OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecological Processes is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of different forms of nitrogen addition on microbial extracellular enzyme activity in temperate grassland soil	64
Contrasting plant growth performance of invasive polyploid and native diploid Prosopis is mediated by the soil bacterial community	50
Does climate change alter the nutrient trends of Cedrela fissilis Vell. trees in the southern Brazilian Amazon?	43
Estimating GPP in China using different site-level datasets, vegetation classification and vegetation indices	37
Nitrogen addition has divergent effects on phosphorus fractions in four types of soils	36
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	35
The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill population (Euphausia superba): an individual-based modelling study	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	33
Fine-scale decomposition of China’s underdeveloped regional CO2 emissions peaking targets: a case study of Gansu Province	32
IMix: a user-friendly application for source partitioning using stable isotopes	30
Ecological niche shifts affect the potential invasive risk of Phytolacca americana (Phytolaccaceae) in China	26
Functional responses to deforestation in fish communities inhabiting neotropical streams and rivers	25
Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management	24
How does provincial virtual cropland mobility influence ecological compensation in China?	24
Correction: Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping	23
Identifying ecological risk and cost–benefit value for supporting habitat restoration: a case study from Sansha Bay, southeast China	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	22
Differential impacts of nitrogen compounds on soil acid phosphatase activity in a meadow steppe	22
Tree species mixing causes shifts in nitrogen acquisition and utilization strategies of Mongolian pine and Simon poplar	21
Adaptive vegetation change as a pathway to sustain wetland nitrogen cycling	21
Water quality, habitat, and fish assemblage relationships in middle-order agriculture and forest streams of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain	21
Wisdom of the crowd: evidence for density-dependent species fitness in Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit.	20
Sex-dependent resilience to extreme drought events: implications for climate change adaptation of a South American endangered tree species	20
Forage offering and seasonal intake comparisons to evaluate European rabbit threat in Nothofagus forests of southern Patagonia	19
Linking vulnerability and resilience for climate change adaptation: a GeoAI-integrated assessment across Europe	19

Symbiotic mycorrhizal types affect patterns of tree aboveground and belowground C allocation in Northeast China	19
Nitrogen deposition enhances the competitive advantage of invasive plant species over common native species through improved resource acquisition and absorption	18
An approach for finding causal relations in environmental systems: with an application to understand drivers of a toxic algal bloom	18
Divergent impact of long-term anthropogenic nitrogen inputs on global particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon	18
Effects of altitude and slope on the climate–radial growth relationships of Larix olgensis A. Henry in the southern Lesser Khingan Mountains, Northeast China	18
Applicability and improvement of different potential evapotranspiration models in different climate zones of China	17
Current trends in forestry research of Latin-America: an editorial overview of the Special Issue	17
Simulated wind erosion and local dust deposition affect soil micro-food web by changing resource availability	16
Relationships between land use types and urban heat island intensity in Hulu Langat district, Selangor, Malaysia	16
Integration of UAV LiDAR and WorldView-2 images for modeling mangrove aboveground biomass with GA-ANN wrapper	16
Soil fauna accelerated litter C and N release by improving litter quality across an elevational gradient	16
Temporal dynamics of animal vocal behavior affect semi-automatic identifications	16
Knowledge gaps on drivers of change in East African dry forests: insights from a systematic literature review	16
Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics	16
The humus layer promotes needle litter decomposition but not carbon release or phosphorus accumulation in a Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation	15
13C analysis of cow tail hair and farm slurry can be used to implicitly distinguish between different dairy production systems	15
Soil and forest floor respiration already acclimated to increasing temperatures in a mixed deciduous forest	15
Soil organic carbon contents and their major influencing factors in mangrove tidal flats: a comparison between estuarine and non-estuarine areas	15
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	15
Temporal niche partitioning of bacterial communities shaped by hydrologic fluctuations and drought regimes in karst caves	15
Accessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in tropical mountain forests using regression kriging simulation: a geostatistical approach for local-scale estimates	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
Mariculture and seagrass restoration influence water nutrients and community assembly processes in seagrass ecosystems	13
Divergence in the sensitivity of woody leaf unfolding phenology to daytime and nighttime temperatures	13
Nature-based recreation for the elderly in urban areas: assessing opportunities and demand as planning support	13
Soil bacterial network complexity drives ecosystem service multifunctionality in Inner Mongolian steppes	13
Habitat suitability dynamics of the Ethiopian endemic multipurpose Millettia ferruginea subspecies under current and future climate change scenarios	13
Can incidental ingestion of plant-dwelling insects nutritionally benefit ungulates?	12
Driving factors of tree biomass and soil carbon pool in xerophytic forests of northeastern Argentina	12
Functional traits: the pathways to riverine plant resistance in times of hydropeaking	12
Paralleled grazing and mowing differentially affected plant community diversity and productivity in a semi-arid grassland	12
Seed nutrient is more stable than leaf in response to changing multiple resources in an alpine meadow	12
Effects of nighttime warming and changing precipitation on soil microclimate in three temperate steppes along a precipitation gradient	12
Environmental drivers of seasonal shifts in abundance of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in a tropical island environment	12
Biogeographic shifts in the microbial co-occurrence network features of three domains across complex environmental gradients in subtropical coastal waters	11
Comparing leaf area index estimates in a Mediterranean forest using field measurements, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 data	11
Spatial and temporal patterns of forest fires in the Central Monte: relationships with regional climate	11
Peri-urban dynamics: assessing expansion patterns and influencing factors	11
A new perspective for enhancing social and ecological systems coordination in ecological restoration	11
Local topographic and biotic neighborhood factors influence tree survival in a tropical dry forest, western Thailand	10
Integrating environmental and LULC drivers of groundwater droughts in groundwater-dependent ecosystems: a machine learning (XGBoost)-SEM analysis with ecosystem implications	10
Effects of litter inputs on soil aggregate C turnover and flow differ among three natural forest ecosystems along a climate gradient in China	10
Physicochemical properties of soils drive floristic richness of pastures in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo	10
Towards smart soil carbon pool management of grassland: a bibliometric overview from past to future	10
Suitable scale structures for urban multi-functions: an integrative approach grounded in socio-ecological system analysis	10
Trait-mediated community assembly and species responses to environmental gradients in alpine plant communities across contrasting regional species pools	10
A global meta-analysis of woody plant responses to elevated CO2: implications on biomass, growth, leaf N content, photosynthesis and water relations	10
Endophytic bacteria in the periglacial plant Potentilla fruticosa var. albicans are influenced by habitat type	10
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	10

Evaluating species richness, turnover, and range shifts under climate change for fluvial fishes in Northeastern and Midwestern USA	9
Influence of soil properties on selenium concentration in paddy soil and rice grains in the hilly regions of southern China	9
Plant–pollinator metanetworks in fragmented landscapes: a simulation study	9
Dispersal-based processes as drivers of fish communities and species distributions in the Yangtze River–Poyang Lake riverine floodplain of China	9
Is environmental regulation conducive to the reduction of residents’ health costs? – evidence from the Chinese Family Panel Survey	9
Changes in soil fertility and microbial communities following cultivation of native grassland in Horqin Sandy Land, China: a 60-year chronosequence	9
Experimental study on photodegradation and leaching of typical pesticides in greenhouse soil from Shouguang, Shandong Province, East China	9
Exogenous nitrogen input skews estimates of microbial nitrogen use efficiency by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	9
Lake microbiome composition determines community adaptability to warming perturbations	9
Unraveling the effect of environment and decomposer diversity on deadwood decomposition: lessons from a large-scale experiment	9
Rainfall timing and intensity jointly affect the survival and growth of seedling and juvenile Poa crymophila in alpine rangelands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	9
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	9
The assessment of climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of the Brazilian Cerrado	9
Hunting of hunted: an ensemble modeling approach to evaluate suitable habitats for caracals in India	9