OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystems is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Meta-analysis Reveals Different Competition Effects on Tree Growth Resistance and Resilience to Drought	38
Temperature and Moisture Modulate the Contribution of Soil Fauna to Litter Decomposition via Different Pathways	37
Losses of Soil Organic Carbon with Deforestation in Mangroves of Madagascar	35
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain	33
Common Species Stability and Species Asynchrony Rather than Richness Determine Ecosystem Stability Under Nitrogen Enrichment	32
Historical Disturbances Determine Current Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Saproxylic Beetle Communities in Temperate Primary Forests	32
Source Switching Maintains Dissolved Organic Matter Chemostasis Across Discharge Levels in a Large Temperate River Network	29
Multiple Ecosystem Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the Arctic	26
Tree Neighbourhood Diversity Has Negligible Effects on Drought Resilience of European Beech, Silver Fir and Norway Spruce	25
Host Identity as a Driver of Moss-Associated N2 Fixation Rates in Alaska	25
White-Sand Savannas Expand at the Core of the Amazon After Forest Wildfires	25
Dwarf Shrubs Impact Tundra Soils: Drier, Colder, and Less Organic Carbon	24
Changes in Chemical and Microbial Soil Parameters Following 8 Years of Deadwood Decay: An Experiment with Logs of 13 Tree Species in 30 Forests	24
Above- and Below-ground Cascading Effects of Wild Ungulates in Temperate Forests	24
Long-Term Responses of Mediterranean Mountain Forests to Climate Change, Fire and Human Activities in the Northern Apennines (Italy)	24
Tropical Biogeomorphic Seagrass Landscapes for Coastal Protection: Persistence and Wave Attenuation During Major Storms Events	23
Global Warming Potential Is Not an Ecosystem Property	23
An Integrative Ecological Drought Framework to Span Plant Stress to Ecosystem Transformation	23
Divergent Controls on Stream Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Across a Land-Use Gradient	23
Water Hyacinth’s Effect on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: A Field Study in a Wide Variety of Tropical Water Bodies	22
Shifts in Key Leaf Litter Traits Can Predict Effects of Plant Diversity Loss on Decomposition in Streams	22
Simulated Increases in Fire Activity Reinforce Shrub Conversion in a Southwestern US Forest	22
Soil Carbon Stocks Vary Across Geomorphic Settings in Australian Temperate Tidal Marsh Ecosystems	22
Wetter is Better: Rewetting of Minerotrophic Peatlands Increases Plant Production and Moves Them Towards Carbon Sinks in a Dry Year	21
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience	21

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Metabolism in a Hyper-eutrophic Reservoir Differ Between a Wet and Dry Year	19
Nitrogen Enrichment Reduces Nitrogen and Phosphorus Resorption Through Changes to Species Resorption and Plant Community Composition	19
Eutrophication Drives Extreme Seasonal CO2 Flux in Lake Ecosystems	19
Impact of Ocean Acidification on Ecosystem Functioning and Services in Habitat-Forming Species and Marine Ecosystems	19
Dynamics of Calcium, Magnesium, and Manganese During Litter Decomposition in Alpine Forest Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems	18
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect	18
Fine Root and Soil Organic Carbon Depth Distributions are Inversely Related Across Fertility and Rainfall Gradients in Lowland Tropical Forests	18
High Arctic Vegetation Change Mediated by Hydrological Conditions	18
Fire Recurrence and Time Since Last Fire Interact to Determine the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services by Mediterranean Forests	18
Estimating Benthic Light Regimes Improves Predictions of Primary Production and constrains Light-Use Efficiency in Streams and Rivers	17
Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?	17
Alternative Biogeochemical States of River Pools Mediated by Hippo Use and Flow Variability	16
Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective	16
Ongoing Fen–Bog Transition in a Boreal Aapa Mire Inferred from Repeated Field Sampling, Aerial Images, and Landsat Data	16
Plant–Environment Interactions in the Low Arctic Torngat Mountains of Labrador	16
Forest Structural Complexity and Biomass Predict First-Year Carbon Cycling Responses to Disturbance	16
Trade-offs Between Light and Nutrient Availability Across Gradients of Dissolved Organic Carbon Lead to Spatially and Temporally Variable Responses of Lake Phytoplankton Biomass to Browning	16
Effects of Grazing, Wind Erosion, and Dust Deposition on Plant Community Composition and Structure in a Temperate Steppe	16
Increased Water Use Efficiency in China and Its Drivers During 2000–2016	15
Ancient Anthropogenic Clam Gardens of the Northwest Coast Expand Clam Habitat	15
Shade-Tree Rehabilitation in Vanilla Agroforests is Yield Neutral and May Translate into Landscape-Scale Canopy Cover Gains	15
Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes	14
Stable Isotopes Clearly Track Mangrove Inputs and Food Web Changes Along a Reforestation Gradient	14
Long-Term Impacts of Invasive Insects and Pathogens on Composition, Biomass, and Diversity of Forests in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains	14
Seeing the System from Above: The Use and Potential of Remote Sensing for Studying Ecosystem Dynamics	14
Assessing the Risk of Losing Forest Ecosystem Services Due to Wildfires	14
The Metabolic Regimes at the Scale of an Entire Stream Network Unveiled Through Sensor Data and Machine Learning	14
Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake	14
Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion	14
Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon	14
Warming Stimulates Iron-Mediated Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mineral-Poor Peatlands	13
Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps	13
Tree-Related Microhabitats Follow Similar Patterns but are More Diverse in Primary Compared to Managed Temperate Mountain Forests	13
Responses of Temperate Forests to Nitrogen Deposition: Testing the Explanatory Power of Modeled Deposition Datasets for Vegetation Gradients	13
Shrubs and Degraded Permafrost Pave the Way for Tree Establishment in Subarctic Peatlands	13
Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog	13
Geographic Linkages of Root Traits to Salt Marsh Productivity	13
Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland	13
Effects of Soil Abiotic and Biotic Factors on Tree Seedling Regeneration Following a Boreal Forest Wildfire	12
Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond	12
Ecosystem Recovery from Disturbance is Constrained by N Cycle Openness, Vegetation-Soil N Distribution, Form of N Losses, and the Balance Between Vegetation and Soil-Microbial Processes	12
Greenhouse Gas Balance of Sphagnum Farming on Highly Decomposed Peat at Former Peat Extraction Sites	12
Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization Across a Climate Transect of Mesic Boreal Forests Is Explained by Air Temperature and Snowpack Duration	12
Recent Lateral Expansion of Sphagnum Bogs Over Central Fen Areas of Boreal Aapa Mire Complexes	12
Mechanisms of Persistent High Primary Production During the Growing Season in the Chukchi Sea	12
Soil Stoichiometry Mediates Links Between Tree Functional Diversity and Soil Microbial Diversity in a Temperate Forest	12
Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene	12
Loss of Large Animals Differentially Influences Nutrient Fluxes Across a Heterogeneous Marine Intertidal Soft-Sediment Ecosystem	12
A View From Both Ends: Shifts in Herbivore Assemblages Impact Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes on Coral Reefs	12
Canopy Cover Loss of Mediterranean Oak Woodlands: Long-term Effects of Management and Climate	11

Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem	11
Effects of Litter Quality Diminish and Effects of Vegetation Type Develop During Litter Decomposition of Two Shrub Species in an Alpine Treeline Ecotone	11
Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland	11
Fauna Community Convergence During Decomposition of Deadwood Across Tree Species and Forests	11
Ecosystem Shift from Submerged to Floating Plants Simplifying the Food Web in a Tropical Shallow Lake	11
The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh	11
Deadwood Reduces the Variation in Soil Microbial Communities Caused by Experimental Forest Gaps	10
Evidence of the Significant Contribution of Heterotrophic Diazotrophs to Nitrogen Fixation in the Eastern Indian Ocean During Pre-Southwest Monsoon Period	10
Stream Macroinvertebrates and Carbon Cycling in Tangled Food Webs	10
How Are Greenhouse Gases Coupled Across Seasons in a Large Temperate River with Differential Land Use?	10
Strong Legacy Effects of Prior Burn Severity on Forest Resilience to a High-Severity Fire	10
Romans Shape Today’s Vegetation and Soils: Two Millennia of Land-Use Legacy Dynamics in Mediterranean Grasslands	10
Canopy Disturbances Catalyse Tree Species Shifts in Swiss Forests	10
Mangrove Encroachment Alters Decomposition Rate in Saltmarsh Through Changes in Litter Quality	10
Azorella Cushion Plants and Aridity are Important Drivers of Soil Microbial Communities in Andean Ecosystems	10
Loss of Key Riparian Plant Species Impacts Stream Ecosystem Functioning	10
Ecosystem Processes Show Uniform Sensitivity to Winter Soil Temperature Change Across a Gradient from Central to Cold Marginal Stands of a Major Temperate Forest Tree	10
An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science	9
Long-Term Impact of Liming on Soil C and N in a Fertile Spruce Forest Ecosystem	9
Fagus sylvatica L. Peripheral Populations in the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula: Climatic or Anthropic Relicts?	9
Submerged Rootless Macrophytes Sustain a Stable State Against Free-Floating Plants	9
Large-Scale Quantification and Correlates of Ungulate Carrion Production in the Anthropocene	9
Skid Trail Effects on Soil Methane and Carbon Dioxide Flux in a Selection-Managed Northern Hardwood Forest	9
Large Infaunal Bivalves Determine Community Uptake of Macroalgal Detritus and Food Web Pathways	9
Soil Nutrient Depletion and Tree Functional Composition Shift Following Repeated Clearing in Secondary Forests of the Congo Basin	9
Reforestations of Tropical Forests Alter Interactions Between Web-Building Spiders and Their Prey	9
Tracking the Rates and Mechanisms of Canopy Damage and Recovery Following Hurricane Maria Using Multitemporal Lidar Data	9
Inundation, Hydrodynamics and Vegetation Influence Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Amazon Floodplain Lakes	9
Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition	9
Local and Regional Drivers of Environmental Changes in Two Subtropical Montane Ponds (Central China) Over the Last Two Centuries	9