OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Nontarget Plant Community and Biomass Responses in Northern Mixed Grassland Treated With Indaziflam for Invasive Annual Brome Control	69
Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes	31
Pixel Patchwork: Monitoring Temperate Grassland Restoration Success With Sentinel‐2 Phenology Metrics in Urban Australia	30
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	27
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	26
Standardised Drone Procedures for Phytosociological Data Collection	25
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	25
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	25
Rare and Vulnerable: Mires of the Western Alps Are Changing Rapidly Under Climate Pressures	22
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The Role of Nurse Trees in the Plant Community of Park Grassland: A Case Study in Southern Brazil	19
Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	19
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	18
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Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia	17
Using priority effects for grassland restoration: Sequential sowing can promote subordinate species	16
Decadal vegetation changes in a subarctic‐alpine ecosystem: Can effects of Iceland's largest hydropower reservoir, climate change, and herbivory be detected?	14
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	14
Understorey vegetation response to post‐tornado salvage logging	14
The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	13
Seed Rain in Subtropical Grasslands Under Different Grazing Intensities	13
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Road Disturbance Shapes the Functional Composition of Native Plant Species but Not That of Non‐Natives in the Arid Andes	13
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Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	12

Effects of foraging tunnels created by plateau zokors on plant above‐ground biomass and species richness of graminoids and forbs in alpine grasslands	12
Soil Nutrients Mediate Initial Intraannual Community Dynamics in a Tilled Grassland	12
Mitigating invasive species using biochar derived from invasive plants in saline‐alkaline wetland plant communities dominated by Amaranthus palmeri	11
Fire and grazing interaction in a subhumid grassland: Effects on a dominant tussock grass	11
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	11
Impact of Trail Proximity and Substrate on the Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Bryophyte in a Valdivian Temperate Rainforest	11
The role of dominant prairie species ecotypes on plant diversity patterns of restored grasslands across a rainfall gradient in the US Great Plains	10
Evaluating the feasibility of using plant‐specific metabarcoding to assess forest types from soil eDNA	10
Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem	10
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	10
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	10
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)	10
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	10
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	9
Historic deforestation and non‐native plant invasions determine vegetation trajectories across an oceanic archipelago	9
Drivers of species composition in arable‐weed communities of the Austrian–Hungarian borderland region: What is the role of the country?	9
Understory Plant Community Response to a Range of Restoration Scenarios in Northeast US Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Barrens	9
Correction to “Beyond species richness and community composition: Using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest” [ Applied Vegetation Science<	9
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	8
Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: Secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of recovery of the native species	8
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	8
Effects of Panels and Management on Plant Community Composition in Southern French Solar Parks	8
Annual Vegetation of Saline Seasonal Wetlands ( Crypsietea aculeatae ) in Europe	8
Modeling the Abundance of Boreal Foundation Species: The Impact of Forest Structure, Soils, and Legacy Effects on Ericaceous Shrubs	8
Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	8
Vegetation Responses to Experimental Prescribed Burning and Cutting of Heather on Blanket Peat Sites Managed as Grouse Moors in Northern England	8
Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	8
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Influence of Previous Coppice Management on Stand Structure and Vegetation Diversity of 9210* Habitat Beech Forests in the Central Apennines (Italy)	7
Early Competition From a Local Species Seed Mixture Limits Invasion by the Ornamental Shrub Buddleja davidii	7
Grazing season regulates plant community structure and production by altering plant litter mass in a typical steppe	7
Nitrogen Deposition Increases Spontaneous Forest Establishment and Loss of Lichen Vegetation in Inland Dune Areas Across the Netherlands	7
Daily Fluctuating Flows Affect Riparian Plant Species Distributions From Local to Regional Scales	7
Exotic species explain plant functional trait differences between seed mixes, restored and reference prairies	7
Livestock grazing is an effective conservation tool for Californian coastal grassland ecology: An eight‐year study on vegetation dynamics	7
MedGermDB: A seed germination database for characteristic species of Mediterranean habitats	7