Why we still need permanent plots for vegetation science
Prepared by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward & Lauren Hallett
Drivers of biodiversity depend on spatial grain and plant group: new paper from the EDGG Field Workshop to Bulgarian dry grasslands
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…
Continue readingHabitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago
By Alessandro Chiarucci, Fabrizio Buldrini, Marco Cervellini, Riccardo Guarino, Marco Caccianiga, Bruno Foggi, Daniele Viciani, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Laura Casella, Pierangela Angelini, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini, Salvatore Pasta, Mirko Enea & Piero Zannini
Patch-level facilitation fosters high-Andean plant diversity at regional scales
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 readingSpecial Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science” in JVS 2020/5
The 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 readingVegsciblog is two years old!
Prepared 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.…
Continue readingReed bed vegetation structure and plant species diversity depend on management type and the time period since last management
Prepared by Line Holm Andersen, Petri Nummi, Simon Bahrndorff, Cino Pertoldi, Kristian Trøjelsgaard, Torben Linding Lauridsen, Jeppe Rafn, Cecilie M. Skak Frederiksen, Mads P. Kristjansen & Dan Bruhn
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is inviting proposals for a Special Collection of papers on the ‘International Vegetation Classification’
By Wolfgang Willner
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 readingHigh diversity in Armenian grasslands: EDGG Field Workshop provides standardized data for the first time
The 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 readingLong-term vegetation changes in Nardus grasslands indicate eutrophication, recovery from acidification, and management change as the main drivers
By Cord Peppler-Lisbach, Nils Stanik, Natali Könitz & Gert Rosenthal
The environment around us changes continuously and almost everywhere.…
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