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Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above- and below-ground biomass

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Prepared by Sofía Campana, María Fernanda Reyes and Martín R. Aguiar

Graphical abstract of the paper. At the top-left, there is also a picture of the Patagonian steppe (Chubut province, Argentina), where we conducted the experiment to test the individual and combined effects of soil C and N addition on the above- and below-ground biomass accumulation of the perennial grass community.
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Does above-average rainfall stimulate a recruitment pulse in semi-arid woodlands of southeastern Australia?

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Prepared by Sally A. Kenny and Claire Moxham

Seedlings, young plants and mature trees within a Slender Cypress Pine semi-arid woodland at Wyperfeld National Park, southeastern Australia. Photo credit: Sally Kenny

Without management intervention, semi-arid woodlands are at risk of decline in southeastern Australia.…

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Should we sample vegetation following statistical rules or botanists’ experience? Possibly both!

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The post provided by Nicola Alessi, Gianmaria Bonari and Piero Zannini

Italian forest types examples: A) Warm Temperate forest type represented by Quercus ilex-dominated forests in Tuscany; B) Temperate forest type represented by Fagus sylvatica-dominated forests in Northern Apennines; C) Cold Temperate forest type represented by Picea abies-dominated forests in the Alps.
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Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species

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Prepared by Lubomír Tichý, Irena Axmanová and Milan Chytrý

Recommended area for safe application of the harmonized European dataset of indicator values (image from the original article).

The system of indicator values for vascular plants proposed by the famous German plant ecologist Heinz Ellenberg has been widely used in Europe for the bioindication of environmental conditions.…

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Results of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2023 cover pictures

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The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2023 cover pictures are Mario Klesczewski and Sharif A. Mukul. Here are the new journal covers with their photographs. The forerunners are Kerry Woods, Gianmaria Bonari, Kirill Korzhnikov and Ricarda Pätsch.

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the colleagues who submitted their pictures.…

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New Editorial Board members of JVS and AVS

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We are pleased to announce that 32 outstanding vegetation scientists from around the world have joined the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science. Welcome on board!

New Associate Editor of Applied Vegetation Science

Robin Pakeman, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK

New Editorial Review Board members of the Journal of Vegetation Science

Arshad Ali, Hebei University, Baoding, China
Jorge Capelo, National Institute of Agrarian and Veterinarian Research, Oeiras, Portugal & University of Porto, Portugal
Anikó Csecserits, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
Nicola Day, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Buntarou Kusumoto, Kyushu University, Japan
Emma Ladouceur, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv), Germany
Soizig Le Stradic, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAe), Pessac, France
Daijun Liu, University of Vienna, Austria
Justice Muvengwi, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Josep Padullés Cubino, Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Gwendolyn Peyre, University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Sergey Rosbakh, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Hugo Saiz, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Guilherme Dubal dos Santos Seger, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Marta Gaia Sperandii, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Riin Tamme, University of Tartu, Estonia
Enrico Tordoni, University of Tartu, Estonia
Shilu Zheng, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

New Editorial Review Board members of Applied Vegetation Science

Irena Axmanová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Gianmaria Bonari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Leonor Calvo, University of León, Spain
Kwek Yan Chong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Felícia M.…

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Observer-driven pseudoturnover in vegetation monitoring is context-dependent but does not affect ecological inference

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Prepared by Steffen Boch, Helen Küchler, Meinrad Küchler, Angéline Bedolla, Klaus T. Ecker, Ulrich H. Graf, Tobias Moser, Rolf Holderegger & Ariel Bergamini

Photo of a permanent 10 m2 vegetation plot marked with Swiss flags located in the Canton of Valais (Photo credit: S.
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Call for Abstracts: Journal of Vegetation Science Special Issue “Plant community responses to climate change”

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Guest Editors

Description of the Special Issue

An increasing number of climate change studies are showing the need to take into account local and regional contexts if we want to improve our predictions of plant community responses to changing climate.…

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Short-term effects of experimental goose grazing and warming differ in three low-Arctic coastal wetland plant communities

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Prepared by Ryan T. Choi, Matteo Petit Bon, A. Joshua Leffler, Katharine C. Kelsey, Jeffrey M. Welker & Karen H. Beard

Experimental goose grazing and summer warming elicit compositional changes in three distinct low-Arctic coastal wetland plant communities of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska.
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