Tag: JVS

Drivers of biodiversity depend on spatial grain and plant group: new paper from the EDGG Field Workshop to Bulgarian dry grasslands

Posted on October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler & Iwona Dembicz

A thorough sampling of an “EDGG Biodiversity Plot” is a time-consuming and almost meditative procedure. Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler.

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…

Habitat type and island identity as drivers of community assembly in an archipelago

Posted on October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 by David Zeleny

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

A Mediterranean mountain heath with *Genista desoleana* Vals. on top of Monte Capanne, Elba Island (1089 m a.s.l.).

Patch-level facilitation fosters high-Andean plant diversity at regional scales

Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 by David Zeleny

By Sabrina S. Gavini, Cecilia Ezcurra & Marcelo A. Aizen

Cushion plant harboring other plant species at Catedral mountain close to the summit, San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina. Photo credit: Sabrina S. Gavini.

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.…

Special Feature “Permanent Plots in Vegetation Science” in JVS 2020/5

Posted on September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 by Milan Chytry

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.…

Vegsciblog is two years old!

Posted on September 25, 2020November 14, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by David Zelený, Viktoria Wagner and Peter Minchin (blog editors)

Location of readers accessing vegsciblog.org between September 1, 2019, and August 31, 2020 (darker colour indicates more readers). Source: Google Analytics.

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.…

Human-mediated dispersal as a driver of vegetation dynamics: A conceptual synthesis

Posted on July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Gesine Pufal & James M. Bullock

*Acaena* sp. seeds (bidibids) hitchhiking on a shoe, Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: Gesine Pufal.

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.…

Using species abundance and phylogeny conjointly to approach vegetation classification. A case-study on Macaronesia’s woody vegetation

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

Prepared by Jorge Capelo

Summer aspect of *Euphorbia berthelotii* community, without leaves. La Gomera, the Canaries. Photo credit: Jorge Capelo.

Classification aims to identify distinct and coherent groupings within vegetation. Modern approaches use a statistical analysis of data obtained from plot surveys in the field, most importantly species identity and abundance.…

The germination niche of coastal dune species as related to their occurrence along a sea-inland gradient

Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Silvia Del Vecchio, Edy Fantinato, Mauro Roscini, Alicia T.R. Acosta, Gianluigi Bacchetta & Gabriella Buffa

Distribution of the target species and of the main environmental factors from the sea to inland. (Source of the image: Acosta & Ercole, 2015, ISPRA, Serie Rapporti, 215/2015; modified by Silvia Del Vecchio.)

The impact of seed deficiency on productivity and on negative drought effect in semi-natural grassland

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Andreas Stampfli & Michaela Zeiter

Colored ringlets which helped to distinguished recruits from established plants. (Photo credit: Andreas Stampfli.)

During severe droughts grassland herbs dehydrate, they either persist or die. The composition of vegetation after drought is determined by species which re-sprout from protected tissue or recruit from seed.…