From natural forests to urban weeds
Post provided by Kun Song, Ying-Ji Pan & Yi-Chong Cui
Grazing exclusion and vegetation change in an upland grassland with patches of tall herbs
Prepared by Sarah H. Watts, Anna Griffith & Lindsay Mackinlay
In 2000, an electric deer fence was erected around 180 ha at Creag an Lochain in the Ben Lawers Natural Nature Reserve, Scotland.…
Continue readingAncient refugia and present-day habitat suitability of native laurophylls in Italy
Prepared by Nicola Alessi, Jakub Tešitel, Stefan Zerbe, Francesco Spada, Emiliano Agrillo & Camilla Wellstein
Geese are overlooked dispersal vectors for vascular plants in archipelago environments
Prepared by Dirk Hattermann, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Annette Otte & Rolf Lutz Eckstein
Since plants do not move, they have to adapt to changing environmental conditions on the spot or disperse their seeds by means of wind, water or animals to escape unfavourable conditions.…
Continue readingSpecies abundance distributions should underpin ordinal cover-abundance transformations
Prepared by Megan J. McNellie, Josh Dorrough and Ian Oliver
Cushion and shrub ecosystem engineers contribute differently to diversity and functions in alpine ecosystems
Prepared by Jian-Guo Chen, Xiao-Fang He, Song-Wei Wang, Yang Yang & Hang Sun
Abandonment of traditional saltworks facilitates degradation of halophytic plant communities and Carpobrotus edulis invasion
Prepared by Rosa M. Chefaoui & Sergio Chozas
In the “Anthropocene” era, in which most ecosystems have been altered by humans, half of the world’s wetlands have been lost.…
Continue readingThe new issue 2019/1 of Applied Vegetation Science is out
The cover picture shows a thermal weeder device for experimental burning. See Vidaller et al. for details
Journal of Vegetation Science starts Volume 30!
JVS has already been here for three decades. Its contents reflect the development of vegetation science over this period, but also indicate the future horizons. We initiated a discussion of the current and past Chief Editors, aiming to identify the most important trends in the past decades, and projections for the future.…
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