OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied 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
Nontarget Plant Community and Biomass Responses in Northern Mixed Grassland Treated With Indaziflam for Invasive Annual Brome Control	66
Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long‐term effects of biosolids on plant community responses	44
Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes	37
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	18
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	17
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	17
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	16
Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	16
Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	16
Phylogenetic homogenization of Amazonian tree assemblages in forest islands after 26 years of isolation	15
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Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	15
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Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	14
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	12
Single versus repeated human trampling events: Responses of ground vegetation in suburban beech forests	12
The Role of Nurse Trees in the Plant Community of Park Grassland: A Case Study in Southern Brazil	12
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	11
Resource pre‐emption, rather than extending the growing season of native grass assemblages, reduces invasion by exotic species	11
Using priority effects for grassland restoration: Sequential sowing can promote subordinate species	11
Tropical forest understorey riparian and upland composition, structure, and function in areas with different past land use	11
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	11
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Propagule availability drives post‐wildfire recovery of peatland plant communities	10
Decadal vegetation changes in a subarctic‐alpine ecosystem: Can effects of Iceland's largest hydropower reservoir, climate change, and herbivory be detected?	9

External management effects on the stand structure of protected forest patches	9
Understorey vegetation response to post‐tornado salvage logging	9
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Seed Rain in Subtropical Grasslands Under Different Grazing Intensities	9
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia	9
Effects of foraging tunnels created by plateau zokors on plant above‐ground biomass and species richness of graminoids and forbs in alpine grasslands	9
The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	9
Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	8
Post‐fire conifer regeneration hinders digital estimation of understorey plant cover in subalpine forest vegetation	8
A rapid method for quantifying small‐scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys	8
Issue Information	8
Small rocky outcrops: Natural features to promote biodiversity in oak wood‐pastures	8
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Different management practices influence growth of small plants in species‐rich hay meadows through shading	8
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)	7
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]	7
Fire and grazing interaction in a subhumid grassland: Effects on a dominant tussock grass	7
Legacies of forest harvesting on plant diversity and plant community composition in temperate deciduous forest	7
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	7
Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem	7
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	7
Mitigating invasive species using biochar derived from invasive plants in saline‐alkaline wetland plant communities dominated by Amaranthus palmeri	7
Variation in characteristics and conservation values of plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands with and without fires	7
Road verges facilitate exotic species’ expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands	7
The role of dominant prairie species ecotypes on plant diversity patterns of restored grasslands across a rainfall gradient in the US Great Plains	7
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	7
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	7
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	7
Drivers of species composition in arable‐weed communities of the Austrian–Hungarian borderland region: What is the role of the country?	6
Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt	6
A new formal classification for Japanese forest vegetation based on traditional phytosociological concepts	6
Historic deforestation and non‐native plant invasions determine vegetation trajectories across an oceanic archipelago	6
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	6
Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	6
Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: Secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of recovery of the native species	6
Modeling the Abundance of Boreal Foundation Species: The Impact of Forest Structure, Soils, and Legacy Effects on Ericaceous Shrubs	6
Crop type and management are key filtering factors of functional traits in the weed communities of regions with contrasting soils and climates	6
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	6
Evaluating the feasibility of using plant‐specific metabarcoding to assess forest types from soil eDNA	6
Extreme droughts in oligotrophic mountain grasslands cause substantial species abundance changes and amplify community filtering	5
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Exotic species explain plant functional trait differences between seed mixes, restored and reference prairies	5
Distribution shifts, potential refugia, and the performance of protected areas under climate change in the Araucaria moist forests ecoregion	5
Early Competition From a Local Species Seed Mixture Limits Invasion by the Ornamental Shrub Buddleja davidii	5
Sentinel 2 images enable reliable prediction of fine‐scale habitat dynamics of narrow endemic plant species in serpentine soils	5
Determinants of bryophyte assemblages in traditionally managed grasslands of the Carpathian Mts	5
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	5
Influence of Previous Coppice Management on Stand Structure and Vegetation Diversity of 9210* Habitat Beech Forests in the Central Apennines (Italy)	5
MedGermDB: A seed germination database for characteristic species of Mediterranean habitats	5
Livestock grazing is an effective conservation tool for Californian coastal grassland ecology: An eight‐year study on vegetation dynamics	5

Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	5
Spatial patterns of stand structure and canopy disturbance in a fire‐maintainedPinus palustriswoodland	5
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	5
Nitrogen Deposition Increases Spontaneous Forest Establishment and Loss of Lichen Vegetation in Inland Dune Areas Across the Netherlands	5
Grazing season regulates plant community structure and production by altering plant litter mass in a typical steppe	5
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Participatory modelling of upward shifts of altitudinal vegetation belts for assessing site type transformation in Swiss forests due to climate change	5
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	5