This plant, Centaurea dichroantha, is an endemic species to pristine dry grasslands of South-Eastern Alps. It is threatened by the invasion of Amorpha fruticosa described in the paper Boscutti et al.: Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa impacts dry grasslands.…
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The picture shows Mediterranean dunes invaded by Agave americana and Carpobrotus sp. in Torre Astura, Italy. It is an example of invasions on coastal dunes, which were comprehensively assessed for Europe in the paper by Giulio et al.: Alien flora across European coastal dunes.…
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The Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science have introduced a new article type and a new journal section: Methods in Vegetation Science. At the same time, a new Spotlight article collection has been published on the journals’ website, in which all the methodological papers published since 2018 have been made Free Access.…
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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.,…
