reduces trophic resource coupling and alters niche characteristics of an ecologically dominant omnivore	8
A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider	8
Consistent foraging on marine resources by coyotes (Canis latrans) on the Southern California coast	8
Simple bulk pigment analysis suggests microphytobenthos contributions to food webs may be underestimated due to isotopic contamination by remineralized wetland carbon	7
Avoiding the enemy while searching for dinner: Understanding the temporal niche of the threatened clouded tiger-cat in protected cloud forests of the Middle Cauca, Colombia	7
Top-predator removal does not cause trophic cascades in Australian rangeland ecosystems	7
The isotopic niche breadth of aquatic insects increases with elevation in neotropical mountain streams	7
Remote cameras capture dung burial by burrowing cricket	7
Predation on anurans by a giant water bug Belostoma sp. (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) in a forest management area in the eastern Amazon	7
Predation of Carollia perspicillata (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) by South American Pepper Frog (Leptodactylus labyrinthicus): unraveling the predator-prey relationship in caves	7
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	6
Trophic cascades and climate change	6
Association between arthropod densities suggests dominance of top-down control of predator-prey food-webs on pear trees during winter	6
Mineral licks as a potential nidus for parasite transmission	6
Predatory behavior of the hellgrammite larva Corydalus batesii (McLachlan, 1868) (Insecta: Megaloptera: Corydalidae) in an Amazonian stream	6
Ophiophagy in Bothrops mattogrossensis: Predation on Helicops angulatus and potential for reciprocal interactions among Neotropical snakes	6
Scale of effect matters: Forest cover influences on tropical ant-plant ecological networks	6
Beyond hydration: predation by terrestrial vertebrates on semi-aquatic prey in temporary water bodies of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	6
Trophic structure and biomagnification of cadmium, mercury and selenium in brown smooth hound shark (Mustelus henlei) within a trophic web	6
Can spatial food web subsidies associated with river hydrology and lateral connectivity be detected using stable isotopes?	5
How many predator guts are required to predict trophic interactions?	5
Predator-prey reversal between a venomous snake, Bitis caudalis, and an insectivorous skink, Trachylepis margaritifera	5
Cattle dung in aquatic habitats alters mosquito predatory biocontrol dynamics	5
Trophic ecology of Caribbean polychaetes: responses to environmental changes driven by massive Sargassum arrivals	5
Trophic transfer of microplastics in a model freshwater microcosm; lack of a consumer avoidance response	5
Butterflies with a taste for elephant dung: Puddling of adult butterflies on elephant dung in India's Western Ghats	5
First record of nectar feeding by the exotic lizard Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) in urban environments in Brazil with notes on unusual feeding behaviors	5
Trophic chain of the pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean: An approach through stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen	5
Year-round use of anthropogenic food sources in human modified landscapes by adult and young Kelp Gulls	4
Sloths strike back: Predation attempt by an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) on a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at a mineral lick in Western Amazonia, Ecuador	4
Editorial Board	4
Diets that do not let benthivorous salmonid fish, Thymallus baicalensis, realize their potential for accumulating large content of omega-3 PUFAs in muscle tissue	4
Defying the superorganism: Harvestmen escape ant predation	4
Feeding behaviour of a large lizard drives the outcome of palm seeds dispersal, with comments on its ecosystem services	4
A simple trail camera modification reveals red-bellied woodpeckers as important egg predators of box-nesting wood ducks	4
Is the older the better? Host plant ontogeny and resource availability drives gall-inducing insect diversity and network topology	4
A global citizen science effort via iNaturalist reveals food webs of large predatory rove beetles	4
Cascading carrion: Opportunistic predation at deer gut piles	4
The trophic ecology of an invasive predator in a novel ecosystem: Green sunfish Lepomis cyanellus in a restored urban stream	4
Applying network analysis to measure functional diversity in food webs	4
Trophic niche of four sympatric direct-developing frogs (Anura: Strabomantidae) from Eastern Brazilian Amazonia	4
Gammarus aequicauda predation on Arctodiaptomus salinus in a hypersaline lake and implications for aquaculture	3
Littoral resources, food chain length and top predator size - Are these connected with lake size?	3
Setting the scene: Should we expect small pelagic fish to ingest plastic pellets?	3
Influence of stream intermittency on PUFA transfer to alpine riparian spiders	3
Are seed-dispersing ants elaiosome-limited? An experimental test in a Connecticut forest dominated by myrmecochorous plants	3

Seasonal and taxonomic variation in arthropod macronutrient content	3
Do invasive terrestrial invertebrates subsidize north-temperate fish populations? The case of the spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar)	3
The carrion connection: Marine mammal carcasses provide an indirect subsidy to insectivorous birds	3
Editorial Board	3
Seed dispersal by bats in naturally restored mining areas of the Eastern Amazon	3
Unconventional bird predators are relevant to vertebrate trophic relationships? A community science platform helps to answer this question.	3
Intraguild predation by a biocontrol predator is reduced at lower temperatures	3
Fatty acid analyses reveal differences in feeding ecology of North Sea squids that overlap in time and space	3
Nature's fast food: frogs as invertebrate prey in a northern Atlantic Forest fragment	3
Presence of mucilage and low omega-3 fatty acid contents in phytoplankton impair the quality of phytoplankton diet for zooplankton	3
Drinking to the last drop! Record of honeydew consumption by a ghost spider (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) in an urban environment in southeastern Brazil	3
Olingos do eat insects: Records of nocturnal mammals preying on arthropods in arboreal live-capture traps	3
Seasonal temperature changes and local environment affect the disappearance of small bird carcasses in a Japanese cool-temperate forest landscape	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
Does the Southern Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus, seek areas of high prey concentration in southeastern Peru?	3
Editorial Board	3
Eating an elephant, one bite at a time: Predator interactions at carrion bonanzas	2
Juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) induce short-term avoidance responses of reef fishes in nursery habitats	2
Baboons (Papio spp.) as a potentially underreported source of food loss and kleptoparasitism of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) kills	2
Disentangling the complexity of plant-bird relationships: From monolayer to multilayer network perspectives	2
Grey wolf feeding habits and their geographical variation in Northwest Spain	2
Raccoons and opossums respond similarly to high and low development in the East Texas Pineywoods	2
Do marine food subsidies predict large scale distribution of scavenging seabirds within the Bay of Biscay?	2
Prey selection by the Indian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) outside protected areas in Indias Western Ghats: implications for conservation	2
Spatial stream modeling of Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) foraging substrate and aquatic prey in a watershed undergoing shale gas development	2
New ecological interaction: Herbivory of Japanese knotweed by White-tailed Deer	2
Individual trophic niche specialization in American beaver (Castor canadensis)	2
Microplastics are transferred in a trophic web between zooplankton and the amphibian Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum): Effects on their feeding behavior	2
Anurans as prey of spiders in the neotropics: New records and updated interactions	2
Seasonal frugivory drives both diet inconsistency and individual specialization in the generalist herbivore gopher tortoise	2
A necropsy of negative human-puma interaction in the high Andes: Are pumas in poor body condition more likely to attack livestock?	2
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	2
Gammarus aequicauda (Amphipoda) and two different prey species: Is the ability of a predator to learn important?	2
Predation of Gripopteryx sp. (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) by Argia claussenii Selys, 1865 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) in Campo Rupestre, Minas Gerais	2
Isotopic niche partitioning between an invasive fish and two native mesopredators in the Colombian Caribbean	2
Dietary analysis using prey-DNA metabarcoding from fecal samples of the generalist arthropod predator, Eremias argus	2
Scavenging of a brown bear (Ursus arctos) on a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)	2
Ecological gatekeeping: Black-backed jackals are left to crave carrion in absence of large facultative scavengers	2
A pilot study on the isotopic characterization of feeding habits of Diptera in a tropical rain forest	2
Assessing muskrat predation on a freshwater mussel assemblage in a southeastern United States river	2