The cover photo of the May issue shows an open-grown pasture tree in a second-growth forest retaining its open-grown branch structure, related to the paper by Marion Holmes “Pasture trees contribute to structural heterogeneity and plant distributions in post-agricultural forests decades after canopy closure“.…
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Explore Spotlights, a new feature on the websites of JVS and AVS. Spotlights are collections of articles of a certain type that were published in our journals in the past, and will also include such articles published in the future. Our publisher, Wiley, kindly made all the previously published articles included in the Spotlight collections free-access.…
Continue readingThis picture of a fire in a Pinus echinata forest in Tennessee features the paper by Andrew Vander Yacht et al.:‘Thresholds in woody and herbaceous component co-existence inform the restoration of a fire-dependent community’.
A rainout shelter in a semi-arid savanna of Texas used in a study by Heather Hannusch and colleagues: ‘Semi-arid savanna herbaceous production and diversity responses to interactive effects of drought, nitrogen deposition, and fire’.
The covers shows a grassland with Astrantia major and Sanguisorba officinalis studied by Yasemin Kurtogullari et al.: “Conservation and restoration of Nardus grasslands in the Swiss northern Alps“.
The cover picture shows fire refugia in Oregon from the study by William Downing and colleagues ‘How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and fire-generated early-seral vegetation?’
IAVS Editors’ Awards go to Julio Alcántara for the Journal of Vegetation Science and Raphaële Terrail for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!
Awarded papers:
Alcántara, J. M., Garrido, J. L., Montesinos‐Navarro, A., Rey, P. J.,…
The cover of the new issue shows Mediterranean perennial dry grasslands with Lygeum spartum in Bardenas Reales, northern Spain. See Marcenò et al.: “A formal classification of the Lygeum spartum vegetation of the Mediterranean Region“.
We welcome new Associate Editors and Editorial Board members of our journals:
Alessandra Fidelis, São Paulo State University, Rio Claro, Brazil – a new Associate Editor of JVS
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany – a new Associate Editor of AVS
Marco Malavasi, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic – a new member of the JVS Editorial Board
Zhiyao Tang, Peking University, Beijing, China – a new member of the JVS Editorial Board…
Continue readingThe rainout shelter on the cover is from the Matta LTER site in the Judean Hills, Israel, during summer dry season. See the paper by Moshe Alon & Marcelo Sternberg,
