Journal of Vegetation Science

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Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	165
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	52
Spatial Patterns of Woody Plants and Tree‐Tree Interactions in an Indian Mesic Savanna	42
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	37
Habitat‐Mediated Filtering, Rather Than Soil Properties, Shapes Plant Community Diversity on Nelson Island, Maritime Antarctica	35
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	32
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	20
Early Postfire Regeneration Determines Long‐Term Successional Trajectories in Temperate Pinus densiflora Forests of Korea	17
Rare‐Species Loss Reduces Gannan Grassland Ecosystem Functional Redundancy and Stability	17
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	15
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	14
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	14
Vegetation Changes in Temperate Floodplain Forests: Temporal Scale Matters	14
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	13
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico	12
Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics	12
Species–Habitat Associations in a Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest	12
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
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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
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	10
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	10

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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
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	9
A Novel Method for Monitoring Above‐ and Belowground Microclimates in Mountain Ecosystems Year‐Round	9
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	9
Historical Land‐Use Effects on Biodiversity: A Case Study From Southern Germany	9
Coexistence Beyond Equilibria: Testing the Ecological Buffering Mechanisms Theory in Mixed Communities	9
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	9
Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	9
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Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	8
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	8
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	8
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan	8
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands	8
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Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models	8
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	8
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Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests	8
Vegetation Dynamics on a Boreal Raised Bog: Changes in Carpets, Lawns and Hummocks Towards Wetter Conditions Over a 34‐Year Period	7
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	7
Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	7
Forest Composition Drives Bryophyte Biomass, Carbon, and Nitrogen Storage in the Boreal‐Temperate Ecotone	7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	7
Unraveling the Influence of Soil Properties on CSR Strategies in an Ironstone Montane Ecosystem in Southeast Brazil	7
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	7
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	7
Neighbourhood Effects on Tree Seedlings Differ by Mycorrhizal Symbiont Type in a Mixed Dipterocarp Forest	7
Long‐Term Warming and Dominant Species Removal Alter Plant Community Composition in Invaded Alpine Tussock Grasslands in New Zealand	7
Multi‐Species Plant Invasions in Temperate Successional Grasslands Drive Changes in Community Functional Composition	6
Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation	6
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Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	6
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	6
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	6
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	6
The Apple Does Not Fall Far From the Tree and How This Affects the Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Juvenile Trees	6
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	6
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	6
The Alpine Germination Syndrome Differs Between Temperate and Mediterranean Habitats	6
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Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	6
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	6
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Differentiation of the Seed Regeneration Niche Along a Small‐Scale Plant Zonation in Mediterranean Temporary Ponds	6
Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	5
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity	5

climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data	5
A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	5
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland	5
Climatically Driven Stability in the Alpine/Moorland Boundary on Three Mountains in Southwest Lutruwita/Tasmania 1986–2020	5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	5
Dry Soils Increase the Impact of Experimental Warming on Plant Community Composition in an Australian Subalpine Meadow	5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	5
Altitudinal Variation in Beta Diversity of Woody Plants and Soil Microbes Is Driven Primarily by Local Species Pool	5
Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification	5
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture	5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	5
Human Activities and Native Vegetation Properties Drive Plant Invasion in Arid Agricultural Regions of Northwest China	5
Intraspecific Trait Variation Drives Functional Shifts in Grass Communities Under Grazing in the Scottish Uplands	5
How to Mitigate the Effect of Observer Error When Unraveling Species‐Environment Associations? A Case Study With Tropical Tree Communities From Western Central Africa	5
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	5
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community	5
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific	4
Islanded Islands: Dual Isolation Drive Distinctive and Threatened Floras of Neotropical Maritime Inselbergs	4
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness	4
Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change	4
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history	4
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world	4
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions	4
Using Yearly‐Resolved Time Series to Disentangle Interannual Variability, Directional Change, and Pseudoturnover in Plant Community Composition	4
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Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests	4
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat	4
The Woody Invasive Plant Neltuma juliflora Influences Plant Species Richness and Soil Chemistry in Botswana	4
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?	4
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology	4
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment	4
Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest	4
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes	4
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities	4
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest	4
Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)	4
Intraspecific Functional Trait Responses to Experimental Warming Vary With Precipitation and Growth Form	4
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest	4
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia	4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape	4
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Measuring Two‐Dimensional Distributional Aggregation Pattern of Species Through One‐Dimensional Approximation	4
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”	3
Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)	3
Do Small Forest Gaps Collect Snow That Prevents Tree Gap Dynamics in Western North American High Latitude Conifer Forests?	3
Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland	3
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Neighbourly Dispute at the Edge of Life: Species Interactions Among Antarctic Mosses	3
Different Measurement Protocols Impact Specific Leaf Area ( SLA ) Estimation in Simple Versus Compound Leaves	3
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest	3
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance	3
Soil origin and duration of a garden experiment affect competitive outcomes between dominant grassland species	3
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research	3
Urban Grassland Plant Communities Assemble According to Productivity and Disturbance Gradients	3
Losers and Winners Among Baltic Coastal Meadow Plants After 60 Years of Environmental Change	3
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats	3
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Synopsis of Nardus Grassland Resurveys Across Germany: Is Eutrophication Driven by a Recovery of Soil pH	3
Structural and Functional Shifts in Belowground Components Following Grass Invasion in a Tropical Savannah	3
Soil and Plant Nutrients Are Maintained—and Can Be Enhanced—by Long‐Term Frequent Fire in an Afromontane Grassland	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
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal	2
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands	2
Controls on use efficiency of plant nutrients along subtropical to alpine gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	2
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Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance	2
Drought and Plant Invasions Along an Aridity Gradient	2
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How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation	2
Understanding post‐fire vegetation recovery in southern California ecosystems with the aid of pre‐fire observations from long‐term monitoring	2
Assessing Climate–Wildfire Effects on Alaskan Boreal Forest Using Ground‐Truth Surveys and NASA Airborne Remote Sensing	2
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Impact of longevity and wettability of fern leaves on epiphyll colonization in a Mexican lowland rainforest	2
Contrasting Phylogenetic Signals in Flowering and Fruiting Phenology at Species and Assemblage Scales in a Climbing Plant Community	2
Experimental warming has limited impacts on post‐fire succession across a burn severity gradient	2
CSR Strategies Are Associated With Elemental Leaf Chemistry in Alpine Plants	2
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot	2
Plant Invasions Reduce the Degree of Nestedness on Warm Temperate Islands	2
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites	2
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Measuring Them all: Individual‐Based Functional Spatial Patterns in Mountain Grasslands	2
Contrasting Responses of Dominant and Non‐Dominant Species Groups Underlie Community Biomass–Environment Relationships in Species‐Rich Grasslands	2
Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient	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
Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession	2
Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus	2
Impact of Termite Mounds on the Composition, Structure and Carbon Stock of Tree Communities in Altered Lands of Benin (West Africa)	2
Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe	2
Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region	2
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Vegetation Phenology Across Ecological Zones in China	2
Climbing aroids in a Panamanian lowland forest: We should reconsider our categories	2
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?	2
Heterogeneous Effects of Drought, Land‐Use History and Local Site Factors on Woodland Herb‐Layer Diversity	2
The Presence of Alternative Tree Species in European Beech Forests Drives Change in Functional Diversity and Composition of Forest Floor Plant Communities	2
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	2
Local Context Matters: Site‐Dependent Functional and Ecological Responses to Woody Encroachment	2
Sticking to the trail: Seed rain, seed bank and seedling density are elevated along hiking trails in the Scandes mountains	2
Simultaneous Nitrogen Addition and Warming Cause More Plant Species Loss Than Single Factors Alone	2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?	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
Moderate Seasonal Grazing During the Seed‐Set Stage Is Detrimental to Seed Rain and the Soil Seed Bank in an Alpine Meadow	2
Delayed Seed Germination as a Strategy to Cope With Environmental Stress and Disturbance	2
Interaction Between Plants Through Litter Input in Mangrove Succession in the Red River Delta	2
Intense light and conspecific density increase seedling mortality across age groups in a typhoon‐disturbed tropical forest	2
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess	2