Phytosociological Classification and Nomenclature Ciaramella, D., Viti, M. M., Landi, M., Chytrý, K., Angiolini, C., & Bonari, G. (2024). Vegetation diversity of Pinus pinaster forests in the Italian ...

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Prepared by Sandra Mesquita, Valério Pillar, and Wolfgang Willner This Special Issue, dedicated to the history of vegetation science, consists

Vegetation Classification and Survey has received its first ever Journal Impact Factor, 3.0, five years since the journal’s foundation. With that, VCS is placed in the second quartile (Q2) of al...

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of VCS Chief Editor) We are glad to announce that Vegetation Classification and Survey

An approach is proposed for a general multiscale classification of terrestrial vegetation applicable to the whole world; only the outline and principles are presented. Further development of the syste...

PDF | On Mar 4, 2025, Jürgen Dengler and others published VCS Newsletter 11 | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

FloraMac is an international symposium that convenes researchers specializing in various disciplines—such as taxonomy, vegetation ecology, biogeography, phylogeography, paleoecology or biodiversity...

Herbivores might help young oak trees survive drought by reducing their water loss, which could be important for recovering...

July 24 – August 7, 2025, Greeley, CO

The Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) launched a new special collection to bring together studies on island and archipelago vegetation around the world. Preliminary abstracts need to be submi...

“Bad Naturalist” really gets in the weeds.

In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's temperate forests before Homo sapiens. In a new study, recently published in...

The Vegetation Classification Working Group (VCWG) is a part of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), focused on enhancing the understanding and development of vegetation classification worldwide. Our mission is to connect ecologists working on vegetation classification at various levels – from local communities to global ecosystems – and to promote collaborative efforts in this field.

Aim: To revise Pinus pinaster-dominated communities of the Italian peninsula with special regard to central-southern Tuscany, and assess their floristic and ecological differences. Study area: Tuscany...