A bit about Francesco's journey: a PhD in Rome, a Marie-Curie fellowship in Berlin, coordinating sPlot at iDiv, and now Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. Full bio in the image.

📸 JVS/AVS Photo Contest! 🌿 Got an amazing photo that could grace the 2027 cover of Journal of Vegetation Science or Applied Vegetation Science? Submit up to 3 square photos that tell a compelling story about vegetation or how we study it by 30 Nov 2026! 👇 Google Form below! @iavs5.bsky.social

IAVS Young Scientists Webinar 🗓️𝐎𝐜𝐭 𝟕 | 𝟗:𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐄𝐓| Zoom Prof. 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐲́(National Taiwan University) presents "Community-weighted mean approach in trait vegetation ecology" . Registration link in the next days #IAVS #VegetationScience #YoungVeg #YSwebinar

🌲 European Vegetation Survey (EVS), an IAVS Working Group since 1992, uniting vegetation scientists in the survey and classification of plant communities across Europe. 🧵

🌿 IAVS Young Scientists Webinar 🎤 Prof. Valério Pillar (UFRGS, Brazil) 📝 "How to publish a paper in a good journal" 📅 Sept 28 | Zoom Haven't signed up yet? Register now 🔗 lnkd.in/efvKZnzi

Call for papers: Applied Vegetation Science Special Issue on Palaearctic Grasslands, global change, conservation, management and restoration. Abstract deadline extended to 31 October. Full call and details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Group photo from the very successful 34th European Vegetation Survey Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

📢 New Special Collection "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula"! Launched alongside the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference (EDGG, Sofia, Bulgaria) and the 34th European Vegetation Survey Conference (EVS, Clermont-Ferrand, France). 🗓️ Preliminary abstract deadline: 31 October 2026 ⤵️

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 Eurasia...

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GrassPlot: 225 datasets, 309 contributors, 49 countries of Palaearctic grassland data, sampled at scales from 1 cm² to full relevés. An EDGG database feeding into vegetation science. Consortium open to all researchers. 🔗 edgg.org/databases/GrassPlot

𝗜𝗔𝗩𝗦 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 Title: H𝑜w t𝑜 𝑝u𝑏l𝑖sℎ 𝑎 𝑝a𝑝e𝑟 𝑖n a g𝑜o𝑑 𝑗o𝑢r𝑛a𝑙 Speaker: Prof. Valério Pillar 📅 Sept 28, 2026 🕒 15:00 CET 💻 Zoom Register: tinyurl.com/iavsyswebina... Webinar will be recorded #Ecology #VegetationScience #YoungVegSci

Fieldwork Friday 🌿 What happens when you combine #botany, #geomorphology and temperature data? You start to uncover the hidden #microclimates of karst #dolines. This week, we’re joining fieldwork on the Kras Plateau in Slovenia, where Lucia Čahojová is exploring dolines as potential #microrefugia.

Next up on the IAVS Young Scientists webinar series: Prof. Valério Pillar (UFRGS, Brazil), Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Vegetation Science & Applied Vegetation Science, talks "How to publish a paper in a good journal" — Sept 28, on Zoom. #VegetationScience #AcademicPublishing

This is a plain-language summary of the paper "Satellite-based mapping of South Manchurian mixed forests highlights critical conservation needs" by Violetta D. Dzizyurova and colleagues, published recently in Applied Vegetation Science: vegsciblog.org/2026/09/04/s... @iavs5.bsky.social

Satellite-based mapping of South Manchurian mixed forests highlights critical conservation needs - vegsciblog.org

Prepared by Violetta D. Dzizyurova, Sergey V. Dudov, Kirill A. Korznikov, Tatyana Ya. Petrenko, Mikhail Yu. Grishchenko & Pavel V.

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Taking the EVS symposium into the field! Participants explored the montane and subalpine vegetation of the Monts Dore, including localities described by Luquet (1926) and alliances such as Fagion, Piceion, Nardion and Arrhenatherion. #VegetationScience #FieldEcology #IAVS

#IAVS Working Group Series - Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), an IAVS Working Group since 2008, connecting people and knowledge for the study and #conservation of Palaearctic grasslands. EDGG also runs Eurasian #Grassland Conferences, field workshops for collaborative research, Talk Grassland!

The 34th European Vegetation Survey Conference is officially underway! Welcome to Clermont-Ferrand, where vegetation scientists from across Europe and beyond are coming together for #EVS 2026. Here’s to a week of #science, #fieldwork, conversations and plenty of #vegetation! 🌿

We sampled a dry grassland in Armenia, which contained 90 and 104 vascular plant species in plots of 10 m² and 25 m², respectively. These counts are higher than those recorded in any European grassland so far, except for the Carpathian region and steppes near Kursk. www.tuexenia.de/publications...

New in Journal of Vegetation Science: Radhamoni et al. and a large team of herb researchers identify 100 key questions for forest herb ecology, spanning 19 subject areas, to guide research beyond the north temperate forests it has focused on. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What happens when a glacier retreats and leaves new ground behind? Prof. Ingolf Kühn@ingolfkuehn.bsky.social & colleagues are taking vegetation monitoring into glacier forefields of Northern Limestone Alps to follow succession from bare ground to established plant communities doi.org/10.5194/we-2...

Can we trust? Yes, we can trust estimates of species turnover, but estimates of changes in species richness are less reliable. Our new article in the Journal of Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365... @journalofecology.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social

Today, we’re celebrating the people who make field research happen — the early starts, muddy boots, careful observations, unexpected discoveries and, of course, reaching new heights! 🔎🌱 #FieldworkFriday #IAVS #Ecology #Fieldwork #PlantEcology #Biodiversity #Ecosystems #TreeClimbing #Epiphytes

📣 PhD position in the Nir Lab at the Volcani Institute, Israel 🌱 Study plant development and environmental responses using tomato and Arabidopsis. Apply or share! 🔁 #PlantSciJob #PhDPosition #PlantScience

🚨🧪 PhD/postdoc opportunity! The "Faculty for the Future" program of the Schlumberger Foundation funds female citizens of developing countries. Get in touch if you are interested in coming to Sweden to work on Tropical Forest Dynamics! Due 6 Nov. schlumbergerfoundation.com/applications/

Languages maintain, transmit & convey knowledge, values and practices that support biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. 🏡 🌍 ~40% of the world’s languages are already extinct or endangered, along with much precious knowledge they convey. 🧪 #ValuesAssessment: https://ow.ly/7Amr50ZBQiE

📢 We are hiring! PhD opportunity in my group as part of MSCA Doctoral Network ReDiLEEP, which recruits 13 Doctoral Candidates. Focus in this project: traits, responses & plant community stability in boreal forest and tundra. Supervised together with @lauraantao.bsky.social DL 18 Sept 👇

Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in plant community ecology

Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in plant community ecology

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Position open! Come work with us at the Finnish Museum of Natural History at the University of Helsinki, Finland ☘️🌿🍃 Apply for the position of the vascular plant curator here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Putkilokasvien intendentti

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Breaking wind! Wind is an important factor for vegetation. Plain language summary of the paper by Nicola Marneweck and colleagues published in the Journal of Vegetation Science vegsciblog.org/2026/08/24/w... @iavs5.bsky.social

Wind Effects on Tundra Vegetation: Insights From Natural Windbreaks in the Sub-Antarctic - vegsciblog.org

Prepared by Nicola Marneweck, Leandri de Kock, Janine Schoombie, Michelle Greve and Peter C. le Roux When we think about

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📢 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology at EPFL/WSL in Lausanne! 🌿 Study physiological mechanisms of leaf browning under heat & drought stress 🔬 Experimental plant ecophysiology 🎓 Mentoring/teaching opportunities Please share! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/...

Hello world! You bored? My research group is documenting flower color variation and you can help! check out tribblelab.org/flower_color... and dm me with any technical difficulties or issues. Share with your friends! The more players the better.

The Desert Botanical Garden is hiring!! 🌵🌻🏜️ We are looking for a new Chief Research Officer - somebody to lead our fantastic research dept. which encompasses work on plant conservation, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and more! Please share the link below with anybody that may be interested!

Desert Botanical Garden - Vice President & Chief Research Officer

Desert Botanical Garden is seeking a visionary scientific leader to help define the future of desert research. As Vice President & Chief Research Officer, you will set the strategic direction for ...

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