Tag: AVS

A rapid method to quantify small-scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys

Posted on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Liam Butler & Roy Sanderson

View across Redesdale in North East England, UK. Photo credit: Liam Butler.

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.…

Beyond species richness and community composition: using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Rachel Standish, Aaron Gove, Andrew Grigg and Matthew Daws

Restoration ecologists on a newly restored mine site in the jarrah forest bioregion. Reference jarrah forest in the background. Photo credit: Richard J. Hobbs.

Ecological restoration has matured as a science and a practice since its inception in the 1980s.…

Traditional cattle grazing can maintain functional diversity of oriental beech forests

Posted on August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Zahed Shakeri, Daniel Simberloff, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann and Rolf Lutz Eckstein

Cows resting in a summer camp at an altitude of about 2300 meters in Talish, Iran. Photo credit: Mohammad Aminpour.

This post refers to the article The impact of livestock grazing and canopy gaps on species pool and functional diversity of ground flora in the Caspian beech forests of Iran by Shakeri et al.,…

Enjoying tranquility – Development of ground vegetation after cessation of management in forests on loamy soils in Flanders (Belgium)

Posted on July 13, 2021August 4, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Kris Vandekerkhove, Arno Thomaes, Luc De Keersmaeker, Peter Van de Kerckhove, Thierry Onkelinx, Hans Van Calster & Kris Verheyen

A view on one of the investigated set-asides: an old mixed oak forest in Meerdaalwoud (close to Leuven, Belgium). Notice the dense layer of spring flowers.

Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland

Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Sofía Campana & Laura Yahdjian

(a) Experimental exclosures used in the study site (Flooding Pampa, Argentina) to evaluate the effect of domestic grazing. Plant biomass accumulates inside the exclosure (left) in comparison with the grazed grassland (right). (b) Mobile cage used to estimate cattle consumption and aboveground net primary productivity in the grazed grassland.

Predictive mapping of plant diversity in an arid mountain environment (Gebel Elba, Egypt)

Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Maged M. Abutaha, Ahmed A. El-Khouly, Norbert Jürgens & Jens Oldeland

Evergreen vegetation (*Olea* woodland) at higher elevations of Gebel Elba, south-eastern Egypt. Left: Mahmoud Ali, right: Maged Abutaha. Photo credit: Maged Abutaha.

Gebel Elba, the core of the largest national park in Egypt (Gebel Elba National Park), is situated in the southeast corner of Egypt, nearly 15 km west of the Red Sea coast.…

Mowing machinery and migratory sheep herds are complementary dispersal vectors for grassland species

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Yves P. Klinger, Rolf Lutz Eckstein, Wiebke Hansen, Till Kleinebecker, Annette Otte & Kristin Ludewig

Migratory sheep grazing in the study area, the nature reserve “Lange Rhön”. Dung samples were collected weekly over a three month period (July to September).

Jodi Price becoming a new Chief Editor of JVS and AVS

Posted on May 5, 2021June 25, 2021 by Milan Chytry

We welcome Jodi Price as a new Chief Editor of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science! Jodi is replacing Alessandro Chiarucci who decided to step down after serving as a Chief Editor for 15 years.

Jodi is a teaching and research academic at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia.…

Monitoring a riverside forest with students and community scientists

Posted on April 19, 2021May 28, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Kelly Steinberg

Students gather to share and record data they collected during a monthly trip to their field site in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Their data includes groundwater depth, leaf litter and precipitation in the riparian cottonwood-willow forest that runs through the city, only a few minutes bus ride from school.

Eddy van der Maarel (1934-2021)

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 by Milan Chytry

We are deeply saddened to announce that the founder of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science, Honorary Member of the IAVS, Professor Eddy van der Maarel, died on 4 April 2021.