Journal of Vegetation Science

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Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	57
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	42
Spatial patterns in neighbourhood effects on woody plant selection and bark stripping by deer in a lowland alluvial forest	42
Vegetation change over 140 years in a sagebrush landscape of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico, USA	33
Dynamics of dwarf shrubs in Mediterranean high‐mountain ecosystems	32
Are metapopulation species drivers of metacommunity structure in sandstone outcrop communities?	30
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	29
Disentangling by additive partitioning the effects of invasive species on the functional structure of communities	23
Resource competition, not facilitation, structures gravel beach plant communities	20
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	20
Which regionalization scheme is the best to predict wetland plant distribution in Western Patagonia?	20
Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees	20
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Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness	19
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Fine‐scale hydrological niche segregation in coastal dune slacks	18
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest	18
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance	17
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	17
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	16
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	16
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	16
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat	16
Disturbance reshapes the productivity–diversity relationship	15

Changes in tree size, not species diversity, underlie the low above‐ground biomass in natural forest edges	14
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Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession	13
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	13
Patterns and drivers of alien plant invasion in Uruguayan grasslands	12
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	12
Probabilistic and preferential sampling approaches offer integrated perspectives of Italian forest diversity	12
Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	11
Outcomes of facilitative plant interactions in shrublands of NW Patagonia, Argentina	11
ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network	11
Trends in geographic and gender balance among authors	11
Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process	11
Linking regeneration niche to monodominance in biodiverse tropical forest landscapes	11
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests	10
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	10
Scale‐dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran	10
Salt marsh vegetation and secured woody debris facilitate the recolonization of Avicennia germinans	10
Factors explaining the composition and diversity of vascular plant understories along a transcontinental gradient in the Canadian boreal forest	9
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest	9
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions	9
The spatiotemporal distribution of pollen traits related to dispersal and desiccation tolerance in Canarian laurel forest	8
Plant and soil microbial community assembly processes across urban vacant lots	8
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	8
Willow above, changes below: Seedless tree invader impacts riparian seed bank in the Patagonian ecotone	8
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	8
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Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change	7
Nutrient deposition enhances post‐fire survival in non‐N‐fixing savanna tree seedlings	7
Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition	7
Artemisia sieberishrubs have contrasting specific effects on understory species in Iranian steppes	7
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China	7
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands	7
Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance	7
Community ionomics reveals a diversity of mineral nutrition in a species‐rich shrubland on infertile soil	7
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	7
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites	7
Independent biodiversity mechanisms regulate ecosystem multifunctionality and its temporal stability under resource enrichment in a mown grassland	7
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities	6
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation	6
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Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate	6
Elevation differentially shapes functional diversity patterns in understorey forest communities when considering intraspecific and interspecific trait variability	6
Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above‐ and below‐ground biomass	6
A new method for indicator species analysis in the framework of multivariate analysis of variance	6
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific	6
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest	6
Root trait variation along water gradients in the Cape Floristic Region	6
Trends in plant cover derived from vegetation plot data using ordinal zero‐augmented beta regression	5
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance	5

Long‐term high densities of African elephants clear the understorey and promote a new stable savanna woodland community	5
Is plant reproductive efficiency expressed on a continuum of facilitation and competition?	5
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	5
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	5
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	5
Environmental filtering is the primary driver of community assembly in forest–grassland mosaics: A case study based on CSR strategies	5
The importance of history for understanding contemporary ecosystems: Insights from vegetation science	5
The effects of biophysical and anthropogenic factors on the recent upper forest‐cover upward shift in the Romanian Carpathians	5
A spatiotemporal comparison of interobserver error in vegetation sampling	5
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Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats	5
Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities	4
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Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	4
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	4
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	4
Low replicability of testing the stress–dominance hypothesis using a trait convergence/divergence pattern	4
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	4
Inter‐ and intraspecific stomatal morphological traits vary in response to topographic habitat changes	4
Independent Trends of Mountain Vegetation and Soil Properties Over 40 Years of Environmental Change	4
Influence of local environmental gradients on ecological strategies of herbaceous communities in riverine side channels	4
Assembly of species’ climatic niches of coastal communities does not shift after invasion	4
Increased reproductive trait diversity, evolutionary history and distinctiveness during the succession of tropical forest	4
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	4
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	4
Mosses and vascular plants show diverging diversity patterns along a latitudinal gradient in boreal bogs and fens	4
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Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass	3
Changes in species richness with climate change in subalpine communities are dependent on regional environmental conditions and local functional composition	3
Seasonality affects the below‐ground bud bank dynamics of the Cerrado	3
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Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	3
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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 plasticity	3
ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe	3
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	3
Niche differentiation between Malus sylvestris and its hybrid with Malus domestica indicated by plant community, soil and light	3
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species	3
A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	3
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Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot	3
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	3
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Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	3
Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress	3
Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species	3
The drivers of dark diversity in the Scandinavian mountains are metric‐dependent	3
Reconstructing thicket clump formation using association rules analysis	3
Dominant plant facilitation can generate indirect competition in a South‐American desert plant community	3
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The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient	3
Fine‐scale functional metacommunity dynamics: Analysing the role of disturbance‐driven environmental variability in grasslands	3
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	3
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Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales	3
The ranked species occupancy curves reflect the dominant process of species sorting: Evidence from forest/scrub communities	3
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	3
Structure, floristic composition, and distribution of swamp forests across a white‐water flood‐plain in the Colombian Amazon	3
The influence of contrasting fire management practice on bush encroachment: Lessons from Bwabwata National Park, Namibia	2
Two decades of increasing functional and phylogenetic richness in a mountaintop flora in central Norway	2
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	2
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	2
Contrasting effects of vegetation cover and site condition on biocrust communities in subhumid drylands	2
Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance	2
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine‐learning algorithms	2
Quantitative evaluation of internal cluster validation indices using binary data sets	2
Evidence for local‐scale community assembly processes from long‐term observations of biodiversity in a grassland chronosequence	2
Greater variation in boreal plant community composition and community‐level traits at local‐ than regional‐scale	2
Changes in soil chemical properties and plant species composition during primary succession on an oceanic island	2
Transient vegetation dynamics in a tropical coastal wetland: Sea‐level rise, glycophyte retreat, and incipient loss in plant diversity	2
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests	2
Divergent responses of alpine bryophytes and lichens to climate change in the Swiss Alps	2
Increases and decreases in soil moisture in water‐limited plant communities cause asymmetrical responses in biomass but not in diversity	2
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands	2
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna	2
Annual species' experimental germination responses to light and temperature do not correspond with their microhabitat associations in the field	2
Mechanisms behind elevational plant species richness patterns revealed by a trait‐based approach	2
Reduced plant species diversity and soil carbon and nitrogen contents driven by vegetation patchiness in alpine meadows	2

Interspecific facilitation favors rare species establishment and reduces performance disparities among adults	2
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Unraveling plant strategies in tidal marshes by investigating plant traits and environmental conditions	2
Successional dynamics of species composition, functional traits and assembly mechanisms during the 60‐year long history of agricultural transformations in subarctic tundra communities	2
Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	2
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Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	2
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	2
Shrubs exhibit competitive interactions with herbaceous plants and shape community assemblage and functional composition in the alpine western Himalaya	2
Coexistence of grasses and shrubs in Patagonian steppes. Norm or exception?	2
Facilitation in plants shifts along a recovery gradient induced by long‐term overgrazing in a temperate steppe community	2
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	2
Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	2
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland	2
Interactive roles of fire seasons and biological invasions in the short‐term dynamics of tropical savannas	2
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research	2
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales	1
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	1
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin	1
Regression to the mean in vegetation science	1
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	1
The number of phenology patterns, not species richness, affects the greening season length of freely assembled plant communities	1
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	1
Woody species have stronger facilitative effects on soil biota than on plants along an aridity gradient	1
The role of drought, disturbance, and seed dispersal in dominance shifts in a temperate grassland	1
Unraveling local and regional determinants of high plant diversity at marine rocky outcrops in Uruguay	1
Indication of a reduction in the cover of thin‐leaved plants in Danish grasslands over an eight‐year period	1
Exotic wild boars and native wild guinea pigs maintain plant diversity in Argentinean coastal grasslands by decreasing plant dominance	1
A roadmap to carefully select methods for dark‐diversity studies	1
In Memoriam: Eddy van der Maarel (1934 – 2021)	1
Post‐drought community turnover and functional redundancy in a tropical forest understorey	1
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess	1
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Succession in abandoned fields: Chronosequence data verified by monitoring of semi‐permanent plots	1
Combining chronosequences and multi‐census approaches to understand patterns of succession in subtropical montane forests of NW Argentina	1
Revealing floristic variation and map uncertainties for different plant groups in western Amazonia	1
Temporal changes in the dominance of tree functional traits, but no changes in species diversity during woody plant encroachment in a Brazilian savanna	1
Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation	1
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	1
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages	1
Forest canopy and mistletoe infestation alter the facilitative effects of Juniperus oxycedrus s.l. on woody seedlings on Mount Lebanon (Lebanon)	1
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession	1
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific	1
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	1
A simulation study comparing common methods for analyzing species–habitat associations of plants	1
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	1
Species‐specific trends and variability in plant functional traits across a latitudinal gradient in northern Alaska	1
Shrub encroachment in Mediterranean mountain grasslands: Rate and consequences on plant diversity and forage availability	1
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	1
Components of plant species diversity along environmental gradients at various spatial scales in wetland environments of southern Africa	1
Cross‐Citation Patterns Between the Journal of Vegetation Science and Other Ecological Journals	1
Functional traits and propagule pressure explain changes in the distribution and demography of non‐native trees in Spain	1
Understory plant species and community changes following a mountain pine beetle outbreak in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA	1
Extreme precipitation increases the productivity of a desert ephemeral plant community in Central Asia, but there is no slope position effect	1
Invading rain forest pioneers initiate positive fire suppression feedbacks that reinforce shifts from open to closed forest in eastern Australia	1
Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands	1
Is there a species swarm paradox? Spatial segregation of related species in the understorey of a tropical plant community	1
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	1
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	1
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest	1
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	1
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands	1
Fire stimulates seedling recruitment from the seed bank in the Cerrado	1
Mixed evidence for the small‐island effect in a replicated colonisation experiment	1
Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests	1
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal	1
Vegetative and reproductive phenology in a tropical grassland–savanna–forest gradient	1