OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Ecology & Diversity 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
Changes in climate, grazing pressure and nutrient inputs affect the structural integrity and functioning of Andean shrublands	48
Thermal tolerance and growth responses to in situ soil water reductions among alpine plants	36
Plant affinity to extreme soils and foliar sulphur mediate species-specific responses to sheep grazing in gypsum systems	24
Environmental heterogeneity compensates the potential homogenising effect of abandonment of grazing in a sub-Mediterranean mountain landscape	9
Changes in rainfall amount and seasonality modulate taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in a gypsophilous plant community in the Chihuahuan Desert	7
Geographic distance and environmental variation drive community structure of woody plants in Neotropical seasonally dry forest fragments in the Colombian Caribbean	7
Performance of pollinators of the tropical bromeliad Tillandsia stricta Sol. (Bromeliaceae) in the Atlantic forest, Rio de Janeiro	6
Seed fungal endophytes promote the establishment of invasive Poa annua in maritime Antarctica	6
South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management	6
Disturbance and biomass removal enhance population reinforcement of a plant species of European conservation concern	5
Species persistence and climatic stability have shaped plant communities of the Atlantic forest biodiversity hotspot	5
Flowering segregation and pollinator distinctiveness contribute to coexistence in an extremely generalist plant group	5
Fertiliser application modulates the impact of interannual climate fluctuations and plant-to-plant interactions on the dynamics of annual species in a Mediterranean grassland	5
Sown and self-seeding species in planted wildflower meadows increase floral abundance and richness in a Scottish semi-natural coastal grassland	4
Simulated precipitation change drives plant diversity and biomass change in the desert steppe	4
Introduction to special issue: the ecology and evolution of plants in extreme environments	4
Birds and ants can favour the germination of an endemic Neotropical magnolia	4
Epipelic diatom diversity as a bioindicator in River Aturukuku, Eastern Uganda	4
Rethinking the relationship between desiccation-tolerant vascular plants and water deficit	4
Ecology and management of invasive plants in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions: evidence and synthesis from Macquarie Island	3
Out of the shadows: ecology of open ecosystems	3
Biotic and abiotic drivers of seedling density in Polylepis rugulosa forests across east- and west-facing slopes in the Peruvian Andes	3
Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term	3
The relationship between vegetation, plant functional diversity and environment on rock outcrops in the Western Ghats, India	3
Quantifying cardinal temperatures and thermal time for seed germination of Papaver dubium and P. rhoeas	3

Hybrids in Cactaceae: current distribution and potential range of hybrids compared with parental species	3
Influence of distance from conspecific and heterospecific co-flowering plants on pollination and fecundity in the nectarless orchid Dactylorhiza sambucina	3
Differences in plant-dispersal mechanisms between contrasting Brazilian savanna habitats	3
Determinants of above-ground carbon stocks and productivity in secondary forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes	3