New research paper: Arid community responses to nitrogen and carbon addition depend on dominant species traits and are decoupled between above- and below-ground biomass vegsciblog.org/2023/06/30/ari… via Vegetation Science Blog

Do you want to see your picture of vegetation on the cover of the Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science? Participate in our Photo Contest by uploading 1-3 photos on photos.app.goo.gl/mcUQyaTRemyuwk… by 30 November. @jvegsci Applied Vegetation Science IAVS IAVS Young Scientists

Call for abstracts for the upcoming JVS Special Issue on “Biological Invasions in Plant Communities” Submit your abstract by **Jan 31, 2024** vegsciblog.org/2023/11/26/jvs… via Vegetation Science Blog

New paper by Riedel et al.: Revealing a unique historic dataset on vegetation composition of Swiss grasslands or developing a passion for dusty vegetation records onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jv… vegsciblog.org/2023/11/26/his…

New paper by Orbán et al. "The value of long-term monitoring of field experiments: a case from the sand grasslands of Central Hungary" vegsciblog.org/2023/12/01/lon… via Vegetation Science Blog doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13…

Congratulations to Gabriel Moulatlet and colleagues for the JVS 2023 Editors’ Award! vegsciblog.org/2024/01/05/jvs…

Our new Editorial is out: "Towards more reproducibility in vegetation research", spearheaded by the IAVS Ecoinformatics Working Group doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13… vegsciblog.org/2024/01/16/rep… via Vegetation Science Blog

Only **two weeks left** to submit an abstract to the JVS Special Issue on “Biological Invasions in Plant Communities”

Call for Abstracts for our new Special Issue on “Island plant communities: natural experiments at the intersection of biogeography, conservation and global change ecology” vegsciblog.org/2024/01/16/spe… via Vegetation Science Blog

A big welcome to our new Associate Editors! Arshad Ali, Josep Padullés Cubino, Eric Lamb, Sergey Rosbakh, Julian Schrader, Guilherme Seger, Amanda Taylor, Ole R. Vetaas vegsciblog.org/2023/12/11/new… via Vegetation Science Blog

Congratulations to the winners of the Photo Contest for the JVS/AVS 2024 cover pictures! vegsciblog.org/2023/12/27/res… via Vegetation Science Blog

Abstract submission deadline extended to Feb 14, 2024 for the Special Issue on “Biological Invasions in Plant Communities”

Ridges are the biggest fraction of the Atlantic Forest and at high risk due to global change. Meanwhile, valleys are microclimate refuges for understory plants and might help mitigate drought impacts. Renan Hollunder Dr Pierre Mariotte Mário Luís Garbin doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13…

The Journal of Vegetation Science now employs **double-blind peer review** in support of academic integrity. Reviewers do not know the identity of the author, and vice-versa. Manuscripts should now be submitted as separate files: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

Call for Abstracts: Our New Special Issue on “Alpine Vegetation and Global Change” vegsciblog.org/2024/05/01/cal…

A new paper by Matos et al.: A causal trait model for explaining foliar water uptake capacity vegsciblog.org/2024/05/07/fol… via Vegetation Science Blog

A new paper by Valério Pillar: Trait divergence in plant community assembly is generated by environmental factor interactions vegsciblog.org/2024/05/15/tra… via Vegetation Science Blog

Dominant alpine shrubs of the western Himalaya exert competitive pressure on herbaceous species altering their richness, abundance & functional composition. Their expansion may pose a threat to rare but important herb species. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13… Bittu Thakur Amit Chawla

New paper: Horizontal occurrence of vascular epiphytes was driven more by a topographic gradient than by host tree size and species in a small watershed covered by a warm-temperate broadleaf forest in Japan.  #epiphytes Mifumi Seto onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New research article: Community ionomics reveals a diversity of mineral nutrition in a species-rich shrubland on infertile soil vegsciblog.org/2024/09/08/com… via Vegetation Science Blog doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13…