OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biogeochemistry is 11. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks	123
How humans alter dissolved organic matter composition in freshwater: relevance for the Earth’s biogeochemistry	103
A holistic framework integrating plant-microbe-mineral regulation of soil bioavailable nitrogen	79
The role of clay content and mineral surface area for soil organic carbon storage in an arable toposequence	60
Stabilisation of soil organic matter: interactions between clay and microbes	51
Soil organic carbon fractions in the Great Plains of the United States: an application of mid-infrared spectroscopy	41
Evidence linking calcium to increased organo-mineral association in soils	41
Role of external inputs of nutrients to aquatic ecosystems in determining prevalence of nitrogen vs. phosphorus limitation of net primary productivity	40
Bioavailable DOC: reactive nutrient ratios control heterotrophic nutrient assimilation—An experimental proof of the macronutrient-access hypothesis	40
Quantifying microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics at macrosystem scales	38
Rock weathering controls the potential for soil carbon storage at a continental scale	37
Tree stem methane emissions from subtropical lowland forest (Melaleuca quinquenervia) regulated by local and seasonal hydrology	37
Assessing microbial residues in soil as a potential carbon sink and moderator of carbon use efficiency	36
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	35
Volcanic CO2 seep geochemistry and use in understanding ocean acidification	31
Measuring nitrogen fixation by the acetylene reduction assay (ARA): is 3 the magic ratio?	31
How much carbon can be added to soil by sorption?	30
Soil carbon sequestration as a climate strategy: what do farmers think?	28
Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain	28
Biogeochemical constraints on climate change mitigation through regenerative farming	28
Divergent controls on carbon concentration and persistence between forests and grasslands of the conterminous US	26
Soil microorganisms regulate extracellular enzyme production to maximize their growth rate	26
Mineral stabilization of soil carbon is suppressed by live roots, outweighing influences from litter quality or quantity	24
Rapid nitrate reduction produces pulsed NO and N2O emissions following wetting of dryland soils	23
Mycorrhizal type effects on leaf litter decomposition depend on litter quality and environmental context	23

Patterns and predictors of soil organic carbon storage across a continental-scale network	22
Soil C, N and P cycling enzyme responses to nutrient limitation under elevated CO2	22
The evolution of biogeochemistry: revisited	22
How will a drier climate change carbon sequestration in soils of the deciduous forests of Central Europe?	21
Dissolved organic matter in large lakes: a key but understudied component of the carbon cycle	20
Effect of drainage on microbial enzyme activities and communities dependent on depth in peatland soil	20
Controls on soil microbial carbon use efficiency over long-term ecosystem development	20
Geochemical focusing and sequestration of manganese during eutrophication of Lake Stechlin (NE Germany)	19
Divergent controls of soil organic carbon between observations and process-based models	19
The role of woody detritus in biogeochemical cycles: past, present, and future	19
Storm size and hydrologic modification influence nitrate mobilization and transport in agricultural watersheds	19
The fate of calcium in temperate forest soils: a Ca K-edge XANES study	18
Effectiveness of phosphorus control under extreme heatwaves: implications for sediment nutrient releases and greenhouse gas emissions	18
Altered litter inputs modify carbon and nitrogen storage in soil organic matter in a lowland tropical forest	18
Four years of litter input manipulation changes soil microbial characteristics in a temperate mixed forest	18
Environmental control on carbon exchange of natural and planted forests in Western Himalayan foothills of India	18
Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands	17
From burned slopes to streams: how wildfire affects nitrogen cycling and retention in forests and fire-prone watersheds	17
Mulching with pruned fronds promotes the internal soil N cycling and soil fertility in a large-scale oil palm plantation	17
Availability of soil base cations and micronutrients along soil profile after 13-year nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland	17
Anthropogenic landcover impacts fluvial dissolved organic matter composition in the Upper Mississippi River Basin	17
Biogeochemical evolution of soil organic matter composition after a decade of warming and nitrogen addition	16
Eutrophication overcoming carbonate precipitation in a tropical hypersaline coastal lagoon acting as a CO2 sink (Araruama Lagoon, SE Brazil)	16
Differential effects of redox conditions on the decomposition of litter and soil organic matter	16
Soil phosphorus status and P nutrition strategies of European beech forests on carbonate compared to silicate parent material	15
Quantifying the frequency of synchronous carbon and nitrogen export to the river network	15
Soil age and soil organic carbon content shape biochemical responses to multiple freeze–thaw events in soils along a postmining agricultural chronosequence	15
Plant litter composition and stable isotope signatures vary during decomposition in blue carbon ecosystems	15
Development of energetic and enzymatic limitations on microbial carbon cycling in soils	15
Microbial functions and soil nitrogen mineralisation processes in the soil of a cool temperate forest in northern Japan	15
Biological nitrogen fixation and nifH gene abundance in deadwood of 13 different tree species	14
Signatures of an abiotic decomposition pathway in temperate forest leaf litter	14
Organic matter cycling in a model restored wetland receiving complex effluent	14
Drivers of greenhouse gas emissions from standing dead trees in ghost forests	14
Twenty years of litter manipulation reveals that above-ground litter quantity and quality controls soil organic matter molecular composition	14
Wastewater-boosted biodegradation amplifying seasonal variations of pCO2 in the Mekong–Tonle Sap river system	13
Fiddler crab burrowing increases salt marsh greenhouse gas emissions	13
Production of dissolved carbon and alkalinity during macroalgal wrack degradation on beaches: a mesocosm experiment with implications for blue carbon	13
Desiccation time and rainfall control gaseous carbon fluxes in an intermittent stream	13
Spruce forest afforestation leading to increased Fe mobilization from soils	13
Integrated isotope and microbiome analysis indicates dominance of denitrification in N2O production after rewetting of drained fen peat	13
Beyond total carbon: conversion of amazon forest to pasture alters indicators of soil C cycling	13
The influence of tillage and fertilizer on the flux and source of nitrous oxide with reference to atmospheric variation using laser spectroscopy	13
Impacts of litter decay on organic leachate composition and reactivity	13
Further investigations into the use of tree rings as archives of atmospheric mercury concentrations	13
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	12
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	12
Saltwater intrusion affects nitrogen, phosphorus and iron transformations under oxic and anoxic conditions: an incubation experiment	12
Microbial biogeochemistry and phosphorus limitation in cryoconite holes on glaciers across the Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica	12
Landscape controls on total mercury and methylmercury export from small boreal forest catchments	12

Decoupling of silica, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in a meromictic subalpine lake (Lake Iseo, Italy)	12
Influences of the landscape pattern on riverine nitrogen exports derived from legacy sources in subtropical agricultural catchments	12
Shifts in microbial stoichiometry upon nutrient addition do not capture growth-limiting nutrients for soil microorganisms in two subtropical soils	12
Contrasting stream nitrate and sulfate response to recovery from experimental watershed acidification	12
Quantifying biological processes producing nitrous oxide in soil using a mechanistic model	12
A “toy model” analysis of causes of nitrogen limitation in terrestrial ecosystems	12
Dominant tree mycorrhizal associations affect soil nitrogen transformation rates by mediating microbial abundances in a temperate forest	12
Artificial ponds as hotspots of nitrogen removal in agricultural watershed	12
Grassland management regimes regulate soil phosphorus fractions and conversion between phosphorus pools in semiarid steppe ecosystems	11
Seasonal and weather-related controls on methane emissions from the stems of mature trees in a cool-temperate forested wetland	11
Long-term litter type treatments alter soil carbon composition but not microbial carbon utilization in a mixed pine-oak forest	11
Exchanges of major elements in a deciduous forest canopy	11
Small rain events during drought alter sediment dissolved organic carbon leaching and respiration in intermittent stream sediments	11
The evolution of stream dissolved organic matter composition following glacier retreat in coastal watersheds of southeast Alaska	11
Is the transactional carbon credit tail wagging the virtuous soil organic matter dog?	11
Assessing thermal acclimation of soil microbial respiration using macromolecular rate theory	11
DOM in the long arc of environmental science: looking back and thinking ahead	11
Low CO2 evasion rate from the mangrove-surrounding waters of the Sundarbans	11
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	11
Leaf stoichiometry is synergistically-driven by climate, site, soil characteristics and phylogeny in karst areas, Southwest China	11