How does the Kalahari vegetation response to seasonal climate and herbivory?
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Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls
By Víctor Martín-Vélez, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Marta I. Sánchez and Andy J. Green
We teach our children that seeds disperse in different manners according to their morphology, and how only those inside berries and other fleshy fruits are able to disperse inside birds, a process known as “endozoochory”.…
Continue readingEnvironmental variables driving species composition in Subarctic springs in the face of climate change
Prepared by Tara K. Miller, Einar Heegaard, Kristian Hassel & Jutta Kapfer
Springs are important ecosystems to support biodiversity. They are fed by groundwater and are critical for maintaining high biodiversity because of the specific and stable habitat conditions they provide: high water quality, consistent temperatures, and low seasonal variability.…
Continue readingWhy we still need permanent plots for vegetation science
Prepared by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward & Lauren Hallett
Drivers of biodiversity depend on spatial grain and plant group: new paper from the EDGG Field Workshop to Bulgarian dry grasslands
Prepared by Jürgen Dengler & Iwona Dembicz
This Behind the paper post refers to the article by Dembicz et al. Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional-taxonomic groups, published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12935…
Continue readingHabitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago
By Alessandro Chiarucci, Fabrizio Buldrini, Marco Cervellini, Riccardo Guarino, Marco Caccianiga, Bruno Foggi, Daniele Viciani, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Laura Casella, Pierangela Angelini, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini, Salvatore Pasta, Mirko Enea & Piero Zannini
Patch-level facilitation fosters high-Andean plant diversity at regional scales
By Sabrina S. Gavini, Cecilia Ezcurra & Marcelo A. Aizen
The alpine ecosystem is one of the most stressful environments in the world due to the extreme abiotic conditions to which organisms are subject to.…
Continue readingSpecial Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science” in JVS 2020/5
The September issue of JVS contains Special Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science”, edited by Francesco de Bello, Enrique Valencia, David Ward and Lauren Hallett”.
The cover photo from Děvín Hill in Czechia relates to Fischer et al.‘s study of a 25-year dynamics of a dry grassland.…
Continue readingVegsciblog is two years old!
Prepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (blog editors)
In August 2020, we celebrated the second anniversary of our blog, so let us stop here for a while and summarize what happened in the past year.…
Continue readingHuman-mediated dispersal as a driver of vegetation dynamics: A conceptual synthesis
Prepared by Gesine Pufal & James M. Bullock
It is a beautiful summer day, you have been out on a hike through the countryside and have returned home to your house in the city.…
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