Journal of Vegetation Science

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Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	182
Rare‐Species Loss Reduces Gannan Grassland Ecosystem Functional Redundancy and Stability	59
Early Postfire Regeneration Determines Long‐Term Successional Trajectories in Temperate Pinus densiflora Forests of Korea	46
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	43
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	38
Habitat‐Mediated Filtering, Rather Than Soil Properties, Shapes Plant Community Diversity on Nelson Island, Maritime Antarctica	33
Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	22
Historical Corrals in Fennoscandia Reveal Divergent Legacies of Concentrated Reindeer Densities Between Continental and Suboceanic Tundra	20
Spatial Patterns of Woody Plants and Tree‐Tree Interactions in an Indian Mesic Savanna	20
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	18
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	15
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	15
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	14
Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics	14
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico	13
Species–Habitat Associations in a Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest	12
Vegetation Changes in Temperate Floodplain Forests: Temporal Scale Matters	12
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Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	11
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Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	11
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	11
Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	11
Historical Land‐Use Effects on Biodiversity: A Case Study From Southern Germany	10
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	10

Leaf It Alone: Environmental Factors Outweigh Herbivory as Determinants of Plant Traits in a Mediterranean Mountain	10
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	10
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	10
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	10
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	10
Rapid Change and Thermophilization of Summit Plant Communities in the Central Eastern Alps (Italy)	10
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A Novel Method for Monitoring Above‐ and Belowground Microclimates in Mountain Ecosystems Year‐Round	10
Coexistence Beyond Equilibria: Testing the Ecological Buffering Mechanisms Theory in Mixed Communities	9
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Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	9
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	9
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	9
Plant Functional Type Diversity of High Andean Vegetation Across Biomes and Elevations	9
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	9
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models	8
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	8
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	8
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	8
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan	8
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Vegetation Dynamics on a Boreal Raised Bog: Changes in Carpets, Lawns and Hummocks Towards Wetter Conditions Over a 34‐Year Period	8
Long‐Term Warming and Dominant Species Removal Alter Plant Community Composition in Invaded Alpine Tussock Grasslands in New Zealand	8
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Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	8
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	8
Unraveling the Influence of Soil Properties on CSR Strategies in an Ironstone Montane Ecosystem in Southeast Brazil	8
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	7
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	7
Neighbourhood Effects on Tree Seedlings Differ by Mycorrhizal Symbiont Type in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest	7
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests	7
Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation	7
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	7
Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	7
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Forest Composition Drives Bryophyte Biomass, Carbon, and Nitrogen Storage in the Boreal‐Temperate Ecotone	7
Distribution and Regeneration Potential of the Soil Seed Bank of Ericaceous Vegetation in the Bale Mountains	6
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Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	6
The Influence of Resurvey Plot Location on Observed Vegetation Change	6
How to Mitigate the Effect of Observer Error When Unraveling Species‐Environment Associations? A Case Study With Tropical Tree Communities From Western Central Africa	6
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	6
The Apple Does Not Fall Far From the Tree and How This Affects the Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Juvenile Trees	6
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The Alpine Germination Syndrome Differs Between Temperate and Mediterranean Habitats	6
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	6
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	6
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	6
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	6

Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	6
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	6
Differentiation of the Seed Regeneration Niche Along a Small‐Scale Plant Zonation in Mediterranean Temporary Ponds	6
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A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	6
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	6
Multi‐Species Plant Invasions in Temperate Successional Grasslands Drive Changes in Community Functional Composition	6
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture	5
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions	5
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world	5
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment	5
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland	5
Human Activities and Native Vegetation Properties Drive Plant Invasion in Arid Agricultural Regions of Northwest China	5
Altitudinal Variation in Beta Diversity of Woody Plants and Soil Microbes Is Driven Primarily by Local Species Pool	5
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology	5
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history	5
Using Yearly‐Resolved Time Series to Disentangle Interannual Variability, Directional Change, and Pseudoturnover in Plant Community Composition	5
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia	5
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape	5
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest	5
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	5
Climatically Driven Stability in the Alpine/Moorland Boundary on Three Mountains in Southwest Lutruwita/Tasmania 1986–2020	5
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes	5
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity	5
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climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data	5
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community	5
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?	5
Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification	5
Dry Soils Increase the Impact of Experimental Warming on Plant Community Composition in an Australian Subalpine Meadow	5
Intraspecific Trait Variation Drives Functional Shifts in Grass Communities Under Grazing in the Scottish Uplands	5
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Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)	4
barrel: An R Package for Reproducible and Tidy Ordination Plotting in Ecology	4
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat	4
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities	4
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”	4
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific	4
Measuring Two‐Dimensional Distributional Aggregation Pattern of Species Through One‐Dimensional Approximation	4
Intraspecific Functional Trait Responses to Experimental Warming Vary With Precipitation and Growth Form	4
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest	4
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests	4
Different Measurement Protocols Impact Specific Leaf Area ( SLA ) Estimation in Simple Versus Compound Leaves	4
Do Small Forest Gaps Collect Snow That Prevents Tree Gap Dynamics in Western North American High Latitude Conifer Forests?	4
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest	4
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness	4
The Woody Invasive Plant Neltuma juliflora Influences Plant Species Richness and Soil Chemistry in Botswana	4
Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change	4
Islanded Islands: Dual Isolation Drive Distinctive and Threatened Floras of Neotropical Maritime Inselbergs	4
Losers and Winners Among Baltic Coastal Meadow Plants After 60 Years of Environmental Change	4
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance	4
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats	4
Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest	4
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research	3
Soil and Plant Nutrients Are Maintained—and Can Be Enhanced—by Long‐Term Frequent Fire in an Afromontane Grassland	3
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Neighbourly Dispute at the Edge of Life: Species Interactions Among Antarctic Mosses	3
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Vegetation Phenology Across Ecological Zones in China	3
The Presence of Alternative Tree Species in European Beech Forests Drives Change in Functional Diversity and Composition of Forest Floor Plant Communities	3
CSR Strategies Are Associated With Elemental Leaf Chemistry in Alpine Plants	3
Structural and Functional Shifts in Belowground Components Following Grass Invasion in a Tropical Savannah	3
Heterogeneous Effects of Drought, Land‐Use History and Local Site Factors on Woodland Herb‐Layer Diversity	3
Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)	3
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland	3
Synopsis of Nardus Grassland Resurveys Across Germany: Is Eutrophication Driven by a Recovery of Soil pH	3
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal	3
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?	3
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot	3
Urban Grassland Plant Communities Assemble According to Productivity and Disturbance Gradients	3
Successional dynamics of species composition, functional traits and assembly mechanisms during the 60‐year long history of agricultural transformations in subarctic tundra communities	3
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands	3
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species	3
Interaction Between Plants Through Litter Input in Mangrove Succession in the Red River Delta	3
Contrasting Phylogenetic Signals in Flowering and Fruiting Phenology at Species and Assemblage Scales in a Climbing Plant Community	3
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess	3
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites	2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?	2
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	2
Changes in taxonomic and functional composition of subalpine plant communities in response to climate change under contrasting conditions of bedrock and snow cover duration	2

Variation of Riparian Plant CSR Strategies Across the Gradient of the Water Level Fluctuation and Snowmelt Along the Nyang River, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	2
Local Context Matters: Site‐Dependent Functional and Ecological Responses to Woody Encroachment	2
Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region	2
Soil Metabarcoding Helps Identify Recalcitrant Taxa From Chaparral Seed Banks	2
Contrasting Responses of Dominant and Non‐Dominant Species Groups Underlie Community Biomass–Environment Relationships in Species‐Rich Grasslands	2
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Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus	2
Topography and Logging Structure Liana Community Assemblages in an Upland Evergreen Forest, Ghana	2
Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession	2
Drought and Plant Invasions Along an Aridity Gradient	2
Simultaneous Nitrogen Addition and Warming Cause More Plant Species Loss Than Single Factors Alone	2
How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation	2
Measuring Them all: Individual‐Based Functional Spatial Patterns in Mountain Grasslands	2
Understanding post‐fire vegetation recovery in southern California ecosystems with the aid of pre‐fire observations from long‐term monitoring	2
Plant Invasions Reduce the Degree of Nestedness on Warm Temperate Islands	2
Impact of longevity and wettability of fern leaves on epiphyll colonization in a Mexican lowland rainforest	2
Experimental warming has limited impacts on post‐fire succession across a burn severity gradient	2
Climate Extremes, Soils and Topography, and Past and Present Land Use Shape Tree Cover in Central Anatolia (Türkiye)	2
Protected Areas Have Not Halted Macrophyte Biodiversity Loss and Eutrophication in Northwest German Standing Waters	2
Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe	2
Dieback of Calluna vulgaris in a Coastal Heathland After the 2018 Extreme Drought	2
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Controls on use efficiency of plant nutrients along subtropical to alpine gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	2
Delayed Seed Germination as a Strategy to Cope With Environmental Stress and Disturbance	2
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Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance	2
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Climbing aroids in a Panamanian lowland forest: We should reconsider our categories	2
Impact of Termite Mounds on the Composition, Structure and Carbon Stock of Tree Communities in Altered Lands of Benin (West Africa)	2
Intense light and conspecific density increase seedling mortality across age groups in a typhoon‐disturbed tropical forest	2
Low replicability of testing the stress–dominance hypothesis using a trait convergence/divergence pattern	2
Assessing Climate–Wildfire Effects on Alaskan Boreal Forest Using Ground‐Truth Surveys and NASA Airborne Remote Sensing	2
What is Highly Cited in Vegetation Science? A Temporal Trend Analysis	2
Moderate Seasonal Grazing During the Seed‐Set Stage Is Detrimental to Seed Rain and the Soil Seed Bank in an Alpine Meadow	2
Mosses and vascular plants show diverging diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient in boreal bogs and fens	2
The effects of biophysical and anthropogenic factors on the recent upper forest‐cover upward shift in the Romanian Carpathians	2
Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient	2