OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 85. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun	283
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	274
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	242
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	237
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	212
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	195
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	187
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	173
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	171
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Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada	163
Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought	160
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness	157
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest	155
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	150
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities	149
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	149
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals	149
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	145
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States	144
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	142
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem	142

Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations	141
Correction to “Climate‐Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits”	139
Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis	138
Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide ( N ₂ O ) From a	137
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	132
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	130
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	129
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	128
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	125
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	124
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	124
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	122
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest	122
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	122
Wet‐to‐Dry Cascades May Increasingly Drive Wildfire Activity in Non‐Forested Ecosystems, and Further Amplify the Risk of Urban Interface Fire Disasters, in a Warming Climate	122
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	121
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	120
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	118
Leaving no Species Behind: Moving Beyond the “Winners and Losers” Dichotomy in Climate Warming Risk Assessments	117
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	115
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	114
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	113
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	109
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	108
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	106
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	106
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) Across Europe	105
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	102
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	102
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment	101
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	101
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	99
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	99
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	98
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	98
Issue Information	97
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	97
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	97
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	95
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	95
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”	94
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Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges	93
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	92
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	90
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?	89
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters	89
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	89
Impact of three decades of warming, increased nutrient availability, and increased cloudiness on the fluxes of greenhouse gases and biogenic volatile organic compounds in a subarctic tundra heath	87
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century	87

Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point	87
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	87
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming	86
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands	86
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics	86
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO₂ Emissions	86
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted	85
Forest Carbon Dynamics as a Constraint on Future Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change	85
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages	85
Demystifying the Romanticized Narratives About Carbon Credits From Voluntary Forest Conservation	85