Journal of Vegetation Science

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Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	49
Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	27
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	26
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	25
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	23
Factors explaining the composition and diversity of vascular plant understories along a transcontinental gradient in the Canadian boreal forest	21
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	20
Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	20
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	20
Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	20
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	19
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	18
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	18
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	18
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Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	16
Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	15
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	15
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	15
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	15
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Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	13
Fine‐scale functional metacommunity dynamics: Analysing the role of disturbance‐driven environmental variability in grasslands	13

Unraveling plant strategies in tidal marshes by investigating plant traits and environmental conditions	13
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	12
Species‐specific trends and variability in plant functional traits across a latitudinal gradient in northern Alaska	12
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	11
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	11
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	11
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	11
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan	10
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	10
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Inter‐annual precipitation variability alters the effects of soil resource enrichment and mycorrhizal suppression on plant communities in desert steppe	10
Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands	9
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	9
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Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	9
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	9
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	9
Post‐agriculture rain forest succession on a tropical Pacific island	9
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	9
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	8
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	8
Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models	8
Environment shapes tree community traits in China's forests	8
Frost hinders the establishment of trees in highland grasslands in the Atlantic Forest ecotone region of southern Brazil	8
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Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions	8
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	8
Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	7
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	7
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest	7
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	7
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Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows	7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	7
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	7
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	7
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	7
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	7
Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	7
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	7
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	6
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Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	6
The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	6
Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	6
Outcomes of facilitative plant interactions in shrublands of NW Patagonia, Argentina	6
The importance of history for understanding contemporary ecosystems: Insights from vegetation science	6
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	6

Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	6
The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes	5
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community	5
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland	5
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient	5
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	5
A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	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
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology	5
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?	5
Woody species have stronger facilitative effects on soil biota than on plants along an aridity gradient	5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	5
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Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	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
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest	5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	5
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	5
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests	5
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	5
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia	4
Drivers of beta diversity along a precipitation gradient in tropical forests of the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia	4
Novel Fires Shift Biological Legacies Away From Natural Regeneration in Caribbean Tropical Dry Forest	4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season	4
Null‐model analysis and changes in species interactions in biocrusts along a successional gradient in the Tengger Desert, northern China	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 functional dissimilarity among species pools and communities to predict establishment of native and alien species	4
Processes underlying the assembly of plant communities: The role of environmental filtering heterogeneity in a competition–dispersal experiment	4
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China	4
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient	4
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history	4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape	4
Plant life‐form distribution patterns in a tropical mountain region: Effect of climate, topography, and human disturbance	3
Timberline Patterns and Dynamics Depend on Forest Type, Regional Climate, and Topography in the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain)	3
Trait correlation and the assembly of island plant communities: Evidence from the Southwest Pacific	3
Shrubs as Nurse Species for Plant Communities in Arid Environments: A Case Study From Socotra Island (Yemen)	3
Correction to “Response of Subalpine Plant Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography”	3
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	3
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Extreme drought alters plant community structure by changing dominant species growth in desert grassland	3
Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research	3
Understory dynamics in North Carolina longleaf pine savannas: Biodiversity, dominance, and biomass	3
Short‐term vegetation shifts in an alpine grassland under current and simulated climate change	3
Rare plant species occurrence patterns are associated not with soil properties, but with frequent fire in a southeast Australian dry sclerophyll forest	3
Soil water availability strongly drives the differentiation of acquisitive and conservative strategies for coexisting woody species in a Chinese subtropical evergreen forest	3
Resurvey studies of terricolous bryophytes and lichens indicate a widespread nutrient enrichment in German forests	3
Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees	3
Ecotones in Central European forest–steppe: Edge effect occurs on hard rocks but not on loess	3
How does the taxonomic and functional structure of plant communities differ between riverine and palustrine swamps?	3
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and anthropogenic drivers across spatial scales	3
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Evidence for local‐scale community assembly processes from long‐term observations of biodiversity in a grassland chronosequence	3
Rapid declines in species diversity and occurrence of common plant species are related to nutrient availability and soil moisture in open habitats	3
Plant spectral diversity from high‐resolution multispectral imagery detects functional diversity patterns in coastal dune communities	3
Seasonal beta‐diversity of dry grassland vegetation: Divergent peaks of above‐ground biomass and species richness	3
Hydrology regime and hydrology recruitment niche predict changes in plant community composition across a pond habitat	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
Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal	3
Impact of Phytophthora cinnamomi on the taxonomic and functional diversity of forest plants in a mediterranean‐type biodiversity hotspot	3
Grazing exclusion effects on vegetation structure and soil organic matter in savannas of Río de la Plata grasslands	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
Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress	3
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Leaf trait variation in grassland plant species in response to soil phosphorus	2
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Is plant reproductive efficiency expressed on a continuum of facilitation and competition?	2
Measuring Them all: Individual‐Based Functional Spatial Patterns in Mountain Grasslands	2
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Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter	2
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Environmental drivers of three neighbouring monodominant stands in Pantanal wetland	2
Increased reproductive trait diversity, evolutionary history and distinctiveness during the succession of tropical forest	2
Elevational patterns in tropical bryophyte diversity differ among substrates: A case study on Baru volcano, Panama	2
Collaboration networks and hot topics in the Journal of Vegetation Science	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

A comparative study of hard clustering algorithms for vegetation data	2
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands	2
Understanding post‐fire vegetation recovery in southern California ecosystems with the aid of pre‐fire observations from long‐term monitoring	2
Sticking to the trail: Seed rain, seed bank and seedling density are elevated along hiking trails in the Scandes mountains	2
Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long‐term trends, while species’ traits predict short‐term fluctuations	2
Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests	2
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Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe	2
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	2
Shrub diversity in Mediterranean shrublands: Rescuer or victim of productivity?	2
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions	2
Early positive biodiversity effects on total biomass in experimental tree seedling assemblages with and without water limitation	2
How gradients of climate and soil determine Mediterranean annual‐rich dryland vegetation	2
Rapid post‐fire re‐assembly of species‐rich bryophyte communities in Afroalpine heathlands	2
Experimental warming has limited impacts on post‐fire succession across a burn severity gradient	2
ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network	2
Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient	2
Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites	2
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests	2
Controls on use efficiency of plant nutrients along subtropical to alpine gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	2
Intense light and conspecific density increase seedling mortality across age groups in a typhoon‐disturbed tropical forest	2
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Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	2
Climbing aroids in a Panamanian lowland forest: We should reconsider our categories	2
Glacier extinction homogenizes functional diversity via ecological succession	2
Impact of longevity and wettability of fern leaves on epiphyll colonization in a Mexican lowland rainforest	2
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China	2
Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region	2
Foredune‐forming grass and plant diversity show contrasting responses along the southeastern United States coast after hurricane disturbance	2
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications	2
Disturbance reshapes the productivity–diversity relationship	2
Plant diversity but not productivity is associated with community mycorrhization in temperate grasslands	2