Applied Vegetation Science

Article	Citations
EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats	183
International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition	180
Alien flora across European coastal dunes	42
Classification of the European marsh vegetation (Phragmito‐Magnocaricetea) to the association level	37
Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation	35
About the link between biodiversity and spectral variation	30
Weed control, large seeds and deep roots: Drivers of success in direct seeding for savanna restoration	24
Evaluating structural and compositional canopy characteristics to predict the light‐demand signature of the forest understorey in mixed, semi‐natural temperate forests	24
The relationship between species and spectral diversity in grassland communities is mediated by their vertical complexity	23
Distribution maps of vegetation alliances in Europe	23
Which optical traits enable an estimation of tree species diversity based on the Spectral Variation Hypothesis?	20
Native parasitic plants: Biological control for plant invasions?	20
Optimal transformation of species cover for vegetation classification	19
Long‐term vegetation changes in Nardus grasslands indicate eutrophication, recovery from acidification, and management change as the main drivers	18
Vegetation of the European mountain river gravel bars: A formalized classification	17
Land‐use history determines stand structure and tree diversity in vanilla agroforests of northeastern Madagascar	17
Acacia invasion is facilitated by landscape permeability: The role of habitat degradation and road networks	16
Grazing by wild red deer maintains characteristic vegetation of semi‐natural open habitats: Evidence from a three‐year exclusion experiment	16
Native plant community recovery after Carpobrotus (ice plant) removal on an island — results of a 10‐year project	15
Heathland plant species composition and vegetation structures reflect soil‐related paths of development and site history	15
Grassland management and land use history shape species composition and diversity in Transylvanian semi‐natural grasslands	14
Temporal and environmental correlates of carbon stocks in a regenerating tropical forest	14
Impacts of rock climbing on cliff vegetation: A methods review and best practices	13
Clear‐cutting triggers regeneration of abandoned secondary forests but risks alternative successional trajectories with high deer density	12
Identifying substitute host tree species for epiphytes: The relative importance of tree size and species, bark and site characteristics	11

Expanding the invasion footprint: Ventenata dubia and relationships to wildfire, environment, and plant communities in the Blue Mountains of the Inland Northwest, USA	11
Effects of livestock grazing on plant species diversity vary along a climatic gradient in northeastern Iran	11
Response of grassland vegetation composition to different fertilizer treatments recorded over ten years following 64 years of fertilizer applications in the Rengen Grassland Experiment	11
Fine‐grained sediment deposition alters the response of plant CSR strategies on the gravel bars of a highly regulated river	10
Long‐term farming systems and last crop sown shape the species and functional composition of the arable weed seed bank	10
Revegetation of degraded ecosystems into grasslands using biosolids as an organic amendment: A meta‐analysis	10
Perennial plant patches are sinks for seeds in semi‐arid woodlands in varying condition	10
Long‐term Pinus plantations reduce the bud bank in Cerrado areas	10
Livestock browsing affects the species composition and structure of cloud forest in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman	10
Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) eradication in arid central Australia enhances native plant diversity and increases seed resources for granivores	9
Long‐term trends in the distribution, abundance and impact of native “injurious” weeds	9
Establishment of a desert foundation species is limited by exotic plants and light but not herbivory or water	9
Implementing the formal language of the vegetation classification expert systems (ESy) in the statistical computing environment R	9
Seedling recruitment in mountain grassland restoration: Effects of soil preparation and grazing	9
The perspective of unmanned aerial systems in forest management: Do we really need such details?	9
Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland	9
Giving recipient communities a greater head start and including productive species boosts early resistance to invasion	9
Forb community response to prescribed fire, livestock grazing, and an invasive annual grass in the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie	8
Two sides of one medal: Arable weed vegetation of Europe in phytosociological data compared to agronomical weed surveys	8
Diversity of wet and mesic grasslands along a climatic gradient on the southern margin of the Pannonian Basin	8
A functional assessment of the impact of changing grazing management of upland grassland mosaics	8
Expert‐based measures of human impact to vegetation	8
Integrating knowledge of ecological succession into invasive alien plant management: A case study from Portugal	8
Grassland restoration by local seed mixtures: New evidence from a practical 15‐year restoration study	8
Distribution shifts, potential refugia, and the performance of protected areas under climate change in the Araucaria moist forests ecoregion	7
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	7
Fertilization and overseeding legumes on native grasslands leads to a hardly reversible degraded state	7
Impact of adjacent land use on the ecological condition of riparian habitats: The relation between condition and vegetation properties	7
Effect of inter‐annual meteorological fluctuations and wild boar disturbance on the vegetation of Mediterranean temporary ponds	7
Site types revisited: Comparison of traditional Russian and Finnish classification systems for European boreal forests	7
Environmental filtering and spatial processes shape the beta diversity of liana communities in a valley savanna in southwest China	7
Anthropogenic disturbance modifies long‐term changes of boreal mountain vegetation under contemporary climate warming	7
Post‐fire changes in plant growth form composition and diversity in Andean páramo grassland	7
Neighboring edges: Interacting edge effects from linear disturbances in treed fens	6
Plant community context controls short‐ versus medium‐term effects of pre‐emergent herbicides on target and non‐target species after fire	6
Forest patch size predicts seed bank composition in urban areas	6
Relative contribution of ancient woodland indicator and non‐indicator species to herb layer distinctiveness in ancient semi‐natural, ancient replanted, and recent woodland	6
Decrease in species richness and diversity, and shrub encroachment in Cerrado grasslands: A 20 years study	6
Conservation of endangered and rare plants requires strategies additional to deer‐proof fencing for conservation of sub‐alpine plant diversity	6
Fire slightly decreases the competitive effects of a thorny cushion shrub in a semi‐arid mountain steppe in the short term	6
Road verges facilitate exotic species’ expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands	6
Microclimate shapes vegetation response to drought in calcareous grasslands	6
Stand density of co‐existing species regulates above‐ground biomass along a local‐scale elevational gradient in tropical forests	6
Temporal changes in the ground vegetation in spruce forests in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) — bryophytes are better indicators of the impact of liming and of sulphur and nitrogen deposition than the	6
Transferability of vegetation recovery models based on remote sensing across different fire regimes	6
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in Mediterranean Turkey	6
Hierarchy of environmental factors driving restoration of dry grasslands: A multi‐site analysis	6
Different management practices influence growth of small plants in species‐rich hay meadows through shading	6
Soil phosphorus availability determines the contribution of small, individual grassland remnants to the conservation of landscape‐scale biodiversity	6
Effects of topography and climate on Neotropical mountain forests structure in the semiarid region	6

Vegetation unit assignments: phytosociology experts and classification programs show similar performance but low convergence	6
Unmanned aerial systems‐based monitoring of the eco‐geomorphology of coastal dunes through spectral Rao's Q	6
Quantification of accuracy in field‐based land cover maps: A new method to separate different components	5
Ability of plant species to colonise human‐disturbed habitats: Role of phylogeny and functional traits	5
A new formal classification for Japanese forest vegetation based on traditional phytosociological concepts	5
Experimental assessment of endozoochorous dispersal of Prosopis flexuosa seeds by domestic ungulates	5
Reed bed vegetation structure and plant species diversity depend on management type and the time period since last management	5
Best served deep: The seedbank from salvaged topsoil underscores the role of the dispersal filter in restoration practice	5
Plant communities, populations and individuals have distinct responses to short‐term warming and neighbour biomass removal in two montane grasslands	5
The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	5
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	5
Response of ground macrolichens to site factors, co‐existing plants and forestry in boreal forests	5
Syntaxonomy and biogeography of the Irano‐Turanian mires and springs	5
Mapping structural attributes of tropical dry forests by combining Synthetic Aperture Radar and high‐resolution satellite imagery data	5
Mowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species	5
Tree encroachment impacts on seed predator selection and seedling establishment in degraded pine woodlands	5
Heterogeneity decreases as time since fire increases in a South American grassland	5
Propagule availability drives post‐wildfire recovery of peatland plant communities	5
Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	5
Global change, novel ecosystems and the ecological restoration of post‐industrial areas: The case of a former brown coal mine in Søby, Denmark	5
The effect of urban temperature gradients on grassland microclimate amelioration in Los Angeles, USA	5
Loss of plant cover mediates the negative effect of anthropogenic disturbance on the multifunctionality of a dryland	5
Climate‐based approach for modeling the distribution of montane forest vegetation in Taiwan	5
Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	4
Classification of European oak–hornbeam forests and related vegetation types	4
Phylogenetic homogenization of Amazonian tree assemblages in forest islands after 26 years of isolation	4
Predicting flooding tolerance of native tree species to restore flooded forests	4
Long‐term fuel and understorey vegetation response to fuel treatments in oak and chaparral stands of northern California	4
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	4
Shrinking opportunities for establishment of native annual forbs in fragmented grassy woodlands	4
Beyond species richness and community composition: Using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest	4
Patterns of variation in tree composition and richness in Neotropical Non‐Flooded Evergreen Forests	4
Deferment associated to contrasting grazing intensities affects root/shoot biomass allocation in natural grasslands	4
Spatial extent and severity of all‐terrain vehicles use on coastal sand dune vegetation	4
Quantifying the relationship between soil seed bank and plant community assemblage in sites harboring the threatened Ivesia webberi in the western Great Basin Desert	4
The effects of woody plant encroachment and wildfire on plant species richness and composition: Temporal changes in a forest–steppe mosaic	4
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	4
Structural and taxonomic diversity predict above‐ground biomass better than functional measures of maximum height in mixed‐species forests	4
Changes in plant functional composition of wetland vegetation along an aridity gradient on the Highveld plateau of South Africa	4
Response of taxonomic and functional diversity to disturbance severity in temperate hardwood forests	3
The impact of livestock grazing and canopy gaps on species pool and functional diversity of ground flora in the Caspian beech forests of Iran	3
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	3
Cryptogams and dwarf evergreen shrubs are vulnerable to nitrogen addition in a boreal permafrost peatland of Northeast China	3
Observer‐driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context‐dependent but does not affect ecological inference	3
Urban plant diversity in Kazakhstan: Effects of habitat type, city size and macroclimate	3
Floristic types of high‐Andean wetlands from northwest Argentina and their remote‐sensed characterization at a regional scale	3
Changes in plant species richness after cessation of forest disturbance	3
Radiation use efficiency of the herbaceous layer of dry Chaco shrublands and woodlands: Spatial and temporal patterns	3
Rock climbing disturbance severity and abiotic gradients interact to determine cryptogam diversity and community structure	3
Grazing by semi‐feral cattle and horses supports plant species richness and uniqueness in grasslands	3
Long‐term exclosure of sheep‐grazing from an ancient wood: Vegetation change after a sixty‐year experiment	3
Lichen communities on Populus tremula are affected by the density of Picea abies	3
A classification of woody communities based on biological dissimilarity	3
Recent changes in mountain hay meadows of high conservation value in eastern France	3
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	3
Recovery of seedling community attributes during passive restoration of a tropical moist forest in Uganda	3
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	3
N immobilization treatment revisited: A retarded and temporary effect unfolded in old‐field restoration	3
Restoration of ecosystem functions: Seed production in restored and ancient grasslands	3
Small rocky outcrops: Natural features to promote biodiversity in oak wood‐pastures	3
Merged phytosociological and geographical approach for multiple scale vegetation mapping as a baseline for public environmental policy in Mexico	3
Using floristic gradient mapping to assess seasonal thaw depth in interior Alaska	3
Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	3
Successful transfer of species‐rich grassland by means of green hay or threshing material: Does the method matter in the long term?	3
Ecosystem services provided by semi‐natural and intensified grasslands: Synergies, trade‐offs and linkages to plant traits and functional richness	2
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	2
Effect of 15‐year sward management on vertical distribution of plant functional groups in a semi‐natural perennial grassland of central Europe	2
Road verges provide alternative habitats for some, but not all, meadow plants	2
Rangeland resilience to droughts: Changes across an intensification gradient	2
Degradation influences equilibrium and non‐equilibrium dynamics in rangelands: implications in resilience and stability	2
Climate‐mediated shifts toward bunchgrass dominance 40 years after grazing cessation in Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA	2
Vegetation change over a period of 46 years in a Mediterranean mountain massif (Penyagolosa, Spain)	2
Controlling the abundance of a native invasive plant does not affect species richness or functional diversity of wet grasslands	2
Predictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt)	2
Temporal continuity and adjacent land use exert different effects on richness of grassland specialists and alien plants in semi‐natural grassland	2
Leveraging time series of satellite and aerial images to promote the long‐term monitoring of restored plant communities	2
Ground flora cover, diversity, and life‐history trait representation after wind disturbance, salvage logging, and prescribed fire in a Pinus palustris woodland	2
A chemical and bio‐herbicide mixture increased exotic invaders, both targeted and non‐targeted, across a diversely invaded landscape after fire	2
Crop type and management are key filtering factors of functional traits in the weed communities of regions with contrasting soils and climates	2
Predicted scarcity of suitable habitat for alpine plant communities in northern Japan under climate change	2

Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands	2
Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long‐term effects of biosolids on plant community responses	2
Integrating plot‐based and remotely sensed data to map vegetation types in a New Zealand warm‐temperate rainforest	2
Variation in characteristics and conservation values of plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands with and without fires	2
Native plant turnover and limited exotic spread explain swamp biotic differentiation with urbanization	2
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	2
Spatial patterns of stand structure and canopy disturbance in a fire‐maintained Pinus palustris woodland	2
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	2
Early response of herbaceous vegetation to Rhododendron ponticum subsp. baeticum invasion in European Atlantic forests	2
Extreme droughts in oligotrophic mountain grasslands cause substantial species abundance changes and amplify community filtering	2
Variable effects of long‐term livestock grazing across the western United States suggest diverse approaches are needed to meet global change challenges	2
Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt	2
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	2
Embedding trait‐based ecology within indigenous knowledge to advance sustainable management of Tibetan rangeland	2
Best practice—Is natural revegetation sufficient to achieve mitigation goals in road construction?	2
Grazing season regulates plant community structure and production by altering plant litter mass in a typical steppe	2
External management effects on the stand structure of protected forest patches	2
Tropical forest understorey riparian and upland composition, structure, and function in areas with different past land use	2
Participatory modelling of upward shifts of altitudinal vegetation belts for assessing site type transformation in Swiss forests due to climate change	2
Single versus repeated human trampling events: Responses of ground vegetation in suburban beech forests	2
Northern temperate pastures exhibit divergent plant community responses to management and disturbance legacies identified through a producer survey	2