Category: Editorial news

Palaearctic Grasslands 63 is published

Posted on March 11, 2025June 9, 2025 by David Zeleny

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

This post refers to the new issue 63 of Palaearctic Grasslands, which you can read here.

This new issue includes the final calls for the two Field Workshops in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps (Italy) (28^th May to 6^th June 2025) and the Turku Archipelago (Finland) (28^th June to 6^th July 2025) and the first call for the 20^th Eurasian Grassland Conference to be held in Oulu (Finland) from 7^th to 10^th July 2025.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey: five years and looking ahead

Posted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Distribution of the 119 papers published in the first five volumes of VCS according to article types and collections (from Biurrun et al. 2025).

On occasion of the completion of the fifth annual volume, the Chief Editors of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), looked both back and forward.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): volume 5 (2024) completed

Posted on February 18, 2025March 8, 2025 by David Zeleny

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

Cover of volume 5 of *Vegetation Classification and Survey* (VCS).

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), IAVS’ gold open access journal, has just completed its fifth annual volume. It comprises 24 articles on 346 pages.…

Deadline extended for VCS Special Collection “Vegetation classification of islands and archipelagos”

Posted on February 6, 2025February 6, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jorge Capelo, Jürgen Dengler and Riccardo Guarino

Vegetation on islands around the world (Photos by J. Capelo, J. Dengler and R. Guarino).

Following several requests, we extended the deadlines for the Special Collection on the vegetation of islands and archipelagos worldwide in IAVS’ gold open access journal Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) by one month.…

VCS Editors’ Award for 2024

Posted on January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 by David Zeleny

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

Field work in a *Calicorema capitata–Rhigozum trichotomum* dwarf shrub savanna in Namibia (Photo credit:: L. Naftal)

As in every year, we selected one of the Editors’ Choice papers of the four quarters for the annual award.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the fourth quarter of 2024

Posted on January 20, 2025January 20, 2025 by David Zeleny

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

Sampling plot in a high Andean *Distichia muscoides* community. Source: Maldonado Fonken et al. (2024)

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has completed the fourth quarter of the 5th volume, containing in total 11 articles (see list below).…

On the use of taxon names in community ecology

Posted on January 4, 2025January 20, 2025 by Milan Chytry

Vegetation science and community ecology focus on ecosystems composed of multiple species and other taxonomic ranks, such as subspecies. Scientific work in these fields requires accurate identification of these taxa in the field and recording them using standardized scientific names. However, the Editors of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science frequently encounter manuscripts where authors misunderstand taxonomic nomenclature, leading to errors and making articles challenging for readers to follow.…

Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures

Posted on January 1, 2025January 20, 2025 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures are Lucia Čahojová and Markus Neupert. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Kryštof Chytrý, Veradina Nacheva, Denys Vynokurov and Anaclara Guido.

The alpine grassland on Mount Raduha in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps (Slovenia) occurs on limestone with a significant admixture of siliceous minerals, resulting in a species-rich plant community consisting of both acidophilous and basiphilous plants.

JVS and AVS Editors’ Awards for 2024

Posted on December 29, 2024December 29, 2024 by Milan Chytry

The 2024 Editors’ Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science goes to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini.

Siefert, A., D. C. Laughlin, and F. M. Sabatini. 2024. “You shall know a species by the company it keeps: Leveraging co‐occurrence data to improve ecological prediction.”…

Palaearctic Grasslands 62 is published

Posted on December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 by David Zeleny

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

This post refers to the new issue 62 of Palaearctic Grasslands, which you can read here.

This new issue includes the first calls for the 20^th Eurasian Grassland Conference to be held in Oulu (Finland) from 7^th to 10^th July 2025, as well as the two planned Field Workshops in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps (Italy) (28th May to 5 June 2025) and the Turku Archipelago (Finland) (28th June to 6th July 2025).…