Tag: JVS

Book review: Metacommunity Ecology by Leibold & Chase (2018) – linking biogeography with community ecology

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.…

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

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.…

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

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

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.…

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This is not a pine: a fieldwork story

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.

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Slow recovery of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant community after fungicide application: An eight-year experiment

Prepared by Hana Pánková, Tomáš Dostálek, Kristýna Vazačová & Zuzana Münzbergová

Study site – dry grassland in the central part of the Czech Republic. Photo credit: Hana Pánková.

Dry grasslands represent one of the most species-rich communities in Europe with a high occurrence of rare species.…

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