Global Change Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Global Change Biology is 23. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Tropical estuarine ecosystem change under the interacting influences of future climate and ecosystem restoration272
The importance of oxygen for explaining rapid shifts in a marine fish267
Clarifying the carbon balance recovery time after clear‐cutting231
The Ecological Impacts of Dry and Hot Shocks in the Land of Midnight Sun230
Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study230
Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO2 world205
Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space187
Cognition as a neglected mediator of responses to anthropogenic noise175
Trait‐Based Tree Mortality Risk Assessment From the Perspective of Imaging Spectroscopy168
Linking remotely sensed ecosystem resilience with forest mortality across the continental United States167
Unraveling a century of global change impacts on winter bird distributions in the eastern United States165
Disentangling the multiple effects of precipitation on arthropod biomass: A commentary on Newell et al. (2022)165
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Changes in sea ice and range expansion of sperm whales in the eclipse sound region of Baffin Bay, Canada155
Forest Age and Management Measures Regulate the Responses of Forest Ecosystem to Drought154
Global Drivers of Echolocating Mammal Species Richness153
Climate, Rotation, and Tillage Impacts on Soybean Yield Gains in a 50‐Year Experiment150
Potential millennial‐scale avian declines by humans in southern China147
Warming drives sustained plant phosphorus demand in a humid tropical forest145
Climate‐Influenced Ecological Memory Modulates Microbial Responses to Soil Moisture142
Desert dust deposition supplies essential bioelements to Red Sea corals140
Wildfire‐Induced Losses of Soil Particulate and Mineral‐Associated Organic Carbon Persist for Over 4 Years in a Chaparral Ecosystem139
Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities139
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 model138
Population‐specific responses to developmental temperature in the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus: Implications for climate change137
Tree contributions to climate change adaptation through reduced cattle heat stress and benefits to milk and beef production136
Complex range shifts among forest functional types under the contemporary warming130
Balancing Organic and Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Enhanced Rock Weathering: Implications for Carbon Sequestration129
Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on Carbon Sink Strength in a Coastal Zone127
Soil phosphorus drives plant trait variations in a mature subtropical forest127
Demographic resilience may sustain significant coral populations in a 2°C‐warmer world126
Climate driven disruption of transitional alpine bumble bee communities126
Summer drought exposure, stand structure, and soil properties jointly control the growth of European beech along a steep precipitation gradient in northern Germany125
Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region121
Measuring Fluxes of Nitrous Oxide ( N 2 O ) From a120
Marine heatwaves on the rise: One of the strongest ever observed mass mortality event in temperate gorgonians120
Long‐term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods120
Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis119
Global Warming and Genomic Diversity Loss Alter the Biomass and the Size Distribution of Experimental Fish Populations119
Correction to “Climate‐Driven Body Size Changes in Birds and Mammals Reveal Environmental Tolerance Limits”118
Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community114
Legacy effects of anthropogenic disturbances modulate dynamics in the world's coral reefs113
Vulnerability of Eastern Tropical Pacific chondrichthyan fish to climate change112
Quantifying reliability and data deficiency in global vertebrate population trends using the Living Planet Index112
Environmental microbiome engineering for the mitigation of climate change112
What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?111
Wheat genetic resources have avoided disease pandemics, improved food security, and reduced environmental footprints: A review of historical impacts and future opportunities109
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia106
Reconciling the Discrepancy in Projected Global Dryland Expansion in a Warming World105
Human Footprint and Forest Disturbance Reduce Space Use of Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) Across Europe104
Agroforestry enhances biological activity, diversity and soil‐based ecosystem functions in mountain agroecosystems of Latin America: A meta‐analysis104
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate102
Conservation planning for retention, not just protection99
Micro/nanoplastics pollution poses a potential threat to soil health98
Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 202398
The influence of mussel restoration on coastal carbon cycling97
The centennial legacy of land‐use change on organic carbon stocks of German agricultural soils96
Conflicts and opportunities for commercial tree plantation expansion and biodiversity restoration across Brazil96
Drought thresholds that impact vegetation reveal the divergent responses of vegetation growth to drought across China95
Biodiversity transformations in the global ocean: A climate change and conservation management perspective94
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Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands94
Correction to “Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú”93
Correction to “Emergent Constraints on Historical and Future Global Gross Primary Productivity”93
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Pollen Assisted Migration Faces Its Own Challenges92
Upward‐moving mountain treelines: An indicator of changing climate91
Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines90
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 heath88
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high‐latitude food webs87
Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics86
Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century86
Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land‐use/cover change scenarios in Mexico85
Process‐oriented models of leaf senescence are biased towards the mean: Impacts on model performance and future projections85
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters85
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point85
Long Term Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in Coastal Antarctica: Are Fewer Rare Species Recruiting?85
Evidence for older carbon loss with lowered water tables and changing plant functional groups in peatlands84
Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery84
Legacy Effects of Plant Community Structure Are Manifested in Microbial Biofilm Development With Consequences for Ecosystem CO2 Emissions83
Shrub and precipitation interactions shape functional diversity of nematode communities on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau83
Potential response of dark carbon fixation to global warming in estuarine and coastal waters83
Adaptation to bioinvasions: When does it occur?83
Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change83
Non‐linear loss of suitable wine regions over Europe in response to increasing global warming82
Compound droughts slow down the greening of the Earth82
Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential81
Effects of climate change on forest plantation productivity in Chile81
Demystifying the Romanticized Narratives About Carbon Credits From Voluntary Forest Conservation81
Ecological and genomic vulnerability to climate change across native populations of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora)81
Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards80
Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes79
Forest Carbon Dynamics as a Constraint on Future Land‐Use and Land‐Cover Change79
Indigenous Peoples' Lands are critical for safeguarding vertebrate diversity across the tropics79
Urbanization Pressures on Climate Adaptation Capacity of Forest Habitats79
Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration78
Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest gross primary production under warming78
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis78
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research77
The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function77
Multi‐Omics Inform Invasion Risks Under Global Climate Change76
Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N2O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland76
Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages76
The influence of habitat alteration on density of invading white‐tailed deer should not be discounted76
Otolith reliability is context‐dependent for estimating warming and CO2 acidification impacts on fish growth76
Climate change affects the distribution of diversity across marine food webs75
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Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems75
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Functional Diversity Explains Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests75
Improved Modeling of Vegetation Phenology Using Soil Enthalpy74
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Acceleration of vegetation phenological changes73
Stomata secretive ways: A commentary on Lamour et al. (2022)73
Timing Matters: Viticultural Land Use Determines Responses in Structure and Function of Fungal Stream Communities Across One Growing Season73
Correction to “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands”72
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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
Stochastic resonance in climate reddening increases the risk of cyclic ecosystem extinction via phase‐tipping70
A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem70
Modest Experimental Warming Reduces Species Diversity and Biomass of Arthropods in a Tibetan Alpine Meadow70
Identifying main uncertainties in estimating past and present radiative forcing of peatlands70
Local thermal adaptation and local temperature regimes drive the performance of a parasitic helminth under climate change: The case of Marshallagia marshalli from wild ungulates70
Arctic plasmidome analysis reveals distinct relationships among associated antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence genes along anthropogenic gradients69
Response of Root Respiration to Warming and Nitrogen Addition Depends on Tree Species69
Long‐Term Drought Persistently Shifts Plant and Soil Microbial Communities but Has Limited Impact on CO2 Fluxes Under Subsequent Drought68
Rapid Evolution in Action: Environmental Filtering Supports Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat68
Alleviating the Concerns About Pollen‐Based Assisted Migration68
Gibbs energy or enthalpy—What is relevant for microbial C‐turnover in soils?68
Global analysis of the perturbation effects of metal‐based nanoparticles on soil nitrogen cycling68
Impacts of Canopy Disturbances by Tree Logging on Soil Biota Increase With Organism Size68
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis67
Math‐Corrected Enzyme Ratios: Descriptors of Allocation and Tools for Comparability—Not Proof of Limitation67
Human‐Impacted Natural Ecosystems Drive Climate Warming67
Juvenile waiting stage crown‐of‐thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals66
The Breeding Distribution of a Migratory Bird Fluctuates With Nonbreeding Season Rainfall Over the Last Century66
Dark matters: Contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading66
Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature‐driven community shifts65
How Does Climate Change Influence the Regional Ecological–Social Risks of Harmful Dinoflagellates? A Predictive Study of China's Coastal Waters65
Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean65
Ocean iron fertilization may amplify climate change pressures on marine animal biomass for limited climate benefit64
Adult spawners: A critical period for subarctic Chinook salmon in a changing climate63
Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure63
Climate and mineral accretion as drivers of mineral‐associated and particulate organic matter accumulation in tidal wetland soils63
Shortening fire return interval predisposes west‐central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover62
Mammals on the Margins: Identifying the Drivers and Limitations of Range Expansion62
Meta‐analysis reveals impacts of disturbance on reptile and amphibian body condition62
An integrated belowground trait‐based understanding of nitrogen‐driven plant diversity loss62
5300‐Year‐old soil carbon is less primed than young soil organic matter62
Hyposensitive canopy conductance renders ecosystems vulnerable to meteorological droughts62
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate62
Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems61
Impact of Crop Type on Biodiversity Globally61
No evidence for a negative effect of growing season photosynthesis on leaf senescence timing60
High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change60
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs60
CO 2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality59
Global Change Modulates Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency: Mechanisms and Impacts on Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics59
Unlocking the power of machine learning for Earth system modeling: A game‐changing breakthrough59
Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem59
China's wetland soil organic carbon pool: New estimation on pool size, change, and trajectory59
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral‐Associated Organic Matter59
Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe58
Significant accrual of soil organic carbon through long‐term rice cultivation in paddy fields in China58
Microbial necromass under global change and implications for soil organic matter58
High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes and their determinants in the Tibet Plateau58
A melting cryosphere constrains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs58
More sensitive microbial responses to the interactive effects of warming and altered precipitation in subsoil than topsoil of an alpine grassland ecosystem57
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 conditions57
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation57
Climate change reduces long‐term population benefits from no‐take marine protected areas through selective pressures on species movement57
Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity57
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon57
Carbon footprint of synthetic nitrogen under staple crops: A first cradle‐to‐grave analysis57
Dynamic Responses of Soil Organic Carbon to Urbanization: A Global Perspective57
Nitrification, denitrification, and related functional genes under elevated CO2: A meta‐analysis in terrestrial ecosystems56
Natural ocean iron fertilization and climate variability over geological periods56
Do not ignore the effects of phosphorus and potassium addition on microbial carbon use efficiency56
A global synthesis of climate vulnerability assessments on marine fisheries: Methods, scales, and knowledge co‐production56
Climate change alone cannot explain boreal caribou range recession in Quebec since 185056
Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis)56
A New Frontier for Plant‐Microbe Interaction Under Changing Climate Conditions56
Challenging Paradigms Around the Role of Colony Size, Taxa, and Environment on Bleaching Susceptibility54
Climate change and extreme events are changing the biology of Polar Regions54
Fungal necromass is reduced by intensive drought in subsoil but not in topsoil54
Environmental controls on the light use efficiency of terrestrial gross primary production54
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review54
pH variability at volcanic CO2 seeps regulates coral calcifying fluid chemistry53
Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global‐scale meta‐analysis53
Enhanced growth resistance but no decline in growth resilience under long‐term extreme droughts53
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Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales51
Policy Inaction Risks Breaching the 2°C Climate Target51
Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change51
Habitat‐based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems51
Ruminating on soil carbon: Applying current understanding to inform grazing management51
From remotely sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part I—Harnessing theory51
Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?51
Contrasting responses of peak vegetation growth to asymmetric warming: Evidences from FLUXNET and satellite observations50
Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change50
Exploring Sulfate as an Alternative Electron Acceptor: A Potential Strategy to Mitigate N2O Emissions in Upland Arable Soils50
Biological systems under climate change: What do we learn from the IPCC AR650
Bees exposed to climate change are more sensitive to pesticides50
Meta‐Omics Analysis Reveals Global Distribution of Toxic Pseudo‐nitzschia and Enhanced Neurotoxin Production Under Climate Warming50
Role of hydrodynamics in shaping chemical habitats and modulating the responses of coastal benthic systems to ocean global change50
Increased atmospheric CO2 and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems49
Long‐term changes in the daytime growing season carbon dioxide exchange following increased temperature and snow cover in arctic tundra49
Regressions underestimate the direct effect of soil moisture on land carbon sink variability49
Warming, Snow Exclusion, and Soil Type Alter the Timing of Plant and Soil Activity and Associated Nutrient Losses49
Cumulative Heat Stress in Fluctuating Temperatures and Implications for the Distribution of Freshwater Fish49
Potential for Regional Resilience to Ocean Warming and Acidification Extremes: Projected Vulnerability Under Contrasting Pathways and Thresholds49
Stabilisation of soil organic matter with rock dust partially counteracted by plants49
Spatio‐temporal dynamics of exotic fish species in the Mediterranean Sea: Over a century of invasion reconstructed49
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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
The Effects of Climate Change on Mesocarnivores: A Global Review and Meta‐Analysis48
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Soil Carbon‐to‐Nitrogen Ratio Can Predict the Grassland Biodiversity‐Productivity Relationship: Evidence From Local, Regional, and Global Scales48
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora48
Size matters: Aerobic methane oxidation in sediments of shallow thermokarst lakes48
Understanding Unanticipated Range Shifts: Biotic Interactions as Key Mediators in a Changing Climate48
Historic Land Use Modifies Impacts of Climate and Isolation in Rear Edge European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations48
CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra‐tropical land47
Boreal Rivers as Sources of Terpenoid Emissions47
Climate change and commercial fishing practices codetermine survival of a long‐lived seabird47
Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies47
Growth form and leaf habit drive contrasting effects of Arctic amplification in long‐lived woody species47
Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems47
Long‐Term Incubation Duration Decline Indicates Climate‐Change Driven Feminization of Three Sea Turtle Species in Florida, USA46
Rapid climate change increases diversity and homogenizes composition of coastal fish at high latitudes46
Climate‐driven tree growth and mortality in the Black Forest, Germany—Long‐term observations46
Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield46
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions46
Warming Weakens Soil Nitrogen Stabilization Pathways Driving Proportional Carbon Losses in Subarctic Ecosystems45
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 functional45
Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse45
Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests45
Increased Growth Temperatures Alter Arctic Plant Responses to Heat Wave and Drought45
Immediate and carry‐over effects of late‐spring frost and growing season drought on forest gross primary productivity capacity in the Northern Hemisphere45
Shortcutting Photorespiration Protects Potato Photosynthesis and Tuber Yield Against Heatwave Stress45
Out of the frying pan into the fire: Predicted warming in alpine streams suggests hidden consequences for aquatic ectotherms45
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