Category: Behind the paper

Mean ecological indicator values: which system and which weighting approach to use

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The post provided by Grzegorz Ostrowski, Severin Aicher, Agnieszka Mankiewicz & Jürgen Dengler

The performance of EIVE in comparison to Tichý et al. (2023) and the two regional EIV systems. EIVE was significantly better (higher correlation with measured environmental variables) than “Tichý”, while there were no significant differences to the two regional systems applicable to the Swiss Alps (from the paper)

This post refers to the article Mean ecological indicator values: use EIVE but no cover-weighting by Ostrowski et al.…

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Enhancing our knowledge on African vegetation: The new Special Collection in Vegetation Classification and Survey

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The post provided by Reginald T. Guuroh, Leslie Brown, Miguel Alvarez, Manfred Finckh, Ute Schmiedel, Gaolathe Tsheboeng

Spatial distribution of the seven articles in the Special Collection “African vegetation studies”. The photos stem from seven studies: Assèdé et al. (2023), Ayeko et al.
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Do you study seed banks? And do you have a green thumb? No? Then you need to learn how to identify seeds!

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The post provided by Alida A. Hábenczyus, Iva Weiterová, and Jules Segrestin

One of the seed bank samples after we separated the seeds from the substrate and other organic material (roots, plant bases). Only visibly intact seeds with a solid embryo are considered part of the seed bank.
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How a class of students published a paper about plant cover’s relationship to biomass

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The post provided by Xiaobin Pan, Nathan Ferris and Jan Lepš

Biomass sampling in the Ohrazeni wet meadow experimental site (48°57’N, 14°36’E). Thanks to all the students who participated in biomass sampling and sorting over the years. Photo credit: unidentified student from Jan Lepš’s working group, who was able to climb the tree

This post refers to the article The convex relationship between plant cover and biomass: Implications for assessing species and community properties by Pan et al.…

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The complex syntaxonomy of Balkan dry grasslands addressed with an innovative classification approach

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The post provided by Kiril Vassilev & Jürgen Dengler

Study area in the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula with the distribution of the analysed plots of three widespread and one rare alliance. From the article.

This post refers to the article Classification of the high‐rank syntaxa of the Central and Eastern Balkan dry grasslands with a new hierarchical expert system approach by Vassilev et al.…

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Mangrove transgression into Everglades marshes: a process to be accepted or resisted?

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A post provided by Mike Ross, John Meeder, and Susana Stoffella

Mike Ross and Jack Meeder emerge from a helicopter as the Southeast Saline Everglades research project was initiated in 1996. The mangrove scrub in the foreground had recently been killed back during a freeze event that had little effect in the adjacent tree island.
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New high-rank syntaxa of Armenian dry grasslands and thorn-cushion communities with unexpectedly high alpha diversity

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The post provided by Denys Vynokurov, Alla Aleksanyan, Idoia Biurrun & Jürgen Dengler

Stand of the newly described dry grassland association Seslerio phleoidis-Onobrychidetum cornutae (class Festuco-Brometea) in Armenia. Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler

This post refers to the article Dry grasslands and thorn-cushion communities of Armenia: a first syntaxonomic classification by Vynokurov et al.…

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The value of long-term monitoring of field experiments: a case from the sand grasslands of Central Hungary

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The post provided by Ildikó Orbán and György Kröel-Dulay

Two subtypes of our studied vegetation type, showing the two species that are competing for dominance – a) Stipa borysthenica, and b) Festuca vaginata (Photo credit: György Kröel-Dulay)

This post refers to the article The role of drought, disturbance, and seed dispersal in dominance shifts in a temperate grassland by Orbán et al.…

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Revealing a unique historic dataset on vegetation composition of Swiss grasslands or developing a passion for dusty vegetation records

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The post is provided by Susanne Riedel, Jürgen Dengler, Felix Herzog and Stefan Widmer

Friedrich Stebler and Carl Schröter in front of the hut on the Fürstenalp, where they spend a lot of time, exfoliating off 67 vegetation sods (http://doi.org/10.3932/ethz-a-000068526
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