Global Change Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Change Biology is 22. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States263
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Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada229
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Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration205
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)203
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Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise184
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities182
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil181
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world177
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting174
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection172
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change164
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world152
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils145
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis143
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States142
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish128
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Across Europe128
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture128
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change126
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities126
Restoration of forest resilience to fire from old trees is possible across a large Colorado dry‐forest landscape by 2060, but only under the Paris 1.5℃ goal123
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods123
Net effects of conservation agriculture principles on sustainable land use: A synthesis118
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia118
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World115
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone114
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
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs111
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index109
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China108
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest107
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest106
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?106
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health105
Stimulation of N2O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments105
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space104
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study101
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023101
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals101
Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree‐ring isotopes suggests site‐specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought‐induced dieback100
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change100
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community100
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region98
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany98
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration97
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production97
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians96
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling95
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China95
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming95
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate95
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections94
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis94
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions94
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change93
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery93
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs93
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”93
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters93
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages92
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Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective91
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands90
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change88
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico88
Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests88
Synergistic effects of warming and eutrophication alert zooplankton predator–prey interactions along the benthic–pelagic interface88
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N2O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland88
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards87
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes87
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics85
Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs85
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)85
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming84
A simple explanation for declining temperature sensitivity with warming84
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential84
Evaluation of variation in background nitrous oxide emissions: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of climate, soil, and management conditions82
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines82
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Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”80
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 heath79
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate79
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions79
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming79
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO2 acidification impacts on fish growth77
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point76
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted76
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function76
Small artificial waterbodies are widespread and persistent emitters of methane and carbon dioxide76
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?76
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands76
Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation74
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats74
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters73
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century73
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile73
Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration73
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics73
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis72
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth72
Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems72
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research72
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau72
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Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis)68
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Stomata secretive ways: A commentary on Lamour et al. (2022)68
Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit67
Increasing the spatial and temporal impact of ecological research: A roadmap for integrating a novel terrestrial process into an Earth system model67
Understanding coralline algal responses to ocean acidification: Meta‐analysis and synthesis67
Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships among associated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genes along anthropogenic gradients67
pH variability at volcanic CO2 seeps regulates coral calcifying fluid chemistry65
Dark matters: Contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading65
Adult spawners: A critical period for subarctic Chinook salmon in a changing climate65
Dynamic Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Urbanization: A Global Perspective65
Not all species will migrate poleward as the climate warms: The case of the seven baobab species in Madagascar65
Impact of Crop Type on Biodiversity Globally64
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Spring phenology drives range shifts in a migratory Arctic ungulate with key implications for the future64
Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season64
Challenging Paradigms Around the Role of Colony Size, Taxa, and Environment on Bleaching Susceptibility64
Ambient climate determines the directional trend of community stability under warming and grazing63
Ecosystem Service Trajectories in Restored Coastal Habitats63
A global synthesis of climate vulnerability assessments on marine fisheries: Methods, scales, and knowledge co‐production63
Rapid Evolution in Action: Environmental Filtering Supports Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat63
Stochastic resonance in climate reddening increases the risk of cyclic ecosystem extinction via phase‐tipping63
Improved Modeling of Vegetation Phenology Using Soil Enthalpy63
High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change62
Unlocking the power of machine learning for Earth system modeling: A game‐changing breakthrough61
An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss61
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem61
Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods61
Marine and freshwater regime changes impact a community of migratory Pacific salmonids in decline60
Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition59
Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production59
Carbon footprint of synthetic nitrogen under staple crops: A first cradle‐to‐grave analysis59
Shortening fire return interval predisposes west‐central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover59
No evidence for a negative effect of growing season photosynthesis on leaf senescence timing58
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 conditions58
A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs58
Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems58
Large variability in response to projected climate and land‐use changes among European bumblebee species58
Climate change alone cannot explain boreal caribou range recession in Quebec since 185058
Juvenile waiting stage crown‐of‐thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals58
High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau58
Do not ignore the effects of phosphorus and potassium addition on microbial carbon use efficiency57
Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils57
Significant accrual of soil organic carbon through long‐term rice cultivation in paddy fields in China57
A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem57
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon57
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs57
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Correction to “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands”56
Global analysis of the perturbation effects of metal‐based nanoparticles on soil nitrogen cycling56
Climate change reduces long‐term population benefits from no‐take marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement56
Acceleration of vegetation phenological changes56
Local thermal adaptation and local temperature regimes drive the performance of a parasitic helminth under climate change: The case of Marshallagia marshalli from wild ungulates55
Gibbs energy or enthalpy—What is relevant for microbial C‐turnover in soils?55
Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean55
Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature‐driven community shifts55
Exposure and Sensitivity of Terrestrial Vertebrates to Biological Invasions Worldwide55
Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure55
Identifying main uncertainties in estimating past and present radiative forcing of peatlands55
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis55
Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species55
More sensitive microbial responses to the interactive effects of warming and altered precipitation in subsoil than topsoil of an alpine grassland ecosystem54
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review54
Hyposensitive canopy conductance renders ecosystems vulnerable to meteorological droughts54
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate54
China's wetland soil organic carbon pool: New estimation on pool size, change, and trajectory54
Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe54
Climate change and extreme events are changing the biology of Polar Regions53
Nitrification, denitrification, and related functional genes under elevated CO2: A meta‐analysis in terrestrial ecosystems53
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century53
Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global‐scale meta‐analysis53
Enhanced growth resistance but no decline in growth resilience under long‐term extreme droughts53
Microbial necromass under global change and implications for soil organic matter53
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation53
5300‐Year‐old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter52
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Fungal necromass is reduced by intensive drought in subsoil but not in topsoil52
Immediate and carry‐over effects of late‐spring frost and growing season drought on forest gross primary productivity capacity in the Northern Hemisphere52
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The neglected roles of adjacent natural ecosystems in maintaining bacterial diversity in agroecosystems51
Growth form and leaf habit drive contrasting effects of Arctic amplification in long‐lived woody species51
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 functional51
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Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield51
Regressions underestimate the direct effect of soil moisture on land carbon sink variability50
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Predicted warming in alpine streams suggests hidden consequences for aquatic ectotherms50
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies50
Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations49
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 Copepod49
Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United States49
Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change49
Cumulative Heat Stress in Fluctuating Temperatures and Implications for the Distribution of Freshwater Fish49
Mammal assemblage composition predicts global patterns in emerging infectious disease risk49
Spatio‐temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed49
Long‐term changes in the daytime growing season carbon dioxide exchange following increased temperature and snow cover in arctic tundra49
Habitat‐based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems49
Increased atmospheric CO2 and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems48
Climate‐driven tree growth and mortality in the Black Forest, Germany—Long‐term observations48
Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?48
Fire disturbance promotes biodiversity of plants, lichens and birds in the Siberian subarctic tundra48
High potential of stable carbon sequestration in phytoliths of China's grasslands48
Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse48
Rapid climate change increases diversity and homogenizes composition of coastal fish at high latitudes48
A ‘debt’ based approach to land degradation as an indicator of global change48
Role of hydrodynamics in shaping chemical habitats and modulating the responses of coastal benthic systems to ocean global change47
Reef‐building corals act as long‐term sink for microplastic47
Climate change and commercial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long‐lived seabird47
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Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems47
Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management47
Size matters: Aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of shallow thermokarst lakes47
Stabilisation of soil organic matter with rock dust partially counteracted by plants47
Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR647
Multi‐model projections of tree species performance in Quebec, Canada under future climate change47
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora47
Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests47
Bees exposed to climate change are more sensitive to pesticides47
Long‐term monitoring indicates shifting fall migration timing in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)47
Contrasting responses of peak vegetation growth to asymmetric warming: Evidences from FLUXNET and satellite observations46
Soil carbon balance of afforested peatlands in the maritime temperate climatic zone46
Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity46
Cover crop functional types differentially alter the content and composition of soil organic carbon in particulate and mineral‐associated fractions46
Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought46
CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land46
Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress46
Projecting coral responses to intensifying marine heatwaves under ocean acidification46
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales45
Soil Organic Carbon Increases With Decreasing Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency During Vegetation Restoration45
From remotely sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory45
Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects45
Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change45
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia45
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions45
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