Author: David Zeleny

Biomass fine-scale variation is predictive of functional composition and diversity in grazed grassland

Posted on February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Nicolas Caram, Felipe Casalás, Marcelo O. Wallau, Pablo Soca, Valério D. Pillar, Monica Cadenazzi & Pablo Boggiano

Sampling at the Experimental Station “Bernardo Rosengurtt” of Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de la República (32°21’59” S, 54°26’37” W). Photo credit: Felipe Casalás

The adjustment of livestock number per unit area affects the aboveground biomass and its variation in space and time, which is a tool in grassland management for biodiversity conservation and livestock production.…

Should we sample vegetation following statistical rules or botanists’ experience? Possibly both!

Posted on February 21, 2023February 22, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Nicola Alessi, Gianmaria Bonari and Piero Zannini

Italian forest types examples: A) Warm Temperate forest type represented by *Quercus ilex*-dominated forests in Tuscany; B) Temperate forest type represented by *Fagus sylvatica*-dominated forests in Northern Apennines; C) Cold Temperate forest type represented by *Picea abies*-dominated forests in the Alps.

The power of seeds: the resilience of a restored plant community to fire

Posted on February 14, 2023February 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Ebony Cowan

Smoke tent trail stimulating germination of the soil seedbank in restored Banksia woodlands. Photo credit: Ebony Cowan

This post refers to the article Soil seedbank development of smoke-responsive plant species in a 23-year restoration chronosequence and implications for resilience to fire by Cowan and colleagues published in Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12713…

Differences in population size structures characterize grass response to long-term livestock removal

Posted on February 4, 2023February 4, 2023 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Ginevra Nota, Nicolò Anselmetto, Alessandra Gorlier & Mitchel P. McClaran

Photograph taken in 1922 at photo station 111 on the Santa Rita Experimental Range, Arizona (US). The view looks from grazed area in the foreground to the ungrazed exclosure (1A) beyond the fence.

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) completed its third volume

Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Cover of Volume 3 (2022) of Vegetation Classification and Survey with motifs from the Editors’ Award article by Liu et al. 2022 on the classification of Chinese steppes).

EIVE 1.0 – The largest system of ecological indicator values in Europe is now available

Posted on January 21, 2023February 14, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post was provided by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen & François Gillet

Geographic coverage of the 31 ecological indicator value systems that entered the calculation of the consensus system of EIVE 1.0 (image from the original article).

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen, Olha Chusova, Elisabeth Hüllbusch, Michael P.…

The benefits of publishing in society-owned scientific journals

Posted on January 21, 2023June 30, 2023 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Milan Chytrý, Valério D. Pillar, Jodi N. Price, Viktoria Wagner, Susan K. Wiser & David Zelený

This text has been published as part of the Editorial in Applied Vegetation Science on January 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12705)

When looking for a suitable journal in which to publish manuscripts, we usually consider how the topic of the study matches the journal’s scope, and how reputable the journal is, which is typically judged from the impact factor or a similar citation-based metric.…

Palaearctic Grasslands 54-55 is published

Posted on January 15, 2023March 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

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

This post refers to the new double issue 54-55 of Palaearctic Grasslands.

The new issue of Palaearctic Grasslands is out, and you can read the complete issue here.…

VCS is looking for new members of the Editorial Board

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the gold open access journal of IAVS dedicated to developing and applying vegetation typologies as well as to ecoinformatics of vegetation, is growing.…

VCS: new members of the Editorial Board

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

We are pleased to announce that five new vegetation scientists from various countries have joined the Editorial Board of Vegetation Classification and Survey as of 1 January 2023.…