By Judit Sonkoly, Orsolya Valkó, Nóra Balogh, Laura Godó, András Kelemen, Réka Kiss, Tamás Miglécz, Edina Tóth, Katalin Tóth, Béla Tóthmérész & Péter Török
By Jürgen Dengler
Journal: VCS is the new gold open access journal of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), started in May 2020. It is devoted to vegetation classification with any methodological approach and at any organisational scale. There is no limit to the length of articles as long as it is justified by the content.…
Continue readingBy Jürgen Dengler, VCS Chief Editor
Vegetation Classification and Survey, the gold open access journal of IAVS in the fields of vegetation classification and ecoinformatics now has an attractive cover: https://vcs.pensoft.net/issue/2933. It was designed by the VCS Chief Editors together with the publisher to highlight both the diversity of vegetation types from around the globe that are covered in the journal and, via the similarity in style, the close connection to the two other IAVS journals, JVS and AVS.…
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This post refers to the article Short‐term responses in a secondary tropical forest after a severe windstorm event by Yee et al.…
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The cover photo of the May issue shows an open-grown pasture tree in a second-growth forest retaining its open-grown branch structure, related to the paper by Marion Holmes “Pasture trees contribute to structural heterogeneity and plant distributions in post-agricultural forests decades after canopy closure“.…
Continue readingBy Balázs Teleki, Judit Sonkoly, László Erdős, Béla Tóthmérész, Mátyás Prommer & Péter Török
Loess grasslands are among the most species-rich habitat types in the world, often containing up to 40-60 species on a single square meter.…
Continue readingPrepared by Sebastián R. Zeballos, Melisa A. Giorgis, Marcelo R. Cabido, Alicia T.R. Acosta, María del Rosario Iglesias & Juan J. Cantero
The introductory photo illustrates the actual conservation status of the lowland seasonally dry subtropical forest in central Argentina and perhaps in many other places in the Neotropics.…
Continue readingBy Maged M. Abutaha, Ahmed A. El-Khouly, Norbert Jürgens & Jens Oldeland
The arid mountain Gebel Elba represents the core of the most diverse and most extensive protected area in Egypt; Gebel Elba National Park.…
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Vegetation Classification and Survey, the latest academic journal by the International Association for Vegetation Science, is officially launched with the publication of six research papers, accompanied by an inaugural Editorial, explaining the mission and key features of the novel scholarly outlet.…
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This post refers to the article Weather fluctuations drive short-term dynamics and long-term stability in plant communities: a 25-year study in a Central European dry grassland by Fischer et al.…
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