OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Forest 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Drivers of tree demographic trade-offs in a temperate forest	51
Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity	45
A bibliometric analysis using machine learning to track paradigm shifts and analytical advances in forest ecology and forestry journal publications from 2010 to 2022	43
Root overlap and allocation of above- and belowground growth of European beech in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and Norway spruce	41
Automated registration of wide-baseline point clouds in forests using discrete overlap search	40
Effects of forest canopy density and epixylic vegetation on nutrient concentrations in decaying logs of a subalpine fir forest	40
Hybrid ecophysiological growth model for deciduous Populus tomentosa plantation in northern China	33
Environmental and biological factors affecting the abundance of Prosopis flexuosa saplings in the central-west Monte of Argentina	33
Quantifying foliar trait variation and covariation in sun and shade leaves using leaf spectroscopy in eastern North America	28
Mature stand developmental stage has ceased to constitute the most suitable habitat for the capercaillie in the Augustów Forest, Poland	28
Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures	27
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	27
The interaction between temperature and precipitation on the potential distribution range of Betula ermanii in the alpine treeline ecotone on the Changbai Mountain	26
Variable growth responses of four tree species to climate and drought in a Madrean pine-oak forest	24
Legacy effects of historical woodland changes on contemporary plant functional composition	24
Conversion of Andean montane forest to exotic forest plantation modifies soil physicochemical properties in the buffer zone of Ecuador's Podocarpus National Park	24
Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of China	24
Influence of climate fluctuations on Pinus palustris growth and drought resilience	23
Different mechanisms underlying divergent responses of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration to long-term throughfall reduction in a warm-temperate oak forest	23
Effects of phosphorus resorption on bioactive phosphorus of different-aged Pinus massoniana plantations	23
Ecological niche modeling of the main forest-forming species in the Caucasus	22
Land-use change and windstorms legacies drove the recolonization dynamics of laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary islands	22
Aboveground carbon sequestration of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests: Magnitude and drivers	22
Rapid escalation and release of risks to forest ecosystems triggered by warming: Insights from tree growth synchrony in temperate forests	22
Leaf nitrogen resorption is more important than litter nitrogen mineralization in mediating the diversity–productivity relationship along a nitrogen-limited temperate forest succession chronosequence	21

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Influence of soil and elevation on roadside cryptogam diversity in the tropical Andes	21
Spatial niche segregation between bird species in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE Poland)	20
Species prefer to shifting niche positions rather than expanding niche breadth to adapt to the heterogeneous karst forests	20
Conversion of pure Chinese fir plantation to multi-layered mixed plantation enhances the soil aggregate stability by regulating microbial communities in subtropical China	19
Sustaining forest biodiversity: Exploring the effect of long-term natural disturbance dynamics on contemporary lichen communities in primary forest ecosystems	19
Effect of thinning intensity on understory herbaceous diversity and biomass in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests of Changbai Mountain	18
Allometry-based estimation of forest aboveground biomass combining LiDAR canopy height attributes and optical spectral indexes	18
Simultaneous optimization of even flow and land and timber value in forest planning: a continuous approach	17
N-fixing tree species promote the chemical stability of soil organic carbon in subtropical plantations through increasing the relative contribution of plant-derived lipids	17
Remote sensing of subtropical tree diversity: The underappreciated roles of the practical definition of forest canopy and phenological variation	16
Deadwood position matters: Diversity and biomass of saproxylic beetles in a temperate beech forest	16
Growth phenology adjusts to seasonal changes in water availability in coexisting evergreen and deciduous mediterranean oaks	16
Replanting of broadleaved trees alters internal nutrient cycles of native and exotic pines in subtropical plantations of China	16
Trunk volume estimation of irregular shaped Populus euphratica riparian forest using TLS point cloud data and multivariate prediction models	15
A better carbon-water flux simulation in multiple vegetation types by data assimilation	15
Evaluating alternative hypotheses behind biodiversity and multifunctionality relationships in the forests of Northeastern China	15
Environmental and canopy conditions regulate the forest floor evapotranspiration of larch plantations	15
Silver fir tree-ring fluctuations decrease from north to south latitude—total solar irradiance and NAO are indicated as the main influencing factors	15
Insect seedling herbivory is influenced by multiple factors, but the plant apparency theory is more supported than other hypotheses – A case study in a subtropical forest	15
Urbanization strengthens the edge effects on species diversity and composition of woody plants in remnant forests	15
Sensitivity of forest phenology in China varies with proximity to forest edges	14
Demographic changes in China's forests from 1998 to 2018	14
Partitioning tree water usage into storage and transpiration in a mixed forest	14
Ecosystem service multifunctionality of mixed conifer-broad-leaved forests under climate change and forest management based on matrix growth modelling	13
A compartmentation approach to deconstruct ecosystem carbon fluxes of a Moso bamboo forest in subtropical China	13
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	13
Quantifying spatiotemporal inconsistencies in runoff responses to forest logging in a subtropical watershed, China	13
Old-growth mixed dipterocarp forests show variable losses and gains in aboveground biomass and standing carbon over forty years	13
Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales	13
Drivers and patterns of community completeness suggest that Tuscan Fagus sylvatica forests can naturally have a low plant diversity	13
Assessing the combined effects of forest management and climate change on carbon and water fluxes in European beech forests	13
Combining WV-2 images and tree physiological factors to detect damage stages of Populus gansuensis by Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) at the tree level	13
Effects of bamboo invasion on forest structures and diameter–height allometries	13
Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia	13
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	13
No generality in biodiversity-productivity relationships along elevation in temperate and subtropical forest landscapes	12
Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe	12
The anatomical structure of woody plants in arid habitats is closely related to nonstructural carbohydrates storage	12
Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China	12
Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico	12
Forest disturbances and the attribution derived from yearly Landsat time series over 1990–2020 in the Hengduan Mountains Region of Southwest China	12
Addressing nonresponse bias in forest inventory change estimation using response homogeneity classifications	11
Stand-level biomass models for predicting C stock for the main Spanish pine species	11
Disparities in tree mortality among plant functional types (PFTs) in a temperate forest: Insights into size-dependent and PFT-specific patterns	11
Growth plasticity of conifers did not avoid declining resilience to soil and atmospheric droughts during the 20th century	11
Effects of stand features and soil enzyme activity on spontaneous pedunculate oak regeneration in Scots pine dominated stands – implication for forest management	11
A guide for selecting the appropriate plot design to measure ungulate browsing	10
Short lifespan and ‘prime period’ of carbon sequestration call for multi-ages in dryland tree plantations	10
Structure complexity is the primary driver of functional diversity in the temperate forests of northeastern China	10

Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest	10
Drivers of spatial structure in thinned forests	10
Biochar amendments increase soil organic carbon storage and decrease global warming potentials of soil CH4 and N2O under N addition in a subtropical Moso bamboo plantation	10
Late spring-early summer drought and soil properties jointly modulate two pine species' decline and climatic sensitivity in temperate Northern China	10
Sensitivity analysis of Biome-BGCMuSo for gross and net primary productivity of typical forests in China	9
Response of fungal communities to afforestation and its indication for forest restoration	9
Water use strategies determine divergent growth trends of spruce and juniper on the southeastern Tibetan plateau	9
No treeline shift despite climate change over the last 70 years	9
Altitudinal variations of hydraulic traits in Faxon fir (Abies fargesii var. faxoniana): Mechanistic controls and environmental adaptability	9
Tree growth decline to warm-wet conditions in boreal forests is linked to stand density	9
Influence of crown morphology and branch architecture on tree radial growth of drought-affected Fagus sylvatica L.	9
Bark biomass and nutrient concentrations in tropical secondary forest trees of Malaysia	9
Eucalyptus carbon stock estimation in subtropical regions with the modeling strategy of sample plots – airborne LiDAR – Landsat time series data	9
Neighborhood diversity structure and neighborhood species richness effects differ across life stages in a subtropical natural secondary forest	9
Differential seed removal, germination and seedling growth as determinants of species suitability for forest restoration by direct seeding – A case study from northern Thailand	9
Mismatch between species distribution and climatic niche optima in relation to functional traits	9
Diversity of click beetles in managed nonnative coniferous and native beech stands: Consequences of changes in the structural and species composition of tree stands in Central Europe	9