Prepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (blog editors)
In August 2020, we celebrated the second anniversary of our blog, so let us stop here for a while and summarize what happened in the past year.…
Continue readingPrepared by Line Holm Andersen, Petri Nummi, Simon Bahrndorff, Cino Pertoldi, Kristian Trøjelsgaard, Torben Linding Lauridsen, Jeppe Rafn, Cecilie M. Skak Frederiksen, Mads P. Kristjansen & Dan Bruhn
By Wolfgang Willner
Title of the Special Collection: The ‘International Vegetation Classification’ initiative: case studies, syntheses, and perspectives on ecosystem diversity around the globe.
Editors: Don Faber-Langendoen (US), Wolfgang Willner (AT), Liu Changcheng (CN), John Hunter (AU), Gonzalo Navarro (BO)
Outline: The ‘International Vegetation Classification’ (IVC) project aims at providing a consistent, systematic, and authoritative description and classification of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems.…
Continue readingThe post provided by Jürgen Dengler & Idoia Biurrun
Behind the paper post referring to the article Biodiversity of dry grasslands in Armenia: First results from the 13th EDGG Field Workshop in Armenia by Aleksanyan et al.…
Continue readingBy Cord Peppler-Lisbach, Nils Stanik, Natali Könitz & Gert Rosenthal
The environment around us changes continuously and almost everywhere.…
Continue readingPrepared by Milan Chytrý
By Jürgen Dengler (VCS Chief Editor)
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is the new gold open access journal of IAVS devoted to vegetation classification and ecoinformatics. To facilitate the start of the new journal, the IAVS Councils has decided on 24 July 2020 to waive all article processing charges (APCs) of papers submitted in 2020 and 2021 by first authors who are IAVS members.…
Continue readingPrepared by Gesine Pufal & James M. Bullock
It is a beautiful summer day, you have been out on a hike through the countryside and have returned home to your house in the city.…
Continue readingBy Jürgen Dengler, Anna Kuzemko & Idoia Biurrun, Chief Editor Team of Palaearctic Grasslands
With Palaearctic Grasslands (PG), the fifth IAVS journal is joining Vegetation Science Blog (vegsciblog.org). Palaearctic Grasslands is published by the IAVS Working Group EDGG (Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; www.edgg.org…
Continue readingPrepared by Jorge Capelo
Classification aims to identify distinct and coherent groupings within vegetation. Modern approaches use a statistical analysis of data obtained from plot surveys in the field, most importantly species identity and abundance.…
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