OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecological Processes is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils	56
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	49
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?	48
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices	41
Effects of different forms of nitrogen addition on microbial extracellular enzyme activity in temperate grassland soil	39
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study	39
Enhancements of soil priming effect and carbon sequestration in degraded alpine meadows via supplementation: a comparative study of Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) exc	37
Fine-scale decomposition of China’s underdeveloped regional CO2 emissions peaking targets: a case study of Gansu Province	36
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes	33
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management	33
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	29
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers	27
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe	25
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping	25
Changes in fish resources 5 years after implementation of the 10-year fishing ban in the Chishui River, the first river with a complete fishing ban in the Yangtze River Basin	24
Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China	23
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain	23
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China	23
Forage offering and seasonal intake comparisons to evaluate European rabbit threat in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia	22
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	22
Tree species mixing causes shifts in nitrogen acquisition and utilization strategies of Mongolian pine and Simon poplar	22
Wisdom of the crowd: evidence for density-dependent species fitness in Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.	21
Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	21
Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China	20
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species	20

Nitrogen deposition enhances the competitive advantage of invasive plant species over common native species through improved resource acquisition and absorption	20
Divergent impact of long-term anthropogenic nitrogen inputs on global particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon	20
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability	18
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient	18
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation	17
Progress on the world’s primate hotspots and coldspots: modeling ensemble super SDMs in cloud-computers based on digital citizen-science big data and 200+ predictors for more sustainable conservation	17
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics	17
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	16
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review	16
Soil and forest floor respiration already acclimated to increasing temperatures in a mixed deciduous forest	16
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue	15
Nature-based recreation for the elderly in urban areas: assessing opportunities and demand as planning support	15
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas	15
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems	15
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed	15
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper	15
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?	15
Temporal niche partitioning of bacterial communities shaped by hydrologic fluctuations and drought regimes in karst caves	15
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland	14
Effects of nighttime warming and changing precipitation on soil microclimate in three temperate steppes along a precipitation gradient	14
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates	14
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow	14
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina	14
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking	14
Prolonged alkali water irrigation: impacts of treatment strategies on soil health and microbial dynamics	14
Integrating environmental and LULC drivers of groundwater droughts in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: a machine learning (XGBoost)-SEM analysis with ecosystem implications	13
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	13
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters	13
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration	13
Niche breadth and overlap of spotted deer and domestic cattle with swamp deer in tropical region of Nepal	13
Effects of fire history on animal communities: a systematic review	13
Towards smart soil carbon pool management of grassland: a bibliometric overview from past to future	13
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment	13
Application of pressure–state–response approach for developing criteria and indicators of ecological health assessment of wetlands: a multi-temporal study in Ichhamati floodplains, India	12
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	12
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type	12
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors	12
Hydrological alteration and biodiversity change along the river network caused by anthropogenic activities and climate variability	12
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis	12
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate	12
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China	11
Predicting the invasion potential of two alien plant species (Parthenium hysterophorus L., Asteraceae and Salvia tiliifolia Vahl, Lamiaceae) under the current and future climate change scenarios in Et	11
Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA	11
Disentangling land model uncertainty via Matrix-based Ensemble Model Inter-comparison Platform (MEMIP)	11
Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	11
Sustainable urban systems: from landscape to ecological processes	11
Changes in soil fertility and microbial communities following cultivation of native grassland in Horqin Sandy Land, China: a 60-year chronosequence	11
Is environmental regulation conducive to the reduction of residents’ health costs? – evidence from the Chinese Family Panel Survey	10
Unraveling the effect of environment and decomposer diversity on deadwood decomposition: lessons from a large-scale experiment	10
Dispersal-based processes as drivers of fish communities and species distributions in the Yangtze River–Poyang Lake riverine floodplain of China	10

Hunting of hunted: an ensemble modeling approach to evaluate suitable habitats for caracals in India	10
Incidence of controlled water restriction on density and chemical profiles in tree rings of Araucaria araucana seedlings	10
The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado	10
Plant–pollinator metanetworks in fragmented landscapes: a simulation study	10
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China	10
Construction and optimization of ecological spatial network in typical mining cities of the Yellow River Basin: the case study of Shenmu City, Shaanxi	10
Fuzzy evaluation and obstacle factors of urban ecological health changes in the Wei River Basin, northwest China	9
Consecutive annual mowing reduces soil respiration and increases the proportion of autotrophic component in a meadow steppe	9
The effects of multiple environmental factors on global carbon allocation	9
Spartina alterniflora invasion exacerbates soil microbial carbon and phosphorus co-limitations and alters microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiency in the coastal wetlands of eastern China	9
Lake microbiome composition determines community adaptability to warming perturbations	9
Influence of tree species on soil microbial residue accumulation and distribution among soil aggregates in subtropical plantations of China	9
Spatially explicit estimation of soil organic carbon stock of an estuarine mangrove wetland of eastern India using elemental analysis and very-fine resolution satellite data	8
High adaptability of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica to drought-induced soil nutrient deficiency	8
Effect of complex hydraulic variables and physicochemical factors on freshwater mussel density in the largest floodplain lake, China	8
Time lag effect of vegetation response to seasonal precipitation in the Mara River Basin	8
A review of landscape ecology experiments to understand ecological processes	8
Complex effects of different types of acid rain on root growth of Quercus acutissima and Cunninghamia lanceolata saplings	8
Uncovering current pyroregions in Italy using wildfire metrics	8
Species richness is not a good predictor for above-ground biomass in a warm temperate deciduous broadleaf forest	8
Biology and resource acquisition of mistletoes, and the defense responses of host plants	8
Phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. across diverse rangelands in northeastern Ethiopia	8
Rhizosphere fungal community assembly varied across functional guilds in a temperate forest	8
Evaluating the applicability of the growth rate hypothesis in successional tree stands: evidence from temperate forests in Northeast China	8
Soil drought thresholds of alpine grassland deceased rapidly under the influence of extreme low temperature in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	8
Changes in albedo and its radiative forcing of grasslands in East Asia drylands	8
Effects of nitrogen addition and drought on the relationship between nitrogen- and water-use efficiency in a temperate grassland	8
Contrasting responses of an invasive plant to herbivory of native and introduced insects	7
Fixing active sand dune by native grasses in the desert of Northwest China	7
Understory bamboo removal impacts on woody seedling regeneration in forest ecosystems: a meta-analysis	7
Comparisons of oxbow lake fish assemblages in relation to bigheaded carp establishment in the lower White River, Arkansas	7
Assessment of spongy moth infestation impacts on forest productivity and carbon loss using the Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing and eddy covariance flux data	7
Fungi stimulate organic phosphorus fraction transformation in subtropical masson pine plantation soils after nine years of thinning and understory removal	7
A global analysis of the introduction pathways and characteristics associated with non-native fish species introduction, establishment, and impacts	7
Influence of night-time light pollution on the photosynthesis and physiological characteristics of the urban plants Euonymus japonicus and Rosa hybrida	7
Correction: An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	7
Quantifying the impacts of spatiotemporal land use and land cover changes on soil loss across agroecologies and slope categories using GIS and RUSLE model in Zoa watershed, southwest Ethiopia	7
Fluctuating saline conditions favor competition of Bolboschoenus planiculmis, a dominant species in inland salt marshes	7
Warming and elevated nitrogen deposition accelerate the invasion process of Solidago canadensis L.	7
Trajectories in nitrogen availability during forest secondary succession: illustrated by foliar δ15N	6
Interspecific variation in seed traits facilitates divergent pre-dispersal seed predation among five stone oak species	6
Impacts of Spartina alterniflora invasion on C-cycling functional genes and microbial communities in salt marsh wetlands during cold season	6
Sediment phosphorus mobility in a semi-arid wetland with highly fluctuating hydrology	6
Exploring the multi-scale drivers of predation on artificial caterpillars by insectivorous birds in a Central European montane forest region	6
Enrichment and toxic effects of triclosan on aquatic macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes and Hydrilla verticillata exposed to triclosan in sediments	6
Spatio-temporal variations of drought in the Welmel watershed, southeast of Ethiopia using the vegetation condition index and standardized precipitation index	6
Will fire-smart landscape management buffer the effects of climate and land-use changes on fire regimes?	6
Long-term monitoring reveals the effect of precipitation and silviculture on Nothofagus regeneration in Northern Patagonia mixed forests	6
Retraction Note: Lichens reveal the quality of indoor air in Selangor, Malaysia	6
Biodiversity effects of the Russia–Ukraine War and the Kakhovka Dam destruction: ecological consequences and predictions for marine, estuarine, and freshwater communities in the northern Black Sea	6
Rapid recovery of desert shrubs is attributed to imbalance of water supply to demand after disturbance in Northwest China	6
Comparison of soil chemical and microbial properties in monoculture larch and mixed plantations in a temperate forest ecosystem in Northeast China	6
Exploring the impacts of agricultural emissions from natural gas on ecological footprint	6
Image analysis of Moroccan carob seeds (Ceratonia siliqua L.) revealed substantial intraspecific variations depending on climate and geographic origin	6
Rainfall amount determines annual herb controls over soil seed bank and its similarity with vegetation in the Tengger Desert	6
Functional and phylogenetic structure of mammals along elevational gradients in the Central and East Himalayas	6
Stem CH4 emissions from the reclaimed forests: magnitude, drivers, and contribution	6
Contrasting diurnal impacts of vapor pressure deficit on water use efficiency in two semiarid steppe ecosystems	6
Congruent responses of vascular plant and ant communities to pastoral land-use abandonment in mountain areas throughout different biogeographic regions	6
Light grazing alleviates aeolian erosion–deposition effects on microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland	6
A large carbon sink induced by the implementation of the largest afforestation program on Earth	5
Autumn sunlight promotes aboveground carbon loss in a temperate mixed forest	5
Nitrogen addition changes the nitrogen conversion process in forest steppe ecotone by increasing enzyme activity	5
Rare earth element geochemistry in soils along arid and semiarid grasslands in northern China	5
Passivation remediation of weakly alkaline Cd-contaminated soils using combined treatments of biochar and sepiolite	5
Application of jasmonic acid boosts accelerative effects of silicon addition on rice defense against invasion of apple snails (Ampullariidae)	5
Variations in diversity, composition, and species interactions of soil microbial community in response to increased N deposition and precipitation intensity in a temperate grassland	5
Trends in species distribution modelling in context of rare and endemic plants: a systematic review	5
Warming and altered precipitation rarely alter N addition effects on soil greenhouse gas fluxes: a meta-analysis	5
Environmental drivers of tree species richness in the southernmost portion of the Paranaense forests	5
Grazing exclusion promotes soil organic carbon accumulation in Tibetan grasslands with lower temperatures	5
Soil seed banks after Acacia dealbata Link invasion and removal: implications for restoration	5
Interregional eco-compensation: towards equity between emitting and greening in China	5
Process analysis and mitigation strategies for wetland degradation caused by increasing agricultural water demand: an ecology–economy nexus perspective	5
Priority effects of forbs arriving early: the role of root interaction and asymmetric competition	5
Effect of shifting cultivation and fallow on soil quality index in Mokokchung district, Nagaland, India	5
Influence of urban air pollution on the population in the Klang Valley, Malaysia: a spatial approach	5
Analyses of fin ray types to detect strontium markers in juvenile blunt-snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala	5
Reproductive patterns in Araucaria araucana forests in the Andean range, Chile	5
Artificial light at night (ALAN) pollution alters bat lunar chronobiology: insights from broad-scale long-term acoustic monitoring	5