OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Processes is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Formal response to “Sophisticated modelling with inaccurate data: a comment on Steiner & Huettmann (2025)” by Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany	57
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study	47
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?	46
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	42
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices	39
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils	36
Fine-scale decomposition of China’s underdeveloped regional CO2 emissions peaking targets: a case study of Gansu Province	35
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	34
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes	31
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management	30
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers	27
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	27
How resilience signals abrupt declines in vegetation productivity: globally uneven yet predictable	27
Post-fire vegetation and soil recovery in dry forests of Central Monte desert: insights into natural regeneration	27
Adaptive vegetation change as a pathway to sustain wetland nitrogen cycling	26
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping	25
How does provincial virtual cropland mobility influence ecological compensation in China?	24
Long generation time and limited dispersal contribute to two centuries of delayed genetic response to landscape changes in forest herbs	23
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China	23
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain	23
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe	23
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	23
Wisdom of the crowd: evidence for density-dependent species fitness in Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.	22
Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China	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
Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China	22
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species	21
Linking vulnerability and resilience for climate change adaptation: a GeoAI-integrated assessment across Europe	21
Decoding urban heat and cold cores: spatiotemporal evolution and multidimensional drivers in hyper-urbanized regions	21
Correction: Enrichment and toxic effects of triclosan on aquatic macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes and Hydrilla verticillata exposed to triclosan in sediments	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
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue	19
Temporal dynamics of animal vocal behavior affect semi-automatic identifications	19
Soil and forest floor respiration already acclimated to increasing temperatures in a mixed deciduous forest	18
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability	18
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper	17
The conversion of natural wetlands to paddy fields affects net ecosystem carbon fluxes by restructuring the coupling between soil microbial communities and physicochemical properties	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	16
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas	16
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient	16
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation	16
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review	16
Soil bacterial network complexity drives ecosystem service multifunctionality in Inner Mongolian steppes	15
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	15
Divergence in the sensitivity of woody leaf unfolding phenology to daytime and nighttime temperatures	15
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics	15
Mariculture and seagrass restoration influence water nutrients and community assembly processes in seagrass ecosystems	15
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems	15
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?	14
Temporal niche partitioning of bacterial communities shaped by hydrologic fluctuations and drought regimes in karst caves	14
Prolonged alkali water irrigation: impacts of treatment strategies on soil health and microbial dynamics	14
The adsorption effect of aquaculture residual feed on heavy metals and its impact on microbial metabolism of feed	14
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates	14
Habitat suitability dynamics of the Ethiopian endemic multipurpose Millettia ferruginea subspecies under current and future climate change scenarios	14
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking	14
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment	13
Effects of nighttime warming and changing precipitation on soil microclimate in three temperate steppes along a precipitation gradient	13
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	13
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina	13
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters	13
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate	13
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow	13
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland	13
Land-use intensity drives structural simplification of vegetation patches in arid woodland ecosystems	13
Fire and runoff as complementary ecological filters shaping dormancy release and recruitment in Cistus albidus L.	12
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration	12
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors	12
Integrating environmental and LULC drivers of groundwater droughts in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: a machine learning (XGBoost)-SEM analysis with ecosystem implications	12
Towards smart soil carbon pool management of grassland: a bibliometric overview from past to future	12
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	11
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	11
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type	11
Effects of litter inputs on soil aggregate C turnover and flow differ among three natural forest ecosystems along a climate gradient in China	11

Physicochemical properties of soils drive floristic richness of pastures in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	11
Cd immobilization and enhanced plant photosynthesis in wetlands by sulfur-modified biochar converted from Spartina alterniflora	11
Local topographic and biotic neighborhood factors influence tree survival in a tropical dry forest, western Thailand	11
Trait-mediated community assembly and species responses to environmental gradients in alpine plant communities across contrasting regional species pools	11
Soil water content mediates heat wave impacts on stem water status and growth of Neltuma affinis in the Espinal	11
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China	10
An 1800-year record of Austrocedrus chilensis growth reveals an unprecedented recent decline in the Patagonian forest–steppe ecotone	10
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China	10
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	10
Rainfall timing and intensity jointly affect the survival and growth of seedling and juvenile Poa crymophila in alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	10
Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	10
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis	10
Facilitation by an endemic shrub as a nature-based approach to conserve taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities of high-value plants in the Himalayas	10
Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA	10
Changes in soil fertility and microbial communities following cultivation of native grassland in Horqin Sandy Land, China: a 60-year chronosequence	10