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Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the fourth quarter of 2021

Posted on January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Mediterranean grassland on the island of Sicily, Italy. Among all types of non-forest vegetation, Mediterranean grasslands according to Dembicz et al. (2021) have among the highest small-scale beta diversity.

New Special Collection on “Neotropical vegetation” launched by VCS

Posted on January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 by David Zeleny

By Gwendolyn Peyre (Guest Editor of the Special Collection) & Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of Vegetation Classification and Survey)

The IAVS Regional Section Latin America and the Caribbean and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “Neotropical vegetation”.…

VCS: volume No. 2 completed

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by David Zeleny

Post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Cover of volume No. 2 of Vegetation Classification and Survey. Photo credits: I. Dembicz & J. Dengler.

The second volume of IAVS’ gold open access journal Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has just been completed.…

VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Wolfgang Willner (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Award winner Iwona Dembicz during fieldwork in a Ukrainian salt steppe. Photo credit: J. Dengler.

VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz and colleagues for the paper “Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types”.…

Results of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2022 cover pictures

Posted on January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 by Milan Chytry

The winners of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2022 cover pictures are Gianmaria Bonari and Rense Haveman. The forerunners are Chien-Fan Chen, Anaclara Guido, Luis López-Mársico and Ricarda Pätsch.

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the colleagues who submitted their pictures.…

JVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2021

Posted on January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 by Milan Chytry

JVS Editors’ Award goes to Stephan Getzin and colleagues for the paper “Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings“.

AVS Editors’ Award goes to Sofía Campana and Laura Yahdjian for the paper “Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland“.…

Mixed evidence for the small island effect in a replicated colonisation experiment

Posted on December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Mikhail V. Kozlov, Vojtěch Lanta & Vitali Zverev

Examples of experimental plots: (a) Kevo, plot area 2 m², 2 September 2008; (b) Apatity, plot area 0.25 m², 16 August 2008; (c) Seili, plot area 0.05 m², 5 June 2010; (d) Lisino, plot area 0.01 m², 27 August 2009.

Palaearctic Grasslands 51 is published

Posted on December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Idoia Biurrun (Chief Editor of Palaearctic Grasslands)

This post refers to the new issue 51 of Palaearctic Grasslands (https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.51)

The new issue of Palaearctic Grasslands, EDGG’s scientific journal and magazine, is out, and you can read the complete issue here.…

Occurrence of Australian woody species is driven by soil moisture and available phosphorus across a climatic gradient

Posted on December 18, 2021December 18, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jingyi Ding, Samantha K. Travers & David J. Eldridge

Recording woody species at a site along a 100m transect in a *Callitris* spp. open woodland in eastern Australia. Photo credit: Jingyi Ding

When you are walking in the bush or hiking in a forest in Australia, you can find a diverse range of woody plants, with some species more often growing in dense forests but other species only occurring on open woodlands.…