OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Functional Ecology is 33. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Concepts and applications in functional diversity	86
Soil extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry in China's forests	72
What are you actually measuring? A review of techniques that integrate the stress response on distinct time‐scales	65
Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation	65
The dispersal syndrome hypothesis: How animals shaped fruit traits, and how they did not	65
Patterns in intraspecific variation in root traits are species‐specific along an elevation gradient	63
Distinguishing between active plasticity due to thermal acclimation and passive plasticity due to Q₁₀ effects: Why methodology matters	63
Root trait responses to drought are more heterogeneous than leaf trait responses	61
‘Aerobic scope protection’ reduces ectotherm growth under warming	54
Nitrogen loading enhances phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with implications for soil carbon cycling	51
Global distribution, formation and fate of mineral‐associated soil organic matter under a changing climate: A trait‐based perspective	49
Deconstructing the microbial necromass continuum to inform soil carbon sequestration	48
Severe coral loss shifts energetic dynamics on a coral reef	48
Structural complexity and large‐sized trees explain shifting species richness and carbon relationship across vegetation types	48
Ecological strategies begin at germination: Traits, plasticity and survival in the first 4 days of plant life	46
A meta‐analysis of effects of physiological integration in clonal plants under homogeneous vs. heterogeneous environments	45
Photosynthetic heat tolerances and extreme leaf temperatures	44
A unifying, eco‐physiological framework for animal dormancy	43
Soil enzymes in response to climate warming: Mechanisms and feedbacks	43
Impacts of global environmental change drivers on non‐structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants	42
The response of the soil bacterial community and function to forest succession caused by forest disease	41
Harsh environmental regimes increase the functional significance of intraspecific variation in plant communities	39
The legacy of stress: Coral bleaching impacts reproduction years later	39
Animal personalities and seed dispersal: A conceptual review	38
Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models	38

Agriculture intensification reduces plant taxonomic and functional diversity across European arable systems	38
Mangrove diversity enhances plant biomass production and carbon storage in Hainan island, China	38
Keystone species affect the relationship between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem function under land use change in subtropical China	36
Longevity, body dimension and reproductive mode drive differences in aquatic versus terrestrial life‐history strategies	35
Dynamic microbial assembly processes correspond to soil fertility in sustainable paddy agroecosystems	35
Predator‐scale spatial analysis of intra‐patch prey distribution reveals the energetic drivers of rorqual whale super‐group formation	35
Multidimensional trait morphology predicts ecology across ant lineages	35
Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands	35