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The new issue 2018/5 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on October 24, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The cover of the new JVS issue shows different fruits of woody plants from the island of Réunion, related to the paper by Albert, Flores, Rouget, Wilding, & Strasberg (2018).

They used a set of vegetation plots from this tropical island to describe a pattern of striking decrease in the proportion of fleshy-fruited trees and shrubs with altitude.…

This is not a pine: a fieldwork story

Posted on October 12, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Emilie Champagne

One of my field assistant (Lorraine Lessard) carefully recording browsing in a 4 m2 plot, in Outaouais (Québec, Canada). Photo credit: Emilie Champagne.

This post refers to the article Forage diversity, type and abundance influence winter resource selection by white‐tailed deer by Emilie Champagne, André Dumont, Jean‐Pierre Tremblay and Steeve D.…

In the quest of designing grassland communities resistant to invasions during ecological restoration

Posted on October 12, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Florencia A. Yannelli

Controlled conditions in greenhouse experiments enable us to test a plethora of hypotheses in community or invasion ecology by reducing the effect confounding factors. Photo credit: Florencia Yannelli.

This post refers to the article Seed density is more effective than multi‐trait limiting similarity in controlling grassland resistance against plant invasions in mesocosms by Yannelli et al.…

A new Associate Editor of AVS

Posted on October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 by Milan Chytry

We welcome Guillaume Decocq, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, as a new Associate Editor of Applied Vegetation Science. Guillaume is not new to our team: he has served as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Vegetation Science for several years.…

Forest seedling community response to understorey filtering by tree ferns

Posted on September 22, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by James M. R. Brock, George L. W. Perry, Tynan Burkhardt & Bruce R. Burns

James Brock, surrounded by silver fern *Cyathea dealbata* – the symbol of New Zealand national sports teams, recording the seedling community in experimental tree fern plot no.

Slow recovery of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant community after fungicide application: An eight-year experiment

Posted on September 17, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Hana Pánková, Tomáš Dostálek, Kristýna Vazačová & Zuzana Münzbergová

Study site – dry grassland in the central part of the Czech Republic. Photo credit: Hana Pánková.

Dry grasslands represent one of the most species-rich communities in Europe with a high occurrence of rare species.…

The assembly of a plant network in alpine vegetation

Posted on September 15, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gianalberto Losapio, Marcelino de la Cruz, Adrián Escudero, Bernhard Schmid & Christian Schöb

The study site in the Swiss Alps (Lämmerenboden, 2300 m a.s.l.). Photo credit:
Gianalberto Losapio.

Plant ecology has always focused on interactions among species within communities.…

The symmetry of competition: a battle crown-to-crown or roots-to-roots?

Posted on September 15, 2018March 3, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Marco Mina

Stems, leaves and crowns is only half of the picture. A darker battle for resources happens below the surface where roots work hard to extract water and nutrients from the soil, and compete for space.

The new issue 2018/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on September 3, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

Elephant impact: Acacia woodland in Botswana where trees are disappearing due to disturbance by elephants. See the paper by Gabriella Teren et al.: Elephant-mediated compositional changes in riparian canopy trees over more than two decades in northern Botswana.

Rules of thumb for predicting tropical forest recovery

Posted on September 1, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Dr Karen Holl summarizes the results of the recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12394) showing that measuring grass cover and canopy cover just a year after pasture abandonment can help to predict the rate of tropical forest recovery.…