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A rapid method to quantify small-scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys

Posted on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Liam Butler & Roy Sanderson

View across Redesdale in North East England, UK. Photo credit: Liam Butler.

The standard vegetation quadrat is probably the most common method to survey plant communities, and thousands of scientific papers have been published in which some field data was collected via quadrats.…

Palaearctic Grasslands 50 is published

Posted on September 2, 2021October 2, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Idoia Biurrun (Chief Editor of Palaearctic Grasslands)

The new issue of Palaearctic Grasslands, EDGG’s scientific journal and magazine is out, and you can read the complete issue here. It contains 38 pages full of nice photos, many of them included in appealing photo stories and glimpses of grasslands.…

JVS Editors’ Choice: Beyns et al. 2021

Posted on August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 by Milan Chytry

The Journal of Vegetation Science introduces Editors’ Choice to emphasize papers of outstanding quality or novelty, containing innovative approaches or significant conclusions. The papers selected by the Chief Editors of the journal will be listed here.

The first Editors’ Choice is the paper Beyns et al.…

Beyond species richness and community composition: using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Rachel Standish, Aaron Gove, Andrew Grigg and Matthew Daws

Restoration ecologists on a newly restored mine site in the jarrah forest bioregion. Reference jarrah forest in the background. Photo credit: Richard J. Hobbs.

Ecological restoration has matured as a science and a practice since its inception in the 1980s.…

Traditional cattle grazing can maintain functional diversity of oriental beech forests

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

The post provided by Zahed Shakeri, Daniel Simberloff, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann and Rolf Lutz Eckstein

Cows resting in a summer camp at an altitude of about 2300 meters in Talish, Iran. Photo credit: Mohammad Aminpour.

This post refers to the article The impact of livestock grazing and canopy gaps on species pool and functional diversity of ground flora in the Caspian beech forests of Iran by Shakeri et al.,…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the second quarter of 2021

Posted on August 5, 2021October 15, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Vegetation in four different biomes. Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler.

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published six contributions in the second quarter of 2021.

Our Editors’ Choice Paper is by Hunter et al.…

GrassPlot marathon: the long way towards the first benchmarks of plant species richness of Palaearctic grasslands

Posted on August 4, 2021October 15, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Idoia Biurrun, Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler and Remigiusz Pielech

Nested-plot sampling in an alpine grassland (*Elyno-Seslerietea*) in Grisons (Switzerland) (Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler)

This post refers to the article Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats by Biurrun et al.…

Enjoying tranquility – Development of ground vegetation after cessation of management in forests on loamy soils in Flanders (Belgium)

Posted on July 13, 2021August 4, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Kris Vandekerkhove, Arno Thomaes, Luc De Keersmaeker, Peter Van de Kerckhove, Thierry Onkelinx, Hans Van Calster & Kris Verheyen

A view on one of the investigated set-asides: an old mixed oak forest in Meerdaalwoud (close to Leuven, Belgium). Notice the dense layer of spring flowers.

New insights into small-scale species-area relationships and beta diversity due to the GrassPlot database

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

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler, Iwona Dembicz, Jinghui Zhang & Idoia Biurrun

Sampling of a nested plot in a meso-xeric grassland in Northern Spain (Photo credit: Juan Antonio Campos).

This post refers to the articles “Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation” by Dembicz et al.…

Virtual Special Issue “Historical Vegetation Ecology”

Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 by Milan Chytry

This virtual special issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science was prepared by the IAVS working group Historical Vegetation Ecology and guest-edited by Radim Hédl, Sara Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Péter Szabó and Monika Wulf. It brings eight research articles published free to read.…