OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
An update of the Verbenaceae genera and species numbers	16
Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes	13
Ecological niche overlap among species of the genus Zaluzania (Asteraceae) from the dry regions of Mexico	12
An escape from the Espinhaço Range: a new species of Paepalanthus subg. Xeractis (Eriocaulaceae) from the campos rupestres of Serra do Padre Ângelo, Minas Gerais, Brazil	8
Barking up the wrong tree: the dangers of taxonomic misidentification in molecular phylogenetic studies	8
Natural intraspecific trait variation patterns of the wild soursop Annona senegalensis (Annonaceae) along a climatic gradient in Benin, West Africa	8
Combining the small South American genus Androtrichum into Cyperus (Cyperaceae)	7
An update of the Verbenaceae genera and species numbers	7
Shared pollinators and sequential flowering phenologies in two sympatric cactus species	6
Novelties in Lepidaploinae (Asteraceae, Vernonieae) from the easternmost campos rupestres of Minas Gerais, Brazil: two new species and a range expansion	6
Un nouveau Cynorkis (Orchidaceae) pour la flore des Mascareignes	6
Poor fruit set due to lack of pollinators in Aristolochia manshuriensis (Aristolochiaceae)	6
Further new species and records from the coastal dry forests and woodlands of the Rovuma Centre of Endemism	6
Cordia subcordata (Boraginaceae), a distylous species on oceanic coral islands, is self-compatible and pollinated by a passerine bird	6
An experimental investigation of costs of tolerance against leaf and floral herbivory in the herbaceous weed horsenettle (Solanum carolinense, Solanaceae)	6
Unusual massive phytoplankton bloom in the oligotrophic Lake Tanganyika	5
Diversity and habitat preferences of benthic diatoms from South Bay (Livingston Island, Antarctica)	5
Leaf traits of understory woody species in the Congo Basin forests changed over a 60-year period	5
Phylogeny of the Neotropical element of the Randia clade (Gardenieae, Rubiaceae, Gentianales)	5
Shrubland biomass and root-shoot allocation along a climate gradient in China	5
Checklist of the native tree flora of Algeria: diversity, distribution, and conservation	5
30-year cone production dynamics in Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica) in the southern boreal zone: a causal interpretation	4
The phytogeography of moist forests across Eastern Zimbabwe	4
Morphometric analysis provides evidence for two traditionally defined species of the Tillandsia erubescens complex (Bromeliaceae)	4
Different ways to obtain similar results: the development of the corolla and epipetaly in Rubieae (Rubioideae, Rubiaceae)	4

Impatiens smetsiana, another example of convergent evolution of flower morphology in Impatiens	4
A matter of warts: a taxonomic treatment for Drypetes verrucosa (Putranjivaceae, Malpighiales) and a new cauliflorous species from Cameroon and Nigeria, D. stevartii	4
Nuclear ribosomal phylogeny of Brachystegia: new markers for new insights about rain forests and Miombo woodlands evolution	3
Molecular phylogeny and character-mapping support the synonymy of Cordobia and Gallardoa in Mionandra (Malpighiaceae)	3
Is chiropterophily an evolutionary dead end? A phylogenetic test in the pantropical genus Parkia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade)	3
Conservation of genetic diversity in Mediterranean endemic species: Arenaria balearica (Caryophyllaceae)	3
Patterns in the alien flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a comparison of Asteraceae and Fabaceae	3
Moss-inhabiting diatom communities from Ile Amsterdam (TAAF, southern Indian Ocean)	3
Eremitis clarkiae and E. vinacea (Poaceae, Bambusoideae): two new species of herbaceous bamboos endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil increase the diversity of the genus in this hot	3
Myxomycete diversity in a humid montane forest on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes	3
The Italian endemic forest plants: an annotated inventory and synthesis of knowledge	3
Mollinedia ruschii (Monimiaceae, Mollinedioideae), a new Critically Endangered species microendemic to the Atlantic rainforest, eastern Brazil	3
The structure of Leguminosae-Detarioideae dominant rain forest in Korup National Park, Cameroon	3
A striking new species of Rhipidocladum (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae: Arthrostylidiinae) with single, terminal-spikelet synflorescences, endemic to Jalisco, Mexico	3
The fate of Holoregmia, a monospecific genus endemic to the Brazilian Caatinga, under different future climate scenarios	3
Flora and fire in an old-growth Central African forest-savanna mosaic: a checklist of the Parc National des Plateaux Batéké (Gabon)	3
Floristic and structural distinctness of monodominant Gilbertiodendron dewevrei forest in the western Congo Basin	2
Identity of the subalpine–subarctic corticioid fungus Megalocystidium leucoxanthum (Russulales, Basidiomycota) and six related species	2
An overview of richness and distribution of mosses in Brazil	2
A new bluish-leaved Syagrus (Arecaceae) from an overlooked OCBIL in the Espinhaço Range (Brazil)	2
Englerodendron libassum (Leguminosae-Detarioideae-Amherstieae), a new Critically Endangered tree species from coastal Liberia	2
Leaf morphospace in Euphorbia tithymaloides (Euphorbiaceae) was likely shaped by evolutionary contingencies rather than climate	2
An assessment of Coutaportla (Chiococceae, Rubiaceae) with the description of a new species from Mexico	2
Evolution of pollen grain morphology in Amorimia and allies evidences the importance of palynological apomorphies and homoplasies in Malpighiaceae systematics	2
Conservation status revision and communities’ perceptions of 22 Aloe species in Tanzania	2
Orophea sichaikhanii (Annonaceae), a new species from southern Thailand, with a key to the species of Orophea in Thailand and notes on some species	2
The family Zingiberaceae in Rwanda with description of two new species of Renealmia	2
Assemblages of myxomycetes associated with three different substrates affected by forest wildfires	2
How large-scale geographic factors affect the different dimensions of functional diversity: evidence from the beech forest herb layer (Apennines, Italy)	2
Effect of pollinator size on seed set in Lamium album var. barbatum	2
Moss phyllid morphology varies systematically with substrate slope	2
Increasing knowledge on the diversity of canelas-de-ema in the campo rupestre: two new species of Vellozia (Velloziaceae) from the southern Espinhaço Range, Brazil	2
Phenological patterns of herbaceous Mediterranean plant communities in spring: is there a difference between native and formerly-cultivated grasslands?	2
Seed morphology of Hamelieae with emphasis on the Deppea complex (Cinchonoideae, Rubiaceae)	2
Epiphytic diatoms on herbarium material from the Central Forest phytogeographic region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	2
Why fitness impacts of different herbivores may combine nonadditively, and why it matters to the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore communities	1
Monophyly and transoceanic dispersal in the widespread floating club-rush clade, Isolepis subgenus Fluitantes (Cyperaceae)	1
Reassessment of morphological species delimitations in the Cyperus margaritaceus-niveus complex using morphometrics	1
A new purple-flowered Butia (Arecaceae) from the highlands of the Chapada dos Veadeiros (Brazil)	1
New and little-known species of Englerodendron (Leguminosae-Detarioideae) from Central Africa, with a revised key to the genus	1
Further new species and records from the coastal dry forests and woodlands of the Rovuma Centre of Endemism – Erratum	1
Vivipary, a rare phenomenon in Afrotropical Melastomataceae: first report in Amphiblemma ciliatum (Sonerileae)	1
Genetic diversity and fine-scale spatial genetic structure of the near-threatened Pinus gerardiana in Gardiz, Afghanistan	1
The genera of Cyperaceae of Madagascar	1
Assessing the germinability of coastal Limonium minutum (Plumbaginaceae) under different temperature and salinity conditions: implications for its conservation	1
Johansenicoccus eremophilus gen. et sp. nov., a novel evolutionary lineage in Chlorophyceae with unusual genomic features	1
Chlorohiptage (Tetrapteroids, Malpighiaceae), a distinct new genus endemic to Vietnam based on morphological and molecular data	1
Medicinal Vitex species (Lamiaceae) occupy different niches in Haut-Katanga tropical dry woodlands	1
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Floral ontogeny links Dialypetalanthus (Condamineeae) with the floral developmental morphology of other Rubiaceae	1

The relationships of Eunotogramma frauenfeldii (Bacillariophyta) I. An account of its structure and description of the new genus Moralesonia	1
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The breeding system of Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Asparagaceae): assessing the role of geitonogamy with captive pollinators	1
Population expansion and genetic structure in Cephalocereus nizandensis (Cactaceae), a microendemic cactus of rocky outcrops of the Tehuantepec basin, Mexico	1
Indications of an Achaea sp. caterpillar outbreak disrupting fruiting of an ectomycorrhizal tropical tree in Central African rainforest	1
The vascular plant diversity of Burundi	1
Taxonomic description and pollination ecology of Cyrtorchis okuensis (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae), a new species endemic to the Cameroon Volcanic Line	1
Unravelling the diversity of the lichen genus Porina (Porinaceae) in Mauritius	1
Spatial distribution patterns of Afzelia africana (Fabaceae – Detarioideae) in a tropical savanna of Benin: implications for management	1
Sylvainia, a new monospecific genus within the subtribe Cephalanthinae (Rubiaceae, Naucleeae)	1