The covers shows a grassland with Astrantia major and Sanguisorba officinalis studied by Yasemin Kurtogullari et al.: “Conservation and restoration of Nardus grasslands in the Swiss northern Alps“.
Prepared by Michelangelo Olleck, Birgit Reger & Jörg Ewald
Prepared by Hamid Gholizadeh, Alireza Naqinezhad & Milan Chytrý
The Hyrcanian forests, unlike the arid and semiarid landscape throughout most of Iran, is one of the remnants of ancient natural deciduous forests which form a vegetation belt in the southern shores of the Caspian Sea.…
Continue readingDr Stuart Smith summarizes the results of a recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12472) that shows specialist grass species underneath trees are important for maintaining herbaceous biomass with increasing herbivore pressure and livestock dominance in African savannahs.…
Continue readingIAVS Editors’ Awards go to Julio Alcántara for the Journal of Vegetation Science and Raphaële Terrail for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!
Awarded papers:
Alcántara, J. M., Garrido, J. L., Montesinos‐Navarro, A., Rey, P. J.,…
The cover of the new issue shows Mediterranean perennial dry grasslands with Lygeum spartum in Bardenas Reales, northern Spain. See Marcenò et al.: “A formal classification of the Lygeum spartum vegetation of the Mediterranean Region“.
We welcome new Associate Editors and Editorial Board members of our journals:
Alessandra Fidelis, São Paulo State University, Rio Claro, Brazil – a new Associate Editor of JVS
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany – a new Associate Editor of AVS
Marco Malavasi, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic – a new member of the JVS Editorial Board
Zhiyao Tang, Peking University, Beijing, China – a new member of the JVS Editorial Board…
Continue readingPrepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (editors)
Prepared by Edy Fantinato, Judit Sonkoly, Giulia Silan, Orsolya Valkó, Béla Tóthmérész, Balázs Deák, András Kelemen, Tamás Miglécz, Silvia Del Vecchio, Francesca Bettiol, Gabriella Buffa & Péter Török
The widespread abandonment of agricultural areas and croplands is making large areas available to test techniques for the restoration of grassland habitats.…
Continue reading We are happy to welcome two new Associate Editors of Applied Vegetation Science:
Radim Hédl, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic, & Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Viktoria Wagner, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada …
