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Floristic patterns in the Andes of northern Patagonia’s forests, Argentina: towards integrating ecological responses with expert-based and unsupervised classification methods

Posted on May 5, 2025May 6, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Natalia Zoe Joelson, Alois Simon, Friedemann von Lampe, Gabriel Ángel Loguercio, Stefan Zerbe, Christoph Leuschner, and Helge Walentowski

Different communities found in northern Patagonia, Argentina. Images show typical examples of: A) Broadleaved montane forest: Humid, evergreen forests found in wetter western areas, with dense tree coverage of *Nothofagus dombeyi*, B) Mixed montane forest: Mid-elevation evergreen forests adapted to moderate rainfall with a mix of broadleaved N.

Advancing vegetation classification of grassland ecosystems across Asia: current status and way forward

Posted on April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Alireza Naqinezhad, Idoia Biurrun, Victor Chepinoga, Jürgen Dengler, and Arkadiusz Nowak

Examples of Asian grassland types. a) *Acantholimono caryophyllacei-Stipetum holosericeae*, Armenia; b) Alpine vegetation in Damavand Mts with *Acantholimetum demawendici* as the main vegetation at altitude 3,700 m a.s.l.;

Measuring them all: Individual-based functional spatial patterns in mountain grasslands

Posted on April 23, 2025April 23, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Luciano L. M. De Benedictis, Stefano Chelli, Roberto Canullo, and Giandiego Campetella

One of the sampling quadrats, and its conversion into a point pattern, with different species in different colours and the size representing height. Height, leaf area, and specific leaf area were measured for each individual.

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the first quarter of 2025

Posted on April 22, 2025July 25, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of VCS Chief Editor)

The six forest associations found in the study area in northern Patagonia. Source: Joelson et al. (2025).

In the first quarter of its 6^th volume, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published five articles (see list below).…

Mean ecological indicator values: which system and which weighting approach to use

Posted on April 3, 2025May 23, 2025 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Grzegorz Ostrowski, Severin Aicher, Agnieszka Mankiewicz & Jürgen Dengler

The performance of EIVE in comparison to Tichý et al. (2023) and the two regional EIV systems. EIVE was significantly better (higher correlation with measured environmental variables) than “Tichý”, while there were no significant differences to the two regional systems applicable to the Swiss Alps (from the paper)

This post refers to the article Mean ecological indicator values: use EIVE but no cover-weighting by Ostrowski et al.…

How does fire exclusion affect the belowground biomass of tropical open ecosystems?

Posted on March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Juliana Teixeira, Lara Souza, Aline Bombo & Soizig Le Sradic

Post-fire differences at Cerrado open savanna in central Brazil. The left side of A and B represented the unburnt plot. The right side of A represents the immediate post-fire conditions; and the right side of B represents three months after the last fire.

Grasslands change differently at different elevations

Posted on March 12, 2025March 21, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gianmaria Bonari, Alessandro Bricca, Davide Andreatta, and Francesco Maria Sabatini

In 2022, we resurveyed 115 grassland vegetation plots. Notably, in addition to having the original plots resampled by the same surveyor, we were able to relocate them with remarkable accuracy.

Palaearctic Grasslands 63 is published

Posted on March 11, 2025June 9, 2025 by David Zeleny

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

This post refers to the new issue 63 of Palaearctic Grasslands, which you can read here.

This new issue includes the final calls for the two Field Workshops in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps (Italy) (28^th May to 6^th June 2025) and the Turku Archipelago (Finland) (28^th June to 6^th July 2025) and the first call for the 20^th Eurasian Grassland Conference to be held in Oulu (Finland) from 7^th to 10^th July 2025.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey: five years and looking ahead

Posted on March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 by David Zeleny

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

Distribution of the 119 papers published in the first five volumes of VCS according to article types and collections (from Biurrun et al. 2025).

On occasion of the completion of the fifth annual volume, the Chief Editors of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), looked both back and forward.…

Multiple effects of capybaras on vegetation suggest impending impacts of jaguar reintroduction

Posted on March 11, 2025March 14, 2025 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Ana Belen Avila, María Jose Corriale, Debora Di Francescantonio, Pablo I. Picca, Emiliano Donadio, Mario S. Di Bitetti, Agustín Paviolo, and Carlos De Angelo