OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Ecology 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Plant age affects intraspecific variation in functional traits	22
Functional traits, growth patterns, and litter dynamics of invasive alien and co-occurring native shrub species of chir pine forest in the central Himalaya, India	21
Long-term change in calcareous grassland vegetation and drivers over three time periods between 1970 and 2016	17
Superior performance of invasive grasses over native counterparts will remain problematic under warmer and drier conditions	17
The effect of fire on seed germination of campo rupestre species in the South American Cerrado	16
Above- and belowground community linkages in boreal peatlands	16
Effect of leaf water extracts of four Asteraceae alien invasive plants on germination performance of Lactuca sativa L. under acid deposition	16
Salinity thresholds for understory plants in coastal wetlands	15
Dark septate endophyte improves the drought-stress resistance of Ormosia hosiei seedlings by altering leaf morphology and photosynthetic characteristics	15
Decoupling of nitrogen and phosphorus in dominant grass species in response to long-term nitrogen addition in an Alpine Grassland in Central Asia	14
Herbaceous plant diversity in forest ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms, and threats	14
Exotic Prosopis juliflora suppresses understory diversity and promotes agricultural weeds more than a native congener	13
Rapid and transient changes during 20 years of restoration management in savanna-woodland-prairie habitats threatened by woody plant encroachment	12
Variation in soil microbial communities: elucidating relationships with vegetation and soil properties, and testing sampling effectiveness	12
Climate warming and introduced herbivores disrupt alpine plant community of an oceanic island (Tenerife, Canary Islands)	12
Herbivory by aboveground insects impacts plant root morphological traits	12
The interactions among fire, logging, and climate change have sprung a landscape trap in Victoria’s montane ash forests	12
Intraspecific competition reduces plant size and quality and damage severity increases defense responses in the herbaceous perennial, Asclepias syriaca	11
A global review and network analysis of phytophagous insect interactions with ferns and lycophytes	11
Continuous grazing disrupts desert grass-soil seed bank composition under variable rainfall	11
Linking responses of native and invasive plants to hurricane disturbances: implications for coastal plant community structure	10
Changes in functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities of lowland fens under different vegetation and disturbance levels	10
Climatic and anthropogenic factors affect Ailanthus altissima invasion in a Mediterranean region	10
Phylogenetic beta diversity in an upper montane Atlantic Forest along an altitudinal gradient	10
Burning grasses, poor seeds: post-fire reproduction of early-flowering Neotropical savanna grasses produces low-quality seeds	10

The global invader Ligustrum lucidum accumulates beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a novel range	10
Reintroduction of large herbivores restored plant species richness in abandoned dry temperate grassland	10
Variation in floristic and trait composition along environmental gradients in the herb layer of temperate forests in the transition zone between Central and SE Europe	10
Enhancement of photosynthetic parameters and growth of Zelkova serrata by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under simulated sulfuric acid rain	9
Drought generates large, long-term changes in tree and liana regeneration in a monodominant Amazon forest	9
Influence of environmental heterogeneity and geographic distance on beta-diversity of woody communities	9
For a few years more: reductions in plant diversity 70 years after the last fire in Mediterranean forests	9
Edaphic characteristics drive functional traits distribution in Amazonian floodplain forests	9
Infection by Plicosepalus curviflorus mistletoe affects the nutritional elements of Acacia species and soil nutrient recycling in an arid rangeland	9
Site factors are more important than management for indicator species in semi-natural grasslands in southern Sweden	9
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit drought-stressed Salsola laricina	8
Climate change impacts on migration of Pinus koraiensis during the Quaternary using species distribution models	8
Structural changes of vegetation and its association with microclimate in a successional gradient of low thorn forest in northeastern Mexico	8
Seasonal dynamics of shoot biomass of dominant clonal herb species in an oak–hornbeam forest herb layer	8
Grass competition is more important than fire for suppressing encroachment of Acacia sieberiana seedlings	8
Factors involved in the biogeography of the honey locust tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) invasion at regional scale: an integrative approach	8
Initial succession after wildfire in dry boreal forests of northwestern North America	8
Plant size of the alpine cushion Thylacospermum caespitosum affects soil amelioration at different elevations	8
Impacts of moderateness and cobalancedness in seed mass and coat thickness on seed dispersal effectiveness of Quercus variabilis by rodents	7
Historical links between climate and fire on species dispersion and trait evolution	7
The intermediate dispersal hypothesis: seed dispersal is maximized in areas with intermediate usage by hoarders	7
Friend or foe? The role of biotic agents in drought-induced plant mortality	7
Pros and cons of using a standard protocol to test germination of alpine species	7
Invasive fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum (Forssk.) Chiov.) increases its potential area of distribution in Tenerife island under future climatic scenarios	7
Reproductive strategies involving biomass allocation, reproductive phenology and seed production in two Asteraceae herbs growing in karst soil varying in depth and water availability	7
Predicting distribution and range dynamics of Trillium govanianum under climate change and growing human footprint for targeted conservation	7
Drought sensitivity of Empetrum nigrum shrub growth at the species’ southern lowland distribution range margin	7
Spatially structured soil properties and climate explain distribution patterns of herbaceous-shrub species in the Cerrado	7
Effects of grazing on plant communities and successional processes vary along an aridity gradient at a northern temperate grassland	7
Translocations of threatened plants in the Mediterranean Basin: current status and future directions	7
Photosynthetic acclimation of rhododendrons to light intensity in relation to leaf water-related traits	7
Seedling recruitment in response to artificial gaps: predicting the ecological consequence of forest disturbance	7
Leaf functional traits and monodominance in Southern Amazonia tropical forests	7
Nonsampling error in vegetation surveys: understanding error types and recommendations for reducing their occurrence	7
An inconvenient truth about temperature–time data from thermocouples	7
Winners and losers in the predicted impact of climate change on cacti species in Baja California	7
Dominant drivers of plant community assembly vary by soil type and time in reclaimed forests	7
Fern and lycophyte niche displacement under predicted climate change in Honduras	6
Variations in temperate forest stem biomass ratio along three environmental gradients are dominated by interspecific differences in wood density	6
Livestock settlement affects shrub abundance via plant functional diversity but not species richness in arid environments	6
Airborne and belowground phytotoxicity of invasive Ageratina adenophora on native species in Nepal	6
Spatio-temporal distribution of broad-leaved Quercus semecarpifolia indicates altitudinal shift in northwestern Himalayas	6
Matrix-level co-occurrence metrics are sensitive to sampling grain: a case study in species-rich shrublands	6
Effect of species environment on host preference of Cuscuta campestris	6
Plant species over-occupancy indicates river valleys are natural corridors for migration	6
Assessment of climate change effects on alpine summit vegetation in the transition of tropical to subtropical humid climate	6
Changes in the resilience of resprouting juvenile tree populations in temperate forests due to coupled severe drought and fire	6
Intraspecific variation in spring leaf phenology and duration of leaf expansion in relation to leaf habit and leaf size of temperate tree species	6
The role of microsite sunlight environment on growth, architecture, and resource allocation in dominant Acacia tree seedlings, in Serengeti, East Africa	6
Herbivore exclusion and water availability improve success across 76 translocations of 50 threatened plant species in a biodiversity hotspot with a Mediterranean climate	5

Drought tolerance increases with seed size in a semiarid grassland from southern Mexico	5
Sphagnum and feather moss-associated N2 fixation along a 724-year chronosequence in eastern boreal Canada	5
Potential extinction debt due to habitat loss and fragmentation in subalpine moorland ecosystems	5
High summer temperatures do not interact with fire to promote germination among seeds of Cistaceae: a reinterpretation of Luna (2020) with extra data on wet/dry conditions*	5
Understory vegetation response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in northern Colorado lodgepole pine forests	5
Association of flower color with pollen reward may explain increased bumblebee visitation to the Scotch broom yellow morph	5
Colonizing vegetation type drives evolution of organic matter in secondary succession in abandoned vineyards	5
Monitoring time of conservation-driven and mitigation-driven plant translocations in Europe	5
Stage-dependent plasticity in biomass allocation and allometry in response to population density in Abutilon theophrasti: a step forward to understanding the nature of phenotypic plasticity	5
Different root strategies of perennial native grasses under two contrasting water availability conditions: implications for their spatial distribution in desert dunes	5
How common and dispersal limited are ant-dispersed plants in eastern deciduous forests?	5
Construction of an ecological model of Sambucus javanica blume in China under different climate scenarios based on maxent model	5
Exotic insect pollinators and native pollination systems	5
Sheep grazing differentially affects the canopy attributes and functional diversity of shrubs and perennial grasses in arid rangelands	5
Gender-biased nectar targets different behavioural traits of flower visitors	5
Reproductive strategies of Xanthium italicum differ from those of native Xanthium sibiricum, and they are key to its invasiveness	5
Evidence of interpopulation variation in the germination of Eryngium maritimum L. (Apiaceae)	5
Stigmas arrangement, reproductive system, and maternal reproductive success in two species of Stigmaphyllon (Malpighiaceae): does pollinator size matter?	5
Forever young: arrested succession in communities subjected to recurrent fires in a lowland tropical forest	5
Growth plasticity in response to shading as a potential key to the evolution of angiosperm herbs	5
Effects of warming and nutrient fluctuation on invader Chromolaena odorata and natives in artificial communities	5
Demographic processes underpinning post-fire resilience in California closed-cone pine forests: the importance of fire interval, stand structure, and climate	5
Intraspecific and interspecific variation in floral volatiles over time	5
Impacts of soil disturbance on plant diversity in a dry grassland	5
Evaluating the realized niche and plant–water relations of wetland species using experimental transplants	5
Dependence of the dwarf sundew (Drosera brevifolia) on burrowing crayfish disturbance	5
Invasive nitrogen-fixing plants increase nitrogen availability and cycling rates in a montane tropical grassland	5
The role of shrubs in spatially structuring the soil seed bank of perennial species in a semi-arid gypsum plant community	5
Revegetation technique changes root mycorrhizal colonisation and root fungal communities: the advantage of direct seeding over transplanting tube-stock in riparian ecosystems	5