Tag: VCS

New Special Collection on “Neotropical vegetation” launched by VCS

Posted on January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 by David Zeleny

By Gwendolyn Peyre (Guest Editor of the Special Collection) & Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of Vegetation Classification and Survey)

The IAVS Regional Section Latin America and the Caribbean and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “Neotropical vegetation”.…

VCS: volume No. 2 completed

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by David Zeleny

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

Cover of volume No. 2 of Vegetation Classification and Survey. Photo credits: I. Dembicz & J. Dengler.

The second volume of IAVS’ gold open access journal Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has just been completed.…

VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz

Posted on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Wolfgang Willner (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Award winner Iwona Dembicz during fieldwork in a Ukrainian salt steppe. Photo credit: J. Dengler.

VCS Editors’ Award 2021 goes to Iwona Dembicz and colleagues for the paper “Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types”.…

Syntaxonomy of steppe depression vegetation of Ukraine

Posted on December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Viktor Shapoval & Anna Kuzemko

Phytocoenoses of the association *Lathyro nissoliae-Phalacrachenetum inuloidis* on the bottom of the Ahaimansky pid, aspect of *Phalacrachena inuloides*, single shoots of *Rumex crispus* and *Beckmannia eruciformis* visible in the background, June 6, 2008.

New Special Collection on “Grasslands of Asia” launched by VCS

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of Vegetation Classification and Survey), Alireza Naqinezhad and Arkadiusz Nowak

*Stipetum lipskyi* in Veshan Valley in western Pamir-Alai, Tajikistan. Photo credit: A. Nowak

The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (www.edgg.org) and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “Grasslands of Asia”.…

New Special Collection on “African vegetation studies” launched by VCS

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Reginald Tang Guuroh (Chair of the IAVS African Reginal Section) and Jürgen Dengler (Chief Editor of the Vegetation Classification and Survey)

Savanna at the foot of Mt. Elgon, Kenya, Africa. Photo credit: J. Dengler

The new IAVS African Regional Section and IAVS’ gold open access journal “Vegetation Classification and Survey” are proud to launch a joint Special Collection dedicated to “African vegetation studies”.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the third quarter of 2021

Posted on October 17, 2021October 17, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Vegetation at the bottom of a large depression in the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve, Southern Ukraine. From the article by Shapoval & Kuzemko (2021).

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published four contributions in the third quarter of 2021.…

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the second quarter of 2021

Posted on August 5, 2021October 15, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of all VCS Chief Editors)

Vegetation in four different biomes. Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler.

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has published six contributions in the second quarter of 2021.

Our Editors’ Choice Paper is by Hunter et al.…

Floristic patterns of the neotropical forests, savannas and scrublands with Trithrinax campestris (Arecaceae) in central Argentina

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 by David Zeleny

By Sebastián R. Zeballos, Marcelo R. Cabido, Juan J. Cantero, Alicia T.R. Acosta, M. Virginia Palchetti, Juan Argañaraz, Paula I. Marcora1, Paula A. Tecco, Ana Ferreras, Guillermo Funes, Victoria M. Vaieretti, Georgina Conti & Melisa A. Giorgis

Open palm (*Trithrinax campestris*) savanna with a shrubby understory dominated by the thorny *Vachellia caven* on rocky and sandy soils in western Córdoba Province, central Argentina.

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in the first quarter of 2021

Posted on April 11, 2021April 20, 2021 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (VCS Chief Editor)

The palm species *Trithrinax campestris* in different vegetation types of central Argentina. Photos from Zeballos et al. (2021).

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has started into its second year. Since VCS applies continuous publishing without aggregating papers in (printed) issues, we have decided that from now on the Chief Editors will present every three months the newly published papers on vegsciblog and select one of these as Editors’ Choice Paper.…