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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	263
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Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada	229
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Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	205
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	203
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Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	184
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	182
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	181
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	177
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	174
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	172
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	164
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	152
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	145
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	143
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States	142
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe	128
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	128
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	128
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	126
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	126

Restoration of forest resilience to fire from old trees is possible across a large Colorado dry‐forest landscape by 2060, but only under the Paris 1.5℃ goal	123
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	123
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	118
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis	118
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	115
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	114
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	111
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	111
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	109
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	108
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest	107
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	106
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest	106
Stimulation of N₂O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments	105
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	105
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	104
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	101
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals	101
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	101
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	100
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	100
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback	100
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	98
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	98
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	97
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	97
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	96
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming	95
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	95
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	95
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	95
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions	94
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	94
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis	94
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	93
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters	93
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change	93
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery	93
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	93
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Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages	92
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	91
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands	90
Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator–prey interactions along the benthic–pelagic interface	88
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N₂O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland	88
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change	88
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico	88
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests	88
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards	87
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes	87

Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs	85
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)	85
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics	85
A simple explanation for declining temperature sensitivity with warming	84
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential	84
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming	84
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	82
Evaluation of variation in background nitrous oxide emissions: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of climate, soil, and management conditions	82