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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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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
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	14
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	14
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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
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
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
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	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
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
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
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
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions	6
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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
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