OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 82. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	233
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States	230
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest	225
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	220
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada	210
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	204
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	203
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	196
Impacts of the 2012–2015 Californian drought on carbon, water and energy fluxes in the Californian Sierras: Results from an imaging spectrometry‐constrained terrestrial biosphere model	191
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	185
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals	173
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	155
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	153
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest	151
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	147
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	146
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming	142
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	140
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	137
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	135
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	133

Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	131
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	131
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	129
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	128
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	127
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	126
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	125
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	125
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	123
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	122
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	120
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	119
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	118
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	114
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	112
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	111
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis	111
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	111
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	110
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	109
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Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe	107
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	105
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	105
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	104
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	104
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	104
Stimulation of N₂O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments	103
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	103
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	103
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback	102
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Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs	101
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile	100
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands	100
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)	99
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Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	97
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	97
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards	96
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands	96
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential	93
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming	92
Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator–prey interactions along the benthic–pelagic interface	92
Evaluation of variation in background nitrous oxide emissions: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of climate, soil, and management conditions	91
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function	90
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?	88
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes	88
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges	87
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO₂ acidification impacts on fish growth	87

Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO₂ Emissions	86
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	86
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N₂O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland	86
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”	84
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats	84
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests	84
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	82
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics	82