OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Change Biology is 85. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	458
Issue Information	373
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The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun	284
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space	265
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Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought	223
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection	216
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities	215
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)	202
Transgenerational Heat Exposure Triggers Unexpected Compensatory Sex Ratio Responses in a Temperature‐Sensitive Fish Under Climate Warming	197
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities	195
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish	195
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration	190
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world	181
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting	176
Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations	173
Wet‐to‐Dry Cascades May Increasingly Drive Wildfire Activity in Non‐Forested Ecosystems, and Further Amplify the Risk of Urban Interface Fire Disasters, in a Warming Climate	168
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise	168
Correction to “Climate‐Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits”	167
Leaving no Species Behind: Moving Beyond the “Winners and Losers” Dichotomy in Climate Warming Risk Assessments	165
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change	155
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness	152
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production	151
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study	144

Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy	143
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil	142
Climate as the Main Driver of Large‐Scale Genetic Patterns and Connectivity in the Expanding Golden Jackal	141
The Integration of Fire Ecology and Freshwater Ecosystems in North America: Knowledge Gaps and Research Needs	139
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany	138
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians	138
Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis	134
Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide ( N ₂ O ) From a	131
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China	131
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change	131
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment	127
Nitrate Availability Modulates the Temperature Sensitivity of N ₂ O	126
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change	125
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem	124
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index	123
Graminoids Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Thawed Permafrost at the End of the Growing Season	122
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone	121
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities	119
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis	118
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) Across Europe	115
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs	111
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia	109
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils	108
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States	108
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World	107
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community	107
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health	107
Heatwaves Constrain the Future Persistence of Mosquito Vectors in Europe	107
Topography Dependence of Terrestrial Litter‐Derived Soil Respiration	106
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration	104
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023	104
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods	103
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture	103
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?	103
Global Phosphorus Enrichment Reshapes Terrestrial Phosphorus Cycling	103
Synergetic Responses of Nonstructural Carbohydrates and Nutrients in Different Tree Organs to Drought	102
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Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO₂ Emissions	101
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines	100
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges	100
Long‐Term Ecological Baselines and Critical Thresholds in Ombrotrophic Peatlands of Europe: Implications for Restoration Strategies	99
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections	99
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change	96
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	94
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate	94
Climatic Legacies Drive Spatial Aggregation of Plants in Drylands	93
Global Vegetation Greening Is Exacerbating Soil Dryness	93
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point	92
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective	92
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming	92

Coupled Temperature Sensitivity of Microbial Carbon and Nitrogen Use Efficiencies in Forest Soils on a Continental Scale	89
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”	88
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters	88
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”	87
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile	87
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted	87
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change	86
Cities at Sea: Coastal Urbanization Generates Local Biodiversity Hotspots but Homogenizes Marine Fish Communities Regionally	86
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs	86
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?	85