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Alpine treelines represent the upper altitudinal limit of the forest in mountain regions.…
Continue readingThe covers shows a grassland with Astrantia major and Sanguisorba officinalis studied by Yasemin Kurtogullari et al.: “Conservation and restoration of Nardus grasslands in the Swiss northern Alps“.
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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?’
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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.,…
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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…
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