Tag: AVS

Methods in Vegetation Science – a new article type and a new article collection in JVS and AVS

Posted on June 19, 2020July 12, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science have introduced a new article type and a new journal section: Methods in Vegetation Science. At the same time, a new Spotlight article collection has been published on the journals’ website, in which all the methodological papers published since 2018 have been made Free Access.…

The Glen Finglas Experiment and the slow pace of change in upland communities

Posted on June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Robin Pakeman

Looking up Glen nam Meann (Lat 56.27°N, Long 4.38°W). The vegetation is a mosaic of different vegetation types with the foreground dominated by *Molinia caerulea* and *Juncus effusus*. Patches of *Agrostis-Festuca* grassland can be seen across the river as brighter green patches.

High resistance of plant biodiversity to moderate native woody encroachment in loess steppe grassland fragments

Posted on May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Balázs Teleki, Judit Sonkoly, László Erdős, Béla Tóthmérész, Mátyás Prommer & Péter Török

Loess grassland richly decorated with *Adonis vernalis*. Photo credit: Balázs Teleki

Loess grasslands are among the most species-rich habitat types in the world, often containing up to 40-60 species on a single square meter.…

JVS/AVS launched Spotlights: online collections with free-access papers

Posted on April 3, 2020April 5, 2020 by Milan Chytry

Explore Spotlights, a new feature on the websites of JVS and AVS. Spotlights are collections of articles of a certain type that were published in our journals in the past, and will also include such articles published in the future. Our publisher, Wiley, kindly made all the previously published articles included in the Spotlight collections free-access.…

The new issue 2020/2 of Applied Vegetation Science is out

Posted on April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 by Milan Chytry

This picture of a fire in a Pinus echinata forest in Tennessee features the paper by Andrew Vander Yacht et al.:‘Thresholds in woody and herbaceous component co-existence inform the restoration of a fire-dependent community’.

We renamed our blog into Vegetation Science Blog: Official blog of the IAVS journals, newly hosted at vegsciblog.org

Posted on March 1, 2020May 4, 2020 by David Zeleny

There is an important update we would like to share with you: we changed the domain name of our blog into vegsciblog.org, and renamed our blog into Vegetation Science Blog: Official blog of the IAVS journals. The reason is that from now, we serve as a blogging platform for all three IAVS journals, newly including also Vegetation Classification and Survey.…

Bogged down in the European marsh vegetation classification: a short story of a long project

Posted on February 22, 2020February 29, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Flavia Landucci

Drawing summarizing the ecology and relationship of some marsh communities. By Flavia Landucci.

This post refers to the article Classification of the European marsh vegetation (Phragmito‐Magnocaricetea) to the association level by Flavia Landucci et al.…

Establishment dynamics of native and exotic plants after disturbance along roadsides

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Daria Corcos, Juri Nascimbene, Marta Campesan, Davide Donadello, Veronica Segat & Lorenzo Marini

Example of a disturbed and control 1m² experimental plots. Photo credit: Veronica Segat.

Mountain areas are experiencing greater levels of exotic plant invasions due to global change.…

Trade-offs between fire hazard reduction and conservation in a Natura 2000 shrub–grassland mosaic

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Vasco Silva, Filipe X. Catry, Paulo M. Fernandes, Francisco C. Rego & Miguel N. Bugalho

Vasco Silva (the first author of the paper) surveying the habitats dominated by gorse shrublands of *Ulex jussiaei* and grasslands of *Stipa gigantea* in Sintra mountain, western coast of Portugal, before the prescribed fire execution.

Spatial patterns of tree recruitment in a montane Hawaiian wet forest after cattle removal and pig population control

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Thomas Ibanez & Patrick J. Hart

Scattered trees (*Metrosideros polymorpha*, Myrtaceae) in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, Island of Hawaiʻi, U.S. Photo credit: 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.…