Niche differentiation, competition or habitat filtering? Mechanisms explaining co-occurrence of plant species on wet meadows of high conservation value
Prepared by Patryk Czortek, Anna Orczewska & Marcin K. Dyderski
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SylvanSeeds, a seed germination database for temperate deciduous forests
Prepared by Eduardo Fernández-Pascual
Seeds in nature are able to detect the environment and the season they are in and use this information to time their germination.…
Continue readingResults of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures
The winners of the Photo Competition for JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures are Hsun-Hung Chu and Adrián Purkart. The forerunners are Gianmaria Bonari, Nenad Jasprica and Ricarda Pätsch.
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all the colleagues who submitted their pictures .…
Continue readingJVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2020
The JVS and AVS Editor’s Awards for 2020 go to Sabrina Gavini and Lise Maciejewski. Congratulations!
Sabrina Gavini with colleagues explored whether local-scale biotic interactions affect biodiversity also at larger spatial scales (Gavini et al. 2020). A top-down view has often been used (regional richness is affecting local biodiversity).…
Continue readingCould the environment limit dispersal between Sunda and Sahul?
Prepared by Liam A. Trethowan
The West (Sunda) and East (Sahul) of the Southeast Asian archipelago used to be much further apart. As the Asian and Australian plates came together, the islands we see today uplifted and the plant communities began to form.…
Continue readingSurvey shows little support for AVS going Gold Open Access
Prepared by Peter Minchin (IAVS Vice President and Chair of the Publications Committee)
This Commentary is a part of the series asking the question: should Applied Vegetation Science, the journal owned by IAVS and published by Wiley, become Gold Open Access?…
Continue readingTo go open access or not to go?
Prepared by Jan Lepš
This Commentary is a part of the series asking the question: should Applied Vegetation Science, the journal owned by IAVS and published by Wiley, become Gold Open Access? For the context and link to other Commentaries, please visit Editorial.…
Continue readingStatement of the IAVS Latin American and African sections on the possible adoption of article processing charges of IAVS journals
Prepared by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Miguel Alvarez, Susan Aragon, Jaime Bernal-Hadad, Marius Bottin, Adalgisa Chaib, Dylan Craven, Gabriella Damanesco, Lucas Enrico, Federico Gallego, Melisa A. Giorgis, Reginald T. Guuroh, Lucrecia Lipoma, Luis López-Mársico, Cloe X. Perez-Valladares, Juliana Texeira & Florencia Yannelli
JVS/AVS Chief Editors’ opinion on Open Access
Prepared by Milan Chytrý, Alessandro Chiarucci, Meelis Pärtel and Valério Pillar (Chief Editors, JVS/AVS)
This Commentary is a part of the series asking the question: should Applied Vegetation Science, the journal owned by IAVS and published by Wiley, become Gold Open Access?…
Continue readingEditorial: About the possibility of Applied Vegetation Science going Gold Open Access
Prepared by David Zelený (Editor of the Vegetation Science Blog and Associate Editor in JVS)
Some time ago, IAVS was put in front of quite an important decision. Two of our journals, the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science, are currently distributed under the hybrid open-access model, when readers pay, and authors publish for free (while allowing publishing also open access articles for an extra cost).…
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