Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions
Prepared by Valério D. Pillar
A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity
Prepared by Ilaine S. Matos, Sami Rifai, Walquíria F. Gouveia, Imma Oliveras, Dulce Mantuano and Bruno Rosado
Call for Abstracts: Journal of Vegetation Science, Special Issue “Alpine Vegetation and Global Change”
Guest Editors
- Gwendolyn Peyre, Colombia
- Jiří Doležal, Czech Republic
- Mark Hovenden, Australia
- Anke Jentsch, Germany
- Susanna Venn, Australia
- Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Spain
Scope of the Special Issue
The Special Issue aims to address the combined effect of anthropogenic and climatic threats as drivers of vegetation dynamics in a changing world.…
Continue readingGrant opportunity for early-career researchers
Provided by the Steering committee of the IAVS Young Scientists
Receiving a grant can influence both scientific production and researchers’ career paths, especially at the beginning of a career.…
Continue readingPalaearctic Grasslands 60 is published
The post provided by Idoia Biurrun (Deputy Chief Editor of Palaearctic Grasslands)
This post refers to the new issue 60 of Palaearctic Grasslands, which you can read here.
This new issue comes with several announcements and reports about EDGG events and activities, including the second call for the next Field Workshop in South-Western Alps (Aosta, Susa and Durance valleys in Italy and France).…
Continue readingVCS Editors’ Award for 2023
Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editor)
As in every year, to highlight outstanding papers, we selected one Editors’ Choice paper per quarter, and from these four papers, we selected one for the annual Editors’ Award (Dengler et al.…
Continue readingDouble-blind review procedure in the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science
Post prepared by Milan Chytrý, Valério Pillar, Jodi Price and Viktoria Wagner
Charles Fox and colleagues recently published a study that raised concerns about the fairness of the peer-review process in scientific journals (Fox et al., 2023). They conducted an extensive experiment in Functional Ecology, in which each manuscript submitted to this journal was randomly assigned to be reviewed with author identities anonymized vs.…
Continue readingCutting vEdge tools: an upcoming series of free practical seminars organised by the IAVS EcoInformatics
Prepared by the IAVS EcoInformatics Working group
Join us to exchange & get updates on analytical tools in vegetation science!
These practical seminars promote exchange and knowledge on the state of the art of analytical tools in vegetation science. Join us, spread the info and feel free to propose a speaker, give a talk, or propose a subject of interest.…
Continue readingVegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): a view back and an outlook after completion of the fourth volume
Call for Abstracts: “Island plant communities: natural experiments at the intersection of biogeography, conservation and global change ecology”, Special Issue in the Journal of Vegetation Science
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