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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in plant diversity in a water-limited and isolated high-mountain range (Sierra Nevada, Spain)	29
Mountain definitions and their consequences	28
Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought	22
History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg	21
Plant speciation in the face of recurrent climate changes in the Alps	17
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	15
Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880	14
A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains	14
Phenology determines leaf functional traits across Rhododendron species in the Sikkim Himalaya	12
Novel plant communities after glacial retreat in Colombia: (many) losses and (few) gains	12
Effects of drainage reorganization on phytogeographic pattern in Sino-Himalaya	11
Patterns of floral allocation along an elevation gradient: variation in Senecio subalpinus growing in the Tatra Mountains	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	10
Pollinator sharing among co-flowering plants mediates patterns of pollen transfer	9
Competition-free gaps are essential for the germination and recruitment of alpine species along an elevation gradient in the European Alps	9
Chronic in situ tissue cooling does not reduce lignification at the Swiss treeline but enhances the risk of ‘blue’ frost rings	8
Resident vegetation modifies climate-driven elevational shift of a mountain sedge	7
Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling	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	7
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	7
Endemics determine bioregionalization in the alpine zone of the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot (South-West Asia)	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
Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic diversity and alpine specialization across the alpine flora of the American mountain range system	6
Comparative phylogeography of Acanthocalyx (Caprifoliaceae) reveals distinct genetic structures in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains	6

Intensity, frequency and rate of insect herbivory for an alpine Rhododendron shrub: elevational patterns and leaf-age effects	5
Dieback of the cushion plant Silene acaulis at its southern limit of distribution in the Apennines	5
Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen diversity in dry grasslands of the Swiss inneralpine valleys	5
Center of origin and evolutionary history in the high Andean genus Oritrophium (Astereae, Asteraceae)	5
Alpine plant communities differ in their seed germination requirements along a snowmelt gradient in the Caucasus	4
Surviving in southern refugia: the case of Veronica aragonensis, a rare endemic from the Iberian Peninsula	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
Evolutionary origins and species delineation of the two Pyrenean endemics Campanula jaubertiana and C. andorrana (Campanulaceae): evidence for transverse alpine speciation	4
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	4
Decoupling the effects of parental and offspring warming on seed and seedling traits	3
Two decades of climate change alters seed longevity in an alpine herb: implications for ex situ seed conservation	3
Elevational variation of the seasonal dynamic of carbohydrate reserves in an alpine plant of Mediterranean mountains	3
Molecular evidence and environmental niche evolution at the origin of the disjunct distribution in three mountain endemic Tephroseris (Asteraceae) of the Mediterranean basin	3
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	3
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	3