Journal of Vegetation Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Vegetation Science is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue27
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss26
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia23
Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions22
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests20
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring20
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico19
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups19
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland18
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests18
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies18
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories16
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model16
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability15
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Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration14
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands12
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)12
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring11
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs11
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots11
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico11
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests10
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest10
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?10
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers10
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms10
Inter‐annual precipitation variability alters the effects of soil resource enrichment and mycorrhizal suppression on plant communities in desert steppe10
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau10
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination10
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada9
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Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands9
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan9
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations8
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models8
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests8
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Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings8
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors7
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage7
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream7
Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation7
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests7
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows7
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The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests7
Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland7
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions7
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics6
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments6
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities6
Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales6
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes6
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time6
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Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem6
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia6
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest6
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows6
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands5
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A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity5
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology5
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy5
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina5
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico5
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas5
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity5
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Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities5
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland4
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient4
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history4
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world4
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest4
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture4
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?4
Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest4
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China4
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment4
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The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes4
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Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape4
Drivers of beta diversity along a precipitation gradient in tropical forests of the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia4
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia4
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography4
Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification4
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community4
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat3
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests3
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Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland3
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks3
CSR Strategies Are Associated With Elemental Leaf Chemistry in Alpine Plants3
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species3
Successional dynamics of species composition, functional traits and assembly mechanisms during the 60‐year long history of agricultural transformations in subarctic tundra communities3
Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress3
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest3
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific3
Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)3
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Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)3
Interaction Between Plants Through Litter Input in Mangrove Succession in the Red River Delta3
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?3
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales3
Synopsis of Nardus Grassland Resurveys Across Germany: Is Eutrophication Driven by a Recovery of Soil pH After Acidification?3
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot3
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats3
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest3
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities3
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness3
Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change3
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research3
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess3
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal3
Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass3
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands3
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance3
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”3
Islanded Islands: Dual Isolation Drive Distinctive and Threatened Floras of Neotropical Maritime Inselbergs3
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Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests2
Niche differentiation between Malus sylvestris and its hybrid with Malus domestica indicated by plant community, soil and light2
The ranked species occupancy curves reflect the dominant process of species sorting: Evidence from forest/scrub communities2
Low replicability of testing the stress–dominance hypothesis using a trait convergence/divergence pattern2
Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?2
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Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species2
Impact of longevity and wettability of fern leaves on epiphyll colonization in a Mexican lowland rainforest2
Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe2
Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus2
Controls on use efficiency of plant nutrients along subtropical to alpine gradients on the Tibetan Plateau2
Intense light and conspecific density increase seedling mortality across age groups in a typhoon‐disturbed tropical forest2
Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession2
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 plasticity2
Increased reproductive trait diversity, evolutionary history and distinctiveness during the succession of tropical forest2
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Measuring Them all: Individual‐Based Functional Spatial Patterns in Mountain Grasslands2
Collaboration networks and hot topics in the Journal of Vegetation Science2
Changes in taxonomic and functional composition of subalpine plant communities in response to climate change under contrasting conditions of bedrock and snow cover duration2
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications2
Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long‐term trends, while species’ traits predict short‐term fluctuations2
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Sticking to the trail: Seed rain, seed bank and seedling density are elevated along hiking trails in the Scandes mountains2
Plant diversity but not productivity is associated with community mycorrhization in temperate grasslands2
Early positive biodiversity effects on total biomass in experimental tree seedling assemblages with and without water limitation2
Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient2
Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region2
Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above‐ and below‐ground biomass2
Mosses and vascular plants show diverging diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient in boreal bogs and fens2
Dieback of Calluna vulgaris in a Coastal Heathland After the 2018 Extreme Drought2
Climbing aroids in a Panamanian lowland forest: We should reconsider our categories2
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites2
How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation2
Experimental warming has limited impacts on post‐fire succession across a burn severity gradient2
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests2
Understanding post‐fire vegetation recovery in southern California ecosystems with the aid of pre‐fire observations from long‐term monitoring2
Elevational patterns in tropical bryophyte diversity differ among substrates: A case study on Baru volcano, Panama2
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