Tag: JVS

Frost-driven lower treelines in Angola and their implications for tropical forest–grassland mosaics

Posted on October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Manfred Finckh, Janika Wendefeuer & Paulina Meller

The transition of ecotone grasslands to grasslands at the confluence of the Río Cusseque and its western tributary, Río Sovi. Our network of temperature data loggers yielded the lowest temperatures in this area, where the nocturnal flows of cold air from both valley systems converged.

Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages

Posted on October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

Brandon Allen and his colleagues summarized the results from a recent paper in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13073) illustrating the complex relationships between functional diversity, terrestrial invaders, and the surrounding environment in boreal wetlands. Read more about these relationships at the ABMI blog.…

JVS Editors’ Choice: Beyns et al. 2021

Posted on August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 by Milan Chytry

The Journal of Vegetation Science introduces Editors’ Choice to emphasize papers of outstanding quality or novelty, containing innovative approaches or significant conclusions. The papers selected by the Chief Editors of the journal will be listed here.

The first Editors’ Choice is the paper Beyns et al.…

GrassPlot marathon: the long way towards the first benchmarks of plant species richness of Palaearctic grasslands

Posted on August 4, 2021October 15, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Idoia Biurrun, Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler and Remigiusz Pielech

Nested-plot sampling in an alpine grassland (*Elyno-Seslerietea*) in Grisons (Switzerland) (Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler)

This post refers to the article Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats by Biurrun et al.…

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.…