Prepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (blog editors)
In August 2020, we celebrated the second anniversary of our blog, so let us stop here for a while and summarize what happened in the past year.…
Continue readingBy Wolfgang Willner
Title of the Special Collection: The ‘International Vegetation Classification’ initiative: case studies, syntheses, and perspectives on ecosystem diversity around the globe.
Editors: Don Faber-Langendoen (US), Wolfgang Willner (AT), Liu Changcheng (CN), John Hunter (AU), Gonzalo Navarro (BO)
Outline: The ‘International Vegetation Classification’ (IVC) project aims at providing a consistent, systematic, and authoritative description and classification of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems.…
Continue readingBy Jürgen Dengler (VCS Chief Editor)
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is the new gold open access journal of IAVS devoted to vegetation classification and ecoinformatics. To facilitate the start of the new journal, the IAVS Councils has decided on 24 July 2020 to waive all article processing charges (APCs) of papers submitted in 2020 and 2021 by first authors who are IAVS members.…
Continue readingBy Jürgen Dengler, Anna Kuzemko & Idoia Biurrun, Chief Editor Team of Palaearctic Grasslands
With Palaearctic Grasslands (PG), the fifth IAVS journal is joining Vegetation Science Blog (vegsciblog.org). Palaearctic Grasslands is published by the IAVS Working Group EDGG (Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; www.edgg.org…
Continue readingBy Jürgen Dengler
With the VCS Newsletter No. 02, Vegetation Classification and Survey informs vegetation ecologists about the developments in the new IAVS journal.
Recently two more papers have been published, a classification of coastal grasslands in Eastern Australia (https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/48228…
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This plant, Centaurea dichroantha, is an endemic species to pristine dry grasslands of South-Eastern Alps. It is threatened by the invasion of Amorpha fruticosa described in the paper Boscutti et al.: Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa impacts dry grasslands.…
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The picture shows Mediterranean dunes invaded by Agave americana and Carpobrotus sp. in Torre Astura, Italy. It is an example of invasions on coastal dunes, which were comprehensively assessed for Europe in the paper by Giulio et al.: Alien flora across European coastal dunes.…
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The Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science have introduced a new article type and a new journal section: Methods in Vegetation Science. At the same time, a new Spotlight article collection has been published on the journals’ website, in which all the methodological papers published since 2018 have been made Free Access.…
Continue readingBy Monika Janišová, the Editor of IAVS Bulletin
The IAVS Bulletin, the newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science published in digital form four times a year, is introducing two new contribution sections.
Section on sampling methodology
By Jürgen Dengler
Journal: VCS is the new gold open access journal of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), started in May 2020. It is devoted to vegetation classification with any methodological approach and at any organisational scale. There is no limit to the length of articles as long as it is justified by the content.…
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