Author: David Zeleny

VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Wolfgang Willner (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Award winner Iwona Dembicz during fieldwork in a Ukrainian salt steppe. Photo credit: J. Dengler.

VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz and colleagues for the paper “Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types”.…

Mixed evidence for the small island effect in a replicated colonisation experiment

Posted on December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Mikhail V. Kozlov, Vojtěch Lanta & Vitali Zverev

Examples of experimental plots: (a) Kevo, plot area 2 m², 2 September 2008; (b) Apatity, plot area 0.25 m², 16 August 2008; (c) Seili, plot area 0.05 m², 5 June 2010; (d) Lisino, plot area 0.01 m², 27 August 2009.

Palaearctic Grasslands 51 is published

Posted on December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Idoia Biurrun (Chief Editor of Palaearctic Grasslands)

This post refers to the new issue 51 of Palaearctic Grasslands (https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.51)

The new issue of Palaearctic Grasslands, EDGG’s scientific journal and magazine, is out, and you can read the complete issue here.…

Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient

Posted on December 18, 2021December 18, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jingyi Ding, Samantha K. Travers & David J. Eldridge

Recording woody species at a site along a 100m transect in a *Callitris* spp. open woodland in eastern Australia. Photo credit: Jingyi Ding

When you are walking in the bush or hiking in a forest in Australia, you can find a diverse range of woody plants, with some species more often growing in dense forests but other species only occurring on open woodlands.…

Extreme drought has limited effects on soil seed bank composition in desert grasslands

Posted on December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Alejandro Loydi & Scott Collins

General view of the (a) Chihuahuan Desert grassland and (b) Great Plains grassland experimental sites. Photo credit: Alejandro Loydi.

Climate change will impact all ecosystems across the globe, with particularly strong effects on mean annual temperature and rainfall.…

Syntaxonomy of steppe depression vegetation of Ukraine

Posted on December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Viktor Shapoval & Anna Kuzemko

Phytocoenoses of the association *Lathyro nissoliae-Phalacrachenetum inuloidis* on the bottom of the Ahaimansky pid, aspect of *Phalacrachena inuloides*, single shoots of *Rumex crispus* and *Beckmannia eruciformis* visible in the background, June 6, 2008.

Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understory vegetation of temperate forests

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Marina Roth, Hans-Gerhard Michiels, Heike Puhlmann, Carina Sucker & Markus Hauck

Vegetation field survey in a typical low-productive oak forest on acidic soil without signs of eutrophication. The photograph shows one of the study sites located in the Black Forest, southwest Germany.

New Special Collection on “Grasslands of Asia” launched by VCS

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of Vegetation Classification and Survey), Alireza Naqinezhad and Arkadiusz Nowak

*Stipetum lipskyi* in Veshan Valley in western Pamir-Alai, Tajikistan. Photo credit: A. Nowak

The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (www.edgg.org) and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “Grasslands of Asia”.…

New Special Collection on “African vegetation studies” launched by VCS

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Reginald Tang Guuroh (Chair of the IAVS African Reginal Section) and Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of the Vegetation Classification and Survey)

Savanna at the foot of Mt. Elgon, Kenya, Africa. Photo credit: J. Dengler

The new IAVS African Regional Section and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “African vegetation studies”.…