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A comparison of phylogenetic and species beta diversity measures describing vegetation assemblages along an elevation gradient

Posted on February 21, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Tammy L. Elliott & T. Jonathan Davies

An alder thicket plant community on Mount Irony, Labrador, Canada. The alder thicket plant community transitions into a boreal forest community at lower elevations. Photo credit: Tammy Elliott.

Plant ecologists have long been interested in describing and delineating plant communities.…

Detectability of species of Carex varies with abundance, morphology, and site complexity

Posted on February 17, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jacqueline M. Dennett and Scott E. Nielsen

*Carex gynocrates* (bog sedge) is a short species with few, thin leaves and a small inflorescence. Sedges with this appearance were the most poorly detected group in our study, whereas tall sedges with wide leaves and a large inflorescence were almost never overlooked.

Patterns of long-term vegetation change vary between different types of semi-natural grasslands in Western and Central Europe

Posted on February 7, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Martin Diekmann, Christian Andres, Thomas Becker, Jonathan Bennie, Volker Blüml, James M. Bullock, Heike Culmsee, Miriam Fanigliulo, Annett Hahn, Thilo Heinken, Christoph Leuschner, Stefanie Luka, Justus Meißner, Josef Müller, Adrian Newton, Cord Peppler-Lisbach, Gert Rosenthal, Leon J.L. van den Berg, Philippine Vergeer & Karsten Wesche

Common in the past – a semi-natural wet grassland with the now rare and threatened species *Senecio aquaticus*.

Controlling the invader Urochloa decumbens: subsidies for ecological restoration in subtropical Campos grassland

Posted on January 20, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Pedro Augusto Thomas, Jéssica Schüler, Lidiane da Rosa Boavista, Fábio Piccin Torchelsen, Gerhard Ernst Overbeck & Sandra Cristina Müller

Experimental plot after the application of herbicide and topsoil removal. In the background of the photo, behind the plot, and in the foreground experimental plots, we can see Urochloa decumbens.

Effects of initial functional-group composition on assembly trajectory in savanna restoration

Posted on January 19, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by André G. Coutinho, Monique Alves, Alexandre B. Sampaio, Isabel B. Schmidt & Daniel L. M. Vieira

Results of active restoration in Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Goiás, Brazil (14°7’2.54″ S 47°38’30.36″ W). The area on the left side (A) was restored by direct seeding, leading to a vegetation structure more similar to a native Cerrado.

IAVS Editors’ Awards for 2018

Posted on January 6, 2019July 15, 2019 by Milan Chytry

IAVS Editors’ Awards go to Yasuhiro Kubota for Journal of Vegetation Science and László Erdős for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!

Yasuhiro Kubota receives the Award for the paper Kubota, Y., Kusumoto, B., Shiono, T.,…

Drivers of species richness and community integrity of small forest patches in an agricultural landscape

Posted on January 4, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Krista Takkis, Tiiu Kull, Tiit Hallikma, Piia Jaksi, Karin Kaljund, Karin Kauer, Thea Kull, Olavi Kurina, Mart Külvik, Kaire Lanno, Malle Leht, Jaan Liira, Indrek Melts, Hannes Pehlak, Janar Raet, Kaarel Sammet, Kalev Sepp, Ülo Väli & Lauri Laanisto

Studied forest patches within the agricultural landscape in northeast Estonia.

Increased rainfall and nitrogen alter colonization and extinction during postgrazing steppe succession

Posted on January 1, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Hong-Wei Yu & Wei-Ming He

Photos of the field experiment, northeastern Inner Mongolia, China: (a) Rainfall collectors and irrigation pipes at the beginning of the experiment, and (b) watered and fertilized experimental plots. Photo credit: Wei-Ming He.

Steppes are among the most important grassland types, and a high proportion of steppes have suffered from overgrazing.…

The new issue 2018/6 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The cover of the new issue shows a canopy crane in a tropical rain forest in Yunnan, China (see Shen et al. 2018).

The issue also contains a Synthesis paper by David Zelený summarizing the approaches to statistical testing of community-weighted means.…

JVS and AVS are official partners of Publons

Posted on December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The IAVS journals have become official partners of Publons. If you serve as a reviewer to our journals, you can get this service verified and display it on your Publons personal profile.