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Plant community ecology | Botany | Vegetation science | Natural habitats | Macroecology | Biodiversity | Conservation | Global change | Scientific publishing || Professor @ Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
a flyer with the next two webinars: open vegetation data on march 13th and from a vegetation-plot database to a GBIF dataset on march 27th
We're back with more webinars!
Starting 2026 with two events co-hosted with European Vegetation Survey all about sharing and accessing open vegetation data.
Register here for the upcoming webinar on the 13th and follow our updates!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Interested in a PhD in European wetland flora and vegetation? See details here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r5ob6...
05.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products.
Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
An interview - rozhovor
English: www.sci.muni.cz/.../succes.....
Česky: www.sci.muni.cz/.../rozhovor...
🌿 Webinar for IAVS Young Scientists 🌿
🎤 Talk: Writing Scientific Papers in Vegetation Science
📣Prof. Milan Chytrý
📅 January 28th, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM CET
💻 YS’ Zoom Room
✏️ Registration Form: tinyurl.com/youngscienti...
#VegSci #IAVS #YoungScientists
In our new article in Nature Cities, led by Susanne Tautenhahn, we used our recently published European datasets of plant indicator values, linked them to citizen science data, and mapped environmental conditions for Europe and, at a finer resolution, for 326 cities.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
There is, but I have an access issue there. I contacted the first author to fix it:
sarasi-moussi.users.earthengine.app/view/eunisha...
Super interesting global meeting of biogeographers - TIBS conference in the cathedral-like auditorium of the Aarhus University, Denmark.
08.01.2026 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A map of 260 EUNIS habitat types for Europe has been prepared under the leadership of Sara Si-Moussi and Wilfried Thuiller and published in Scientific Data. It shows the most probable habitat for each 100-m pixel.
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Map data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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
15.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Further evidence of the declining quality of endangered natural habitats has just been published in a new Preslia article on vegetation resurvey by Klára Friesová and collaborators.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.23855/pre...
Infographic by NotebookLM
Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
The first European classification of vegetation in seasonally drained salt lakes, led by Svitlana Iemelianova from our Vegetation Science Group, and supported by an MSCA4Ukraine grant. Our findings will change the standard European vegetation classification system.
doi.org/10.1111/avsc...
In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
From the seminar dedicated to the legacy of Sandro Pignatti. Pier Luigi Nimis is showing the Olivetti typewriter on which Pignatti wrote the Flora d'Italia (1982). This monograph consisted of three volumes with a total of nearly 2300 printed pages.
22.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The event "Celebration the legacy of Sandro Pignatti" is now happening at the Botanical Garden of Rome organised by La Sapienza University of Rome
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#EVS
A wonderful day celebrating the legacy of Sandro Pignatti. At the end of the event, a tree was planted by the Director of the Botanical Garden of Rome, Prof. Fabio Attorre, in memory of Prof. Pignatti.
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#EVS
The Academy fosters European research, builds bridges between scientific disciplines, and advises governments and international organizations on scientific matters. It is recognized by the European Commission as a key partner in scientific consultation. www.ae-info.org
17.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Academia Europaea brings together leading scholars from across Europe and beyond, including 88 Nobel laureates. Its members are elected in recognition of their contributions to advancing knowledge in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
17.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I am deeply honored and humbled to share that I have been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.
17.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our new article in Nature Plants, led by César Leblanc, introduces Pl@ntBERT, an AI model inspired by language models like ChatGPT, but trained on > 1M vegetation plots from the EVA database.
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Cesar...
GitHub: github.com/cesar-leblan...
Postdoc position in coastal ecology at the University of Oldenburg, suitable for vegetation ecologists, application deadline 28 October
uol.de/en/job/postd...
Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...
The new issue of the IAVS Bulletin features four articles about two remarkable men who had a huge impact on European and global vegetation science, and who also greatly shaped my own scientific journey: John Rodwell and Sandro Pignatti.
cdn.ymaws.com/www.iavs.org...
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.
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🔗Open access: doi.org/10.1111/avsc...
"Durancie" is an old plum variety commonly planted in the Moravian Carpathians. It is ripening now, in September. For generations, these plums have been used to create unique regional delicacies. By growing and harvesting them in our garden, I am helping to keep this local tradition alive. 😀
06.09.2025 18:46 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
In our new Nature Communications article led by Rashmi Paudel, we show that plant species that spread within their native range have a higher probability of becoming established outside their native range.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6
🔗Sharable PDF link: rdcu.be/eEmQr
In our new Preslia article, led by Barbora Klímová, we corrected bias in the occurrence data using rarefaction and mapped the geographical distribution of plant species richness in Czechia (left: raw data, right: corrected data).
🔗 doi.org/10.23855/pre...