The International Association for Vegetation Science

🌱 Travel Grant Awardee Spotlight #IAVS #TravelGrant #Plant #Community #Assembly #ECR

5 days left to submit your abstract for our Special Issue on Palaearctic Grasslands: Global Change, Conservation, Management and Restoration. Send it to Prof. Jürgen Dengler at dr.juergen.dengler@gmail.com by 31 October. vegsciblog.org/2026/09/10/s...

From studying grasslands in her native Argentina, to co-authoring a global stock-take of the entire planet’s biodiversity. Read our interview with Professor Sandra Diaz, a leading plant ecologist and key figure in environmental science policy🌿 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/an-i...

Meet the editors! Say hello to Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Chief Editor of both the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science. More about him in the posts to come.

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

🌿 We have something to celebrate! The IAVS Open Data Index has received a 2026 SORTEE Commendation Award! Explore the Open Data Index at opendata.iavs.org #IAVS #OpenScience #OpenData #SORTEE

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center & ForestGEO are hiring a new temperate forest ecologist. Come be my colleague! more information here: serc.si.edu/get-involved...

*Job alert* We are looking for a *postdoc in ecological modelling*, starting from spring 2027. Wondering how lags in mountain plant distribution shifts might turn out in the future? Apply and find out! 🪻🏔️↗️⏳ All details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost and share widely!

Pay attention, folks, this is an important new paper! On one headland in southern England, one spot warmed ~3 °C in 30 years, another cooled by 1 °C+. Why? Clouds, snow, soil moisture & vegetation. Review on microclimate change led by Caroline Greiser, now in GCB👇 the3dlab.org/2026/10/21/h...

What's left of Mer de Glace just downstream Leschaux's confluence yesterday! 😥

🌿 Vegetation Spotlight: Deciduous teak forests in the Gir region of India! #IAVS #Forest #Ecology #Phenology

Interested in speciation and from the UK? Apply for this PhD studentship to study speciation in snapdragons at UCL, supervised by Sean Stankowski and co-supervised by me! 👉 lnkd.in/eUBZBR-e Fieldwork in Spain, visits to Austria and much fun and flexibility to design your own projects guaranteed.

Inventorying Mulgedio-Aconitetea vegetation in Russia led to nomenclatural updates: four proposals, five new associations, five validated names, and rank changes for two suballiances and four subassociations. Full nomenclatural proposal: doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... #VegetationScience

The new Annual Report of the European Vegetation Survey Working Group has just been published: euroveg.org/annual-repor...

What drives her research: grassland ecology, with particular emphasis on invasive plant ecology, conservation, and restoration.

New in Applied Vegetation Science: Fekadu et al. reveal long-term human influence on Africa's largest alpine ecosystem, the Bale Mountains, with settlement species extending up to 200 m and biomarker evidence spanning thousands of years. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿 Meet the scientist! #IAVS #Functional #Traits #Ecology #Plants

The abstract deadline for our Special Issue "Palaearctic Grasslands: Global Change, Conservation, Management and Restoration" has been pushed to 31 October. More info: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

A bit about Anaclara's journey: a BSc in Uruguay, a Master's in Spain, a PhD and postdoc in Brazil, and now Associate Professor at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. Full bio in the image.

We need your help - four of our satellite-tracked quail have gone missing in France! Any information would be interesting, e.g. if the signal comes from near a fox den, buzzard nest or hunting area 🦊🦅🔫 If you can recover the tag, we can re-use it - and you can name this quail 😉 Pls share widely 🇫🇷

A terrible loss for the biodiversity community. We will all miss you Sepp 💔

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New in Journal of Vegetation Science: Rozman & Nagel tracked a Slovenian old-growth forest over six decades. Beech is replacing fir and the community is homogenizing, even though overall species richness stayed stable. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⏳Just a few weeks left. ✏️Submit your preliminary abstracts for the new Special Collection: "Vegetation of the #Balkan Peninsula" - launched alongside the #EGC2026 (Sofia) and the #EVS2026 (Clermont-Ferrand). 🗓Deadline 31st October Learn more: vcs.pensoft.net/news/1379 #IAVS #plants #vegetation

Was für ein unermesslicher Verlust. Für alle Menschen, die ihn kannten und für den Naturschutz auf unserer Erde. Du wirst mir so sehr fehlen lieber Josef. Möge die Erde dir leicht sein. 🖤

Scientists worldwide: We invite you to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Thirty-five years after the first warning, we now declare a planetary emergency. If you are a scientist, please read, sign, and share and go to this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Reviewers wanted! Journal of Vegetation Science, Applied Vegetation Science and Vegetation Classification & Survey are looking for new Editorial Review Board members, Associate Editors and Linguistic Editors. Apply by 15 November: forms.gle/GgZZc3jjXMfn...

📢 Call for reviewers and editors at the three @iavs5.bsky.social journals! 🌿Whether you’re an early-career or an experienced vegetation scientist, apply to join 🔹Reviewer Registry 🔹Editorial Review Board 🔹Associate Editors 🔹Linguistic Editors 📆 Deadline 15 Nov 👇 vcs.pensoft.net/news/1496

The IAVS journals are looking for reviewers and new members of the Editorial Board vegsciblog.org/2026/10/08/i... @iavs5.bsky.social

Behind the paper post of VCS journal by Riccardo Guarino: Of Brooms and Boundaries: That Day I Met David Hume vegsciblog.org/2026/10/08/o... @iavs5.bsky.social

VCS in the third quarter of 2026 and Editors’ Choice vegsciblog.org/2026/10/08/v... @iavs5.bsky.social

Post-doctoral fellow in global forest dynamics! TreeChange combines life history traits from field observations with demographic modelling to understand the future of forests and the carbon sink. Based at Lund in Sweden you will work with researchers across the world lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Habitat specialists matter for both research and conservation. This study identifies 274 vascular plant, bryophyte and macrofungal specialists of Czech fens and bogs, and uses strict specialists to reconstruct a major historical decline of mire habitats. preslia.cz/doi/preslia.2026.209.html

This #WorldHabitatDay, we’re spotlighting our forests. As home to many terrestrial species, healthy forest ecosystems purify water, stabilize climate, and protect global biodiversity 🍃💧 Protecting forests safeguards our future! 🦉💚 #WorldHabitatDay2026 #NatureRights

There is still time to register for the upcoming Webinar for Young Scientists! Don't be lazy—sign up via the link below👇 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌿 Special Collection: “Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula” in Vegetation Classification and Survey 📅 Preliminary abstracts due: 31 October 2026 👉 Submit online: forms.gle/gxofv8FuZQkq...

IAVS Young Scientists Webinar 🎤 Prof. David Zelený (National Taiwan University) 📝 "Community-weighted mean approach in trait vegetation ecology" 📅 Oct 7, 9:00 CET | Zoom Register now: docs.google.com/forms/d/1SiF... #IAVS #VegetationScience

Meet the Editors. Continuing our series on the people behind JVS and AVS. Next up: Anaclara Guido, Chief Editor of both journals.

Are you an experimental plant ecologist? Keen on working with great colleagues in a thriving scientific environment and a unique global change experiment? Join us! https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3443/Description/2 #ecology #ecologyjob #ecoevojob