Small biodiversity effects on leaf litter production of a seasonal heath vegetation
By José L.A. Silva, Alexandre F. Souza, Louis S. Santiago, Anderson R. Gripp, Ana E.B. Asato, Gabriel H.S. Silva, Mery I.G. Alencar and Adriano Caliman
Yunnan Pine forest: types and dynamics
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This Behind the paper post refers to the article Forest characteristics, population structure and growth trends of Pinus yunnanensis in Tianchi National Nature Reserve of Yunnan, southwestern China, by Cindy Q.…
Continue readingTwo new sections of the IAVS Bulletin: Invitation to contribute
By Monika Janišová, the Editor of IAVS Bulletin
The IAVS Bulletin, the newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science published in digital form four times a year, is introducing two new contribution sections.
Section on sampling methodology
- Do you use a reliable, well-developed methodology to investigate vegetation or to answer important questions related to vegetation, which you would like to popularise?
The Glen Finglas Experiment and the slow pace of change in upland communities
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Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species-specific
By Judit Sonkoly, Orsolya Valkó, Nóra Balogh, Laura Godó, András Kelemen, Réka Kiss, Tamás Miglécz, Edina Tóth, Katalin Tóth, Béla Tóthmérész & Péter Török
[Deadline extended to July 31, 2020] Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is inviting proposals for a Special Collection on “Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic”
By Jürgen Dengler
Journal: VCS is the new gold open access journal of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), started in May 2020. It is devoted to vegetation classification with any methodological approach and at any organisational scale. There is no limit to the length of articles as long as it is justified by the content.…
Continue readingVCS now with an attractive cover
By Jürgen Dengler, VCS Chief Editor
Vegetation Classification and Survey, the gold open access journal of IAVS in the fields of vegetation classification and ecoinformatics now has an attractive cover: https://vcs.pensoft.net/issue/2933. It was designed by the VCS Chief Editors together with the publisher to highlight both the diversity of vegetation types from around the globe that are covered in the journal and, via the similarity in style, the close connection to the two other IAVS journals, JVS and AVS.…
Continue readingTrudging through treefalls
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This post refers to the article Short‐term responses in a secondary tropical forest after a severe windstorm event by Yee et al.…
Continue readingThe new issue 2020/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out
The cover photo of the May issue shows an open-grown pasture tree in a second-growth forest retaining its open-grown branch structure, related to the paper by Marion Holmes “Pasture trees contribute to structural heterogeneity and plant distributions in post-agricultural forests decades after canopy closure“.…
Continue readingHigh resistance of plant biodiversity to moderate native woody encroachment in loess steppe grassland fragments
By Balázs Teleki, Judit Sonkoly, László Erdős, Béla Tóthmérész, Mátyás Prommer & Péter Török
Loess grasslands are among the most species-rich habitat types in the world, often containing up to 40-60 species on a single square meter.…
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