OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	59
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	38
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	29
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	27
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	25
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	22
Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics	21
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico	20
Species–Habitat Associations in a Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest	19
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	18
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	16
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	16
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	15
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	13
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	13
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Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	12
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Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	12
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	12
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	12
Leaf It Alone: Environmental Factors Outweigh Herbivory as Determinants of Plant Traits in a Mediterranean Mountain	11
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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	11

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
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	11
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	10
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	10
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	10
A Novel Method for Monitoring Above‐ and Belowground Microclimates in Mountain Ecosystems Year‐Round	10
Issue Information	9
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	9
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	9
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Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	8
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan	8
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	8
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	8
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	8
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands	8
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models	7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	7
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions	7
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	7
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	7
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows	7
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Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	7
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	7
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	6
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	6
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	6
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Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	6
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	6
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests	6
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Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation	5
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
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
Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	5
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	5
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Dry Soils Increase the Impact of Experimental Warming on Plant Community Composition in an Australian Subalpine Meadow	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
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	5
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	5
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	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
Multi‐Species Plant Invasions in Temperate Successional Grasslands Drive Changes in Community Functional Composition	5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	5
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Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest	4
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China	4
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest	4
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology	4
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions	4
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes	4
Using Yearly‐Resolved Time Series to Disentangle Interannual Variability, Directional Change, and Pseudoturnover in Plant Community Composition	4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season	4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape	4
Human Activities and Native Vegetation Properties Drive Plant Invasion in Arid Agricultural Regions of Northwest China	4
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient	4
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community	4
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	4
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Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification	4
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world	4
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment	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
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture	4
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history	4
climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data	4
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia	4
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland	4