Tag: VCS

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) completed its third volume

Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Cover of Volume 3 (2022) of Vegetation Classification and Survey with motifs from the Editors’ Award article by Liu et al. 2022 on the classification of Chinese steppes).

EIVE 1.0 – The largest system of ecological indicator values in Europe is now available

Posted on January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 by David Zeleny

The post was provided by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen & François Gillet

Geographic coverage of the 31 ecological indicator value systems that entered the calculation of the consensus system of EIVE 1.0 (image from the original article).

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen, Olha Chusova, Elisabeth Hüllbusch, Michael P.…

VCS is looking for new members of the Editorial Board

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

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Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the gold open access journal of IAVS dedicated to developing and applying vegetation typologies as well as to ecoinformatics of vegetation, is growing.…

VCS: new members of the Editorial Board

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

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We are pleased to announce that five new vegetation scientists from various countries have joined the Editorial Board of Vegetation Classification and Survey as of 1 January 2023.…

VCS: Important news

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

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CiteScoreTracker of Vegetation Classification and Survey in December 2022.

With the third year of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), IAVS’ gold open access journal, coming to a successful end, the Chief Editors have two important announcements:

First, Thanks to the generosity of IAVS, articles from first authors who are IAVS members remain exempt from article processing charges (APCs) until 30 June 2023.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) 2022/I to 2022/III

Posted on January 15, 2023January 16, 2023 by David Zeleny

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Forest-steppe vegetation in Khakassia, Siberia, belonging to the scope of the Special Collection ‘Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic’ (Photo: J. Dengler).

Climatic definitions of the world’s terrestrial biomes

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Javier Loidi, Gonzalo Navarro-Sánchez and Denys Vynokurov

Domains, Ecozones, Biomes and Subbiomes of the Earth. Distribution of the 20 subbiomes across the world. 1a Polar tundra, 1b Tundras of the temperate mountains in cryoro belt, 1c Tundras of the tropical mountains in cryoro belt, 2a Lowland boreal Taiga, 2b Forests and shrublands of the temperate oro belt, 3a Temperate deciduous forests, 4a Lauroid evergreen forest of the lowlands, 4b Conifer coastal forests, 4c Tropical montane cloud lauroid and conifer evergreen forest, 5a Oceanic sclerophyllous-microphyllous evergreen forests and shrublands (Mediterranean), 5b Continental scrub and woodlands, 5c Patagonian shrubland, 6a Forest-steppe, 6b Grass-steppe, 7a Cold deserts and semi-deserts, 7b Temperate deserts and semi-deserts, 7c Warm deserts and semi-deserts, 8a Tropical xeric shrublands and woodlands, 8b Tropical pluviseasonal forests and woodlands, 9a Tropical rain forests.

Translating a semi-supervised classification into a hierarchical expert system: Navarran grasslands demonstrate a way forward in classification approaches

Posted on March 5, 2022March 5, 2022 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Idoia Biurrun & Jürgen Dengler

View of Beriain mountain, central Navarre (Spain). On the foreground participants in the Field Workshop walking along a stand of *Potentillo-Brachypodion pinnati* (*Brachypodietalia pinnati*, *Festuco-Brometea*) (Photo credit: Monika Janišová).

VCS now included in Scopus

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 by David Zeleny

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Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), IAVS’ gold open access journal, is now included in Scopus, the world’s most comprehensive literature and citation database. On 17 February 2022, the publisher and the Chief Editors have been informed that less than two years after journal foundation, our application was successful.…

Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types

Posted on January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 by David Zeleny

By Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler, François Gillet, Thomas J. Matthews, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Sándor Bartha, Juan Antonio Campos, Pieter De Frenne, Jiri Dolezal, Itziar Garcia-Mijangos, Riccardo Guarino, Behlül Güler, Anna Kuzemko, Alireza Naqinezhad, Jalil Noroozi, Robert K. Peet, Massimo Terzi & Idoia Biurrun