Tag: JVS

The new issue 2020/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by Milan Chytry

This plant, Centaurea dichroantha, is an endemic species to pristine dry grasslands of South-Eastern Alps. It is threatened by the invasion of Amorpha fruticosa described in the paper Boscutti et al.: Cascading effects from plant to soil elucidate how the invasive Amorpha fruticosa impacts dry grasslands.…

Effects of white-tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

Posted on June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Kathryn J. Bloodworth, Mark E. Ritchie & Kimberly J. Komatsu

Twenty-two-year-old deer exclusion fences at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in northeastern Kansas, USA. Photo credit: Kimberly Komatsu.

Grasslands make up approximately 40% of the Earth’s ice-free land surface, and they support diverse plant and animal communities that provide many ecological services.…

Press-pulse interactions and long-term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

Posted on June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Scott Collins, Alesia Hallmark, Tim Ohlert, Anny Chung, Lauren Baur & Jennifer Rudgers

Chihuahuan Desert grassland dominated by black grama (foreground) and Great Plains grassland dominated by blue grama (background) at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, USA.

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

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 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.…

Small biodiversity effects on leaf litter production of a seasonal heath vegetation

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 by David Zeleny

By José L.A. Silva, Alexandre F. Souza, Louis S. Santiago, Anderson R. Gripp, Ana E.B. Asato, Gabriel H.S. Silva, Mery I.G. Alencar and Adriano Caliman

Seasonal heath vegetation in the Barreira do Inferno Lauch Center, Parnamirim municipality, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil (5º54’S, 35º10’W, December 2015).

Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species-specific

Posted on May 29, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Judit Sonkoly, Orsolya Valkó, Nóra Balogh, Laura Godó, András Kelemen, Réka Kiss, Tamás Miglécz, Edina Tóth, Katalin Tóth, Béla Tóthmérész & Péter Török

The greenhouse experiment designed to study the effects of soil burial and litter cover on the germination of invasive plants.

Trudging through treefalls

Posted on May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Kwek Yan Chong

Before (2011, left) and after (2015, right) five years of succession following a windstorm. Photo credit: Alex Yee (left) and Hao Ran Lai (right).

This post refers to the article Short‐term responses in a secondary tropical forest after a severe windstorm event by Yee et al.…

The new issue 2020/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The cover photo of the May issue shows an open-grown pasture tree in a second-growth forest retaining its open-grown branch structure, related to the paper by Marion Holmes “Pasture trees contribute to structural heterogeneity and plant distributions in post-agricultural forests decades after canopy closure“.…

The man who sampled a grassland for 25 years – and his data got eventually published

Posted on May 1, 2020June 18, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Kryštof Chytrý, Milan Chytrý, Felícia M. Fischer and Jakub Těšitel

Jiří Danihelka (right) sampling permanent plots on Děvín Hill in 2012, accompanied by Adrian Indreica (left). Photo credit: Gianmaria Bonari.

This post refers to the article Weather fluctuations drive short-term dynamics and long-term stability in plant communities: a 25-year study in a Central European dry grassland by Fischer et al.…

Environment and evolutionary history depict phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in the Atlantic coastal white‐sand woodlands

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Jhonny Capichoni Massante & Pille Gerhold

View of a Atlantic coastal white-sand vegetation in southern Brazil (Massambaba Protection Area, Rio de Janeiro). Photo credit: Jhonny Capichoni Massante.

The Atlantic forest of South America is a regional mosaic of different habitat types.…

Tag: JVS

The new issue 2020/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Effects of white-tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

Press-pulse interactions and long-term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

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

Small biodiversity effects on leaf litter production of a seasonal heath vegetation

Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species-specific

Trudging through treefalls

The new issue 2020/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

The man who sampled a grassland for 25 years – and his data got eventually published

Environment and evolutionary history depict phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in the Atlantic coastal white‐sand woodlands

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