Celebrating the first anniversary of our JVS-AVS blog
Prepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (editors)
Pollination and dispersal trait spectra recover faster than growth form spectrum during the spontaneous succession in sandy old-fields
Prepared by Edy Fantinato, Judit Sonkoly, Giulia Silan, Orsolya Valkó, Béla Tóthmérész, Balázs Deák, András Kelemen, Tamás Miglécz, Silvia Del Vecchio, Francesca Bettiol, Gabriella Buffa & Péter Török
The widespread abandonment of agricultural areas and croplands is making large areas available to test techniques for the restoration of grassland habitats.…
Continue readingNew Associate Editors of AVS
We are happy to welcome two new Associate Editors of Applied Vegetation Science:
Radim Hédl, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic, & Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Viktoria Wagner, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada …
JVS-AVS Editorial Meeting in Bremen, Germany
The Editors and Editorial Board members of our journals met during the IAVS Symposium in Bremen on 15 July 2019.
Alien plants alter the growth form ratio and structure of Australian grasslands
Prepared by Greg R. Guerin, Irene Martín‐Forés, Samantha E.M. Munroe, Ben Sparrow & Andrew J. Lowe
Loads of evidence suggests particular invasive weed species wreak havoc in native plant communities by out-competing, or rendering the local environment unsuitable for, natives.…
Continue readingThe new issue 2019/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out
The cover of the new issue, showing epiphytically growing Geranium robertianum, relates to the article “Accidental epiphytism in the Harz Mountains, Central Europe” by Vincent Hoeber et al.
The new issue 2019/3 of Applied of Vegetation Science is out
The cover of the new issue shows a Eucalyptus leptophleba woodland in Queensland studied in a methodological paper by Eda Addicott and Susan Laurance “Supervised versus un‐supervised classification: A quantitative comparison of plant communities in savanna vegetation’.
The new issue 2019/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out
Caribou on the cover of this issue relates to the paper by Kathy Lewis et al.: Fire and lichen dynamics in the Taiga Shield of the Northwest Territories and implications for barren-ground caribou winter forage.
Hedgerow age affects the species richness of herbaceous forest plants
Prepared by Kathrin Litza & Martin Diekmann
Hedgerows are narrow strips of wooded habitats that are known to provide refuge habitat for forest species, such as herbaceous forest plants, in agricultural landscapes.…
Continue readingThe new issue 2019/2 of Applied Vegetation Science is out
The cover of this new issue shows the threatened caatinga biome in Brazil – see the paper Schulz et al. “Grazing reduces plant species diversity of caatinga dry forests in northeastern Brazil“.
