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Planned Special Feature of JVS: Dispersal and establishment as drivers of vegetation dynamics and resilience

Posted on December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 by Milan Chytry

Guest editors: Péter Török, James Bullock, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Judit Sonkoly

Background
Plant regeneration plays a decisive role in vegetation dynamics by underpinning local and landscape-scale processes, biodiversity patterns, and community resilience to abiotic and anthropogenic disturbances. As establishment and recruitment depend greatly on spatial plant dispersal and the local propagule bank, studying their contributions to these processes is crucial.…

Which results of the standard test for community weighted mean approach are too optimistic?

Posted on November 27, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by David Zelený

The relationship between the average height of understory herbs (CWM of species height) and the amount of light passing through the forest canopy (quantified by visually estimated cover of trees and shrubs at each site). If the analysis based on CWM approach was done by a standard parametric test, the result is highly significant (P<0.001). However, the result of the standard test is overly optimistic; the max test, which is the correct test for this analysis, returns considerably less exciting P-value (P=0.052).

Imagine a forest, with trees forming a canopy and herbs growing in the understory.…

Young Scientists of the IAVS present their studies

Posted on November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 by David Zeleny

Marco Malavasi (on behalf of the IAVS Young Scientists Section)

During the 61st Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) in Perth (2014, Australia), a bunch of young vegetation scientists came together moved by the need to share their research experience and start new potential collaborations.…

The new issue 2018/4 of Applied Vegetation Science is out

Posted on November 14, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The cover of this new issue shows a vegetated sandbar on the highly regulated Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Butterfield et al. demonstrate linkages between hydrological and climatic filtering of vegetation in this system.

The new issue 2018/5 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on October 24, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The cover of the new JVS issue shows different fruits of woody plants from the island of Réunion, related to the paper by Albert, Flores, Rouget, Wilding, & Strasberg (2018).

They used a set of vegetation plots from this tropical island to describe a pattern of striking decrease in the proportion of fleshy-fruited trees and shrubs with altitude.…

This is not a pine: a fieldwork story

Posted on October 12, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Emilie Champagne

One of my field assistant (Lorraine Lessard) carefully recording browsing in a 4 m2 plot, in Outaouais (Québec, Canada). Photo credit: Emilie Champagne.

This post refers to the article Forage diversity, type and abundance influence winter resource selection by white‐tailed deer by Emilie Champagne, André Dumont, Jean‐Pierre Tremblay and Steeve D.…

In the quest of designing grassland communities resistant to invasions during ecological restoration

Posted on October 12, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Florencia A. Yannelli

Controlled conditions in greenhouse experiments enable us to test a plethora of hypotheses in community or invasion ecology by reducing the effect confounding factors. Photo credit: Florencia Yannelli.

This post refers to the article Seed density is more effective than multi‐trait limiting similarity in controlling grassland resistance against plant invasions in mesocosms by Yannelli et al.…

A new Associate Editor of AVS

Posted on October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 by Milan Chytry

We welcome Guillaume Decocq, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, as a new Associate Editor of Applied Vegetation Science. Guillaume is not new to our team: he has served as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Vegetation Science for several years.…