OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Ecology & Diversity is 2. 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
Plant speciation in the Quaternary	26
Out of the shadows: ecology of open ecosystems	26
The drought‒dieback‒death conundrum in trees and forests	19
Scarce fire activity in north and north-western Amazonian forests during the last 10,000 years	16
The relevance of the concept of potential natural vegetation in the Anthropocene	13
Minimum temperature drives community leaf trait variation in secondary montane forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the tropical Andes	12
Effects of water temperature over benthic diatom communities: insights from thermal springs	12
Plant invasion depresses native species richness, but control of invasive species does little to restore it	10
A historical baseline study of the páramo of Antisana in the Ecuadorian Andes including the impacts of burning, grazing and trampling	6
Specific leaf area is lower on ultramafic than on neighbouring non-ultramafic soils	5
Burial effects on seed germination and seedling emergence of two halophytes of contrasting seed size	5
Colonisation of the alpine tundra by trees: alpine neighbours assist late-seral but not early-seral conifer seedlings	4
Patch size changes the composition of flower visitors and influences pollen flow	4
Seed fungal endophytes promote the establishment of invasive Poa annua in maritime Antarctica	4
Ecology ofNepenthes clipeataon Gunung Kelam, Indonesian Borneo	4
Environmental heterogeneity compensates the potential homogenising effect of abandonment of grazing in a sub-Mediterranean mountain landscape	3
White bark in birch species as a warning signal for bark-stripping mammals	3
Interactive disturbances drive community composition, heterogeneity, and the niches of invasive exotic plant species during secondary succession	3
Arable wildflowers have potential as living mulches for sustainable agriculture	3
Effect of the invasive exotic herb Centaurea solstitialis on plant communities of a semiarid ecosystem	2
Flowering segregation and pollinator distinctiveness contribute to coexistence in an extremely generalist plant group	2
The presence of a foreign microbial community promotes plant growth and reduces filtering of root fungi in the arctic-alpine plant Silene acaulis	2
Ecology and management of invasive plants in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions: evidence and synthesis from Macquarie Island	2
Spatial heterogeneity of plant community composition and diversity on phytogenic mounds caused by water erosion	2
Simulated precipitation change drives plant diversity and biomass change in the desert steppe	2

Plant affinity to extreme soils and foliar sulphur mediate species-specific responses to sheep grazing in gypsum systems	2
Disturbance and biomass removal enhance population reinforcement of a plant species of European conservation concern	2
Factors that determine the occurrence of native and introducedSpergulariaspecies in Mediterranean coastal ecosystems	2
Plant reproductive phenology along an elevation gradient in the extreme environment of the Canadian High Arctic	2
Palms fanning out: a review of the ecological provisioning services provided byWashingtonia filiferaandW. robustain their native and exotic settings	2
Morphology and pollen fertility of native and non-native bluebells in Great Britain	2
Effects of plant interactions on the populations of the endangered Fagus pashanica	2
Genetic diversity and population structure of Salix alba across river systems in Turkey and their importance in conservation management	2
Effect of environmental factors on size and fecundity of field populations ofImpatiens glandulifera	2
Determinants of above-ground carbon stocks and productivity in secondary forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes	2
Inter-annual climatic variability modulates biotic interactions on early Nothofagus pumilio community development	2
Intra-and interannual climate variability drives the radial growth of Pinus wallichiana in the Nepalese Himalayas	2
Expanding the wood anatomy economics spectrum: the correlates of vessel element lengths and pit apertures sizes in tropical forest trees	2
South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management	2
Improved photosynthesis by leaf nutrient content enhances water use efficiency in Juniperus tibetica along elevation gradients above 4000 m a.s.l.	2
Plant speciation in the Namib Desert: potential origin of a widespread derivative species from a narrow endemic	2
Geographic distance and environmental variation drive community structure of woody plants in Neotropical seasonally dry forest fragments in the Colombian Caribbean	2
Thermal tolerance and growth responses to in situ soil water reductions among alpine plants	2