OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Forest Ecosystems is 8. 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
Outside Front Cover	55
Comparison of multiple satellite-derived products for assessing vegetation productivity and evapotranspiration in Nepal: Toward understanding carbon and water coupling in a mountainous region	51
A bibliometric analysis using machine learning to track paradigm shifts and analytical advances in forest ecology and forestry journal publications from 2010 to 2022	34
Root overlap and allocation of above- and belowground growth of European beech in pure and mixed stands of Douglas fir and Norway spruce	32
Predicting gross primary productivity of poplar plantations based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence using an improved machine learning model	29
Drought intensity affects radial growth and recovery of P. schrenkiana at varying elevations in the Western Tianshan Mountains, China	27
Competitive effect, but not competitive response, varies along a climatic gradient depending on tree species identity	26
Using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) to optimize tree sampling for biomass model fitting: A case study in short-rotation woody crops (SRWCs)	26
The footprint of fire history on fuel structure strongly shapes fire severity in Mediterranean and Oceanic ecosystems of southern Europe	26
Quantifying foliar trait variation and covariation in sun and shade leaves using leaf spectroscopy in eastern North America	23
Variability and determinants of vascular plant species composition in patches of old managed oak forest stands dispersed within Scots pine monocultures	23
Lifespan of tropical trees from seed to 1-cm diameter	22
Quantifying unseen woody biomass and diversity in understorey trees and shrubs at the extremes of water availability in the Miombo ecoregion	21
Hybrid ecophysiological growth model for deciduous Populus tomentosa plantation in northern China	20
The interaction between temperature and precipitation on the potential distribution range of Betula ermanii in the alpine treeline ecotone on the Changbai Mountain	20
Land use and landscape pattern changes dominated ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in a temperate mountain region	20
Coarse woody debris requirements for maintaining land snail diversity in managed spruce forests	20
Large-scale modelling wind damage vulnerability through combination of high-resolution forest resources maps and ForestGALES	19
Editorial Board	19
Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of China	18
An improved area-based approach for estimating plot-level tree DBH from airborne LiDAR data	18
Legacy effects of historical woodland changes on contemporary plant functional composition	17
Simulating silver fir provenance responses to climate change: A forest modelling approach in the Northern Apennines	16
Variable growth responses of four tree species to climate and drought in a Madrean pine-oak forest	16
Canopy and understory nitrogen additions differentially regulate soil organic carbon fractions via litter–microbe–mineral interactions	16

Influence of climate fluctuations on Pinus palustris growth and drought resilience	16
Rapid escalation and release of risks to forest ecosystems triggered by warming: Insights from tree growth synchrony in temperate forests	15
Optimal integration of forest inventory data and aerial image-based canopy height models for forest stand management	15
Effects of phosphorus resorption on bioactive phosphorus of different-aged Pinus massoniana plantations	15
Species prefer to shifting niche positions rather than expanding niche breadth to adapt to the heterogeneous karst forests	14
Aboveground carbon sequestration of Cunninghamia lanceolata forests: Magnitude and drivers	14
Table of Contents	14
Land-use change and windstorms legacies drove the recolonization dynamics of laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary islands	14
Drought resilience and legacy effects in two forest tree species on Loess Plateau of China: Growth and water-use efficiency under different drought conditions	14
Spatial niche segregation between bird species in the Białowieża primeval forest (NE Poland)	14
Effects of forest management and habitat continuity on the genetic structure and ecological corridors of target epiphytic moss species: A landscape genetic study of Dicranum viride	13
Sustaining forest biodiversity: Exploring the effect of long-term natural disturbance dynamics on contemporary lichen communities in primary forest ecosystems	13
Photoperiod as the primary determinant regulating the onset and cessation of wood formation in temperate trees	13
Deadwood position matters: Diversity and biomass of saproxylic beetles in a temperate beech forest	13
Outside Front Cover	13
Contrasting controls on symbiotic and asymbiotic nitrogen fixation rates along altitudinal gradients in subtropical forests	13
Understanding visitor preferences: Perceived importance of anthropogenic and natural forest features in supplying cultural ecosystem services	13
The effects of incubation temperature, incubation duration, and sample storage condition on the activity of β-1,4-glucosidase across different soil types	13
Remote sensing of subtropical tree diversity: The underappreciated roles of the practical definition of forest canopy and phenological variation	13
Design strategy of advanced generation breeding population of Pinus tabuliformis based on genetic variation and inbreeding level	13
Long-term leaf nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics and drivers in China's forests under global change	13
Leaf nitrogen resorption is more important than litter nitrogen mineralization in mediating the diversity–productivity relationship along a nitrogen-limited temperate forest succession chronosequence	13
Insect seedling herbivory is influenced by multiple factors, but the plant apparency theory is more supported than other hypotheses – A case study in a subtropical forest	13
Growth phenology adjusts to seasonal changes in water availability in coexisting evergreen and deciduous mediterranean oaks	13
Trunk volume estimation of irregular shaped Populus euphratica riparian forest using TLS point cloud data and multivariate prediction models	13
Silver fir tree-ring fluctuations decrease from north to south latitude—total solar irradiance and NAO are indicated as the main influencing factors	12
Sensitivity of forest phenology in China varies with proximity to forest edges	12
Demographic changes in China's forests from 1998 to 2018	12
Near real-time monitoring of carbon effects from continuous forest change in rapidly urbanizing region of China from 2000 to 2020	12
Old-growth mixed dipterocarp forests show variable losses and gains in aboveground biomass and standing carbon over forty years	12
Spatial variation in non-structural carbohydrates reserves of pine species along climatic gradients: A global synthesis	12
N-fixing tree species promote the chemical stability of soil organic carbon in subtropical plantations through increasing the relative contribution of plant-derived lipids	12
Assessing the combined effects of forest management and climate change on carbon and water fluxes in European beech forests	12
Neighborhood competition improves biomass estimation for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) but not Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.) in young mixed forest stands	12
Tree competition in West African tropical forests mediated by the functional attributes of species and variation in soil moisture	11
Effects of bamboo invasion on forest structures and diameter–height allometries	11
Compound heatwave-drought alters eco-hydrological processes in subtropical evergreen and deciduous forests	11
Drivers and patterns of community completeness suggest that Tuscan Fagus sylvatica forests can naturally have a low plant diversity	11
A compartmentation approach to deconstruct ecosystem carbon fluxes of a Moso bamboo forest in subtropical China	11
Old-growthness level assessed by structural heterogeneity indices in Mediterranean Quercus pubescens forests	11
Response of woody vegetation and soils to modern climate change in the Altai Mountains	11
Utilizing quantile regressions to predict vertical distribution of branch size in Larix olgensis Henry: Capturing the differentiated responses of varying branch sizes to stand and tree factors	10
Radial growth and its temporal stability of Dahurian larch in the southern boreal forest: Divergent trends during climate warming and warming hiatus	10
Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia	10
Half a century of demographic responses of Nothofagus cool temperate rainforests to disturbance	10
Ecosystem service multifunctionality of mixed conifer-broad-leaved forests under climate change and forest management based on matrix growth modelling	10
Biodiversity in primary vs. managed forests: Biological legacies of old living and large dead trees drive lichen diversity	10
Corrigendum to “Lifespan of tropical forest trees from seed to 1-cm sapling” [Forest Ecosystems, 2025, (13), page 100309]	9
Spatio-temporal dynamics of future aboveground carbon stocks in natural forests of China	9
Grouping tree species to estimate basal area increment in temperate multispecies forests in Durango, Mexico	9

Biotic and abiotic factors jointly drive the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in forests worldwide	9
Forest management causes soil carbon loss by reducing particulate organic carbon in Guangxi, Southern China	9
Higher planting density accelerates structural heterogeneity and shifts growth dominance earlier toward large trees in Chinese fir plantations	9
No generality in biodiversity-productivity relationships along elevation in temperate and subtropical forest landscapes	9
Elongated gaps provide a good compromise between abiotic and competitive conditions for sessile oak regeneration	9
Words apart: Standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies	9
Quantifying spatiotemporal inconsistencies in runoff responses to forest logging in a subtropical watershed, China	9
Stabilizing forest productivity and resilience at multiple scales	9
Modelling analysis embodies drastic transition among global potential natural vegetations in face of changing climate	8
Late spring-early summer drought and soil properties jointly modulate two pine species' decline and climatic sensitivity in temperate Northern China	8
Tree sapling vitality and recovery following the unprecedented 2018 drought in central Europe	8
Addressing nonresponse bias in forest inventory change estimation using response homogeneity classifications	8
Drivers of spatial structure in thinned forests	8
Growth plasticity of conifers did not avoid declining resilience to soil and atmospheric droughts during the 20th century	8
Editorial Board	8
Differential seed removal, germination and seedling growth as determinants of species suitability for forest restoration by direct seeding – A case study from northern Thailand	8
Scale-dependent variations in photosynthetic processes mediate net primary productivity in temperate forests	8
Non-native shrub overrides understory assembly rules through ecosystem engineering	8
Short lifespan and ‘prime period’ of carbon sequestration call for multi-ages in dryland tree plantations	8
A guide for selecting the appropriate plot design to measure ungulate browsing	8
To clear-cut or not to clear-cut: Diversifying benefits from small-scale forestry in Sweden	8
Bark biomass and nutrient concentrations in tropical secondary forest trees of Malaysia	8
Adaptive optimisation of the management of Korean pine plantation	8
Ice storm damage to oak forests in subtropical China	8
Habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate influences on seedling survival in a temperate forest	8
Table of Contents	8
Disparities in tree mortality among plant functional types (PFTs) in a temperate forest: Insights into size-dependent and PFT-specific patterns	8
Stand dynamics of old-growth hemlock forests in central Bhutan are shaped by natural disturbances	8