Global Change Biology

Article	Citations
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change	469
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda	443
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050	411
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits	381
30 years of free‐air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?	285
Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services	234
Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?	223
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community	210
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions	203
Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States	199
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea	188
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems	175
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils	173
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon	168
Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country	164
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction	161
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing	160
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic	147
Global maps of soil temperature	147
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures	145
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration	145
Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns	143
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species	140
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950	132
Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide	131

From energy to (soil organic) matter	130
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils	129
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding	125
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems	125
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective	124
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture	124
Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity	122
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors	118
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss	115
Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites	115
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions	114
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise	113
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics	109
Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis	107
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis	106
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen	106
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition	104
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought	104
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest	102
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis	101
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture	100
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon	98
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program	98
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security	97
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties	97
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?	94
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence	93
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau	92
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland	91
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient	91
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content	90
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century	89
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change	88
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacaciaL.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate	88
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends	87
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector	87
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization	86
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans	86
Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought	85
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts	84
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics	83
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity	82
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs	82
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators	82
Climate change research and action must look beyond 2100	81
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics	81
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	79
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature	79
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands	79
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis	78

Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties	78
Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland	76
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate	76
Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems	76
Climate and land‐use change will lead to a faunal “savannization” on tropical rainforests	76
Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China	76
Can cropland management practices lower net greenhouse emissions without compromising yield?	75
The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier	75
Beyond denitrification: The role of microbial diversity in controlling nitrous oxide reduction and soil nitrous oxide emissions	75
Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems	74
Overview of global status of plastic presence in marine vertebrates	74
Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation on the Tibetan Plateau	73
Global variation in soil carbon sequestration potential through improved cropland management	73
Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning	73
Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift	72
ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests	72
Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts	72
Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–2018	71
Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales	70
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest	70
Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon	70
Animal mortality during fire	69
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate	68
Soil organic carbon in irrigated agricultural systems: A meta‐analysis	67
From pools to flow: The PROMISE framework for new insights on soil carbon cycling in a changing world	67
Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire	67
Two centuries for an almost complete community turnover from native to non‐native species in a riverine ecosystem	67
Soil moisture determines the recovery time of ecosystems from drought	66
Small artificial waterbodies are widespread and persistent emitters of methane and carbon dioxide	66
Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect	66
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions	66
Winter snow and spring temperature have differential effects on vegetation phenology and productivity across Arctic plant communities	66
Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget	65
Stimulation of ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundances by nitrogen loading: Poor predictability for increased soil N2O emission	65
Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research	65
Insects in high‐elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change	65
Vital roles of soil microbes in driving terrestrial nitrogen immobilization	65
Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban–rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities	65
The global decline in the sensitivity of vegetation productivity to precipitation from 2001 to 2018	65
Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global‐scale variations	64
Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth	64
Exploring complex water stress–gross primary production relationships: Impact of climatic drivers, main effects, and interactive effects	64
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review	64
Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change	63
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050	63
Forest conversion to plantations: A meta‐analysis of consequences for soil and microbial properties and functions	63
Wild bees as winners and losers: Relative impacts of landscape composition, quality, and climate	62
Coast‐wide evidence of low pH amelioration by seagrass ecosystems	62
Leaching of dissolved organic carbon from mineral soils plays a significant role in the terrestrial carbon balance	62
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters and estuaries	61
Linking root respiration to chemistry and morphology across species	61
Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs	61
Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon	61
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests	61
Patterns of post‐drought recovery are strongly influenced by drought duration, frequency, post‐drought wetness, and bioclimatic setting	61
Revisiting the cumulative effects of drought on global gross primary productivity based on new long‐term series data (1982–2018)	60
Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought	60
Ensemble modelling, uncertainty and robust predictions of organic carbon in long‐term bare‐fallow soils	59
Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses	59
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales	59
Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time	59
A global meta‐analysis of nitrous oxide emission from drip‐irrigated cropping system	58
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades	58
Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming	58
Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally	57
High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils	57
Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology	57
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research	57
Large‐scale evidence for microbial response and associated carbon release after permafrost thaw	57
Large quantities of small microplastics permeate the surface ocean to abyssal depths in the South Atlantic Gyre	56
Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality	56
A meta‐analysis of responses in floral traits and flower–visitor interactions to water deficit	56
Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines	55
Cover crop functional types differentially alter the content and composition of soil organic carbon in particulate and mineral‐associated fractions	55
Assessment of the importance of increasing temperature and decreasing soil moisture on global ecosystem productivity using solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence	55
Core phylotypes enhance the resistance of soil microbiome to environmental changes to maintain multifunctionality in agricultural ecosystems	55
Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region	55
The response of ants to climate change	55
Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis	55
Late to bed, late to rise—Warmer autumn temperatures delay spring phenology by delaying dormancy	54

Rock glaciers and related cold rocky landforms: Overlooked climate refugia for mountain biodiversity	54
Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought	54
Altered activities of extracellular soil enzymes by the interacting global environmental changes	54
Topsoil organic matter build‐up in glacier forelands around the world	54
Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought‐induced tree mortality	53
The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme	53
Crop residue return sustains global soil ecological stoichiometry balance	53
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions	53
Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils	53
High‐resolution mapping of the global silicate weathering carbon sink and its long‐term changes	53
Remarkable effects of microbial factors on soil phosphorus bioavailability: A country‐scale study	53
Reference state and benchmark concepts for better biodiversity conservation in contemporary ecosystems	53
The impact of global dimming on crop yields is determined by the source–sink imbalance of carbon during grain filling	53
Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)	52
Global patterns of soil gross immobilization of ammonium and nitrate in terrestrial ecosystems	52
Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management	52
Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well‐being of humans and the rest of nature	52
Are we ready to track climate‐driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? ‐ A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data	52
Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams	52
The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate	52
Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes	52
Evolutionary principles and genetic considerations for guiding conservation interventions under climate change	51
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data	51
Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers	51
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi	51
Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species	51
Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China	51
When do cover crops reduce nitrate leaching? A global meta‐analysis	50
Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire	50
Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change	50
Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes	50
Meta‐analysis of multiple driver effects on marine phytoplankton highlights modulating role ofpCO2	50
Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects	50
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis	50
Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere	50
Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?	50
Three‐dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale	49
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation	49
Classifying human influences on terrestrial ecosystems	49
Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity	49
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis	49
Recent collapse of crop belts and declining diversity of US agriculture since 1840	48
Evolution and connectivity influence the persistence and recovery of coral reefs under climate change in the Caribbean, Southwest Pacific, and Coral Triangle	48
The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments	48
Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France	48
Homogenization and miniaturization of habitat structure in temperate marine forests	48
Estimating the carbon storage potential and greenhouse gas emissions of French arable cropland using high‐resolution modeling	48
Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species	48
No detectable upper limit of mineral‐associated organic carbon in temperate agricultural soils	47
Quantifying high‐temperature stress on soybean canopy photosynthesis: The unique role of sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence	47
Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems	47
Reducing climate impacts of beef production: A synthesis of life cycle assessments across management systems and global regions	47
Strategic roadmap to assess forest vulnerability under air pollution and climate change	47
Recent cover crop adoption is associated with small maize and soybean yield losses in the United States	47
Plant phenological responses to experimental warming—A synthesis	47
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia	46
Mycorrhizal fungi alleviate acidification‐induced phosphorus limitation: Evidence from a decade‐long field experiment of simulated acid deposition in a tropical forest in south China	46
Experimental evidence shows minor contribution of nitrogen deposition to global forest carbon sequestration	46
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	45
Soil enzymes as indicators of soil function: A step toward greater realism in microbial ecological modeling	45
Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests	45
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration	45
Taxonomic and functional homogenization of farmland birds along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity	45
Nature‐based framework for sustainable afforestation in global drylands under changing climate	45
Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi‐arid grassland: Drought, deluge, and the carbon cycle	45
Long‐term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon	44
Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility	44
Range edges of North American marine species are tracking temperature over decades	44
Significant winter CO2 uptake by saline lakes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau	44
Forests buffer against variations in precipitation	44
Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest	44
Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration	43
Secondary forests offset less than 10% of deforestation‐mediated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon	43
Long‐term soil warming alters fine root dynamics and morphology, and their ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a temperate forest soil	43
Decoupled responses of above‐ and below‐ground stability of productivity to nitrogen addition at the local and larger spatial scale	43
Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate	43
Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns	43
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 grassland	42
Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century	42
Improved accuracy and reduced uncertainty in greenhouse gas inventories by refining the IPCC emission factor for direct N2O emissions from nitrogen inputs to managed soils	42
Roots are key to increasing the mean residence time of organic carbon entering temperate agricultural soils	42
Essential outcomes for COP26	42
Future area expansion outweighs increasing drought risk for soybean in Europe	42
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 rainfall	42
Challenges in upscaling laboratory studies to ecosystems in soil microbiology research	42
Sea ice decline drives biogeographical shifts of key Calanus species in the central Arctic Ocean	42
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs	42
How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?	42
Wealth and urbanization shape medium and large terrestrial mammal communities	42
Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California	41
Long‐term effects of global change on occupancy and flight period of wild bees in Belgium	41
Century‐long records reveal shifting challenges to seagrass recovery	41
Altered microbial structure and function after thermokarst formation	41
Stimulation of N2O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments	41
Potential of hotspot solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence for better tracking terrestrial photosynthesis	41