Tag: AVS

New Editors and Editorial Board members

Posted on November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 by Milan Chytry

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…

Celebrating the first anniversary of our JVS-AVS blog

Posted on August 23, 2019August 31, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (editors)

Geographical distribution of users across the World accessing our blog during the past year (from August 23, 2018 till August 22, 2019). Note that although the highest number of users seems to come from China, most of them accessed the website during a single day after a post by Chinese authors has been published and shared on WeChat.

Pollination and dispersal trait spectra recover faster than growth form spectrum during the spontaneous succession in sandy old-fields

Posted on August 9, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

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

Forest-steppe mosaic in the Kiskunság sand region, Hungary. Photo credit: Balázs Deák.

The widespread abandonment of agricultural areas and croplands is making large areas available to test techniques for the restoration of grassland habitats.…

New Associate Editors of AVS

Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 by Milan Chytry

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 …

JVS-AVS Editorial Meeting in Bremen, Germany

Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 by Milan Chytry

The Editors and Editorial Board members of our journals met during the IAVS Symposium in Bremen on 15 July 2019.

**Upper row (from left):** David Ward, Jörg Ewald, Ingolf Kühn, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Francisco Pugnaire, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Sándor Bartha, Hannes Feilhauer, Yasuhiro Kubota, Josu Alday, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Martin Zobel, Péter Török, Martin Diekmann (IAVS President), Norbert Hölzel, Alessandro Chiarucci, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Duccio Rocchini, Lauchlan Fraser, Thomas Giesecke, Triin Reitalu, Florian Jansen, Helge Bruelheide, Guillaume Decocq, Jürgen Dengler, David Zelený, Zdeňka Lososová, Carol Clark (Wiley).

Alien plants alter the growth form ratio and structure of Australian grasslands

Posted on July 26, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Greg R. Guerin, Irene Martín‐Forés, Samantha E.M. Munroe, Ben Sparrow & Andrew J. Lowe

Mokota Conservation Park, a remnant grassland in the mid-north region of South Australia (approximately 160 km north of Adelaide). Photo by Greg Guerin.

Loads of evidence suggests particular invasive weed species wreak havoc in native plant communities by out-competing, or rendering the local environment unsuitable for, natives.…