Special session of the Vegetation Classification Working Group at the 68th IAVS Symposium in Gijón, Spain
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The Working Group of Vegetation Classification of the International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS)
The VCWG IAVS Newsletter is out now! Please check the news at the website: vcwg.org/VCWG-Newslet... Recent papers by our members can now also be found there: vcwg.org/Publications...
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Phytosociological Classification and Nomenclature Ciaramella, D., Viti, M. M., Landi, M., Chytrý, K., Angiolini, C., & Bonari, G. (2024). Vegetation diversity of Pinus pinaster forests in the Italian ...
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Register for the upcoming IAVS Vegetation Classification WG webinar by Jozef Šibík on Rocky Mountains and Arctic Alaska vegetation Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/02b574...
Snapshot of the Seminar we just had today: "From natural history to forest classification: biogeographic and evolutionary foundations of Mediterranean white oak forest", by Carlos Vila-Viçosa of Porto University, Portugal. Around 90 people attended. Thanks everyone!
Subscribe now to the 28th January webinar of the Vegetation Classification Working Group of IAVS. vcwg.org Carlos Vila-Viçosa will be our guest speaker, presenting biographic and evolutionary foundations of oak forest classification. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/311e9e...
Vegetation Classification Working Group (VCWG)
Our mission is to connect ecologists working on vegetation classification at various levels – from local communities to global ecosystems
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Classification has been a central activity in vegetation science history, please see the SI on the topic issued just now
Jorge Capelo@jcapelo.bsky.social · 7mo agoRegister for the first of the IAVS Vegetation Classification Seminar Series webinars. “A proposal for a multi-level classification of the World’s terrestrial vegetation” by Prof. Javier Loidi 14:00 - 15:00 WET Registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b3165c...
Excited to give a plenary talk at the @iavs5.bsky.social Symposium 2026 in beautiful Gijón, Spain! Looking forward to share our latest research about #dryland plant diversity and to reconnecting with the global vegetation science community gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org Don´t miss it!
In our new article, Zdenka Preislerová and I review the trends in describing new syntaxa of European vegetation from the early 20th century to the publication of the EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016) and beyond. @applvegsci.bsky.social @euroveg.bsky.social 🔗Open access: doi.org/10.1111/avsc...
🌳 A systematic review of Europe’s Traditional Agroforestry Systems: where nature and culture Meet 🌾 #Agroforestry #Biodiversity #SustainableFarming #CulturalHeritage #Conservation #Europe #traditionallandscapes link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Researchers present the first overview of the Colchic ravine forests in Georgia. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/VCS....
Join us on 21 October 2025 at Sapienza University in Rome for a one-day seminar honouring Professor Sandro Pignatti, founder of our European Vegetation Survey Working Group. Celebrate his legacy where he once hosted inspiring conferences.
European Vegetation Survey@euroveg.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe members of the European Vegetation Survey are warmly welcome to the one-day seminar "Celebrating the Legacy of Sandro Pignatti" in Rome on 21 October. Registration form: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Vegetation Classification and Survey has received its first ever Journal Impact Factor. vcs.pensoft.net/news/918
Vegetation Classification and Survey Receives its First Journal Impact Factor
Vegetation Classification and Survey has received its first ever Journal Impact Factor, 3.0, five years since the journal’s foundation. With that, VCS is placed in the second quartile (Q2) of al...
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The IAVS journal dedicated to vegetation classification just got its first IF, congratulations!
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) got its first Impact Factor - vegsciblog.org
Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of VCS Chief Editor) We are glad to announce that Vegetation Classification and Survey
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A new method of tabular classification
TDV-optimization: A novel numerical method for phytosociological tabulation
I present the Total Differential Value (TDV), an index designed for vegetation analysis based on the operational concept of differential species, as classically illustrated by Heinz Ellenberg and Diet...
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A new system of global unifued vegetation classification across scales proposed by Javier Loidi vcs.pensoft.net/article/1396...
A multi-scalar classification system for the terrestrial vegetation of the world
An approach is proposed for a general multiscale classification of terrestrial vegetation applicable to the whole world; only the outline and principles are presented. Further development of the syste...
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The newsletter of the the journal Vegetation Classification and Survey is out.
(PDF) VCS Newsletter 11
PDF | On Mar 4, 2025, Jürgen Dengler and others published VCS Newsletter 11 | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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🌿Check out this new paper by Fernande-Pascual et al. to learn more about the classification and characterization of anthropogenic plant communities in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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We are happy to announce that is now published an Editorial to introduce the new journal 🎉🍾 Read "Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)" through the following link 👉 ved.arphahub.com/article/1466...
Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)
The current issue is the first one of the journal Vegetation Ecology and Diversity, formerly Plant Sociology, the international peer-reviewed journal of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV...
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The density of members of our group by country, prepared by Denys Vynokurov (Ukraine) The group is open to all interested in vegetation classification, but for full scientific involvement we recommend IAVS membership (see www.iavs.org)
Members of the group distributed by continent/country. Also, the break among European countries. (Graphs by Aaron Wells (U.S.), thanks!).
Deadline 31st of January to submit abstracts to the special collection on island vegetation classification in Vegetation Classification and Survey
NEW collection: “Vegetation classification of islands and archipelagos” calls for contributions
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 submi...
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The website of the European Vegetation Survey conference in Perugia, Italy, 28 Apr - 2 May 2025, has been launched: vnr.unipg.it/33evsperugia... @iavs5.bsky.social
Financial support from the International Association for Vegetation Science is available for colleagues with limited funding. Note that the application deadline for travel grants is on 15 January 2025.