Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): volume 5 (2024) completed

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editor)

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), IAVS’ gold open access journal, has just completed its fifth annual volume. It comprises 24 articles on 346 pages. All are digitally available at https://vcs.pensoft.net/issue/4767/, but friends of hard copies can also order a high-quality print version via the same webpage.

It is VCS tradition to design the covers of the annual volumes after their completion based on photos from outstanding contributions of that year. For the cover of volume 5, each of the Editors’ Choice articles of the four quarters contributed one enigmatic photo of their study systems on four continents, highlighting the topical and geographic diversity of VCS (from top left to bottom right):

• Broad-leaved savanna in Namibia, referring to the Editors’ Choice article of the second quarter, which also got the Editors’ Award of 2024, by Naftal et al. (2024).
• Evergreen cloud forest in Mexico, referring to the Editors’ Choice article of the third quarter by Gopar-Merino et al. (2024).
• High-elevation wetland in Peru, referring to the Editor’ Choice article of the fourth quarter by Maldonado-Fonkén et al. (2024).
• Spring vegetation in Bulgaria, referring to the Editors’ Choice article of the first quarter by Hájek et al. (2024).

References:

• Gopar-Merino, F., Velazquez, A., González-Pérez, A., del Río, S., Mas, J.F. & Penas, Á. (2024) A coupled cartographic approach between bioclimatology and vegetation formations of Mexico. Vegetation Classification and Survey 5: 153–164. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.120442
• Hájek, H., Peterka, T., Hájková, P., Hinterlang, D., Zechmeister, H. & Chytrý, M. (2024) Proposal (36) to conserve the name Philonotidion seriatae Hinterlang 1992 for the species-poor, bryophyte-dominated, non-calcareous arctic-alpine spring vegetation of Europe. Vegetation Classification and Survey 5: 11–15. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.103154
• Maldonado-Fonkén, M., Chuquillanqui, H., Vildoso, B. & Linares-Palomino, R. (2024) Plant communities of high-Andean bofedal wetlands across a trans-Andean transect in southern Peru. Vegetation Classification and Survey 5: 203–218. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.115726
• Naftal, L., De Cauwer, V. & Strohbach, B.J. (2024) Potential distribution of major plant units under climate change scenarios along an aridity gradient in Namibia. Vegetation Classification and Survey 5: 127–151. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.99050