OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ecological Indicators is 87. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatiotemporal pattern of vegetation water use efficiency between 2003 and 2017 and its coupling relationship with artificial carbon sequestration in the karst region of Southwestern China	290
Plant-soil feedbacks in Hydrocotyle vulgaris: Genotypic differences and relations to functional traits	251
The comprehensive effect of natural food quality and quantity on growth rate of herbivore consumers	241
Hyperspectral remote sensing of chlorophyll a and pheophorbide a pigments for macrobenthos mapping on an estuarine tidal flat	228
Where forest may not return in the western United States	199
Phased responses of urban tree canopy cover changes to urbanization process within Beijing’s built-up area: An analytical framework coupling state, transition, and drivers	189
Ecosystems face the risk of ecological deficits in the southern foothills of the Himalayas	185
DPSR-based study and assessment of the influence pathways of Shanghai urban development level on river methane emission potential during 2011–2020	174
A multi-source data fusion method to retrieve soil moisture dynamics and its influencing factors analysis in the ecological zone of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	174
The variation of the 400 mm isohyet and its influence mechanism on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1982 to 2021	174
Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping	172
Carabid beetles as indicators of stream zonation	171
Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations	170
Quantifying relative contributions of biotic interactions to bacterial diversity and community assembly by using community characteristics of microbial eukaryotes	156
A novel assessment framework for colored-water footprint inequality in China	156
Selection of suitable aggregation function for estimation of water quality index for the Orontes River	155
Variations in active layer soil hydrothermal dynamics of typical wetlands in permafrost region in the Great Hing’an Mountains, northeast China	154
Functional and trophic variations in macrofaunal assemblage reflect the ecological effects of bottom-based clam farming	151
Exclusion of plant input affects the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition	150
Negative influence of a threatened species on ecological status classification: A case study of the influence of European eel within the Swedish fish index VIX	150
Feature-dependent group structures and hierarchical songbird-habitat relationships in a managed forest landscape	149
‘Pulsing’ cities and ‘swarming’ metropolises: A simplified, entropy-based approach to long-term urban development	148
CSR strategy composition and leaf traits for herbaceous plants in garden design	147
Long-term monitoring of a species suite of ecological indicators: A coordinated conservation framework for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	147
Land use changes and natural disaster fatalities: Empirical analysis for India	146

Precipitation variation since 1748 CE in the central Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	146
Regional water cycle health evaluation and obstacle factor analysis: A case study of the Yellow River basin in Henan Province, China	145
Co-occurrence patterns and community assembly mechanisms of benthic foraminiferal communities in South Chinese bays	145
Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic	143
Environmental and economic sustainability of key sectors in China's steel industry chain: An application of the Emergy Accounting approach	143
High-resolution estimation of industrial water use in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei based on multi-source data	139
Urban compactness and patch complexity influence PM2.5 concentrations in contrasting ways: Evidence from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China	137
Real curve: Identifying and quantifying the real environmental effects on migration in China	134
Influence of saline intrusion on the wetland ecosystem revealed by isotopic and hydrochemical indicators in the Yellow River Delta, China	134
Spatio-temporal explicit mapping and quantification of ecosystem services provision area: An application for wind erosion prevention service in northern China	133
Using handheld mobile laser scanning to quantify fine-scale surface fuels and detect changes post-disturbance in northern California forests	130
Grazing intensity estimation in temperate typical grasslands of Inner Mongolia using machine learning models	130
Integrating seasonal variation into conservation planning can provide extra benefits: A case study in the Tana River Basin, Kenya	130
Global temporal and spatial changes of vegetation in desert steppe Ecosystems: Impacts of climate driving factors	130
BBEST practices: Intentional efforts to identify elusive flow-ecology thresholds	128
Dynamic processes of water conflicts and their coupling with water crises in Asia’s transboundary river basins	125
Optimizing the airborne laser scanning estimation of basal area larger than mean (BALM<	125
Proposal of new Natura 2000 network boundaries in Spain based on the value of importance for biodiversity and connectivity analysis for its improvement	125
Geotagging of natural history collections for reuse in environmental research	124
Urban rivers health assessment based on the concept of resilience using improved FCM-EWM-MABAC model	123
Trends in vegetation and height of the topographic surface in a tidal freshwater swamp experiencing rooting zone saltwater intrusion	122
Tree diversity depending on environmental gradients promotes biomass stability via species asynchrony in China’s forest ecosystems	122
Accelerated vegetative growth measured by gross primary productivity in China from 1980 to 2018	121
A novel remote sensing method for monitoring Large-Scale grassland aboveground Biomass: The case study of grassland key belt in the Tibetan Plateau	118
Soil organic carbon distribution and factors affecting carbon accumulation in natural and plantation forests in tropical China	116
Monitoring microplastic pollution: The potential and limitations of Nephrops norvegicus	115
Accounting for the water related ecosystem services of forests in the Southern Aegean region of Turkey	115
Negative spill-over effects of agricultural practices on plant species conservation in nature reserves	114
Shells of Pearlmussels, Margaritifera dahurica (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae), as a biogeochemical indicator of the background (Holocene) and current major and trace elements content in riverine waters	114
Land surface phenology detections from multi-source remote sensing indices capturing canopy photosynthesis phenology across major land cover types in the Northern Hemisphere	112
Evaluating the conservation priority of key biodiversity areas based on ecosystem conditions and anthropogenic threats in rapidly urbanizing areas	108
The evolution of settlement system and the paths of rural revitalization in alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A case study of Nagqu County	107
Assessing the impacts of historical and future land-use/cover change on habitat quality in the urbanizing Lhasa River Basin on the Tibetan Plateau	106
Assessment and source apportionment of toxic metal in soils using integrated positive matrix factorization and Bayesian maximum entropy: A case study in Z county, southeastern China	106
Insights into evaluating the toxic effects of nitrofurazone on ecological integrity in marine ecosystems using periphytic ciliate communities	106
Assessment and Diagnosis of the water resources carrying capacity in the Huaihe River basin of Anhui Province	106
Exploring the dynamic spatial spillover and nonlinear threshold effect of urbanization on urban green development efficiency in China	105
Assessing the effects of environmental factors on filtration rate of golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei)	102
The differential responses of gas exchange and evapotranspiration to experimental drought for seedlings of two typical tree species on the Loess Plateau	101
N-microbial properties are key indicators of fertility in maturating technosols constructed for urban landscapes	100
Determination and analysis of groundwater ecological level in Changling County	99
Multilevel green space ecological network collaborative optimization from the perspective of scale effect	99
Evaluation of the current status and risks of aquatic ecology in the Jialing River Basin based on the characteristics and succession trends of phytoplankton communities	98
Identifying critical climate periods for temporal dynamics of aboveground net primary productivity in the Eurasian steppe region	98
A new framework for identifying ecological conservation and restoration areas to enhance carbon storage	97
Impacts of human footprint on habitat quality and permafrost environment in Northeast China	97
Developing an early warning system and risk assessment based on model for heat damage in rice	95
A multi-isotope approach to evaluate the potential of great cormorant eggs for contaminant monitoring	95
A differential game analysis of multi-regional coalition for transboundary pollution problems	93
Persistent exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN) accelerates metamorphosis and colonization in larvae of marine shellfish	93

Key indicators for Pre-Warning risks associated with urbanization in China	92
Long-term effect of island industrial construction on groundwater health risk	92
Different responses of soil water to warming controlled by evapotranspiration during grassland degradation: A case study in the typical steppe of China	91
Spatial non-stationarity effects of the driving factors on landscape ecological risk: A case of the Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Quanzhou Urban Agglomeration, China	91
Unraveling the impact of national strategy on urban blue-green space and growth dynamics: A spatiotemporal analysis in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region	90
Green and blue infrastructure but not anthropogenic drivers affect invertebrate communities in urban ecosystems	90
Optimal agricultural structure allocation based on carbon source/sink accounting	88
Soil attributes are more important than others in shaping the diversity of cultivated land quality types, southern China	88
A framework for large-scale analyses of ecosystem health and its driving factors in complex underlying basins	88
Ecophysio-optical traits of semiarid Nebraska grasslands under different Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa canopy covers	88
Nematode as a biomonitoring model for evaluating ecological risks of heavy metals in sediments from an urban river	88
Towards interpreting machine learning models for understanding the relationship between vegetation growth and climate factors: A case study of the Anhui Province, China	87
Assessing the impacts of rural depopulation and urbanization on vegetation cover: Based on land use and nighttime light data in China, 2000–2020	87