OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biogeochemistry 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks	90
Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in terrestrial ecosystems: a review	78
How humans alter dissolved organic matter composition in freshwater: relevance for the Earth’s biogeochemistry	78
A holistic framework integrating plant-microbe-mineral regulation of soil bioavailable nitrogen	64
The role of clay content and mineral surface area for soil organic carbon storage in an arable toposequence	48
From hogs to HABs: impacts of industrial farming in the US on nitrogen and phosphorus and greenhouse gas pollution	44
Recent increases of rainfall and flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) in North Carolina (USA): implications for organic matter and nutrient cycling in coastal watersheds	35
Quantifying microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics at macrosystem scales	35
Atmospheric deposition of elements and its relevance for nutrient budgets of tropical forests	34
Bioavailable DOC: reactive nutrient ratios control heterotrophic nutrient assimilation—An experimental proof of the macronutrient-access hypothesis	34
Role of external inputs of nutrients to aquatic ecosystems in determining prevalence of nitrogen vs. phosphorus limitation of net primary productivity	33
Evidence linking calcium to increased organo-mineral association in soils	32
Assessing microbial residues in soil as a potential carbon sink and moderator of carbon use efficiency	32
Soil organic carbon fractions in the Great Plains of the United States: an application of mid-infrared spectroscopy	31
The linkage of 13C and 15N soil depth gradients with C:N and O:C stoichiometry reveals tree species effects on organic matter turnover in soil	30
Volcanic CO2 seep geochemistry and use in understanding ocean acidification	29
Tree stem methane emissions from subtropical lowland forest (Melaleuca quinquenervia) regulated by local and seasonal hydrology	29
Measuring nitrogen fixation by the acetylene reduction assay (ARA): is 3 the magic ratio?	28
Influence of electron acceptor availability and microbial community structure on sedimentary methane oxidation in a boreal estuary	28
Stabilisation of soil organic matter: interactions between clay and microbes	28
Rock weathering controls the potential for soil carbon storage at a continental scale	28
How much carbon can be added to soil by sorption?	25
Differential effects of wetting and drying on soil CO2 concentration and flux in near-surface vs. deep soil layers	24
Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain	23
Biogeochemical constraints on climate change mitigation through regenerative farming	22

Experimental shifts of hydrologic residence time in a sandy urban stream sediment–water interface alter nitrate removal and nitrous oxide fluxes	22
Divergent controls on carbon concentration and persistence between forests and grasslands of the conterminous US	21
The role of the understory in litter DOC and nutrient leaching in boreal forests	21
The effects of temperature on soil phosphorus availability and phosphatase enzyme activities: a cross-ecosystem study from the tropics to the Arctic	20
Large nitrogen oxide emission pulses from desert soils and associated microbiomes	20
Soil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate	19
Patterns and predictors of soil organic carbon storage across a continental-scale network	19
Mycorrhizal type effects on leaf litter decomposition depend on litter quality and environmental context	19
Variations in the nitrogen saturation threshold of soil respiration in grassland ecosystems	19
How will a drier climate change carbon sequestration in soils of the deciduous forests of Central Europe?	19
The evolution of biogeochemistry: revisited	19
Mineral stabilization of soil carbon is suppressed by live roots, outweighing influences from litter quality or quantity	18
Some thoughts on the biogeochemical cycling of potassium in terrestrial ecosystems	18
Stable isotopes as an effective tool for N nutrient source identification in a heavily urbanized and agriculturally intensive tropical lowland basin	18
Geochemical focusing and sequestration of manganese during eutrophication of Lake Stechlin (NE Germany)	18
Soil C, N and P cycling enzyme responses to nutrient limitation under elevated CO2	18
Controls on soil microbial carbon use efficiency over long-term ecosystem development	18
Rapid nitrate reduction produces pulsed NO and N2O emissions following wetting of dryland soils	17
Divergent controls of soil organic carbon between observations and process-based models	17
Effect of drainage on microbial enzyme activities and communities dependent on depth in peatland soil	17
Contrasting temperature responses of soil respiration derived from soil organic matter and added plant litter	17
Nitrate reduction pathways and interactions with iron in the drainage water infiltration zone of a riparian wetland soil	16
Environmental control on carbon exchange of natural and planted forests in Western Himalayan foothills of India	16
The role of woody detritus in biogeochemical cycles: past, present, and future	16
Origin and fate of dissolved organic matter in four shallow Baltic Sea estuaries	16
Storm size and hydrologic modification influence nitrate mobilization and transport in agricultural watersheds	16
Elevated nutrient inputs to marshes differentially impact carbon and nitrogen cycling in two northern Gulf of Mexico saltmarsh plants	16
Biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus in subsoils of temperate forest ecosystems	16
Effectiveness of phosphorus control under extreme heatwaves: implications for sediment nutrient releases and greenhouse gas emissions	16
Differential effects of redox conditions on the decomposition of litter and soil organic matter	15
Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands	15
Soil carbon sequestration as a climate strategy: what do farmers think?	15
Benthic fluxes of dissolved oxygen and nutrients across hydrogeomorphic zones in a coastal deltaic floodplain within the Mississippi River delta plain	15
Effects of elevated temperature on microbial breakdown of seagrass leaf and tea litter biomass	15
The fate of calcium in temperate forest soils: a Ca K-edge XANES study	14
Natural atmospheric deposition of molybdenum: a global model and implications for tropical forests	14
From burned slopes to streams: how wildfire affects nitrogen cycling and retention in forests and fire-prone watersheds	14
Altered litter inputs modify carbon and nitrogen storage in soil organic matter in a lowland tropical forest	14
Functional identity and functional diversity co-regulate litter mixture decomposition and nitrogen release in boreal riparian forest ponds	13
Mulching with pruned fronds promotes the internal soil N cycling and soil fertility in a large-scale oil palm plantation	13
Quantifying the frequency of synchronous carbon and nitrogen export to the river network	13
Drivers of greenhouse gas emissions from standing dead trees in ghost forests	13
Dissolved organic matter in large lakes: a key but understudied component of the carbon cycle	13
Anthropogenic landcover impacts fluvial dissolved organic matter composition in the Upper Mississippi River Basin	13
Eutrophication overcoming carbonate precipitation in a tropical hypersaline coastal lagoon acting as a CO2 sink (Araruama Lagoon, SE Brazil)	13
Development of energetic and enzymatic limitations on microbial carbon cycling in soils	13
Biogeochemical evolution of soil organic matter composition after a decade of warming and nitrogen addition	13
Linear two-pool models are insufficient to infer soil organic matter decomposition temperature sensitivity from incubations	12
Beyond total carbon: conversion of amazon forest to pasture alters indicators of soil C cycling	12
Availability of soil base cations and micronutrients along soil profile after 13-year nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland	12

Desiccation time and rainfall control gaseous carbon fluxes in an intermittent stream	12
The influence of tillage and fertilizer on the flux and source of nitrous oxide with reference to atmospheric variation using laser spectroscopy	11
Biological nitrogen fixation and nifH gene abundance in deadwood of 13 different tree species	11
Twenty years of litter manipulation reveals that above-ground litter quantity and quality controls soil organic matter molecular composition	11
Dominant tree mycorrhizal associations affect soil nitrogen transformation rates by mediating microbial abundances in a temperate forest	11
Pulse labelling of deep soil layers in forest with 13CH4: testing a new method for tracing methane in the upper horizons, understorey vegetation and tree stems using laser-based spectrometry	11
Integrated isotope and microbiome analysis indicates dominance of denitrification in N2O production after rewetting of drained fen peat	11
Four years of litter input manipulation changes soil microbial characteristics in a temperate mixed forest	11
Influences of the landscape pattern on riverine nitrogen exports derived from legacy sources in subtropical agricultural catchments	11
Signatures of an abiotic decomposition pathway in temperate forest leaf litter	11
Artificial ponds as hotspots of nitrogen removal in agricultural watershed	11
Soil phosphorus status and P nutrition strategies of European beech forests on carbonate compared to silicate parent material	11
Daily denitrification rates in floodplains under contrasting pedo-climatic and anthropogenic contexts: modelling at the watershed scale	11
Dissolved organic carbon production and flux under long-term litter manipulations in a Pacific Northwest old-growth forest	11
Assessing thermal acclimation of soil microbial respiration using macromolecular rate theory	10
Landscape controls on total mercury and methylmercury export from small boreal forest catchments	10
A “toy model” analysis of causes of nitrogen limitation in terrestrial ecosystems	10
Microbial functions and soil nitrogen mineralisation processes in the soil of a cool temperate forest in northern Japan	10
Spruce forest afforestation leading to increased Fe mobilization from soils	10
Decoupling of silica, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in a meromictic subalpine lake (Lake Iseo, Italy)	10
Exchanges of major elements in a deciduous forest canopy	10
Variation of soil carbon accumulation across a topographic gradient in a humid subtropical mountain forest	10
Impacts of litter decay on organic leachate composition and reactivity	10
The evolution of stream dissolved organic matter composition following glacier retreat in coastal watersheds of southeast Alaska	10
Trade-off between ‘new’ SOC stabilisation from above-ground inputs and priming of native C as determined by soil type and residue placement	9
Ice cover and thaw events influence nitrogen partitioning and concentration in two shallow eutrophic lakes	9
Wastewater-boosted biodegradation amplifying seasonal variations of pCO2 in the Mekong–Tonle Sap river system	9
Contrasting stream nitrate and sulfate response to recovery from experimental watershed acidification	9
Bacterial communities and nitrogen transformation genes in streambank legacy sediments and implications for biogeochemical processing	9
Nitrogen transport in a tundra landscape: the effects of early and late growing season lateral N inputs on arctic soil and plant N pools and N2O fluxes	9
Low CO2 evasion rate from the mangrove-surrounding waters of the Sundarbans	9
Production of dissolved carbon and alkalinity during macroalgal wrack degradation on beaches: a mesocosm experiment with implications for blue carbon	9
Dissolved organic nutrients at the interface of fresh and marine waters: flow regime changes, biogeochemical cascades and picocyanobacterial blooms—the example of Florida Bay, USA	9
Dissolved organic matter composition and reactivity in Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake	9
Grassland management regimes regulate soil phosphorus fractions and conversion between phosphorus pools in semiarid steppe ecosystems	9
Soil age and soil organic carbon content shape biochemical responses to multiple freeze–thaw events in soils along a postmining agricultural chronosequence	9
Ecological stoichiometry as a foundation for omics-enabled biogeochemical models of soil organic matter decomposition	9
Long-term litter type treatments alter soil carbon composition but not microbial carbon utilization in a mixed pine-oak forest	9
Plant litter composition and stable isotope signatures vary during decomposition in blue carbon ecosystems	9
Soil greenhouse gas fluxes following conventional selective and reduced-impact logging in a Congo Basin rainforest	9
Shifts in microbial stoichiometry upon nutrient addition do not capture growth-limiting nutrients for soil microorganisms in two subtropical soils	9
A “toy” model of biogeochemical dynamics on climate gradients	9
Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters	9
Fiddler crab burrowing increases salt marsh greenhouse gas emissions	9
Hydrodynamic impacts on tidal-scale dissolved inorganic nitrogen cycling and export across the estuarine turbidity maxima to coast	9