Tag: AVS

Controlling the invader Urochloa decumbens: subsidies for ecological restoration in subtropical Campos grassland

Posted on January 20, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Pedro Augusto Thomas, Jéssica Schüler, Lidiane da Rosa Boavista, Fábio Piccin Torchelsen, Gerhard Ernst Overbeck & Sandra Cristina Müller

Experimental plot after the application of herbicide and topsoil removal. In the background of the photo, behind the plot, and in the foreground experimental plots, we can see Urochloa decumbens.

Effects of initial functional-group composition on assembly trajectory in savanna restoration

Posted on January 19, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by André G. Coutinho, Monique Alves, Alexandre B. Sampaio, Isabel B. Schmidt & Daniel L. M. Vieira

Results of active restoration in Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Goiás, Brazil (14°7’2.54″ S 47°38’30.36″ W). The area on the left side (A) was restored by direct seeding, leading to a vegetation structure more similar to a native Cerrado.

IAVS Editors’ Awards for 2018

Posted on January 6, 2019July 15, 2019 by Milan Chytry

IAVS Editors’ Awards go to Yasuhiro Kubota for Journal of Vegetation Science and László Erdős for Applied Vegetation Science. Congratulations to the Award winners and their co-authors!

Yasuhiro Kubota receives the Award for the paper Kubota, Y., Kusumoto, B., Shiono, T.,…

JVS and AVS are official partners of Publons

Posted on December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The IAVS journals have become official partners of Publons. If you serve as a reviewer to our journals, you can get this service verified and display it on your Publons personal profile.

Book review: Metacommunity Ecology by Leibold & Chase (2018) – linking biogeography with community ecology

Posted on December 15, 2018December 16, 2018 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Borja Jiménez-Alfaro

Travelling with the family may also be a good time to read this book. Here in the Camargue Biosphere Reserve (France), a biogeographical hub for ecological communities in Europe. Photo credit: Borja Jiménez-Alfaro

In the last years, I have been looking at different views for understanding the spatial patterns of plant communities.…

The new issue 2018/4 of Applied Vegetation Science is out

Posted on November 14, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The cover of this new issue shows a vegetated sandbar on the highly regulated Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Butterfield et al. demonstrate linkages between hydrological and climatic filtering of vegetation in this system.

In the quest of designing grassland communities resistant to invasions during ecological restoration

Posted on October 12, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Florencia A. Yannelli

Controlled conditions in greenhouse experiments enable us to test a plethora of hypotheses in community or invasion ecology by reducing the effect confounding factors. Photo credit: Florencia Yannelli.

This post refers to the article Seed density is more effective than multi‐trait limiting similarity in controlling grassland resistance against plant invasions in mesocosms by Yannelli et al.…

A new Associate Editor of AVS

Posted on October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 by Milan Chytry

We welcome Guillaume Decocq, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, as a new Associate Editor of Applied Vegetation Science. Guillaume is not new to our team: he has served as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Vegetation Science for several years.…

Rules of thumb for predicting tropical forest recovery

Posted on September 1, 2018January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Dr Karen Holl summarizes the results of the recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12394) showing that measuring grass cover and canopy cover just a year after pasture abandonment can help to predict the rate of tropical forest recovery.…