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Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) completed its third volume

Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Cover of Volume 3 (2022) of Vegetation Classification and Survey with motifs from the Editors’ Award article by Liu et al. 2022 on the classification of Chinese steppes).

EIVE 1.0 – The largest system of ecological indicator values in Europe is now available

Posted on January 21, 2023October 8, 2024 by David Zeleny

The post was provided by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen & François Gillet

Geographic coverage of the 31 ecological indicator value systems that entered the calculation of the consensus system of EIVE 1.0 (image from the original article).

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen, Olha Chusova, Elisabeth Hüllbusch, Michael P.…

The benefits of publishing in society-owned scientific journals

Posted on January 21, 2023June 30, 2023 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Milan Chytrý, Valério D. Pillar, Jodi N. Price, Viktoria Wagner, Susan K. Wiser & David Zelený

This text has been published as part of the Editorial in Applied Vegetation Science on January 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12705)

When looking for a suitable journal in which to publish manuscripts, we usually consider how the topic of the study matches the journal’s scope, and how reputable the journal is, which is typically judged from the impact factor or a similar citation-based metric.…

Palaearctic Grasslands 54-55 is published

Posted on January 15, 2023March 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

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

This post refers to the new double issue 54-55 of Palaearctic Grasslands.

The new issue of Palaearctic Grasslands is out, and you can read the complete issue here.…

VCS is looking for new members of the Editorial Board

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the gold open access journal of IAVS dedicated to developing and applying vegetation typologies as well as to ecoinformatics of vegetation, is growing.…

VCS: new members of the Editorial Board

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

We are pleased to announce that five new vegetation scientists from various countries have joined the Editorial Board of Vegetation Classification and Survey as of 1 January 2023.…

VCS: Important news

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

CiteScoreTracker of Vegetation Classification and Survey in December 2022.

With the third year of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), IAVS’ gold open access journal, coming to a successful end, the Chief Editors have two important announcements:

First, Thanks to the generosity of IAVS, articles from first authors who are IAVS members remain exempt from article processing charges (APCs) until 30 June 2023.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) 2022/I to 2022/III

Posted on January 15, 2023January 16, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Forest-steppe vegetation in Khakassia, Siberia, belonging to the scope of the Special Collection ‘Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic’ (Photo: J. Dengler).

Climatic definitions of the world’s terrestrial biomes

Posted on January 15, 2023June 17, 2023 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Javier Loidi, Gonzalo Navarro-Sánchez and Denys Vynokurov

Domains, Ecozones, Biomes and Subbiomes of the Earth. Distribution of the 20 subbiomes across the world. 1a Polar tundra, 1b Tundras of the temperate mountains in cryoro belt, 1c Tundras of the tropical mountains in cryoro belt, 2a Lowland boreal Taiga, 2b Forests and shrublands of the temperate oro belt, 3a Temperate deciduous forests, 4a Lauroid evergreen forest of the lowlands, 4b Conifer coastal forests, 4c Tropical montane cloud lauroid and conifer evergreen forest, 5a Oceanic sclerophyllous-microphyllous evergreen forests and shrublands (Mediterranean), 5b Continental scrub and woodlands, 5c Patagonian shrubland, 6a Forest-steppe, 6b Grass-steppe, 7a Cold deserts and semi-deserts, 7b Temperate deserts and semi-deserts, 7c Warm deserts and semi-deserts, 8a Tropical xeric shrublands and woodlands, 8b Tropical pluviseasonal forests and woodlands, 9a Tropical rain forests.

Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species

Posted on January 12, 2023April 5, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Lubomír Tichý, Irena Axmanová and Milan Chytrý

Recommended area for safe application of the harmonized European dataset of indicator values (image from the original article).

The system of indicator values for vascular plants proposed by the famous German plant ecologist Heinz Ellenberg has been widely used in Europe for the bioindication of environmental conditions.…