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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
An update of the Verbenaceae genera and species numbers	14
Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes	11
Ecological niche overlap among species of the genus Zaluzania (Asteraceae) from the dry regions of Mexico	10
New insights on Bjerkandera (Phanerochaetaceae, Polyporales) in the Neotropics with description of Bjerkandera albocinerea based on morphological and molecular evidence	8
Combining the small South American genus Androtrichum into Cyperus (Cyperaceae)	7
Natural intraspecific trait variation patterns of the wild soursop Annona senegalensis (Annonaceae) along a climatic gradient in Benin, West Africa	7
Cordia subcordata (Boraginaceae), a distylous species on oceanic coral islands, is self-compatible and pollinated by a passerine bird	6
Further new species and records from the coastal dry forests and woodlands of the Rovuma Centre of Endemism	6
An update of the Verbenaceae genera and species numbers	6
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	6
Novelties in Lepidaploinae (Asteraceae, Vernonieae) from the easternmost campos rupestres of Minas Gerais, Brazil: two new species and a range expansion	6
Unusual massive phytoplankton bloom in the oligotrophic Lake Tanganyika	5
Un nouveau Cynorkis (Orchidaceae) pour la flore des Mascareignes	5
Diversity and habitat preferences of benthic diatoms from South Bay (Livingston Island, Antarctica)	5
Barking up the wrong tree: the dangers of taxonomic misidentification in molecular phylogenetic studies	5
Shrubland biomass and root-shoot allocation along a climate gradient in China	4
Phylogeny of the Neotropical element of the Randia clade (Gardenieae, Rubiaceae, Gentianales)	4
Population genetic structure and management perspectives for Armeria belgenciencis, a narrow endemic plant from Provence (France)	4
Shared pollinators and sequential flowering phenologies in two sympatric cactus species	4
Seasonality drives herbaceous community beta diversity in lithologically different rocky outcrops in Brazil	4
Poor fruit set due to lack of pollinators in Aristolochia manshuriensis (Aristolochiaceae)	4
Impatiens smetsiana, another example of convergent evolution of flower morphology in Impatiens	3
A new species of Drypetes (Putranjivaceae) discovered by J. Léonard in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
A matter of warts: a taxonomic treatment for Drypetes verrucosa (Putranjivaceae, Malpighiales) and a new cauliflorous species from Cameroon and Nigeria, D. stevartii	3
Conservation of genetic diversity in Mediterranean endemic species: Arenaria balearica (Caryophyllaceae)	3

Flora and fire in an old-growth Central African forest-savanna mosaic: a checklist of the Parc National des Plateaux Batéké (Gabon)	3
Morphometric analysis provides evidence for two traditionally defined species of the Tillandsia erubescens complex (Bromeliaceae)	3
30-year cone production dynamics in Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica) in the southern boreal zone: a causal interpretation	3
Different ways to obtain similar results: the development of the corolla and epipetaly in Rubieae (Rubioideae, Rubiaceae)	3
Is chiropterophily an evolutionary dead end? A phylogenetic test in the pantropical genus Parkia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade)	3
Checklist of the native tree flora of Algeria: diversity, distribution, and conservation	3
Mollinedia ruschii (Monimiaceae, Mollinedioideae), a new Critically Endangered species microendemic to the Atlantic rainforest, eastern Brazil	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
An experimental investigation of costs of tolerance against leaf and floral herbivory in the herbaceous weed horsenettle (Solanum carolinense, Solanaceae)	3
Conservation status revision and communities’ perceptions of 22 Aloe species in Tanzania	2
The phytogeography of moist forests across Eastern Zimbabwe	2
The Italian endemic forest plants: an annotated inventory and synthesis of knowledge	2
Patterns in the alien flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a comparison of Asteraceae and Fabaceae	2
The structure of Leguminosae-Detarioideae dominant rain forest in Korup National Park, Cameroon	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
A striking new species of Rhipidocladum (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae: Arthrostylidiinae) with single, terminal-spikelet synflorescences, endemic to Jalisco, Mexico	2
An assessment of Coutaportla (Chiococceae, Rubiaceae) with the description of a new species from Mexico	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
Effects of heathland management on seedling recruitment of common juniper (Juniperus communis)	2
Nuclear ribosomal phylogeny of Brachystegia: new markers for new insights about rain forests and Miombo woodlands evolution	2
Effect of pollinator size on seed set in Lamium album var. barbatum	2
Evolution of pollen grain morphology in Amorimia and allies evidences the importance of palynological apomorphies and homoplasies in Malpighiaceae systematics	1
Monophyly and transoceanic dispersal in the widespread floating club-rush clade, Isolepis subgenus Fluitantes (Cyperaceae)	1
Indications of an Achaea sp. caterpillar outbreak disrupting fruiting of an ectomycorrhizal tropical tree in Central African rainforest	1
A new bluish-leaved Syagrus (Arecaceae) from an overlooked OCBIL in the Espinhaço Range (Brazil)	1
Medicinal Vitex species (Lamiaceae) occupy different niches in Haut-Katanga tropical dry woodlands	1
Phenological patterns of herbaceous Mediterranean plant communities in spring: is there a difference between native and formerly-cultivated grasslands?	1
Englerodendron libassum (Leguminosae-Detarioideae-Amherstieae), a new Critically Endangered tree species from coastal Liberia	1
Genetic diversity and fine-scale spatial genetic structure of the near-threatened Pinus gerardiana in Gardiz, Afghanistan	1
Seed morphology of Hamelieae with emphasis on the Deppea complex (Cinchonoideae, Rubiaceae)	1
Leaf traits of understory woody species in the Congo Basin forests changed over a 60-year period	1
The breeding system of Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Asparagaceae): assessing the role of geitonogamy with captive pollinators	1
Reassessment and typification of Opuntia canterae (Opuntioideae, Cactaceae), an endemic prickly pear cactus of Uruguay	1
Johansenicoccus eremophilus gen. et sp. nov., a novel evolutionary lineage in Chlorophyceae with unusual genomic features	1
Identity of the subalpine–subarctic corticioid fungus Megalocystidium leucoxanthum (Russulales, Basidiomycota) and six related species	1
A latitudinal gradient in herbivore resistance in common sunflower, Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae)	1
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Unravelling the diversity of the lichen genus Porina (Porinaceae) in Mauritius	1
A new and endemic species of Drosera (Droseraceae) from Madagascar	1
Leaf morphospace in Euphorbia tithymaloides (Euphorbiaceae) was likely shaped by evolutionary contingencies rather than climate	1
Assemblages of myxomycetes associated with three different substrates affected by forest wildfires	1
Epiphytic diatoms on herbarium material from the Central Forest phytogeographic region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo	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
An overview of richness and distribution of mosses in Brazil	1
Population expansion and genetic structure in Cephalocereus nizandensis (Cactaceae), a microendemic cactus of rocky outcrops of the Tehuantepec basin, Mexico	1
Taxonomic description and pollination ecology of Cyrtorchis okuensis (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae), a new species endemic to the Cameroon Volcanic Line	1

Further new species and records from the coastal dry forests and woodlands of the Rovuma Centre of Endemism – Erratum	1
Spatial distribution patterns of Afzelia africana (Fabaceae – Detarioideae) in a tropical savanna of Benin: implications for management	1
The fate of Holoregmia, a monospecific genus endemic to the Brazilian Caatinga, under different future climate scenarios	1
Checklist of vascular plants for Wind River Indian Reservation (USA) high-elevation basins: ecological drivers of community assemblages	1
How large-scale geographic factors affect the different dimensions of functional diversity: evidence from the beech forest herb layer (Apennines, Italy)	1
Why fitness impacts of different herbivores may combine nonadditively, and why it matters to the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore communities	1