OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 38. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change	122
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests	107
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems	92
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming	79
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment	69
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors	67
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China	67
Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities	67
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness	66
What do you mean, ‘megafire’?	62
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	61
Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence	60
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network	59
Environmental drivers of plant distributions at global and regional scales	58
Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia	56
Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China	55
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity	55
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	55
What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities?	54
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation	54
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions	52
Above‐ and belowground biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem stability in natural alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau	50
A global meta‐analysis of the impacts of tree plantations on biodiversity	50
The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?	49
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes	49

Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene	49
Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests	47
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions	46
Soil macroinvertebrate communities: A world‐wide assessment	46
Large‐scale drivers of relationships between soil microbial properties and organic carbon across Europe	45
Elevated CO₂ shifts soil microbial communities from K‐ to r‐strategists	44
Biodiversity alleviates the decrease of grassland multifunctionality under grazing disturbance: A global meta‐analysis	44
Spatial patterns and driving factors of carbon stocks in mangrove forests on Hainan Island, China	41
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area	41
Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests	41
Microclimate‐based species distribution models in complex forested terrain indicate widespread cryptic refugia under climate change	39
Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa	38
Plant diversity has stronger linkage with soil fungal diversity than with bacterial diversity across grasslands of northern China	38