OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Plant Ecology & Diversity is 1. 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
Changes in climate, grazing pressure and nutrient inputs affect the structural integrity and functioning of Andean shrublands	47
Thermal tolerance and growth responses to in situ soil water reductions among alpine plants	34
Changes in rainfall amount and seasonality modulate taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in a gypsophilous plant community in the Chihuahuan Desert	24
Environmental heterogeneity compensates the potential homogenising effect of abandonment of grazing in a sub-Mediterranean mountain landscape	9
Performance of pollinators of the tropical bromeliad Tillandsia stricta Sol. (Bromeliaceae) in the Atlantic forest, Rio de Janeiro	7
South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management	6
Geographic distance and environmental variation drive community structure of woody plants in Neotropical seasonally dry forest fragments in the Colombian Caribbean	6
Plant affinity to extreme soils and foliar sulphur mediate species-specific responses to sheep grazing in gypsum systems	6
Flowering segregation and pollinator distinctiveness contribute to coexistence in an extremely generalist plant group	5
Seed fungal endophytes promote the establishment of invasive Poa annua in maritime Antarctica	5
Disturbance and biomass removal enhance population reinforcement of a plant species of European conservation concern	5
Fertiliser application modulates the impact of interannual climate fluctuations and plant-to-plant interactions on the dynamics of annual species in a Mediterranean grassland	5
Birds and ants can favour the germination of an endemic Neotropical magnolia	4
Epipelic diatom diversity as a bioindicator in River Aturukuku, Eastern Uganda	4
Species persistence and climatic stability have shaped plant communities of the Atlantic forest biodiversity hotspot	4
Simulated precipitation change drives plant diversity and biomass change in the desert steppe	4
Ecology and management of invasive plants in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions: evidence and synthesis from Macquarie Island	3
Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term	3
Out of the shadows: ecology of open ecosystems	3
Rethinking the relationship between desiccation-tolerant vascular plants and water deficit	3
The relationship between vegetation, plant functional diversity and environment on rock outcrops in the Western Ghats, India	3
Introduction to special issue: the ecology and evolution of plants in extreme environments	3
Influence of distance from conspecific and heterospecific co-flowering plants on pollination and fecundity in the nectarless orchid Dactylorhiza sambucina	3
Differences in plant-dispersal mechanisms between contrasting Brazilian savanna habitats	3
White bark in birch species as a warning signal for bark-stripping mammals	2

Multiple global change factors cause declines of a temperate bryophyte	2
Determinants of above-ground carbon stocks and productivity in secondary forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes	2
Quantifying cardinal temperatures and thermal time for seed germination of Papaver dubium and P. rhoeas	2
Visual function of red staminal filaments in a bee-pollinated plant	2
The invasive Tradescantia zebrina does not inhibit germination of the native Hymenaea courbaril but does modulate its growth	2
Biotic and abiotic drivers of seedling density in Polylepis rugulosa forests across east- and west-facing slopes in the Peruvian Andes	2
Habitat preference and vulnerability to drought of three Hypericum species of the páramo	2
Plant speciation in the Namib Desert: potential origin of a widespread derivative species from a narrow endemic	2
Evaluation of biomass, carbon storage capability, tree-ring and cork-ring growth of Quercus suber : a review	2
Hybrids in Cactaceae: current distribution and potential range of hybrids compared with parental species	2
Modelling the future distribution of rare bryophytes in Scotland: the importance of the inclusion of habitat loss	1
The deceptive pollination of Anacamptis morio : generalised food deception or an initial step towards adaptive mimicry?	1
Structural diversity is a key driver of above-ground biomass in tropical forests	1
Integrating morphology, niche modelling, and molecular data to disentangle taxonomic challenges in a species complex of Calibrachoa (Solanaceae)	1
Turnover and change in the street flora of Cambridge, UK	1
Relationship between plant diversity and community stability and invasibility in the heterogeneous landscape of urban habitats undergoing Solidago canadensis invasion	1
Constraints, crashes and conservation: were historical African savanna elephantsLoxodonta africanadensities relatively high or lower than those seen in protected areas today?	1
Influence of free-floating plant species richness and composition on water quality improvement	1
Ecology ofNepenthes clipeataon Gunung Kelam, Indonesian Borneo	1
Nitrogen addition results inMedicago sativaswitching nitrogen sources	1
Ecohydrological niche segregation among desert shrubs in a gypsum-calcareous formation, north-western Iran	1
Genetic diversity and population structure of Salix alba across river systems in Turkey and their importance in conservation management	1
Edge effect and species richness modulate biomass stocks and change over time in secondary forest fragments in the subtropical Atlantic Forest	1