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.
Thanks to the generous support by IAVS, contributions first-authored by an IAVS member are exempt from article processing charges (APCs) until further notice (unless the authors have special funding for APCs from their project, university or country).
The post is provided by Editor-in-Chief Jürgen Dengler, originally published on the IAVS blog, and refers to the recently published Forum Paper, titled "Priorities in journal selection for authors, reviewers, editors, librarians and science funders"
Open access (OA) publishing was put on the agen ...
In collaboration with the European Vegetation Survey, Vegetation Classification and Survey has launched a Special Collection dedicated to the classification and diversity of European forests and forest fringes.
Edited by Idoia Biurrun, Pavel Novák and Wolfgang Willner, the collection welcomes bot ...
Research on the vegetation of the Arid Chaco in Argentina has been chosen as the Vegetation Classification and Survey Editors’ Choice Paper for the third quarter of 2023.
“Vegetation types of the Arid Chaco in Central-Western Argentina” is part of the ongoing Special Collection “Neotropical Veget ...
The International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS), on behalf of which Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is published, has decided to continue financial support for its members wishing to publish in the journal.
To be eligible for the waiver, the manuscript must list an IAVS memb ...
This June, the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal received its very first Scopus CiteScore.
The 2022 Scopus CiteScore for VCS currently stands at 2.0, which places the journal in Q2 for Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Q3 for Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior ...
A synthetic overview of the terrestrial vegetation of South America, authored by the team of Dr Gonzalo Navarro-Sánchez (Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”, Bolivia), Federico Luebert (Universidad de Chile, Chile), and José Antonio Molina (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) became the ...
We might only be a few weeks into 2023, but for the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal the year has already proven to be a strong one, after VCS became the scholarly outlet for the paper describing the most comprehensive system of ecological indicator values (EIVs) of vascular plants ...
The first 2023 article published in the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal to receive the quarterly “Editors’ Choice” recognition is the research paper “Modeling the potential distribution of floristic assemblages of high Andean wetlands dominated by Juncaceae and Cyperaceae in the A ...
As we are welcoming 2023, it is time to reveal the Editors’ Choice Paper from 2022 that has won over the Chief editors of the Vegetation Classification Survey (VCS) journal for the annual Editors’ Award.
On behalf of the Chief editors, we would like to congratulate lead author Changcheng Liu (pic ...
Research Paper, Review and Synthesis, VCS Methods, Forum Paper, Report, Editorial, Long Database Report, Short Database Report, Nomenclatural Proposal, CCCN Report, Short Communication, Corrigendum
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