OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 83. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	259
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	236
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada	234
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	223
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	223
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities	220
The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun	201
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest	178
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	175
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	173
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling	167
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	163
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming	158
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	157
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	156
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	153
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China	150
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	150
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest	148
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	145
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	142

Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	142
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	141
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	135
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	134
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	133
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	131
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	130
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	129
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world	128
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	124
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	124
Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought	121
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Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness	120
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment	120
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	118
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	118
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	116
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	115
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	115
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	114
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals	113
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region	112
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
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	108
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	108
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States	108
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	107
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	107
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem	106
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe	105
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	105
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	102
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Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands	101
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	101
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	101
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	97
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N₂O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland	96
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”	94
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point	94
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges	93
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Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	92
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century	92
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	91
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming	91
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?	91
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards	91
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)	89

Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming	89
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted	89
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats	87
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
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change	85
Demystifying the Romanticized Narratives About Carbon Credits From Voluntary Forest Conservation	84
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	84
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	83
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages	83
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands	83