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Papers

(The median citation count of Alpine Botany is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in plant diversity in a water-limited and isolated high-mountain range (Sierra Nevada, Spain)	24
Mountain definitions and their consequences	23
Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought	18
History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg	16
Plant speciation in the face of recurrent climate changes in the Alps	15
Dominant shrub species are a strong predictor of plant species diversity along subalpine pasture-shrub transects	15
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	14
A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains	13
Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880	11
Seed mass and plant home site environment interact to determine alpine species germination patterns along an elevation gradient	11
Phenology determines leaf functional traits across Rhododendron species in the Sikkim Himalaya	11
Do pentaploid hybrids mediate gene flow between tetraploid Senecio disjunctus and hexaploid S. carniolicus s. str. (S. carniolicus aggregate, Asteraceae)?	11
Incongruences between nuclear and plastid phylogenies challenge the identification of correlates of diversification in Gentiana in the European Alpine System	9
Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern in Sino-Himalaya	9
Patterns of floral allocation along an elevation gradient: variation in Senecio subalpinus growing in the Tatra Mountains	8
Competition-free gaps are essential for the germination and recruitment of alpine species along an elevation gradient in the European Alps	8
Seedlings of alpine species do not have better frost-tolerance than their lowland counterparts	7
Pollinator sharing among co-flowering plants mediates patterns of pollen transfer	7
Chronic in situ tissue cooling does not reduce lignification at the Swiss treeline but enhances the risk of ‘blue’ frost rings	7
Habitat-specific effects of flowering advance on fruit-set success of alpine plants: a long-term record of flowering phenology and fruit-set success of Rhododendron aureum	6
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	6
Flower preformation in the nival plant Ranunculus glacialis L.: shoot architecture and impact of the growing season length on floral morphogenesis and developmental dynamics	6
Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling	6
Novel plant communities after glacial retreat in Colombia: (many) losses and (few) gains	5
Endemics determine bioregionalization in the alpine zone of the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot (South-West Asia)	5

Resident vegetation modifies climate-driven elevational shift of a mountain sedge	5
Evolutionary origins and species delineation of the two Pyrenean endemics Campanula jaubertiana and C. andorrana (Campanulaceae): evidence for transverse alpine speciation	4
Elevation-specific responses of phenology in evergreen oaks from their low-dry to their extreme high-cold range limits in the SE Himalaya	4
Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic diversity and alpine specialization across the alpine flora of the American mountain range system	4
Surviving in southern refugia: the case of Veronica aragonensis, a rare endemic from the Iberian Peninsula	4
Intensity, frequency and rate of insect herbivory for an alpine Rhododendron shrub: elevational patterns and leaf-age effects	3
Elevational variation of the seasonal dynamic of carbohydrate reserves in an alpine plant of Mediterranean mountains	3
Comparative phylogeography of Acanthocalyx (Caprifoliaceae) reveals distinct genetic structures in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains	3
Does the life-history strategy determine the freezing resistance of flowers and leaves of alpine herbaceous species?	3
Effects of small-herbivore disturbance on the clonal growth of two perennial graminoids in alpine meadows	3
Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen diversity in dry grasslands of the Swiss inneralpine valleys	3
Two decades of climate change alters seed longevity in an alpine herb: implications for ex situ seed conservation	3