Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)

New Special Collection: ‘Broad-scale classification of European vegetation’ To celebrate its first Journal Impact Factor, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), in collaboration with the European Vegetation Survey (EVS), has launched a new Special Collection, titled: &ls...

'𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧,' our new Special Collection launched in collaboration with @euroveg.bsky.social‬, is open for submissions!

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Presentation by Dean Kamel Haddad

Head of the Local Organizing Committee Scott Franklin

🌄 The 67th Annual Symposium of the IAVS is officially open!
This morning, the Local Organizing Committee, led by Scott Franklin, and IAVS President Susan Wiser welcomed us warmly, joined by Dean Kamel Haddad from the University of Northern Colorado. 🌿
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Call to contribute to a Special Collection “Broad-scale classification of European vegetation” in Vegetation Classification and Survey - vegsciblog.org The post provided by Idoia Biurrun (Chief Editor of Vegetation Classification and Survey) The IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey

Call to contribute to a Special Collection “Broad-scale classification of European vegetation” in Vegetation Classification and Survey vegsciblog.org/2025/07/31/s...

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the second quarter of 2025 - vegsciblog.org Prepared by Jürgen Dengler (on behalf of VCS Chief Editor) In the second quarter of its 6th volume, Vegetation Classification

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS): Editors’ Choice of the second quarter of 2025 vegsciblog.org/2025/07/25/v...

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Environmental spatial assessment at ranch scale: a tool for optimizing livestock management in Argentine forests Question: Effective environmental management depends on accurate and efficient assessments of ecological conditions. This study introduces a method that combines remote sensing with a Rapid Assessment...

New research from Argentina combines remote sensing and rapid field assessments to create a spatial tool that helps optimise livestock management while conserving native forests.

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Call for applications to the VCS Editorial Board From the VCS Chief Editors.With the new bibliometric scores being released, we anticipate a significant increase in paper submissions. Thus, we are seeking colleagues interested in serving in our Edit...

Join the VCS Editorial Board!

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Editors' Choice paper for the second quarter of 2025 Every three months, the VCS Chief Editors select an Editors’ Choice paper of the quarter. All of them are highlighted on the journal website and one of the four selected papers then gets the Edi...

Our Editors' Choice paper for Q2 of 2025 introduces a new method for vegetation classification, called TDV-optimization.

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Our latest newsletter is out, featuring several exciting updates from our journal!

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2025 Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore, U.S. The Pensoft team will take part in the upcoming 2025 Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Baltimore, U.S. Expecting over 3,800 participants from more than 40 countries, this year&rsquo...

We'll be at the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social annual meeting in Baltimore. U.S., in August! Come say hi to our team at @pensoft.net's stand!

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The 67th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science Heads to Colorado The 2025 Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science will be held from 28 July to 3 August 2025 at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, USA. The ...

The annual meeting of the International Association for Vegetation Science is heading to Greeley, Colorado from 28 July to 3 August 2025.

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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...

Vegetation Classification and Survey has received its first ever Journal Impact Factor.

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Vegetation Classification and Survey achieves improved Scopus CiteScore and climbs to Q1 across three categories The 2024 Scopus CiteScore for Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) has been released, reporting a value of 3.6. Published in early June by Scopus and confirmed by the ARPHA Platform's indexi...

Vegetation Classification and Survey achieves improved Scopus CiteScore and climbs to Q1 across three categories.

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Registration opens for the 20th Eurasian Grassland Conference in Oulu, Finland The University of Oulu in Finland will host the Nordic region’s first ever EGC conference from the 6th - 10th July 2025.Hosted by the Biodiverse Anthropocenes programme, the conference will feat...

Registration opens for the 20th Eurasian Grassland Conference in Oulu, Finland.

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Part of: Special Collection "Classification and diversity of European forests and forest fringes"

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Hardwood riparian forests in northern Iberian Peninsula: classification and diversity patterns Aims: Temperate hardwood riparian forests constitute an endangered habitat occurring mostly on the floodplains of major European rivers, and included in habitat T13 of the European Nature Information ...

Hardwood riparian forests in northern Spain were classified into three types and shown to support high plant diversity, including endangered and endemic species, underscoring the need for clearer classification at the European level.

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Does the use of ordinal cover scales bias biodiversity metrics? Post, originallly published to https://vegsciblog.org/, provided by Iwona Dembicz & Jürgen Dengler.When sampling vegetation plots, vegetation ecologists usually estimate the&nb...

Does the use of ordinal cover scales bias biodiversity metrics?

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Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales? II – Diversity indices Question: We asked whether ordinal cover scales cause biases in biodiversity indices derived from vegetation plots and, if so, whether a different back-translation of ordinal categories could improve ...

Using ordinal instead of percent cover estimates in vegetation plots can systematically bias biodiversity indices and distort community rankings, especially with coarse scales like Hult-Sernander-Du Rietz.

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LAURA: a resurvey database of forest vegetation in southwestern Poland The LAURA database is a resurvey dataset documenting long-term changes in forest vegetation across southwestern Poland. It currently includes 842 phytosociological relevés from 409 plots across 20 sit...

LAURA is a long-term resurvey database documenting changes in forest vegetation across southwestern Poland, based on 842 relevés from 409 plots revisited after an average of 35 years.

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Publications - International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) The IAVS Bulletin is the newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science. It contains items of potential interest to the membership and serves as the official record of IAVS meetings and activities. It is currently published in digital format with four issues per year.

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Pensoft and VCS recognise talent at the 33rd Conference of the European Vegetation Survey in Perugia The 33rd Conference of the European Vegetation Survey (EVS) was held in Perugia, Italy from the 28th April to the 2nd May. The conference was organised under the patronage of the Internation...

Congratulations to Štěpánka Pustková of Masaryk University for winning the Best Poster award at the 33rd Conference of the European Vegetation Survey in Perugia, entitling her to a free publication in our journal.

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