The 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.…
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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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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’.
