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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	22
Different growth response of mountain rangeland habitats to inter-annual weather fluctuations	20
Temporal and spatial variation in the direct and indirect effects of climate on reproduction in alpine populations of Ranunculus acris L	19
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	16
Pollination-associated shortening of the functional flower lifespan in an alpine species of Alstroemeria and the water content of flowers	11
Positive and negative plant−plant interactions influence seedling establishment at both high and low elevations	10
Plant evolutionary ecology in mountain regions in space and time	10
Microsite preferences of three conifers in calcareous and siliceous treeline ecotones in the French alps	9
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	9
The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations	8
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	8
Genetic underpinning of historical afforestation with allochthonous Pinus cembra in the northwestern Swiss Alps	8
Introgression of an isolated Primula lineage suggests the existence of a glacial refugium in the Écrins range (Southwestern French Alps)	7
Implementing spatial analyses to measure angiosperm biodiversity from the high-altitude grasslands of the Atlantic forest	7
Bryophyte responses to experimental climate change in a mid-latitude forest-line ecotone	6
Clonality and genetic structure of an endangered aquatic plant, Typha minima, in the French Alps: consequences for conservation	6
A study of páramo plant-pollinator interactions on the sky islands of Colombia: specialization, modularity, and species roles	5
The impacts of interannual climate variation on pollination network structure of a sub-alpine meadow: from 2008 to 2021	5
Phylogeny and phenotypic adjustments drive functional traits in Rhododendron across elevations in its diversity hot-spot in W-China	5
Correction: Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows	5
Festuca apennina × F. pratensis triploid hybrids exceed their parents in adaptation to broad-environmental conditions	4
Plant diversity and composition vary with elevation on two equatorial high mountains in Uganda: baselines for assessing the influence of climate change	4
Floral and pollinator functional diversity mediate network structure along an elevational gradient	4
Early snowmelt advances flowering phenology and disrupts the drivers of pollinator visitation in an alpine ecosystem	4
Intensity, frequency and rate of insect herbivory for an alpine Rhododendron shrub: elevational patterns and leaf-age effects	4

Effects of nurse shrubs on symbioses between soil fungi and associated plants along a tropical alpine elevation gradient	4
Morphoanatomy and leaf biomass in Espeletia standleyana A.C.Sm. and Espeletia santanderensis A.C.Sm. in a northeastern Colombian paramo	3
Correction: The niche of alpine botany	3
Effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions and its multitrophic consequences	3
The morphological fit between flowers of Cypripedium calceolus L. and their visitors matters but does not explain flower size variations along altitude	3
Pollen dispersal distance is determined by phenology and ancillary traits but not floral gender in an andromonoecious, fly-pollinated alpine herb	3
Glacier retreat triggers changes in biodiversity and plant–pollinator interaction diversity	3
Correction: Genetic divergence of Clematis alpina in the Swiss Prealps: a tale of the margins	3
Alpine plant communities differ in their seed germination requirements along a snowmelt gradient in the Caucasus	3
Dieback of the cushion plant Silene acaulis at its southern limit of distribution in the Apennines	3
Co-occurring Luzula species (Juncaceae) of different ploidies exhibit weak ecological differentiation at local scale in alpine grasslands of the Eastern Alps	3
High-mountain phylogeography in the Balkan Peninsula: isolation pattern in a species of alpine siliceous grasslands and its possible background	3
Cushion plants in the Alps are swarming with invertebrate life	3