Global Change Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Change Biology is 21. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Extreme and compound ocean events are key drivers of projected low pelagic fish biomass300
Nitrogen deposition suppresses ephemeral post‐fire plant diversity273
Issue Information249
Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest239
Deciphering the Intricate Control of Minerals on Deep Soil Carbon Stability and Persistence in Alaskan Permafrost216
Losses of low‐germinating, slow‐growing species prevent grassland composition recovery from nutrient amendment206
Net greenhouse gas balance in U.S. croplands: How can soils be part of the climate solution?198
Anthropogenic disturbance exacerbates resilience loss in the Amazon rainforests189
Long‐ and short‐term responses to climate change in body and appendage size of diverse Australian birds177
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish175
Rapid migration of Mongolian oak into the southern Asian boreal forest175
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise173
Mammal communities of primeval forests as sentinels of global change168
Shifts in bacterial traits under chronic nitrogen deposition align with soil processes in arbuscular, but not ectomycorrhizal‐associated trees168
New ways for (in)validating the forest carbon neutrality hypothesis165
Carbon sequestration in the subsoil and the time required to stabilize carbon for climate change mitigation157
Shrinking body size of European anchovy in the Bay of Biscay144
Elevating water table reduces net ecosystem carbon losses from global drained wetlands141
Predicting the future of our oceans—Evaluating genomic forecasting approaches in marine species140
Coping with collapse: Functional robustness of coral‐reef fish network to simulated cascade extinction140
136
Precipitation and temperature timings underlying bioclimatic variables rearrange under climate change globally126
Disentangling the variability of symbiotic nitrogen fixation rate and the controlling factors124
Land surface conductance linked to precipitation: Co‐evolution of vegetation and climate in Earth system models123
The dual roles of dissimilatory iron reduction in the carbon cycle: The “iron mesh” effect can increase inorganic carbon sequestration122
Mapping the distance between fire hazard and disaster for communities in Canadian forests122
Unraveling the multifaceted effects of climatic factors on mountain pine beetle and its interaction with fungal symbionts121
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change121
A positive feedback to climate change: The effect of temperature on the respiration of key wood‐decomposing fungi does not decline with time119
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection117
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil112
Where and why do conifer forests persist in refugia through multiple fire events?112
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis111
Triploid Pacific oysters exhibit stress response dysregulation and elevated mortality following heatwaves111
Century‐long changes and drivers of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions across the contiguous United States108
A synthesis of nitric oxide emissions across global fertilized croplands from crop‐specific emission factors107
103
103
Anti‐herbivore silicon defences in a model grass are greatest under Miocene levels of atmospheric CO2103
Resilient consumers accelerate the plant decomposition in a naturally acidified seagrass ecosystem102
Embedding biodiversity research into climate adaptation policy and practice102
102
Issue Information100
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)99
Marine sponges in the once and future ocean99
A claim for a ‘next generation’ of multisite range‐wide forest genetic trials built on the legacy of ecological genetics to anticipate responses to climate98
Issue Information97
Issue Information97
Carbon conundrums: Do United States' current carbon market baselines represent an undesirable ecological threshold?97
95
Issue Information94
Global biodiversity conservation requires traditional Chinese medicine trade to be sustainable and well regulated94
Critical transitions and ecological resilience of large marine ecosystems in the Northwestern Pacific in response to global warming94
Comparison of the distribution and phenology of Arctic Mountain plants between the early 20th and 21st centuries93
Landscape determinants of pelagic and benthic primary production in northern lakes93
92
Issue Information92
Effects of fire on CO2, CH4, and N2O exchange in a well‐drained Arctic heath ecosystem92
Inferred drought‐induced plant allocation shifts and their impact on drought legacy at a tropical forest site91
Assessing the effectiveness of marine nature‐based solutions with climate risk assessments91
Impact of persistently high sea surface temperatures on the rhizobiomes of Zostera marina in a Baltic Sea benthocosms91
Long‐term (64 years) annual burning lessened soil organic carbon and nitrogen content in a humid subtropical grassland91
In situ decrease in rhodolith growth associated with Arctic climate change91
Issue Information91
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities90
A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialization and diversification in swallowtail butterflies89
Unveiling the landscape predictors of resilient vegetation in coastal wetlands to inform conservation in the face of climate extremes89
Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest89
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming87
What are small‐size microplastic distributions telling us?87
86
Biophysical approaches to predicting species vulnerability86
Letter to the editor on “Nonlinear dynamics of fires in Africa over recent decades controlled by precipitation”85
Issue Information85
Is the future female for turtles? Climate change and wetland configuration predict sex ratios of a freshwater species85
84
Issue Information84
Climate and sex in turtles82
Issue Information82
Modified future diurnal variability of the global surface ocean CO2 system81
Responding to warming in polar oceans: A commentary on Molina et al. (2022)81
The glasgow leaders’ declaration on forests and land use: Significance toward “Net Zero”81
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada81
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world80
Issue Information80
Issue Information78
Climate warming and sea turtle sex ratios across the globe77
The robust concept of mineral‐associated organic matter saturation: A letter to Begill et al., 202377
Rapid and large changes in coastal wetland structure in China's four major river deltas77
Plant community diversity alters the response of ecosystem multifunctionality to multiple global change factors76
Maximizing the effectiveness of national commitments to protected area expansion for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem carbon under climate change76
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians75
Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality74
Divergent fate of coccolithophores in a warming tropical ecosystem74
Male, female, and mixed‐sex poplar plantations support divergent soil microbial communities74
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration73
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community72
Marine Protected Areas That Preserve Trophic Cascades Promote Resilience of Kelp Forests to Marine Heatwaves72
Topography modulates climate sensitivity of multidecadal trends of holm oak decline72
Degradation debts accounting: A holistic approach towards land degradation neutrality71
Global Land Use Change and Its Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions71
Comparison of carbon and nitrogen accumulation rate between bog and fen phases in a pristine peatland with the fen‐bog transition71
Issue Information70
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world70
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 model70
Aquatic invasion patterns across the North Atlantic70
Eyes of the world on a warmer, less frozen, and greener Arctic70
Reindeer control over subarctic treeline alters soil fungal communities with potential consequences for soil carbon storage70
ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests70
Human‐modified landscapes driving the global primate extinction crisis69
The North American Monsoon buffers forests against the ongoing megadrought in the Southwestern United States68
Cropland intensification mediates the radiative balance of greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in maize systems of sub‐Saharan Africa67
Forest productivity recovery or collapse? Model‐data integration insights on drought‐induced tipping points67
Ecosystem resilience to invasion and drought: Insights after 24 years in a rare never‐grazed grassland67
Ecological and methodological drivers of non‐stationarity in tree growth response to climate66
The recovery of crustacean zooplankton from acidification depends on lake type66
Picturing local adaptation: Spectral and structural traits from drone remote sensing reveal clinal responses to climate transfer in common‐garden trials of interior spruce (Picea engelmannii × 65
Mycorrhizal associations of temperate forest seedlings mediate rhizodeposition, but not soil carbon storage, under elevated nitrogen availability64
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils64
Community assembly in the wake of glacial retreat: A meta‐analysis64
Declines in rodent abundance and diversity track regional climate variability in North American drylands63
An invasive prey and changing climate interact to shape the breeding phenology of an endangered predator63
Floating debris and organisms can raft to Antarctic coasts from all major Southern Hemisphere landmasses62
Beyond resilience: Responses to changing climate and disturbance regimes in temperate forest landscapes across the Northern Hemisphere62
Two sub‐annual timescales and coupling modes for terrestrial water and carbon cycles61
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Agriculture: Pathways to Sustainable Reductions60
Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California60
Resistance and change in a High Arctic ecosystem, NW Greenland: Differential sensitivity of ecosystem metrics to 15 years of experimental warming and wetting60
Global Distributions of Reactive Iron and Aluminum Influence the Spatial Variation of Soil Organic Carbon60
Net primary productivity and litter decomposition rates in two distinct Amazonian peatlands60
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index59
Neglecting acclimation of photosynthesis under drought can cause significant errors in predicting leaf photosynthesis in wheat59
Polar bear diet in the face of Arctic climate change59
Recolonization following past persecution questions the importance of persistent snow cover as a range limiting factor for wolverines59
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States58
The success of the Montreal Protocol in mitigating interactive effects of stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change on the environment58
Living, dead, and absent trees—How do moth outbreaks shape small‐scale patterns of soil organic matter stocks and dynamics at the Subarctic mountain birch treeline?58
Ice matters: Life‐history strategies of two Antarctic seals dictate climate change eventualities in the Weddell Sea58
Towards improved modeling of SOC decomposition: soil water potential beyond the wilting point58
Hydroclimatic adaptation critical to the resilience of tropical forests58
Climate–ecosystem modelling made easy: The Land Sites Platform57
4D marine conservation networks: Combining 3D prioritization of present and future biodiversity with climatic refugia57
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals57
The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence57
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region57
Improved performance of the eastern spruce budworm on black spruce as warming temperatures disrupt phenological defences57
Response of the peatland carbon dioxide sink function to future climate change scenarios and water level management56
Distinct interaction effects of warming and anthropogenic input on diatoms and dinoflagellates in an urbanized estuarine ecosystem56
Human density modulates spatial associations among tropical forest terrestrial mammal species56
Restoration of forest resilience to fire from old trees is possible across a large Colorado dry‐forest landscape by 2060, but only under the Paris 1.5℃ goal56
Tree planting: A double‐edged sword to fight climate change in an era of megafires56
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?56
Ethylene‐regulated leaf lifespan explains divergent responses of plant productivity to warming among three hydrologically different growing seasons56
Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests56
Adaptive strategies of sponges to deoxygenated oceans55
No xylem phenotypic plasticity in mature Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica trees after 5 years of throughfall precipitation exclusion55
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States55
Sympatric soil biota mitigate a warmer‐drier climate for Bouteloua gracilis55
Challenges in upscaling laboratory studies to ecosystems in soil microbiology research55
The role of terrestrial productivity and hydrology in regulating aquatic dissolved organic carbon concentrations in boreal catchments55
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback55
Sea temperature is the primary driver of recent and predicted fish community structure across Northeast Atlantic shelf seas55
Understanding and managing the interactive impacts of growth in urban land use and climate change on freshwater biota: A case study using the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)54
Trade‐offs between baseline thermal tolerance and thermal tolerance plasticity are much less common than it appears54
Where can managers effectively resist climate‐driven ecological transformation in pinyon–juniper woodlands of the US Southwest?54
Identifying climate thresholds for dominant natural vegetation types at the global scale using machine learning: Average climate versus extremes54
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs54
Warming and elevated CO2 intensify drought and recovery responses of grassland carbon allocation to soil respiration54
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting54
A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales53
Negative relationship between photosynthesis and late‐stage canopy development and senescence over Tibetan Plateau53
Estimating co‐extinction threats in terrestrial ecosystems53
Distribution and predicted climatic refugia for a reef‐building cold‐water coral on the southeast US margin53
Multi‐decadal trends in biomarkers in harp seal teeth from the North Atlantic reveal the influence of prey availability on seal trophic position53
Contrasting temperature effects on the velocity of early‐ versus late‐stage vegetation green‐up in the Northern Hemisphere53
Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways52
Limited recovery following a massive seagrass decline in subarctic eastern Canada52
Too Hot to Handle: A Meta‐Analytical Review of the Thermal Tolerance and Adaptive Capacity of North American Sturgeon52
Drought shortens subtropical understory growing season by advancing leaf senescence52
The role of climate in past forest loss in an ecologically important region of South Asia52
Decline in Coupling Between Vegetation Photosynthesis and Greening in Northern Ecosystems During the Photosynthesis‐Up Period52
Corrigendum52
Assessing long‐term impacts of cover crops on soil organic carbon in the central US Midwestern agroecosystems52
Changes in the Yield Effect of the Preceding Crop in the US Corn Belt Under a Warming Climate52
Multinational coordination required for conservation of over 90% of marine species52
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China52
Constraining long‐term model predictions for woody growth using tropical tree rings51
Contrasting Future Growth of Norway Spruce and Scots Pine Forests Under Warming Climate51
Aridity threshold for alpine soil nitrogen isotope signature and ecosystem nitrogen cycling50
Dominance of net autotrophy in arid landscape low relief polar lakes, Nunavut, Canada50
Drivers and human impacts on topsoil bacterial and fungal community biogeography across Australia50
Refining stoichiometric approaches to trace soil organic matter sources50
The resilience of ecosystems to drought50
Canopy cover and soil moisture influence forest understory plant responses to experimental summer drought49
Considering Multiecosystem Trade‐Offs Is Critical When Leveraging Systematic Conservation Planning for Restoration49
Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands49
Earthquakes Have Accelerated the Carbon Dioxide Emission Rate of Soils on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau49
A numerical model sheds new light on the effects of ocean acidification on an indicator species48
Effects of Conservation Agriculture on Soil N2O Emissions and Crop Yield in Global Cereal Cropping Systems48
Do Tasmanian devil declines impact ecosystem function?48
48
Moss species and precipitation mediate experimental warming stimulation of growing season N2 fixation in subarctic tundra48
Timing determines zooplankton community responses to multiple stressors48
Disentangling the Impact of Forest Management Intensity Components on Soil Biological Processes48
Aquatic processing enhances the loss of aged carbon from drained and burned peatlands47
47
Giant pandas are losing their edge: Population trend and distribution dynamic drivers of the giant panda47
New tree‐level temperature response curves document sensitivity of tree growth to high temperatures across a US‐wide climatic gradient47
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change47
Climate mitigation potential of cover crops in the United States is regionally concentrated and lower than previous estimates47
Is our understanding of aquatic ecosystems sufficient to quantify ecologically driven climate feedbacks?47
Microbial sensitivity to temperature and sulfate deposition modulates greenhouse gas emissions from peat soils47
Mycorrhizal associations relate to stable convergence in plant–microbial competition for nitrogen absorption under high nitrogen conditions47
Changing climatic controls on the greenhouse gas balance of thermokarst bogs during succession after permafrost thaw47
Issue Information47
Climate‐Smart Invasive Species Management for 21st Century Global Change Challenges47
How drought events during the last century have impacted biomass carbon in Amazonian rainforests47
Staying in place and moving in space: Contrasting larval thermal sensitivity explains distributional changes of sympatric sea urchin species to habitat warming46
Soil pH Determines Nitrogen Effects on Methane Emissions From Rice Paddies46
Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation46
Recovery and Degradation Drive Changes in the Dispersal Capacity of Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities46
Northeast Atlantic elasmobranch community on the move: Functional reorganization in response to climate change46
Detecting climate signals in populations across life histories46
Vegetation clumping modulates global photosynthesis through adjusting canopy light environment46
Sea level rise and climate change acting as interactive stressors on development and dynamics of tropical peatlands in coastal Sumatra and South Borneo since the Last Glacial Maximum46
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production46
Microhabitat conditions remedy heat stress effects on insect activity46
The effect of past defaunation on ranges, niches, and future biodiversity forecasts46
Global change and premature hatching of aquatic embryos45
Aridity‐dependent sequence of water potentials for stomatal closure and hydraulic dysfunctions in woody plants45
Enhanced foliar 15N enrichment with increasing nitrogen addition rates: Role of plant species and nitrogen compounds45
The global‐scale impacts of metallic nanoparticles on soil carbon dioxide emissions45
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis45
Intrinsic microbial temperature sensitivity and soil organic carbon decomposition in response to climate change45
Environmental change and the rate of phenotypic plasticity45
Wealth and urbanization shape medium and large terrestrial mammal communities45
Multifaceted Links Between Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency and Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration45
Quantification of blue carbon pathways contributing to negative feedback on climate change following glacier retreat in West Antarctic fjords45
Positive effects of tree species diversity on productivity switch to negative after severe drought mortality in a temperate forest experiment44
Cloudiness reduces the bleaching response of coral reefs exposed to heat stress44
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate44
Trade‐off in the partitioning of recent photosynthate carbon under global change44
Pixel walking along the boreal forest–Arctic tundra ecotone: Large scale ground‐truthing of satellite‐derived greenness (NDVI)44
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China43
Shark teeth can resist ocean acidification43
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods43
Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations43
Animal mortality during fire43
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program42
Does growing atmospheric CO2 explain increasing carbon sink in a boreal coniferous forest?42
1.7845048904419