Multiple soil factors explain eutrophication signals in the understory vegetation of temperate forests
Prepared by Marina Roth, Hans-Gerhard Michiels, Heike Puhlmann, Carina Sucker & Markus Hauck

Prepared by Marina Roth, Hans-Gerhard Michiels, Heike Puhlmann, Carina Sucker & Markus Hauck
By Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of Vegetation Classification and Survey), Alireza Naqinezhad and Arkadiusz Nowak
The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (www.edgg.org) and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “Grasslands of Asia”.…
Continue readingBy Reginald Tang Guuroh (Chair of the IAVS African Reginal Section) and Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of the Vegetation Classification and Survey)
The new IAVS African Regional Section and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “African vegetation studies”.…
Continue readingBy Antonella Ferraina, Cecilia D. Molina, Noemí Mazía, Gervasio Piñeiro, Isabel Miranda & Enrique José Chaneton
Woody-plant invasion in grasslands is a global problem widely reported during the last decade.…
Continue readingHeloiza L. Zirondi, Mark K. J. Ooi & Alessandra Fidelis
In many vegetation types across the globe where fire is present, plants have adaptations to the fire regime to survive and reproduce.…
Continue readingDo you want to have your photo on the 2022 cover of the Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science? We invite IAVS members to submit photos, of which one will be selected for the 2022 cover of each journal.…
Continue readingBy Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published four contributions in the third quarter of 2021.…
Continue readingPrepared by Manfred Finckh, Janika Wendefeuer & Paulina Meller
Brandon Allen and his colleagues summarized the results from a recent paper in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13073) illustrating the complex relationships between functional diversity, terrestrial invaders, and the surrounding environment in boreal wetlands. Read more about these relationships at the ABMI blog.…
Continue readingPrepared by Liam Butler & Roy Sanderson
The standard vegetation quadrat is probably the most common method to survey plant communities, and thousands of scientific papers have been published in which some field data was collected via quadrats.…
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