🙌Great to see Dr. Jorge Capelo (@jcapelo.bsky.social), subject editor at Vegetation Classification and Survey stopping by the @pensoft.net booth at #IAVS2026! #vegetationscience

Euphorbia vicentina Schwarzer & Capelo, a plants species new to Science, an endemic from SW Portugal, keen to E. characias s.l that I co-authored with colleague Udo Schwarzer. www.huh.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

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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I am planning to for the next IAVS! It will be hosted in Gijón, Spain! Are you working with #fossilpollen? Sign up! There will be a session about vegetation history😉

Milan Chytrý@milanchytry.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched: 2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation. See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.

The website for the 34th European Vegetation Survey conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 7-11 September 2026, is now open: 34evs2026.org

Register 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...

📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide! 📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025 👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org #IAVS2026

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!

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Using a combination of two drones to pick up plants for herbarium specimens in inaccessible cliffs in Madeira island (Portugal).

Descoberta uma possível nova espécie de planta no Cabo Girão (vídeo) | RTP Madeira

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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 next European Vegetation Survey Conference will be in Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne region of France) on 7-11 September 2026, thanks to the kind invitation of Gilles Thébaud, Fréderic Bioret and Camille Roux. Reserve the dates already now! @euroveg.bsky.social

33th Conference of the European Vegetation Survey, Perugia, Italy

33rd European Vegetation Survey has just started! Vegetation of Europe: Diversity, Dynamics, Conservation, and Restoration

📢 🌿 EVS 2025 The final program for the upcoming EVS Conference in Perugia is now available 🌿 vnr.unipg.it/33evsperugia...

A clearer version of the image What are the ultimate factors controlling fire regimes? The case of boreal forests royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... Phil Trans Roy Soc B, @royalsociety.org jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/04/17/t... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐🍁🌾 wildfire #philsci #ecoevo

In a secondary saltmarsh of Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Cystanche phelypea (Algarve, Portugal)

🌿 Applied Vegetation Science has published a Virtual Issue to mark the 33rd European Vegetation Survey Conference in Perugia (28 Apr - 2 May 2025). This issue features selected recent articles that contain large-scale syntheses of European vegetation types. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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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Herbivory might help oak seedlings survive drought! New research challenges conventional wisdom about how young oaks cope with environmental stress. Read more:

The Unexpected Benefits of Herbivory Under Drought

Herbivores might help young oak trees survive drought by reducing their water loss, which could be important for recovering...

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🌿 Grasslands in the Alps are changing—what’s happening? 🌿 🔎 Read more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Biodiversity #GrasslandsChange #Conservation