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Grazing by wild red deer maintains characteristic vegetation of semi-natural open habitats: Evidence from a three-year exclusion experiment

Posted on June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Friederike Riesch, Bettina Tonn, Hans Georg Stroh, Marcus Meißner, Niko Balkenhol & Johannes Isselstein

Wild red deer grazing in a semi-natural grassland in Grafenwöhr military training area, Bavaria, Germany. See the experimental grazing exclosure in the foreground. Photo credit: Marcus Meißner.

A new vegetation-plot database for the coastal forests of Kenya

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Maria Fungomeli, Anthony Githitho, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Saidi Chidzinga, Marcus Cianciaruso & Alessandro Chiarucci

Kaya Kambe sacred forest, Kenya. Photo credit: Steve Okoko Ashikoye.

After two years of intense research work as a collaboration between the University of Bologna and the National Museums of Kenya, we produced the first standardised data set of the coastal forests of Kenya.…

The perspective of unmanned aerial systems in forest management: Do we really need such details?

Posted on June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jan Komárek

Detection of forest stands and identification of its parameters (e.g. height, species group, health status). Photo credit: Jan Komárek.

Traditional methods of terrestrial field survey and measurements at forests are by a majority of landowners still considered to be the most reliable source of tree information.…

Press-pulse interactions and long-term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

Posted on June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Scott Collins, Alesia Hallmark, Tim Ohlert, Anny Chung, Lauren Baur & Jennifer Rudgers

Chihuahuan Desert grassland dominated by black grama (foreground) and Great Plains grassland dominated by blue grama (background) at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, USA.

Fine-grained sediment deposition alters the response of plant CSR strategies on the gravel bars of a highly regulated river

Posted on June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Philippe Janssen, Hervé Piégay & André Evette

Along the Rhone, gravel bars with a high proportion of subsoil fine sediments at low elevation benefit stress-tolerant species such as *Lythrum salicaria* (Photo credit: Philippe Janssen).

Flow regulation by dams profoundly changes the functioning of river ecosystems.…

Methods in Vegetation Science – a new article type and a new article collection in JVS and AVS

Posted on June 19, 2020July 12, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science have introduced a new article type and a new journal section: Methods in Vegetation Science. At the same time, a new Spotlight article collection has been published on the journals’ website, in which all the methodological papers published since 2018 have been made Free Access.…

Small biodiversity effects on leaf litter production of a seasonal heath vegetation

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 by David Zeleny

By José L.A. Silva, Alexandre F. Souza, Louis S. Santiago, Anderson R. Gripp, Ana E.B. Asato, Gabriel H.S. Silva, Mery I.G. Alencar and Adriano Caliman

Seasonal heath vegetation in the Barreira do Inferno Lauch Center, Parnamirim municipality, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil (5º54’S, 35º10’W, December 2015).

Yunnan Pine forest: types and dynamics

Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Cindy Q. Tang

Yunnan Pine forests by the Tianchi Lake in the Tianchi National Nature Reserve. Photo credit: Rong-Wei Li.

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Forest characteristics, population structure and growth trends of Pinus yunnanensis in Tianchi National Nature Reserve of Yunnan, southwestern China, by Cindy Q.…

Two new sections of the IAVS Bulletin: Invitation to contribute

Posted on June 6, 2020July 12, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Monika Janišová, the Editor of IAVS Bulletin

The IAVS Bulletin, the newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science published in digital form four times a year, is introducing two new contribution sections.

Section on sampling methodology

Do you use a reliable, well-developed methodology to investigate vegetation or to answer important questions related to vegetation, which you would like to popularise?