We welcome Jodi Price as a new Chief Editor of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science! Jodi is replacing Alessandro Chiarucci who decided to step down after serving as a Chief Editor for 15 years.
Jodi is a teaching and research academic at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia.…
Continue readingWe are deeply saddened to announce that the founder of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science, Honorary Member of the IAVS, Professor Eddy van der Maarel, died on 4 April 2021.
The winners of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures are Hsun-Hung Chu and Adrián Purkart. The forerunners are Gianmaria Bonari, Nenad Jasprica and Ricarda Pätsch.
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the colleagues who submitted their pictures .…
Continue readingThe JVS and AVS Editor’s Awards for 2020 go to Sabrina Gavini and Lise Maciejewski. Congratulations!
Sabrina Gavini with colleagues explored whether local-scale biotic interactions affect biodiversity also at larger spatial scales (Gavini et al. 2020). A top-down view has often been used (regional richness is affecting local biodiversity).…
Continue readingThe just-published 2020/4 issue of Applied Vegetation Science is the last printed issue of the IAVS journals. From 2021 onwards, all the IAVS journals will be published online only.
The cover picture shows a steppe in an arid region of northeastern Iran, which was studied by Soroor Rahmanian et al.…
Continue readingDo you want to have your photo on the 2021 cover of the Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science?
From 1 January 2021, both journals will be published in online-only version. Consequently, there will be no printed issues with a cover picture featuring one of the articles in the issue.…
Continue readingThe new issue of JVS contains 16 articles of the Special Feature “Plant dispersal and establishment as drivers of vegetation dynamics and resilience”, edited by Péter Török, James M. Bullock, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Judit Sonkoly.
The September issue of JVS contains Special Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science”, edited by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward and Lauren Hallett”.
The cover photo from Děvín Hill in Czechia relates to Fischer et al.‘s study of a 25-year dynamics of a dry grassland.…
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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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