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Papers

(The median citation count of Alpine Botany is 2. 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
Different growth response of mountain rangeland habitats to inter-annual weather fluctuations	28
Temporal and spatial variation in the direct and indirect effects of climate on reproduction in alpine populations of Ranunculus acris L	25
Moss-driven facilitation promotes species coexistence in Andean páramo peatlands	17
Native and non-native plant richness and diversity along an elevational gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes	15
Positive and negative plant−plant interactions influence seedling establishment at both high and low elevations	14
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	13
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	11
Sap flow characteristics and canopy transpiration of Alnus alnobetula within the treeline ecotone of the Central Tyrolean Alps	10
Microsite preferences of three conifers in calcareous and siliceous treeline ecotones in the French alps	10
Introgression of an isolated Primula lineage suggests the existence of a glacial refugium in the Écrins range (Southwestern French Alps)	9
Genetic underpinning of historical afforestation with allochthonous Pinus cembra in the northwestern Swiss Alps	9
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	8
The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations	8
Clonality and genetic structure of an endangered aquatic plant, Typha minima, in the French Alps: consequences for conservation	7
Implementing spatial analyses to measure angiosperm biodiversity from the high-altitude grasslands of the Atlantic forest	7
Correction: Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows	6
Genetic diversity and environmental adaptation mechanisms of Caragana roborovskyi Kom. In arid Northwestern china: multi-scale evidence from population genomics and niche modeling	6
The impacts of interannual climate variation on pollination network structure of a sub-alpine meadow: from 2008 to 2021	6
Alpine plants with short-lived seeds have declined over the past two decades	6
Plant diversity and composition vary with elevation on two equatorial high mountains in Uganda: baselines for assessing the influence of climate change	5
Phylogeny and phenotypic adjustments drive functional traits in Rhododendron across elevations in its diversity hot-spot in W-China	5
Early snowmelt advances flowering phenology and disrupts the drivers of pollinator visitation in an alpine ecosystem	5
Floral and pollinator functional diversity mediate network structure along an elevational gradient	5
A study of páramo plant-pollinator interactions on the sky islands of Colombia: specialization, modularity, and species roles	5
Pollen dispersal distance is determined by phenology and ancillary traits but not floral gender in an andromonoecious, fly-pollinated alpine herb	4

Glacier retreat triggers changes in biodiversity and plant–pollinator interaction diversity	4
Variation in the effectiveness of nonnative plant removal along elevation gradients in Switzerland	4
Correction: The niche of alpine botany	4
Festuca apennina × F. pratensis triploid hybrids exceed their parents in adaptation to broad-environmental conditions	4
Directional selection on single traits is the most prevalent mode of selection on floral traits in seven Primula species	4
In situ nitrogen uptake from inorganic and organic sources by the fine root systems of five alpine woody plant species	3
Cushion plants in the Alps are swarming with invertebrate life	3
Morphoanatomy and leaf biomass in Espeletia standleyana A.C.Sm. and Espeletia santanderensis A.C.Sm. in a northeastern Colombian paramo	3
Dieback of the cushion plant Silene acaulis at its southern limit of distribution in the Apennines	3
Co-occurring Luzula species (Juncaceae) of different ploidies exhibit weak ecological differentiation at local scale in alpine grasslands of the Eastern Alps	3
Correction: Genetic divergence of Clematis alpina in the Swiss Prealps: a tale of the margins	2
Alpine plant communities differ in their seed germination requirements along a snowmelt gradient in the Caucasus	2
High-mountain phylogeography in the Balkan Peninsula: isolation pattern in a species of alpine siliceous grasslands and its possible background	2
The morphological fit between flowers of Cypripedium calceolus L. and their visitors matters but does not explain flower size variations along altitude	2
Effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions and its multitrophic consequences	2