Tag: JVS

New insights into small-scale species-area relationships and beta diversity due to the GrassPlot database

Posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler, Iwona Dembicz, Jinghui Zhang & Idoia Biurrun

Sampling of a nested plot in a meso-xeric grassland in Northern Spain (Photo credit: Juan Antonio Campos).

This post refers to the articles “Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation” by Dembicz et al.…

Virtual Special Issue “Historical Vegetation Ecology”

Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 by Milan Chytry

This virtual special issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science was prepared by the IAVS working group Historical Vegetation Ecology and guest-edited by Radim Hédl, Sara Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Péter Szabó and Monika Wulf. It brings eight research articles published free to read.…

Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran

Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Amir Talebi, Farideh Attar, Alireza Naqinezhad, Iwona Dembicz & Jürgen Dengler

A thorn-cushion community in the alpine zone of Mt. Damavand at 3400 m a.s.l., dominated by *Onobrychis cornuta*. Photo credit by Amir Talebi.

More than half of the Iranian plateau is covered by mountains, of which the highest point reaches more than 5000 m a.s.l.…

ausplotsR: A new R package to download and analyse vegetation and soil data collected by Australia’s most comprehensive ecosystem monitoring program

Posted on June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 by David Zeleny

This post was provided by Samantha Munroe

TERN monitoring plot locations as generated within the *ausplotsR* package coded by percent fractional green cover. Image credit: Munroe et al. (2021).

This Behind the paper post refers to the article “ausplotsR: An R package for rapid extraction and analysis of vegetation and soil data collected by Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network” by Samantha Munroe et al.…

Together we stand, divided we fall: Effects of livestock grazing on vegetation patches in a desert community

Posted on May 29, 2021May 29, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Yamila Ivón Pelliza, Anahi Rocío Fernandez, Hugo Saiz & Mariana Tadey

Grazed area under study in Patagonian Monte Desert, Neuquén province, Patagonia, Argentina. Photo credit: Ivón Pelliza.

Dryland vegetation structure and ecosystem functioning are mainly driven by the interactions among plant species.…

A big data approach for detecting macroscale vegetation patterns

Posted on May 28, 2021June 20, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Buntarou Kusumoto & Yasuhiro Kubota

Vegetation survey on a computer. Credit: Buntarou Kusumoto.

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Community dissimilarity of angiosperm trees reveals deep-time diversification across tropical and temperate forests by Kusumoto et al.…

Synthesizing tree biodiversity data to understand global patterns and processes of vegetation

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gunnar Keppel, Dylan Craven, Patrick Weigelt, Stephen A. Smith, Masha T. van der Sande, Brody Sandel, Sam C. Levin, Holger Kreft & Tiffany M. Knight

Key aspects of biodiversity and the major global databases with relevant information. (Figure 1 from the published paper.)

Jodi Price becoming a new Chief Editor of JVS and AVS

Posted on May 5, 2021June 25, 2021 by Milan Chytry

We welcome Jodi Price as a new Chief Editor of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science! Jodi is replacing Alessandro Chiarucci who decided to step down after serving as a Chief Editor for 15 years.

Jodi is a teaching and research academic at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia.…

Composition of woody plant communities drives macrofungal community composition in three climatic regions

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Huili Li, Jiayu Guo, Lei Ye, Heng Gui, Kevin David Hyde, Jianchu Xu & Peter Edward Mortimer

From left to right: Samantha C. Karunarathna, Jiayu Guo, Huili Li & Lei Ye with *Macrolepiota procera* at Mengsong Village, Xishuangbanna Prefecture in 2012.

Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands

Posted on April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Viktoria Wagner, Martin Večeřa, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Jan Pergl, Jonathan Lenoir, Jens-Christian Svenning, Petr Pyšek, Emiliano Agrillo, Idoia Biurrun, Juan Antonio Campos, Jörg Ewald, Federico Fernández-González, Ute Jandt, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Urban Šilc, Željko Škvorc, Kiril Vassilev, Thomas Wohlgemuth & Milan Chytrý