OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue	27
Predicting diversity changes in subalpine moorland ecosystems based on geometry of species distributions and realistic area loss	26
Contribution of soil seed banks to vegetation resilience in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	23
Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions	22
Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests	20
Occupancy model reveals limited detectability of lichens in a standardised large‐scale monitoring	20
Effects of root hemiparasite Escobedia grandiflora (Orobanchaceae) on southern Brazilian grasslands: Diversity, composition, and functional groups	19
Phorophyte Leaf Phenology Affects Phorophyte—Vascular Epiphyte Networks in a Cloud Forest in Central Mexico	19
Plant Community Responses to Climate Change: The Importance of Ecological Context Dependencies	18
Effect of changing precipitation in different periods on precipitation use efficiency in a semi‐arid grassland	18
Environmental correlates of tree functional diversity with different leaf habits across subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests	18
A Virulent Soil Pathogen Alters Temperate Rain Forest Understorey Sapling Population Dynamics and Successional Trajectories	16
Topographic conditions as governing factors of mire vegetation types analyzed from drone‐based terrain model	16
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Beta diversity of restored river dike grasslands is strongly influenced by uncontrolled spatio‐temporal variability	15
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Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration	14
How does trait variance partitioning help us to understand plant community assembly? The example of pond communities in the Kerguelen Islands	12
Drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen richness in grasslands along a precipitation gradient (central Apennines, Italy)	12
Climate change drives substantial decline of understorey species richness and abundance in Norway spruce forests during 32 years of vegetation monitoring	11
Responses of leaf biomechanics and underlying traits to rangeland management differ between graminoids and forbs	11
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	11
Effects of biological and environmental filtering on the community assembly of two grasslands in southern Mexico	11

Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	10
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	10
Degradation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis: A Mechanism Underlying Cynodon dactylon Invasion in Grasslands?	10
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	10
Three decades of understorey vegetation change in Quercus‐dominated forests as a result of increasing canopy mortality and global change symptoms	10
Inter‐annual precipitation variability alters the effects of soil resource enrichment and mycorrhizal suppression on plant communities in desert steppe	10
An Exploration of Plant Biomass–Species Richness Relationships in Three Subalpine Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau	10
Rarity and Sparseness in Plant Communities: Impact of Minor Species Removal on Beta Diversity and Canonical Ordination	10
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada	9
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Associational effects, landscape context, and plant height affect white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) browse selectivity in oak woodlands	9
Topographic gradient influences vascular epiphyte occurrence in a small watershed covered by a mature coniferous/broadleaf evergreen mixed forest in Japan	9
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	8
Square‐grid sampling support to reconcile systematicity and adaptivity in periodic spatial surveys of natural populations	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
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Stronger legacy effects of cropland than of meadows or pastures on soil conditions and plant communities in French mountain forests	7
Detecting Subtle Change in Species and Trait Composition and Quantifying Its Uncertainty in a Boreal Peatland	7
Biodiversity stabilizes primary productivity through compensatory effects under warming conditions	7
Sapling root ecological stoichiometric characteristics of dominant species in three forests in Yunnan, China, and their relationship with soil physicochemical factors	7
Experimental Warming Affects Salt Marsh Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Plant Species Assemblage	7
Effects of dispersal and geomorphology on riparian seed banks and vegetation in a boreal stream	7
Transiently Richer but Profoundly Changed: Fire Regime Triggers Physiognomic Changes in Sub‐Mediterranean Vegetation	7
Functional‐trait contrasts between terrestrial and epiphytic ferns in Taiwanese subtropical cloud forests	7
Effects of connectivity on seed dispersal patterns in hedgerows	7
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The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	7
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	6
Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments	6
Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities	6
Prediction of coastal barren plant species richness and functional diversity by environmental variability across scales	6
Factors determining bryophyte species richness and community composition on insular siliceous erratic boulders in calcareous landscapes	6
Functional traits contribute in opposite directions to taxonomic turnover in northeastern US forests over time	6
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Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	6
Holocene climate–fire–vegetation feedbacks in tropical savannas: Insights from the Marura sinkhole, East Arnhem Land, northern Australia	6
Waterlogging and soil but not seedling competition structure tree communities in a catchment containing a tropical freshwater swamp forest	6
Habitat loss and isolation threaten specialist flora in Baltic coastal meadows	6
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Solid as a rock: The main drivers of changes in natural, rocky plant communities	5
The contribution of intraspecific trait variation to changes in functional community structure along a stress gradient	5
Exploring Priority and Year Effects on Plant Diversity, Productivity and Vertical Root Distribution: First Insights From a Grassland Field Experiment	5
Variation in CSR plant strategies along soil and climate gradients: A comparison between rocky outcrops and nearby rangelands	5
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A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity	5
The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology	5
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	5
Effects of neighbor shrub propagules and soils from shrubby patches on perennial grass germination in arid rangelands of the Patagonia Monte, Argentina	5

The use of ecological niche models improves biogeographic regionalization of the Balsas Depression, Mexico	5
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	5
Grass layer limits tree seedling survival but not tree seedling growth in African and South American savannas	5
Under the Crown of Scattered Beech (Fagus sylvatica): Impact on Plant Community, Soil Resources, and Fungal Diversity	5
Drivers of beta diversity along a precipitation gradient in tropical forests of the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia	4
Fire stimulates grass flowering in the Cerrado independent of season	4
Current and future patterns of vascular plant species richness across a forest–grassland–desert transect in East Asia	4
Response of Subalpine Vegetation to Snow Cover Duration Quantified by In Situ Repeat Photography	4
Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification	4
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient	4
Grass trait–abundance relationships and the role of the functional composition of the neighboring community	4
Trait–environment relationships depend on species life history	4
Seed‐predation and dispersal by ants determine plant‐species dominance and diversity in a semi‐arid grassland	4
Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 1970s – Digitization of a gray‐literature data set as a monitoring baseline in a changing world	4
Vapor pressure deficit drives the mortality of understorey woody plants during drought recovery in the Atlantic Forest	4
Fluctuations and trends in spatio‐temporal patterns of plant species and diversity in a sandy pasture	4
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China	4
How Does Fire Exclusion Affect the Belowground Biomass of Tropical Open Ecosystems?	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
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The main factors that drive plant dieback under extreme drought differ among Mediterranean shrubland plant biotypes	4
climenv: Download, extract and visualise climatic and elevation data	4
Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape	4
Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions	4