OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 8. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The neglected importance of floral traits in trait‐based plant community assembly	45
Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community	37
Managing data locally to answer questions globally: The role of collaborative science in ecology	36
Weather fluctuations drive short‐term dynamics and long‐term stability in plant communities: A 25‐year study in a Central European dry grassland	34
Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa L. impacts dry grasslands	33
Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats	32
Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate	28
Why westillneed permanent plots for vegetation science	27
Increased fire severity triggers positive feedbacks of greater vegetation flammability and favors plant community‐type conversions	27
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna	26
Ellenberg N values of bryophytes in Central Europe*	26
The fate of páramo plant assemblages in the sky islands of the northern Andes	25
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands	24
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin	24
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications	23
Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover	22
Press–pulse interactions and long‐term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland	21
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	21
EpIG‐DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Neotropics	20
From delayed succession to alternative successional trajectory: How different moose browsing pressures contribute to forest dynamics following clear‐cutting	20
Grazing livestock increases both vegetation and seed bank diversity in remnant and restored grasslands	20
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands	19
Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation	18
Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls	18
Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests	18

Spatial and temporal patterns of initial plant establishment in salt marsh communities	17
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	17
Environment and evolutionary history depict phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in the Atlantic coastal white‐sand woodlands	17
Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide	17
Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	17
Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment	17
Steppe islands in a sea of fields: Where island biogeography meets the reality of a severely transformed landscape	16
Rainfall reduction increases insect herbivory in tropical herb communities	16
Soil water availability shapes species richness in mid‐latitude shrub steppe plant communities	16
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation	16
The germination niche of coastal dune species as related to their occurrence along a sea–inland gradient	15
Human‐mediated dispersal as a driver of vegetation dynamics: A conceptual synthesis	15
Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands	15
Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales	15
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical forests	15
Are there common assembly rules for different grasslands? Comparisons of long‐term data from a subtropical grassland with temperate grasslands	15
Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co‐occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value	15
Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species‐specific	15
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	15
Water availability mediates functional shifts across ontogenetic stages in a regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest	15
Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony	15
Vegetation response to climate warming across the forest–tundra ecotone: species‐dependent upward movement	15
Simulated climate warming increases plant community heterogeneity in two types of boreal peatlands in north–central Canada	14
Nurse plants promote taxonomic and functional diversity in an arid Mediterranean annual plant community	14
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	14
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	14
Grasslands ancient and modern: Soil nutrients, habitat age and their relation to Ellenberg N	14
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	14
The response of productivity and its sensitivity to changes in precipitation: A meta‐analysis of field manipulation experiments	14
Tales from the underground: Soil heterogeneity and not only above‐ground plant interactions explain fine‐scale species patterns in a Mediterranean dwarf‐shrubland	14
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	14
Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests	13
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	13
Patch‐level facilitation fosters high‐Andean plant diversity at regional scales	13
Understanding the dynamics of forest understorey: Combination of monitoring and legacy data reveals patterns across temporal scales	13
Macroevolutionary patterns in European vegetation	13
Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity	12
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession	12
The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management	12
Effects of decadal experimental drought and climate extremes on vegetation growth in Mediterranean forests and shrublands	12
Multi‐stemming and size enhance survival of dominant tree species in a frequently typhoon‐disturbed forest	12
The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience	12
Species specificity challenges the predictability of facilitation along a regional desert gradient	11
Vital rates in early life history underlie shifts in biotic interactions along bioclimatic gradients: An experimental test of the Stress Gradient Hypothesis	11
Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional‐taxonomic groups	11
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance	11
Mycorrhizal fungi maintain plant community stability by mitigating the negative effects of nitrogen deposition on subordinate species in Central Asia	11
The scale dependency of trait‐based tree neighborhood models	11
Is variable plot size a serious constraint in broad‐scale vegetation studies? A case study on fens	11
Canopy composition and drought shape understorey plant assemblages in a young tree diversity experiment	11

Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?	11
Reindeer trampling promotes vegetation changes in tundra heathlands: Results from a simulation experiment	11
Dispersal syndrome influences the match between seed rain and soil seed bank of woody species in a Neotropical dry forest	10
The impact of seed deficiency on productivity and on negative drought effect in semi‐natural grassland	10
Effects of disturbance and alien plants on the phylogenetic structure of riverine communities	10
Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly	10
Intraspecific trait variation of grassland species in response to grazing depends on resource acquisition strategy	10
Historical ecology of Mediterranean forests: Land use legacies on current understorey plants differ with time since abandonment and former agricultural use	10
Pasture trees contribute to structural heterogeneity and plant distributions in post‐agricultural forests decades after canopy closure	10
The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests	10
Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China	10
Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance	10
Effects of climate change on treeline trees in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest, Central Himalaya)	10
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	9
Long‐term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data	9
Light can modify density‐dependent seedling mortality in a temperate forest	9
The relative role of climate and herbivory in driving treeline dynamics along a latitudinal gradient	9
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	8
Scaling relationships among functional traits are similar across individuals, species, and communities	8
Turnover and change in plant species composition in a shielded salt marsh following variation in precipitation and temperature	8
Which generative reproduction characteristics determine successful establishment of the subalpine shrub Pinus mugo?	8
Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones	8
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	8
The relationship between epixylic bryophyte communities and microclimate	8
Disentangling the effects of multiple fires on spatially interspersed sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities	8
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands	8
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	8
Effect of Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment on plant species diversity, functional traits and litter decomposition in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	8
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	8