OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 78. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change	494
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda	472
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits	396
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?	304
Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services	253
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community	225
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions	224
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea	212
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems	194
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon	183
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils	181
Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country	176
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction	174
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing	166
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic	156
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950	154
Global maps of soil temperature	154
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species	151
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration	151
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures	145
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems	145
Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide	143
From energy to (soil organic) matter	141
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils	140
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture	136

Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity	135
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding	133
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective	133
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors	125
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss	124
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise	123
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions	120
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought	116
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen	115
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics	115
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis	115
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition	113
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis	110
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO₂ fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties	107
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest	105
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program	105
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?	103
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture	103
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence	102
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security	102
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon	101
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland	98
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content	97
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau	96
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient	96
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity	95
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector	92
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacaciaL.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate	92
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization	91
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts	89
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century	89
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature	88
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics	88
Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties	88
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change	88
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands	87
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends	87
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans	86
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest	85
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis	84
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	82
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators	82
Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems	82
Can cropland management practices lower net greenhouse emissions without compromising yield?	82
Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland	82
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs	82
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics	81
Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100	81
Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning	81
Beyond denitrification: The role of microbial diversity in controlling nitrous oxide reduction and soil nitrous oxide emissions	80

Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift	79
Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation on the Tibetan Plateau	79
Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems	78