Applied Vegetation Science

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Predicted scarcity of suitable habitat for alpine plant communities in northern Japan under climate change	64
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	41
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Livestock grazing promotes legume abundance under increased nutrient loads: Mechanistic evidence from a temperate grassland	25
Climate‐mediated shifts toward bunchgrass dominance 40 years after grazing cessation in Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA	18
Diversity patterns in high‐latitude grasslands	17
Socioeconomic and environmental factors jointly shape beta diversity of woody species in eastern China	17
Systematic reduction in seed rain of large‐seeded and endozoochorous species in pastures compared to forests along a tropical elevational gradient	15
Abundance‐ and incidence‐based estimation of total number of rare species in under‐sampled sites	15
Are historical land‐use patterns and chemical soil characteristics complementary for assessing the restoration potential of Nardus grassland?	14
Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes	14
Global change, novel ecosystems and the ecological restoration of post‐industrial areas: The case of a former brown coal mine in Søby, Denmark	14
Rangeland resilience to droughts: Changes across an intensification gradient	13
Remote sensing for vegetation science: A virtual special issue on its power and challenges	13
Standardized indices to estimate sensitivity to drought across ecosystems	13
Best practice—Is natural revegetation sufficient to achieve mitigation goals in road construction?	12
Grazing by semi‐feral cattle and horses supports plant species richness and uniqueness in grasslands	12
The impact of livestock grazing and canopy gaps on species pool and functional diversity of ground flora in the Caspian beech forests of Iran	11
Variation in characteristics and conservation values of plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands with and without fires	11
Do neighbours matter? The effect of single‐ and mixed‐species sowing density on seed germination of annual wetland plants	10
Increased diversity of the species pool via seeding augments establishment of native species in experimental vacant‐lot restorations	10
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	10
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)	10
Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long‐term effects of biosolids on plant community responses	10
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	10

Seasonal optimisation of drone‐based photogrammetry in a heterogeneous boreal landscape	9
Linking trends of habitat types and plant species using repeated habitat mapping data	9
Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem	9
A deep‐learning framework for enhancing habitat identification based on species composition	9
The role of dominant prairie species ecotypes on plant diversity patterns of restored grasslands across a rainfall gradient in the US Great Plains	8
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	8
Vegetation change in acidic dry grasslands in Moravia (Czech Republic) over three decades: Slow decrease in habitat quality after grazing cessation	8
Interactive effects of fire and grazing on vegetation structure and plant species composition in subtropical grasslands	8
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	8
Nontarget Plant Community and Biomass Responses in Northern Mixed Grassland Treated With Indaziflam for Invasive Annual Brome Control	8
Pastoralism in the high tropical Andes: A review of the effect of grazing intensity on plant diversity and ecosystem services	8
EcoFloVCS: An eco‐physiognomic‐floristic vegetation classification system	8
Fertilization and overseeding legumes on native grasslands leads to a hardly reversible degraded state	8
Rock climbing disturbance severity and abiotic gradients interact to determine cryptogam diversity and community structure	7
Restoration of invaded temperate grasslands: species phenology adds to microsite and seed availability	7
Trait variation in juvenile plants from the soil seed bank of temperate forests in relation to macro‐ and microclimate	7
Identifying substitute host tree species for epiphytes: The relative importance of tree size and species, bark and site characteristics	7
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Experimental assessment of endozoochorous dispersal of Prosopis flexuosa seeds by domestic ungulates	7
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	7
Response of ground macrolichens to site factors, co‐existing plants and forestry in boreal forests	7
Enjoying tranquility — Development of ground vegetation after cessation of management in forests on loamy soils in Flanders (Belgium)	7
Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	6
Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt	6
Hierarchy of environmental factors driving restoration of dry grasslands: A multi‐site analysis	6
Post‐fire succession of seeding treatments in relation to reference communities in the Great Basin	6
Neighboring edges: Interacting edge effects from linear disturbances in treed fens	6
Evaluating the feasibility of using plant‐specific metabarcoding to assess forest types from soil eDNA	6
How to measure flower ultraviolet reflectance using digital photography	6
Drivers of species composition in arable‐weed communities of the Austrian–Hungarian borderland region: What is the role of the country?	6
Biomass fine‐scale variation is predictive of functional composition and diversity in grazed grassland	6
Win some, lose some: Mesocosm communities maintain community productivity despite lower phosphorus availability because of increased species diversity	6
Syntaxonomy and biogeography of the Irano‐Turanian mires and springs	6
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	6
Disentangling the effects of phosphorus, nitrogen and species identity on the vegetation reflectance spectrum	6
Effect of inter‐annual meteorological fluctuations and wild boar disturbance on the vegetation of Mediterranean temporary ponds	6
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Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	6
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Two sides of one medal: Arable weed vegetation of Europe in phytosociological data compared to agronomical weed surveys	5
Correction to “Beyond species richness and community composition: Using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest” [Applied Vegetation Science, 24(3), e12607]	5
Using multiple plant functional types to assess response to prescribed burn season in Mediterranean‐climate vegetation	5
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	5
Using functional traits and species diversity to evaluate restoration success of coastal dunes	5
Fire slightly decreases the competitive effects of a thorny cushion shrub in a semi‐arid mountain steppe in the short term	5
Grassland management and land use history shape species composition and diversity in Transylvanian semi‐natural grasslands	5
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	5
Radiation use efficiency of the herbaceous layer of dry Chaco shrublands and woodlands: Spatial and temporal patterns	5
Crop type and management are key filtering factors of functional traits in the weed communities of regions with contrasting soils and climates	5
Anthropogenic disturbance modifies long‐term changes of boreal mountain vegetation under contemporary climate warming	5

Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	5
Modeling the Abundance of Boreal Foundation Species: The Impact of Forest Structure, Soils, and Legacy Effects on Ericaceous Shrubs	5
Historic deforestation and non‐native plant invasions determine vegetation trajectories across an oceanic archipelago	5
Variable effects of long‐term livestock grazing across the western United States suggest diverse approaches are needed to meet global change challenges	5
Effects of long‐term mowing on species diversity, biomass and composition of plant community in a semi‐arid grassland in northeastern China	4
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Recent changes in mountain hay meadows of high conservation value in eastern France	4
Living on the edge: Plant diversity in the Iberian chionophilous vegetation	4
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Propagation distance thresholds of woody Cerrado species in a pasture matrix	4
Deferment associated to contrasting grazing intensities affects root/shoot biomass allocation in natural grasslands	4
The biodiversity of birch stands in agricultural landscapes of Estonia is associated with past land use, restoration approach, site and landscape variables	4
A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit	4
Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	4
Determinants of bryophyte assemblages in traditionally managed grasslands of the Carpathian Mts	4
Leveraging time series of satellite and aerial images to promote the long‐term monitoring of restored plant communities	4
Bedrock meadows: A distinct vegetation type in northwestern North America	4
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Effects of extensive grazing and mowing compared to abandonment on the biodiversity of European grasslands: A meta‐analysis	4
Grassland restoration by local seed mixtures: New evidence from a practical 15‐year restoration study	4
Resource pre‐emption, rather than extending the growing season of native grass assemblages, reduces invasion by exotic species	4
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	4
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Promoting plant diversity and habitat heterogeneity through vineyard terracing	4
Woody plant encroachment in granite barrens on the Frontenac Arch, eastern Ontario, Canada	3
Single versus repeated human trampling events: Responses of ground vegetation in suburban beech forests	3
Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	3
Classification of montane grasslands in central Argentina	3
Estimating reference conditions using baseline vegetation data to inform large‐scale ecosystem restoration efforts	3
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Successful transfer of species‐rich grassland by means of green hay or threshing material: Does the method matter in the long term?	3
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Early response of herbaceous vegetation toRhododendron ponticumsubsp.baeticuminvasion in European Atlantic forests	3
Magnitude and drivers of plant diversity loss differ between spatial scales in Scania, Sweden 1957–2021	3
Ecosystem services provided by semi‐natural and intensified grasslands: Synergies, trade‐offs and linkages to plant traits and functional richness	3
Floristic types of high‐Andean wetlands from northwest Argentina and their remote‐sensed characterization at a regional scale	3
A chemical and bio‐herbicide mixture increased exotic invaders, both targeted and non‐targeted, across a diversely invaded landscape after fire	3
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in Mediterranean Turkey	3
A new formal classification for Japanese forest vegetation based on traditional phytosociological concepts	3
Nibble, cut, stomp and burn: Biodiversity effects of disturbances in fen grassland	3
Which optical traits enable an estimation of tree species diversity based on the Spectral Variation Hypothesis?	3
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	3
Clear‐cutting triggers regeneration of abandoned secondary forests but risks alternative successional trajectories with high deer density	3
Development of spatial models and maps for tree species diversity and biomass in a miombo ecosystem, western Tanzania	3
Phylogenetic homogenization of Amazonian tree assemblages in forest islands after 26 years of isolation	3
Livestock species rather than grazing intensity shape plant guild proportions in interaction with multiple environmental drivers in grassland from the Pyrenees	3
Extreme droughts in oligotrophic mountain grasslands cause substantial species abundance changes and amplify community filtering	3
What is a suitable management for Typha latifolia control in wet meadows?	3
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	2
Sentinel 2 images enable reliable prediction of fine‐scale habitat dynamics of narrow endemic plant species in serpentine soils	2
Testing collection‐time reduction in fine‐root biomass estimation in Atlantic Forests	2
Grassland reconstruction in a factory yard increases biodiversity and reduces costs of installation and maintenance	2
Temporal changes in the ground vegetation in spruce forests in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) — bryophytes are better indicators of the impact of liming and of sulphur and nitrogen deposition than the	2
Forb community response to prescribed fire, livestock grazing, and an invasive annual grass in the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie	2
Impact of plant diversity and management intensity on magnitude and stability of productivity in North American grazing lands	2
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	2
Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland	2
Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: Secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of recovery of the native species	2
The closer the better? Relative influence of forest continuity and distance to water on the taxonomic and functional structure of riparian plant communities along headwater streams	2
Urban plant diversity in Kazakhstan: Effects of habitat type, city size and macroclimate	2
Temporal continuity and adjacent land use exert different effects on richness of grassland specialists and alien plants in semi‐natural grassland	2
Facilitation by pioneer trees and herbivore exclusion allow regeneration of woody species in the semiarid ecosystem of central Chile	2
What explains inconsistencies in field‐based ecosystem mapping?	2
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia	2
Efficacy and non‐target effects of herbicides in foothills grassland restoration are short‐lived	2
Subalpine vegetation changes in the Eastern Sudetes (1973–2021): Effects of abandonment, conservation management and avalanches	2
Participatory modelling of upward shifts of altitudinal vegetation belts for assessing site type transformation in Swiss forests due to climate change	2
Species‐group responses improve our understanding of the effects of community dominants on subordinate species along a grazing gradient	2
Structural and taxonomic diversity predict above‐ground biomass better than functional measures of maximum height in mixed‐species forests	2
Road‐River Intersections (Bridges) Negatively Affect Plant Species Diversity and Ecological Attributes	2
There is room for everyone: Invasion credit cannot be inferred from the species–area relationship in fragmented forests	2
Grassland Changes in the Eastern Alps Over Four Decades: Unveiling Patterns Along an Elevation Gradient	2
Grazing effects on vegetation: Biodiversity, management, and restoration	2
Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	2
An invasive grass and litter impact tree encroachment into a native grassland	2
Intensity‐dependent effects of cattle and sheep grazing in sand grasslands — Does livestock type really matter?	2
Predictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt)	2
The effects of livestock grazing on vegetation in a semiarid grassland: a test of three hypotheses	2
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	2

Tropical forest understorey riparian and upland composition, structure, and function in areas with different past land use	2
Multiple Effects of Capybaras on Vegetation Suggest Impending Impacts of Jaguar Reintroduction	2
Patch‐Burn Grazing Increased Structural Heterogeneity in Southwestern North Dakota Rangelands	2
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	2