Global Change Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Change Biology is 9. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change457
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda432
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050405
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits370
Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation315
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?280
Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services229
Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?221
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community204
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions203
Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States198
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea184
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems169
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils169
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon163
The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments161
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing159
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction157
Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country151
Global maps of soil temperature146
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration145
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic145
Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns142
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures141
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species132
Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide129
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils126
From energy to (soil organic) matter126
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950124
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems122
Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity121
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding121
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective121
Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index116
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture116
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors115
Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites115
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss114
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise112
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics108
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions107
Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis107
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis105
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen104
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition103
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest102
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis101
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought100
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture98
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties97
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program97
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon95
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security94
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?93
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland91
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence90
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient90
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century89
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content89
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau87
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends87
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change87
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector87
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization85
Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought85
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts84
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacaciaL.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate84
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators82
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans82
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics81
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs81
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics80
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity80
Climate change research and action must look beyond 210079
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature79
Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties78
Distribution, sources, and decomposition of soil organic matter along a salinity gradient in estuarine wetlands characterized by C:N ratio, δ13C‐δ15N, and lignin biomarker77
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis77
Climate and land‐use change will lead to a faunal “savannization” on tropical rainforests76
Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems76
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands76
Can cropland management practices lower net greenhouse emissions without compromising yield?75
Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China75
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate75
Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland74
Overview of global status of plastic presence in marine vertebrates74
Beyond denitrification: The role of microbial diversity in controlling nitrous oxide reduction and soil nitrous oxide emissions73
Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation on the Tibetan Plateau73
The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier73
Nitrogen‐induced acidification, not N‐nutrient, dominates suppressive N effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi73
Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems72
ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests72
Global variation in soil carbon sequestration potential through improved cropland management71
Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts71
Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning71
Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift70
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest70
Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales69
Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes68
Animal mortality during fire67
Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire67
Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–201866
Soil organic carbon in irrigated agricultural systems: A meta‐analysis66
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate66
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions66
Two centuries for an almost complete community turnover from native to non‐native species in a riverine ecosystem66
Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect65
Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban–rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities65
Small artificial waterbodies are widespread and persistent emitters of methane and carbon dioxide65
The global decline in the sensitivity of vegetation productivity to precipitation from 2001 to 201865
From pools to flow: The PROMISE framework for new insights on soil carbon cycling in a changing world65
Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon64
Vital roles of soil microbes in driving terrestrial nitrogen immobilization64
Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget64
Increased greenhouse gas emissions intensity of major croplands in China: Implications for food security and climate change mitigation64
Exploring complex water stress–gross primary production relationships: Impact of climatic drivers, main effects, and interactive effects64
Winter snow and spring temperature have differential effects on vegetation phenology and productivity across Arctic plant communities64
Insects in high‐elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change64
Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global‐scale variations63
Stimulation of ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundances by nitrogen loading: Poor predictability for increased soil N2O emission63
Stream microbial communities and ecosystem functioning show complex responses to multiple stressors in wastewater63
Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth63
Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research63
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 205063
Leaching of dissolved organic carbon from mineral soils plays a significant role in the terrestrial carbon balance62
Forest conversion to plantations: A meta‐analysis of consequences for soil and microbial properties and functions62
Soil moisture determines the recovery time of ecosystems from drought61
Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change61
Wild bees as winners and losers: Relative impacts of landscape composition, quality, and climate61
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review61
Linking root respiration to chemistry and morphology across species60
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters and estuaries60
Coast‐wide evidence of low pH amelioration by seagrass ecosystems60
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests60
Ensemble modelling, uncertainty and robust predictions of organic carbon in long‐term bare‐fallow soils59
Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses59
Stocks and losses of soil organic carbon from Chinese vegetated coastal habitats59
Revisiting the cumulative effects of drought on global gross primary productivity based on new long‐term series data (1982–2018)59
A global meta‐analysis of nitrous oxide emission from drip‐irrigated cropping system58
Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time58
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales58
Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming58
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades58
Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon58
Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought58
Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs57
Large‐scale evidence for microbial response and associated carbon release after permafrost thaw57
Patterns of post‐drought recovery are strongly influenced by drought duration, frequency, post‐drought wetness, and bioclimatic setting56
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research56
Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally56
Assessment of the importance of increasing temperature and decreasing soil moisture on global ecosystem productivity using solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence55
High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils55
Core phylotypes enhance the resistance of soil microbiome to environmental changes to maintain multifunctionality in agricultural ecosystems54
Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region54
Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines54
Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought54
A meta‐analysis of responses in floral traits and flower–visitor interactions to water deficit54
Large quantities of small microplastics permeate the surface ocean to abyssal depths in the South Atlantic Gyre53
Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils53
Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis53
Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality53
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions53
The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme53
Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought‐induced tree mortality53
Cover crop functional types differentially alter the content and composition of soil organic carbon in particulate and mineral‐associated fractions53
Reference state and benchmark concepts for better biodiversity conservation in contemporary ecosystems53
Late to bed, late to rise—Warmer autumn temperatures delay spring phenology by delaying dormancy52
The impact of global dimming on crop yields is determined by the source–sink imbalance of carbon during grain filling52
Rock glaciers and related cold rocky landforms: Overlooked climate refugia for mountain biodiversity52
Are we ready to track climate‐driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? ‐ A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data52
Remarkable effects of microbial factors on soil phosphorus bioavailability: A country‐scale study51
Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes51
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi51
Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams51
Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology51
Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management51
The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate51
Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species51
The response of ants to climate change51
Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)51
High‐resolution mapping of the global silicate weathering carbon sink and its long‐term changes51
Crop residue return sustains global soil ecological stoichiometry balance50
Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire50
Meta‐analysis of multiple driver effects on marine phytoplankton highlights modulating role ofpCO250
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis50
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data50
Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers50
Topsoil organic matter build‐up in glacier forelands around the world50
Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well‐being of humans and the rest of nature50
Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change50
Evolutionary principles and genetic considerations for guiding conservation interventions under climate change50
Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?49
Global patterns of soil gross immobilization of ammonium and nitrate in terrestrial ecosystems49
Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes49
Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere49
Altered activities of extracellular soil enzymes by the interacting global environmental changes49
Evolution and connectivity influence the persistence and recovery of coral reefs under climate change in the Caribbean, Southwest Pacific, and Coral Triangle48
Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity48
Classifying human influences on terrestrial ecosystems48
Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China48
Estimating the carbon storage potential and greenhouse gas emissions of French arable cropland using high‐resolution modeling48
The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments48
When do cover crops reduce nitrate leaching? A global meta‐analysis48
Recent collapse of crop belts and declining diversity of US agriculture since 184048
Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France48
Three‐dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale48
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis48
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation47
Homogenization and miniaturization of habitat structure in temperate marine forests47
Reducing climate impacts of beef production: A synthesis of life cycle assessments across management systems and global regions47
Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species47
Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems47
Plant phenological responses to experimental warming—A synthesis47
Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects47
Accelerated rate of vegetation green‐up related to warming at northern high latitudes47
Quantifying high‐temperature stress on soybean canopy photosynthesis: The unique role of sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence47
No detectable upper limit of mineral‐associated organic carbon in temperate agricultural soils46
Experimental evidence shows minor contribution of nitrogen deposition to global forest carbon sequestration46
Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests45
Mycorrhizal fungi alleviate acidification‐induced phosphorus limitation: Evidence from a decade‐long field experiment of simulated acid deposition in a tropical forest in south China45
Mobilization of soil phosphate after 8 years of warming is linked to plant phosphorus‐acquisition strategies in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau45
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration45
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia45
Taxonomic and functional homogenization of farmland birds along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity44
Nature‐based framework for sustainable afforestation in global drylands under changing climate44
Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility44
Soil enzymes as indicators of soil function: A step toward greater realism in microbial ecological modeling44
Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi‐arid grassland: Drought, deluge, and the carbon cycle44
Long‐term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon44
Recent cover crop adoption is associated with small maize and soybean yield losses in the United States44
Strategic roadmap to assess forest vulnerability under air pollution and climate change44
Range edges of North American marine species are tracking temperature over decades44
Forests buffer against variations in precipitation44
Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest44
Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration43
Significant winter CO2 uptake by saline lakes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau43
Foraging deeply: Depth‐specific plant nitrogen uptake in response to climate‐induced N‐release and permafrost thaw in the High Arctic43
Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate43
Secondary forests offset less than 10% of deforestation‐mediated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon43
Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century42
How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?42
Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns42
Responses of soil N2O emissions and their abiotic and biotic drivers to altered rainfall regimes and co‐occurring wet N deposition in a semi‐arid grassland42
Essential outcomes for COP2642
Roots are key to increasing the mean residence time of organic carbon entering temperate agricultural soils42
Decoupled responses of above‐ and below‐ground stability of productivity to nitrogen addition at the local and larger spatial scale42
Long‐term soil warming alters fine root dynamics and morphology, and their ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a temperate forest soil42
On the inter‐ and intra‐annual variability of ecosystem evapotranspiration and water use efficiency of an oak savanna and annual grassland subjected to booms and busts in rainfall42
Challenges in upscaling laboratory studies to ecosystems in soil microbiology research42
Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California41
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