Author: Milan Chytry

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

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.

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the colleagues who submitted their pictures.…

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New Editorial Board members of JVS and AVS

We are pleased to announce that 32 outstanding vegetation scientists from around the world have joined the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science. Welcome on board!

New Associate Editor of Applied Vegetation Science

Robin Pakeman, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK

New Editorial Review Board members of the Journal of Vegetation Science

Arshad Ali, Hebei University, Baoding, China
Jorge Capelo, National Institute of Agrarian and Veterinarian Research, Oeiras, Portugal & University of Porto, Portugal
Anikó Csecserits, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
Nicola Day, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Buntarou Kusumoto, Kyushu University, Japan
Emma Ladouceur, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv), Germany
Soizig Le Stradic, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAe), Pessac, France
Daijun Liu, University of Vienna, Austria
Justice Muvengwi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Josep Padullés Cubino, Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Gwendolyn Peyre, University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Sergey Rosbakh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Hugo Saiz, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Guilherme Dubal dos Santos Seger, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Marta Gaia Sperandii, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Riin Tamme, University of Tartu, Estonia
Enrico Tordoni, University of Tartu, Estonia
Shilu Zheng, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

New Editorial Review Board members of Applied Vegetation Science

Irena Axmanová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Gianmaria Bonari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Leonor Calvo, University of León, Spain
Kwek Yan Chong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Felícia M.

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Call for Abstracts: Journal of Vegetation Science Special Issue “Plant community responses to climate change”

Guest Editors

Description of the Special Issue

An increasing number of climate change studies are showing the need to take into account local and regional contexts if we want to improve our predictions of plant community responses to changing climate.…

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JVS and AVS are looking for new members of the Editorial Review Boards

The Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS) and Applied Vegetation Science (AVS) are seeking colleagues interested in serving on the Editorial Review Boards of the journals. We welcome all vegetation scientists with experience in international scientific publishing, and as we aim at diverse and dynamic Editorial Review Boards, we particularly encourage people based outside Europe, early-career researchers and women to apply.…

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JVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2021

JVS Editors’ Award goes to Stephan Getzin and colleagues for the paper “Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings“.

AVS Editors’ Award goes to Sofía Campana and Laura Yahdjian for the paper “Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland“.…

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New Editors of JVS and AVS

We welcome new Associate Editors of our journals.

Journal of Vegetation Science

Jonathan Bennett, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Antonio Gazol, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain
Yasuhiro Kubota, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan
Attila Lengyel, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
Francesco Maria Sabatini, University of Bologna, Italy

Applied of Vegetation Science

Erwin Bergmeier, University of Göttingen, Germany
Giselda Durigan, Forestry Institute of São Paulo State, Brazil
Lena Neuenkamp, University of Bern, Switzerland
Orsolya Valkó, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary

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