Tag: JVS

Unifying facilitation and recruitment networks

Posted on September 5, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Julio M. Alcántara, José L. Garrido, Alicia Montesinos‐Navarro, Pedro J. Rey, Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet and Miguel Verdú

The legume tree Prosopis laevigata facilitating a group of cacti: Myrtillocactus geometrizans, Opuntia pilifera, and several species of Mammillaria in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico.

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Diverging shifts in spring phenology in response to biodiversity loss in a subtropical forest

Posted on August 24, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Yanjun Du, Bo Yang, Si‐Chong Chen & Keping Ma

The first author, Yanjun Du (right), monitoring phenology in one of the experimental plots in the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Experiment of China (BEF-China), located in Jiangxi Province, China (117°55′E, 29°60′N). Photo credit: Bo Yang.

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Celebrating the first anniversary of our JVS-AVS blog

Posted on August 23, 2019August 31, 2020 by David Zeleny

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

Geographical distribution of users across the World accessing our blog during the past year (from August 23, 2018 till August 22, 2019). Note that although the highest number of users seems to come from China, most of them accessed the website during a single day after a post by Chinese authors has been published and shared on WeChat.

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JVS-AVS Editorial Meeting in Bremen, Germany

Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 by Milan Chytry

The Editors and Editorial Board members of our journals met during the IAVS Symposium in Bremen on 15 July 2019.

Upper row (from left): David Ward, Jörg Ewald, Ingolf Kühn, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Francisco Pugnaire, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Sándor Bartha, Hannes Feilhauer, Yasuhiro Kubota, Josu Alday, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Martin Zobel, Péter Török, Martin Diekmann (IAVS President), Norbert Hölzel, Alessandro Chiarucci, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Duccio Rocchini, Lauchlan Fraser, Thomas Giesecke, Triin Reitalu, Florian Jansen, Helge Bruelheide, Guillaume Decocq, Jürgen Dengler, David Zelený, Zdeňka Lososová, Carol Clark (Wiley).

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The new issue 2019/4 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on July 2, 2019July 15, 2019 by Milan Chytry

The cover of the new issue, showing epiphytically growing Geranium robertianum, relates to the article “Accidental epiphytism in the Harz Mountains, Central Europe” by Vincent Hoeber et al.

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The new issue 2019/3 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 by Milan Chytry

Caribou on the cover of this issue relates to the paper by Kathy Lewis et al.: Fire and lichen dynamics in the Taiga Shield of the Northwest Territories and implications for barren-ground caribou winter forage.

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Hedgerow age affects the species richness of herbaceous forest plants

Posted on May 22, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Kathrin Litza & Martin Diekmann

Hedgerows of different ages in the agricultural landscape of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Photo credit: Kathrin Litza.

Hedgerows are narrow strips of wooded habitats that are known to provide refuge habitat for forest species, such as herbaceous forest plants, in agricultural landscapes.…

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From natural forests to urban weeds

Posted on April 14, 2019March 3, 2020 by David Zeleny

Post provided by Kun Song, Ying-Ji Pan & Yi-Chong Cui

Weed communities in urban area, Shanghai. An invasive species, Solidago canadensis (the individuals with yellow flowers in the photo), was the dominant species with few other species living together. Photo credit: Yi-Chong Cui.

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The new issue 2019/2 of the Journal of Vegetation Science is out

Posted on April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 by Milan Chytry

The cover of this new issue features sPlot – the global vegetation-plot database.

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Ancient refugia and present-day habitat suitability of native laurophylls in Italy

Posted on March 27, 2019January 30, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Nicola Alessi, Jakub Tešitel, Stefan Zerbe, Francesco Spada, Emiliano Agrillo & Camilla Wellstein

Old individual of laurel (Laurus nobilis L.) in a forest dominated by the evergreen holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) in Maremma Park, Italy. Photo credit: Emiliano Agrillo.

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