On the use of taxon names in community ecology

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Vegetation science and community ecology focus on ecosystems composed of multiple species and other taxonomic ranks, such as subspecies. Scientific work in these fields requires accurate identification of these taxa in the field and recording them using standardized scientific names. However, the Editors of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science frequently encounter manuscripts where authors misunderstand taxonomic nomenclature, leading to errors and making articles challenging for readers to follow.…

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Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures

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The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures are Lucia Čahojová and Markus Neupert. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Kryštof Chytrý, Veradina Nacheva, Denys Vynokurov and Anaclara Guido.

The alpine grassland on Mount Raduha in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps (Slovenia) occurs on limestone with a significant admixture of siliceous minerals, resulting in a species-rich plant community consisting of both acidophilous and basiphilous plants.
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Palaearctic Grasslands 62 is published

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

This post refers to the new issue 62 of Palaearctic Grasslands, which you can read here.

This new issue includes the first calls for the 20th Eurasian Grassland Conference to be held in Oulu (Finland) from 7th to 10th July 2025, as well as the two planned Field Workshops in the Maritime and Ligurian Alps (Italy) (28th May to 5 June 2025) and the Turku Archipelago (Finland) (28th June to 6th July 2025).…

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Communication Officer for AVS and JVS needed

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By Viktoria Wagner (on behalf of the Chief Editor team)

Dear IAVS members,

Applied Vegetation Science and Journal of Vegetation Science are looking for a Communication Officer to help disseminate their content on social media (X, Bluesky). The communication officer will work under the supervision of the Chief Editors and prepare and post summaries of newly published articles, and thus help to build the journals’ visibility in the community.…

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Do you study seed banks? And do you have a green thumb? No? Then you need to learn how to identify seeds!

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The post provided by Alida A. Hábenczyus, Iva Weiterová, and Jules Segrestin

One of the seed bank samples after we separated the seeds from the substrate and other organic material (roots, plant bases). Only visibly intact seeds with a solid embryo are considered part of the seed bank.
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The need for a strict delimitation of early tree life stages in vegetation ecology

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Prepared by Ricard Arasa-Gisbert, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Martín de Jesús Cervantes-López & Jorge A. Meave

Proposed standardized criteria (left Y axis) for defining seedlings (0 to < 50 cm height), saplings (50 to < 200 cm height and/or < 2 cm diameter at breast height, DBH) and juveniles (≥ 200 cm height and/or 2 to 9.9 cm DBH) of canopy trees.
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Call to contribute to a Special Collection “Vegetation classification of islands and archipelagos”

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Prepared by Jorge Capelo, Jürgen Dengler and Riccardo Guarino

Vegetation on islands around the world (Photos by J. Capelo, J. Dengler and R. Guarino).

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Special Collection on the vegetation of islands and archipelagos worldwide in IAVS’ gold open access journal Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS).…

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Native species identity drives plant community growth and biotic resistance

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Prepared by Elana V. Feldman, Timothy E. Walsworth, Karin M. Kettenring

Certain high-performing native species (right) were better at growing larger and preventing invasive Phragmites australis from growing than others (left). Photo credit: Elana Feldman

To successfully restore wetlands, it is important to understand the factors that allow native species to block invasive species growth.…

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