Journal of Vegetation Science

Article	Citations
The neglected importance of floral traits in trait‐based plant community assembly	46
Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community	37
Managing data locally to answer questions globally: The role of collaborative science in ecology	37
Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa L. impacts dry grasslands	36
Weather fluctuations drive short‐term dynamics and long‐term stability in plant communities: A 25‐year study in a Central European dry grassland	34
Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats	34
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna	29
Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate	28
Why westillneed permanent plots for vegetation science	28
Increased fire severity triggers positive feedbacks of greater vegetation flammability and favors plant community‐type conversions	28
The fate of páramo plant assemblages in the sky islands of the northern Andes	27
Ellenberg N values of bryophytes in Central Europe*	26
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands	26
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	25
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications	24
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin	24
Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover	23
Press–pulse interactions and long‐term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland	21
Grazing livestock increases both vegetation and seed bank diversity in remnant and restored grasslands	21
EpIG‐DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Neotropics	20
From delayed succession to alternative successional trajectory: How different moose browsing pressures contribute to forest dynamics following clear‐cutting	20
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands	20
Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide	19
Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls	18
Environment and evolutionary history depict phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in the Atlantic coastal white‐sand woodlands	18

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	18
Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation	18
Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests	18
Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment	17
Spatial and temporal patterns of initial plant establishment in salt marsh communities	17
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation	17
Steppe islands in a sea of fields: Where island biogeography meets the reality of a severely transformed landscape	17
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	17
The germination niche of coastal dune species as related to their occurrence along a sea–inland gradient	17
Soil water availability shapes species richness in mid‐latitude shrub steppe plant communities	16
Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co‐occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value	16
Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands	16
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	15
Human‐mediated dispersal as a driver of vegetation dynamics: A conceptual synthesis	15
Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony	15
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	15
Simulated climate warming increases plant community heterogeneity in two types of boreal peatlands in north–central Canada	15
Are there common assembly rules for different grasslands? Comparisons of long‐term data from a subtropical grassland with temperate grasslands	15
Vegetation response to climate warming across the forest–tundra ecotone: species‐dependent upward movement	15
Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales	15
Water availability mediates functional shifts across ontogenetic stages in a regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest	15
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	15
Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species‐specific	15
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical forests	15
The response of productivity and its sensitivity to changes in precipitation: A meta‐analysis of field manipulation experiments	14
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	14
Nurse plants promote taxonomic and functional diversity in an arid Mediterranean annual plant community	14
Macroevolutionary patterns in European vegetation	14
Reindeer trampling promotes vegetation changes in tundra heathlands: Results from a simulation experiment	14
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	14
The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience	13
Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China	13
Understanding the dynamics of forest understorey: Combination of monitoring and legacy data reveals patterns across temporal scales	13
Patch‐level facilitation fosters high‐Andean plant diversity at regional scales	13
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests	13
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	13
Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity	12
Mycorrhizal fungi maintain plant community stability by mitigating the negative effects of nitrogen deposition on subordinate species in Central Asia	12
The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management	12
Effects of decadal experimental drought and climate extremes on vegetation growth in Mediterranean forests and shrublands	12
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession	12
Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional‐taxonomic groups	11
Is variable plot size a serious constraint in broad‐scale vegetation studies? A case study on fens	11
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance	11
Vital rates in early life history underlie shifts in biotic interactions along bioclimatic gradients: An experimental test of the Stress Gradient Hypothesis	11
Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?	11
Historical ecology of Mediterranean forests: Land use legacies on current understorey plants differ with time since abandonment and former agricultural use	11
Species specificity challenges the predictability of facilitation along a regional desert gradient	11
The scale dependency of trait‐based tree neighborhood models	11
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	11

Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance	11
Canopy composition and drought shape understorey plant assemblages in a young tree diversity experiment	11
Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) data set: A fundamental tool for ecological studies	10
The relative role of climate and herbivory in driving treeline dynamics along a latitudinal gradient	10
The impact of seed deficiency on productivity and on negative drought effect in semi‐natural grassland	10
Effects of climate change on treeline trees in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest, Central Himalaya)	10
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	10
Dispersal syndrome influences the match between seed rain and soil seed bank of woody species in a Neotropical dry forest	10
Effects of disturbance and alien plants on the phylogenetic structure of riverine communities	10
Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly	10
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	10
Pasture trees contribute to structural heterogeneity and plant distributions in post‐agricultural forests decades after canopy closure	10
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	9
Effect of Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment on plant species diversity, functional traits and litter decomposition in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	9
Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones	9
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	9
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	9
Light can modify density‐dependent seedling mortality in a temperate forest	9
Long‐term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data	9
The relationship between epixylic bryophyte communities and microclimate	9
Regression to the mean in vegetation science	8
Scaling relationships among functional traits are similar across individuals, species, and communities	8
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands	8
SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests	8
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	8
Hedging against biodiversity loss: Forest herbs’ performance in hedgerows across temperate Europe	8
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands	8
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	8
Disentangling the effects of multiple fires on spatially interspersed sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities	8
Species and functional plant diversity enhance ecosystem functions in the central Monte desert	7
Influential neighbours: Seeds of dominant species affect the germination of common grassland species	7
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	7
Partitioned beta diversity patterns of plants across sharp and distinct boundaries of quartz habitat islands	7
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages	7
Interaction of climate change and nitrogen deposition on subalpine pastures	7
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine‐learning algorithms	7
Do regeneration traits vary according to vegetation structure? A case study for savannas	7
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient	7
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	7
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	7
Assessing the rate and reversibility of large‐herbivore effects on community composition in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem	7
Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition	7
Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests	7
Intraspecific variation in nutritional traits of neighbouring plants generates a continuum of associational effects	7
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific	7
Rapid post‐fire re‐assembly of species‐rich bryophyte communities in Afroalpine heathlands	6
Similar successional development of functional community structure in glacier forelands despite contrasting bedrocks	6
Could the environment limit dispersal between Sunda and Sahul?	6
Extreme precipitation increases the productivity of a desert ephemeral plant community in Central Asia, but there is no slope position effect	6
Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process	6
An invasive grass species has both local and broad‐scale impacts on diversity: Potential mechanisms and implications	6
Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter	6
Herbivory enhances the effect of environmental variability on plant community composition and beta diversity	6
Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago	6
Invading rain forest pioneers initiate positive fire suppression feedbacks that reinforce shifts from open to closed forest in eastern Australia	6
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China	6
Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	6
Fire and grazing controlling a tropical tree line: Effects of long‐term grazing exclusion in Bale Mountains, Ethiopia	6
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	6
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest	6
Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem	6
ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network	6
Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities	5
Fine‐scale hydrological niche segregation in coastal dune slacks	5
Plant functional traits involved in the assembly of canopy–recruit interactions	5
Comparing the effect of landscape context on vascular plant and bryophyte communities in a human‐dominated landscape	5
Species‐specific trends and variability in plant functional traits across a latitudinal gradient in northern Alaska	5
Woody species have stronger facilitative effects on soil biota than on plants along an aridity gradient	5
Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species	5
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions	5
Advancing and reversing succession as a function of time since fire and insect outbreaks: An 18 year in situ remeasurement of changes in forest composition	5
Topsoil disturbance reshapes diaspore interactions with ground‐foraging animals in a megadiverse grassland	5
Changes in community functional structure and ecosystem properties along an invasion gradient of Ligustrum lucidum	5
Compositional variation in understorey fern and palm communities along a soil fertility and rainfall gradient in a lower montane tropical forest	5
Mound‐building ants increase the proportion of Gramineae in above‐ground vegetation and the soil seed bank in alpine meadows	5
Standing vegetation as a coarse biotic filter for seed bank dynamics: Effects of gap creation on seed inputs and outputs in a native grassland	5
Divergent responses of functional diversity to an elevational gradient for vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens	5
Community dissimilarity of angiosperm trees reveals deep‐time diversification across tropical and temperate forests	5
Hidden below‐ground plant diversity buffers against species loss during land‐use change in species‐rich grasslands	5
Vegetative and reproductive phenology in a tropical grassland–savanna–forest gradient	5

Environmental variables driving species composition in subarctic springs in the face of climate change	4
Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests	4
A comparative study of hard clustering algorithms for vegetation data	4
The influence of contrasting fire management practice on bush encroachment: Lessons from Bwabwata National Park, Namibia	4
Trait–abundance relationships in tree communities along temperature and successional gradients	4
Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress	4
Using species abundance and phylogeny conjointly to approach vegetation classification: A case study on Macaronesia’s woody vegetation	4
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China	4
Identifying ecotone location using the co‐occurrence property	4
Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests	4
Unraveling plant strategies in tidal marshes by investigating plant traits and environmental conditions	4
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests	4
Divergence among biological soil crust communities developing under different environmental conditions	4
Facultative hemiepiphytism as a recruitment strategy in small‐seeded tree species	4
Environmental variables and dispersal barriers explain broad‐scale variation in tree species composition across Neotropical non‐flooded evergreen forests	4
Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions	4
Revealing floristic variation and map uncertainties for different plant groups in western Amazonia	4
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	4
Response of Kalahari vegetation to seasonal climate and herbivory: Results of 15 years of vegetation monitoring	4
Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees	4
Functional biogeography of weeds reveals how anthropogenic management blurs trait–climate relationships	3
Grazing and microhabitat interact to affect plant–plant interactions in subtropical seasonal wetlands	3
Small biodiversity effects on leaf litter production of a seasonal heath vegetation	3
Standard trees versus underwood: Historical patterns of tree taxon occurrence in coppice forests	3
Conspecific negative density dependence does not explain coexistence in a tropical Afromontane forest	3
Using forestry inventories and satellite imagery to assess floristic variation in bamboo‐dominated forests in Peruvian Amazonia	3
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	3
Species traits are better determinants of mobility than management in a species‐rich meadow	3
Assessing the influence of vegetation structure and phenological variability on pollen‐vegetation relationships using a 15‐year Neotropical pollen rain record	3
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows	3
Snow depth and woody debris drive variation in small‐mammal winter seed removal	3
Elevational patterns in tropical bryophyte diversity differ among substrates: A case study on Baru volcano, Panama	3
Indication of a reduction in the cover of thin‐leaved plants in Danish grasslands over an eight‐year period	3
Disturbance effects on productivity–plant diversity relationships from a 22‐year‐old successional field	3
Comparing experimental and field‐measured traits and their variability in Central European grassland species	3
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	3
Artemisia sieberi shrubs have contrasting specific effects on understory species in Iranian steppes	3
Scale‐dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran	3
Post‐agriculture rain forest succession on a tropical Pacific island	3
Frost hinders the establishment of trees in highland grasslands in the Atlantic Forest ecotone region of southern Brazil	3
Additive influences of soil and climate gradients drive tree community composition of Central African rain forests	3
Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes–Amazon elevational gradient	3
Which traits predict pairwise interactions in a mountain grassland?	3
Comparison of silhouette‐based reallocation methods for vegetation classification	3
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales	3
A new method for indicator species analysis in the framework of multivariate analysis of variance	3
The spatiotemporal distribution of pollen traits related to dispersal and desiccation tolerance in Canarian laurel forest	3
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	3
Changes in tree size, not species diversity, underlie the low above‐ground biomass in natural forest edges	3
Environmental drivers of three neighbouring monodominant stands in Pantanal wetland	3