The JVS and AVS Editor’s Awards for 2020 go to Sabrina Gavini and Lise Maciejewski. Congratulations!
Sabrina Gavini with colleagues explored whether local-scale biotic interactions affect biodiversity also at larger spatial scales (Gavini et al. 2020). A top-down view has often been used (regional richness is affecting local biodiversity).…
Continue readingPrepared by Liam A. Trethowan
The West (Sunda) and East (Sahul) of the Southeast Asian archipelago used to be much further apart. As the Asian and Australian plates came together, the islands we see today uplifted and the plant communities began to form.…
Continue readingThe just-published 2020/4 issue of Applied Vegetation Science is the last printed issue of the IAVS journals. From 2021 onwards, all the IAVS journals will be published online only.
The cover picture shows a steppe in an arid region of northeastern Iran, which was studied by Soroor Rahmanian et al.…
Continue readingPrepared by Ian Rotherham & Ondřej Vild
Prepared by Peter Minchin (IAVS Vice President and Chair of the Publications Committee)
This Commentary is a part of the series asking the question: should Applied Vegetation Science, the journal owned by IAVS and published by Wiley, become Gold Open Access?…
Continue readingPrepared by Jan Lepš
This Commentary is a part of the series asking the question: should Applied Vegetation Science, the journal owned by IAVS and published by Wiley, become Gold Open Access? For the context and link to other Commentaries, please visit Editorial.…
Continue readingPrepared by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Miguel Alvarez, Susan Aragon, Jaime Bernal-Hadad, Marius Bottin, Adalgisa Chaib, Dylan Craven, Gabriella Damanesco, Lucas Enrico, Federico Gallego, Melisa A. Giorgis, Reginald T. Guuroh, Lucrecia Lipoma, Luis López-Mársico, Cloe X. Perez-Valladares, Juliana Texeira & Florencia Yannelli
Prepared by Milan Chytrý, Alessandro Chiarucci, Meelis Pärtel and Valério Pillar (Chief Editors, JVS/AVS)
This Commentary is a part of the series asking the question: should Applied Vegetation Science, the journal owned by IAVS and published by Wiley, become Gold Open Access?…
Continue readingPrepared by David Zelený (Editor of the Vegetation Science Blog and Associate Editor in JVS)
Some time ago, IAVS was put in front of quite an important decision. Two of our journals, the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science, are currently distributed under the hybrid open-access model, when readers pay, and authors publish for free (while allowing publishing also open access articles for an extra cost).…
Continue readingDo you want to have your photo on the 2021 cover of the Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science?
From 1 January 2021, both journals will be published in online-only version. Consequently, there will be no printed issues with a cover picture featuring one of the articles in the issue.…
Continue reading
![[Deadline extended] Invitation to contribute to a Special Feature on “Palaearctic grasslands: global change, conservation, management and restoration” in Applied Vegetation Science](https://i0.wp.com/vegsciblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20260524_Dengler_AVS_1a.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1)
