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Where does the forest come back from? Soil and litter seed banks and the juvenile bank as sources of vegetation resilience in a semiarid Neotropical forest

Posted on March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 by David Zeleny

By María Lucrecia Lipoma, Valentina Fortunato, Lucas Enrico & Sandra Díaz

Above: Litter sample collection for the identification of seeds in the litter seed bank. Bellow: Juvenile plant bank of the dominant woody species of the ecosystem of the Chaco forest, *Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco*.

We renamed our blog into Vegetation Science Blog: Official blog of the IAVS journals, newly hosted at vegsciblog.org

Posted on March 1, 2020May 4, 2020 by David Zeleny

There is an important update we would like to share with you: we changed the domain name of our blog into vegsciblog.org, and renamed our blog into Vegetation Science Blog: Official blog of the IAVS journals. The reason is that from now, we serve as a blogging platform for all three IAVS journals, newly including also Vegetation Classification and Survey.…

Epiphyll specialization for leaf and forest successional stages in a tropical lowland rainforest

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Anna Mežaka, Maaike Y. Bader, Noris Salazar Allen & Glenda Mendieta-Leiva

Lichen, liverwort, algae and fungi patches on an old leaf of *Xylopia macrantha*. Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Photo credit: Anna Mežaka.

Forest gaps in tropical rainforests contribute to habitat heterogeneity and vascular plant diversity.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the new IAVS journal

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler, Idoia Biurrun, Florian Jansen & Wolfgang Willner

In summer 2019 IAVS decided to start a new, third association-owned journal, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), next to Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS) and Applied Vegetation Science (AVS). VCS is replacing the collaboration of IAVS with Borntraeger Science Publishers in publishing Phytocoenologia, which ended 2019, with a journal fully integrated in IAVS’ journal portfolio.…

Bogged down in the European marsh vegetation classification: a short story of a long project

Posted on February 22, 2020February 29, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Flavia Landucci

Drawing summarizing the ecology and relationship of some marsh communities. By Flavia Landucci.

This post refers to the article Classification of the European marsh vegetation (Phragmito‐Magnocaricetea) to the association level by Flavia Landucci et al.…

Establishment dynamics of native and exotic plants after disturbance along roadsides

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Daria Corcos, Juri Nascimbene, Marta Campesan, Davide Donadello, Veronica Segat & Lorenzo Marini

Example of a disturbed and control 1m² experimental plots. Photo credit: Veronica Segat.

Mountain areas are experiencing greater levels of exotic plant invasions due to global change.…

Trait‐based numerical classification of mesic and wet grasslands in Poland

Posted on February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Attila Lengyel, Grzegorz Swacha, Zoltán Botta-Dukát & Zygmunt Kącki

Both management and environmental factors are important drivers of the variation between trait-based types of mesic grasslands in Poland. Location: Sudety Mountains, Poland. Photo credit: Zygmunt Kącki.

The use of numerical classification methods and vegetation plot databases opened new avenues towards the understanding of vegetation patterns on broad spatial scales.…

Trade-offs between fire hazard reduction and conservation in a Natura 2000 shrub–grassland mosaic

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Vasco Silva, Filipe X. Catry, Paulo M. Fernandes, Francisco C. Rego & Miguel N. Bugalho

Vasco Silva (the first author of the paper) surveying the habitats dominated by gorse shrublands of *Ulex jussiaei* and grasslands of *Stipa gigantea* in Sintra mountain, western coast of Portugal, before the prescribed fire execution.

Delving into “The Corridors of Time”: ancient hedgerows connected to woodlands are living museums of forest biodiversity

Posted on February 4, 2020March 1, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post is provided by Jonathan Lenoir & Guillaume Decocq

Figure 1: A dense network of hedgerows in the so-called “bocage” landscape in the Thiérache region in northern France (Picardie, Hauts-de-France). Photo by Guillaume Decocq.

This post refers to the article “Historical continuity and spatial connectivity ensure hedgerows are effective corridors for forest plants: evidence from the species-time-area relationship” by Jonathan Lenoir et al.…

Spatial patterns of tree recruitment in a montane Hawaiian wet forest after cattle removal and pig population control

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Thomas Ibanez & Patrick J. Hart

Scattered trees (*Metrosideros polymorpha*, Myrtaceae) in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, Island of Hawaiʻi, U.S. Photo credit: Patrick J. Hart.

As on many remote tropical islands, the natural ecosystems of Hawai’i have greatly suffered from the introduction of ungulates such as cattle, pigs and goats.…