Author: David Zeleny

Mowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Yves P. Klinger, Rolf Lutz Eckstein, Wiebke Hansen, Till Kleinebecker, Annette Otte & Kristin Ludewig

Migratory sheep grazing in the study area, the nature reserve “Lange Rhön”. Dung samples were collected weekly over a three month period (July to September).

Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gunnar Keppel, Dylan Craven, Patrick Weigelt, Stephen A. Smith, Masha T. van der Sande, Brody Sandel, Sam C. Levin, Holger Kreft & Tiffany M. Knight

Key aspects of biodiversity and the major global databases with relevant information. (Figure 1 from the published paper.)

Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Huili Li, Jiayu Guo, Lei Ye, Heng Gui, Kevin David Hyde, Jianchu Xu & Peter Edward Mortimer

From left to right: Samantha C. Karunarathna, Jiayu Guo, Huili Li & Lei Ye with *Macrolepiota procera* at Mengsong Village, Xishuangbanna Prefecture in 2012.

Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Viktoria Wagner, Martin Večeřa, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Jan Pergl, Jonathan Lenoir, Jens-Christian Svenning, Petr Pyšek, Emiliano Agrillo, Idoia Biurrun, Juan Antonio Campos, Jörg Ewald, Federico Fernández-González, Ute Jandt, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Urban Šilc, Željko Škvorc, Kiril Vassilev, Thomas Wohlgemuth & Milan Chytrý

*Trachycarpus fortunei* invasion in a mesic temperate deciduous woodland with *Tilia cordata*, *Fraxinus excelsior*, *Acer platanoides*, *Acer pseudoplatanus*, *Corylus avellana*, and *Robinia pseudoacacia* in Switzerland.

Floristic patterns of the neotropical forests, savannas and scrublands with Trithrinax campestris (Arecaceae) in central Argentina

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Sebastián R. Zeballos, Marcelo R. Cabido, Juan J. Cantero, Alicia T.R. Acosta, M. Virginia Palchetti, Juan Argañaraz, Paula I. Marcora1, Paula A. Tecco, Ana Ferreras, Guillermo Funes, Victoria M. Vaieretti, Georgina Conti & Melisa A. Giorgis

Open palm (*Trithrinax campestris*) savanna with a shrubby understory dominated by the thorny *Vachellia caven* on rocky and sandy soils in western Córdoba Province, central Argentina.

Monitoring a riverside forest with students and community scientists

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Kelly Steinberg

Students gather to share and record data they collected during a monthly trip to their field site in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Their data includes groundwater depth, leaf litter and precipitation in the riparian cottonwood-willow forest that runs through the city, only a few minutes bus ride from school.

Understanding patterns and potential drivers of forest diversity in northeastern China using machine-learning algorithms

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Weixue Luo, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao & Jingjing Liang

Mixed temperate coniferous and broad-leaved forest in northeastern China. Photo credit: Xiuhai Zhao.

Large-scale biodiversity patterns have been a focus of ecological studies over the past decades, but it remains unclear which anthropogenic and environmental factors have the strongest impact on tree diversity patterns, especially in temperate forest ecosystems of East Asia.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the first quarter of 2021

Posted on April 11, 2021April 20, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (VCS Chief Editor)

The palm species *Trithrinax campestris* in different vegetation types of central Argentina. Photos from Zeballos et al. (2021).

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has started into its second year. Since VCS applies continuous publishing without aggregating papers in (printed) issues, we have decided that from now on the Chief Editors will present every three months the newly published papers on vegsciblog and select one of these as Editors’ Choice Paper.…

Neophyte invasions in European grasslands

Posted on April 10, 2021April 10, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Irena Axmanová, Veronika Kalusová, Jiří Danihelka, Jürgen Dengler, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Martin Večeřa, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Steffen Boch, Timo Conradi, Rosario G. Gavilán, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Ilona Knollová, Anna Kuzemko, Jonathan Lenoir, Artem Leostrin, Jana Medvecká, Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, Dragica Obratov-Petkovic, Jens-Christian Svenning, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Kiril Vassilev & Milan Chytrý