OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Vegetation Science 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 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
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	15
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	15
Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	14
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Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	14
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Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	12
Single versus repeated human trampling events: Responses of ground vegetation in suburban beech forests	12
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
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
Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	10
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	10
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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