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Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research

Posted on January 16, 2024February 4, 2024 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Marta Gaia Sperandii, Manuele Bazzichetto, Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Michael Bott, Renato Augusto Ferreira de Lima, Valério D. Pillar, Jodi N. Price, Viktoria Wagner and Milan Chytrý

Temporal trend in the percentage of articles published in the *Journal of Vegetation Science* (JVS) and *Applied Vegetation Science* (AVS) with data (left) or code (right) made available by the authors.

JVS and AVS Editors’ Awards for 2023

Posted on January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 by Milan Chytry

Left: Gabriel Moulatlet (upper picture in the front) with the senior author of his article, Fabricio Villalobos, in the back. The other co-authors in the bottom line, from left to right: Jesús Pinto-Ledezma, Buntarou Kusumoto, Yasuhiro Kubota and Takayuki Shiono.
Right: Aure Durbecq.

Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2024 cover pictures

Posted on December 27, 2023January 5, 2024 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2024 cover pictures are TJ Watt and Adolf Češka. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Alexandre Pereira, Martin Macek and Maxwell Oliveira.

Epiphytic community of lichens, bryophytes and ferns on the branches of Sitka spruce (*Picea sitchensis*) in the Great Bear Rainforest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Palaearctic Grasslands 58-59 is published

Posted on December 18, 2023December 19, 2023 by David Zeleny

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

This post refers to the new issue 58-59 of Palaearctic Grasslands, which you can read here.

This new issue comes with several announcements and reports about EDGG events and publications, including a detailed report of the successful Eurasian Grassland Conference held in September 2023 in Hungary, announcements on three promising Talk Grasslands next winter, and first calls for the Field Workshop and Eurasian Grassland Conference in 2024. …

New Associate Editors of JVS and AVS

Posted on December 11, 2023December 13, 2023 by Milan Chytry

We are pleased to announce that new Associate Editors joined our journals:

Journal of Vegetation Science

Arshad Ali, Hebei University, Baoding, China
Josep Padullés Cubino, Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Eric Lamb, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Sergey Rosbakh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Julian Schrader, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Guilherme Seger, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Amanda Taylor, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Ole R.…

New Schedule of Article Publication Charges (APCs) for Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in 2024

Posted on December 9, 2023February 13, 2024 by David Zeleny

Provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors) and Peter Minchin (IAVS Vice-President and Publication Officer)

Screenshot of the journal website of *Vegetation Classification and Survey* (https://vcs.pensoft.net/).

Like all journals, the IAVS gold open access (OA) journal Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) needs to collect the costs of publishing from some source, be it authors, readers, research institutions or the IAVS budget.…

The value of long-term monitoring of field experiments: a case from the sand grasslands of Central Hungary

Posted on December 1, 2023December 2, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Ildikó Orbán and György Kröel-Dulay

Two subtypes of our studied vegetation type, showing the two species that are competing for dominance – a) *Stipa borysthenica*, and b) *Festuca vaginata* (Photo credit: György Kröel-Dulay)

This post refers to the article The role of drought, disturbance, and seed dispersal in dominance shifts in a temperate grassland by Orbán et al.…

Call for Abstracts: Journal of Vegetation Science, Special Issue “Biological Invasions in Plant Communities”

Posted on November 26, 2023February 4, 2024 by David Zeleny

The non-native shrub *Ulex europaeus* invading natural grasslands in Lavalleja, eastern Uruguay (Photo: Anaclara Guido)

Guest Editors

Viktoria Wagner, University of Alberta, Canada (Receiving Editor) – viktoria.wagner@ualberta.ca
Marta Carboni, University of Roma Tre, Italy – marta.carboni@uniroma3.it
Kwek Yan Chong, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore – kwek@nus.edu.sg
Milan Chytrý, Masaryk University, Czech Republic – chytry@sci.muni.cz
Anaclara Guido, University of the Republic, Uruguay – aguido@fcien.edu.uy

Description of the Special Issue

Non-native plant invasions are a major driver of ecosystem transformation across the globe.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the third quarter of 2023

Posted on November 26, 2023November 26, 2023 by David Zeleny

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

Example of vegetation types in the Aric Chaco in Central-Western Argentina from the Editors’ Choice article by Zeballos et al. 2023.

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