Journal of Vegetation Science

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Spatial patterns in neighbourhood effects on woody plant selection and bark stripping by deer in a lowland alluvial forest	80
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	55
Vegetation change over 140 years in a sagebrush landscape of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico, USA	42
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities	26
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	23
Dynamics of dwarf shrubs in Mediterranean high‐mountain ecosystems	21
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	20
Are metapopulation species drivers of metacommunity structure in sandstone outcrop communities?	20
Which regionalization scheme is the best to predict wetland plant distribution in Western Patagonia?	20
Resource competition, not facilitation, structures gravel beach plant communities	19
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Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees	19
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	19
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Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness	17
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest	16
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	16
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	15
Fine‐scale hydrological niche segregation in coastal dune slacks	15
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	14
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	14
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	13
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat	13
Disturbance reshapes the productivity–diversity relationship	12

Probabilistic and preferential sampling approaches offer integrated perspectives of Italian forest diversity	11
Patterns and drivers of alien plant invasion in Uruguayan grasslands	11
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ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network	10
Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process	10
Trends in geographic and gender balance among authors	10
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions	9
Artemisia sieberishrubs have contrasting specific effects on understory species in Iranian steppes	9
Salt marsh vegetation and secured woody debris facilitate the recolonization of Avicennia germinans	9
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	9
Outcomes of facilitative plant interactions in shrublands of NW Patagonia, Argentina	9
Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	9
Factors explaining the composition and diversity of vascular plant understories along a transcontinental gradient in the Canadian boreal forest	8
Plant and soil microbial community assembly processes across urban vacant lots	8
The spatiotemporal distribution of pollen traits related to dispersal and desiccation tolerance in Canarian laurel forest	8
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	8
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Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest	8
Willow above, changes below: Seedless tree invader impacts riparian seed bank in the Patagonian ecotone	8
Elevation differentially shapes functional diversity patterns in understorey forest communities when considering intraspecific and interspecific trait variability	8
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China	7
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites	7
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific	7
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	7
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	7
Independent biodiversity mechanisms regulate ecosystem multifunctionality and its temporal stability under resource enrichment in a mown grassland	7
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests	7
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands	7
Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance	7
Linking regeneration niche to monodominance in biodiverse tropical forest landscapes	7
Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change	6
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Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	6
Enemy Behind the Gates? Predicted Climate Change and Land‐Use Intensification Likely Speed Up C4 Grass Invasions in Europe	6
Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	6
Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession	6
Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)	6
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	5
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest	5
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	5
Root trait variation along water gradients in the Cape Floristic Region	5
Trends in plant cover derived from vegetation plot data using ordinal zero‐augmented beta regression	5
Environmental filtering is the primary driver of community assembly in forest–grassland mosaics: A case study based on CSR strategies	5
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats	5
Community ionomics reveals a diversity of mineral nutrition in a species‐rich shrubland on infertile soil	5
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Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)	5
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	5
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	5
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Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress	5
Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above‐ and below‐ground biomass	5
The effects of biophysical and anthropogenic factors on the recent upper forest‐cover upward shift in the Romanian Carpathians	5
A spatiotemporal comparison of interobserver error in vegetation sampling	5
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance	5
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Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	4
Is plant reproductive efficiency expressed on a continuum of facilitation and competition?	4
Mosses and vascular plants show diverging diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient in boreal bogs and fens	4
Increased reproductive trait diversity, evolutionary history and distinctiveness during the succession of tropical forest	4
Structure, floristic composition, and distribution of swamp forests across a white‐water flood‐plain in the Colombian Amazon	4
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Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	4
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The ranked species occupancy curves reflect the dominant process of species sorting: Evidence from forest/scrub communities	4
Inter‐ and intraspecific stomatal morphological traits vary in response to topographic habitat changes	4
Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species	4
The importance of history for understanding contemporary ecosystems: Insights from vegetation science	4
Influence of local environmental gradients on ecological strategies of herbaceous communities in riverine side channels	4
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	4
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	4
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	4
Low replicability of testing the stress–dominance hypothesis using a trait convergence/divergence pattern	4
A‐Islands: A Vascular Plant Dataset for Biodiversity Research and Species Monitoring on Australian Continental Islands	3
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	3
Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities	3
Diversity and mean specific leaf area of Mediterranean woody vegetation changes in response to summer drought across a double stress gradient: The role of phenotypic plasticity	3
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Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass	3
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LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	3
Reconstructing thicket clump formation using association rules analysis	3
ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe	3
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	3
Independent Trends of Mountain Vegetation and Soil Properties Over 40 Years of Environmental Change	3
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	3
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	3
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species	3
Seasonality affects the below‐ground bud bank dynamics of the Cerrado	3
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient	3
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Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	3
Successful Alien Plant Species Exhibit Functional Dissimilarity From Natives Under Varied Climatic Conditions but Not Under Increased Nutrient Availability	3
Niche differentiation between Malus sylvestris and its hybrid with Malus domestica indicated by plant community, soil and light	3
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”	3
Dieback of Calluna vulgaris in a Coastal Heathland After the 2018 Extreme Drought	3
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Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	3
Long‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community	3
The drivers of dark diversity in the Scandinavian mountains are metric‐dependent	3
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Fine‐scale functional metacommunity dynamics: Analysing the role of disturbance‐driven environmental variability in grasslands	3
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A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	3
Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	3
Contrasting effects of vegetation cover and site condition on biocrust communities in subhumid drylands	2
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Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research	2
Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	2
Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	2
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands	2
Increases and decreases in soil moisture in water‐limited plant communities cause asymmetrical responses in biomass but not in diversity	2
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	2
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	2
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	2
The influence of contrasting fire management practice on bush encroachment: Lessons from Bwabwata National Park, Namibia	2
Interactive roles of fire seasons and biological invasions in the short‐term dynamics of tropical savannas	2
Divergent responses of alpine bryophytes and lichens to climate change in the Swiss Alps	2
Evidence for local‐scale community assembly processes from long‐term observations of biodiversity in a grassland chronosequence	2
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland	2
Successional dynamics of species composition, functional traits and assembly mechanisms during the 60‐year long history of agricultural transformations in subarctic tundra communities	2
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Two decades of increasing functional and phylogenetic richness in a mountaintop flora in central Norway	2
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot	2
Changes in species richness with climate change in subalpine communities are dependent on regional environmental conditions and local functional composition	2
Cross‐Citation Patterns Between the Journal of Vegetation Science and Other Ecological Journals	2
Mechanisms behind elevational plant species richness patterns revealed by a trait‐based approach	2
Interspecific facilitation favors rare species establishment and reduces performance disparities among adults	2
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests	2

Changes in soil chemical properties and plant species composition during primary succession on an oceanic island	2
Annual species' experimental germination responses to light and temperature do not correspond with their microhabitat associations in the field	2
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	2
Greater variation in boreal plant community composition and community‐level traits at local‐ than regional‐scale	2
Shrubs exhibit competitive interactions with herbaceous plants and shape community assemblage and functional composition in the alpine western Himalaya	2
Coexistence of grasses and shrubs in Patagonian steppes. Norm or exception?	2
Components of plant species diversity along environmental gradients at various spatial scales in wetland environments of southern Africa	2
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Transient vegetation dynamics in a tropical coastal wetland: Sea‐level rise, glycophyte retreat, and incipient loss in plant diversity	2
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	2
Quantitative evaluation of internal cluster validation indices using binary data sets	2
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	2
Unraveling plant strategies in tidal marshes by investigating plant traits and environmental conditions	2
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	2
Reduced plant species diversity and soil carbon and nitrogen contents driven by vegetation patchiness in alpine meadows	2
Forest canopy and mistletoe infestation alter the facilitative effects of Juniperus oxycedrus s.l. on woody seedlings on Mount Lebanon (Lebanon)	1
Fire stimulates seedling recruitment from the seed bank in the Cerrado	1
Succession in abandoned fields: Chronosequence data verified by monitoring of semi‐permanent plots	1
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	1
Shrub encroachment in Mediterranean mountain grasslands: Rate and consequences on plant diversity and forage availability	1
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales	1
Post‐drought community turnover and functional redundancy in a tropical forest understorey	1
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	1
Changes in community functional structure and ecosystem properties along an invasion gradient ofLigustrum lucidum	1
The role of drought, disturbance, and seed dispersal in dominance shifts in a temperate grassland	1
Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation	1
The number of phenology patterns, not species richness, affects the greening season length of freely assembled plant communities	1
A roadmap to carefully select methods for dark‐diversity studies	1
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest	1
Understory plant species and community changes following a mountain pine beetle outbreak in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA	1
Unraveling local and regional determinants of high plant diversity at marine rocky outcrops in Uruguay	1
Temporal changes in the dominance of tree functional traits, but no changes in species diversity during woody plant encroachment in a Brazilian savanna	1
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	1
Mixed evidence for the small‐island effect in a replicated colonisation experiment	1
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	1
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess	1
Exotic wild boars and native wild guinea pigs maintain plant diversity in Argentinean coastal grasslands by decreasing plant dominance	1
Is there a species swarm paradox? Spatial segregation of related species in the understorey of a tropical plant community	1
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	1
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?	1
Introducing Rveg: An R Package for Phytosociological Data Digitizing	1
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	1
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages	1
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	1
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific	1
Interaction Between Plants Through Litter Input in Mangrove Succession in the Red River Delta	1
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	1
Combining chronosequences and multi‐census approaches to understand patterns of succession in subtropical montane forests of NW Argentina	1
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal	1
In Memoriam: Eddy van der Maarel (1934 – 2021)	1
Extreme precipitation increases the productivity of a desert ephemeral plant community in Central Asia, but there is no slope position effect	1
Species‐specific trends and variability in plant functional traits across a latitudinal gradient in northern Alaska	1
Functional traits and propagule pressure explain changes in the distribution and demography of non‐native trees in Spain	1
Revealing floristic variation and map uncertainties for different plant groups in western Amazonia	1
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	1
Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests	1
Invading rain forest pioneers initiate positive fire suppression feedbacks that reinforce shifts from open to closed forest in eastern Australia	1
A simulation study comparing common methods for analyzing species–habitat associations of plants	1
Regression to the mean in vegetation science	1
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	1
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	1
Woody species have stronger facilitative effects on soil biota than on plants along an aridity gradient	1
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity	1