OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystems is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Meta-analysis Reveals Different Competition Effects on Tree Growth Resistance and Resilience to Drought	54
Temperature and Moisture Modulate the Contribution of Soil Fauna to Litter Decomposition via Different Pathways	43
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain	40
Global Warming Potential Is Not an Ecosystem Property	31
White-Sand Savannas Expand at the Core of the Amazon After Forest Wildfires	30
Long-Term Responses of Mediterranean Mountain Forests to Climate Change, Fire and Human Activities in the Northern Apennines (Italy)	30
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience	29
Seeing the System from Above: The Use and Potential of Remote Sensing for Studying Ecosystem Dynamics	29
Divergent Controls on Stream Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Across a Land-Use Gradient	27
Dwarf Shrubs Impact Tundra Soils: Drier, Colder, and Less Organic Carbon	26
Wetter is Better: Rewetting of Minerotrophic Peatlands Increases Plant Production and Moves Them Towards Carbon Sinks in a Dry Year	26
Fire Recurrence and Time Since Last Fire Interact to Determine the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services by Mediterranean Forests	25
Assessing the Risk of Losing Forest Ecosystem Services Due to Wildfires	22
Trade-offs Between Light and Nutrient Availability Across Gradients of Dissolved Organic Carbon Lead to Spatially and Temporally Variable Responses of Lake Phytoplankton Biomass to Browning	22
Water Hyacinth’s Effect on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: A Field Study in a Wide Variety of Tropical Water Bodies	22
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect	21
Increased Water Use Efficiency in China and Its Drivers During 2000–2016	20
Estimating Benthic Light Regimes Improves Predictions of Primary Production and constrains Light-Use Efficiency in Streams and Rivers	20
Ongoing Fen–Bog Transition in a Boreal Aapa Mire Inferred from Repeated Field Sampling, Aerial Images, and Landsat Data	19
Plant–Environment Interactions in the Low Arctic Torngat Mountains of Labrador	19
Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland	19
Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond	19
Impact of Ocean Acidification on Ecosystem Functioning and Services in Habitat-Forming Species and Marine Ecosystems	19
Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?	19
Fine Root and Soil Organic Carbon Depth Distributions are Inversely Related Across Fertility and Rainfall Gradients in Lowland Tropical Forests	19

Shade-Tree Rehabilitation in Vanilla Agroforests is Yield Neutral and May Translate into Landscape-Scale Canopy Cover Gains	18
Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective	18
Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion	17
Greenhouse Gas Balance of Sphagnum Farming on Highly Decomposed Peat at Former Peat Extraction Sites	17
Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog	17
Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps	17
Tree-Related Microhabitats Follow Similar Patterns but are More Diverse in Primary Compared to Managed Temperate Mountain Forests	16
Warming Stimulates Iron-Mediated Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mineral-Poor Peatlands	16
The Metabolic Regimes at the Scale of an Entire Stream Network Unveiled Through Sensor Data and Machine Learning	16
Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes	16
Soil Stoichiometry Mediates Links Between Tree Functional Diversity and Soil Microbial Diversity in a Temperate Forest	16
Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake	16
An Outlook for Deep Learning in Ecosystem Science	15
Responses of Temperate Forests to Nitrogen Deposition: Testing the Explanatory Power of Modeled Deposition Datasets for Vegetation Gradients	15
Canopy Disturbances Catalyse Tree Species Shifts in Swiss Forests	15
Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization Across a Climate Transect of Mesic Boreal Forests Is Explained by Air Temperature and Snowpack Duration	14
Canopy Cover Loss of Mediterranean Oak Woodlands: Long-term Effects of Management and Climate	14
A View From Both Ends: Shifts in Herbivore Assemblages Impact Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes on Coral Reefs	14
Effects of Soil Abiotic and Biotic Factors on Tree Seedling Regeneration Following a Boreal Forest Wildfire	14
Loss of Key Riparian Plant Species Impacts Stream Ecosystem Functioning	14
Fauna Community Convergence During Decomposition of Deadwood Across Tree Species and Forests	14
The Interplay of the Tree and Stand-Level Processes Mediate Drought-Induced Forest Dieback: Evidence from Complementary Remote Sensing and Tree-Ring Approaches	14
Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon	14
How Are Greenhouse Gases Coupled Across Seasons in a Large Temperate River with Differential Land Use?	13
Recent Lateral Expansion of Sphagnum Bogs Over Central Fen Areas of Boreal Aapa Mire Complexes	13
Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene	13
Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland	13
Disentangling the Legacies of Climate and Management on Tree Growth	12
Stream Macroinvertebrates and Carbon Cycling in Tangled Food Webs	12
Large-Scale Quantification and Correlates of Ungulate Carrion Production in the Anthropocene	12
Ecosystem Processes Show Uniform Sensitivity to Winter Soil Temperature Change Across a Gradient from Central to Cold Marginal Stands of a Major Temperate Forest Tree	12
The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh	12
Sclerophyllous Forest Tree Growth Under the Influence of a Historic Megadrought in the Mediterranean Ecoregion of Chile	12
Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition	12
Tree Foliage is a Methane Sink in Upland Temperate Forests	11
Reforestations of Tropical Forests Alter Interactions Between Web-Building Spiders and Their Prey	11
Pulse, Shunt and Storage: Hydrological Contraction Shapes Processing and Export of Particulate Organic Matter in River Networks	11
Penguins and Seals Transport Limiting Nutrients Between Offshore Pelagic and Coastal Regions of Antarctica Under Changing Sea Ice	11
Azorella Cushion Plants and Aridity are Important Drivers of Soil Microbial Communities in Andean Ecosystems	11
Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem	11
Deadwood Reduces the Variation in Soil Microbial Communities Caused by Experimental Forest Gaps	10
Variability in Tree-ring Width and NDVI Responses to Climate at a Landscape Level	10
Evidence of the Significant Contribution of Heterotrophic Diazotrophs to Nitrogen Fixation in the Eastern Indian Ocean During Pre-Southwest Monsoon Period	10
Precipitation Pattern Regulates Soil Carbon Flux Responses to Nitrogen Addition in a Temperate Forest	10
Romans Shape Today’s Vegetation and Soils: Two Millennia of Land-Use Legacy Dynamics in Mediterranean Grasslands	10
Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Across a Vertical Gradient on a Temperate Wetland Seascape Including Salt Marshes, Seagrass Meadows and Rhizophytic Macroalgae Beds	10
Resolving the Drivers of Algal Nutrient Limitation from Boreal to Arctic Lakes and Streams	10
Inundation, Hydrodynamics and Vegetation Influence Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Amazon Floodplain Lakes	10
Are Northern Lakes in Relatively Intact Temperate Forests Showing Signs of Increasing Phytoplankton Biomass?	10
Submerged Rootless Macrophytes Sustain a Stable State Against Free-Floating Plants	10

Tracking the Rates and Mechanisms of Canopy Damage and Recovery Following Hurricane Maria Using Multitemporal Lidar Data	10
Skid Trail Effects on Soil Methane and Carbon Dioxide Flux in a Selection-Managed Northern Hardwood Forest	10
Climate Records, Isotopes, and C:N Stoichiometry Reveal Carbon and Nitrogen Flux Dynamics Differ Between Functional Groups of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi	10
Increased Above- and Belowground Plant Input Can Both Trigger Microbial Nitrogen Mining in Subarctic Tundra Soils	10
Post-fire Regeneration Traits of Understorey Shrub Species Modulate Successional Responses to High Severity Fire in Mediterranean Pine Forests	10
Fine Wood Decomposition Rates Decline with the Age of Tropical Successional Forests in Southern Mexico: Implications to Ecosystem Carbon Storage	9
Consequences of Piñon-Juniper Woodland Fuel Reduction: Prescribed Fire Increases Soil Erosion While Mastication Does Not	9
Fire Severity and Post-fire Hydrology Drive Nutrient Cycling and Plant Community Recovery in Intermittent Wetlands	9
Terrestrial Nitrogen Inputs Affect the Export of Unprocessed Atmospheric Nitrate to Surface Waters: Insights from Triple Oxygen Isotopes of Nitrate	9
Exploring the Role of Cryptic Nitrogen Fixers in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Frontier in Nitrogen Cycling Research	9
Soil Nutrient Depletion and Tree Functional Composition Shift Following Repeated Clearing in Secondary Forests of the Congo Basin	9
Risk Assessment for Key Socio-Economic and Ecological Species in a Sub-Arctic Marine Ecosystem Under Combined Ocean Acidification and Warming	9
Spatially Continuous Land-Cover Reconstructions Through the Holocene in Southern Sweden	9
Recovery from Severe Mistletoe Infection After Heat- and Drought-Induced Mistletoe Death	9
Identifying Carbon-Degrading Enzyme Activities in Association with Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation Under Land-Use Changes	9
Evaluating Drought Impact on Postfire Recovery of Chaparral Across Southern California	9
A Trait-Based Approach for Understanding Changes in Carbon Sequestration in Semi-Arid Grassland During Succession	8
Predicting Dissolved Organic Matter Lability and Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Freshwater Ecosystems	8
Mapping the Delivery of Ecological Functions Combining Field Collected Data and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)	8
A Classification Framework to Assess Ecological, Biogeochemical, and Hydrologic Synchrony and Asynchrony	8
Soil Fungi Promote Biodiversity–Productivity Relationships in Experimental Communities of Young Trees	8
Ectomycorrhizal Stands Accelerate Decomposition to a Greater Extent than Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Stands in a Northern Deciduous Forest	8
Is Zooplankton Body Size an Indicator of Water Quality in (Sub)tropical Reservoirs in China?	8
Modelling Marine Predator Habitat Using the Abundance of Its Pelagic Prey in the Tropical South-Western Pacific	8
Fine Root Growth Increases in Response to Nitrogen Addition in Phosphorus-limited Northern Hardwood Forests	8
The Role of Epiphytic Algae and Grazing Snails in Stable States of Submerged and of Free-Floating Plants	8
Precipitation Intensification Increases Shrub Dominance in Arid, Not Mesic, Ecosystems	8
A Global Synthesis of the Effects of Livestock Activity on Hydrological Processes	8
Mistletoes Facilitate a Desert Herbivore by Improving the Quality of Shade	8
Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning	8