By Jhonny Capichoni Massante & Pille Gerhold
The Atlantic forest of South America is a regional mosaic of different habitat types.…
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This post (and video inside) refer to the article EpIG‐DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Neotropics by Mendieta-Leiva et al.…
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This post refers to the article Which traits predict pairwise interactions in a mountain grassland?…
Continue readingBy Dagmar D. Egelkraut, Hélène S. A. Barthelemy & Johan Olofsson
The photo above shows a beautiful rolling hillside in the north of Norway. It also shows a fence; those who look more closely might notice a distinct difference between the vegetation on one side of the fence compared to the other.…
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Vegetation is the basis of all terrestrial ecosystems and a focus on vegetation is crucial to understand the consequences of global change on the biosphere. We believe that vegetation science has much to offer in the fight to biodiversity loss and climate change, by contributing to some of the most important basic and applied research questions.…
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This post refers to the perspective article Managing data locally to answer questions globally: the role of collaborative science in ecology by Aubin et al.…
Continue readingBy María Lucrecia Lipoma, Valentina Fortunato, Lucas Enrico & Sandra Díaz
There is an important update we would like to share with you: we changed the domain name of our blog into vegsciblog.org, and renamed our blog into Vegetation Science Blog: Official blog of the IAVS journals. The reason is that from now, we serve as a blogging platform for all three IAVS journals, newly including also Vegetation Classification and Survey.…
Continue readingPrepared by Anna Mežaka, Maaike Y. Bader, Noris Salazar Allen & Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
Forest gaps in tropical rainforests contribute to habitat heterogeneity and vascular plant diversity.…
Continue readingPrepared by Jürgen Dengler, Idoia Biurrun, Florian Jansen & Wolfgang Willner
In summer 2019 IAVS decided to start a new, third association-owned journal, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), next to Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS) and Applied Vegetation Science (AVS). VCS is replacing the collaboration of IAVS with Borntraeger Science Publishers in publishing Phytocoenologia, which ended 2019, with a journal fully integrated in IAVS’ journal portfolio.…
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