OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	51
Factors explaining the composition and diversity of vascular plant understories along a transcontinental gradient in the Canadian boreal forest	28
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	26
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	24
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	20
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	20
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	19
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	19
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	19
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	18
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	18
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	18
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	16
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	15
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	15
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	15
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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	14
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	14
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Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	13
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	13
Fine‐scale functional metacommunity dynamics: Analysing the role of disturbance‐driven environmental variability in grasslands	12

Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	12
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	12
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	11
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	11
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	11
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	10
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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	9
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	9
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Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	9
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	9
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	9
Inter‐annual precipitation variability alters the effects of soil resource enrichment and mycorrhizal suppression on plant communities in desert steppe	9
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	8
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	8
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	8
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests	8
Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	8
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands	8
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows	8
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions	8
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Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	8
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	7
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	7
Frost hinders the establishment of trees in highland grasslands in the Atlantic Forest ecotone region of southern Brazil	7
Post‐agriculture rain forest succession on a tropical Pacific island	7
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Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	7
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models	7
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	7
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	6
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	6
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	6
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	6
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	6
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Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	6
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	6
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest	6
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	6
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	5
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?	5
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient	5
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	5
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	5
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	5

A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	5
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	5
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity	5
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	5
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Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	5
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests	5