OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 7. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community	39
Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa L. impacts dry grasslands	36
Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats	35
Weather fluctuations drive short‐term dynamics and long‐term stability in plant communities: A 25‐year study in a Central European dry grassland	34
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	31
The fate of páramo plant assemblages in the sky islands of the northern Andes	30
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna	30
Why westillneed permanent plots for vegetation science	29
Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate	28
Ellenberg N values of bryophytes in Central Europe*	28
Increased fire severity triggers positive feedbacks of greater vegetation flammability and favors plant community‐type conversions	28
Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover	27
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands	26
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin	24
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications	24
Grazing livestock increases both vegetation and seed bank diversity in remnant and restored grasslands	23
Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests	21
Press–pulse interactions and long‐term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland	21
From delayed succession to alternative successional trajectory: How different moose browsing pressures contribute to forest dynamics following clear‐cutting	20
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands	20
Environment and evolutionary history depict phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in the Atlantic coastal white‐sand woodlands	19
Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation	19
Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide	19
Spatial and temporal patterns of initial plant establishment in salt marsh communities	18
Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls	18

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	18
Steppe islands in a sea of fields: Where island biogeography meets the reality of a severely transformed landscape	17
The germination niche of coastal dune species as related to their occurrence along a sea–inland gradient	17
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	17
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation	17
Soil water availability shapes species richness in mid‐latitude shrub steppe plant communities	17
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	17
Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment	17
Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands	16
Human‐mediated dispersal as a driver of vegetation dynamics: A conceptual synthesis	16
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	16
Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co‐occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value	16
Vegetation response to climate warming across the forest–tundra ecotone: species‐dependent upward movement	15
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical forests	15
Water availability mediates functional shifts across ontogenetic stages in a regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest	15
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	15
Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species‐specific	15
Are there common assembly rules for different grasslands? Comparisons of long‐term data from a subtropical grassland with temperate grasslands	15
Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony	15
Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales	15
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	15
Simulated climate warming increases plant community heterogeneity in two types of boreal peatlands in north–central Canada	15
The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management	14
Nurse plants promote taxonomic and functional diversity in an arid Mediterranean annual plant community	14
Effects of decadal experimental drought and climate extremes on vegetation growth in Mediterranean forests and shrublands	14
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests	14
Macroevolutionary patterns in European vegetation	14
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	14
The response of productivity and its sensitivity to changes in precipitation: A meta‐analysis of field manipulation experiments	14
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession	14
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	14
The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience	13
Species specificity challenges the predictability of facilitation along a regional desert gradient	13
Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity	13
Patch‐level facilitation fosters high‐Andean plant diversity at regional scales	13
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	13
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	13
Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China	13
Mycorrhizal fungi maintain plant community stability by mitigating the negative effects of nitrogen deposition on subordinate species in Central Asia	12
Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) data set: A fundamental tool for ecological studies	12
Effects of climate change on treeline trees in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest, Central Himalaya)	12
Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional‐taxonomic groups	11
Historical ecology of Mediterranean forests: Land use legacies on current understorey plants differ with time since abandonment and former agricultural use	11
Canopy composition and drought shape understorey plant assemblages in a young tree diversity experiment	11
The scale dependency of trait‐based tree neighborhood models	11
Dispersal syndrome influences the match between seed rain and soil seed bank of woody species in a Neotropical dry forest	11
Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance	11
Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?	11
Is variable plot size a serious constraint in broad‐scale vegetation studies? A case study on fens	11
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance	11

Vital rates in early life history underlie shifts in biotic interactions along bioclimatic gradients: An experimental test of the Stress Gradient Hypothesis	11
Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly	10
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	10
The impact of seed deficiency on productivity and on negative drought effect in semi‐natural grassland	10
Light can modify density‐dependent seedling mortality in a temperate forest	10
Long‐term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data	10
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	10
Effects of disturbance and alien plants on the phylogenetic structure of riverine communities	10
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	10
Regression to the mean in vegetation science	10
The relationship between epixylic bryophyte communities and microclimate	10
Effect of Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment on plant species diversity, functional traits and litter decomposition in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	10
Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones	9
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	9
SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests	9
Species and functional plant diversity enhance ecosystem functions in the central Monte desert	9
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands	9
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest	9
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	8
Hedging against biodiversity loss: Forest herbs’ performance in hedgerows across temperate Europe	8
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	8
Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition	8
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands	8
Scaling relationships among functional traits are similar across individuals, species, and communities	8
Disentangling the effects of multiple fires on spatially interspersed sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities	8
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient	7
Similar successional development of functional community structure in glacier forelands despite contrasting bedrocks	7
Revealing floristic variation and map uncertainties for different plant groups in western Amazonia	7
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific	7
Assessing the rate and reversibility of large‐herbivore effects on community composition in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem	7
Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	7
Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests	7
Intraspecific variation in nutritional traits of neighbouring plants generates a continuum of associational effects	7
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	7
Interaction of climate change and nitrogen deposition on subalpine pastures	7
Do regeneration traits vary according to vegetation structure? A case study for savannas	7
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	7
Partitioned beta diversity patterns of plants across sharp and distinct boundaries of quartz habitat islands	7
Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter	7
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages	7
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	7
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine‐learning algorithms	7
Influential neighbours: Seeds of dominant species affect the germination of common grassland species	7