Journal of Vegetation Science

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Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	61
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	44
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	31
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	30
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	26
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	23
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico	22
Spatial Patterns of Woody Plants and Tree‐Tree Interactions in an Indian Mesic Savanna	22
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	19
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	16
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	16
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	16
Species–Habitat Associations in a Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest	15
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	14
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	14
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Vegetation Changes in Temperate Floodplain Forests: Temporal Scale Matters	12
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	12
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How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	12
Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics	12
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	11
Leaf It Alone: Environmental Factors Outweigh Herbivory as Determinants of Plant Traits in a Mediterranean Mountain	11
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LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	11
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	11
Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	11
A Novel Method for Monitoring Above‐ and Belowground Microclimates in Mountain Ecosystems Year‐Round	11
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	10
Coexistence Beyond Equilibria: Testing the Ecological Buffering Mechanisms Theory in Mixed Communities	9
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	9
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	9
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	8
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands	8
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Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	8
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Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan	8
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	7
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	7
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	7
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	7
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	7
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	7
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	7
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	7
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Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	7
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions	6
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Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows	6
Vegetation Dynamics on a Boreal Raised Bog: Changes in Carpets, Lawns and Hummocks Towards Wetter Conditions Over a 34‐Year Period	6
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests	6
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	6
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	6
Unraveling the Influence of Soil Properties on CSR Strategies in an Ironstone Montane Ecosystem in Southeast Brazil	6
Forest Composition Drives Bryophyte Biomass, Carbon, and Nitrogen Storage in the Boreal‐Temperate Ecotone	6
Long‐Term Warming and Dominant Species Removal Alter Plant Community Composition in Invaded Alpine Tussock Grasslands in New Zealand	6
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models	6
Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	5
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	5
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	5
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	5
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient	5
Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification	5
Dry Soils Increase the Impact of Experimental Warming on Plant Community Composition in an Australian Subalpine Meadow	5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	5
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	5
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Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation	5
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A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	5

Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity	5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	5
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	5
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Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	5
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	5
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	5
Multi‐Species Plant Invasions in Temperate Successional Grasslands Drive Changes in Community Functional Composition	5
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes	5
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	5
Human Activities and Native Vegetation Properties Drive Plant Invasion in Arid Agricultural Regions of Northwest China	5
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	4
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions	4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season	4
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest	4
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia	4
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology	4
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community	4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape	4
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment	4
Using Yearly‐Resolved Time Series to Disentangle Interannual Variability, Directional Change, and Pseudoturnover in Plant Community Composition	4
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history	4
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness	4
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Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland	4
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture	4
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world	4
Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest	4
Drivers of beta diversity along a precipitation gradient in tropical forests of the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia	4
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?	4
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest	4
Intraspecific Functional Trait Responses to Experimental Warming Vary With Precipitation and Growth Form	3
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Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change	3
Do Small Forest Gaps Collect Snow That Prevents Tree Gap Dynamics in Western North American High Latitude Conifer Forests?	3
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities	3
Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)	3
Successional dynamics of species composition, functional traits and assembly mechanisms during the 60‐year long history of agricultural transformations in subarctic tundra communities	3
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands	3
Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)	3
Islanded Islands: Dual Isolation Drive Distinctive and Threatened Floras of Neotropical Maritime Inselbergs	3
Measuring Two‐Dimensional Distributional Aggregation Pattern of Species Through One‐Dimensional Approximation	3
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests	3
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”	3
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot	3
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Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species	3
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific	3
The Woody Invasive Plant Neltuma juliflora Influences Plant Species Richness and Soil Chemistry in Botswana	3
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat	3
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats	3
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance	3
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research	3
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Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest	3
Interaction Between Plants Through Litter Input in Mangrove Succession in the Red River Delta	2
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales	2
Synopsis of Nardus Grassland Resurveys Across Germany: Is Eutrophication Driven by a Recovery of Soil pH	2
Understanding post‐fire vegetation recovery in southern California ecosystems with the aid of pre‐fire observations from long‐term monitoring	2
Variation of Riparian Plant CSR Strategies Across the Gradient of the Water Level Fluctuation and Snowmelt Along the Nyang River, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	2
Impact of longevity and wettability of fern leaves on epiphyll colonization in a Mexican lowland rainforest	2
How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation	2
Experimental warming has limited impacts on post‐fire succession across a burn severity gradient	2
Drought and Plant Invasions Along an Aridity Gradient	2
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?	2
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Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long‐term trends, while species’ traits predict short‐term fluctuations	2
The Presence of Alternative Tree Species in European Beech Forests Drives Change in Functional Diversity and Composition of Forest Floor Plant Communities	2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Drought, Land‐Use History and Local Site Factors on Woodland Herb‐Layer Diversity	2
Urban Grassland Plant Communities Assemble According to Productivity and Disturbance Gradients	2
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland	2
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess	2
Sticking to the trail: Seed rain, seed bank and seedling density are elevated along hiking trails in the Scandes mountains	2
Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests	2
Changes in taxonomic and functional composition of subalpine plant communities in response to climate change under contrasting conditions of bedrock and snow cover duration	2
Intense light and conspecific density increase seedling mortality across age groups in a typhoon‐disturbed tropical forest	2
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	2
Plant diversity but not productivity is associated with community mycorrhization in temperate grasslands	2

Contrasting Phylogenetic Signals in Flowering and Fruiting Phenology at Species and Assemblage Scales in a Climbing Plant Community	2
Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient	2
CSR Strategies Are Associated With Elemental Leaf Chemistry in Alpine Plants	2
Elevational patterns in tropical bryophyte diversity differ among substrates: A case study on Baru volcano, Panama	2
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal	2
Soil and Plant Nutrients Are Maintained—and Can Be Enhanced—by Long‐Term Frequent Fire in an Afromontane Grassland	2
Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass	2
Measuring Them all: Individual‐Based Functional Spatial Patterns in Mountain Grasslands	2
Controls on use efficiency of plant nutrients along subtropical to alpine gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	2
Climbing aroids in a Panamanian lowland forest: We should reconsider our categories	2
Collaboration networks and hot topics in the Journal of Vegetation Science	2
Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region	2
Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe	2
Plant Invasions Reduce the Degree of Nestedness on Warm Temperate Islands	2
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Vegetation Phenology Across Ecological Zones in China	2
Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus	2