Call to contribute to a Special Collection “Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula” in Vegetation Classification and Survey
New Special Collection "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula" has been launched in conjunction with the annual conferences of two IAVS Working Groups in 2026, namely the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference of the EDGG in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the 34th Conference of the European Vegetation Survey (EVS), in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The collection will be edited by Jürgen Dengler, Erwin Bergmeier and Urban Šilc but in case of a high number of submissions, one or two additional guest editors might be appointed.
The Special Collection welcomes research papers, reviews, syntheses, forum papers as well as long database reports and nomenclatural proposals applying or developing a vegetation classification framework of any type. For example, this can be based on a phytosociological classification system, habitat types, or synusiae. Studies on any kind of vegetation from the coasts to the highest mountains, from natural through semi-natural to anthropogenic are welcome. The collection welcomes particularly the following types of contributions:
- Revisions of syntaxa (classes, orders, alliances...) at the national or supranational level
- Vegetation monographs of a certain region
- Synthetic overviews (category Review and Synthesis) of all syntaxa of a country or other larger regions
- Nomenclatural proposals related to Balkan syntaxa
- Habitat typologies and their application
- Long and Short Database Reports
- Perspectives on how to harmonize and how to utilize syntaxonomic knowledge
We hope to see submissions from the Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey-in-Europe), while syntheses across multiple countries are particularly welcome.
Procedures and deadlines
- Until 31 October 2026: Please submit your (preliminary) abstract online at: https://forms.gle/gxofv8FuZQkqFmeK7. The abstract must follow the VCS Author Guidelines.
- Until 30 November 2026: The Guest Editors will evaluate the abstracts and inform the authors which manuscripts are invited for submission.
- Until 30 May 2027: Invited manuscripts can be submitted at: https://vcs.pensoft.net/
- Spring 2028: The Special Collection will be completed with a synthesizing editorial by the Guest Editor team.