OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Processes is 10. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils	66
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	52
Formal response to “Sophisticated modelling with inaccurate data: a comment on Steiner & Huettmann (2025)” by Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany	38
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices	37
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study	37
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?	36
Fine-scale decomposition of China’s underdeveloped regional CO2 emissions peaking targets: a case study of Gansu Province	35
Enhancements of soil priming effect and carbon sequestration in degraded alpine meadows via supplementation: a comparative study of Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) exc	33
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes	30
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers	27
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	26
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management	26
How resilience signals abrupt declines in vegetation productivity: globally uneven yet predictable	25
Changes in fish resources 5 years after implementation of the 10-year fishing ban in the Chishui River, the first river with a complete fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin	24
How does provincial virtual cropland mobility influence ecological compensation in China?	24
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe	23
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain	22
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China	22
Adaptive vegetation change as a pathway to sustain wetland nitrogen cycling	22
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping	22
Tree species mixing causes shifts in nitrogen acquisition and utilization strategies of Mongolian pine and Simon poplar	21
Wisdom of the crowd: evidence for density-dependent species fitness in Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.	21
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species	21
Forage offering and seasonal intake comparisons to evaluate European rabbit threat in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia	20
Linking vulnerability and resilience for climate change adaptation: a GeoAI-integrated assessment across Europe	20

Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China	19
Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	19
Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China	19
Nitrogen deposition enhances the competitive advantage of invasive plant species over common native species through improved resource acquisition and absorption	18
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	18
Temporal dynamics of animal vocal behavior affect semi-automatic identifications	18
Divergent impact of long-term anthropogenic nitrogen inputs on global particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon	18
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue	18
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics	17
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation	17
Soil and forest floor respiration already acclimated to increasing temperatures in a mixed deciduous forest	17
The conversion of natural wetlands to paddy fields affects net ecosystem carbon fluxes by restructuring the coupling between soil microbial communities and physicochemical properties	16
Progress on the world’s primate hotspots and coldspots: modeling ensemble super SDMs in cloud-computers based on digital citizen-science big data and 200+ predictors for more sustainable conservation	16
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability	16
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review	16
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient	16
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas	16
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems	15
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	15
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper	15
Soil bacterial network complexity drives ecosystem service multifunctionality in Inner Mongolian steppes	14
Divergence in the sensitivity of woody leaf unfolding phenology to daytime and nighttime temperatures	14
Temporal niche partitioning of bacterial communities shaped by hydrologic fluctuations and drought regimes in karst caves	14
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?	13
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland	13
Nature-based recreation for the elderly in urban areas: assessing opportunities and demand as planning support	13
Effects of nighttime warming and changing precipitation on soil microclimate in three temperate steppes along a precipitation gradient	13
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed	13
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates	13
Habitat suitability dynamics of the Ethiopian endemic multipurpose Millettia ferruginea subspecies under current and future climate change scenarios	13
Prolonged alkali water irrigation: impacts of treatment strategies on soil health and microbial dynamics	13
Mariculture and seagrass restoration influence water nutrients and community assembly processes in seagrass ecosystems	13
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters	12
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina	12
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	12
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment	12
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow	12
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking	12
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	11
Towards smart soil carbon pool management of grassland: a bibliometric overview from past to future	11
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration	11
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors	11
Local topographic and biotic neighborhood factors influence tree survival in a tropical dry forest, western Thailand	11
Integrating environmental and LULC drivers of groundwater droughts in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: a machine learning (XGBoost)-SEM analysis with ecosystem implications	11
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate	11
Rainfall timing and intensity jointly affect the survival and growth of seedling and juvenile Poa crymophila in alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	10
Predicting the invasion potential of two alien plant species (Parthenium hysterophorus L., Asteraceae and Salvia tiliifolia Vahl, Lamiaceae) under the current and future climate change scenarios in Et	10
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type	10
Physicochemical properties of soils drive floristic richness of pastures in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	10
Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA	10

Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	10
Application of pressure–state–response approach for developing criteria and indicators of ecological health assessment of wetlands: a multi-temporal study in Ichhamati floodplains, India	10
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis	10
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China	10
Trait-mediated community assembly and species responses to environmental gradients in alpine plant communities across contrasting regional species pools	10
Effects of litter inputs on soil aggregate C turnover and flow differ among three natural forest ecosystems along a climate gradient in China	10