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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity	59
Root overlap and allocation of above- and belowground growth of European beech in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and Norway spruce	49
Drought intensity affects radial growth and recovery of P. schrenkiana at varying elevations in the Western Tianshan Mountains, China	48
Drivers of tree demographic trade-offs in a temperate forest	38
A bibliometric analysis using machine learning to track paradigm shifts and analytical advances in forest ecology and forestry journal publications from 2010 to 2022	38
Effects of forest canopy density and epixylic vegetation on nutrient concentrations in decaying logs of a subalpine fir forest	37
Predicting gross primary productivity of poplar plantations based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence using an improved machine learning model	32
Lifespan of tropical trees from seed to 1-cm diameter	30
Hybrid ecophysiological growth model for deciduous Populus tomentosa plantation in northern China	30
Quantifying unseen woody biomass and diversity in understorey trees and shrubs at the extremes of water availability in the Miombo ecoregion	29
Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of China	29
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	28
Environmental and biological factors affecting the abundance of Prosopis flexuosa saplings in the central-west Monte of Argentina	28
Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures	28
Automated registration of wide-baseline point clouds in forests using discrete overlap search	27
The interaction between temperature and precipitation on the potential distribution range of Betula ermanii in the alpine treeline ecotone on the Changbai Mountain	25
Quantifying foliar trait variation and covariation in sun and shade leaves using leaf spectroscopy in eastern North America	25
Rapid escalation and release of risks to forest ecosystems triggered by warming: Insights from tree growth synchrony in temperate forests	25
Effects of phosphorus resorption on bioactive phosphorus of different-aged Pinus massoniana plantations	24
Influence of climate fluctuations on Pinus palustris growth and drought resilience	24
Optimal integration of forest inventory data and aerial image-based canopy height models for forest stand management	24
Ecological niche modeling of the main forest-forming species in the Caucasus	23
Variable growth responses of four tree species to climate and drought in a Madrean pine-oak forest	23
Conversion of Andean montane forest to exotic forest plantation modifies soil physicochemical properties in the buffer zone of Ecuador's Podocarpus National Park	22
Influence of soil and elevation on roadside cryptogam diversity in the tropical Andes	21

Legacy effects of historical woodland changes on contemporary plant functional composition	21
Table of Contents	20
Sustaining forest biodiversity: Exploring the effect of long-term natural disturbance dynamics on contemporary lichen communities in primary forest ecosystems	19
Land-use change and windstorms legacies drove the recolonization dynamics of laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary islands	19
Aboveground carbon sequestration of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests: Magnitude and drivers	19
Effect of thinning intensity on understory herbaceous diversity and biomass in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests of Changbai Mountain	18
Leaf nitrogen resorption is more important than litter nitrogen mineralization in mediating the diversity–productivity relationship along a nitrogen-limited temperate forest succession chronosequence	17
Species prefer to shifting niche positions rather than expanding niche breadth to adapt to the heterogeneous karst forests	17
Allometry-based estimation of forest aboveground biomass combining LiDAR canopy height attributes and optical spectral indexes	17
Drought resilience and legacy effects in two forest tree species on Loess Plateau of China: Growth and water-use efficiency under different drought conditions	17
Spatial niche segregation between bird species in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE Poland)	17
Growth phenology adjusts to seasonal changes in water availability in coexisting evergreen and deciduous mediterranean oaks	16
Remote sensing of subtropical tree diversity: The underappreciated roles of the practical definition of forest canopy and phenological variation	16
Long-term leaf nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics and drivers in China's forests under global change	16
Conversion of pure Chinese fir plantation to multi-layered mixed plantation enhances the soil aggregate stability by regulating microbial communities in subtropical China	16
Urbanization strengthens the edge effects on species diversity and composition of woody plants in remnant forests	16
Silver fir tree-ring fluctuations decrease from north to south latitude—total solar irradiance and NAO are indicated as the main influencing factors	15
Evaluating alternative hypotheses behind biodiversity and multifunctionality relationships in the forests of Northeastern China	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
Understanding visitor preferences: Perceived importance of anthropogenic and natural forest features in supplying cultural ecosystem services	15
Design strategy of advanced generation breeding population of Pinus tabuliformis based on genetic variation and inbreeding level	15
Deadwood position matters: Diversity and biomass of saproxylic beetles in a temperate beech forest	14
Demographic changes in China's forests from 1998 to 2018	14
N-fixing tree species promote the chemical stability of soil organic carbon in subtropical plantations through increasing the relative contribution of plant-derived lipids	14
Trunk volume estimation of irregular shaped Populus euphratica riparian forest using TLS point cloud data and multivariate prediction models	14
Replanting of broadleaved trees alters internal nutrient cycles of native and exotic pines in subtropical plantations of China	14
A compartmentation approach to deconstruct ecosystem carbon fluxes of a Moso bamboo forest in subtropical China	13
Environmental and canopy conditions regulate the forest floor evapotranspiration of larch plantations	13
Utilizing quantile regressions to predict vertical distribution of branch size in Larix olgensis Henry: Capturing the differentiated responses of varying branch sizes to stand and tree factors	13
Drivers and patterns of community completeness suggest that Tuscan Fagus sylvatica forests can naturally have a low plant diversity	13
Neighborhood competition improves biomass estimation for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) but not Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.) in young mixed forest stands	13
Sensitivity of forest phenology in China varies with proximity to forest edges	13
Effects of bamboo invasion on forest structures and diameter–height allometries	13
Partitioning tree water usage into storage and transpiration in a mixed forest	13
Old-growth mixed dipterocarp forests show variable losses and gains in aboveground biomass and standing carbon over forty years	12
Half a century of demographic responses of Nothofagus cool temperate rainforests to disturbance	12
Assessing the combined effects of forest management and climate change on carbon and water fluxes in European beech forests	12
Old-growthness level assessed by structural heterogeneity indices in Mediterranean Quercus pubescens forests	12
Near real-time monitoring of carbon effects from continuous forest change in rapidly urbanizing region of China from 2000 to 2020	12
A better carbon-water flux simulation in multiple vegetation types by data assimilation	12
Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia	12
Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales	11
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	11
Spatio-temporal dynamics of future aboveground carbon stocks in natural forests of China	11
Ecosystem service multifunctionality of mixed conifer-broad-leaved forests under climate change and forest management based on matrix growth modelling	11
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	11
Adaptive optimisation of the management of Korean pine plantation	10
Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe	10
Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico	10
A guide for selecting the appropriate plot design to measure ungulate browsing	10

Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest	10
No generality in biodiversity-productivity relationships along elevation in temperate and subtropical forest landscapes	10
Forest disturbances and the attribution derived from yearly Landsat time series over 1990–2020 in the Hengduan Mountains Region of Southwest China	10
Short lifespan and ‘prime period’ of carbon sequestration call for multi-ages in dryland tree plantations	10
Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China	10
The anatomical structure of woody plants in arid habitats is closely related to nonstructural carbohydrates storage	10
Late spring-early summer drought and soil properties jointly modulate two pine species' decline and climatic sensitivity in temperate Northern China	10
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
Stand dynamics of old-growth hemlock forests in central Bhutan are shaped by natural disturbances	9
Eucalyptus carbon stock estimation in subtropical regions with the modeling strategy of sample plots – airborne LiDAR – Landsat time series data	9
Disparities in tree mortality among plant functional types (PFTs) in a temperate forest: Insights into size-dependent and PFT-specific patterns	9
Altitudinal variations of hydraulic traits in Faxon fir (Abies fargesii var. faxoniana): Mechanistic controls and environmental adaptability	9
Structure complexity is the primary driver of functional diversity in the temperate forests of northeastern China	9
Growth plasticity of conifers did not avoid declining resilience to soil and atmospheric droughts during the 20th century	9
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	9
Drivers of spatial structure in thinned forests	9
Tree growth decline to warm-wet conditions in boreal forests is linked to stand density	9
Addressing nonresponse bias in forest inventory change estimation using response homogeneity classifications	9