Global Change Biology

Article	Citations
Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss	478
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change	417
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda	396
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050	375
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits	344
Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation	289
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?	267
Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services	213
Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?	204
Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States	191
Elevated temperature shifts soil N cycling from microbial immobilization to enhanced mineralization, nitrification and denitrification across global terrestrial ecosystems	191
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community	190
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions	189
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea	169
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems	153
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils	153
Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert‐based assessment	151
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing	150
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon	150
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction	149
The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments	149
The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands	145
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration	137
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic	137
Long‐term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems	136

Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country	131
Global maps of soil temperature	130
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures	129
Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns	128
Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide	124
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species	120
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils	117
Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity	115
From energy to (soil organic) matter	114
Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites	111
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems	110
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors	108
Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index	108
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss	108
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective	107
Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis	104
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture	103
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding	103
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise	99
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis	99
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions	99
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen	99
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition	98
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics	96
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950	95
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties	93
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture	92
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest	91
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program	88
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought	87
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis	86
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient	86
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?	85
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security	85
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon	84
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau	84
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century	84
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland	83
Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia	83
A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity	83
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence	83
Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought	82
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content	80
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators	80
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate	79
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization	79
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts	79
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector	78
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change	78
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs	76

Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100	76
Climate and land‐use change will lead to a faunal “savannization” on tropical rainforests	76
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends	75
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics	75
Climate change and ageing in ectotherms	74
Distribution, sources, and decomposition of soil organic matter along a salinity gradient in estuarine wetlands characterized by C:N ratio, δ13C‐δ15N, and lignin biomarker	74
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity	74
Can cropland management practices lower net greenhouse emissions without compromising yield?	73
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics	73
The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature’s Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals	72
Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction	72
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans	72
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature	72
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis	71
Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties	71
ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests	71
Nitrogen‐induced acidification, not N‐nutrient, dominates suppressive N effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	71
Overview of global status of plastic presence in marine vertebrates	70
Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data	70
Climate regime shift and forest loss amplify fire in Amazonian forests	70
Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems	69
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands	68
Beyond denitrification: The role of microbial diversity in controlling nitrous oxide reduction and soil nitrous oxide emissions	68
Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China	68
Tree planting in organic soils does not result in net carbon sequestration on decadal timescales	68
Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub‐Saharan Africa	67
Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland	66
Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning	65
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	65
The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier	65
Two centuries for an almost complete community turnover from native to non‐native species in a riverine ecosystem	65
Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation on the Tibetan Plateau	64
Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire	64
Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift	64
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate	64
Mechanisms underlying leaf photosynthetic acclimation to warming and elevated CO2 as inferred from least‐cost optimality theory	64
Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes	64
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest	64
Global variation in soil carbon sequestration potential through improved cropland management	63
From pools to flow: The PROMISE framework for new insights on soil carbon cycling in a changing world	63
Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems	63
Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts	63
Small artificial waterbodies are widespread and persistent emitters of methane and carbon dioxide	63
Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban–rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities	62
Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018	62
Evidence of non‐stationary relationships between climate and forest responses: Increased sensitivity to climate change in Iberian forests	61
Increased greenhouse gas emissions intensity of major croplands in China: Implications for food security and climate change mitigation	61
Background nutrient concentration determines phytoplankton bloom response to marine heatwaves	61
Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget	61
Stimulation of ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundances by nitrogen loading: Poor predictability for increased soil N2O emission	60
Stream microbial communities and ecosystem functioning show complex responses to multiple stressors in wastewater	60
Soil organic carbon in irrigated agricultural systems: A meta‐analysis	60
Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales	60
Coast‐wide evidence of low pH amelioration by seagrass ecosystems	59
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions	59
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050	59
Insects in high‐elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change	59
Forest conversion to plantations: A meta‐analysis of consequences for soil and microbial properties and functions	59
Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect	58
Threshold responses of riverine fish communities to land use conversion across regions of the world	58
Stocks and losses of soil organic carbon from Chinese vegetated coastal habitats	58
Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global‐scale variations	58
Wild bees as winners and losers: Relative impacts of landscape composition, quality, and climate	57
Agricultural acceleration of soil carbonate weathering	57
Animal mortality during fire	57
Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change	57
Winter snow and spring temperature have differential effects on vegetation phenology and productivity across Arctic plant communities	57
Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming	57
Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth	57
A global meta‐analysis of nitrous oxide emission from drip‐irrigated cropping system	56
Linking root respiration to chemistry and morphology across species	56
Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research	56
Leaching of dissolved organic carbon from mineral soils plays a significant role in the terrestrial carbon balance	56
Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon	55
Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon	55
Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses	55
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades	55
Revisiting the cumulative effects of drought on global gross primary productivity based on new long‐term series data (1982–2018)	54
Ensemble modelling, uncertainty and robust predictions of organic carbon in long‐term bare‐fallow soils	54
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review	54

Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters and estuaries	54
Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time	54
Elevated temperature increases the accumulation of microbial necromass nitrogen in soil via increasing microbial turnover	54
The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes	53
Permafrost nitrogen status and its determinants on the Tibetan Plateau	53
Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs	53
Vital roles of soil microbes in driving terrestrial nitrogen immobilization	53
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales	52
Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils	52
Large quantities of small microplastics permeate the surface ocean to abyssal depths in the South Atlantic Gyre	52
Large‐scale evidence for microbial response and associated carbon release after permafrost thaw	52
Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought	52
The global decline in the sensitivity of vegetation productivity to precipitation from 2001 to 2018	52
Canopy photosynthesis of six major arable crops is enhanced under diffuse light due to canopy architecture	52
Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought	51
Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines	51
High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils	51
Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally	51
A meta‐analysis of responses in floral traits and flower–visitor interactions to water deficit	51
A century of fish growth in relation to climate change, population dynamics and exploitation	51
Are we ready to track climate‐driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? ‐ A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data	51
Cover crop functional types differentially alter the content and composition of soil organic carbon in particulate and mineral‐associated fractions	50
Patterns of post‐drought recovery are strongly influenced by drought duration, frequency, post‐drought wetness, and bioclimatic setting	50
Interactive global change factors mitigate soil aggregation and carbon change in a semi‐arid grassland	50
The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate	50
Exploring complex water stress–gross primary production relationships: Impact of climatic drivers, main effects, and interactive effects	50
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests	50
Partitioning net carbon dioxide fluxes into photosynthesis and respiration using neural networks	50
Seagrass losses since mid‐20th century fuelled CO2 emissions from soil carbon stocks	49
The response of ants to climate change	49
Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)	49
Soil moisture determines the recovery time of ecosystems from drought	49
Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species	49
Rock glaciers and related cold rocky landforms: Overlooked climate refugia for mountain biodiversity	49
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data	49
Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change	49
The response of soil respiration to precipitation change is asymmetric and differs between grasslands and forests	49
The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme	49
Meta‐analysis of multiple driver effects on marine phytoplankton highlights modulating role ofpCO2	48
Evolutionary principles and genetic considerations for guiding conservation interventions under climate change	48
Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis	48
Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought‐induced tree mortality	48
Reference state and benchmark concepts for better biodiversity conservation in contemporary ecosystems	48
Global patterns of soil gross immobilization of ammonium and nitrate in terrestrial ecosystems	48
Assessment of the importance of increasing temperature and decreasing soil moisture on global ecosystem productivity using solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence	48
The impact of global dimming on crop yields is determined by the source–sink imbalance of carbon during grain filling	48
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi	47
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions	47
Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams	47
Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region	47
Global changes may be promoting a rise in select cyanobacteria in nutrient‐poor northern lakes	47
Late to bed, late to rise—Warmer autumn temperatures delay spring phenology by delaying dormancy	47
Topsoil organic matter build‐up in glacier forelands around the world	46
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research	46
High‐resolution mapping of the global silicate weathering carbon sink and its long‐term changes	46
Estimating the carbon storage potential and greenhouse gas emissions of French arable cropland using high‐resolution modeling	46
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis	46
Recent collapse of crop belts and declining diversity of US agriculture since 1840	46
Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France	46
Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes	46
Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality	45
Accelerated rate of vegetation green‐up related to warming at northern high latitudes	45
Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire	45
Core phylotypes enhance the resistance of soil microbiome to environmental changes to maintain multifunctionality in agricultural ecosystems	45
Crop residue return sustains global soil ecological stoichiometry balance	45
Experimental evidence shows minor contribution of nitrogen deposition to global forest carbon sequestration	45
Remarkable effects of microbial factors on soil phosphorus bioavailability: A country‐scale study	45
Accelerated terrestrial ecosystem carbon turnover and its drivers	44
Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology	44
Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes	44
Plant phenological responses to experimental warming—A synthesis	44
Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere	44
Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity	44
Quantifying high‐temperature stress on soybean canopy photosynthesis: The unique role of sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence	44
Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?	44
Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility	44
When do cover crops reduce nitrate leaching? A global meta‐analysis	44
Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China	43
Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests	43
Classifying human influences on terrestrial ecosystems	43
Homogenization and miniaturization of habitat structure in temperate marine forests	43
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration	43
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation	43
Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management	43
Reducing climate impacts of beef production: A synthesis of life cycle assessments across management systems and global regions	43
Precipitation controls seed bank size and its role in alpine meadow community regeneration with increasing altitude	43
Water loss and temperature interact to compound amphibian vulnerability to climate change	43
Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species	43
Evolution and connectivity influence the persistence and recovery of coral reefs under climate change in the Caribbean, Southwest Pacific, and Coral Triangle	42
Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems	42
Long‐term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon	42
Secondary forests offset less than 10% of deforestation‐mediated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon	42
Mobilization of soil phosphate after 8 years of warming is linked to plant phosphorus‐acquisition strategies in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau	42
Forests buffer against variations in precipitation	42
The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments	42