Journal of Vegetation Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Vegetation Science 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue33
Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions26
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia23
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests22
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring21
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss21
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model21
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies20
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories19
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests18
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups18
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland17
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico16
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability16
Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics15
Species–Habitat Associations in a Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest15
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Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration13
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)12
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands12
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico12
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs11
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers11
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring11
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots11
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An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau11
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands10
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms10
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Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests10
Inter‐annual precipitation variability alters the effects of soil resource enrichment and mycorrhizal suppression on plant communities in desert steppe10
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Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada9
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination9
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan9
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest9
Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests8
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions8
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?8
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests8
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Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings8
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations8
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland7
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Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream7
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests7
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models7
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors7
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage7
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests7
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest7
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time6
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes6
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem6
Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation6
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities6
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments6
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Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia6
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics6
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows6
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Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment5
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology5
A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity5
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Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina5
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity5
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy5
Multi‐Species Plant Invasions in Temperate Successional Grasslands Drive Changes in Community Functional Composition5
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands5
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico5
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient5
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas5
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history4
Using Yearly‐Resolved Time Series to Disentangle Interannual Variability, Directional Change, and Pseudoturnover in Plant Community Composition4
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland4
Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification4
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient4
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia4
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment4
Drivers of beta diversity along a precipitation gradient in tropical forests of the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia4
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions4
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture4
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest4
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?4
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape4
Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest4
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world4
climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data4
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography4
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community4
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season4
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal3
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands3
Successional dynamics of species composition, functional traits and assembly mechanisms during the 60‐year long history of agricultural transformations in subarctic tundra communities3
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats3
Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass3
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”3
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness3
Islanded Islands: Dual Isolation Drive Distinctive and Threatened Floras of Neotropical Maritime Inselbergs3
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities3
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests3
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species3
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Interaction Between Plants Through Litter Input in Mangrove Succession in the Red River Delta3
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess3
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Measuring Two‐Dimensional Distributional Aggregation Pattern of Species Through One‐Dimensional Approximation3
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot3
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance3
Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)3
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Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change3
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat3
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland3
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research3
CSR Strategies Are Associated With Elemental Leaf Chemistry in Alpine Plants3
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?3
The Presence of Alternative Tree Species in European Beech Forests Drives Change in Functional Diversity and Composition of Forest Floor Plant Communities3
Synopsis of Nardus Grassland Resurveys Across Germany: Is Eutrophication Driven by a Recovery of Soil pH After Acidification?3
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest3
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks3
Do Small Forest Gaps Collect Snow That Prevents Tree Gap Dynamics in Western North American High Latitude Conifer Forests?3
Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)3
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest3
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific3
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Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress3
Measuring Them all: Individual‐Based Functional Spatial Patterns in Mountain Grasslands3
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales3
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications2
Elevational patterns in tropical bryophyte diversity differ among substrates: A case study on Baru volcano, Panama2
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Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long‐term trends, while species’ traits predict short‐term fluctuations2
Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe2
Controls on use efficiency of plant nutrients along subtropical to alpine gradients on the Tibetan Plateau2
Sticking to the trail: Seed rain, seed bank and seedling density are elevated along hiking trails in the Scandes mountains2
Experimental warming has limited impacts on post‐fire succession across a burn severity gradient2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?2
The effects of biophysical and anthropogenic factors on the recent upper forest‐cover upward shift in the Romanian Carpathians2
Mosses and vascular plants show diverging diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient in boreal bogs and fens2
Diversity and mean specific leaf area of Mediterranean woody vegetation changes in response to summer drought across a double stress gradient: The role of phenotypic plasticity2
Impact of longevity and wettability of fern leaves on epiphyll colonization in a Mexican lowland rainforest2
Changes in taxonomic and functional composition of subalpine plant communities in response to climate change under contrasting conditions of bedrock and snow cover duration2
Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests2
Plant Invasions Reduce the Degree of Nestedness on Warm Temperate Islands2
Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus2
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests2
Plant diversity but not productivity is associated with community mycorrhization in temperate grasslands2
Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region2
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species2
Increased reproductive trait diversity, evolutionary history and distinctiveness during the succession of tropical forest2
Niche differentiation between Malus sylvestris and its hybrid with Malus domestica indicated by plant community, soil and light2
Low replicability of testing the stress–dominance hypothesis using a trait convergence/divergence pattern2
Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession2
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How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation2
Collaboration networks and hot topics in the Journal of Vegetation Science2
Early positive biodiversity effects on total biomass in experimental tree seedling assemblages with and without water limitation2
Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient2
Understanding post‐fire vegetation recovery in southern California ecosystems with the aid of pre‐fire observations from long‐term monitoring2
Intense light and conspecific density increase seedling mortality across age groups in a typhoon‐disturbed tropical forest2
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites2
Climbing aroids in a Panamanian lowland forest: We should reconsider our categories2
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Seed Bank and Ashfalls: The Ecological Resetting Effect of the Recent Tajogaite Volcano Eruption in the Canary Pine Forest (La Palma, Spain)2
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Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance2
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