Author: Milan Chytry

On the use of taxon names in community ecology

Posted on January 4, 2025January 20, 2025 by Milan Chytry

Vegetation science and community ecology focus on ecosystems composed of multiple species and other taxonomic ranks, such as subspecies. Scientific work in these fields requires accurate identification of these taxa in the field and recording them using standardized scientific names. However, the Editors of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science frequently encounter manuscripts where authors misunderstand taxonomic nomenclature, leading to errors and making articles challenging for readers to follow.…

Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures

Posted on January 1, 2025January 20, 2025 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures are Lucia Čahojová and Markus Neupert. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Kryštof Chytrý, Veradina Nacheva, Denys Vynokurov and Anaclara Guido.

The alpine grassland on Mount Raduha in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps (Slovenia) occurs on limestone with a significant admixture of siliceous minerals, resulting in a species-rich plant community consisting of both acidophilous and basiphilous plants.

JVS and AVS Editors’ Awards for 2024

Posted on December 29, 2024December 29, 2024 by Milan Chytry

The 2024 Editors’ Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science goes to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini.

Siefert, A., D. C. Laughlin, and F. M. Sabatini. 2024. “You shall know a species by the company it keeps: Leveraging co‐occurrence data to improve ecological prediction.”…

Call for Abstracts: Journal of Vegetation Science, Special Issue “Alpine Vegetation and Global Change”

Posted on May 1, 2024February 5, 2025 by Milan Chytry

Guest Editors

Gwendolyn Peyre, Colombia
Jiří Doležal, Czech Republic
Mark Hovenden, Australia
Anke Jentsch, Germany
Susanna Venn, Australia
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Spain

Scope of the Special Issue

The Special Issue aims to address the combined effect of anthropogenic and climatic threats as drivers of vegetation dynamics in a changing world.…

Double-blind review procedure in the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science

Posted on February 13, 2024May 3, 2024 by Milan Chytry

Post prepared by Milan Chytrý, Valério Pillar, Jodi Price and Viktoria Wagner

Charles Fox and colleagues recently published a study that raised concerns about the fairness of the peer-review process in scientific journals (Fox et al., 2023). They conducted an extensive experiment in Functional Ecology, in which each manuscript submitted to this journal was randomly assigned to be reviewed with author identities anonymized vs.…

JVS and AVS Editors’ Awards for 2023

Posted on January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 by Milan Chytry

Left: Gabriel Moulatlet (upper picture in the front) with the senior author of his article, Fabricio Villalobos, in the back. The other co-authors in the bottom line, from left to right: Jesús Pinto-Ledezma, Buntarou Kusumoto, Yasuhiro Kubota and Takayuki Shiono.
Right: Aure Durbecq.

Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2024 cover pictures

Posted on December 27, 2023January 5, 2024 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2024 cover pictures are TJ Watt and Adolf Češka. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Alexandre Pereira, Martin Macek and Maxwell Oliveira.

Epiphytic community of lichens, bryophytes and ferns on the branches of Sitka spruce (*Picea sitchensis*) in the Great Bear Rainforest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada.

New Associate Editors of JVS and AVS

Posted on December 11, 2023December 13, 2023 by Milan Chytry

We are pleased to announce that new Associate Editors joined our journals:

Journal of Vegetation Science

Arshad Ali, Hebei University, Baoding, China
Josep Padullés Cubino, Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Eric Lamb, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Sergey Rosbakh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Julian Schrader, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Guilherme Seger, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Amanda Taylor, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Ole R.…

JVS and AVS Editors’ Awards for 2022

Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 by Milan Chytry

Journal of Vegetation Science Editors’ Award winner for 2022 is Florencia Yannelli and the team of IAVS Young Scientists for the article:
Yannelli, F.A., Bazzichetto, M., Conradi, T., Pattison, Z., Andrade, B.O., Anibaba, Q.A., Bonari, G., Chelli, S., Ćuk, M., Damasceno, G.,…

Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2023 cover pictures

Posted on December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2023 cover pictures are Mario Klesczewski and Sharif A. Mukul. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Kerry Woods, Gianmaria Bonari, Kirill Korzhnikov and Ricarda Pätsch.