Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is an international, peer-reviewed, online journal on plant community ecology published on behalf of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) together with its sister journals, Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS) and Applied Vegetation Science (AVS). It is devoted to vegetation survey and classification at any organizational and spatial scale and without restriction to certain methodological approaches.
The journal publishes original papers that develop new vegetation typologies as well as applied studies that use such typologies, for example, in vegetation mapping, ecosystem modelling, nature conservation, land use management or monitoring. Particularly encouraged are methodological studies that design and compare tools for vegetation classification and mapping, such as algorithms, databases and nomenclatural principles. Papers dealing with conceptual and theoretical bases of vegetation survey and classification are also welcome. While large-scale studies are preferred, regional studies will be considered when filling important knowledge gaps or presenting new methods. VCS also contains permanent sections on "Ecoinformatics" and "Phytosociological Nomenclature".
The journal is published online only.
The “African Vegetation Studies” collection in the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal demonstrates that there are important classification studies ongoing in different parts of the continent to better understand the diversity and complexity of African vegetation.
The collection bring ...
A map of the natural vegetation of Mexico, which combines the bioclimatic classification (thermo- and ombrotypes) of the country with a coarse formation typology of three main physiognomies (forest, shrubland, herbaceous and non-vascular vegetation), is the latest research publication to be chosen b ...
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 submitted by 31 January 2025.
According to the journal’s scope, contributions need to either develop or ap ...
Put together, formal parameters other than journal impact - such as the brevity of an article's title - turns out to be stronger citation predictors, concludes our journal's Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dengler in his Forum Paper.
“What makes a paper successful?” is something authors would like t ...
A research study, which predicts that by 2080 Namibia's major vegetation units are to significantly expand southward, while other zonal vegetation types might go extinct, was awarded the Editors’ Choice recognition at the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal for the second quarter of 2 ...
The Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal successfully completed the rigorous quality and integrity assessment at Web of Science (WoS). This happens only four years after the inaugural editorial by Prof Dr Florian Jansen, Dr Idoia Biurrun, Prof Dr Jürgen Dengler and Dr Wolfgang Willner ...
The first 2024 article published in the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal to receive the quarterly “Editors’ Choice” recognition is the Nomenclatural Proposal: "Proposal (36) to conserve the name Philonotidion seriatae Hinterlang 1992 for the species-poor, bryophyte-dominated, non-c ...
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