OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	57
Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community	48
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna	42
Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats	42
Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate	33
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin	32
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications	30
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands	29
Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests	27
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands	23
Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide	21
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	20
Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation	20
Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	20
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession	20
Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales	20
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	19
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	19
Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China	18
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation	18
Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls	18
Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment	18
Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) data set: A fundamental tool for ecological studies	18
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	18
The response of productivity and its sensitivity to changes in precipitation: A meta‐analysis of field manipulation experiments	17

Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands	17
The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management	17
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical forests	17
Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co‐occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value	17
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests	16
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	16
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	16
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	16
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	15
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	14
Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly	14
Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities	13
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	13
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	13
Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance	12
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	12
Light can modify density‐dependent seedling mortality in a temperate forest	12
Regression to the mean in vegetation science	12
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	11
Vital rates in early life history underlie shifts in biotic interactions along bioclimatic gradients: An experimental test of the Stress Gradient Hypothesis	11
Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition	11
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	11
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance	11
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands	10
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	10
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest	10
Once upon a time in the far south: Influence of local drivers and functional traits on plant invasion in the harsh sub‐Antarctic islands	10
Changes in community functional structure and ecosystem properties along an invasion gradient ofLigustrum lucidum	9
SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests	9
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	9
Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones	9
Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	9
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	8
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	8
Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter	8
LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots	8
Global patterns of phylogenetic beta‐diversity components in angiosperms	8
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China	8
Partitioned beta diversity patterns of plants across sharp and distinct boundaries of quartz habitat islands	7
Invading rain forest pioneers initiate positive fire suppression feedbacks that reinforce shifts from open to closed forest in eastern Australia	7
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific	7
Divergence among biological soil crust communities developing under different environmental conditions	7
Plant functional traits involved in the assembly of canopy–recruit interactions	7
Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient	7
Similar successional development of functional community structure in glacier forelands despite contrasting bedrocks	7
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages	7
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine‐learning algorithms	7
Rapid post‐fire re‐assembly of species‐rich bryophyte communities in Afroalpine heathlands	7
Divergent responses of functional diversity to an elevational gradient for vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens	7
Could the environment limit dispersal between Sunda and Sahul?	7

Revealing floristic variation and map uncertainties for different plant groups in western Amazonia	7
Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species	7
Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests	7
Hidden below‐ground plant diversity buffers against species loss during land‐use change in species‐rich grasslands	6
Woody species have stronger facilitative effects on soil biota than on plants along an aridity gradient	6
Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process	6
Functional biogeography of weeds reveals how anthropogenic management blurs trait–climate relationships	6
A comparative study of hard clustering algorithms for vegetation data	6
Vegetative and reproductive phenology in a tropical grassland–savanna–forest gradient	6
ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network	6
Understory plant community responses to widespread spruce mortality in a subalpine forest	6
Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions	6
Extreme precipitation increases the productivity of a desert ephemeral plant community in Central Asia, but there is no slope position effect	6
Unraveling plant strategies in tidal marshes by investigating plant traits and environmental conditions	6
An invasive grass species has both local and broad‐scale impacts on diversity: Potential mechanisms and implications	6
Environment and plant traits explain shrub biomass allocation and species composition across ecoregions in North China	5
Late‐season drought exerts more negative effects on plant diversity and cover than early‐season drought through changing soil moisture in a semi‐arid grassland	5
Species‐specific trends and variability in plant functional traits across a latitudinal gradient in northern Alaska	5
Species differ in their responses to wind: the underexplored link between species fine‐scale occurrences and variation in wind stress	5
Temporal trait plasticity predicts the growth of tropical trees	5
Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand's natural forests	5
Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes–Amazon elevational gradient	5
How does spatial micro‐environmental heterogeneity influence seedling recruitment in ironstone outcrops?	5
Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understorey vegetation of temperate forests	5
Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta‐diversity patterns across biogeographic regions	5
Together we stand, divided we fall: Effects of livestock grazing on vegetation patches in a desert community	5
Advancing and reversing succession as a function of time since fire and insect outbreaks: An 18 year in situ remeasurement of changes in forest composition	5
Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long‐term trends, while species’ traits predict short‐term fluctuations	5
Community dissimilarity of angiosperm trees reveals deep‐time diversification across tropical and temperate forests	5
The influence of contrasting fire management practice on bush encroachment: Lessons from Bwabwata National Park, Namibia	5
Fine‐scale hydrological niche segregation in coastal dune slacks	5
Environmental variables and dispersal barriers explain broad‐scale variation in tree species composition across Neotropical non‐flooded evergreen forests	5