OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 77. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change	457
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda	432
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050	405
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits	370
Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation	315
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?	280
Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services	229
Can N₂O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?	221
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community	204
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions	203
Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States	198
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea	184
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils	169
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems	169
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon	163
The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments	161
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing	159
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction	157
Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country	151
Global maps of soil temperature	146
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration	145
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic	145
Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns	142
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures	141
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species	132

Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide	129
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils	126
From energy to (soil organic) matter	126
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950	124
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems	122
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding	121
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective	121
Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity	121
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture	116
Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index	116
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors	115
Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites	115
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss	114
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise	112
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics	108
Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis	107
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions	107
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis	105
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen	104
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition	103
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest	102
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis	101
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought	100
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture	98
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO₂ fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties	97
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program	97
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon	95
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security	94
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?	93
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland	91
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence	90
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient	90
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content	89
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century	89
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends	87
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change	87
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector	87
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau	87
Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought	85
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization	85
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacaciaL.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate	84
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts	84
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators	82
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans	82
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs	81
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics	81
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics	80
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity	80
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature	79
Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100	79

Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties	78
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis	77
Distribution, sources, and decomposition of soil organic matter along a salinity gradient in estuarine wetlands characterized by C:N ratio, δ¹³C‐δ¹⁵N, and lignin biomarker	77