OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Biogeochemical Cycles 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

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Mechanistic Constraints on the Drivers of Southern Ocean Meridional Iron Distributions Between Tasmania and Antarctica	114
A 2,000‐Year Record of Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) Colonization Shows Substantial Gains in Blue Carbon Storage and Nutrient Retention	95
Continental and Ecoregion‐Specific Drivers of Atmospheric NO₂ and NH₃ Seasonality Over Africa Revealed by Satellite Observations	72
Estimating Three‐Dimensional Carbon‐To‐Phosphorus Stoichiometry of Exported Marine Organic Matter	67
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Using δ¹⁵N of Amino Acids and Nitrate to Investigate Particle Production and Transformation in the Ocean: A Case Study From the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone	61
Emergent Climate Change Impacts on the Soil C and N Cycles in the Mojave Desert	60
Influence of Changes in pH and Temperature on the Distribution of Apparent Iron Solubility in the Oceans	60
Bioactive Trace Metals and Their Isotopes as Paleoproductivity Proxies: An Assessment Using GEOTRACES‐Era Data	59
Estimating Mass Flux From Size‐Fractionated Filtered Particles: Insights Into Controls on Sinking Velocities and Mass Fluxes in Recent U.S. GEOTRACES Cruises	45
Detrital Carbonate Minerals in Earth's Element Cycles	42
Seasonal Changes in Hydrology and Permafrost Degradation Control Mineral Element‐Bound DOC Transport From Permafrost Soils to Streams	41
Global Contrasts Between Oceanic Cycling of Cadmium and Phosphate	40
Potential of Clumped Isotopes in Constraining the Global Atmospheric Methane Budget	38
Impact of the Elemental Composition of Exported Organic Matter on the Observed Dissolved Nutrient and Trace Element Distributions in the Upper Layer of the Ocean	38
Atmospheric Oxygen Abundance, Marine Nutrient Availability, and Organic Carbon Fluxes to the Seafloor	36
Constraints on the Cycling of Iron Isotopes From a Global Ocean Model	33
Mechanisms Controlling Carbon Sinks in Semi‐Arid Mountain Ecosystems	31
Physical Mechanisms Driving Enhanced Carbon Sequestration by the Biological Pump Under Climate Warming	31
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Changes in Canada's Phosphorus Cycle 1961–2018: Surpluses and Deficits	29
Constraining the Particle Size Distribution of Large Marine Particles in the Global Ocean With In Situ Optical Observations and Supervised Learning	28
Microbial Adaptations Within Fine‐Scale Soil Structure Alleviate Phosphorus Limitation on Carbon Sequestration Following Afforestation	28
Influence of Seasonal Variability in Flux Attenuation on Global Organic Carbon Fluxes and Nutrient Distributions	28

Remote Sensing Soil Freeze‐Thaw Status and North American N₂O Emissions From a Regional Inversion	27
Natural Variations in Dissolved Silicon Isotopes Across the Arctic Ocean From the Pacific to the Atlantic	27
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Oxygen Seasonality, Utilization Rate, and Impacts of Vertical Mixing in the Eighteen Degree Water Region of the Sargasso Sea as Observed by Profiling Biogeochemical Floats	25
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Contrasting Sea‐Air CO₂ Exchanges in the Western Tropical Atlantic Ocean	23
Observed APO Seasonal Cycle in the Pacific: Estimation of Autumn O₂ Oceanic Emissions	23
Simultaneous Production and Consumption of Soil N₂O Creates Complex Effects on Its Stable Isotope Composition	23
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Anthropogenically Driven Changes in the Carbon to Phosphorus Ratio of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter	23
Direct and Indirect Drivers of Energy and Nutrient Availability in Freshwater Ecosystems Across Spatial Scales	23
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Refractory Dissolved Organic Matter has Similar Chemical Characteristics but Different Radiocarbon Signatures With Depth in the Marine Water Column	22
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Linking a Latitudinal Gradient in Ocean Hydrography and Elemental Stoichiometry in the Eastern Pacific Ocean	22
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Global Nitrogen Mass Flux From the Active Freshwater Aquifer Element Pool	22
Dissolved Carbon Export by Large River Systems Is Influenced by Source Area Heterogeneity	22
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Bacterial Community Structure Modulates Soil Phosphorus Turnover at Early Stages of Primary Succession	21
Large Methane Emissions From the Pantanal During Rising Water‐Levels Revealed by Regularly Measured Lower Troposphere CH₄ Profiles	21
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Past and Future Climate Variability Uncertainties in the Global Carbon Budget Using the MPI Grand Ensemble	21
Meltwater Discharge From Marine‐Terminating Glaciers Drives Biogeochemical Conditions in a Greenlandic Fjord	21
Intercropping Legumes Improves Long Term Productivity and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in Sub‐Saharan Africa	21
The Role of Wildfires in the Interplay of Forest Carbon Stocks and Wood Harvest in the Contiguous United States During the 20th Century	21
Distribution and Production Mechanisms of N₂O in the Western Arctic Ocean	21
Effects of Afforestation on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation Depend on Initial Soil Nitrogen Status	20
Anthropogenic Carbon Increase has Caused Critical Shifts in Aragonite Saturation Across a Sensitive Coastal System	20
Soil Respiration Responses to Throughfall Exclusion Are Decoupled From Changes in Soil Moisture for Four Tropical Forests, Suggesting Processes for Ecosystem Models	20
Meridional Survey of the Central Pacific Reveals Iodide Accumulation in Equatorial Surface Waters and Benthic Sources in the Abyssal Plain	20
Spatiotemporal Characterization of Mercury Isotope Baselines and Anthropogenic Influences in Lake Sediment Cores	20
The Diel Cycle of Surface Ocean Elemental Stoichiometry has Implications for Ocean Productivity	19
Watershed Classification Predicts Streamflow Regime and Organic Carbon Dynamics in the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest	19
Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Budgets of Europe: Trends, Interannual and Spatial Variability, and Their Drivers	19
Interannual Variability of Marine Nitrogen Fixation in the Western Tropical Atlantic	19
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A Next Generation Ocean Carbon Isotope Model for Climate Studies I: Steady State Controls on Ocean ¹³C	19
Trace Element Biogeochemistry in the High‐Latitude North Atlantic Ocean: Seasonal Variations and Volcanic Inputs	19
Dissolved Nitrogen Cycling in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay From Stable Isotopic Data	19
Water Stress Dominates 21st‐Century Tropical Land Carbon Uptake	18
Size‐Fractionated Primary Production Dynamics During the Decline Phase of the North Atlantic Spring Bloom	18
Latitude, Elevation, and Mean Annual Temperature Predict Peat Organic Matter Chemistry at a Global Scale	18
Covariation of Airborne Biogenic Tracers (CO₂, COS, and CO) Supports Stronger Than Expected Growing Season Photosynthetic Uptake in the Southeastern US	18
The Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle 1985–2018: Mean, Seasonal Cycle, Trends, and Storage	18
Salinity Induces Allometric Accumulation of Sulfur in Plants and Decouples Plant Nitrogen‐Sulfur Correlation in Alpine and Arid Wetlands	18
Cycling Rates of Particulate Organic Carbon Along the GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect GP15	18
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Toward a Global Model for Soil Inorganic Phosphorus Dynamics: Dependence of Exchange Kinetics and Soil Bioavailability on Soil Physicochemical Properties	17
Nitrogen Cycling in Reservoir Drawdown Areas and the Impacts on Water Quality	17
The Role of Climate, Mineralogy and Stable Aggregates for Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics Along a Geoclimatic Gradient	17
Biogeographical Classification of the Global Ocean From BGC‐Argo Floats	16
The Greenhouse Gas Budget of Terrestrial Ecosystems in East Asia Since 2000	16
The Importance of Riverine Nutrient Supply for the Marine Silica Pump of Arctic Shelves: Evidence From the Laptev Sea	16
Vapor Pressure Deficit and Sunlight Explain Seasonality of Leaf Phenology and Photosynthesis Across Amazonian Evergreen Broadleaved Forest	16
On the Role of the Amazon River for N₂ Fixation in the Western Tropical Atlantic	16
Dissolved Iron Patterns Impacted by Shallow Hydrothermal Sources Along a Transect Through the Tonga‐Kermadec Arc	16
The Contribution of Biotic Factors in Explaining the Global Distribution of Inorganic Carbon in Surface Soils	16
The Influence of Air‐Sea CO₂ Disequilibrium on Carbon Sequestration by the Ocean's Biological Pump	16
Constraining Global Marine Iron Sources and Ligand‐Mediated Scavenging Fluxes With GEOTRACES Dissolved Iron Measurements in an Ocean Biogeochemical Model	16
The Mediterranean Region as a Paradigm of the Global Decoupling of N and P Between Soils and Freshwaters	16
Forest Soil Carbon Efflux Evaluation Across China: A New Estimate With Machine Learning	15
Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea	15
Global Uptake of Atmospheric Methane by Soil From 1900 to 2100	15
Biological Carbon Pump Sequestration Efficiency in the North Atlantic: A Leaky or a Long‐Term Sink?	15
Extreme Nitrate Deficits in the Western Arctic Ocean: Origin, Decadal Changes, and Implications for Denitrification on a Polar Marginal Shelf	15
Organic Carbon Burial With Reactive Iron Across Global Environments	15
Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Global Carbon Cycle Predictions: Lessons and Perspectives From 15 Years of Data Assimilation Studies With the ORCHIDEE Terrestrial Biosphere Model	15
Effects of Climate Change on Peatland Reservoirs: A DOC Perspective	15
The Global Biogeochemical Cycle of Arsenic	15
Natural and Anthropogenic Driving Forces of Carbonate Weathering and the Related Carbon Sink Flux: A Model Comparison Study at Global Scale	14
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Atypical Seasonality of the Silicon Cycle in the Yellow River Estuary and Bohai Sea Revealed by Stable Silicon Isotopes	14
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Shifts in the Isotopic Composition of Nitrous Oxide Between El Niño and La Niña in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific	14
Nitrogen Biogeochemistry of Adjacent Mesoscale Eddies in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre	14
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Alternate History: A Synthetic Ensemble of Ocean Chlorophyll Concentrations	14
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Temporal Variability of Air‐Sea CO₂ flux in the Western Tropical North Atlantic Influenced by the Amazon River Plume	14
Using Radiocarbon to Assess the Abundance, Distribution, and Nature of Labile Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments	14
Drivers of Surface Ocean Acidity Extremes in an Earth System Model	14
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Biophysical Controls of Ecosystem‐Scale Methane Fluxes From a Subtropical Estuarine Mangrove: Multiscale, Nonlinearity, Asynchrony and Causality	14
Benthic Organic Matter Transformation Drives pH and Carbonate Chemistry in Arctic Marine Sediments	13
The Biotic‐Abiotic Control of Si Burial in Marine Carbonate Systems of the Pre‐Eocene Si Cycle	13
Decoupling of Barium and Silicon at the Congo River‐Dominated Southeast Atlantic Margin: Insights From Combined Barium and Silicon Isotopes	13
Increased Terrestrial Carbon Export and CO₂ Evasion From Global Inland Waters Since the Preindustrial Era	13
Carbon Accumulation, Flux, and Fate in Stordalen Mire, a Permafrost Peatland in Transition	13
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Differential Trends in Iron Concentrations of Boreal Streams Linked to Catchment Characteristics	13
Why are Surface Ocean pH and CaCO₃ Saturation State Often out of Phase in Spatial Patterns and Seasonal Cycles?	13
Bottom‐Up Evaluation of the Methane Budget in Asia and Its Subregions	13
More Foxes than Hedgehogs: The Case for Nitrogen Fixation in Coastal Marine Sediments	13
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Impact of Dynamic Phytoplankton Stoichiometry on Global Scale Patterns of Nutrient Limitation, Nitrogen Fixation, and Carbon Export	12
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Summertime Evolution of Net Community Production and CO₂ Flux in the Western Arctic Ocean	12
The Role of Coastal Yedoma Deposits and Continental Shelf Sediments in the Arctic Ocean Silicon Cycle	12
Global Patterns of Surface Ocean Dissolved Organic Matter Stoichiometry	12
Large Soil Carbon Storage in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Canada	12
Biodegradation of Ancient Organic Carbon Fuels Seabed Methane Emission at the Arctic Continental Shelves	12
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Sectional Distribution Patterns of Cd, Ni, Zn, and Cu in the North Pacific Ocean: Relationships to Nutrients and Importance of Scavenging	12
Regionally Variable Contribution of Dissolved Organic Phosphorus to Marine Annual Net Community Production	12
Ecosystem CO₂ Exchange and Its Economic Implications in Northern Permafrost Regions in the 21st Century	12
The Deep Ocean's Carbon Exhaust	12
Dissolved Fe in the East China Sea Under the Influences of Land Sources and the Boundary Current With Implications for Global Marginal Seas	12
Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Dinitrogen Production in Coastal Sediments	12
Improved Constraints on Global Methane Emissions and Sinks Using δ¹³C‐CH₄	12
Biodiversity and Stoichiometric Plasticity Increase Pico‐Phytoplankton Contributions to Marine Net Primary Productivity and the Biological Pump	12
Gradients of Anthropogenic Nutrient Enrichment Alter N Composition and DOM Stoichiometry in Freshwater Ecosystems	11
An Assessment of CO₂ Uptake in the Arctic Ocean From 1985 to 2018	11
Decadal Changes in Anthropogenic Inputs and Precipitation Influence Riverine Exports of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus, and Alter Ecosystem Level Stoichiometry	11
Changing Water Chemistry in One Thousand Norwegian Lakes During Three Decades of Cleaner Air and Climate Change	11
Inland Water Greenhouse Gas Budgets for RECCAP2: 1. State‐Of‐The‐Art of Global Scale Assessments	11
Spatiotemporal Pattern of Ecosystem Respiration in China Estimated by Integration of Machine Learning With Ecological Understanding	11
Nitrogen Fixation in Mesoscale Eddies of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Patterns and Mechanisms	11
Temperature Sensitivity of Freshwater Denitrification and N₂O Emission—A Meta‐Analysis	11
Effects of Secondary Carbonate Precipitation and Dissolution on Changjiang (Yangtze) River Chemistry and Estimates of Silicate Weathering Rates	11
Electron Accepting Capacities of a Wide Variety of Peat Materials From Around the Globe Similarly Explain CO₂ and CH₄ Formation	11
Oxygen Dependent Temperature Regulation of Benthic Fluxes in Reservoirs	11