The 2024 Editors’ Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science goes to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini.
Siefert, A., D. C. Laughlin, and F. M. Sabatini. 2024. “You shall know a species by the company it keeps: Leveraging co‐occurrence data to improve ecological prediction.”…
Continue readingBy 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.…
Continue readingPrepared by Elana V. Feldman, Timothy E. Walsworth, Karin M. Kettenring
To successfully restore wetlands, it is important to understand the factors that allow native species to block invasive species growth.…
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A new Special Issue in Applied Vegetation Science focuses on the effects of grazing on vegetation.
Edited by Péter Török, Regina Lindborg, David Eldridge, and Robin Pakeman
The current Special Issue, with 16 papers and an editorial, highlights that the effects of grazing on vegetation are strongly context-dependent.…
Continue readingPrepared by César Leblanc, Pierre Bonnet, Maximilien Servajean, Milan Chytrý, Svetlana Aćić, Olivier Argagnon, Ariel Bergamini, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Juan A. Campos, Andraž Čarni, Renata Ćusterevska, Michele De Sanctis, Jürgen Dengler, Emmanuel Garbolino, Valentin Golub, Ute Jandt, Florian Jansen, Maria Lebedeva, Jonathan Lenoir, Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, Aaron Pérez-Haase, Remigiusz Pielech, Jozef Šibík, Zvjezdana Stančić, Angela Stanisci, Grzegorz Swacha, Domas Uogintas, Kiril Vassilev, Thomas Wohlgemuth, and Alexis Joly
Prepared by Fernando F. Furquim, John D. Scasta & Gerhard E. Overbeck
Worldwide, fire and grazing and their interaction are recognized as the main drivers of grassland plant composition and vegetation structure.…
Continue readingPrepared by Luis López-Mársico, Felipe Lezama & Alice Altesor
The post provided by Kiril Vassilev & Jürgen Dengler
This post refers to the article Classification of the high‐rank syntaxa of the Central and Eastern Balkan dry grasslands with a new hierarchical expert system approach by Vassilev et al.…
Continue readingPost prepared by Milan Chytrý, Valério Pillar, Jodi Price and Viktoria Wagner
Charles Fox and colleagues recently published a study that raised concerns about the fairness of the peer-review process in scientific journals (Fox et al., 2023). They conducted an extensive experiment in Functional Ecology, in which each manuscript submitted to this journal was randomly assigned to be reviewed with author identities anonymized vs.…
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