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The germination niche of coastal dune species as related to their occurrence along a sea-inland gradient

Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Silvia Del Vecchio, Edy Fantinato, Mauro Roscini, Alicia T.R. Acosta, Gianluigi Bacchetta & Gabriella Buffa

Distribution of the target species and of the main environmental factors from the sea to inland. (Source of the image: Acosta & Ercole, 2015, ISPRA, Serie Rapporti, 215/2015; modified by Silvia Del Vecchio.)

Integrating knowledge of ecological succession into invasive alien plant management: A case study from Portugal

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Liliana Neto Duarte, Carlos Pinto Gomes, Hélia Marchante & Elizabete Marchante

Selected invasive plants: a) Silver wattle (*Acacia dealbata*), b) Golden wattle (*A. longifolia*), c) Port Jackson wattle (*A. saligna*), d) Golden wattle (A.

The impact of seed deficiency on productivity and on negative drought effect in semi-natural grassland

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Andreas Stampfli & Michaela Zeiter

Colored ringlets which helped to distinguished recruits from established plants. (Photo credit: Andreas Stampfli.)

During severe droughts grassland herbs dehydrate, they either persist or die. The composition of vegetation after drought is determined by species which re-sprout from protected tissue or recruit from seed.…

Plant dispersal strategies in primary succession on the Tolbachinsky Dol volcanic Plateau (Russia)

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Anton Korablev, Vadim Smirnov, Valentina Neshataeva, Igor Kuzmin & Timofey Nekrasov

Pioneer plants establishing in volcanic ash and scoria fields disturbed by the eruption in 1975, Tolbachinskii Dol Volcanic Plateau, Kamchatka, Russia. (A historical remark: this place could be a point of the field excursion to Kamchatka during 63rd IAVS Symposium in Vladivostok, that has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

The second Newsletter of the Vegetation Classification and Survey is out!

Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Jürgen Dengler

With the VCS Newsletter No. 02, Vegetation Classification and Survey informs vegetation ecologists about the developments in the new IAVS journal.

Recently two more papers have been published, a classification of coastal grasslands in Eastern Australia (https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/48228…

The new issue 2020/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by Milan Chytry

This plant, Centaurea dichroantha, is an endemic species to pristine dry grasslands of South-Eastern Alps. It is threatened by the invasion of Amorpha fruticosa described in the paper Boscutti et al.: Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa impacts dry grasslands.…

The new issue 2020/3 of Applied Vegetation Science is out

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The picture shows Mediterranean dunes invaded by Agave americana and Carpobrotus sp. in Torre Astura, Italy. It is an example of invasions on coastal dunes, which were comprehensively assessed for Europe in the paper by Giulio et al.: Alien flora across European coastal dunes.…

Effects of white-tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

Posted on June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Kathryn J. Bloodworth, Mark E. Ritchie & Kimberly J. Komatsu

Twenty-two-year-old deer exclusion fences at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in northeastern Kansas, USA. Photo credit: Kimberly Komatsu.

Grasslands make up approximately 40% of the Earth’s ice-free land surface, and they support diverse plant and animal communities that provide many ecological services.…

Grazing by wild red deer maintains characteristic vegetation of semi-natural open habitats: Evidence from a three-year exclusion experiment

Posted on June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Friederike Riesch, Bettina Tonn, Hans Georg Stroh, Marcus Meißner, Niko Balkenhol & Johannes Isselstein

Wild red deer grazing in a semi-natural grassland in Grafenwöhr military training area, Bavaria, Germany. See the experimental grazing exclosure in the foreground. Photo credit: Marcus Meißner.

A new vegetation-plot database for the coastal forests of Kenya

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Maria Fungomeli, Anthony Githitho, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Saidi Chidzinga, Marcus Cianciaruso & Alessandro Chiarucci

Kaya Kambe sacred forest, Kenya. Photo credit: Steve Okoko Ashikoye.

After two years of intense research work as a collaboration between the University of Bologna and the National Museums of Kenya, we produced the first standardised data set of the coastal forests of Kenya.…