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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Simulated effects of floodplain restoration on plant community types	78
Exploring seed density and limiting similarity to reduce invasive grass performance for grassland restoration purposes	46
Nontarget Plant Community and Biomass Responses in Northern Mixed Grassland Treated With Indaziflam for Invasive Annual Brome Control	22
Standardised Drone Procedures for Phytosociological Data Collection	20
Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long‐term effects of biosolids on plant community responses	19
No species loss, but pronounced species turnover in grasslands in the Northern Alps over 25 years	19
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Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco‐Sphagnetea class	18
Effects of thinning on functional and phylogenetic diversity of regenerated woody plants in plantations over time	17
Longleaf pine restoration on hydric sites: Understorey plant community responses to site preparation through 15 years	17
On the Use of Taxon Names in Community Ecology	17
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Effects of slashing on native and invasive species, and community structure of a remnant natural grassland of South Australia	15
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The Role of Nurse Trees in the Plant Community of Park Grassland: A Case Study in Southern Brazil	15
Resource pre‐emption, rather than extending the growing season of native grass assemblages, reduces invasion by exotic species	13
Spatial patterns of soil seed banks and their relationships with above‐ground vegetation in an arid desert	13
Coping with changing plant–plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation	13
Using priority effects for grassland restoration: Sequential sowing can promote subordinate species	12
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Water management infrastructure alters plant species composition, functional diversity and soil condition in a livestock‐impaired mosaic of wetlands	11
Decadal vegetation changes in a subarctic‐alpine ecosystem: Can effects of Iceland's largest hydropower reservoir, climate change, and herbivory be detected?	11
Understorey vegetation response to post‐tornado salvage logging	11
Classification of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia	11
AgriWeedClim database: A repository of vegetation plot data from Central European arable habitats over 100 years	11

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Seed Rain in Subtropical Grasslands Under Different Grazing Intensities	10
The benefits of publishing in society‐owned scientific journals	9
Road Disturbance Shapes the Functional Composition of Native Plant Species but Not That of Non‐Natives in the Arid Andes	9
Road verges facilitate exotic species’ expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands	9
Effects of foraging tunnels created by plateau zokors on plant above‐ground biomass and species richness of graminoids and forbs in alpine grasslands	9
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Effect of forest structure and management on the functional diversity and composition of understorey plant communities	9
External management effects on the stand structure of protected forest patches	9
Different management practices influence growth of small plants in species‐rich hay meadows through shading	9
Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context	8
Fire and grazing interaction in a subhumid grassland: Effects on a dominant tussock grass	8
Issue Information	8
Small rocky outcrops: Natural features to promote biodiversity in oak wood‐pastures	8
Legacies of forest harvesting on plant diversity and plant community composition in temperate deciduous forest	8
Mitigating invasive species using biochar derived from invasive plants in saline‐alkaline wetland plant communities dominated by Amaranthus palmeri	8
Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem	7
Variation in characteristics and conservation values of plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands with and without fires	7
Modeling the Abundance of Boreal Foundation Species: The Impact of Forest Structure, Soils, and Legacy Effects on Ericaceous Shrubs	7
Crop type and management are key filtering factors of functional traits in the weed communities of regions with contrasting soils and climates	7
Reflecting on two and a half decades of restoration ecology in Applied Vegetation Science (1998–2023)	7
The role of dominant prairie species ecotypes on plant diversity patterns of restored grasslands across a rainfall gradient in the US Great Plains	7
Assessing removal methods for controlling Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment and their impacts on plant communities in an East‐African savannah ecosystem	7
Historic deforestation and non‐native plant invasions determine vegetation trajectories across an oceanic archipelago	7
Soil seed bank development of smoke‐responsive plant species in a 23‐year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire	7
Herbivores regulate native–alien plants dynamics in sub‐Antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	7
Silicicolous lichen communities of the Ukrainian Crystalline Shield	7
The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps	7
A new formal classification for Japanese forest vegetation based on traditional phytosociological concepts	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
Do common assumptions about the wetland seed bank following invasive plant removal hold true? Divergent outcomes following multi‐year Phragmites australis management	6
Drivers of species composition in arable‐weed communities of the Austrian–Hungarian borderland region: What is the role of the country?	6
Species dominance rather than complementarity drives community digestibility and litter decomposition in species‐rich Mediterranean rangelands	6
Evaluating the feasibility of using plant‐specific metabarcoding to assess forest types from soil eDNA	6
Extreme droughts in oligotrophic mountain grasslands cause substantial species abundance changes and amplify community filtering	6
Phytosociological survey of the desert vegetation of Sinai, Egypt	6
Understory Plant Community Response to a Range of Restoration Scenarios in Northeast US Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Barrens	6
Sentinel 2 images enable reliable prediction of fine‐scale habitat dynamics of narrow endemic plant species in serpentine soils	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
Spatial patterns of stand structure and canopy disturbance in a fire‐maintainedPinus palustriswoodland	5
Daily Fluctuating Flows Affect Riparian Plant Species Distributions From Local to Regional Scales	5
MedGermDB: A seed germination database for characteristic species of Mediterranean habitats	5
Machine‐learning algorithms predict soil seed bank persistence from easily available traits	5
Burning the seed bank: Seed response of eight species to different fire intensities in Patagonian steppe	5
Effects of Panels and Management on Plant Community Composition in Southern French Solar Parks	5
Participatory modelling of upward shifts of altitudinal vegetation belts for assessing site type transformation in Swiss forests due to climate change	5
Grazing season regulates plant community structure and production by altering plant litter mass in a typical steppe	5
Early Competition From a Local Species Seed Mixture Limits Invasion by the Ornamental Shrub Buddleja davidii	5
Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science	5
Carbon dioxide fluxes and soil carbon storage in relation to long‐term grazing and no grazing in Icelandic semi‐natural grasslands	5

Determinants of bryophyte assemblages in traditionally managed grasslands of the Carpathian Mts	5
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Distribution shifts, potential refugia, and the performance of protected areas under climate change in the Araucaria moist forests ecoregion	5
Nitrogen Deposition Increases Spontaneous Forest Establishment and Loss of Lichen Vegetation in Inland Dune Areas Across the Netherlands	5