Why we still need permanent plots for vegetation science
Prepared by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward & Lauren Hallett

Prepared by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward & Lauren Hallett
Prepared by Jürgen Dengler & Iwona Dembicz
This Behind the paper post refers to the article by Dembicz et al. Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional-taxonomic groups, published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12935…
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By Sabrina S. Gavini, Cecilia Ezcurra & Marcelo A. Aizen
The alpine ecosystem is one of the most stressful environments in the world due to the extreme abiotic conditions to which organisms are subject to.…
Continue readingThe September issue of JVS contains Special Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science”, edited by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward and Lauren Hallett”.
The cover photo from Děvín Hill in Czechia relates to Fischer et al.‘s study of a 25-year dynamics of a dry grassland.…
Continue readingPrepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (blog editors)
In August 2020, we celebrated the second anniversary of our blog, so let us stop here for a while and summarize what happened in the past year.…
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Title of the Special Collection: The ‘International Vegetation Classification’ initiative: case studies, syntheses, and perspectives on ecosystem diversity around the globe.
Editors: Don Faber-Langendoen (US), Wolfgang Willner (AT), Liu Changcheng (CN), John Hunter (AU), Gonzalo Navarro (BO)
Outline: The ‘International Vegetation Classification’ (IVC) project aims at providing a consistent, systematic, and authoritative description and classification of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems.…
Continue readingThe post provided by Jürgen Dengler & Idoia Biurrun
Behind the paper post referring to the article Biodiversity of dry grasslands in Armenia: First results from the 13th EDGG Field Workshop in Armenia by Aleksanyan et al.…
Continue readingBy Cord Peppler-Lisbach, Nils Stanik, Natali Könitz & Gert Rosenthal
The environment around us changes continuously and almost everywhere.…
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