Ecosystems

Papers
(The TQCC of Ecosystems is 9. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Meta-analysis Reveals Different Competition Effects on Tree Growth Resistance and Resilience to Drought38
The Role of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Control for Phytoplankton in a Subtropical Shallow Eutrophic Lake: Evidence Based on Long-Term Monitoring and Modeling37
Temperature and Moisture Modulate the Contribution of Soil Fauna to Litter Decomposition via Different Pathways34
Losses of Soil Organic Carbon with Deforestation in Mangroves of Madagascar33
Common Species Stability and Species Asynchrony Rather than Richness Determine Ecosystem Stability Under Nitrogen Enrichment32
Historical Disturbances Determine Current Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Saproxylic Beetle Communities in Temperate Primary Forests31
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain30
Source Switching Maintains Dissolved Organic Matter Chemostasis Across Discharge Levels in a Large Temperate River Network29
Multiple Ecosystem Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the Arctic25
White-Sand Savannas Expand at the Core of the Amazon After Forest Wildfires24
A Small Nimble In Situ Fine-Scale Flux Method for Measuring Tree Stem Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Processes (S.N.I.F.F)23
Host Identity as a Driver of Moss-Associated N2 Fixation Rates in Alaska23
Tree Neighbourhood Diversity Has Negligible Effects on Drought Resilience of European Beech, Silver Fir and Norway Spruce23
Above- and Below-ground Cascading Effects of Wild Ungulates in Temperate Forests23
Climate Warming Persistence Triggered Tree Ingression After Shrub Encroachment in a High Alpine Tundra23
Tropical Biogeomorphic Seagrass Landscapes for Coastal Protection: Persistence and Wave Attenuation During Major Storms Events23
Changes in Chemical and Microbial Soil Parameters Following 8 Years of Deadwood Decay: An Experiment with Logs of 13 Tree Species in 30 Forests23
Water Hyacinth’s Effect on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: A Field Study in a Wide Variety of Tropical Water Bodies22
Effects of Extreme Disturbance Events: From Ecesis to Social–Ecological–Technological Systems22
Soil Carbon Stocks Vary Across Geomorphic Settings in Australian Temperate Tidal Marsh Ecosystems22
Global Warming Potential Is Not an Ecosystem Property22
Long-Term Responses of Mediterranean Mountain Forests to Climate Change, Fire and Human Activities in the Northern Apennines (Italy)22
An Integrative Ecological Drought Framework to Span Plant Stress to Ecosystem Transformation21
Shifts in Key Leaf Litter Traits Can Predict Effects of Plant Diversity Loss on Decomposition in Streams21
Simulated Increases in Fire Activity Reinforce Shrub Conversion in a Southwestern US Forest20
Long-Term Changes in Terrestrial Vegetation Linked to Shifts in a Colonial Seabird Population20
Divergent Controls on Stream Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Across a Land-Use Gradient20
Forest Vegetation Change and Its Impacts on Soil Water Following 47 Years of Managed Wildfire19
Major Effects of Alkalinity on the Relationship Between Metabolism and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Lakes19
Wetter is Better: Rewetting of Minerotrophic Peatlands Increases Plant Production and Moves Them Towards Carbon Sinks in a Dry Year19
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Metabolism in a Hyper-eutrophic Reservoir Differ Between a Wet and Dry Year18
Impact of Ocean Acidification on Ecosystem Functioning and Services in Habitat-Forming Species and Marine Ecosystems18
Vulnerable Waters are Essential to Watershed Resilience18
Eutrophication Drives Extreme Seasonal CO2 Flux in Lake Ecosystems18
Nitrogen Enrichment Reduces Nitrogen and Phosphorus Resorption Through Changes to Species Resorption and Plant Community Composition18
Silicon Dynamics During 2 Million Years of Soil Development in a Coastal Dune Chronosequence Under a Mediterranean Climate18
Patterns of Spring/Summer Open-Water Metabolism Across Boreal Lakes18
Dynamics of Calcium, Magnesium, and Manganese During Litter Decomposition in Alpine Forest Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems17
Fire Recurrence and Time Since Last Fire Interact to Determine the Supply of Multiple Ecosystem Services by Mediterranean Forests17
Estimating Benthic Light Regimes Improves Predictions of Primary Production and constrains Light-Use Efficiency in Streams and Rivers17
High Arctic Vegetation Change Mediated by Hydrological Conditions16
Fine Root and Soil Organic Carbon Depth Distributions are Inversely Related Across Fertility and Rainfall Gradients in Lowland Tropical Forests16
Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?16
Effects of Grazing, Wind Erosion, and Dust Deposition on Plant Community Composition and Structure in a Temperate Steppe16
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect16
Alternative Biogeochemical States of River Pools Mediated by Hippo Use and Flow Variability16
Forest Structural Complexity and Biomass Predict First-Year Carbon Cycling Responses to Disturbance16
Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective15
Characterizing Peatland Microtopography Using Gradient and Microform-Based Approaches15
Plant–Environment Interactions in the Low Arctic Torngat Mountains of Labrador15
Ongoing Fen–Bog Transition in a Boreal Aapa Mire Inferred from Repeated Field Sampling, Aerial Images, and Landsat Data14
Disproportionate Contribution of Vegetated Habitats to the CH4 and CO2 Budgets of a Boreal Lake14
Ancient Anthropogenic Clam Gardens of the Northwest Coast Expand Clam Habitat14
Increased Water Use Efficiency in China and Its Drivers During 2000–201614
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 Browning14
Seeing the System from Above: The Use and Potential of Remote Sensing for Studying Ecosystem Dynamics14
Biocrusts Modulate Responses of Nitrous Oxide and Methane Soil Fluxes to Simulated Climate Change in a Mediterranean Dryland13
Geographic Linkages of Root Traits to Salt Marsh Productivity13
Assessing the Risk of Losing Forest Ecosystem Services Due to Wildfires13
Warming Stimulates Iron-Mediated Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Mineral-Poor Peatlands13
Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion13
Large Mammalian Herbivores and the Paradox of Soil Carbon in Grazing Ecosystems: Role of Microbial Decomposers and Their Enzymes13
Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond12
The Metabolic Regimes at the Scale of an Entire Stream Network Unveiled Through Sensor Data and Machine Learning12
Whole-Ecosystem Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in an Ombrotrophic Bog12
Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland12
Effects of Soil Abiotic and Biotic Factors on Tree Seedling Regeneration Following a Boreal Forest Wildfire12
Tree-Related Microhabitats Follow Similar Patterns but are More Diverse in Primary Compared to Managed Temperate Mountain Forests12
Loss of Large Animals Differentially Influences Nutrient Fluxes Across a Heterogeneous Marine Intertidal Soft-Sediment Ecosystem12
Shrubs and Degraded Permafrost Pave the Way for Tree Establishment in Subarctic Peatlands12
Stable Isotopes Clearly Track Mangrove Inputs and Food Web Changes Along a Reforestation Gradient12
Shade-Tree Rehabilitation in Vanilla Agroforests is Yield Neutral and May Translate into Landscape-Scale Canopy Cover Gains12
Ecosystem Recovery from Disturbance is Constrained by N Cycle Openness, Vegetation-Soil N Distribution, Form of N Losses, and the Balance Between Vegetation and Soil-Microbial Processes12
Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps12
Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene11
Long-Term Impacts of Invasive Insects and Pathogens on Composition, Biomass, and Diversity of Forests in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains11
A View From Both Ends: Shifts in Herbivore Assemblages Impact Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes on Coral Reefs11
Fauna Community Convergence During Decomposition of Deadwood Across Tree Species and Forests11
Soil Stoichiometry Mediates Links Between Tree Functional Diversity and Soil Microbial Diversity in a Temperate Forest11
Ecosystem Shift from Submerged to Floating Plants Simplifying the Food Web in a Tropical Shallow Lake11
Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon11
Mechanisms of Persistent High Primary Production During the Growing Season in the Chukchi Sea11
Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forested Peatlands in Eastern Canada11
Recent Lateral Expansion of Sphagnum Bogs Over Central Fen Areas of Boreal Aapa Mire Complexes11
Responses of Temperate Forests to Nitrogen Deposition: Testing the Explanatory Power of Modeled Deposition Datasets for Vegetation Gradients11
Greenhouse Gas Balance of Sphagnum Farming on Highly Decomposed Peat at Former Peat Extraction Sites11
Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem10
Deadwood Reduces the Variation in Soil Microbial Communities Caused by Experimental Forest Gaps10
Strong Legacy Effects of Prior Burn Severity on Forest Resilience to a High-Severity Fire10
Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization Across a Climate Transect of Mesic Boreal Forests Is Explained by Air Temperature and Snowpack Duration10
How Are Greenhouse Gases Coupled Across Seasons in a Large Temperate River with Differential Land Use?10
Evidence of the Significant Contribution of Heterotrophic Diazotrophs to Nitrogen Fixation in the Eastern Indian Ocean During Pre-Southwest Monsoon Period10
Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland10
Effects of Litter Quality Diminish and Effects of Vegetation Type Develop During Litter Decomposition of Two Shrub Species in an Alpine Treeline Ecotone10
Canopy Cover Loss of Mediterranean Oak Woodlands: Long-term Effects of Management and Climate10
Long-Term Impact of Liming on Soil C and N in a Fertile Spruce Forest Ecosystem9
Stream Macroinvertebrates and Carbon Cycling in Tangled Food Webs9
The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh9
Loss of Key Riparian Plant Species Impacts Stream Ecosystem Functioning9
Fagus sylvatica L. Peripheral Populations in the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula: Climatic or Anthropic Relicts?9
Romans Shape Today’s Vegetation and Soils: Two Millennia of Land-Use Legacy Dynamics in Mediterranean Grasslands9
Azorella Cushion Plants and Aridity are Important Drivers of Soil Microbial Communities in Andean Ecosystems9
Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition9
Ecosystem Processes Show Uniform Sensitivity to Winter Soil Temperature Change Across a Gradient from Central to Cold Marginal Stands of a Major Temperate Forest Tree9
Local and Regional Drivers of Environmental Changes in Two Subtropical Montane Ponds (Central China) Over the Last Two Centuries9
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