Tag: JVS

The new issue 2018/6 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

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

The cover of the new issue shows a canopy crane in a tropical rain forest in Yunnan, China (see Shen et al. 2018).

The issue also contains a Synthesis paper by David Zelený summarizing the approaches to statistical testing of community-weighted means.…

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.…

Planned Special Feature of JVS: Dispersal and establishment as drivers of vegetation dynamics and resilience

Posted on December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 by Milan Chytry

Guest editors: Péter Török, James Bullock, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Judit Sonkoly

Background
Plant regeneration plays a decisive role in vegetation dynamics by underpinning local and landscape-scale processes, biodiversity patterns, and community resilience to abiotic and anthropogenic disturbances. As establishment and recruitment depend greatly on spatial plant dispersal and the local propagule bank, studying their contributions to these processes is crucial.…

Which results of the standard test for community weighted mean approach are too optimistic?

Posted on November 27, 2018September 10, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by David Zelený

The relationship between the average height of understory herbs (CWM of species height) and the amount of light passing through the forest canopy (quantified by visually estimated cover of trees and shrubs at each site). If the analysis based on the CWM approach was done by a standard parametric test, the result is highly significant (P<0.001).

The new issue 2018/5 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on October 24, 2018December 29, 2018 by Milan Chytry

The cover of the new JVS issue shows different fruits of woody plants from the island of Réunion, related to the paper by Albert, Flores, Rouget, Wilding, & Strasberg (2018).

They used a set of vegetation plots from this tropical island to describe a pattern of striking decrease in the proportion of fleshy-fruited trees and shrubs with altitude.…

This is not a pine: a fieldwork story

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

The post provided by Emilie Champagne

One of my field assistant (Lorraine Lessard) carefully recording browsing in a 4 m2 plot, in Outaouais (Québec, Canada). Photo credit: Emilie Champagne.

This post refers to the article Forage diversity, type and abundance influence winter resource selection by white‐tailed deer by Emilie Champagne, André Dumont, Jean‐Pierre Tremblay and Steeve D.…