Global Change Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Change Biology is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study233
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States230
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest225
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world220
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada210
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China204
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)203
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting196
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 model191
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region185
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals173
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community155
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs153
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest151
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia147
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration146
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming142
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians140
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world137
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change135
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil133
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023131
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection131
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils129
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World128
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space127
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish126
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis125
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities125
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production123
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture122
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise120
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany119
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy118
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration114
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China112
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis111
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?111
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States111
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change110
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling109
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Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe107
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone105
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods105
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change104
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index104
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate104
Stimulation of N2O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments103
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities103
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health103
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback102
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Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs101
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile100
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands100
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)99
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Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective97
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines97
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards96
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands96
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential93
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming92
Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator–prey interactions along the benthic–pelagic interface92
Evaluation of variation in background nitrous oxide emissions: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of climate, soil, and management conditions91
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function90
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes88
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?88
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO2 acidification impacts on fish growth87
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges87
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions86
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”86
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N2O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland86
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”84
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats84
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests84
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections82
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics82
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research81
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change80
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery80
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming80
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted80
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages80
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics79
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century78
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate78
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point77
A simple explanation for declining temperature sensitivity with warming77
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters77
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 heath76
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau76
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico75
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth75
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems74
Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration74
Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation74
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters73
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?73
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis73
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change72
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs72
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Juvenile waiting stage crown‐of‐thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals69
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Stomata secretive ways: A commentary on Lamour et al. (2022)68
Unlocking the power of machine learning for Earth system modeling: A game‐changing breakthrough68
Acceleration of vegetation phenological changes67
Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods66
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Identifying main uncertainties in estimating past and present radiative forcing of peatlands66
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Global analysis of the perturbation effects of metal‐based nanoparticles on soil nitrogen cycling65
Nitrification, denitrification, and related functional genes under elevated CO2: A meta‐analysis in terrestrial ecosystems65
Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit65
Climate change alone cannot explain boreal caribou range recession in Quebec since 185065
An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss64
Re‐assessment of the climatic controls on the carbon and water fluxes of a boreal aspen forest over 1996–2016: Changing sensitivity to long‐term climatic conditions64
High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau64
No evidence for a negative effect of growing season photosynthesis on leaf senescence timing64
Hyposensitive canopy conductance renders ecosystems vulnerable to meteorological droughts64
Stochastic resonance in climate reddening increases the risk of cyclic ecosystem extinction via phase‐tipping64
Dark matters: Contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading64
Climate change and extreme events are changing the biology of Polar Regions64
Local thermal adaptation and local temperature regimes drive the performance of a parasitic helminth under climate change: The case of Marshallagia marshalli from wild ungulates64
A global synthesis of climate vulnerability assessments on marine fisheries: Methods, scales, and knowledge co‐production64
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem63
Increasing the spatial and temporal impact of ecological research: A roadmap for integrating a novel terrestrial process into an Earth system model63
5300‐Year‐old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter63
pH variability at volcanic CO2 seeps regulates coral calcifying fluid chemistry63
Rapid Evolution in Action: Environmental Filtering Supports Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat62
Global Change Modulates Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency: Mechanisms and Impacts on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics62
Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems62
Carbon footprint of synthetic nitrogen under staple crops: A first cradle‐to‐grave analysis62
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon62
Alleviating the Concerns About Pollen‐Based Assisted Migration62
Ecosystem Service Trajectories in Restored Coastal Habitats61
Exposure and Sensitivity of Terrestrial Vertebrates to Biological Invasions Worldwide61
Do not ignore the effects of phosphorus and potassium addition on microbial carbon use efficiency61
Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion61
Correction to “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands”60
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs60
Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean60
Climate change reduces long‐term population benefits from no‐take marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement60
Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature‐driven community shifts60
Dynamic Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Urbanization: A Global Perspective60
More sensitive microbial responses to the interactive effects of warming and altered precipitation in subsoil than topsoil of an alpine grassland ecosystem59
Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships among associated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genes along anthropogenic gradients59
Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity59
Improved Modeling of Vegetation Phenology Using Soil Enthalpy59
Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season59
Impact of Crop Type on Biodiversity Globally58
Shortening fire return interval predisposes west‐central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover58
A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem58
Enhanced growth resistance but no decline in growth resilience under long‐term extreme droughts58
Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure58
Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species58
Impacts of Canopy Disturbances by Tree Logging on Soil Biota Increase With Organism Size58
Gibbs energy or enthalpy—What is relevant for microbial C‐turnover in soils?58
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High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change57
Not all species will migrate poleward as the climate warms: The case of the seven baobab species in Madagascar57
How Does Climate Change Influence the Regional Ecological–Social Risks of Harmful Dinoflagellates? A Predictive Study of China's Coastal Waters56
Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe56
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral‐Associated Organic Matter56
Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition56
A New Frontier for Plant‐Microbe Interaction Under Changing Climate Conditions56
Marine and freshwater regime changes impact a community of migratory Pacific salmonids in decline55
China's wetland soil organic carbon pool: New estimation on pool size, change, and trajectory55
Modest Experimental Warming Reduces Species Diversity and Biomass of Arthropods in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow55
Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production55
A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs55
Challenging Paradigms Around the Role of Colony Size, Taxa, and Environment on Bleaching Susceptibility54
Fungal necromass is reduced by intensive drought in subsoil but not in topsoil54
Microbial necromass under global change and implications for soil organic matter54
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review54
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century54
Significant accrual of soil organic carbon through long‐term rice cultivation in paddy fields in China54
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation54
Understanding coralline algal responses to ocean acidification: Meta‐analysis and synthesis54
Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis)53
Adult spawners: A critical period for subarctic Chinook salmon in a changing climate53
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis53
Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global‐scale meta‐analysis53
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Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate52
Bees exposed to climate change are more sensitive to pesticides52
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Regressions underestimate the direct effect of soil moisture on land carbon sink variability52
Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils52
Habitat‐based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems52
Role of hydrodynamics in shaping chemical habitats and modulating the responses of coastal benthic systems to ocean global change52
Immediate and carry‐over effects of late‐spring frost and growing season drought on forest gross primary productivity capacity in the Northern Hemisphere51
Long‐term monitoring indicates shifting fall migration timing in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)51
Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change51
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Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems51
Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?51
Fire disturbance promotes biodiversity of plants, lichens and birds in the Siberian subarctic tundra51
Reef‐building corals act as long‐term sink for microplastic50
Increased atmospheric CO2 and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems50
CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land50
Growth form and leaf habit drive contrasting effects of Arctic amplification in long‐lived woody species50
From remotely sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory50
Reply letter to Munoz et al. ‘on the importance of time in carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation’—Keep carbon sequestration terminologies consistent and functional49
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales49
A ‘debt’ based approach to land degradation as an indicator of global change49
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia49
Size matters: Aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of shallow thermokarst lakes48
Long‐term changes in the daytime growing season carbon dioxide exchange following increased temperature and snow cover in arctic tundra48
The neglected roles of adjacent natural ecosystems in maintaining bacterial diversity in agroecosystems48
Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United States48
Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests48
Rapid climate change increases diversity and homogenizes composition of coastal fish at high latitudes48
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora48
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Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations48
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Predicted warming in alpine streams suggests hidden consequences for aquatic ectotherms47
Stabilisation of soil organic matter with rock dust partially counteracted by plants47
When the Going Gets Tough, the Females Get Going: Sex‐Specific Physiological Responses to Simultaneous Exposure to Hypoxia and Marine Heatwave Events in a Ubiquitous Copepod47
Cumulative Heat Stress in Fluctuating Temperatures and Implications for the Distribution of Freshwater Fish47
The Effects of Climate Change on Mesocarnivores: A Global Review and Meta‐Analysis47
Climate‐driven tree growth and mortality in the Black Forest, Germany—Long‐term observations47
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies47
Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress47
Multi‐model projections of tree species performance in Quebec, Canada under future climate change47
Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management47
Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought46
Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange of a Subalpine Spruce Forest in Switzerland Over 26 Years: Effects of Phenology and Contributions of Abiotic Drivers at Daily Time Scales46
Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity46
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Meta‐Omics Analysis Reveals Global Distribution of Toxic Pseudo‐nitzschia and Enhanced Neurotoxin Production Under Climate Warming46
Potential for Regional Resilience to Ocean Warming and Acidification Extremes: Projected Vulnerability Under Contrasting Pathways and Thresholds46
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions46
High potential of stable carbon sequestration in phytoliths of China's grasslands46
Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects45
Projecting coral responses to intensifying marine heatwaves under ocean acidification45
Spatio‐temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed45
Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR645
Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse45
Soil Organic Carbon Increases With Decreasing Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency During Vegetation Restoration45
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions45
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