Applied Vegetation Science

Article	Citations
International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition	208
About the link between biodiversity and spectral variation	54
Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation	37
The relationship between species and spectral diversity in grassland communities is mediated by their vertical complexity	34
Distribution maps of vegetation alliances in Europe	33
Land‐use history determines stand structure and tree diversity in vanilla agroforests of northeastern Madagascar	25
Evaluating structural and compositional canopy characteristics to predict the light‐demand signature of the forest understorey in mixed, semi‐natural temperate forests	25
Which optical traits enable an estimation of tree species diversity based on the Spectral Variation Hypothesis?	25
Grassland management and land use history shape species composition and diversity in Transylvanian semi‐natural grasslands	18
Vegetation of the European mountain river gravel bars: A formalized classification	17
Impacts of rock climbing on cliff vegetation: A methods review and best practices	17
Revegetation of degraded ecosystems into grasslands using biosolids as an organic amendment: A meta‐analysis	13
Clear‐cutting triggers regeneration of abandoned secondary forests but risks alternative successional trajectories with high deer density	13
Implementing the formal language of the vegetation classification expert systems (ESy) in the statistical computing environment R	13
Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	12
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	12
Grassland restoration by local seed mixtures: New evidence from a practical 15‐year restoration study	11
Decrease in species richness and diversity, and shrub encroachment in Cerrado grasslands: A 20 years study	11
Seedling recruitment in mountain grassland restoration: Effects of soil preparation and grazing	11
Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland	11
Identifying substitute host tree species for epiphytes: The relative importance of tree size and species, bark and site characteristics	11
Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) eradication in arid central Australia enhances native plant diversity and increases seed resources for granivores	11
Microclimate shapes vegetation response to drought in calcareous grasslands	10
Long‐term Pinus plantations reduce the bud bank in Cerrado areas	10
Distribution shifts, potential refugia, and the performance of protected areas under climate change in the Araucaria moist forests ecoregion	10

Grazing by semi‐feral cattle and horses supports plant species richness and uniqueness in grasslands	10
Plant community context controls short‐ versus medium‐term effects of pre‐emergent herbicides on target and non‐target species after fire	10
Summer grazing by three livestock species at moderate intensity enhances primary productivity and drives community divergence in a semi‐arid steppe	10
Forb community response to prescribed fire, livestock grazing, and an invasive annual grass in the Pacific Northwest Bunchgrass Prairie	9
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	8
Two sides of one medal: Arable weed vegetation of Europe in phytosociological data compared to agronomical weed surveys	8
Post‐fire changes in plant growth form composition and diversity in Andean páramo grassland	8
Soil phosphorus availability determines the contribution of small, individual grassland remnants to the conservation of landscape‐scale biodiversity	8
Ecosystem services provided by semi‐natural and intensified grasslands: Synergies, trade‐offs and linkages to plant traits and functional richness	8
Fire slightly decreases the competitive effects of a thorny cushion shrub in a semi‐arid mountain steppe in the short term	8
Forest patch size predicts seed bank composition in urban areas	8
Unmanned aerial systems‐based monitoring of the eco‐geomorphology of coastal dunes through spectral Rao'sQ	8
Anthropogenic disturbance modifies long‐term changes of boreal mountain vegetation under contemporary climate warming	8
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	7
Neighboring edges: Interacting edge effects from linear disturbances in treed fens	7
Fertilization and overseeding legumes on native grasslands leads to a hardly reversible degraded state	7
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	7
Conservation of endangered and rare plants requires strategies additional to deer‐proof fencing for conservation of sub‐alpine plant diversity	7
Effect of inter‐annual meteorological fluctuations and wild boar disturbance on the vegetation of Mediterranean temporary ponds	7
Best served deep: The seedbank from salvaged topsoil underscores the role of the dispersal filter in restoration practice	7
A new formal classification for Japanese forest vegetation based on traditional phytosociological concepts	7
Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	7
Hierarchy of environmental factors driving restoration of dry grasslands: A multi‐site analysis	6
Reed bed vegetation structure and plant species diversity depend on management type and the time period since last management	6
Different management practices influence growth of small plants in species‐rich hay meadows through shading	6
Classification of European oak–hornbeam forests and related vegetation types	6
The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	6
Floristic types of high‐Andean wetlands from northwest Argentina and their remote‐sensed characterization at a regional scale	6
Deferment associated to contrasting grazing intensities affects root/shoot biomass allocation in natural grasslands	6
Experimental assessment of endozoochorous dispersal of Prosopis flexuosa seeds by domestic ungulates	6
The effect of urban temperature gradients on grassland microclimate amelioration in Los Angeles, USA	6
Plant communities, populations and individuals have distinct responses to short‐term warming and neighbour biomass removal in two montane grasslands	6
Tree encroachment impacts on seed predator selection and seedling establishment in degraded pine woodlands	6
Beyond species richness and community composition: Using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest	6
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in Mediterranean Turkey	6
Syntaxonomy and biogeography of the Irano‐Turanian mires and springs	6
Global change, novel ecosystems and the ecological restoration of post‐industrial areas: The case of a former brown coal mine in Søby, Denmark	6
Small rocky outcrops: Natural features to promote biodiversity in oak wood‐pastures	6
Road verges facilitate exotic species’ expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands	6
Stand density of co‐existing species regulates above‐ground biomass along a local‐scale elevational gradient in tropical forests	6
Propagule availability drives post‐wildfire recovery of peatland plant communities	6
Structural and taxonomic diversity predict above‐ground biomass better than functional measures of maximum height in mixed‐species forests	6
Mowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species	5
Increasing abundance of an invasive C4grass is associated with larger community changes away than at home	5
A classification of woody communities based on biological dissimilarity	5
Participatory modelling of upward shifts of altitudinal vegetation belts for assessing site type transformation in Swiss forests due to climate change	5
Biomass fine‐scale variation is predictive of functional composition and diversity in grazed grassland	5
Spatial extent and severity of all‐terrain vehicles use on coastal sand dune vegetation	5
Quantifying the relationship between soil seed bank and plant community assemblage in sites harboring the threatened Ivesia webberi in the western Great Basin Desert	5
Observer‐driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context‐dependent but does not affect ecological inference	5

The effects of woody plant encroachment and wildfire on plant species richness and composition: Temporal changes in a forest–steppe mosaic	5
Temporal continuity and adjacent land use exert different effects on richness of grassland specialists and alien plants in semi‐natural grassland	5
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	5
Response of ground macrolichens to site factors, co‐existing plants and forestry in boreal forests	5
Mapping structural attributes of tropical dry forests by combining Synthetic Aperture Radar and high‐resolution satellite imagery data	5
Loss of plant cover mediates the negative effect of anthropogenic disturbance on the multifunctionality of a dryland	5
Quantification of accuracy in field‐based land cover maps: A new method to separate different components	5
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	5
Long‐term fuel and understorey vegetation response to fuel treatments in oak and chaparral stands of northern California	5
Vegetation change in acidic dry grasslands in Moravia (Czech Republic) over three decades: Slow decrease in habitat quality after grazing cessation	5
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	4
Effects of livestock grazing intensification on plant communities of Patagonian drylands increase with increasing aridity	4
Merged phytosociological and geographical approach for multiple scale vegetation mapping as a baseline for public environmental policy in Mexico	4
Urban plant diversity in Kazakhstan: Effects of habitat type, city size and macroclimate	4
Changes in plant species richness after cessation of forest disturbance	4
Subalpine vegetation changes in the Eastern Sudetes (1973–2021): Effects of abandonment, conservation management and avalanches	4
The impact of livestock grazing and canopy gaps on species pool and functional diversity of ground flora in the Caspian beech forests of Iran	4
Recovery of seedling community attributes during passive restoration of a tropical moist forest in Uganda	4
Restoration of ecosystem functions: Seed production in restored and ancient grasslands	4
Rock‐climbing shifts cliff‐face vegetation community composition based on site characteristics	4
Using floristic gradient mapping to assess seasonal thaw depth in interior Alaska	4
Tropical forest understorey riparian and upland composition, structure, and function in areas with different past land use	4
Phylogenetic homogenization of Amazonian tree assemblages in forest islands after 26 years of isolation	4
Leveraging time series of satellite and aerial images to promote the long‐term monitoring of restored plant communities	4
N immobilization treatment revisited: A retarded and temporary effect unfolded in old‐field restoration	4
Radiation use efficiency of the herbaceous layer of dry Chaco shrublands and woodlands: Spatial and temporal patterns	4
Cryptogams and dwarf evergreen shrubs are vulnerable to nitrogen addition in a boreal permafrost peatland of Northeast China	4
Exotic species explain plant functional trait differences between seed mixes, restored and reference prairies	4
Predictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt)	4
Single versus repeated human trampling events: Responses of ground vegetation in suburban beech forests	4
Predicting flooding tolerance of native tree species to restore flooded forests	4
Variable effects of long‐term livestock grazing across the western United States suggest diverse approaches are needed to meet global change challenges	4
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	4
Recent changes in mountain hay meadows of high conservation value in eastern France	3
Post‐fire succession of seeding treatments in relation to reference communities in the Great Basin	3
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	3
Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long‐term effects of biosolids on plant community responses	3
Long‐term exclosure of sheep‐grazing from an ancient wood: Vegetation change after a sixty‐year experiment	3
Best practice—Is natural revegetation sufficient to achieve mitigation goals in road construction?	3
Controlling the abundance of a native invasive plant does not affect species richness or functional diversity of wet grasslands	3
Grazing season regulates plant community structure and production by altering plant litter mass in a typical steppe	3
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	3
Intensity‐dependent effects of cattle and sheep grazing in sand grasslands — Does livestock type really matter?	3
Successful transfer of species‐rich grassland by means of green hay or threshing material: Does the method matter in the long term?	3
Livestock species rather than grazing intensity shape plant guild proportions in interaction with multiple environmental drivers in grassland from the Pyrenees	3
Effect of 15‐year sward management on vertical distribution of plant functional groups in a semi‐natural perennial grassland of central Europe	3
The biodiversity of birch stands in agricultural landscapes of Estonia is associated with past land use, restoration approach, site and landscape variables	3
Response of taxonomic and functional diversity to disturbance severity in temperate hardwood forests	3
Rangeland resilience to droughts: Changes across an intensification gradient	3
External management effects on the stand structure of protected forest patches	3
Embedding trait‐based ecology within indigenous knowledge to advance sustainable management of Tibetan rangeland	3
Passive regeneration of subtropical grassland vegetation in a chronosequence of ex‐cultivated fields in Australia	3
Facilitation by pioneer trees and herbivore exclusion allow regeneration of woody species in the semiarid ecosystem of central Chile	3
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	3
A chemical and bio‐herbicide mixture increased exotic invaders, both targeted and non‐targeted, across a diversely invaded landscape after fire	3
There is room for everyone: Invasion credit cannot be inferred from the species–area relationship in fragmented forests	3
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	3
Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt	3
Rock climbing disturbance severity and abiotic gradients interact to determine cryptogam diversity and community structure	3
Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances	3
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	3
Effects of foraging tunnels created by plateau zokors on plant above‐ground biomass and species richness of graminoids and forbs in alpine grasslands	3
Lichen communities on Populus tremula are affected by the density of Picea abies	3
Degradation influences equilibrium and non‐equilibrium dynamics in rangelands: implications in resilience and stability	3
Spatial patterns of stand structure and canopy disturbance in a fire‐maintainedPinus palustriswoodland	3
Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	3
The closer the better? Relative influence of forest continuity and distance to water on the taxonomic and functional structure of riparian plant communities along headwater streams	3
Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	2
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	2
Livestock grazing promotes legume abundance under increased nutrient loads: Mechanistic evidence from a temperate grassland	2
Land use legacies affect early tropical forest succession in Mexico	2
Predicted scarcity of suitable habitat for alpine plant communities in northern Japan under climate change	2
Integrating plot‐based and remotely sensed data to map vegetation types in a New Zealand warm‐temperate rainforest	2
Spontaneous urban vegetation as an indicator of soil functionality and ecosystem services	2
Using spectral diversity and heterogeneity measures to map habitat mosaics: An example from the Classical Karst	2
Using priority effects for grassland restoration: Sequential sowing can promote subordinate species	2
Transient shifts in composition of degraded temperate native grassland following grazing exclusion	2
The effects of livestock grazing on vegetation in a semiarid grassland: a test of three hypotheses	2
Magnitude and drivers of plant diversity loss differ between spatial scales in Scania, Sweden 1957–2021	2
Extreme droughts in oligotrophic mountain grasslands cause substantial species abundance changes and amplify community filtering	2

Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	2
Decoupled responses of native and exotic tree diversities to distance from old‐growth forest and soil phosphorus in novel secondary forests	2
Do neighbours matter? The effect of single‐ and mixed‐species sowing density on seed germination of annual wetland plants	2
Climate‐mediated shifts toward bunchgrass dominance 40 years after grazing cessation in Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA	2
Grassland restoration on former arable land: Fine‐scale grass accumulation and damaged soil conditions limit species establishment	2
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	2
The impact of radioactive contamination on tree regeneration and forest development in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone	2
Vegetation patch dynamics in rangelands: How feedbacks between large herbivores, vegetation and soil fauna alter patches over space and through time	2
Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands	2
What explains inconsistencies in field‐based ecosystem mapping?	2
Effects of grazing versus mowing on the vegetation of wet grasslands in the northern Pre‐Alps, Switzerland	2
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	2
Northern temperate pastures exhibit divergent plant community responses to management and disturbance legacies identified through a producer survey	2
Ground flora cover, diversity, and life‐history trait representation after wind disturbance, salvage logging, and prescribed fire in a Pinus palustris woodland	2
Crop type and management are key filtering factors of functional traits in the weed communities of regions with contrasting soils and climates	2
Effects of long‐term mowing on species diversity, biomass and composition of plant community in a semi‐arid grassland in northeastern China	2
Forest structure and biomass in post‐agricultural forests: Lessons learned with new spatial tools	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
Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	2
The effects of seed enhancements on plant establishment in native grasses: A meta‐analysis	2
Plant species composition and vegetation structure of Sphagnum cultivation sites	2
An invasive grass and litter impact tree encroachment into a native grassland	2
Road verges provide alternative habitats for some, but not all, meadow plants	2
Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: Secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of recovery of the native species	2
Early response of herbaceous vegetation to Rhododendron ponticum subsp. baeticum invasion in European Atlantic forests	2
Using multiple plant functional types to assess response to prescribed burn season in Mediterranean‐climate vegetation	2