The symmetry of competition: a battle crown-to-crown or roots-to-roots?
The post provided by Marco Mina
The new issue 2018/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out
Elephant impact: Acacia woodland in Botswana where trees are disappearing due to disturbance by elephants. See the paper by Gabriella Teren et al.: Elephant-mediated compositional changes in riparian canopy trees over more than two decades in northern Botswana.
Rules of thumb for predicting tropical forest recovery
Dr Karen Holl summarizes the results of the recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12394) showing that measuring grass cover and canopy cover just a year after pasture abandonment can help to predict the rate of tropical forest recovery.…
Continue readingNew people in our team
We are happy to welcome new colleagues in our editorial team:
New Associate Editor of JVS:
Dave Roberts, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
New Editorial Board Members of AVS:
Jutta Kapfer, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Tromsø, Norway
Flavia Landucci, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Orsolya Valkó, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Viktoria Wagner, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada…
JVS-AVS Editorial Meeting in Bozeman, MT
Our Editors and Editorial Board members met during the IAVS Symposium in Bozeman, Montana, on 23 July 2018.
The new issue 2018/3 of Applied Vegetation Science is out
The cover shows a forest-steppe landscape in northern Hungary, which relates to the Synthesis paper on Eurasian forest-steppe by Erdös et al.
A virtual tour from the Carpathian Basin to the Far East – an overview and synthesis of Eurasian forest-steppes
The post provided by László Erdős
According to the biophilia hypothesis of Edward O. Wilson, certain biological patterns evoke positive feelings in humans. As a considerable part of our evolution took part in savannas, so the argument runs, we are genetically determined to enjoy ecosystems with a savanna-like mosaic pattern of trees and grasslands.…
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