OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Plant Ecology & Diversity 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Plant speciation in the Quaternary	38
Out of the shadows: ecology of open ecosystems	30
The drought‒dieback‒death conundrum in trees and forests	27
Scarce fire activity in north and north-western Amazonian forests during the last 10,000 years	20
The relevance of the concept of potential natural vegetation in the Anthropocene	18
Minimum temperature drives community leaf trait variation in secondary montane forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the tropical Andes	12
Specific leaf area is lower on ultramafic than on neighbouring non-ultramafic soils	7
Seed fungal endophytes promote the establishment of invasive Poa annua in maritime Antarctica	6
Ecology ofNepenthes clipeataon Gunung Kelam, Indonesian Borneo	5
South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management	5
Thermal tolerance and growth responses to in situ soil water reductions among alpine plants	4
Patch size changes the composition of flower visitors and influences pollen flow	4
Spatial heterogeneity of plant community composition and diversity on phytogenic mounds caused by water erosion	4
Plant reproductive phenology along an elevation gradient in the extreme environment of the Canadian High Arctic	3
Arable wildflowers have potential as living mulches for sustainable agriculture	3
Environmental heterogeneity compensates the potential homogenising effect of abandonment of grazing in a sub-Mediterranean mountain landscape	3
Factors that determine the occurrence of native and introducedSpergulariaspecies in Mediterranean coastal ecosystems	3
Expanding the wood anatomy economics spectrum: the correlates of vessel element lengths and pit apertures sizes in tropical forest trees	3
Interactive disturbances drive community composition, heterogeneity, and the niches of invasive exotic plant species during secondary succession	3
White bark in birch species as a warning signal for bark-stripping mammals	3
The presence of a foreign microbial community promotes plant growth and reduces filtering of root fungi in the arctic-alpine plant Silene acaulis	3
Intra-and interannual climate variability drives the radial growth of Pinus wallichiana in the Nepalese Himalayas	2
Topography drives tree–habitat association and functional and phylogenetic structure in the northernmost tropical dry forest of the Americas	2
Ecology and management of invasive plants in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions: evidence and synthesis from Macquarie Island	2
Effect of environmental factors on size and fecundity of field populations ofImpatiens glandulifera	2

Geographic distance and environmental variation drive community structure of woody plants in Neotropical seasonally dry forest fragments in the Colombian Caribbean	2
Changes in climate, grazing pressure and nutrient inputs affect the structural integrity and functioning of Andean shrublands	2
Inter-annual climatic variability modulates biotic interactions on early Nothofagus pumilio community development	2
Flowering segregation and pollinator distinctiveness contribute to coexistence in an extremely generalist plant group	2
Effects of plant interactions on the populations of the endangeredFagus pashanica	2
Epipelic diatom diversity as a bioindicator in River Aturukuku, Eastern Uganda	2
Genetic diversity and population structure of Salix alba across river systems in Turkey and their importance in conservation management	2
Plant affinity to extreme soils and foliar sulphur mediate species-specific responses to sheep grazing in gypsum systems	2
Determinants of above-ground carbon stocks and productivity in secondary forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes	2
Modelling the future distribution of rare bryophytes in Scotland: the importance of the inclusion of habitat loss	2
Anatomy and growth of the epiphytic cactus Epiphyllum phyllanthus under different radiation conditions	2
Improved photosynthesis by leaf nutrient content enhances water use efficiency in Juniperus tibetica along elevation gradients above 4000 m a.s.l.	2
Plant speciation in the Namib Desert: potential origin of a widespread derivative species from a narrow endemic	2
Simulated precipitation change drives plant diversity and biomass change in the desert steppe	2
Disturbance and biomass removal enhance population reinforcement of a plant species of European conservation concern	2