Global Change Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Change Biology is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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 model240
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study240
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community233
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals224
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs216
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world209
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada202
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)198
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil179
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection158
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World157
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise157
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production156
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture155
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index155
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States149
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming140
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?140
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling139
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities137
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space137
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis133
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region132
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest129
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe128
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish127
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy126
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia125
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The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun122
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities117
Stimulation of N2O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments116
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change115
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023115
Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration113
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States113
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change111
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world110
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone109
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration109
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate108
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China107
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis107
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany107
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians106
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback105
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest105
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem104
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health104
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities104
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils102
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting101
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods101
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China100
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change99
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Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs97
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)94
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile94
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming93
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics93
Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation92
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point91
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO2 acidification impacts on fish growth91
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems90
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes90
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research89
Evaluation of variation in background nitrous oxide emissions: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of climate, soil, and management conditions88
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change88
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics87
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Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate86
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 heath86
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century86
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective85
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines84
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands83
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards82
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?82
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions81
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”81
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N2O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland80
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections79
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages79
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”79
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted78
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico78
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters78
Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges78
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands77
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis76
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function76
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?76
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential75
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth75
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters75
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change74
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs73
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests73
Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration73
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming72
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats72
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau71
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery71
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Stomata secretive ways: A commentary on Lamour et al. (2022)70
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Unlocking the power of machine learning for Earth system modeling: A game‐changing breakthrough70
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Acceleration of vegetation phenological changes69
Stochastic resonance in climate reddening increases the risk of cyclic ecosystem extinction via phase‐tipping69
Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods68
Increasing the spatial and temporal impact of ecological research: A roadmap for integrating a novel terrestrial process into an Earth system model68
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Local thermal adaptation and local temperature regimes drive the performance of a parasitic helminth under climate change: The case of Marshallagia marshalli from wild ungulates68
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Ecosystem Service Trajectories in Restored Coastal Habitats67
Improved Modeling of Vegetation Phenology Using Soil Enthalpy67
Identifying main uncertainties in estimating past and present radiative forcing of peatlands67
Shortening fire return interval predisposes west‐central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover66
Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure66
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Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems66
Exposure and Sensitivity of Terrestrial Vertebrates to Biological Invasions Worldwide66
Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species66
Challenging Paradigms Around the Role of Colony Size, Taxa, and Environment on Bleaching Susceptibility65
Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature‐driven community shifts65
Correction to “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands”65
Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season65
Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils65
Climate change reduces long‐term population benefits from no‐take marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement65
No evidence for a negative effect of growing season photosynthesis on leaf senescence timing64
A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs63
5300‐Year‐old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter63
Adult spawners: A critical period for subarctic Chinook salmon in a changing climate63
More sensitive microbial responses to the interactive effects of warming and altered precipitation in subsoil than topsoil of an alpine grassland ecosystem63
Marine and freshwater regime changes impact a community of migratory Pacific salmonids in decline63
Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion62
Re‐assessment of the climatic controls on the carbon and water fluxes of a boreal aspen forest over 1996–2016: Changing sensitivity to long‐term climatic conditions62
Climate change alone cannot explain boreal caribou range recession in Quebec since 185062
pH variability at volcanic CO2 seeps regulates coral calcifying fluid chemistry62
High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau62
Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit62
High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change62
A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem61
Hyposensitive canopy conductance renders ecosystems vulnerable to meteorological droughts61
Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean61
How Does Climate Change Influence the Regional Ecological–Social Risks of Harmful Dinoflagellates? A Predictive Study of China's Coastal Waters61
Significant accrual of soil organic carbon through long‐term rice cultivation in paddy fields in China61
A New Frontier for Plant‐Microbe Interaction Under Changing Climate Conditions60
Juvenile waiting stage crown‐of‐thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals60
Impacts of Canopy Disturbances by Tree Logging on Soil Biota Increase With Organism Size60
Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis)60
Rapid Evolution in Action: Environmental Filtering Supports Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat59
Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity59
Gibbs energy or enthalpy—What is relevant for microbial C‐turnover in soils?59
Modest Experimental Warming Reduces Species Diversity and Biomass of Arthropods in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow59
Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production58
Human‐Impacted Natural Ecosystems Drive Climate Warming58
An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss58
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral‐Associated Organic Matter58
Nitrification, denitrification, and related functional genes under elevated CO2: A meta‐analysis in terrestrial ecosystems58
Alleviating the Concerns About Pollen‐Based Assisted Migration58
Global Change Modulates Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency: Mechanisms and Impacts on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics57
Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe57
Not all species will migrate poleward as the climate warms: The case of the seven baobab species in Madagascar57
Understanding coralline algal responses to ocean acidification: Meta‐analysis and synthesis57
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon56
A global synthesis of climate vulnerability assessments on marine fisheries: Methods, scales, and knowledge co‐production56
Dark matters: Contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading56
Climate change and extreme events are changing the biology of Polar Regions56
China's wetland soil organic carbon pool: New estimation on pool size, change, and trajectory56
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis55
Impact of Crop Type on Biodiversity Globally55
Carbon footprint of synthetic nitrogen under staple crops: A first cradle‐to‐grave analysis55
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs55
Enhanced growth resistance but no decline in growth resilience under long‐term extreme droughts55
Global analysis of the perturbation effects of metal‐based nanoparticles on soil nitrogen cycling55
Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition55
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem54
Fungal necromass is reduced by intensive drought in subsoil but not in topsoil54
Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships among associated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genes along anthropogenic gradients54
Dynamic Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Urbanization: A Global Perspective54
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review54
Microbial necromass under global change and implications for soil organic matter54
Do not ignore the effects of phosphorus and potassium addition on microbial carbon use efficiency54
Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global‐scale meta‐analysis54
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate53
Habitat‐based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems53
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Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation53
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Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?52
Regressions underestimate the direct effect of soil moisture on land carbon sink variability52
Role of hydrodynamics in shaping chemical habitats and modulating the responses of coastal benthic systems to ocean global change52
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Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations51
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies50
Reply letter to Munoz et al. ‘on the importance of time in carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation’—Keep carbon sequestration terminologies consistent and functional50
Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change50
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Cumulative Heat Stress in Fluctuating Temperatures and Implications for the Distribution of Freshwater Fish50
Reef‐building corals act as long‐term sink for microplastic49
Immediate and carry‐over effects of late‐spring frost and growing season drought on forest gross primary productivity capacity in the Northern Hemisphere49
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Predicted warming in alpine streams suggests hidden consequences for aquatic ectotherms49
Spatio‐temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed49
Size matters: Aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of shallow thermokarst lakes49
Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems49
Long‐term monitoring indicates shifting fall migration timing in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)49
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora49
Long‐term changes in the daytime growing season carbon dioxide exchange following increased temperature and snow cover in arctic tundra49
Increased atmospheric CO2 and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems49
Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change49
Growth form and leaf habit drive contrasting effects of Arctic amplification in long‐lived woody species49
Bees exposed to climate change are more sensitive to pesticides49
High potential of stable carbon sequestration in phytoliths of China's grasslands48
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The Effects of Climate Change on Mesocarnivores: A Global Review and Meta‐Analysis48
Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse48
Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange of a Subalpine Spruce Forest in Switzerland Over 26 Years: Effects of Phenology and Contributions of Abiotic Drivers at Daily Time Scales48
Potential for Regional Resilience to Ocean Warming and Acidification Extremes: Projected Vulnerability Under Contrasting Pathways and Thresholds48
Rapid climate change increases diversity and homogenizes composition of coastal fish at high latitudes48
Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield48
Meta‐Omics Analysis Reveals Global Distribution of Toxic Pseudo‐nitzschia and Enhanced Neurotoxin Production Under Climate Warming48
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions48
Fire disturbance promotes biodiversity of plants, lichens and birds in the Siberian subarctic tundra48
Multi‐model projections of tree species performance in Quebec, Canada under future climate change47
A ‘debt’ based approach to land degradation as an indicator of global change47
CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land47
Exploring Sulfate as an Alternative Electron Acceptor: A Potential Strategy to Mitigate N2O Emissions in Upland Arable Soils46
Tracing Blue Carbon Flows Across Diverse Seascapes46
Warming Weakens Soil Nitrogen Stabilization Pathways Driving Proportional Carbon Losses in Subarctic Ecosystems45
Warming, Snow Exclusion, and Soil Type Alter the Timing of Plant and Soil Activity and Associated Nutrient Losses45
Contrasting responses of peak vegetation growth to asymmetric warming: Evidences from FLUXNET and satellite observations45
Climate change and commercial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long‐lived seabird45
Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests45
Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United States45
Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity45
The neglected roles of adjacent natural ecosystems in maintaining bacterial diversity in agroecosystems45
Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management45
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales44
Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR644
When the Going Gets Tough, the Females Get Going: Sex‐Specific Physiological Responses to Simultaneous Exposure to Hypoxia and Marine Heatwave Events in a Ubiquitous Copepod44
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions44
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