OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Vegetation Science is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes	65
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	42
Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long‐term effects of biosolids on plant community responses	37
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	18
Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	16
Nontarget Plant Community and Biomass Responses in Northern Mixed Grassland Treated With Indaziflam for Invasive Annual Brome Control	16
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	15
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	15
Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	14
Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	14
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Single versus repeated human trampling events: Responses of ground vegetation in suburban beech forests	12
Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	12
Resource pre‐emption, rather than extending the growing season of native grass assemblages, reduces invasion by exotic species	11
Phylogenetic homogenization of Amazonian tree assemblages in forest islands after 26 years of isolation	11
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia	11
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	11
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	10
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	10
Decadal vegetation changes in a subarctic‐alpine ecosystem: Can effects of Iceland's largest hydropower reservoir, climate change, and herbivory be detected?	9
Understorey vegetation response to post‐tornado salvage logging	9
Using priority effects for grassland restoration: Sequential sowing can promote subordinate species	9
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Propagule availability drives post‐wildfire recovery of peatland plant communities	9

Tropical forest understorey riparian and upland composition, structure, and function in areas with different past land use	9
External management effects on the stand structure of protected forest patches	8
Legacies of forest harvesting on plant diversity and plant community composition in temperate deciduous forest	8
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Effects of foraging tunnels created by plateau zokors on plant above‐ground biomass and species richness of graminoids and forbs in alpine grasslands	8
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Different management practices influence growth of small plants in species‐rich hay meadows through shading	8
The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	8
Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	8
A rapid method for quantifying small‐scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys	8
Road verges facilitate exotic species’ expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands	7
Mitigating invasive species using biochar derived from invasive plants in saline‐alkaline wetland plant communities dominated by Amaranthus palmeri	7
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	7
Post‐fire conifer regeneration hinders digital estimation of understorey plant cover in subalpine forest vegetation	7
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Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	7
Small rocky outcrops: Natural features to promote biodiversity in oak wood‐pastures	7
Fire and grazing interaction in a subhumid grassland: Effects on a dominant tussock grass	7
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)	7
Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt	6
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	6
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	6
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	6
The role of dominant prairie species ecotypes on plant diversity patterns of restored grasslands across a rainfall gradient in the US Great Plains	6
Evaluating the feasibility of using plant‐specific metabarcoding to assess forest types from soil eDNA	6
Crop type and management are key filtering factors of functional traits in the weed communities of regions with contrasting soils and climates	6
Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	6
Variation in characteristics and conservation values of plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands with and without fires	6
Drivers of species composition in arable‐weed communities of the Austrian–Hungarian borderland region: What is the role of the country?	6
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	6
Correction to “Beyond species richness and community composition: Using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest” [Applied Vegetation Science, 24(3), e12607]	6
Modeling the Abundance of Boreal Foundation Species: The Impact of Forest Structure, Soils, and Legacy Effects on Ericaceous Shrubs	6
Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem	6
Historic deforestation and non‐native plant invasions determine vegetation trajectories across an oceanic archipelago	6
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	5
Extreme droughts in oligotrophic mountain grasslands cause substantial species abundance changes and amplify community filtering	5
Determinants of bryophyte assemblages in traditionally managed grasslands of the Carpathian Mts	5
Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	5
A new formal classification for Japanese forest vegetation based on traditional phytosociological concepts	5
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	5
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	5
Participatory modelling of upward shifts of altitudinal vegetation belts for assessing site type transformation in Swiss forests due to climate change	5
Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: Secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of recovery of the native species	5
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	5
Spatial patterns of stand structure and canopy disturbance in a fire‐maintainedPinus palustriswoodland	5
Sentinel 2 images enable reliable prediction of fine‐scale habitat dynamics of narrow endemic plant species in serpentine soils	5
Distribution shifts, potential refugia, and the performance of protected areas under climate change in the Araucaria moist forests ecoregion	4
Using spectral diversity and heterogeneity measures to map habitat mosaics: An example from the Classical Karst	4
Cryptogams and dwarf evergreen shrubs are vulnerable to nitrogen addition in a boreal permafrost peatland of Northeast China	4
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Road verges provide alternative habitats for some, but not all, meadow plants	4
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Exotic species explain plant functional trait differences between seed mixes, restored and reference prairies	4
Grazing season regulates plant community structure and production by altering plant litter mass in a typical steppe	4
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Microclimate shapes vegetation response to drought in calcareous grasslands	4
Pastoralism in the high tropical Andes: A review of the effect of grazing intensity on plant diversity and ecosystem services	4
MedGermDB: A seed germination database for characteristic species of Mediterranean habitats	4
Influence of Previous Coppice Management on Stand Structure and Vegetation Diversity of 9210* Habitat Beech Forests in the Central Apennines (Italy)	4
Measuring plant functional specialization in urban environments with Grime's CSR strategies	4
Satellite‐derived prefire vegetation predicts variation in field‐based invasive annual grass cover after fire	4
Effects of grazing on functional diversity along secondary succession in a tropical dry forest (Caatinga, Brazil)	4
Classification of rocky outcrops plant communities in the mountains of Central Argentina	4
Livestock grazing is an effective conservation tool for Californian coastal grassland ecology: An eight‐year study on vegetation dynamics	4
Win some, lose some: Mesocosm communities maintain community productivity despite lower phosphorus availability because of increased species diversity	3
Grazing by semi‐feral cattle and horses supports plant species richness and uniqueness in grasslands	3
Remote sensing for vegetation science: A virtual special issue on its power and challenges	3
What is a suitable management for Typha latifolia control in wet meadows?	3
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Facilitation by pioneer trees and herbivore exclusion allow regeneration of woody species in the semiarid ecosystem of central Chile	3
Forb community response to prescribed fire, livestock grazing, and an invasive annual grass in the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie	3
Promoting plant diversity and habitat heterogeneity through vineyard terracing	3
Clear‐cutting triggers regeneration of abandoned secondary forests but risks alternative successional trajectories with high deer density	3
How to measure flower ultraviolet reflectance using digital photography	3
Systematic reduction in seed rain of large‐seeded and endozoochorous species in pastures compared to forests along a tropical elevational gradient	3
A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit	3
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The impact of radioactive contamination on tree regeneration and forest development in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone	3
About the link between biodiversity and spectral variation	3
Grassland Changes in the Eastern Alps Over Four Decades: Unveiling Patterns Along an Elevation Gradient	3
Efficacy and non‐target effects of herbicides in foothills grassland restoration are short‐lived	3
Deferment associated to contrasting grazing intensities affects root/shoot biomass allocation in natural grasslands	3
Using functional traits and species diversity to evaluate restoration success of coastal dunes	3
Socioeconomic and environmental factors jointly shape beta diversity of woody species in eastern China	3
Trait variation in juvenile plants from the soil seed bank of temperate forests in relation to macro‐ and microclimate	3
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Testing collection‐time reduction in fine‐root biomass estimation in Atlantic Forests	3
Vegetation dynamics following three decades of trophic rewilding in the mesic grasslands of Oostvaardersplassen	3
Structural and taxonomic diversity predict above‐ground biomass better than functional measures of maximum height in mixed‐species forests	3
Secondary succession on landslides in submontane forests of central Taiwan: Environmental drivers and restoration strategies	2
Livestock species rather than grazing intensity shape plant guild proportions in interaction with multiple environmental drivers in grassland from the Pyrenees	2
Ecosystem services provided by semi‐natural and intensified grasslands: Synergies, trade‐offs and linkages to plant traits and functional richness	2
A deep‐learning framework for enhancing habitat identification based on species composition	2
Large Boulders Provide Refuge for Browse‐Sensitive Species and Reveal a Legacy of Overbrowsing and Shifting Baselines	2
Effects of grazing versus mowing on the vegetation of wet grasslands in the northern Pre‐Alps, Switzerland	2
Rapid functional but slow species diversity recovery of steppe vegetation on former arable fields in southern Ukraine	2
Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Generate Grazing Lawns and Maintain Plant Diversity in Neotropical Savanna	2
Response of ground macrolichens to site factors, co‐existing plants and forestry in boreal forests	2
Classification of the high‐rank syntaxa of the Central and Eastern Balkan dry grasslands with a new hierarchical expert system approach	2
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	2
Nibble, cut, stomp and burn: Biodiversity effects of disturbances in fen grassland	2
Variable effects of long‐term livestock grazing across the western United States suggest diverse approaches are needed to meet global change challenges	2
Transient shifts in composition of degraded temperate native grassland following grazing exclusion	2
Standardized indices to estimate sensitivity to drought across ecosystems	2
The relationship between species and spectral diversity in grassland communities is mediated by their vertical complexity	2
Assessment of habitat connectivity in a highly fragmented ecosystem: The seasonal tropical dry forest in Ecuador	2
Prediction of species richness and diversity in sub‐alpine grasslands using satellite remote sensing and random forest machine‐learning algorithm	2
Biomass fine‐scale variation is predictive of functional composition and diversity in grazed grassland	2
Using multiple plant functional types to assess response to prescribed burn season in Mediterranean‐climate vegetation	2
Vegetation patch dynamics in rangelands: How feedbacks between large herbivores, vegetation and soil fauna alter patches over space and through time	2
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Subalpine vegetation changes in the Eastern Sudetes (1973–2021): Effects of abandonment, conservation management and avalanches	2
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Increasing abundance of an invasive C₄grass is associated with larger community changes away than at home	2
Comparing grass biomass estimation methods for management decisions in a semi‐arid landscape	2
Fire in Mexican grassy–pine ecosystems	2
Two sides of one medal: Arable weed vegetation of Europe in phytosociological data compared to agronomical weed surveys	2
Interactive effects of fire and grazing on vegetation structure and plant species composition in subtropical grasslands	2
Response of herbaceous functional types and woody vegetation to selective shrub control on wildlife and cattle ranches in a semi‐arid savanna	2
Intensity‐dependent effects of cattle and sheep grazing in sand grasslands — Does livestock type really matter?	2