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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species48
Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community44
Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats42
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna36
Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate33
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin31
Ellenberg N values of bryophytes in Central Europe*31
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications30
Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover29
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands29
Grazing livestock increases both vegetation and seed bank diversity in remnant and restored grasslands27
Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests24
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands23
Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide21
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession20
Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales20
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification20
Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation20
Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation20
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings19
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation19
The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience18
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients18
Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China18
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation18
Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls18
Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment18
Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands17
The response of productivity and its sensitivity to changes in precipitation: A meta‐analysis of field manipulation experiments17
Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co‐occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value17
The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management17
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical forests17
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy16
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests16
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests16
Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) data set: A fundamental tool for ecological studies15
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands15
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases15
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests14
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation13
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics13
Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly13
Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance12
Regression to the mean in vegetation science12
Light can modify density‐dependent seedling mortality in a temperate forest12
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers12
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks11
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance11
Vital rates in early life history underlie shifts in biotic interactions along bioclimatic gradients: An experimental test of the Stress Gradient Hypothesis11
Effect of Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment on plant species diversity, functional traits and litter decomposition in an East‐African savannah ecosystem11
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community11
Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition11
Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?10
Species and functional plant diversity enhance ecosystem functions in the central Monte desert10
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands10
Long‐term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data10
Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities10
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands10
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest10
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands10
SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests9
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil9
Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones9
Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot9
Changes in community functional structure and ecosystem properties along an invasion gradient ofLigustrum lucidum9
Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago8
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China8
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region8
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)8
Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter8
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots8
Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests7
Plant functional traits involved in the assembly of canopy–recruit interactions7
Global patterns of phylogenetic beta‐diversity components in angiosperms7
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific7
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine‐learning algorithms7
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient7
Partitioned beta diversity patterns of plants across sharp and distinct boundaries of quartz habitat islands7
Similar successional development of functional community structure in glacier forelands despite contrasting bedrocks7
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages7
Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species7
Divergent responses of functional diversity to an elevational gradient for vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens7
Rapid post‐fire re‐assembly of species‐rich bryophyte communities in Afroalpine heathlands7
Could the environment limit dispersal between Sunda and Sahul?7
Revealing floristic variation and map uncertainties for different plant groups in western Amazonia7
Invading rain forest pioneers initiate positive fire suppression feedbacks that reinforce shifts from open to closed forest in eastern Australia7
ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network6
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest6
A comparative study of hard clustering algorithms for vegetation data6
Woody species have stronger facilitative effects on soil biota than on plants along an aridity gradient6
Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process6
An invasive grass species has both local and broad‐scale impacts on diversity: Potential mechanisms and implications6
Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions6
Vegetative and reproductive phenology in a tropical grassland–savanna–forest gradient6
Unraveling plant strategies in tidal marshes by investigating plant traits and environmental conditions6
Functional biogeography of weeds reveals how anthropogenic management blurs trait–climate relationships6
Hidden below‐ground plant diversity buffers against species loss during land‐use change in species‐rich grasslands6
Extreme precipitation increases the productivity of a desert ephemeral plant community in Central Asia, but there is no slope position effect6
Divergence among biological soil crust communities developing under different environmental conditions6
Environmental variables driving species composition in subarctic springs in the face of climate change5
Environmental variables and dispersal barriers explain broad‐scale variation in tree species composition across Neotropical non‐flooded evergreen forests5
Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long‐term trends, while species’ traits predict short‐term fluctuations5
Community dissimilarity of angiosperm trees reveals deep‐time diversification across tropical and temperate forests5
The influence of contrasting fire management practice on bush encroachment: Lessons from Bwabwata National Park, Namibia5
Fine‐scale hydrological niche segregation in coastal dune slacks5
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China5
Together we stand, divided we fall: Effects of livestock grazing on vegetation patches in a desert community5
Late‐season drought exerts more negative effects on plant diversity and cover than early‐season drought through changing soil moisture in a semi‐arid grassland5
Species‐specific trends and variability in plant functional traits across a latitudinal gradient in northern Alaska5
Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress5
Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees5
Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests5
Advancing and reversing succession as a function of time since fire and insect outbreaks: An 18 year in situ remeasurement of changes in forest composition5
How does spatial micro‐environmental heterogeneity influence seedling recruitment in ironstone outcrops?5
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests5
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions5
A new method for indicator species analysis in the framework of multivariate analysis of variance4
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows4
Indication of a reduction in the cover of thin‐leaved plants in Danish grasslands over an eight‐year period4
Shrub encroachment in Mediterranean mountain grasslands: Rate and consequences on plant diversity and forage availability4
Interspecific facilitation favors rare species establishment and reduces performance disparities among adults4
Scale‐dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran4
Frost hinders the establishment of trees in highland grasslands in the Atlantic Forest ecotone region of southern Brazil4
Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes–Amazon elevational gradient4
The role of drought, disturbance, and seed dispersal in dominance shifts in a temperate grassland4
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring4
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 plasticity4
Salt marsh vegetation and secured woody debris facilitate the recolonization of Avicennia germinans4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season4
Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests4
Disturbance effects on productivity–plant diversity relationships from a 22‐year‐old successional field4
Changes in soil chemical properties and plant species composition during primary succession on an oceanic island4
Comparison of silhouette‐based reallocation methods for vegetation classification3
Mechanisms behind elevational plant species richness patterns revealed by a trait‐based approach3
Coexistence of grasses and shrubs in Patagonian steppes. Norm or exception?3
Long‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community3
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes3
Post‐agriculture rain forest succession on a tropical Pacific island3
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest3
What can bryophyte diversity on Cangas (ironstone outcrops) teach us?3
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue3
Diversity and interactions of the epiphyte community associated with ant‐gardens are not influenced by elevational and environmental gradients3
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture3
Determinants of tree seedling establishment in alpine tundra3
Temporal changes in the dominance of tree functional traits, but no changes in species diversity during woody plant encroachment in a Brazilian savanna3
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland3
Contrasting effects of vegetation cover and site condition on biocrust communities in subhumid drylands3
Conspecific negative density dependence does not explain coexistence in a tropical Afromontane forest3
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups3
The spatiotemporal distribution of pollen traits related to dispersal and desiccation tolerance in Canarian laurel forest3
Environmental drivers of three neighbouring monodominant stands in Pantanal wetland3
Probabilistic and preferential sampling approaches offer integrated perspectives of Italian forest diversity3
Climate and soil differentially affect species, trait and diversity patterns of woody overstorey and fern understorey in a subtropical forest along an elevation gradient in Taiwan3
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes3
Grazing and microhabitat interact to affect plant–plant interactions in subtropical seasonal wetlands3
The firewall between Cerrado and Amazonia: Interaction of temperature and fire govern seed recruitment in a Neotropical savanna3
Standard trees versus underwood: Historical patterns of tree taxon occurrence in coppice forests3
Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass3
Seasonality affects the below‐ground bud bank dynamics of the Cerrado3
ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe3
Artemisia sieberishrubs have contrasting specific effects on understory species in Iranian steppes3
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history3
Factors explaining the composition and diversity of vascular plant understories along a transcontinental gradient in the Canadian boreal forest3
Nurse species facilitate persistence of dry forests in agricultural landscapes in Uruguay3
Changes in tree size, not species diversity, underlie the low above‐ground biomass in natural forest edges3
Species‐rich plant communities in interior habitats of small forest fragments: The role of seed dispersal and edge effect3
Elevational patterns in tropical bryophyte diversity differ among substrates: A case study on Baru volcano, Panama3
Snow depth and woody debris drive variation in small‐mammal winter seed removal3
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales3
Early positive biodiversity effects on total biomass in experimental tree seedling assemblages with and without water limitation2
Plant diversity but not productivity is associated with community mycorrhization in temperate grasslands2
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations2
Disturbance reshapes the productivity–diversity relationship2
Understory plant species and community changes following a mountain pine beetle outbreak in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA2
Dynamics of dwarf shrubs in Mediterranean high‐mountain ecosystems2
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient2
The ranked species occupancy curves reflect the dominant process of species sorting: Evidence from forest/scrub communities2
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests2
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites2
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests2
Null‐model analysis and changes in species interactions in biocrusts along a successional gradient in the Tengger Desert, northern China2
Nurse shrubs influence plant biodiversity across environmental gradients in rocky outcrops and surrounding rangelands2
climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data2
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands2
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time2
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess2
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness2
Disentangling multi‐species aggregate versus overlapping distributions2
Spatial patterns in neighbourhood effects on woody plant selection and bark stripping by deer in a lowland alluvial forest2
Dominant plant facilitation can generate indirect competition in a South‐American desert plant community2
Niche differentiation between Malus sylvestris and its hybrid with Malus domestica indicated by plant community, soil and light2
Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above‐ and below‐ground biomass2
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia2
Using spatial patterns of seeds and saplings to assess the prevalence of heterospecific replacements among cloud forest canopy tree species2
Collaboration networks and hot topics in the Journal of Vegetation Science2
Shade drives plant community changes of ground‐layer savanna vegetation: Short‐term changes under an experimental approach2
Does above‐average rainfall stimulate a recruitment pulse in semi‐arid woodlands of southeastern Australia?2
Outcomes of facilitative plant interactions in shrublands of NW Patagonia, Argentina2
Burn severity and soil chemistry are weak drivers of early vegetation succession following a boreal mega‐fire in a production forest landscape2
Disentangling by additive partitioning the effects of invasive species on the functional structure of communities2
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species2
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model2
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance2
The importance of history for understanding contemporary ecosystems: Insights from vegetation science2
Plant and soil microbial community assembly processes across urban vacant lots2
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?2
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