Tag: JVS

To go open access or not to go?

Posted on November 14, 2020November 15, 2020 by David Zeleny

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.…

Statement of the IAVS Latin American and African sections on the possible adoption of article processing charges of IAVS journals

Posted on November 14, 2020November 14, 2020 by David Zeleny

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

Geographical definition of Global South (red countries) and Global North (blue countries).

JVS/AVS Chief Editors’ opinion on Open Access

Posted on November 14, 2020November 15, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Milan Chytrý, Alessandro Chiarucci, Meelis Pärtel and Valério Pillar (Chief Editors, JVS/AVS)

Milan Chytrý, Alessandro Chiarucci, Meelis Pärtel and Valério Pillar (from top left, clockwise)

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?…

Editorial: About the possibility of Applied Vegetation Science going Gold Open Access

Posted on November 14, 2020January 8, 2021 by David Zeleny

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).…

Photo Competition: JVS/AVS 2021 cover pictures

Posted on November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 by Milan Chytry

Do you want to have your photo on the 2021 cover of the Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science?

From 1 January 2021, both journals will be published in online-only version. Consequently, there will be no printed issues with a cover picture featuring one of the articles in the issue.…

JVS 2020/6 contains Special Feature “Dispersal and Establishment”

Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 by Milan Chytry

The new issue of JVS contains 16 articles of the Special Feature “Plant dispersal and establishment as drivers of vegetation dynamics and resilience”, edited by Péter Török, James M. Bullock, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Judit Sonkoly.

The title picture by Anton Korablev shows the establishment of pioneer plants on a volcanic plateau in Kamchatka, Russia.

How does the Kalahari vegetation response to seasonal climate and herbivory?

Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Ute Schmiedel

One of our permanent plots in the Kalahari, South Africa, at the peak of the growing season during an average rainfall season (2013) and after several years of very low rainfall (2015). The grazing herbivores removed most of the grass biomass and provided vegetation gaps for the new plants to grow.

Endozoochory of the same community of plants lacking fleshy fruits by storks and gulls

Posted on October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Víctor Martín-Vélez, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Marta I. Sánchez and Andy J. Green

Sampling bird faeces and regurgitates from a dyke alongside recently harvested ricefields in Doñana, south-west Spain. Photo credit: 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”.…

Environmental variables driving species composition in Subarctic springs in the face of climate change

Posted on October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Tara K. Miller, Einar Heegaard, Kristian Hassel & Jutta Kapfer

A spring in Kvannfjellet in Balsfjord county, Norway. Photo credit: 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.…