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Trait divergence of woody species in relation to affinity for termite mounds in Upper Katanga (DR Congo)

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Fidèle Cuma Mushagalusa, David Bauman, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha & Pierre Meerts

Termite mound displaying its specialised tree community, contrasted with respect to the tree species of the surrounding woodland. The picture was taken in the Mikembo Sanctuary (Upper Katanga, DR Congo).

Seed production and dispersal limit treeline advance in the Pyrenees

Posted on January 29, 2020January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Alba Anadon-Rosell, Marc Talavera, Josep M. Ninot, Empar Carrillo & Enric Batllori

Seed trap (indicated with a black arrow) at the krummholz zone, study site Dellui, Central Pyrenees (Spain). Photo credit: Enric Batllori.

Alpine treelines represent the upper altitudinal limit of the forest in mountain regions.…

The new issue 2020/1 of Applied Vegetation Science is out

Posted on January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The covers shows a grassland with Astrantia major and Sanguisorba officinalis studied by Yasemin Kurtogullari et al.: “Conservation and restoration of Nardus grasslands in the Swiss northern Alps“.

Not in the eye of the beholder: climate change effects on alpine plant communities

Posted on January 25, 2020January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Andreas Futschik, Manuela Winkler, Klaus Steinbauer, Andrea Lamprecht, Sabine B. Rumpf, Peter Barančok, Andrej Palaj, Michael Gottfried & Harald Pauli

Vegetation changes between 1994 (left panel), 2004 (middle) and 2014 (right) in a plot on Schrankogel, Austria (Central Alps).

Plant indicators for Folic Histosols in mountain forests of the Calcareous Alps

Posted on January 21, 2020January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Michelangelo Olleck, Birgit Reger & Jörg Ewald

“Black beauty on the white rock”: The soil profile of a Folic Histosol (Wetterstein Mountains, southern Germany, at an altitude of 1,850 m a. s. l.) shows the typical dark brown to black forest floor overlying white calcareous bedrock.

The new issue 2020/1 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The cover picture shows fire refugia in Oregon from the study by William Downing and colleagues ‘How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and fire-generated early-seral vegetation?’

Classification of the Hyrcanian forest vegetation, northern Iran

Posted on January 19, 2020January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Hamid Gholizadeh, Alireza Naqinezhad & Milan Chytrý

Hyrcanian relict forests of Northern Iran, Javaherdasht area of Gilan province. Photo: Hamid Gholizadeh

The Hyrcanian forests, unlike the arid and semiarid landscape throughout most of Iran, is one of the remnants of ancient natural deciduous forests which form a vegetation belt in the southern shores of the Caspian Sea.…

Savannah trees buffer herbaceous plant biomass against wild and domestic herbivores

Posted on January 17, 2020January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Dr Stuart Smith summarizes the results of a recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12472) that shows specialist grass species underneath trees are important for maintaining herbaceous biomass with increasing herbivore pressure and livestock dominance in African savannahs.…

IAVS Editors’ Awards for 2019

Posted on December 18, 2019December 18, 2019 by Milan Chytry

IAVS Editors’ Awards go to Julio Alcántara for the Journal of Vegetation Science and Raphaële Terrail for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!