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Acacia invasion is facilitated by landscape permeability: The role of habitat degradation and road networks

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gustavo Heringer, Jan Thiele, Cibele H. Amaral, João A. A. Meira-Neto, Fabio A. R. Matos, Jan R. K. Lehmann, Tillmann K. Buttschardt & Andreza V. Neri

Sandy-savanna Mussununga ecosystem surrounded by Atlantic Forest (left) and *Acacia mangium* on Mussununga ecosystem (right).

Palaearctic Grasslands 48 is published

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 by David Zeleny

Post provided by Jürgen Dengler (Deputy Chief Editor of Palaearctic Grasslands)

The new issue of Palaearctic Grasslands is out. Palaearctic Grasslands is the diamond open access journal of EDGG, the IAVS Working Group dealing with ecology and conservation of natural and semi-natural grasslands of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm, taking into account not only plants and vegetation, but also animals, fungi, soils, landscapes and land use.…

Successful first year of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)

Posted on March 1, 2021March 3, 2021 by David Zeleny

Post provided by Jürgen Dengler (VCS Chief Editor)

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the new gold open access journal of IAVS devoted to vegetation classification and ecoinformatics, has completed a successful first year. We published a total of 22 articles with together 220 pages.…

Invitation for joint research in herbaceous vegetation

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Martin Wassen

This invitation was published in the IAVS Bulletin 2021/1 (https://doi.org/10.21570/BUL-202101-5)

Hi, my name is Martin Wassen and I invite vegetation scientists to participate in joint research about plant diversity and nutrient availability.

My work focuses on herbaceous ecosystems and one of my passions is the relationships between plant diversity and nutrient stoichiometry.…

Broad-scale classification of Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation relies on forest structure for high ranks

Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Gianmaria Bonari

*Pinus brutia* forest understory in the surroundings of Yamanlar, Turkey, 2019. Photo credit Milan Chytrý.

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation by Gianmaria Bonari and colleagues, published in Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12544…

Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co-occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Patryk Czortek, Anna Orczewska & Marcin K. Dyderski

Plant species typically occurring in *Molinia* meadows in the study site (Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation “Łąki Dąbrowskie” (S Poland): (a) *Iris sibirica*, (b) *Gentiana pneumonanthe*, (c) *Gladiolus imbricatus*, (d), *Betonica officinalis*, (e) *Inula salicina*, and (f) *Trollius europaeus* (typical of the *Calthion* alliance).

SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests

Posted on January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Eduardo Fernández-Pascual

Temperate deciduous forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina, USA. Photo credit: Eduardo Fernández-Pascual.

Seeds in nature are able to detect the environment and the season they are in and use this information to time their germination.…

Plant communities, populations and individuals have distinct responses to short-term warming and neighbour biomass removal in two montane grasslands

Posted on January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Travis Britton, Mark J. Hovenden, Meagan Porter, Rose Brinkhoff, Anna Flittner & Margaret M. Mayfield

Experimental warming chamber with a *Ranunculus nanus* flower in the foreground at Silver Plains field site, Tasmania, Australia (42.090254, 147.087945). Photo credit: Travis Britton.

Understanding how plant communities respond to environmental change is critical in the face of projected climate change.…

Results of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures

Posted on January 10, 2021January 11, 2021 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures are Hsun-Hung Chu and Adrián Purkart. The forerunners are Gianmaria Bonari, Nenad Jasprica and Ricarda Pätsch.