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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change469
Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda443
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050411
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits381
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 services234
Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?223
Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community210
Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions203
Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States199
Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea188
Soil multitrophic network complexity enhances the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality in agricultural systems175
Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils173
Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon168
Land‐based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country164
Accelerated increase in vegetation carbon sequestration in China after 2010: A turning point resulting from climate and human interaction161
Plastic ingestion by marine fish is widespread and increasing160
Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic147
Global maps of soil temperature147
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures145
Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration145
Climate change‐mediated temperature extremes and insects: From outbreaks to breakdowns143
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species140
Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950132
Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide131
From energy to (soil organic) matter130
Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils129
Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems125
Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐ and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding125
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective124
Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture124
Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity122
Global soil‐derived ammonia emissions from agricultural nitrogen fertilizer application: A refinement based on regional and crop‐specific emission factors118
Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites115
Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss115
Warming reshaped the microbial hierarchical interactions114
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems: Moving beyond the state of the art to minimize the risk of ecological surprise113
Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics109
Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition: A meta‐analysis107
Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen106
Nitrogen addition stimulates soil aggregation and enhances carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China: A meta‐analysis106
Fungal community structure and function shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition104
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought104
Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest102
Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis101
Meta‐analysis of yield and nitrous oxide outcomes for nitrogen management in agriculture100
A global overview of studies about land management, land‐use change, and climate change effects on soil organic carbon98
Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program98
Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security97
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties97
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?94
Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence93
High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau92
Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland91
Soil priming effect and its responses to nutrient addition along a tropical forest elevation gradient91
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content90
Increases in extreme heat stress in domesticated livestock species during the twenty‐first century89
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacaciaL.) range contraction and expansion in Europe under changing climate88
Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change88
Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector87
Storm and fire disturbances in Europe: Distribution and trends87
Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization86
Disturbance type and species life history predict mammal responses to humans86
Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought85
Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts84
The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics83
Global patterns and drivers of rainfall partitioning by trees and shrubs82
Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators82
The effect of global change on soil phosphatase activity82
Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics81
Climate change research and action must look beyond 210081
Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature79
Depth‐dependent drivers of soil microbial necromass carbon across Tibetan alpine grasslands79
Distribution, sources, and decomposition of soil organic matter along a salinity gradient in estuarine wetlands characterized by C:N ratio, δ13C‐δ15N, and lignin biomarker79
Microplastics and the functional traits of fishes: A global meta‐analysis78
Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties78
Carbon limitation overrides acidification in mediating soil microbial activity to nitrogen enrichment in a temperate grassland76
Variations and controlling factors of soil denitrification rate76
Species on the move around the Australian coastline: A continental‐scale review of climate‐driven species redistribution in marine systems76
Climate and land‐use change will lead to a faunal “savannization” on tropical rainforests76
Human activities' fingerprint on multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a major river catchment in China76
Can cropland management practices lower net greenhouse emissions without compromising yield?75
The Brazilian Cerrado is becoming hotter and drier75
Beyond denitrification: The role of microbial diversity in controlling nitrous oxide reduction and soil nitrous oxide emissions75
Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems74
Overview of global status of plastic presence in marine vertebrates74
Global variation in soil carbon sequestration potential through improved cropland management73
Optimal temperature of vegetation productivity and its linkage with climate and elevation on the Tibetan Plateau73
Decipher soil organic carbon dynamics and driving forces across China using machine learning73
Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift72
ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests72
Data‐driven estimates of fertilizer‐induced soil NH3, NO and N2O emissions from croplands in China and their climate change impacts72
Global divergent trends of algal blooms detected by satellite during 1982–201871
Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales70
Phosphorus addition decreases plant lignin but increases microbial necromass contribution to soil organic carbon in a subalpine forest70
Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon70
Animal mortality during fire69
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate68
Soil organic carbon in irrigated agricultural systems: A meta‐analysis67
From pools to flow: The PROMISE framework for new insights on soil carbon cycling in a changing world67
Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of megafire67
Two centuries for an almost complete community turnover from native to non‐native species in a riverine ecosystem67
Soil moisture determines the recovery time of ecosystems from drought66
Small artificial waterbodies are widespread and persistent emitters of methane and carbon dioxide66
Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect66
Responses of soil organic carbon stock to animal manure application: A new global synthesis integrating the impacts of agricultural managements and environmental conditions66
Winter snow and spring temperature have differential effects on vegetation phenology and productivity across Arctic plant communities66
Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget65
Stimulation of ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundances by nitrogen loading: Poor predictability for increased soil N2O emission65
Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research65
Insects in high‐elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change65
Vital roles of soil microbes in driving terrestrial nitrogen immobilization65
Urbanization imprint on land surface phenology: The urban–rural gradient analysis for Chinese cities65
The global decline in the sensitivity of vegetation productivity to precipitation from 2001 to 201865
Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global‐scale variations64
Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth64
Exploring complex water stress–gross primary production relationships: Impact of climatic drivers, main effects, and interactive effects64
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review64
Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change63
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3 billion new people to Zika virus risk by 205063
Forest conversion to plantations: A meta‐analysis of consequences for soil and microbial properties and functions63
Wild bees as winners and losers: Relative impacts of landscape composition, quality, and climate62
Coast‐wide evidence of low pH amelioration by seagrass ecosystems62
Leaching of dissolved organic carbon from mineral soils plays a significant role in the terrestrial carbon balance62
Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters and estuaries61
Linking root respiration to chemistry and morphology across species61
Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs61
Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon61
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests61
Patterns of post‐drought recovery are strongly influenced by drought duration, frequency, post‐drought wetness, and bioclimatic setting61
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 drought60
Ensemble modelling, uncertainty and robust predictions of organic carbon in long‐term bare‐fallow soils59
Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses59
Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales59
Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time59
A global meta‐analysis of nitrous oxide emission from drip‐irrigated cropping system58
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades58
Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming58
Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally57
High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils57
Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology57
Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research57
Large‐scale evidence for microbial response and associated carbon release after permafrost thaw57
Large quantities of small microplastics permeate the surface ocean to abyssal depths in the South Atlantic Gyre56
Nitrogen increases soil organic carbon accrual and alters its functionality56
A meta‐analysis of responses in floral traits and flower–visitor interactions to water deficit56
Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines55
Cover crop functional types differentially alter the content and composition of soil organic carbon in particulate and mineral‐associated fractions55
Assessment of the importance of increasing temperature and decreasing soil moisture on global ecosystem productivity using solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence55
Core phylotypes enhance the resistance of soil microbiome to environmental changes to maintain multifunctionality in agricultural ecosystems55
Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region55
The response of ants to climate change55
Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis55
Late to bed, late to rise—Warmer autumn temperatures delay spring phenology by delaying dormancy54
Rock glaciers and related cold rocky landforms: Overlooked climate refugia for mountain biodiversity54
Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought54
Altered activities of extracellular soil enzymes by the interacting global environmental changes54
Topsoil organic matter build‐up in glacier forelands around the world54
Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought‐induced tree mortality53
The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme53
Crop residue return sustains global soil ecological stoichiometry balance53
Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant–microbe–mineral interactions53
Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils53
High‐resolution mapping of the global silicate weathering carbon sink and its long‐term changes53
Remarkable effects of microbial factors on soil phosphorus bioavailability: A country‐scale study53
Reference state and benchmark concepts for better biodiversity conservation in contemporary ecosystems53
The impact of global dimming on crop yields is determined by the source–sink imbalance of carbon during grain filling53
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 ecosystems52
Timing and magnitude of climate‐driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management52
Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well‐being of humans and the rest of nature52
Are we ready to track climate‐driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? ‐ A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data52
Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams52
The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate52
Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes52
Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers51
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi51
Optimum growth temperature declines with body size within fish species51
Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China51
Evolutionary principles and genetic considerations for guiding conservation interventions under climate change51
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data51
Widespread regeneration failure in forests of Greater Yellowstone under scenarios of future climate and fire50
Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change50
Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes50
Meta‐analysis of multiple driver effects on marine phytoplankton highlights modulating role ofpCO250
Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects50
Global evaluation of inhibitor impacts on ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils: A meta‐analysis50
Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere50
Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?50
When do cover crops reduce nitrate leaching? A global meta‐analysis50
Three‐dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale49
Oxygen availability regulates the quality of soil dissolved organic matter by mediating microbial metabolism and iron oxidation49
Classifying human influences on terrestrial ecosystems49
Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity49
Spatiotemporal variability of fire effects on soil carbon and nitrogen: A global meta‐analysis49
The impact of mobile demersal fishing on carbon storage in seabed sediments48
Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France48
Homogenization and miniaturization of habitat structure in temperate marine forests48
Estimating the carbon storage potential and greenhouse gas emissions of French arable cropland using high‐resolution modeling48
Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species48
Recent collapse of crop belts and declining diversity of US agriculture since 184048
Evolution and connectivity influence the persistence and recovery of coral reefs under climate change in the Caribbean, Southwest Pacific, and Coral Triangle48
Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems47
Reducing climate impacts of beef production: A synthesis of life cycle assessments across management systems and global regions47
Strategic roadmap to assess forest vulnerability under air pollution and climate change47
Recent cover crop adoption is associated with small maize and soybean yield losses in the United States47
Plant phenological responses to experimental warming—A synthesis47
No detectable upper limit of mineral‐associated organic carbon in temperate agricultural soils47
Quantifying high‐temperature stress on soybean canopy photosynthesis: The unique role of sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence47
Mycorrhizal fungi alleviate acidification‐induced phosphorus limitation: Evidence from a decade‐long field experiment of simulated acid deposition in a tropical forest in south China46
Experimental evidence shows minor contribution of nitrogen deposition to global forest carbon sequestration46
Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia46
Soil enzymes as indicators of soil function: A step toward greater realism in microbial ecological modeling45
Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests45
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration45
Taxonomic and functional homogenization of farmland birds along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity45
Nature‐based framework for sustainable afforestation in global drylands under changing climate45
Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi‐arid grassland: Drought, deluge, and the carbon cycle45
Mobilization of soil phosphate after 8 years of warming is linked to plant phosphorus‐acquisition strategies in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau45
Long‐term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon44
Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility44
Range edges of North American marine species are tracking temperature over decades44
Significant winter CO2 uptake by saline lakes on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau44
Forests buffer against variations in precipitation44
Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest44
Secondary forests offset less than 10% of deforestation‐mediated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon43
Long‐term soil warming alters fine root dynamics and morphology, and their ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a temperate forest soil43
Decoupled responses of above‐ and below‐ground stability of productivity to nitrogen addition at the local and larger spatial scale43
Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate43
Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns43
Climate, urbanization, and species traits interactively drive flowering duration43
Essential outcomes for COP2642
Future area expansion outweighs increasing drought risk for soybean in Europe42
On the inter‐ and intra‐annual variability of ecosystem evapotranspiration and water use efficiency of an oak savanna and annual grassland subjected to booms and busts in rainfall42
Challenges in upscaling laboratory studies to ecosystems in soil microbiology research42
Sea ice decline drives biogeographical shifts of key Calanus species in the central Arctic Ocean42
The impacts of mangrove range expansion on wetland ecosystem services in the southeastern United States: Current understanding, knowledge gaps, and emerging research needs42
How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?42
Wealth and urbanization shape medium and large terrestrial mammal communities42
Responses of soil N2O emissions and their abiotic and biotic drivers to altered rainfall regimes and co‐occurring wet N deposition in a semi‐arid grassland42
Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century42
Improved accuracy and reduced uncertainty in greenhouse gas inventories by refining the IPCC emission factor for direct N2O emissions from nitrogen inputs to managed soils42
Roots are key to increasing the mean residence time of organic carbon entering temperate agricultural soils42
Long‐term effects of global change on occupancy and flight period of wild bees in Belgium41
Century‐long records reveal shifting challenges to seagrass recovery41
Altered microbial structure and function after thermokarst formation41
Stimulation of N2O emission via bacterial denitrification driven by acidification in estuarine sediments41
Potential of hotspot solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence for better tracking terrestrial photosynthesis41
Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California41
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