OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Ecology & Diversity 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
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
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
South American mountain ecosystems and global change – a case study for integrating theory and field observations for land surface modelling and ecosystem management	6
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
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
Simulated precipitation change drives plant diversity and biomass change in the desert steppe	4
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
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
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