OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Ecology and Biogeography is 41. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Negative effects of urbanization on terrestrial arthropod communities: A meta‐analysis	151
A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network	148
Global root traits (GRooT) database	89
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change	81
Handling missing values in trait data	81
Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait‐based approach	80
The vertical distribution and control of microbial necromass carbon in forest soils	80
Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns	78
The edaphic control of plant diversity	77
Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta‐analysis	75
Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests	74
Tropical plants do not have narrower temperature tolerances, but are more at risk from warming because they are close to their upper thermal limits	63
Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates	63
Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming	62
Stoichiometric models of microbial metabolic limitation in soil systems	61
The global abundance of tree palms	59
Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness	58
Microbial macroecology: In search of mechanisms governing microbial biogeographic patterns	55
Carbon accumulation in agroforestry systems is affected by tree species diversity, age and regional climate: A global meta‐analysis	52
A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests	51
The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference in their controlling factors	51
Simulating forest resilience: A review	49
Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness	49
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots	49
A global analysis of complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine artificial structures	49

Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence	47
The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes	47
Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China	47
A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment	47
Soil dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: Global budget, spatial distribution and controls	45
The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires	45
Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network	45
Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity	43
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes	43
Global‐scale characterization of turning points in arid and semi‐arid ecosystem functioning	42
Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China	42
Towards a systematics of ecodiversity: The EcoSyst framework	42
Global drivers of avian haemosporidian infections vary across zoogeographical regions	42
Climate‐driven range shifts of montane species vary with elevation	41
Stability in subtropical forests: The role of tree species diversity, stand structure, environmental and socio‐economic conditions	41
Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate	41
Climate and local environment structure asynchrony and the stability of primary production in grasslands	41
Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene	41