OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ecological Processes is 4. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications	124
Assessment of soil microbial and enzyme activity in the rhizosphere zone under different land use/cover of a semiarid region, India	71
Integrating morphological spatial pattern analysis and the minimal cumulative resistance model to optimize urban ecological networks: a case study in Shenzhen City, China	66
Effect of land use, season, and soil depth on soil microbial biomass carbon of Eastern Himalayas	62
The impacts of land-use and land-cover change on wetland ecosystem service values in peri-urban and urban area of Bahir Dar City, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Northwestern Ethiopia	56
Spatial point-pattern analysis as a powerful tool in identifying pattern-process relationships in plant ecology: an updated review	50
Impacts of land use/land cover and climate changes on soil erosion in Muga watershed, Upper Blue Nile basin (Abay), Ethiopia	41
Stand structure and species diversity regulate biomass carbon stock under major Central Himalayan forest types of India	41
Species Distribution Modelling performance and its implication for Sentinel-2-based prediction of invasive Prosopis juliflora in lower Awash River basin, Ethiopia	38
Spatiotemporal analysis of urban growth on forest and agricultural land using geospatial techniques and Shannon entropy method in the satellite town of Ethiopia, the western fringe of Addis Ababa city	33
Effect of grassland degradation on soil quality and soil biotic community in a semi-arid temperate steppe	32
Changes in ecosystem service values strongly influenced by human activities in contrasting agro-ecological environments	31
Mapping current and potential future distributions of the oak tree (Quercus aegilops) in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq	31
Ecological connectivity in fragmented agricultural landscapes and the importance of scattered trees and small patches	30
Heat and drought impact on carbon exchange in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests	30
Predictive distribution modeling of Swertia bimaculata in Darjeeling-Sikkim Eastern Himalaya using MaxEnt: current and future scenarios	30
Heavy metal gradients from rural to urban lakes in central China	27
Split nitrogen fertilizer application improved grain yield in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) via modulating antioxidant capacity and 13C photosynthate mobilization under water-saving irrigation c	26
Effect of forest fire on soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activity in oak and pine forests of Uttarakhand Himalaya, India	25
Rural households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate variability and extremes: a livelihood zone-based approach in the Northeastern Highlands of Ethiopia	25
The identification of wildlife-vehicle collision hotspots: Citizen science reveals spatial and temporal patterns	24
Integrating structure and function: mapping the hierarchical spatial heterogeneity of urban landscapes	24
Responses of soil microbial communities to freeze–thaw cycles in a Chinese temperate forest	23
Modeling fire ignition probability and frequency using Hurdle models: a cross-regional study in Southern Europe	23
The impact of tropical land-use change on downstream riverine and estuarine water properties and biogeochemical cycles: a review	23

Seasonality and moisture regime control soil respiration, enzyme activities, and soil microbial biomass carbon in a semi-arid forest of Delhi, India	23
Distribution of organic carbon fractions in soil aggregates in Chinese fir plantations with different stand ages	22
Influence of urban air pollution on the population in the Klang Valley, Malaysia: a spatial approach	22
Trends in species distribution modelling in context of rare and endemic plants: a systematic review	22
Assessing farmers' contribution to greenhouse gas emission and the impact of adopting climate-smart agriculture on mitigation	22
Biology and resource acquisition of mistletoes, and the defense responses of host plants	21
A review of jellyfish aggregations, focusing on India’s coastal waters	21
Multi-temporal analysis of past and future land cover change in the highly urbanized state of Selangor, Malaysia	21
Enhanced carbon acquisition and use efficiency alleviate microbial carbon relative to nitrogen limitation under soil acidification	20
Runoff and soil loss responses of cultivated land managed with graded soil bunds of different ages in the Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia	20
Evaluation of the WEAP model in simulating subbasin hydrology in the Central Rift Valley basin, Ethiopia	19
Effects of fire history on animal communities: a systematic review	19
Multi-scale habitat selection and impacts of climate change on the distribution of four sympatric meso-carnivores using random forest algorithm	18
Environmental filtering and spatial processes equally contributed to macroinvertebrate metacommunity dynamics in the highly urbanized river networks in Shenzhen, South China	17
Modelling the potential risk zone of Lantana camara invasion and response to climate change in eastern India	17
Assessing the bird guild patterns in heterogeneous land use types around Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India	16
Effects of stand density on soil respiration and labile organic carbon in different aged Larix principis-rupprechtii plantations	16
Ecological niche modelling of a critically endangered species Commiphora wightii (Arn.) Bhandari using bioclimatic and non-bioclimatic variables	15
Water resilience mapping of Chennai, India using analytical hierarchy process	15
Hydrological alteration and biodiversity change along the river network caused by anthropogenic activities and climate variability	15
Soil and water conservation practice effects on soil physicochemical properties and crop yield in Ethiopia: review and synthesis	15
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	15
Habitat heterogeneity influences avian feeding guild composition in urban landscapes: evidence from Bhubaneswar, India	14
Changing climate patterns risk the spread of Varroa destructor infestation of African honey bees in Tanzania	14
Using machine learning to predict habitat suitability of sloth bears at multiple spatial scales	14
Soil carbon stock and emission: estimates from three land-use systems in Ghana	14
Radial variations in xylem sap flux in a temperate red pine plantation forest	14
Can vegetation index track the interannual variation in gross primary production of temperate deciduous forests?	14
The impacts of altitude and seed pretreatments on seedling emergence of Syrian juniper (Juniperus drupacea (Labill.) Ant. et Kotschy)	14
Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes	13
Effects of different forms of nitrogen addition on microbial extracellular enzyme activity in temperate grassland soil	13
Large-diameter trees, snags, and deadwood in southern Utah, USA	12
Using the Lonsdorf model for estimating habitat loss and fragmentation effects on pollination service	12
The importance of large-diameter trees to the creation of snag and deadwood biomass	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Tree species diversity predicts aboveground carbon storage through functional diversity and functional dominance in the dry evergreen Afromontane forest of Hararghe highland, Southe	12
Seasonal dynamics of iron and phosphorus in reservoir sediments in Eucalyptus plantation region	12
Increasing loss of mature boreal forests around protected areas with red-listed forest species	11
Multiple scenario simulation and optimization of an urban green infrastructure network based on complex network theory: a case study in Harbin City, China	11
Uncovering current pyroregions in Italy using wildfire metrics	11
Effects of topographic variability and forest attributes on fine-scale soil fertility in late-secondary succession of Atlantic Forest	11
Consistency in bird community assembly over medium-term along rural-urban gradients in Argentina	10
Warming and elevated nitrogen deposition accelerate the invasion process of Solidago canadensis L.	10
Increased microbial sequestration of soil organic carbon under nitrogen deposition over China’s terrestrial ecosystems	10
Species richness, phylogenetic diversity and phylogenetic structure patterns of exotic and native plants along an elevational gradient in the Himalaya	10
Elevated atmospheric CO2 impact on carbon and nitrogen transformations and microbial community in replicated wetland	10
Effects of geoclimatic factors on the variability in Pinus pinea cone, seed, and seedling traits in Turkey native habitats	10
Remediation mechanism of “double-resistant” bacteria—Sedum alfredii Hance on Pb- and Cd-contaminated soil	10
Nitrogen addition mediates the response of foliar stoichiometry to phosphorus addition: a meta-analysis	9
Long-term changes in the plant ecology of an African savanna landscape and the implications for ecosystem theory and conservation management	9
Neocosmopolitan distributions of invertebrate aquatic invasive species due to euryhaline geographic history and human-mediated dispersal: Ponto-Caspian versus other geographic origins	9

Nitrogen use efficiency of terrestrial plants in China: geographic patterns, evolution, and determinants	9
Comparison of soil chemical and microbial properties in monoculture larch and mixed plantations in a temperate forest ecosystem in Northeast China	9
Relationship between species richness, taxonomic distinctness, functional diversity, and local contribution to β diversity and effects of habitat disturbance in the riparian spider community of the Ga	8
The effect of dolomite amendment on soil organic carbon mineralization is determined by the dolomite size	8
Effects of floods on macroinvertebrate communities in the Zarin Gol River of northern Iran: implications for water quality monitoring and biological assessment	8
Influence of land cover features on avian community and potential conservation priority areas for biodiversity at a Ramsar site in India	8
Congruent responses of vascular plant and ant communities to pastoral land-use abandonment in mountain areas throughout different biogeographic regions	8
Image analysis of Moroccan carob seeds (Ceratonia siliqua L.) revealed substantial intraspecific variations depending on climate and geographic origin	8
Effect of shifting cultivation and fallow on soil quality index in Mokokchung district, Nagaland, India	8
A traceability analysis system for model evaluation on land carbon dynamics: design and applications	8
Aquatic community structure and stream habitat in a karst agricultural landscape	8
Nitrogen addition reduced carbon mineralization of aggregates in forest soils but enhanced in paddy soils in South China	8
Landscape structure and suitable habitat analysis for effective restoration planning in semi-arid mountain forests	8
The different responses of planktonic bacteria and archaea to water temperature maintain the stability of their community diversity in dammed rivers	7
Does landscape context affect pollination-related functional diversity and richness of understory flowers in forest fragments of Atlantic Rainforest in southeastern Brazil?	7
Mowing weakens the positive effects of nitrogen deposition on fundamental ecosystem service of grassland	7
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	7
Simulation of urban microclimate with uhiSolver: software validation using simplified material data	7
The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado	7
Assessing effectiveness of nature-based solution with big earth data: 60 years mangrove plantation program in Bangladesh coast	7
Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	7
Patterns and drivers of tree carbon stocks in Kashmir Himalayan forests: implications for climate change mitigation	7
Cascading effect of source limitation on the granivore-mediated seed dispersal of Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) in secondary forest ecosystems	7
Improving the knowledge of plant potential biodiversity-ecosystem services links using maps at the regional level in Southern Patagonia	7
Staying alive on an active volcano: 80 years population dynamics of Cytisus aeolicus (Fabaceae) from Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy)	7
Climate change-driven shifts in plant–soil feedbacks: a meta-analysis	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
Vertical distribution patterns and drivers of soil bacterial communities across the continuous permafrost region of northeastern China	7
Ecological implications of twentieth century reforestation programs for the urban forests of São Paulo, Brazil: a study based on litterfall and nutrient cycling	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Lichens reveal the quality of indoor air in Selangor, Malaysia	7
Spatial and temporal dynamics of growth of woody plant species (birch and willows) on the foreland of a retreating glacier in southern Iceland	6
Epidemiological factors of septoria tritici blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum) in the highlands of Wollo, Ethiopia	6
Homogeneous selection is not always important in bacterial community in the eutrophic enclosed bay	6
Large-diameter trees and deadwood correspond with belowground ectomycorrhizal fungal richness	6
Complex effects of different types of acid rain on root growth of Quercus acutissima and Cunninghamia lanceolata saplings	6
Effects of logging on the trade-off between seed and sprout regeneration of dominant woody species in secondary forests of the Natural Forest Protection Project of China	6
Predicting invasion potential of Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) Irwin & Barneby under the changing climate in Africa	6
Carbon pool dynamics after variable retention harvesting in Nothofagus pumilio forests of Tierra del Fuego	6
Country-level land carbon sink and its causing components by the middle of the twenty-first century	6
Soil quality estimation using environmental covariates and predictive models: an example from tropical soils of Nigeria	6
Urbanization, economic development, and environmental changes in transitional economies in the global south: a case of Yangon	6
Impact of human disturbances on soil cyanobacteria diversity and distribution in suburban arid area of Marrakesh, Morocco	6
Nitrogen uptake strategies of mature conifers in Northeastern China, illustrated by the 15N natural abundance method	5
Gender plasticity uncovers multiple sexual morphs in natural populations of Cedrus deodara (Roxb.) G. Don	5
Morphological characterization and habitat suitability modeling of the goat population of Benin under climate change scenarios	5
Divergent responses of plant biomass and diversity to short-term nitrogen and phosphorus addition in three types of steppe in Inner Mongolia, China	5
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	5
The effects of biodiversity gradient on plant mass and metabolism of individual submerged macrophytes	5
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	5
Soil organic carbon stocks in native forest of Argentina: a useful surrogate for mitigation and conservation planning under climate variability	5
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	5
Recovery of bird communities following the construction of a large-scale hydroelectric dam	5
A review of landscape ecology experiments to understand ecological processes	5
Ecological and floristic study of Hirmi woodland vegetation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia	5
Camera traps reveal the natural corridors used by mammalian species in eastern Mexico	5
Evolution of seasonal land surface temperature trend in pond-breeding newt (Neurergus derjugini) in western Iran and eastern Iraq	5
Niche breadth and overlap of spotted deer and domestic cattle with swamp deer in tropical region of Nepal	5
Local habitat characteristics determine butterfly diversity and community structure in a threatened Kihansi gorge forest, Southern Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania	4
Rare earth element geochemistry in soils along arid and semiarid grasslands in northern China	4
Plant–pollinator metanetworks in fragmented landscapes: a simulation study	4
Effects of variable retention harvesting on canopy transpiration in a red pine plantation forest	4
Spatial distribution of above ground carbon density in Harana Forest, Ethiopia	4
The influence of window size on remote sensing-based prediction of forest structural variables	4
Mapping soil nutrients via different covariates combinations: theory and an example from Morocco	4
The effects of stump size and within-gap position on sprout non-structural carbohydrates concentrations and regeneration in forest gaps vary among species with different shade tolerances	4
N2O emission and its influencing factors in subtropical streams, China	4
Microcosm study on fate and dynamics of mangrove tannins during leaf litter leaching	4
Sustainable urban systems: from landscape to ecological processes	4
Root-order-associated variations in fine-root decomposition and their effects on soil in a subtropical evergreen forest	4
How does the 120-year cycle mast seeding of dwarf bamboo affect the rodent population?	4
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	4
Rhizosphere fungal community assembly varied across functional guilds in a temperate forest	4
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	4
Development of a phytoplankton-based index of biotic integrity for ecological health assessment in the Yangtze River	4
The effect of landscape structure on the evolution of two alternative dispersal strategies	4
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	4
Changes in albedo and its radiative forcing of grasslands in East Asia drylands	4
Effects of nitrogen addition and drought on the relationship between nitrogen- and water-use efficiency in a temperate grassland	4