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Behind the Paper posts

• To graze or not to graze? Historical management of hay meadows in the Carpathian Mountains (6/17/2023)
• Should we sample vegetation following statistical rules or botanists’ experience? Possibly both! (2/21/2023)
• The power of seeds: the resilience of a restored plant community to fire (2/14/2023)
• EIVE 1.0 – The largest system of ecological indicator values in Europe is now available (1/21/2023)
• AgriWeedClim database – a new collection of data for the study of arable habitats (11/21/2022)
• Focussed on bryophyte assemblages (5/26/2022)
• The merits of studying oceanic island floras in a team of early career researchers (3/28/2022)
• Translating a semi-supervised classification into a hierarchical expert system: Navarran grasslands demonstrate a way forward in classification approaches (3/5/2022)
• What’s up, vegetation science? Thinking about the future challenges and opportunities for vegetation science from the perspective of early-career researchers (2/11/2022)
• Range of variation in wetland vegetation on a subcontinental scale in Southern Africa (2/9/2022)
• Syntaxonomy of steppe depression vegetation of Ukraine (12/13/2021)
• Traditional cattle grazing can maintain functional diversity of oriental beech forests (8/7/2021)
• GrassPlot marathon: the long way towards the first benchmarks of plant species richness of Palaearctic grasslands (8/4/2021)
• New insights into small-scale species-area relationships and beta diversity due to the GrassPlot database (7/7/2021)
• ausplotsR: A new R package to download and analyse vegetation and soil data collected by Australia’s most comprehensive ecosystem monitoring program (6/22/2021)
• A big data approach for detecting macroscale vegetation patterns (5/28/2021)
• Monitoring a riverside forest with students and community scientists (4/19/2021)
• An introduction to human impact indicators (3/21/2021)
• Broad-scale classification of Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation relies on forest structure for high ranks (2/17/2021)
• How does the Kalahari vegetation response to seasonal climate and herbivory? (11/4/2020)
• The ecological filters in restoration practice (10/19/2020)
• Drivers of biodiversity depend on spatial grain and plant group: new paper from the EDGG Field Workshop to Bulgarian dry grasslands (10/9/2020)
• High diversity in Armenian grasslands: EDGG Field Workshop provides standardized data for the first time (9/4/2020)
• Filling empty boxes with hard data: Scientific background for European habitat classification (EUNIS) (8/21/2020)
• Yunnan Pine forest: types and dynamics (6/11/2020)
• The Glen Finglas Experiment and the slow pace of change in upland communities (6/3/2020)
• Trudging through treefalls (5/11/2020)
• The man who sampled a grassland for 25 years – and his data got eventually published (5/1/2020)
• Studying vascular epiphytes is very hard! (4/26/2020)
• How we found which traits predict pairwise interactions in a mountain grassland (4/22/2020)
• Small is beautiful: grassroots projects feed global data synthesis (3/12/2020)
• Bogged down in the European marsh vegetation classification: a short story of a long project (2/22/2020)
• Delving into “The Corridors of Time”: ancient hedgerows connected to woodlands are living museums of forest biodiversity (2/4/2020)
• Dispersal traits may not tell us what we hope for: the case study from understory of oak-dominated forest (11/28/2019)
• Cut cut cut (11/2/2019)
• From natural forests to urban weeds (4/14/2019)
• This is not a pine: a fieldwork story (10/12/2018)
• In the quest of designing grassland communities resistant to invasions during ecological restoration (10/12/2018)
• The symmetry of competition: a battle crown-to-crown or roots-to-roots? (9/15/2018)
• A virtual tour from the Carpathian Basin to the Far East – an overview and synthesis of Eurasian forest-steppes (8/24/2018)

Plain Language Summaries

• Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales? (8/14/2023)
• Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above- and below-ground biomass (6/30/2023)
• Woody plant encroachment in granite barrens on the Frontenac Arch, eastern Ontario, Canada (6/30/2023)
• Modeling the potential distribution of floristic assemblages of high Andean wetlands dominated by Juncaceae and Cyperaceae in the Argentine Puna (5/6/2023)
• Does above-average rainfall stimulate a recruitment pulse in semi-arid woodlands of southeastern Australia? (2/22/2023)
• Biomass fine-scale variation is predictive of functional composition and diversity in grazed grassland (2/21/2023)
• Differences in population size structures characterize grass response to long-term livestock removal (2/4/2023)
• Climatic definitions of the world’s terrestrial biomes (1/15/2023)
• Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species (1/12/2023)
• Controlling the abundance of a native invasive plant does not affect species richness or functional diversity of wet grasslands (10/13/2022)
• Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context-dependent but does not affect ecological inference (9/30/2022)
• Increasing abundance of an invasive C4 grass is associated with larger community changes away than at home (9/8/2022)
• Are historical land use patterns and chemical soil characteristics complementary for assessing the restoration potential of Nardus grassland? (9/3/2022)
• Degradation influences equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics in rangelands: implications in resilience and stability (9/3/2022)
• Short-term effects of experimental goose grazing and warming differ in three low-Arctic coastal wetland plant communities (9/3/2022)
• Functional traits and propagule pressure explain changes in the distribution and demography of non-native trees in Spain (5/26/2022)
• Coping with changing plant-plant interactions in restoration ecology: Effect of species, site, and individual variation (3/29/2022)
• Secondary succession on landslides in submontane forests of central Taiwan: Environmental drivers and restoration strategies (3/3/2022)
• Spatial patterns in neighbourhood effects on woody plant selection and bark stripping by deer in a lowland alluvial forest (2/22/2022)
• Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types (1/24/2022)
• Testing collection-time reduction in fine-root biomass estimation in Atlantic Forests (1/20/2022)
• Mixed evidence for the small island effect in a replicated colonisation experiment (12/23/2021)
• Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient (12/18/2021)
• Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands (12/14/2021)
• Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understory vegetation of temperate forests (11/13/2021)
• Tree invasion in secondary grasslands diminishes herbaceous biomass and diversity: A study of mechanisms behind the process (11/13/2021)
• Fire-triggered flowering is the dominant post-fire strategy in a tropical savanna (11/13/2021)
• Frost-driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics (10/13/2021)
• A rapid method to quantify small-scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys (10/6/2021)
• Beyond species richness and community composition: using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest (8/22/2021)
• Enjoying tranquility – Development of ground vegetation after cessation of management in forests on loamy soils in Flanders (Belgium) (7/13/2021)
• Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland (6/23/2021)
• Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran (6/23/2021)
• Predictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt) (6/20/2021)
• Together we stand, divided we fall: Effects of livestock grazing on vegetation patches in a desert community (5/29/2021)
• Mowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species (5/6/2021)
• Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation (5/6/2021)
• Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions (4/30/2021)
• Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands (4/21/2021)
• Floristic patterns of the neotropical forests, savannas and scrublands with Trithrinax campestris (Arecaceae) in central Argentina (4/19/2021)
• Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine-learning algorithms (4/19/2021)
• Neophyte invasions in European grasslands (4/10/2021)
• Plant functional traits involved in the assembly of canopy-recruit interactions (3/27/2021)
• The biogeography of alien plant invasions in the Mediterranean Basin (3/26/2021)
• Syntaxonomy and biogeography of the Irano-Turanian mires and springs (3/24/2021)
• Unmanned aerial systems‐based monitoring of the eco‐geomorphology of coastal dunes through spectral Rao’s Q (3/17/2021)
• A invasão por Acacia é facilitada pela permeabilidade da paisagem: O papel da degradação de habitat e da rede rodoviária (3/7/2021)
• Acacia invasion is facilitated by landscape permeability: The role of habitat degradation and road networks (3/7/2021)
• Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co-occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value (2/14/2021)
• SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests (1/25/2021)
• Plant communities, populations and individuals have distinct responses to short-term warming and neighbour biomass removal in two montane grasslands (1/24/2021)
• Heterogeneity decreases as time since fire increases in a South American grassland (1/8/2021)
• Could the environment limit dispersal between Sunda and Sahul? (12/23/2020)
• Long-term exclosure of sheep-grazing from an ancient wood: vegetation change after a sixty-year experiment (12/7/2020)
• Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland: Report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop (11/12/2020)
• Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls (10/29/2020)
• Environmental variables driving species composition in Subarctic springs in the face of climate change (10/20/2020)
• Why we still need permanent plots for vegetation science (10/18/2020)
• Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago (10/9/2020)
• Patch-level facilitation fosters high-Andean plant diversity at regional scales (10/5/2020)
• Reed bed vegetation structure and plant species diversity depend on management type and the time period since last management (9/21/2020)
• Long-term vegetation changes in Nardus grasslands indicate eutrophication, recovery from acidification, and management change as the main drivers (8/24/2020)
• Human-mediated dispersal as a driver of vegetation dynamics: A conceptual synthesis (7/22/2020)
• Using species abundance and phylogeny conjointly to approach vegetation classification. A case-study on Macaronesia’s woody vegetation (7/20/2020)
• The germination niche of coastal dune species as related to their occurrence along a sea-inland gradient (7/13/2020)
• Integrating knowledge of ecological succession into invasive alien plant management: A case study from Portugal (7/12/2020)
• The impact of seed deficiency on productivity and on negative drought effect in semi-natural grassland (7/12/2020)
• Plant dispersal strategies in primary succession on the Tolbachinsky Dol volcanic Plateau (Russia) (7/12/2020)
• Effects of white-tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem (6/27/2020)
• Grazing by wild red deer maintains characteristic vegetation of semi-natural open habitats: Evidence from a three-year exclusion experiment (6/26/2020)
• A new vegetation-plot database for the coastal forests of Kenya (6/25/2020)
• The perspective of unmanned aerial systems in forest management: Do we really need such details? (6/23/2020)
• Press-pulse interactions and long-term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland (6/23/2020)
• Fine-grained sediment deposition alters the response of plant CSR strategies on the gravel bars of a highly regulated river (6/22/2020)
• Small biodiversity effects on leaf litter production of a seasonal heath vegetation (6/15/2020)
• Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species-specific (5/29/2020)
• High resistance of plant biodiversity to moderate native woody encroachment in loess steppe grassland fragments (5/5/2020)
• The lowland seasonally dry subtropical forests in central Argentina: vegetation types and a call for conservation (5/4/2020)
• Plant communities and their environmental drivers on an arid mountain, Gebel Elba, Egypt (5/4/2020)
• Environment and evolutionary history depict phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in the Atlantic coastal white‐sand woodlands (4/29/2020)
• Reindeer trampling promotes vegetation changes in tundra heathlands: results from a simulation experiment (4/17/2020)
• Where does the forest come back from? Soil and litter seed banks and the juvenile bank as sources of vegetation resilience in a semiarid Neotropical forest (3/3/2020)
• Epiphyll specialization for leaf and forest successional stages in a tropical lowland rainforest (2/28/2020)
• Establishment dynamics of native and exotic plants after disturbance along roadsides (2/18/2020)
• Trait‐based numerical classification of mesic and wet grasslands in Poland (2/14/2020)
• Trade-offs between fire hazard reduction and conservation in a Natura 2000 shrub–grassland mosaic (2/10/2020)
• Spatial patterns of tree recruitment in a montane Hawaiian wet forest after cattle removal and pig population control (1/31/2020)
• Trait divergence of woody species in relation to affinity for termite mounds in Upper Katanga (DR Congo) (1/30/2020)
• Seed production and dispersal limit treeline advance in the Pyrenees (1/29/2020)
• Not in the eye of the beholder: climate change effects on alpine plant communities (1/25/2020)
• Plant indicators for Folic Histosols in mountain forests of the Calcareous Alps (1/21/2020)
• Classification of the Hyrcanian forest vegetation, northern Iran (1/19/2020)
• Ready for change: seed traits contribute to the high adaptability of mudflat species to their unpredictable habitat (12/6/2019)
• Diversity of functional trade-offs enhances survival after fire in Neotropical savanna species (10/9/2019)
• Bryophyte and macrolichen diversity show contrasting elevation relationships and are negatively affected by disturbances in laurel forests of Madeira island (9/7/2019)
• Unifying facilitation and recruitment networks (9/5/2019)
• Diverging shifts in spring phenology in response to biodiversity loss in a subtropical forest (8/24/2019)
• Pollination and dispersal trait spectra recover faster than growth form spectrum during the spontaneous succession in sandy old-fields (8/9/2019)
• Alien plants alter the growth form ratio and structure of Australian grasslands (7/26/2019)
• Hedgerow age affects the species richness of herbaceous forest plants (5/22/2019)

Commentaries, Linking elsewhere etc.

• Species richness of plant communities: the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer? (9/3/2022)
• What is happening to Mediterranean coastal dunes? (2/2/2022)
• Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages (10/13/2021)
• Survey shows little support for AVS going Gold Open Access (11/14/2020)
• To go open access or not to go? (11/14/2020)
• Statement of the IAVS Latin American and African sections on the possible adoption of article processing charges of IAVS journals (11/14/2020)
• JVS/AVS Chief Editors’ opinion on Open Access (11/14/2020)
• Savannah trees buffer herbaceous plant biomass against wild and domestic herbivores (1/17/2020)
• Book review: Metacommunity Ecology by Leibold & Chase (2018) – linking biogeography with community ecology (12/15/2018)
• Rules of thumb for predicting tropical forest recovery (9/1/2018)

Editorial News

• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the second quarter of 2023 (8/25/2023)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 57 is published (8/14/2023)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the first quarter of 2023 (4/16/2023)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 56 is published (3/15/2023)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) completed its third volume (1/21/2023)
• The benefits of publishing in society-owned scientific journals (1/21/2023)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 54-55 is published (1/15/2023)
• VCS is looking for new members of the Editorial Board (1/15/2023)
• VCS: new members of the Editorial Board (1/15/2023)
• VCS: Important news (1/15/2023)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) 2022/I to 2022/III (1/15/2023)
• JVS and AVS Editors’ Awards for 2022 (1/11/2023)
• Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2023 cover pictures (12/29/2022)
• New Editorial Board members of JVS and AVS (12/13/2022)
• Call for Abstracts: Journal of Vegetation Science Special Issue “Plant community responses to climate change” (9/14/2022)
• Remote Sensing for Vegetation Science – a new Special Issue in AVS (9/5/2022)
• JVS and AVS are looking for new members of the Editorial Review Boards (9/3/2022)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 53 is published (8/14/2022)
• Virtual Special Issue: Macroecology of vegetation (3/9/2022)
• Viktoria Wagner becomes a new Chief Editor of JVS/AVS (3/5/2022)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 52 is published, dedicated to Ukraine and its people (3/3/2022)
• VCS now included in Scopus (2/22/2022)
• Call for papers: special issue on grazing effects in Applied Vegetation Science (1/27/2022)
• VCS: new editors and other news in 2022 (1/24/2022)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the fourth quarter of 2021 (1/19/2022)
• New Special Collection on “Neotropical vegetation” launched by VCS (1/19/2022)
• VCS: volume No. 2 completed (1/18/2022)
• VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz (1/18/2022)
• Results of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2022 cover pictures (1/9/2022)
• JVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2021 (1/6/2022)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 51 is published (12/20/2021)
• New Editors of JVS and AVS (11/15/2021)
• New Special Collection on “Grasslands of Asia” launched by VCS (11/13/2021)
• New Special Collection on “African vegetation studies” launched by VCS (11/13/2021)
• JVS/AVS Photo Competition (11/2/2021)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the third quarter of 2021 (10/17/2021)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 50 is published (9/2/2021)
• JVS Editors’ Choice: Beyns et al. 2021 (8/31/2021)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the second quarter of 2021 (8/5/2021)
• Virtual Special Issue “Historical Vegetation Ecology” (6/25/2021)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 49 is published (6/22/2021)
• Jodi Price becoming a new Chief Editor of JVS and AVS (5/5/2021)
• Eddy van der Maarel (1934-2021) (4/13/2021)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the first quarter of 2021 (4/11/2021)
• Highlighting the importance of dispersal and establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience (3/21/2021)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 48 is published (3/5/2021)
• Successful first year of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) (3/1/2021)
• Results of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures (1/10/2021)
• JVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2020 (1/8/2021)
• The last printed issue of the IAVS journals (12/9/2020)
• Editorial: About the possibility of Applied Vegetation Science going Gold Open Access (11/14/2020)
• Photo Competition: JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures (11/13/2020)
• JVS 2020/6 contains Special Feature “Dispersal and Establishment” (11/9/2020)
• Palaearctic Grasslands 47 is published (11/8/2020)
• Special Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science” in JVS 2020/5 (9/28/2020)
• Vegsciblog is two years old! (9/25/2020)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is inviting proposals for a Special Collection of papers on the ‘International Vegetation Classification’ (9/21/2020)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): publish without fees (7/27/2020)
• Palaearctic Grasslands now also on Vegetation Science Blog (7/21/2020)
• The second Newsletter of the Vegetation Classification and Survey is out! (7/6/2020)
• The new issue 2020/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (6/29/2020)
• The new issue 2020/3 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (6/29/2020)
• Methods in Vegetation Science – a new article type and a new article collection in JVS and AVS (6/19/2020)
• Two new sections of the IAVS Bulletin: Invitation to contribute (6/6/2020)
• [Deadline extended to July 31, 2020] Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is inviting proposals for a Special Collection on “Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic” (5/26/2020)
• VCS now with an attractive cover (5/23/2020)
• The new issue 2020/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (5/10/2020)
• First articles of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) are online (5/4/2020)
• JVS/AVS launched Spotlights: online collections with free-access papers (4/3/2020)
• The new issue 2020/2 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (4/2/2020)
• Call for papers: the Journal of Vegetation Science invites contributions to a Special Issue “Macroecology of vegetation” (3/27/2020)
• The new issue 2020/2 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (3/13/2020)
• We renamed our blog into Vegetation Science Blog: Official blog of the IAVS journals, newly hosted at vegsciblog.org (3/1/2020)
• Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the new IAVS journal (2/26/2020)
• The new issue 2020/1 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (1/27/2020)
• The new issue 2020/1 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (1/19/2020)
• IAVS Editors’ Awards for 2019 (12/18/2019)
• The new issue 2019/4 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (11/7/2019)
• New Editors and Editorial Board members (11/6/2019)
• The new issue 2019/6 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (11/1/2019)
• The new issue 2019/5 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (9/28/2019)
• Celebrating the first anniversary of our JVS-AVS blog (8/23/2019)
• New Associate Editors of AVS (8/6/2019)
• JVS-AVS Editorial Meeting in Bremen, Germany (8/6/2019)
• The new issue 2019/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (7/2/2019)
• The new issue 2019/3 of Applied of Vegetation Science is out (6/30/2019)
• The new issue 2019/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (6/9/2019)
• The new issue 2019/2 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (5/11/2019)
• The new issue 2019/2 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (4/10/2019)
• The new issue 2019/1 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (2/28/2019)
• Journal of Vegetation Science starts Volume 30! (2/28/2019)
• IAVS Editors’ Awards for 2018 (1/6/2019)
• The new issue 2018/6 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (12/29/2018)
• JVS and AVS are official partners of Publons (12/16/2018)
• Planned Special Feature of JVS: Dispersal and establishment as drivers of vegetation dynamics and resilience (12/7/2018)
• Young Scientists of the IAVS present their studies (11/23/2018)
• The new issue 2018/4 of Applied Vegetation Science is out (11/14/2018)
• The new issue 2018/5 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (10/24/2018)
• A new Associate Editor of AVS (10/9/2018)
• The new issue 2018/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out (9/3/2018)