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This post refers to the article Classification of the European marsh vegetation (Phragmito‐Magnocaricetea) to the association level by Flavia Landucci et al.…
Continue readingBy Daria Corcos, Juri Nascimbene, Marta Campesan, Davide Donadello, Veronica Segat & Lorenzo Marini
Mountain areas are experiencing greater levels of exotic plant invasions due to global change.…
Continue readingBy Vasco Silva, Filipe X. Catry, Paulo M. Fernandes, Francisco C. Rego & Miguel N. Bugalho
Prepared by Thomas Ibanez & Patrick J. Hart
As on many remote tropical islands, the natural ecosystems of Hawai’i have greatly suffered from the introduction of ungulates such as cattle, pigs and goats.…
Continue readingThe 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“.
