Category: Editorial news

The IAVS journals are looking for reviewers and new members of the Editorial Board

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Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors) and Francesco Maria Sabatini (on behalf of all JVS/AVS Chief Editors)

The recent cover images of the three peer-reviewed journals of IAVS: JVS, AVS and VCS

Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS), Applied Vegetation Science (AVS) and Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) – three journals joined in their mission to advance vegetation science and to provide the best possible service to our authors and the highest-quality papers to our readers.…

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VCS in the third quarter of 2026 and Editors’ Choice

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Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of the VCS Chief Editor)

The newly described shrub association Erico arboreae-Cytisetum infesti from the Mediterranean island of Sicily (Photo: L. Gianguzzi; from Guarino et al. 2026).

In the third quarter of its 7th volume, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published four articles (see list below).…

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[Deadline extended] Invitation to contribute to a Special Feature on “Palaearctic grasslands: global change, conservation, management and restoration” in Applied Vegetation Science

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Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (Chair of the Guest Editors)

In conjunction with the Eurasian Grassland Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, in July 2026, the IAVS Working Group EDGG (https://edgg.org/) is organising a Special Feature on global change and applied topics in grasslands throughout the Palaearctic biogeographic realm in the journal Applied Vegetation Science (AVS).…

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Call to contribute to a Special Collection “Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula” in Vegetation Classification and Survey

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Prepared by Jürgen Dengler, Erwin Bergmeier and Urban Šilc

Plants, vegetation types and landscapes of the Balkan Peninsula (Photos by E. Bergmeier, J. Dengler and U. Šilc)

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Special Collection on the vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula in IAVS’ gold open access journal Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS).…

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[Update] Invitation to contribute to a Special Feature on “Scaling laws in (vegetation) ecology” in the Journal of Vegetation Science

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Posted by Jürgen Dengler (Chair of the Guest Editors)

Visualisation of different aspects of ecological scaling, based on three OA articles by the Guest Editors (https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13697; https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13050; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2025.125870) and a photo of nested-plot sampling by J. Dengler.
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Palaearctic Grasslands 67 is published

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

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

This new issue includes several calls for data, and also for Special Issues focused on Palaearctic Grasslands, as well as a Scientific Report summarizing the 20th Field Workshop in the Italian Ligurian, Maritime and Cottian Alps.…

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Palaearctic Grasslands 66 is published

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

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

This new issue includes important information on the events of EDGG for this year, with registration already opened for the Eurasian Grassland Conference in Bulgaria (19-23 July, 2026) and the two Field Workshops in NE Poland (24-30 May, 2026) and Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria (14-18 July, 2026).…

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