OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 82. 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
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Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	222
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	215
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	213
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	197
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	196
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	191
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	190
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	187
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	185
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	176
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada	174
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	160
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	148
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	147
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis	143
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	134
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	133
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	131
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	130
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	129

Stimulation of N₂O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments	127
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	124
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	122
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	122
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	122
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	121
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	119
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	115
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States	115
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback	111
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	111
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	109
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	108
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	108
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	108
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming	108
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	107
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	104
Restoration of forest resilience to fire from old trees is possible across a large Colorado dry‐forest landscape by 2060, but only under the Paris 1.5℃ goal	103
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	102
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	101
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals	100
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	100
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	100
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	99
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest	99
Impacts of the 2012–2015 Californian drought on carbon, water and energy fluxes in the Californian Sierras: Results from an imaging spectrometry‐constrained terrestrial biosphere model	98
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe	98
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis	97
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	97
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions	97
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	97
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest	97
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Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	95
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	94
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change	93
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Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	92
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages	92
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery	92
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N₂O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland	91
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Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO₂ acidification impacts on fish growth	90
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming	89
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”	89
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted	86
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	85
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands	85
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function	84

Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters	83
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century	83
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	83
Impact of three decades of warming, increased nutrient availability, and increased cloudiness on the fluxes of greenhouse gases and biogenic volatile organic compounds in a subarctic tundra heath	82
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands	82
Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator–prey interactions along the benthic–pelagic interface	82
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	82