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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun283
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space274
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise242
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy237
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States212
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)195
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil187
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China173
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration171
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Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada163
Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought160
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness157
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest155
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture150
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities149
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community149
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals149
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change145
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States144
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish142
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem142
Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations141
Correction to “Climate‐Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits”139
Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis138
Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide ( N 2 O ) From a137
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities132
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone130
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change129
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods128
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study125
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration124
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production124
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection122
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest122
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region122
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 Climate122
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China121
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world120
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change118
Leaving no Species Behind: Moving Beyond the “Winners and Losers” Dichotomy in Climate Warming Risk Assessments117
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023115
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs114
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils113
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling109
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?108
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities106
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting106
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) Across Europe105
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany102
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians102
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment101
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis101
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health99
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world99
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia98
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World98
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Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate97
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index97
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”95
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective95
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”94
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Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges93
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate92
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines90
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?89
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters89
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections89
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 heath87
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century87
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point87
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs87
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming86
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands86
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics86
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions86
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted85
Forest Carbon Dynamics as a Constraint on Future Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change85
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages85
Demystifying the Romanticized Narratives About Carbon Credits From Voluntary Forest Conservation85
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?84
Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs84
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N2O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland83
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards83
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery83
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming83
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change82
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico82
Long‐Term Ecological Baselines and Critical Thresholds in Ombrotrophic Peatlands of Europe: Implications for Restoration Strategies82
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes82
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)81
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change81
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters81
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research81
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau81
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile80
Synergetic Responses of Nonstructural Carbohydrates and Nutrients in Different Tree Organs to Drought79
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth79
Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration79
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests78
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems78
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential78
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics77
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function77
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis77
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO2 acidification impacts on fish growth76
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats76
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Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season76
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Acceleration of vegetation phenological changes75
Corrigendum73
Correction to “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands”73
A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem72
Ecosystem Service Trajectories in Restored Coastal Habitats72
Identifying main uncertainties in estimating past and present radiative forcing of peatlands72
Exposure and Sensitivity of Terrestrial Vertebrates to Biological Invasions Worldwide72
Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species72
Modest Experimental Warming Reduces Species Diversity and Biomass of Arthropods in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow72
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How Does Climate Change Influence the Regional Ecological–Social Risks of Harmful Dinoflagellates? A Predictive Study of China's Coastal Waters71
Gibbs energy or enthalpy—What is relevant for microbial C‐turnover in soils?71
Alleviating the Concerns About Pollen‐Based Assisted Migration71
Rapid Evolution in Action: Environmental Filtering Supports Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat71
Long‐Term Drought Persistently Shifts Plant and Soil Microbial Communities but Has Limited Impact on CO2 Fluxes Under Subsequent Drought70
Math‐Corrected Enzyme Ratios: Descriptors of Allocation and Tools for Comparability—Not Proof of Limitation70
The Breeding Distribution of a Migratory Bird Fluctuates With Nonbreeding Season Rainfall Over the Last Century69
Unlocking the power of machine learning for Earth system modeling: A game‐changing breakthrough68
Shortening fire return interval predisposes west‐central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover68
Hyposensitive canopy conductance renders ecosystems vulnerable to meteorological droughts68
Adult spawners: A critical period for subarctic Chinook salmon in a changing climate68
Climate change alone cannot explain boreal caribou range recession in Quebec since 185067
Human‐Impacted Natural Ecosystems Drive Climate Warming67
Dark matters: Contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading66
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 conditions66
Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure65
5300‐Year‐old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter64
Enhanced growth resistance but no decline in growth resilience under long‐term extreme droughts64
Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems64
Climate change and extreme events are changing the biology of Polar Regions63
An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss63
Impacts of Canopy Disturbances by Tree Logging on Soil Biota Increase With Organism Size63
Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit62
Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production62
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs62
Stomata secretive ways: A commentary on Lamour et al. (2022)62
Stochastic resonance in climate reddening increases the risk of cyclic ecosystem extinction via phase‐tipping62
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review62
Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion62
A global synthesis of climate vulnerability assessments on marine fisheries: Methods, scales, and knowledge co‐production61
High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change61
Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature‐driven community shifts61
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon60
High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau60
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral‐Associated Organic Matter60
Climate change reduces long‐term population benefits from no‐take marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement60
Carbon footprint of synthetic nitrogen under staple crops: A first cradle‐to‐grave analysis60
Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis)59
Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods59
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis59
Do not ignore the effects of phosphorus and potassium addition on microbial carbon use efficiency59
Challenging Paradigms Around the Role of Colony Size, Taxa, and Environment on Bleaching Susceptibility59
CO 2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality59
A New Frontier for Plant‐Microbe Interaction Under Changing Climate Conditions59
pH variability at volcanic CO2 seeps regulates coral calcifying fluid chemistry59
Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean58
Juvenile waiting stage crown‐of‐thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals58
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem58
A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs58
Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity58
Global analysis of the perturbation effects of metal‐based nanoparticles on soil nitrogen cycling58
More sensitive microbial responses to the interactive effects of warming and altered precipitation in subsoil than topsoil of an alpine grassland ecosystem57
Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships among associated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genes along anthropogenic gradients57
Impact of Crop Type on Biodiversity Globally57
No evidence for a negative effect of growing season photosynthesis on leaf senescence timing57
Global Change Modulates Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency: Mechanisms and Impacts on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics57
Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global‐scale meta‐analysis56
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation56
Nitrification, denitrification, and related functional genes under elevated CO2: A meta‐analysis in terrestrial ecosystems56
Fungal necromass is reduced by intensive drought in subsoil but not in topsoil55
Improved Modeling of Vegetation Phenology Using Soil Enthalpy55
Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition55
Significant accrual of soil organic carbon through long‐term rice cultivation in paddy fields in China55
Dynamic Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Urbanization: A Global Perspective54
China's wetland soil organic carbon pool: New estimation on pool size, change, and trajectory54
Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils54
Local thermal adaptation and local temperature regimes drive the performance of a parasitic helminth under climate change: The case of Marshallagia marshalli from wild ungulates54
Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe54
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Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate53
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Microbial necromass under global change and implications for soil organic matter53
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Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change52
Warming, Snow Exclusion, and Soil Type Alter the Timing of Plant and Soil Activity and Associated Nutrient Losses52
Role of hydrodynamics in shaping chemical habitats and modulating the responses of coastal benthic systems to ocean global change52
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora51
Regressions underestimate the direct effect of soil moisture on land carbon sink variability51
Long‐term changes in the daytime growing season carbon dioxide exchange following increased temperature and snow cover in arctic tundra51
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Size matters: Aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of shallow thermokarst lakes51
Potential for Regional Resilience to Ocean Warming and Acidification Extremes: Projected Vulnerability Under Contrasting Pathways and Thresholds51
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 functional50
Growth form and leaf habit drive contrasting effects of Arctic amplification in long‐lived woody species50
The Effects of Climate Change on Mesocarnivores: A Global Review and Meta‐Analysis50
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies50
Understanding Unanticipated Range Shifts: Biotic Interactions as Key Mediators in a Changing Climate50
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 Scales50
Boreal Rivers as Sources of Terpenoid Emissions50
Exploring Sulfate as an Alternative Electron Acceptor: A Potential Strategy to Mitigate N2O Emissions in Upland Arable Soils49
Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield49
The neglected roles of adjacent natural ecosystems in maintaining bacterial diversity in agroecosystems49
Long‐Term Incubation Duration Decline Indicates Climate‐Change Driven Feminization of Three Sea Turtle Species in Florida, USA49
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions49
Meta‐Omics Analysis Reveals Global Distribution of Toxic Pseudo‐nitzschia and Enhanced Neurotoxin Production Under Climate Warming48
Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress48
Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought48
Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?48
Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management48
Tracing Blue Carbon Flows Across Diverse Seascapes48
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
Increased atmospheric CO2 and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems47
Climate change and commercial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long‐lived seabird47
Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse47
Policy Inaction Risks Breaching the 2°C Climate Target47
Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests47
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Predicted warming in alpine streams suggests hidden consequences for aquatic ectotherms47
Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems46
CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land46
Ozone‐Tolerant Rice for Air‐Polluted Environments46
Contrasting responses of peak vegetation growth to asymmetric warming: Evidences from FLUXNET and satellite observations46
Immediate and carry‐over effects of late‐spring frost and growing season drought on forest gross primary productivity capacity in the Northern Hemisphere46
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia45
Spatio‐temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed45
Dark CO 2 fixation in soils: A meta‐analysis of mechanisms and controlling factors45
Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR645
Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects45
Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change45
Rapid climate change increases diversity and homogenizes composition of coastal fish at high latitudes44
From remotely sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory44
Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations44
Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United States44
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