Vegetation Classification and Survey 4

VCS Methods

Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0

Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen, Olha Chusova, Elisabeth Hüllbusch, Michael P. Nobis, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Irena Axmanová, Hans Henrik Bruun, Milan Chytrý, Riccardo Guarino, Gerhard Karrer, Karlien Moeys, Thomas Raus, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Lubomir Tichý, Torbjörn Tyler, Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Claudia Bita-Nicolae, Yakiv Didukh, Martin Diekmann, Thorsten Englisch, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Dieter Frank, Ulrich Graf, Michal Hájek, Sven D. Jelaska, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Philippe Julve, George Nakhutsrishvili, Wim A. Ozinga, Eszter-Karolina Ruprecht, Urban Šilc, Jean-Paul Theurillat, François Gillet

10.3897/VCS.98324

13-01-2023

Unique: 6732 | Total: 12091

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7-29

Part of: Special Collection 'African vegetation studies'

Research Paper

Plant diversity in traditional agroecosystems of North Morocco

Soufian Chakkour, Erwin Bergmeier, Stefan Meyer, Jalal Kassout, Mohamed Kadiri, Mohammed Ater

10.3897/VCS.86024

28-02-2023

Unique: 2215 | Total: 3138

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31-45

Part of: Special Collection 'Neotropical vegetation'

Research Paper

Editors' Choice

Modeling the potential distribution of floristic assemblages of high Andean wetlands dominated by Juncaceae and Cyperaceae in the Argentine Puna

Elvira Casagranda, Andrea E. Izquierdo

10.3897/VCS.95779

28-02-2023

Unique: 1781 | Total: 2920

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47-58

Report

A vector map of the world’s terrestrial biotic units: subbiomes, biomes, ecozones and domains

Javier Loidi, Gonzalo Navarro-Sánchez, Denys Vynokurov

10.3897/VCS.99167

16-03-2023

Unique: 3070 | Total: 4325

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59-61

Nomenclatural Proposal

Proposal (31) to conserve the name Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974 as a nomen conservandum with a conserved type

Jürgen Dengler, Wolfgang Willner

10.3897/VCS.100985

11-04-2023

Unique: 1116 | Total: 1597

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63-68

Part of: Special Collection 'Neotropical vegetation'

Long Database Report

CACTUS – Vegetation database of the Dutch Caribbean Islands

John Janssen, Erik Houtepen, André van Proosdij, Stephan Hennekens

10.3897/VCS.101114

02-05-2023

Unique: 1368 | Total: 1838

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69-74

Part of: Special Collection 'Neotropical vegetation'

Review and Synthesis

Editors' Choice

South American terrestrial biomes as geocomplexes: a geobotanical landscape approach

Gonzalo Navarro, Federico Luebert, José Antonio Molina

10.3897/VCS.96710

11-05-2023

Unique: 2574 | Total: 3643

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75-114

Part of: Special Collection 'African vegetation studies'

Research Paper

Vegetation structure and composition at different elevational intervals in the arid Tankwa Karoo National Park, South Africa

Mogamat Igshaan Samuels, Manam Saaed, Shayne Jacobs, Mmoto Leonard Masubelele, Helga Van der Merwe, Lesego Khomo

10.3897/VCS.86310

07-07-2023

Unique: 1625 | Total: 2494

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115-126

Nomenclatural Proposal

Proposal (32) to conserve the name Agrostion castellanae with a conserved type

Massimo Terzi, Federico Fernández-González, Romeo Di Pietro, Jean-Paul Theurillat

10.3897/VCS.105269

07-07-2023

Unique: 1018 | Total: 1549

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127-130

VCS Methods

Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales?

Jürgen Dengler, Iwona Dembicz

10.3897/VCS.98379

07-07-2023

Unique: 2587 | Total: 3469

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131-138

Part of: Special Collection 'African vegetation studies'

Research Paper

Ecological and structural differentiation of the Sudanian woodlands in the Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari, Benin

Eméline S. P. Assèdé, S. S. Honoré Biaou, Hidirou Orou, Madjidou Oumorou, Coert J. Geldenhuys, Paxie W. Chirwa, Brice Sinsin

10.3897/VCS.91126

19-07-2023

Unique: 1437 | Total: 2059

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139-165

Part of: Special Collection 'Neotropical vegetation'

Research Paper

Editors' Choice

Vegetation types of the Arid Chaco in Central-Western Argentina

10.3897/VCS.100532

24-07-2023

Unique: 2208 | Total: 4330

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167-188

Part of: Special Collection 'African vegetation studies'

Research Paper

Dynamics of inselberg landscapes and their adjacent areas in the Sudano-Guinean zone of Benin through remote sensing analysis

Ranmi Elsa Denise Ayeko, Sêwanoudé Scholastique Mireille Toyi, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo, Brice Augustin Sinsin

10.3897/VCS.89746

24-07-2023

Unique: 1458 | Total: 1942

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189-202

Nomenclatural Proposal

Proposals (33–34) to conserve the name Poo-Astragalion and to conserve the name Poo-Astragaletum sesamei with a conserved type, and requests (5–7) for a binding decision on the name-giving taxa in the same names and the inversion of the name Poo-Astragaletum sesamei

Federico Fernández-González, Massimo Terzi, Romeo Di Pietro, Jean-Paul Theurillat

10.3897/VCS.108769

25-09-2023

Unique: 965 | Total: 1334

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203-207

Review and Synthesis

Vegetation survey methodology in arable weeds is reported with less detail from vegetation science than weed science

Jana Bürger, Filip Küzmič

10.3897/VCS.105300

02-10-2023

Unique: 1217 | Total: 1788

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209-218

Forum Paper

Priorities in journal selection for authors, reviewers, editors, librarians and science funders

Jürgen Dengler

10.3897/VCS.110296

02-10-2023

Unique: 1375 | Total: 1878

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219-229

Long Database Report

Transcaucasian Vegetation Database – a phytosociological database of the Southern Caucasus

10.3897/VCS.105521

16-10-2023

Unique: 1404 | Total: 2107

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231-240

Part of: Special Collection 'African vegetation studies'

Research Paper

Editors' Award 2023

A first syntaxonomic description of the vegetation of the Karstveld in Namibia

Ben J. Strohbach, Marianne M. Strohbach

10.3897/VCS.99045

24-10-2023

Unique: 1447 | Total: 1955

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241-284

Forum Paper

Syntaxonomic ranks, biogeography and typological inflation

Javier Loidi

10.3897/VCS.101648

24-11-2023

Unique: 1069 | Total: 1511

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285-290

Part of: Special Collection 'Grasslands of Asia'

Research Paper

Syntaxonomic classification of forb steppes and related vegetation of subalpine and alpine belts in the Pamir-Alai Mountains (Tajikistan, Middle Asia)

Sebastian Świerszcz, Marcin Nobis, Grzegorz Swacha, Sylwia Nowak, Arkadiusz Nowak

10.3897/VCS.102634

24-11-2023

Unique: 1331 | Total: 1805

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291-317

Short Communication

Nomenclatural comments on the alliance Pino sibiricae-Laricion sibiricae

Oleg A. Anenkhonov

10.3897/VCS.104301

11-12-2023

Unique: 757 | Total: 1057

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319-321

Nomenclatural Proposal

Proposal (35) to conserve the name Festucion valesiacae

Jean-Paul Theurillat, Romeo Di Pietro, Norbert Bauer, Massimo Terzi

10.3897/VCS.108437

11-12-2023

Unique: 924 | Total: 1238

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323-327

Part of: Special Collection 'Neotropical vegetation'

Research Paper

Classification and nomenclature of temperate forest types in Mexico

Víctor Ávila-Akerberg, Rubén Rosaliano-Evaristo, Tanya González-Martínez, Brayan Pichardo-García, Diana Serrano-González

10.3897/VCS.100796

13-12-2023

Unique: 1625 | Total: 2426

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329-341

Research Paper

Invasive species over-stabilise the vegetation of a mobile dunefield, Manawatū, New Zealand, disrupting natural succession

Gillian L. Rapson, Ashley L. Murphy, Angelina R. Smith

10.3897/VCS.98391

22-12-2023

Unique: 1122 | Total: 1515

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343-360