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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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
Impacts of rock climbing on cliff vegetation: A methods review and best practices	17
Vegetation of the European mountain river gravel bars: A formalized classification	17
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
Revegetation of degraded ecosystems into grasslands using biosolids as an organic amendment: A meta‐analysis	13
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	12
Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	12
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
Grassland restoration by local seed mixtures: New evidence from a practical 15‐year restoration study	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
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
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
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
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
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
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