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Papers

(The median citation count of Alpine Botany is 3. 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
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	36
Different growth response of mountain rangeland habitats to inter-annual weather fluctuations	26
Temporal and spatial variation in the direct and indirect effects of climate on reproduction in alpine populations of Ranunculus acris L	26
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	21
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	19
Pollination-associated shortening of the functional flower lifespan in an alpine species of Alstroemeria and the water content of flowers	18
Plant evolutionary ecology in mountain regions in space and time	17
Positive and negative plant−plant interactions influence seedling establishment at both high and low elevations	13
Evolutionary origins and species delineation of the two Pyrenean endemics Campanula jaubertiana and C. andorrana (Campanulaceae): evidence for transverse alpine speciation	11
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	11
Genetic underpinning of historical afforestation with allochthonous Pinus cembra in the northwestern Swiss Alps	10
Microsite preferences of three conifers in calcareous and siliceous treeline ecotones in the French alps	10
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	9
Clonality and genetic structure of an endangered aquatic plant, Typha minima, in the French Alps: consequences for conservation	9
Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic diversity and alpine specialization across the alpine flora of the American mountain range system	9
The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations	8
Introgression of an isolated Primula lineage suggests the existence of a glacial refugium in the Écrins range (Southwestern French Alps)	8
Comparative phylogeography of Acanthocalyx (Caprifoliaceae) reveals distinct genetic structures in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains	8
Implementing spatial analyses to measure angiosperm biodiversity from the high-altitude grasslands of the Atlantic forest	8
Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling	7
The impacts of interannual climate variation on pollination network structure of a sub-alpine meadow: from 2008 to 2021	7
Bryophyte responses to experimental climate change in a mid-latitude forest-line ecotone	7
A study of páramo plant-pollinator interactions on the sky islands of Colombia: specialization, modularity, and species roles	6
Correction: Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows	6
Early snowmelt advances flowering phenology and disrupts the drivers of pollinator visitation in an alpine ecosystem	5

Effects of nurse shrubs on symbioses between soil fungi and associated plants along a tropical alpine elevation gradient	5
Phylogeny and phenotypic adjustments drive functional traits in Rhododendron across elevations in its diversity hot-spot in W-China	5
Floral and pollinator functional diversity mediate network structure along an elevational gradient	4
Intensity, frequency and rate of insect herbivory for an alpine Rhododendron shrub: elevational patterns and leaf-age effects	4
Plant diversity and composition vary with elevation on two equatorial high mountains in Uganda: baselines for assessing the influence of climate change	4
Endemics determine bioregionalization in the alpine zone of the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot (South-West Asia)	4
Festuca apennina × F. pratensis triploid hybrids exceed their parents in adaptation to broad-environmental conditions	4
Pollen dispersal distance is determined by phenology and ancillary traits but not floral gender in an andromonoecious, fly-pollinated alpine herb	4
Glacier retreat triggers changes in biodiversity and plant–pollinator interaction diversity	3
High-mountain phylogeography in the Balkan Peninsula: isolation pattern in a species of alpine siliceous grasslands and its possible background	3
Molecular evidence and environmental niche evolution at the origin of the disjunct distribution in three mountain endemic Tephroseris (Asteraceae) of the Mediterranean basin	3
Relationships between population size and fitness in four common and four rare alpine plant species	3
Dieback of the cushion plant Silene acaulis at its southern limit of distribution in the Apennines	3
The morphological fit between flowers of Cypripedium calceolus L. and their visitors matters but does not explain flower size variations along altitude	3
Correction to: Center of origin and evolutionary history in the high Andean genus Oritrophium (Astereae, Asteraceae)	3
Effects of an actinorhizal shrub on the nitrogen status of the soil and neighboring plants in an alpine meadow of the Tibetan Plateau	3
Effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions and its multitrophic consequences	3
Co-occurring Luzula species (Juncaceae) of different ploidies exhibit weak ecological differentiation at local scale in alpine grasslands of the Eastern Alps	3
Alpine plant communities differ in their seed germination requirements along a snowmelt gradient in the Caucasus	3
Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern in Sino-Himalaya	3