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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring willingness-to-pay for the restoration and maintenance of reserved forests in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana	50
Expected adult lifespan in tropical trees: Long-term matrix demography in a large plot	49
Can a multistage approach improve individual tree mortality predictions across the complex mixed-species and managed forests of eastern North America?	42
Spatial-temporal variations and driving factors of soil organic carbon in forest ecosystems of Northeast China	41
Outside Front Cover	40
Nonlinear multilevel seemingly unrelated height-diameter and crown length mixed-effects models for the southern Transylvanian forests, Romania	39
Tree growth is more limited by drought in rear-edge forests most of the times	38
Carbon allocation in Picea jezoensis: Adaptation strategies of a non-treeline species at its upper elevation limit	33
Enhancing wood efficiency through comprehensive wood flow analysis: Methodology and strategic insights	32
Retention of harvest residues promotes the accumulation of topsoil organic carbon by increasing particulate organic carbon in a Chinese fir plantation	28
Stand biomass of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantations benefits from high density monocultures in the boreal zone	27
Root overlap and allocation of above- and belowground growth of European beech in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and Norway spruce	26
A bibliometric analysis using machine learning to track paradigm shifts and analytical advances in forest ecology and forestry journal publications from 2010 to 2022	25
Land-use legacies affect the composition and distribution of tree species and their belowground functions in a succession from old-field to mature temperate forest	25
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	23
Do root modules still exist after they die?	23
Effects of root dominate over aboveground litter on soil microbial biomass in global forest ecosystems	23
Effects of forest canopy density and epixylic vegetation on nutrient concentrations in decaying logs of a subalpine fir forest	22
Geoecological parameters indicate discrepancies between potential and actual forest area in the forest-steppe of Central Mongolia	22
Novel evidence from Taxus fuana forests for niche-neutral process assembling community	22
Topography modulates effects of nitrogen deposition on microbial resource limitation in a nitrogen-saturated subtropical forest	22
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	21
Responses of soil CH4 fluxes to nitrogen addition in two tropical montane rainforests in southern China	21
Developing allometric equations to estimate forest biomass for tree species categories based on phylogenetic relationships	20
Effects of functional phylogeny of light-response-related orthologous genes on seedling survival in a subtropical forest	20

Seasonal snow cover patterns explain alpine treeline elevation better than temperature at regional scale	19
Vegetation C–N–P accumulation and allocation patterns at the community level in early restored plantations in the loess hilly-gully region	18
Modeling the effect of stand and site characteristics on the probability of mistletoe infestation in Scots pine stands using remote sensing data	18
Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia	18
Deadwood affects the soil organic matter fractions and enzyme activity of soils in altitude gradient of temperate forests	18
Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity	18
Tree mycorrhizal strategies regulate diversity–productivity relationships across forest strata along soil fertility	17
Patterns and driving factors of leaf C, N, and P stoichiometry in two forest types with different stand ages in a mid-subtropical zone	17
Soil chemical fertility change over four decades in the Morvan Mountains and influence of tree species (Burgundy, France)	17
Ecosystem service multifunctionality of mixed conifer-broad-leaved forests under climate change and forest management based on matrix growth modelling	17
Updating the distribution of Nothofagus alessandrii: Impact of deforestation, fragmentation and connectivity	16
Site index determination using a time series of airborne laser scanning data	16
Assessment of the heartwood contribution to carbon accumulation in Pinus sylvestris L. trees under different forest site conditions	16
Evaluating tree branch angle measurements of European beech using terrestrial laser scanning	16
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	15
Eight decades of compositional change in a managed northern hardwood landscape	15
The ecological scale mediates whether trees experience drought legacies in radial growth	15
Drivers of tree demographic trade-offs in a temperate forest	15
Prediction of the joint impacts of sea level rise and land development on distribution patterns of mangrove communities	14
Effects of lag time in forest restoration and management	14
Assessing Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal features for mapping tree species of northern plantation forests in Heilongjiang Province, China	14
Strong controls of daily minimum temperature on the autumn photosynthetic phenology of subtropical vegetation in China	14
Elevation gradient distribution of indices of tree population in a montane forest: The role of leaf traits and the environment	14
Trade-offs among fine-root phosphorus-acquisition strategies of 15 tropical woody species	13
Ground-based/UAV-LiDAR data fusion for quantitative structure modeling and tree parameter retrieval in subtropical planted forest	13
Environmental and biological factors affecting the abundance of Prosopis flexuosa saplings in the central-west Monte of Argentina	13
Complexity responses of Rhododendron species to climate change in China reveal their urgent need for protection	13
Spatiotemporal dynamics and geo-environmental factors influencing mangrove gross primary productivity during 2000–2020 in Gaoqiao Mangrove Reserve, China	13
Functional trait profiles and diversity of trees regenerating in disturbed tropical forests and agroforests in Indonesia	12
Black locust coppice stands homogenize soil diazotrophic communities by reducing soil net nitrogen mineralization	12
Six forests in one: Tree species diversity in the Bosque Protector Chongón Colonche, a lowland mountain range in coastal Ecuadorian	12
Trees species’ dispersal mode and habitat heterogeneity shape negative density dependence in a temperate forest	12
Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales	12
Early response of understory vegetation to the mass dieback of Norway spruce in the European lowland temperate forest	11
Forest disturbances and the attribution derived from yearly Landsat time series over 1990–2020 in the Hengduan Mountains Region of Southwest China	11
Analysing changes in spatial point patterns: A proposal using data from a forest thinning experiment	11
Fungal diversity and community composition responses to the reintroduction of fire in a non-managed Mediterranean shrubland ecosystem	11
Forest height mapping using inventory and multi-source satellite data over Hunan Province in southern China	11
Gap edge canopy buffering of throughfall deposition in a subalpine natural forest	11
Mature stand developmental stage has ceased to constitute the most suitable habitat for the capercaillie in the Augustów Forest, Poland	11
Examining approaches for modeling individual tree growth response to thinning in Norway spruce	11
Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China	10
Fire and retention island remnants have similar deadwood carbon stock a decade after disturbances in boreal forests of Alberta	10
Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures	10
What diameter? What height? Influence of measures of average tree size on area-based allometric volume relationships	10
Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico	10
Assessing the effect of invasive organisms on forests under information uncertainty: The case of pine wood nematode in continental Europe	10
Prediction of tree crown width in natural mixed forests using deep learning algorithm	10
The changes in soil organic carbon stock and quality across a subalpine forest successional series	10
The control of external and internal canopy structural heterogeneity on diversity and productivity relationship in a subtropical forest	10

Reconstructing historical forest fire risk in the non-satellite era using the improved forest fire danger index and long short-term memory deep learning-a case study in Sichuan Province, southwestern	10
Quantifying foliar trait variation and covariation in sun and shade leaves using leaf spectroscopy in eastern North America	9
Effect of the rotation frequency in the eucalypt plantations	9
Different responses of soil respiration and its components to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a subtropical secondary forest	9
How can the forest sector mitigate climate change in a changing climate? Case studies of boreal and northern temperate forests in eastern Canada	9
Leading directions and effective distance of larch offspring dispersal at the upper treeline in the Northern and Polar Urals, Russia	9
Neighborhood effects on tree growth in a Fagus sylvatica - Abies alba forest following an ice storm	9
Plant–rodent interactions after a heavy snowfall decrease plant regeneration and soil carbon emission in an old-growth forest	9
Drivers of tree regeneration in coniferous monocultures during conversion to mixed forests in Central Europe – Implications for forest restoration management	9
Impacts of oak deforestation and rainfed cultivation on soil redistribution processes across hillslopes using 137Cs techniques	9
New approach to calculating tree height at the regional scale	9