OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecosystems is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Time Scales of Ecosystem Impacts and Recovery Under Individual and Serial Invasions	58
Identifying Headwater Streams across the Conterminous United States	43
Integrating Remote Sensing with Ground-based Observations to Quantify the Effects of an Extreme Freeze Event on Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) at the Landscape Scale	31
Integrating Reservoirs into the Dissolved Organic Matter Versus Primary Production Paradigm: How Does Chlorophyll-a Change Across Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations in Reservoirs?	28
A Cosmic View of ‘Tundra Gardens’: Satellite Imagery Provides a Landscape-Scale Perspective of Arctic Fox Ecosystem Engineering	27
Herbivory-Induced Nardus stricta Dominance Enriches Plant Silicon Relative to Phosphorus Enforcing Alternative Ecosystem Stable States in an Alpine Environment	24
A Topographic Gradient Drives Spatial Variability of Stem CH4 Fluxes in a Temperate Alder Stand	24
Fuel Profiles and Biomass Carbon Following Bark Beetle Outbreaks: Insights for Disturbance Interactions from a Historical Silvicultural Experiment	24
Cascading Effects of Apex Predator Recovery on Rodent Foraging Activity and Seed Predation	22
Acclimation of the Nitrogen Cycle to Changes in Precipitation	20
The Relative Importance of Coarse-Scale Climate and Fine-Scale Nitrogen Availability Contrasts in Driving Home-Field Advantage Effects in Litter Decomposition	18
Biophysical Controls on Soil Carbon Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest	17
Impact of a 2°C Warmer Climate on the Fine Root System of European Beech, Sessile Oak, Scots Pine, and Douglas Fir in Central European Lowland Forests	17
Celebrating 25 Years of Ecosystems	17
Six Decades of Changes in Pool Characteristics on a Concentric-Patterned Raised Bog	16
A Severe Hurricane Increases Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes and Triples Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Tropical Forest	15
Fire History and Long-Term Carbon Accumulation in Hemi-boreal Peatlands	15
Impacts of Compost Amendment Type and Application Frequency on a Fire-Impacted Grassland Ecosystem	15
Aboveground Responses of C3 and C4 Grass-Dominated Plant Communities to Future Larger and Less Frequent Rainfall Events	14
Material Legacies and Environmental Constraints Underlie Fire Resilience of a Dominant Boreal Forest Type	14
Biocrusts Modulate Climate Change Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Pools: Insights From a 9-Year Experiment	14
Wood Carbon Fractions Influence Deadwood Carbon Stock Estimates	14
Hypolimnetic Nutrient Subsidies to Surface Waters of a Large Lake: A Coupled Hydrodynamic Modelling and Nitrogen Isotope Field Assessment	13
Sediment Chemistry Predicts Littoral Methane Emissions	13
Multicentury Growth Patterns and Climate Relationships of Three Co-occurring Nothofagus Species in High-Elevation Forests of the Valdivian Andes	13

Dynamics of Respired Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Stream	12
Repeated High-severity Fire in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascades of California, United States: Landscape Trends and Belowground Effects	12
Compensatory Mechanisms Absorb Regional Carbon Losses Within a Rapidly Shifting Coastal Mosaic	12
Decoding a Soil Microbial Strategy: Prioritizing Quantity Over Quality of Phosphatases	12
Structuring Life After Death: Plant Leachates Promote CO2 Uptake by Regulating Microbial Biofilm Interactions in a Northern Peatland Ecosystem	11
Ecosystem Experiments: How Does Manipulation Rate Affect Indicators of Resilience?	11
Flexibility in Aquatic Food Web Interactions: Linking Scales and Approaches	11
Ocean Acidification Influences Strain Selection and Metabolism of the Benthic Diatom Cocconeis neothumensis var. marina	11
Response of Boreal Plant Communities and Forest Floor Carbon Fluxes to Experimental Nutrient Additions	11
Aridity Threshold Triggers Abrupt Increase in Shrub Biomass Through Changes in Leaf Functional Traits	11
Contrasted Successional Trajectories in a Mediterranean Wetland Due to Geomorphic- and Human-Induced Perturbations	11
Disturbance Level Mediates the Differential Resistance of Tropical Dry Forest Soil and Vegetation Attributes to High-Intensity Hurricanes	11
Changes in How Climate Forces the Vegetation of Southern Africa	11
Abiotic Factors Modify Ponderosa Pine Regeneration Outcomes After High-Severity Fire	10
Identifying Bottlenecks to Energy Circulation in the Bay of Biscay Pelagic Food Web: Key Species Under the Spotlight	10
Shifts in Ecological Legacies Support Hysteresis of Stand Type Conversions in Boreal Forests	10
Embracing Uncertainty and Probabilistic Outcomes for Ecological Critical Loads	10
Nitrogen Addition Increases Freeze Resistance in Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Shrubs in a Temperate-Tropical Ecotone	9
Exceptions to the Heterotrophic Rule: Prevalence and Drivers of Autotrophy in Streams and Rivers	9
Soil Particulate Organic Matter is Related to Ericoid Mycorrhizal Shrubs, not Ectomycorrhizal Trees, in a Temperate Forest	9
Exploring the Frequency and Distribution of Ecological Non-monotonicity in Associations among Ecosystem Constituents	9
Agile Allocation in the Tundra: A Single Growing Season of Warming Increases Nutrient Availability While Decreasing Fine-Root Length	9
Global Patterns of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Reproductive and Leaf Litterfall	9
Detecting Trajectories of Regime Shifts and Loss of Resilience in Coastal Wetlands using Remote Sensing	9
Trophic Niche Metrics Reveal Long-Term Shift in Florida Bay Food Webs	9
Root Characteristics Vary with Depth Across Four Lowland Seasonal Tropical Forests	9
The Effect of Water Colour on Fish Communities in Boreal lakes	9
Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient	9
Are Ecosystem Engineering Traits Fixed or Flexible: A Study on Clonal Expansion Strategies in Co-occurring Dune Grasses	8
Agricultural Land Management and Grazing Intensification Effects on Ecosystem Carbon and Nutrient Stocks	8
Impact of Drought on Ecohydrology of Southern California Grassland and Shrubland	8
Benthopelagic Deep-Sea Food Webs Along a Latitudinal Gradient in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)	8
Season and Flow Drive Productivity of a Regulated River	8
Ecosystem Changes Caused by Hydrological Change are Associated with Population Decline in a Formerly-Common Grazing Herbivore	8
Longitudinal Declines in Autochthony and Food Web Length: Why Do Ecological Frameworks Fail to Predict Trophic Webs in Rivers of the Pampa Biome?	8
An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science	8
Temporal Development of Microhabitats on Living Habitat Trees in Temperate European Forests	8
Herbivores’ Impacts Cascade Through the Brown Food Web in a Dryland	8
Watershed-scale Variation in Potential Fungal Community Contributions to Ectomycorrhizal Biogeochemical Syndromes	8
Post-fire Recovery Dynamics and Resilience of Ecosystem Services Capacity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems	8
Vegetation Changes Following Large-scale Fence Removal Across a Protected Area Network Within the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve, South Africa	8
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Large Wood in a Coastal River	7
Species Diversity and Stability of Dominant Species Dominate the Stability of Community Biomass in an Alpine Meadow Under Variable Precipitation	7
Watershed Responses to Climate Change-Driven Disturbances in Temperate Montane Ecosystems of the Western United States	7
An Emerging Carbon Sink in Headwater Streams and the Role of Large Wood and Riparian Forest Structure	7
Spatial Signatures of Biological Soil Crusts and Community Level Self-organization in Drylands	7
Soil Legacies of Tree Species Composition in Mature Forest Affect Tree Seedlings’ Performance	7
Impacts of Watershed Restoration on Runoff, Evapotranspiration, and Ecosystem Service Valuation in a Semi-Arid Region	7
Global Positive Effects of Litter Inputs on Soil Nitrogen Pools and Fluxes	7
Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Across a Vertical Gradient on a Temperate Wetland Seascape Including Salt Marshes, Seagrass Meadows and Rhizophytic Macroalgae Beds	7

Suspended Sections Within Downed Deadwood Are Drier, Have Altered Decomposer Communities, and Slower Decomposition	7
Above-Cliff Tundra Reveals Hidden Seabird Footprint: Evidence from Bjørnøya (Svalbard)	6
Toward a Standardized Method for Quantifying Ecosystem Hot Spots and Hot Moments	6
Correction to: Compensatory Mechanisms Absorb Regional Carbon Losses Within a Rapidly Shifting Coastal Mosaic	6
Disentangling Ecosystem Necromass Dynamics for Biodiversity Conservation	6
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Nitrogen Mobilization in Residential Lawns	6
Organic Carbon Burial Rates in Artificial Ponds Driven by Age and Catchment Land Cover	6
Coastal Forest in Eastern Southern Africa has Savanna Bush-clump Origins	6
Root Exudation by an Annual Grass Modifies Soil Biogeochemical Cycling: A Mechanism for Invasion	6
Correction: Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient	6
Effect of Restoration on Physical and Chemical Peat Properties in Previously Drained Boreal Peatlands	6
How Much Soil Carbon is Derived from Woody Detritus? A Ten-Year Study of 13C Incorporation into Soil Organic Matter	6
The Structural and Functional Impacts of Invasive Psidium cattleianum in Forests on the Island of Hawai’i	6
Coralline Algal Population Explosion in an Overgrazed Seagrass Meadow: Conditional Outcomes of Intraspecific and Interspecific Interactions	6
Correction: Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Across a Vertical Gradient on a Temperate Wetland Seascape Including Salt Marshes, Seagrass Meadows and Rhizophytic Macroalgae Beds	6
Integrating Field Data and a Meta-ecosystem Model to Study the Effects of Multiple Terrestrial Disturbances on Small Stream Ecosystem Function	6
Topography Mediates the Response of Soil CO2 Efflux to Precipitation Over Days, Seasons, and Years	6
Calculating Nitrogen Uptake Rates in Forests: Which Components Can Be Omitted, Simplified, or Taken from Trait Databases and Which Must Be Measured In Situ?	6
Woody Encroachment Intensifies Deep Soil Drying at Daily, Seasonal, and Decadal Scales	5
Soil Moisture Partitioning Between Under Canopy and Interspace Environments in Shrublands of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert	5
Species Asynchrony and Large Trees Jointly Drive Community Stability in a Montane Subtropical Forest	5
Warming Tends to Promote Nitrogen Conservation but Stimulate N2O Emissions in Mangrove Sediments	5
Assessment of the Structure and Activity of Bacterial Communities as a Tandem Tool for Estimating the Ecological Condition of Lakes in Poland	5
Year-Round Variation in Bryophyte-Associated Nitrogen Fixation in the Arctic	5
Macroscale Variation in Red Maple (Acer rubrum) Foliar Carbon, Nitrogen, and Nitrogen Resorption	5
Seasonal Shifts in Space and Diet of Free-Ranging Domestic Herbivores in a Monsoonal Savanna Landscape in Southwest China	5
Spatial Heterogeneity of Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Streams	5
Tree Species Diversity Affects Litter Decomposition via Modification of the Microenvironment	5
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulation of Water Clarity in a Large, Floodplain River Ecosystem	5
Bottom-up Effects of Seabird Colonies on Arctic Benthic Communities Mediated by Kelp Forests	5
Loss of Ecosystem Resistance to Invasion after Wildfire Facilitated by a Pulse of Soil Nitrogen Availability: Experimental Evidence in the Burned Sagebrush Steppe	5
Anthropogenic Eutrophication Drives Major Food Web Changes in Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria	5
Soil Seed Bank Density Enhanced at Shrub Patches Due to Grazing in a Shrub-Encroached Grassland	5
Modeling the Effects of Increased Hurricane Frequency on the Tropical Forest Carbon Cycle	5
Plant Multi-element Coupling as an Indicator of Nutritional Mismatches Under Global Change	5
The Interplay of the Tree and Stand-Level Processes Mediate Drought-Induced Forest Dieback: Evidence from Complementary Remote Sensing and Tree-Ring Approaches	4
Coexistence Patterns of Biocrust-Vascular Plant in the Loess Plateau	4
Ecosystem Size Drives Patterns and Control Mechanisms of Mixotrophs Success Across Tropical Lakes: A Large-Scale Assessment of the Grand Écart Hypothesis	4
Fungal and Oomycete Pathogens Reduce Rangeland Quality Mainly Through Decreasing Forage Production	4
Linking Post-fire Tree Density to Carbon Storage in High-Latitude Cajander Larch (Larix cajanderi) Forests of Far Northeastern Siberia	4
Effects of Urban Green Infrastructure Designs on Soil Bacterial Community Composition and Function	4
Seafloor Terrain Shapes the Three-dimensional Nursery Value of Mangrove and Seagrass Habitats	4
Dynamics of Multiple Elements in Particulate and Mineral-Associated Organic Matter Across Varying Soil Depths Following 13 years of Nitrogen and Water Addition in an Agro-Pastoral Ecotone Grassland	4
Contrasting Responses of Soil Nematode Trophic Groups to Long-Term Nitrogen Addition	4
Understorey Forest Management as a Potential Tool to Promote Taxonomic and Functional Diversity in Eucalyptus Plantations	4
Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient	4
Three Decades of Changing Nutrient Stoichiometry from Source to Sea on the Swedish West Coast	4
Interplay of Climate, Fires, Floods, and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Peat Formation and Carbon Dynamic of Coastal and Inland Tropical Peatlands in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	4
Dynamics of Organic Matter Transport, Storage, and Processing in a Non-perennial Mediterranean River Network	4
Chronic Nitrogen Additions Decrease Rates of N Recovery and Increase Rates of Soil Inorganic N Availability in A Temperate Grassland	4
Sustained Three-Year Declines in Forest Soil Respiration are Proportional to Disturbance Severity	4
Effects of Lithology on Asymbiotic N2 Fixation in Subtropical Secondary Forests, Southwest China	4
Frost-Associated Defoliation in Populus tremuloides Causes Repeated Growth Reductions Over 185 years	3
Seasonality Alters Soil Organic Matter Properties in Alpine and Subalpine Grasslands	3
Shortened Fire Intervals Stimulate Carbon Losses from Heterotrophic Respiration and Reduce Understorey Plant Productivity in Boreal Forests	3
Water Use Efficiency of Grassland Ecosystem in Badain Jaran Desert and Its Relations to Biometeorological Variables	3
Species-Specific Root Exudation Responses to Long-Term Phosphorus and Nitrogen Fertilization Across Successional Status in Bornean Tropical Rainforests	3
Mapping the Spatial Heterogeneity of Watershed Ecosystems and Water Quality in Rainforest Fjordlands	3
A Negative Fire–Vegetation Feedback Substantially Limits Reburn Extent Across the North American Boreal Biome	3
Linking Resource Quality and Biodiversity to Benthic Ecosystem Functions Across a Land-to-Sea Gradient	3
Climate Effects on Prairie Productivity Partially Ameliorated by Soil Nutrients and Plant Community Responses	3
Temperate Primary Forest Biomass Accumulates over Centuries-Long Time Frames	3
Divergent Controls on Leaf and Root Litter Decay Linking to Soil C, N, and P Pools Under a Subtropical Land-use Change	3
Variation in Soil Organic Carbon Across a Latitudinal Chronosequence of Mangrove Poleward Expansion	3
Subsurface Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Losses Offset Surface Carbon Accumulation in Abandoned Agricultural Fields	3
Revisiting Patterns and Controls of Productivity in a Mesic Grassland 30 Years Later: Do We Know Now What We Knew Then?	3
Hydrochoric Seed Dispersal of Riparian Plants Follows Hydrological Patterns Closer Than Geomorphic Variation	3
Changes in Biotic Mechanisms of Phytoplankton Biomass Stability Along a Eutrophic Gradient	3
Current Forest–Savanna Transition in Northern South America Departs from Typical Climatic Thresholds	3
Alleviation of Nutrient Co-limitation Increases Grassland Biomass Production, But Not Carbon Storage	3
Reburning Before Recovery: Effects of Short-Interval Fire on Subalpine Forest Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes	3
Experimental Evidence that Forest Structure Controls Detrital Decomposition	3
Plant Traits and Phylogeny Predict Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mediterranean Mixed Forests	3
Bamboo Plantation Establishment Changes Rainfall Partitioning and Chemistry	3
Riparian Forests and Macroinvertebrates Support Multiple Ecosystem Processes Across Temperate and Tropical Streams	3
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	3
Long-Term Ecological Impacts of Norway Spruce Plantations on Biodiversity and Microhabitat Conditions	3
Variable Tissue Stoichiometry Influences Nutrient Recycling by Invasive Freshwater Mussels in Nutrient-Poor Lakes	3
Long Transients May be Temporary Visits of Concealed Alternative Stable States	3