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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	240
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	240
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	233
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals	224
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	216
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	209
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada	202
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	198
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	179
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	158
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	157
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	157
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	156
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	155
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	155
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States	149
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	140
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming	140
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	139
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	137
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	137

Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	133
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	132
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest	129
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe	128
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	127
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	126
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	125
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The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun	122
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities	117
Stimulation of N₂O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments	116
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	115
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	115
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	113
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	113
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	111
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	110
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	109
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	109
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	108
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	107
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	107
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis	107
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	106
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest	105
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback	105
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	104
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem	104
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	104
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	102
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	101
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	101
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	100
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	99
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Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs	97
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)	94
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile	94
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics	93
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming	93
Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation	92
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO₂ acidification impacts on fish growth	91
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point	91
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes	90
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems	90
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research	89
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change	88
Evaluation of variation in background nitrous oxide emissions: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of climate, soil, and management conditions	88
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics	87
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Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century	86
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	86
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	86
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	85
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	84
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands	83
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?	82
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards	82