OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Vegetation Science is 7. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species	43
Post‐fire regeneration strategies in a frequently burned Cerrado community	42
Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats	39
Fire‐triggered flowering is the dominant post‐fire strategy in a tropical savanna	34
Why westillneed permanent plots for vegetation science	33
Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate	32
Increased fire severity triggers positive feedbacks of greater vegetation flammability and favors plant community‐type conversions	32
Ellenberg N values of bryophytes in Central Europe*	30
Shade alters savanna grass layer structure and function along a gradient of canopy cover	29
The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications	29
The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin	28
Neophyte invasions in European grasslands	28
Grazing livestock increases both vegetation and seed bank diversity in remnant and restored grasslands	25
Dispersal and recruitment limitations in secondary forests	24
Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands	23
From delayed succession to alternative successional trajectory: How different moose browsing pressures contribute to forest dynamics following clear‐cutting	21
Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide	20
Mapping species richness of plant families in European vegetation	20
Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation	20
Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings	19
Drier, darker and more fertile: 140 years of plant habitat change driven by land‐use intensification	18
Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation	18
Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients	18
Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales	18
Global functional variation in alpine vegetation	18

Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground‐layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment	18
Grazing alters the sensitivity of plant productivity to precipitation in northern temperate grasslands	17
Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls	17
The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience	17
Steppe islands in a sea of fields: Where island biogeography meets the reality of a severely transformed landscape	17
The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management	16
Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co‐occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value	16
Soil nutrients, canopy gaps and topography affect liana distribution in a tropical seasonal rain forest in southwestern China	16
The response of productivity and its sensitivity to changes in precipitation: A meta‐analysis of field manipulation experiments	16
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession	16
Tree death and damage: A standardized protocol for frequent surveys in tropical forests	16
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	15
Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases	15
Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands	14
Macroevolutionary patterns in European vegetation	14
Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional‐taxonomic groups	13
The relationship between epixylic bryophyte communities and microclimate	13
Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity	13
Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests	13
Frost‐driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics	13
Revealing the functional traits linked to hidden environmental factors in community assembly	13
Patch‐level facilitation fosters high‐Andean plant diversity at regional scales	13
Bryophytes of Europe Traits (BET) data set: A fundamental tool for ecological studies	13
Effects of climate change on treeline trees in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest, Central Himalaya)	12
Regression to the mean in vegetation science	12
Mycorrhizal fungi maintain plant community stability by mitigating the negative effects of nitrogen deposition on subordinate species in Central Asia	12
Afrotropical secondary forests exhibit fast diversity and functional recovery, but slow compositional and carbon recovery after shifting cultivation	12
Vital rates in early life history underlie shifts in biotic interactions along bioclimatic gradients: An experimental test of the Stress Gradient Hypothesis	11
Effect of Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment on plant species diversity, functional traits and litter decomposition in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	11
Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance	11
Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance	11
Light can modify density‐dependent seedling mortality in a temperate forest	11
Effects of disturbance and alien plants on the phylogenetic structure of riverine communities	11
Canopy composition and drought shape understorey plant assemblages in a young tree diversity experiment	11
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands	10
Fine‐scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates with functional traits in a natural temperate forest	10
Shifting community composition determines the biodiversity–productivity relationship under increasing precipitation and N deposition	10
Long‐term changes in Italian mountain forests detected by resurvey of historical vegetation data	10
Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science: A horizon scan by early career researchers	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
Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?	10
Species and functional plant diversity enhance ecosystem functions in the central Monte desert	10
Habitat conservation state and plant diversity respond to different drivers in semi‐natural grasslands	10
Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones	9
Functional and taxonomic alpha and beta diversity responses to burning grasslands in southern Brazil	9
SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests	9
Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community	9
The effect of prolonged drought legacies on plant–soil feedbacks	9

Historical and current environmental selection on functional traits of trees in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot	9
Variation in desert shrub foliar pH in relation to drought and salinity in Xinjiang, China	8
Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter	8
Pre‐ and post‐fire architectural guilds of subtropical dune thicket species in the southeastern Cape Floristic Region	8
Hedging against biodiversity loss: Forest herbs’ performance in hedgerows across temperate Europe	8
Shrub facilitation promotes advancing of the Fagus sylvatica treeline across the Apennines (Italy)	8
Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago	8
Assessing the rate and reversibility of large‐herbivore effects on community composition in a semi‐arid grassland ecosystem	8
Do regeneration traits vary according to vegetation structure? A case study for savannas	8
Disentangling the effects of multiple fires on spatially interspersed sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities	8
Changes in community functional structure and ecosystem properties along an invasion gradient of Ligustrum lucidum	8
Should we burn the Cerrado? Effects of fire frequency on open savanna plant communities	8
Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests	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
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
Intraspecific variation in nutritional traits of neighbouring plants generates a continuum of associational effects	7
Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages	7
Rapid post‐fire re‐assembly of species‐rich bryophyte communities in Afroalpine heathlands	7
Partitioned beta diversity patterns of plants across sharp and distinct boundaries of quartz habitat islands	7
Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine‐learning algorithms	7
Similar successional development of functional community structure in glacier forelands despite contrasting bedrocks	7
Plant community persistence strategy is elevation‐specific	7