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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Temporal and spatial variation in the direct and indirect effects of climate on reproduction in alpine populations of Ranunculus acris L	35
Afro-alpine flagships revisited II: elucidating the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries in the giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae)	24
Aboveground-trait variations in 11 (sub)alpine plants along a 1000-m elevation gradient in tropical Mexico	23
Different growth response of mountain rangeland habitats to inter-annual weather fluctuations	19
Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline	19
Pollination-associated shortening of the functional flower lifespan in an alpine species of Alstroemeria and the water content of flowers	17
Plant evolutionary ecology in mountain regions in space and time	14
Positive and negative plant−plant interactions influence seedling establishment at both high and low elevations	12
Evolutionary origins and species delineation of the two Pyrenean endemics Campanula jaubertiana and C. andorrana (Campanulaceae): evidence for transverse alpine speciation	11
Microsite preferences of three conifers in calcareous and siliceous treeline ecotones in the French alps	9
Adaptive evolutionary divergence of populations persisting in warming cold-stage refugia: candidate examples from the periphery of the European Alps	9
Clonality and genetic structure of an endangered aquatic plant, Typha minima, in the French Alps: consequences for conservation	8
Genetic underpinning of historical afforestation with allochthonous Pinus cembra in the northwestern Swiss Alps	8
The uneven distribution of refugial endemics across the European Alps suggests a threefold role of climate in speciation of refugial populations	8
Introgression of an isolated Primula lineage suggests the existence of a glacial refugium in the Écrins range (Southwestern French Alps)	8
Implementing spatial analyses to measure angiosperm biodiversity from the high-altitude grasslands of the Atlantic forest	7
Mesoscale refugia for European alpine grasslands based on climatic envelopes	7
Contrasting patterns of phylogenetic diversity and alpine specialization across the alpine flora of the American mountain range system	7
Bryophyte responses to experimental climate change in a mid-latitude forest-line ecotone	6
Comparative phylogeography of Acanthocalyx (Caprifoliaceae) reveals distinct genetic structures in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains	6
A study of páramo plant-pollinator interactions on the sky islands of Colombia: specialization, modularity, and species roles	5
Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling	5
Correction: Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows	5
The impacts of interannual climate variation on pollination network structure of a sub-alpine meadow: from 2008 to 2021	5
Early snowmelt advances flowering phenology and disrupts the drivers of pollinator visitation in an alpine ecosystem	4

Effects of nurse shrubs on symbioses between soil fungi and associated plants along a tropical alpine elevation gradient	4
Floral and pollinator functional diversity mediate network structure along an elevational gradient	4
Phylogeny and phenotypic adjustments drive functional traits in Rhododendron across elevations in its diversity hot-spot in W-China	4
Festuca apennina × F. pratensis triploid hybrids exceed their parents in adaptation to broad-environmental conditions	3
Alpine plant communities differ in their seed germination requirements along a snowmelt gradient in the Caucasus	3
Effects of climate change on plant-pollinator interactions and its multitrophic consequences	3
Intensity, frequency and rate of insect herbivory for an alpine Rhododendron shrub: elevational patterns and leaf-age effects	3
Pollen dispersal distance is determined by phenology and ancillary traits but not floral gender in an andromonoecious, fly-pollinated alpine herb	3
Glacier retreat triggers changes in biodiversity and plant–pollinator interaction diversity	3
Dieback of the cushion plant Silene acaulis at its southern limit of distribution in the Apennines	3
Plant diversity and composition vary with elevation on two equatorial high mountains in Uganda: baselines for assessing the influence of climate change	3
Endemics determine bioregionalization in the alpine zone of the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot (South-West Asia)	3
High-mountain phylogeography in the Balkan Peninsula: isolation pattern in a species of alpine siliceous grasslands and its possible background	3