Category: Editorial news

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

Posted on August 1, 2026August 1, 2026 by David Zeleny

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).…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): new journal metrics released

Posted on July 18, 2026July 18, 2026 by David Zeleny

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

Positive development of the CiteScore from 2022 to 2025, including the forecast for next year (as of June 2026)

In June 2026, both the Web of Science and Scopus released their new journal metrics.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the first and second quarter of 2026

Posted on July 18, 2026July 19, 2026 by David Zeleny

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

VCS Editorial Meeting on 25 June 2026 in the Botanical Garden of Gijón during the IAVS Symposium (Photo: Pensoft)

In the first and second quarters of its 7th volume, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published five articles (see list below).…

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

Posted on July 18, 2026July 18, 2026 by David Zeleny

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.

Palaearctic Grasslands 67 is published

Posted on June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 by David Zeleny

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.…

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

Posted on May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by David Zeleny

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).…

Palaearctic Grasslands 66 is published

Posted on February 27, 2026February 27, 2026 by David Zeleny

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).…