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IAVS Editors’ Awards go to Yasuhiro Kubota for Journal of Vegetation Science and László Erdős for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!
Yasuhiro Kubota receives the Award for the paper Kubota, Y., Kusumoto, B., Shiono, T.,…
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Steppes are among the most important grassland types, and a high proportion of steppes have suffered from overgrazing.…
Continue readingThe cover of the new issue shows a canopy crane in a tropical rain forest in Yunnan, China (see Shen et al. 2018).
The issue also contains a Synthesis paper by David Zelený summarizing the approaches to statistical testing of community-weighted means.…
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In the last years, I have been looking at different views for understanding the spatial patterns of plant communities.…
Continue readingGuest editors: Péter Török, James Bullock, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Judit Sonkoly
Background
Plant regeneration plays a decisive role in vegetation dynamics by underpinning local and landscape-scale processes, biodiversity patterns, and community resilience to abiotic and anthropogenic disturbances. As establishment and recruitment depend greatly on spatial plant dispersal and the local propagule bank, studying their contributions to these processes is crucial.…
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