Trait divergence of woody species in relation to affinity for termite mounds in Upper Katanga (DR Congo)
Prepared by Fidèle Cuma Mushagalusa, David Bauman, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha & Pierre Meerts

Prepared by Fidèle Cuma Mushagalusa, David Bauman, Mylor Ngoy Shutcha & Pierre Meerts
Prepared by Alba Anadon-Rosell, Marc Talavera, Josep M. Ninot, Empar Carrillo & Enric Batllori
Alpine treelines represent the upper altitudinal limit of the forest in mountain regions.…
Continue readingThe 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“.
… Continue readingPrepared by Andreas Futschik, Manuela Winkler, Klaus Steinbauer, Andrea Lamprecht, Sabine B. Rumpf, Peter Barančok, Andrej Palaj, Michael Gottfried & Harald Pauli
Prepared by Michelangelo Olleck, Birgit Reger & Jörg Ewald
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?’
… Continue readingPrepared by Hamid Gholizadeh, Alireza Naqinezhad & Milan Chytrý
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.…
Continue readingDr 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.…
Continue readingIAVS 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!
Awarded papers:
Alcántara, J. M., Garrido, J. L., Montesinos‐Navarro, A., Rey, P. J.,…
Prepared by Shyam S. Phartyal, Sergey Rosbakh, Christian Ritz & Peter Poschlod
Do we fully understand what role regeneration traits play in plant community assembly?…
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