OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 86. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	299
The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun	292
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	262
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Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought	206
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	204
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	196
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	191
Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis	191
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	188
Transgenerational Heat Exposure Triggers Unexpected Compensatory Sex Ratio Responses in a Temperature‐Sensitive Fish Under Climate Warming	184
Nitrate Availability Modulates the Temperature Sensitivity of N ₂ O	183
Graminoids Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Thawed Permafrost at the End of the Growing Season	176
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities	172
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	168
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	166
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	166
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	162
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	161
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	159
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	153
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	151

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	151
Correction to “Climate‐Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits”	147
Leaving no Species Behind: Moving Beyond the “Winners and Losers” Dichotomy in Climate Warming Risk Assessments	146
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	145
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	141
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	141
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	141
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	134
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	132
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	131
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	130
Heatwaves Constrain the Future Persistence of Mosquito Vectors in Europe	128
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness	126
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	126
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem	126
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	121
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	121
Climate as the Main Driver of Large‐Scale Genetic Patterns and Connectivity in the Expanding Golden Jackal	121
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	120
Global Phosphorus Enrichment Reshapes Terrestrial Phosphorus Cycling	120
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	118
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment	115
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	115
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	114
Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations	113
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	113
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	112
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	110
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	108
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	106
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	105
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) Across Europe	101
Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide ( N ₂ O ) From a	101
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	100
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	99
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	99
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	98
Synergetic Responses of Nonstructural Carbohydrates and Nutrients in Different Tree Organs to Drought	98
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Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century	97
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming	96
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential	95
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO₂ Emissions	95
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards	94
Demystifying the Romanticized Narratives About Carbon Credits From Voluntary Forest Conservation	94
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges	93
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	93
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	93
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands	93

Forest Carbon Dynamics as a Constraint on Future Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change	93
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters	92
Long‐Term Ecological Baselines and Critical Thresholds in Ombrotrophic Peatlands of Europe: Implications for Restoration Strategies	92
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change	90
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	90
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	90
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?	89
Mineral Association and Microbial Processing Jointly Prolong Carbon Turnover in Coastal Wetlands	89
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests	88
Lake Water Depth and Nutrient Gradients Mediate Aquatic Plant Distribution via the Strength of Trait Network Associations	87
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N₂O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland	86