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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Fertiliser application modulates the impact of interannual climate fluctuations and plant-to-plant interactions on the dynamics of annual species in a Mediterranean grassland	38
Patch size changes the composition of flower visitors and influences pollen flow	30
Forest species diversity and community composition in the northern Western Ghats, India	27
Disturbance and biomass removal enhance population reinforcement of a plant species of European conservation concern	20
Changes in climate, grazing pressure and nutrient inputs affect the structural integrity and functioning of Andean shrublands	18
Constraints, crashes and conservation: were historical African savanna elephantsLoxodonta africanadensities relatively high or lower than those seen in protected areas today?	12
Determinants of above-ground carbon stocks and productivity in secondary forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes	7
Biotic and abiotic drivers of seedling density in Polylepis rugulosa forests across east- and west-facing slopes in the Peruvian Andes	6
Evaluation of biomass, carbon storage capability, tree-ring and cork-ring growth of Quercus suber : a review	5
Thermal tolerance and growth responses to in situ soil water reductions among alpine plants	5
The invasive Tradescantia zebrina does not inhibit germination of the native Hymenaea courbaril but does modulate its growth	4
Plant affinity to extreme soils and foliar sulphur mediate species-specific responses to sheep grazing in gypsum systems	4
Rethinking the relationship between desiccation-tolerant vascular plants and water deficit	3
Multiple global change factors cause declines of a temperate bryophyte	3
Geographic distance and environmental variation drive community structure of woody plants in Neotropical seasonally dry forest fragments in the Colombian Caribbean	3
Composition, diversity and structure of woody vegetation along a disturbance gradient in the forest corridor of the Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso	3
Edaphic ecotypic divergence in Senecio vulgaris and the evolutionary potential of predominantly self-fertilising species	3
Turnover and change in the street flora of Cambridge, UK	3
Introduction to special issue: the ecology and evolution of plants in extreme environments	2
Genetic diversity and population structure of Salix alba across river systems in Turkey and their importance in conservation management	2
Plant speciation in the Namib Desert: potential origin of a widespread derivative species from a narrow endemic	2
The deceptive pollination of Anacamptis morio : generalised food deception or an initial step towards adaptive mimicry?	2
Birds and ants can favour the germination of an endemic Neotropical magnolia	2
Epipelic diatom diversity as a bioindicator in River Aturukuku, Eastern Uganda	2
Changes in rainfall amount and seasonality modulate taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in a gypsophilous plant community in the Chihuahuan Desert	2

Integrating morphology, niche modelling, and molecular data to disentangle taxonomic challenges in a species complex of Calibrachoa (Solanaceae)	2
Environmental heterogeneity compensates the potential homogenising effect of abandonment of grazing in a sub-Mediterranean mountain landscape	2
Species persistence and climatic stability have shaped plant communities of the Atlantic forest biodiversity hotspot	2
Ecology and management of invasive plants in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions: evidence and synthesis from Macquarie Island	2
Habitat preference and vulnerability to drought of three Hypericum species of the páramo	2
Simulated precipitation change drives plant diversity and biomass change in the desert steppe	2
Performance of pollinators of the tropical bromeliad Tillandsia stricta Sol. (Bromeliaceae) in the Atlantic forest, Rio de Janeiro	2
Interactive effects of rhizobia mutualism and herbivory on Vicia faba	2
Insight into the assembly process of angiosperms and arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi in tropical wetland ecosystems	2
Improved photosynthesis by leaf nutrient content enhances water use efficiency in Juniperus tibetica along elevation gradients above 4000 m a.s.l.	2
A test of the fast–slow plant economy hypothesis in a subtropical rain forest	1
Ecology ofNepenthes clipeataon Gunung Kelam, Indonesian Borneo	1
Out of the shadows: ecology of open ecosystems	1
South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management	1
Calluna vulgaris volatile emissions suggest varying anti-herbivore defence strategies with plant ontogeny	1
Floral signals of the dimorphic oil-producing Byrsonima sericea (Malpighiaceae): is the eglandular morph deceptive?	1
Influence of distance from conspecific and heterospecific co-flowering plants on pollination and fecundity in the nectarless orchid Dactylorhiza sambucina	1
Ecological and evolutionary distances from neighbouring plants do not influence leaf herbivory by chewing insects in a Neotropical savanna	1
Experimental warming outside the growing season and exclusion of grazing has a mild effect on upland grassland plant communities in the short term	1
Occurrence of preanthesis cleistogamy in Richardia brasiliensis suggests it may be more common in Rubiaceae than realised	1
Relict lineages with extreme ecology and physiology: metal hyperaccumulation on ultramafic substrates in New Caledonian Alseuosmineae (Asterales)	1
Effects of plant interactions on the populations of the endangeredFagus pashanica	1
Topography drives tree–habitat association and functional and phylogenetic structure in the northernmost tropical dry forest of the Americas	1