Global Change Biology

Article	Citations
Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss	426
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change	357
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda	338
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050	326
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits	305
Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields	258
Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation	257
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?	235
Dramatic loss of inorganic carbon by nitrogen‐induced soil acidification in Chinese croplands	205
Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services	188
Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?	177
Plastic pollution in croplands threatens long‐term food security	176
Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States	170
Elevated temperature shifts soil N cycling from microbial immobilization to enhanced mineralization, nitrification and denitrification across global terrestrial ecosystems	169
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions	166
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community	155
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea	148
Global patterns and controlling factors of soil nitrification rate	148
Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area	142
Global response patterns of plant photosynthesis to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis	140
Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert‐based assessment	139
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing	137
The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands	131
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils	130
Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops	130

Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction	129
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic	129
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon	128
The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments	124
Long‐term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems	124
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems	124
Climate change induces multiple risks to boreal forests and forestry in Finland: A literature review	123
Climate change causes critical transitions and irreversible alterations of mountain forests	120
SoilTemp: A global database of near‐surface temperature	119
Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century	118
Standardized short‐term acute heat stress assays resolve historical differences in coral thermotolerance across microhabitat reef sites	117
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration	115
Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country	114
Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns	114
Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide	112
Global maps of soil temperature	110
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures	109
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils	106
Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on predrought growth conditions	105
Global assessment of relationships between climate and tree growth	105
Incorporating climate change adaptation into marine protected area planning	105
Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust‐amended agricultural soil	103
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors	99
Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites	97
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species	97
Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis	96
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen	94
Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index	94
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems	93
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition	92
Patterns in nonstructural carbohydrate contents at the tree organ level in response to drought duration	92
Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity	92
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss	92
From energy to (soil organic) matter	92
Global human influence maps reveal clear opportunities in conserving Earth’s remaining intact terrestrial ecosystems	89
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise	88
Perspectives and challenges of micro/nanoplastics‐induced toxicity with special reference to phytotoxicity	88
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions	85
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective	83
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest	83
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis	82
Effect of the plastic pollutant bisphenol A on the biology of aquatic organisms: A meta‐analysis	82
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics	82
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture	81
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties	80
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture	80
Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia	79
Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought	77
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding	77
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security	76

Soils' dirty little secret: Depth‐based comparisons can be inadequate for quantifying changes in soil organic carbon and other mineral soil properties	76
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate	76
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient	76
Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change?	75
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis	75
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau	75
A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity	74
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector	74
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content	72
Food web transfer of plastics to an apex riverine predator	72
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators	72
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics	71
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program	71
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends	70
The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature’s Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals	69
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?	69
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization	69
Climate and land‐use change will lead to a faunal “savannization” on tropical rainforests	68
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland	68
Climate change and ageing in ectotherms	68
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon	68
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence	68
Increasing the organic carbon stocks in mineral soils sequesters large amounts of phosphorus	68
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs	67
Distribution, sources, and decomposition of soil organic matter along a salinity gradient in estuarine wetlands characterized by C:N ratio, δ13C‐δ15N, and lignin biomarker	67
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought	67
Nitrogen‐induced acidification, not N‐nutrient, dominates suppressive N effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	66
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts	66
Can cropland management practices lower net greenhouse emissions without compromising yield?	66
Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction	65
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis	65
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century	64
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change	64
Overview of global status of plastic presence in marine vertebrates	64
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950	64
Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties	63
Climate regime shift and forest loss amplify fire in Amazonian forests	63
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics	63
Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data	63
Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100	63
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans	63
Increasing picocyanobacteria success in shelf waters contributes to long‐term food web degradation	62
Tree planting in organic soils does not result in net carbon sequestration on decadal timescales	62
Contrasting acclimation responses to elevated CO2 and warming between an evergreen and a deciduous boreal conifer	61
Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub‐Saharan Africa	61
Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation on the Tibetan Plateau	60
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity	60
Increased soil release of greenhouse gases shrinks terrestrial carbon uptake enhancement under warming	60
Unchartered waters: Climate change likely to intensify infectious disease outbreaks causing mass mortality events in marine mammals	59
Two centuries for an almost complete community turnover from native to non‐native species in a riverine ecosystem	58
Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales	58
Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems	58
Insects in high‐elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change	58
ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests	58
Beyond denitrification: The role of microbial diversity in controlling nitrous oxide reduction and soil nitrous oxide emissions	58
Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems	58
Not so robust: Robusta coffee production is highly sensitive to temperature	58
Long‐term research avoids spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no‐till	57
From pools to flow: The PROMISE framework for new insights on soil carbon cycling in a changing world	57
Large climate mitigation potential from adding trees to agricultural lands	57
Modelling past and future peatland carbon dynamics across the pan‐Arctic	57
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature	57
Coast‐wide evidence of low pH amelioration by seagrass ecosystems	56
Effects of seasonal and decadal warming on soil enzymatic activity in a P‐deficient Mediterranean shrubland	56
Evidence of non‐stationary relationships between climate and forest responses: Increased sensitivity to climate change in Iberian forests	56
Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China	56
Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland	55
Background nutrient concentration determines phytoplankton bloom response to marine heatwaves	55
Drainage increases CO2 and N2O emissions from tropical peat soils	55
The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier	55
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050	55
Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire	55
Agricultural acceleration of soil carbonate weathering	55
Stream microbial communities and ecosystem functioning show complex responses to multiple stressors in wastewater	54
Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget	54
Stimulation of ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundances by nitrogen loading: Poor predictability for increased soil N2O emission	54
Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global‐scale variations	54
Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts	54
Increased greenhouse gas emissions intensity of major croplands in China: Implications for food security and climate change mitigation	53
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	53

Estimating the potential for coral adaptation to global warming across the Indo‐West Pacific	53
Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change	53
Mechanisms underlying leaf photosynthetic acclimation to warming and elevated CO2 as inferred from least‐cost optimality theory	53
Global variation in soil carbon sequestration potential through improved cropland management	53
Soil organic carbon in irrigated agricultural systems: A meta‐analysis	53
Threshold responses of riverine fish communities to land use conversion across regions of the world	53
Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban–rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities	52
Ensemble modelling, uncertainty and robust predictions of organic carbon in long‐term bare‐fallow soils	52
Trade‐offs in soil carbon protection mechanisms under aerobic and anaerobic conditions	52
Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift	52
Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes	52
Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning	52
Winter snow and spring temperature have differential effects on vegetation phenology and productivity across Arctic plant communities	52
On the relative role of climate change and management in the current desert locust outbreak in East Africa	51
Small artificial waterbodies are widespread and persistent emitters of methane and carbon dioxide	51
Continental‐scale tree‐ring‐based projection of Douglas‐fir growth: Testing the limits of space‐for‐time substitution	51
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands	51
Global ecosystems and fire: Multi‐model assessment of fire‐induced tree‐cover and carbon storage reduction	51
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions	51
Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018	51
Stocks and losses of soil organic carbon from Chinese vegetated coastal habitats	51
Novel feeding interactions amplify the impact of species redistribution on an Arctic food web	51
Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect	50
Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time	50
Wild bees as winners and losers: Relative impacts of landscape composition, quality, and climate	50
Permafrost nitrogen status and its determinants on the Tibetan Plateau	50
Vital roles of soil microbes in driving terrestrial nitrogen immobilization	50
The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes	50
Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming	50
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest	50
Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought	49
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades	49
Leaching of dissolved organic carbon from mineral soils plays a significant role in the terrestrial carbon balance	49
Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses	49
Lifeform indicators reveal large‐scale shifts in plankton across the North‐West European shelf	49
Refuges and ecological traps: Extreme drought threatens persistence of an endangered fish in intermittent streams	49
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate	49
Elevated temperature increases the accumulation of microbial necromass nitrogen in soil via increasing microbial turnover	49
Are we ready to track climate‐driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? ‐ A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data	49
Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils	49
Canopy photosynthesis of six major arable crops is enhanced under diffuse light due to canopy architecture	48
Distinct controls over the temporal dynamics of soil carbon fractions after land use change	48
Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research	48
Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon	48
High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils	48
Three‐dimensional change in temperature sensitivity of northern vegetation phenology	48
Linking root respiration to chemistry and morphology across species	48
Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth	48
Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world	47
Interactive global change factors mitigate soil aggregation and carbon change in a semi‐arid grassland	47
Evolutionary principles and genetic considerations for guiding conservation interventions under climate change	47
Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines	47
The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate	47
Seagrass losses since mid‐20th century fuelled CO2 emissions from soil carbon stocks	46
A global meta‐analysis of nitrous oxide emission from drip‐irrigated cropping system	46
Reference state and benchmark concepts for better biodiversity conservation in contemporary ecosystems	46
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data	46
The response of soil respiration to precipitation change is asymmetric and differs between grasslands and forests	46
Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France	46
Forest conversion to plantations: A meta‐analysis of consequences for soil and microbial properties and functions	46
Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs	46
The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme	46
Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis	46
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review	45
Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams	45
A century of fish growth in relation to climate change, population dynamics and exploitation	45
Global changes may be promoting a rise in select cyanobacteria in nutrient‐poor northern lakes	45
Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought	45
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests	45
Revisiting the cumulative effects of drought on global gross primary productivity based on new long‐term series data (1982–2018)	45
Animal mortality during fire	45
Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally	44
Large‐scale evidence for microbial response and associated carbon release after permafrost thaw	44
High‐resolution mapping of the global silicate weathering carbon sink and its long‐term changes	44
Late to bed, late to rise—Warmer autumn temperatures delay spring phenology by delaying dormancy	44
The impact of global dimming on crop yields is determined by the source–sink imbalance of carbon during grain filling	44
Soil acidification reduces the effects of short‐term nutrient enrichment on plant and soil biota and their interactions in grasslands	44
Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species	44
Coral reef resilience to thermal stress in the Eastern Tropical Pacific	44
Low‐severity fire as a mechanism of organic matter protection in global peatlands: Thermal alteration slows decomposition	43
Reforestation and surface cooling in temperate zones: Mechanisms and implications	43
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration	43
Large quantities of small microplastics permeate the surface ocean to abyssal depths in the South Atlantic Gyre	43
Estimating the carbon storage potential and greenhouse gas emissions of French arable cropland using high‐resolution modeling	43
Global patterns of soil gross immobilization of ammonium and nitrate in terrestrial ecosystems	43
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales	43
Moderate disturbances accelerate forest transition dynamics under climate change in the temperate–boreal ecotone of eastern North America	43
Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region	42
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters and estuaries	42
Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility	42
Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire	42
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi	42
Differential thermal tolerance between algae and corals may trigger the proliferation of algae in coral reefs	42
Accelerated terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover and its drivers	42
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis	42