Secondary succession on landslides in submontane forests of central Taiwan: Environmental drivers and restoration strategies
By Chien-Fan Chen, Ching-Feng Li, Chu-Mei Huang, Huan-Yu Lin & David Zelený
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Call for papers: special issue on grazing effects in Applied Vegetation Science
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Guest editors: Péter Török (Hungary, chair of guest editors), Regina Lindborg (Sweden), David Eldridge (Australia) & Robin Pakemann (United Kingdom).
Understanding grazing effects on the plant composition and functional diversity of vegetation, as well as its effects on ecosystem functioning and services, is essential from both theory and applications.…
Continue readingTesting collection-time reduction in fine-root biomass estimation in Atlantic Forests
Prepared by Cinthia Silva, Vinícius Londe, André D’Angioli, Bruno Bordron, Carlos Joly & Simone Vieira
Studying the ecosystem’s functioning below the ground surface is not an easy task.…
Continue readingResults of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2022 cover pictures
The winners of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2022 cover pictures are Gianmaria Bonari and Rense Haveman. The forerunners are Chien-Fan Chen, Anaclara Guido, Luis López-Mársico and Ricarda Pätsch.
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the colleagues who submitted their pictures.…
Continue readingJVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2021
JVS Editors’ Award goes to Stephan Getzin and colleagues for the paper “Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings“.
AVS Editors’ Award goes to Sofía Campana and Laura Yahdjian for the paper “Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland“.…
Continue readingNew Editors of JVS and AVS
We welcome new Associate Editors of our journals.
Journal of Vegetation Science
Jonathan Bennett, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Antonio Gazol, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Zaragoza, Spain
Yasuhiro Kubota, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan
Attila Lengyel, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
Francesco Maria Sabatini, University of Bologna, Italy
Applied of Vegetation Science
Erwin Bergmeier, University of Göttingen, Germany
Giselda Durigan, Forestry Institute of São Paulo State, Brazil
Lena Neuenkamp, University of Bern, Switzerland
Orsolya Valkó, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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Continue readingJVS/AVS Photo Competition
Do you want to have your photo on the 2022 cover of the Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science? We invite IAVS members to submit photos, of which one will be selected for the 2022 cover of each journal.…
Continue readingA rapid method to quantify small-scale vegetation patch structure to complement conventional quadrat surveys
Prepared by Liam Butler & Roy Sanderson
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.…
Continue readingBeyond species richness and community composition: using plant functional diversity to measure restoration success in jarrah forest
Prepared by Rachel Standish, Aaron Gove, Andrew Grigg and Matthew Daws
Ecological restoration has matured as a science and a practice since its inception in the 1980s.…
Continue readingTraditional cattle grazing can maintain functional diversity of oriental beech forests
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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.,…
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