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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration259
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study236
Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada234
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration223
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 Communities220
The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun201
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest178
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World175
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany173
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling167
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection163
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming158
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities157
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians156
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community153
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting150
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China150
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest148
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs145
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change142
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change142
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities141
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone135
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture134
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise133
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis131
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy130
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia129
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world128
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space124
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States124
Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought121
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Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment120
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness120
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods118
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change118
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world116
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production115
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish115
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 corals113
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region112
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 model111
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index108
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States108
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils108
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023107
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate107
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem106
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health105
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe105
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil102
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China101
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective101
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Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands101
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 Dryland96
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point94
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”94
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Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges93
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate92
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century92
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?91
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards91
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines91
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming91
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming89
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted89
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)89
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats87
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 heath87
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change85
Demystifying the Romanticized Narratives About Carbon Credits From Voluntary Forest Conservation84
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs84
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages83
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands83
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections83
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions82
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change82
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?82
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems81
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential80
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth80
Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration80
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau80
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile80
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics79
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests79
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research79
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery78
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO2 acidification impacts on fish growth78
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters78
Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs77
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes77
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico77
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters77
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis76
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Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics76
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function76
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Correction to “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands”73
Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season73
Acceleration of vegetation phenological changes73
Improved Modeling of Vegetation Phenology Using Soil Enthalpy73
Stomata secretive ways: A commentary on Lamour et al. (2022)73
Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion72
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Exposure and Sensitivity of Terrestrial Vertebrates to Biological Invasions Worldwide72
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Ecosystem Service Trajectories in Restored Coastal Habitats71
Shortening fire return interval predisposes west‐central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover70
Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature‐driven community shifts70
Challenging Paradigms Around the Role of Colony Size, Taxa, and Environment on Bleaching Susceptibility70
Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure70
Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit69
Unlocking the power of machine learning for Earth system modeling: A game‐changing breakthrough69
Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils69
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon68
Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition68
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral‐Associated Organic Matter68
An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss67
How Does Climate Change Influence the Regional Ecological–Social Risks of Harmful Dinoflagellates? A Predictive Study of China's Coastal Waters67
Juvenile waiting stage crown‐of‐thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals67
Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production67
pH variability at volcanic CO2 seeps regulates coral calcifying fluid chemistry67
Climate change and extreme events are changing the biology of Polar Regions67
Local thermal adaptation and local temperature regimes drive the performance of a parasitic helminth under climate change: The case of Marshallagia marshalli from wild ungulates67
A New Frontier for Plant‐Microbe Interaction Under Changing Climate Conditions66
Do not ignore the effects of phosphorus and potassium addition on microbial carbon use efficiency66
Stochastic resonance in climate reddening increases the risk of cyclic ecosystem extinction via phase‐tipping65
Gibbs energy or enthalpy—What is relevant for microbial C‐turnover in soils?64
A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem64
Modest Experimental Warming Reduces Species Diversity and Biomass of Arthropods in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow64
Long‐Term Drought Persistently Shifts Plant and Soil Microbial Communities but Has Limited Impact on CO2 Fluxes Under Subsequent Drought64
Rapid Evolution in Action: Environmental Filtering Supports Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat64
Identifying main uncertainties in estimating past and present radiative forcing of peatlands63
Climate change reduces long‐term population benefits from no‐take marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement63
Impacts of Canopy Disturbances by Tree Logging on Soil Biota Increase With Organism Size63
Alleviating the Concerns About Pollen‐Based Assisted Migration63
Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods62
Dark matters: Contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading62
High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau62
Global analysis of the perturbation effects of metal‐based nanoparticles on soil nitrogen cycling62
Carbon footprint of synthetic nitrogen under staple crops: A first cradle‐to‐grave analysis62
Human‐Impacted Natural Ecosystems Drive Climate Warming62
Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems62
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis61
China's wetland soil organic carbon pool: New estimation on pool size, change, and trajectory61
Hyposensitive canopy conductance renders ecosystems vulnerable to meteorological droughts61
Climate change alone cannot explain boreal caribou range recession in Quebec since 185061
Dynamic Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Urbanization: A Global Perspective60
Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis)60
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem60
High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change59
A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs59
A global synthesis of climate vulnerability assessments on marine fisheries: Methods, scales, and knowledge co‐production59
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 conditions59
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs59
5300‐Year‐old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter59
Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean59
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate59
Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships among associated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genes along anthropogenic gradients58
No evidence for a negative effect of growing season photosynthesis on leaf senescence timing58
Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity57
Global Change Modulates Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency: Mechanisms and Impacts on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics57
The Breeding Distribution of a Migratory Bird Fluctuates With Nonbreeding Season Rainfall Over the Last Century57
Math‐Corrected Enzyme Ratios: Descriptors of Allocation and Tools for Comparability—Not Proof of Limitation57
Impact of Crop Type on Biodiversity Globally56
Nitrification, denitrification, and related functional genes under elevated CO2: A meta‐analysis in terrestrial ecosystems56
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation56
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review56
Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe56
Enhanced growth resistance but no decline in growth resilience under long‐term extreme droughts56
Significant accrual of soil organic carbon through long‐term rice cultivation in paddy fields in China56
Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global‐scale meta‐analysis56
Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species56
Adult spawners: A critical period for subarctic Chinook salmon in a changing climate55
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Microbial necromass under global change and implications for soil organic matter55
Habitat‐based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems55
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More sensitive microbial responses to the interactive effects of warming and altered precipitation in subsoil than topsoil of an alpine grassland ecosystem55
Fungal necromass is reduced by intensive drought in subsoil but not in topsoil55
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Increased atmospheric CO2 and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems54
Growth form and leaf habit drive contrasting effects of Arctic amplification in long‐lived woody species52
Potential for Regional Resilience to Ocean Warming and Acidification Extremes: Projected Vulnerability Under Contrasting Pathways and Thresholds52
Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change52
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Long‐term monitoring indicates shifting fall migration timing in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)52
Cumulative Heat Stress in Fluctuating Temperatures and Implications for the Distribution of Freshwater Fish52
Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations51
Regressions underestimate the direct effect of soil moisture on land carbon sink variability51
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora51
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Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests51
Size matters: Aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of shallow thermokarst lakes51
Long‐Term Incubation Duration Decline Indicates Climate‐Change Driven Feminization of Three Sea Turtle Species in Florida, USA50
Boreal Rivers as Sources of Terpenoid Emissions50
Rapid climate change increases diversity and homogenizes composition of coastal fish at high latitudes50
Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield50
Climate change and commercial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long‐lived seabird50
Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management50
High potential of stable carbon sequestration in phytoliths of China's grasslands49
Role of hydrodynamics in shaping chemical habitats and modulating the responses of coastal benthic systems to ocean global change49
The Effects of Climate Change on Mesocarnivores: A Global Review and Meta‐Analysis49
Soil Organic Carbon Increases With Decreasing Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency During Vegetation Restoration49
Soil Carbon‐to‐Nitrogen Ratio Can Predict the Grassland Biodiversity‐Productivity Relationship: Evidence From Local, Regional, and Global Scales48
Understanding Unanticipated Range Shifts: Biotic Interactions as Key Mediators in a Changing Climate48
Exploring Sulfate as an Alternative Electron Acceptor: A Potential Strategy to Mitigate N2O Emissions in Upland Arable Soils48
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions48
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Predicted warming in alpine streams suggests hidden consequences for aquatic ectotherms48
CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land48
Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR648
Fire disturbance promotes biodiversity of plants, lichens and birds in the Siberian subarctic tundra48
Tracing Blue Carbon Flows Across Diverse Seascapes48
Warming, Snow Exclusion, and Soil Type Alter the Timing of Plant and Soil Activity and Associated Nutrient Losses47
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 Scales47
Immediate and carry‐over effects of late‐spring frost and growing season drought on forest gross primary productivity capacity in the Northern Hemisphere47
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 functional47
Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse47
Meta‐Omics Analysis Reveals Global Distribution of Toxic Pseudo‐nitzschia and Enhanced Neurotoxin Production Under Climate Warming47
Long‐term changes in the daytime growing season carbon dioxide exchange following increased temperature and snow cover in arctic tundra47
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 Copepod47
Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity46
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies46
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia46
Spatio‐temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed46
Warming Weakens Soil Nitrogen Stabilization Pathways Driving Proportional Carbon Losses in Subarctic Ecosystems46
Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress46
The neglected roles of adjacent natural ecosystems in maintaining bacterial diversity in agroecosystems46
Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought46
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales45
Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change45
Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United States45
Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?45
Climate‐driven tree growth and mortality in the Black Forest, Germany—Long‐term observations45
Stabilisation of soil organic matter with rock dust partially counteracted by plants45
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