Posted by Jürgen Dengler (Chair of the Guest Editors) Outline: Scaling laws are ubiquitous in ecology. Ignoring them can lead

Solar panels and solar park management change plant communities. Plant species richness and cover are clearly lower under (UP) than outside panels (OP) with intermediate values for microhabitats affe....

A comprehensive resurvey of an urban reserve in Sydney failed to redetect 29% of native vascular plant species recorded from 1976 to 1992. Compared with persistent species, locally extinct species we....

Understory plant communities in pitch pine (Pinus rigida) barrens show distinct species abundance and structural attributes associated with different restoration strategies. We investigated the impac....

Understory plant communities in pitch pine (Pinus rigida) barrens show distinct species abundance and structural attributes associated with different restoration strategies. We investigated the impac...

The hydrograph at Lees Ferry on the Colorado River shows the initiation of daily fluctuating flows in 1964 after completion of the Glen Canyon Dam. We demonstrate that these flows have significant im...

Abundant species drive the changes of ecosystem service provision, while the inclusion rare and unfrequent species hides indicating stability. Policies can be too optimistic on the expected changes.

In this study, we used German HNV data from 5 years and extracted the respective spectral data for the in-situ surveyed polygons from Sentinel-2 data. We applied Random Forest models to assess if a c...

Aims Phytosociological maps are crucial for biodiversity conservation. Supervised mapping with machine learning demands high-quality reference data that field surveys alone cannot provide. This stud...

Tree species facilitate the assembly of park grassland plant communities by altering environmental conditions and promoting woody and herbaceous species under their canopies. They support biodiversit....

N deposition caused an increase in spontaneous forest establishment in inland dune areas across the Netherlands. At the same time, habitat quality was negatively affected causing a strong decline in ....

This study explores seed rain dynamics in South Brazilian subtropical grasslands, examining how grazing intensity affects seed dispersal. Using pot traps and the seedling emergence methods, researche...

We experimentally evaluated if a local herbaceous species seed mixture can reduce the establishment of an alien shrub. Buddleja davidii appeared to be sensitive to competition from native species dur...

Our study revealed that seed-bank densities and species richness peaked in May, decreased in November and January, and decreased along the soil layer in Dongting Lake wetlands, China. The results of ...

Large boulders serve as deer refugia, often harboring browse-sensitive species largely absent from the forest floor. Refugia serve as a bioassay exemplifying the “the ghost of herbivory past,” or leg...

We studied how livestock-logging land use intensities affect herbivory on seedlings and saplings in the Chaco Forest. Herbivory varied by season, herbivore type, individuals affected, and damage exte....

Aims Freshwater ecosystems have complex spatial and temporal connections that support multiple processes essential for life. Since two of the most critical impacts on riparian ecosystems are the reg...

Aims This study assessed changes in woody vegetation cover, richness, diversity, and species composition in Gonarezhou National Park (GNP) between 2010 and 2023, focusing on the impacts of fire and ...

Indaziflam targeted at annual brome invasion in northern temperate grassland of Alberta did not affect the cover, richness, or diversity of nontarget plant species until the fourth year after treatme...

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This study quantified short-term changes in plant species and trait composition in a boreal fen. Our results indicated an increasing cover of dry-adapted species, but simultaneously local increases o...

Aims This study investigates the effectiveness of different spatial arrangements of green manure and native species in promoting native seedling emergence and reducing invasive grass cover in restor...

We show that excluding native grazers from a South American grassy ecosystem leads to strong declines in plant species richness over an 18-month period. Our results imply that severely defaunated Sou...

Aims Persistent land use change throughout the North American Great Plains increases the need to maintain and improve ecosystem service delivery from remaining rangelands to meet production and cons...

Ericaceous dwarf shrubs are foundation species in the boreal biome, and predicting their response to changes in forest structure is key for comparing the ecosystem effects of different forest managem...

Over four decades, grasslands of Valsugana Valley (Eastern Alps, Italy) have transformed, with low-elevation sites invaded by neophytes, mid-elevation grasslands overtaken by woody species, and high-...

In this study, we showed that the presence of a bridge has a significant impact on species diversity, composition and ecological preferences in road and river plant communities. The turnover componen...

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Vegetation science and community ecology focus on ecosystems composed of multiple species and other taxonomic ranks, such as subspecies. Scientific

The winners of the Photo Contest for JVS/AVS 2025 cover pictures are Lucia Čahojová and Markus Neupert. Here are the

The 2024 Editors’ Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science goes to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini. Siefert,

A new Special Issue in Applied Vegetation Science focuses on the effects of grazing on vegetation. Edited by Péter Török,

By Viktoria Wagner (on behalf of the Chief Editor team) Dear IAVS members, Applied Vegetation Science and Journal of Vegetation