OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 87. 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
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The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun	282
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	279
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment	253
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	237
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	198
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	198
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	193
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	190
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	189
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	187
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	182
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	179
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	178
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	170
Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations	168
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem	163
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) Across Europe	162
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	158
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	158
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	157
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	149
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	149

Global Phosphorus Enrichment Reshapes Terrestrial Phosphorus Cycling	148
Climate as the Main Driver of Large‐Scale Genetic Patterns and Connectivity in the Expanding Golden Jackal	146
Heatwaves Constrain the Future Persistence of Mosquito Vectors in Europe	144
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	142
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	140
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	140
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	139
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	139
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	139
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	135
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Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought	126
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	125
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	125
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	125
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	121
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	121
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	120
Graminoids Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Thawed Permafrost at the End of the Growing Season	118
Transgenerational Heat Exposure Triggers Unexpected Compensatory Sex Ratio Responses in a Temperature‐Sensitive Fish Under Climate Warming	118
Nitrate Availability Modulates the Temperature Sensitivity of N ₂ O	117
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities	117
Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis	115
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	115
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	114
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	112
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	111
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	111
Leaving no Species Behind: Moving Beyond the “Winners and Losers” Dichotomy in Climate Warming Risk Assessments	110
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness	109
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	107
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	106
Correction to “Climate‐Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits”	105
Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide ( N ₂ O ) From a	104
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	104
Wet‐to‐Dry Cascades May Increasingly Drive Wildfire Activity in Non‐Forested Ecosystems, and Further Amplify the Risk of Urban Interface Fire Disasters, in a Warming Climate	104
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	103
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Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change	100
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted	98
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile	98
Synergetic Responses of Nonstructural Carbohydrates and Nutrients in Different Tree Organs to Drought	97
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters	96
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes	95
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Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?	94
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	94
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats	94
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics	93
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges	93

Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	93
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO₂ acidification impacts on fish growth	92
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	91
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”	91
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery	91
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	91
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	90
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential	89
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming	89
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages	88
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function	88
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	87
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change	87
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics	87