The cover picture shows fire refugia in Oregon from the study by William Downing and colleagues ‘How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and fire-generated early-seral vegetation?’
Prepared by Hamid Gholizadeh, Alireza Naqinezhad & Milan Chytrý
The Hyrcanian forests, unlike the arid and semiarid landscape throughout most of Iran, is one of the remnants of ancient natural deciduous forests which form a vegetation belt in the southern shores of the Caspian Sea.…
Continue readingDr Stuart Smith summarizes the results of a recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12472) that shows specialist grass species underneath trees are important for maintaining herbaceous biomass with increasing herbivore pressure and livestock dominance in African savannahs.…
Continue readingIAVS Editors’ Awards go to Julio Alcántara for the Journal of Vegetation Science and Raphaële Terrail for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!
Awarded papers:
Alcántara, J. M., Garrido, J. L., Montesinos‐Navarro, A., Rey, P. J.,…
Prepared by Shyam S. Phartyal, Sergey Rosbakh, Christian Ritz & Peter Poschlod
Do we fully understand what role regeneration traits play in plant community assembly?…
Continue readingThe post provided by David Zelený & Markéta Chudomelová
This post refers to the article Tracing the signs of local dispersal in the temperate forest understorey using spatially structured vegetation data by Markéta Chudomelová and David Zelený, published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12835…
Continue readingThe cover of the new issue shows Mediterranean perennial dry grasslands with Lygeum spartum in Bardenas Reales, northern Spain. See Marcenò et al.: “A formal classification of the Lygeum spartum vegetation of the Mediterranean Region“.
We welcome new Associate Editors and Editorial Board members of our journals:
Alessandra Fidelis, São Paulo State University, Rio Claro, Brazil – a new Associate Editor of JVS
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany – a new Associate Editor of AVS
Marco Malavasi, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic – a new member of the JVS Editorial Board
Zhiyao Tang, Peking University, Beijing, China – a new member of the JVS Editorial Board…
Continue readingThe post provided by Mareike Roeder
The rainout shelter on the cover is from the Matta LTER site in the Judean Hills, Israel, during summer dry season. See the paper by Moshe Alon & Marcelo Sternberg,
