Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)

vcs.pensoft.netCall to contribute to a Special Collection “Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula” in Vegetation Classification and SurveyNew Special Collection "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula" has been launched in conjunction with the annual conferences of two IAVS Working Groups in 2026, namely the 21st Eurasia...

New Special Collection: "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula" - launched alongside the EDGG's Eurasian Grassland Conference (Sofia) and the 34th EVS conference (Clermont-Ferrand). Submissions welcome on Balkan vegetation classification, syntaxa, habitats, and more. Preliminary abstracts due 31 Oct

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

⏳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

vcs.pensoft.netCall for Reviewers and Editors at Vegetation Classification and SurveyLike most journals, the IAVS journals (JVS, AVS and VCS) are feeling the “reviewer crisis”: securing even two peer reviews can take five, ten or more invitations, delaying the process for ...

📢 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 34th European Vegetation Survey Conference has wrapped up in Clermont-Ferrand! 👏Big congratulations to Lina Rinne, for their poster. 🙌They will receive a complimentary publication in a @pensoft.net-published journal of their choice.

vcs.pensoft.netSpecial Collection "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula"

❗Also, a kind reminder that you can still submit preliminary abstracts to the collection “Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula” 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫, 2026. For more information, please see here: vcs.pensoft.net/collection/6...

🌿 The VCS Editors' Choice for Q3 2026 goes to Riccardo Guarino and colleagues for their revision of the syntaxonomy of broom-dominated #shrublands in Sicily, including a new alliance. ➡ Full open-access study: doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... ➡ News: vcs.pensoft.net/news/1478 #plants

🌿 Two new plant communities dominated by Carex panormitana, a rare endemic sedge, have been identified and described from Mediterranean watercourses in Sardinia. Check out the full study: doi.org/10.3897/VCS.196138

📍 We're featured at @pensoft.net's booth at #SMCC2026, running this week in Sofia! 📚 This Thursday and Friday, come and find out more about the scope of our journal and how we can support your research in small mammal conservation. #SmallMammalConservation @habitatfoundation.bsky.social

18 Sept

📢 New Special Collection "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula"! Launched alongside the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference (EDGG, Sofia, Bulgaria) and the 34th European Vegetation Survey Conference (EVS, Clermont-Ferrand, France). 🗓️ Preliminary abstract deadline: 31 October 2026 ⤵️

18 Sept

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17 Sept

🌿🏔️New study maps acidophilous #shrublands across N. Sicily's Nebrodi & Peloritani mountains. Researchers describe several new #plant associations and a new alliance, refining how we classify these broom-heath communities in the Mediterranean. Full open-access study: doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

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14 Sept

📍 We're at #NordicOikosGfÖ2026 in Odense, Denmark, this week, showcasing our work as a consortium member of @obsgession.eu and presenting our ecology-focused portfolio. 🤝 We look forward to meeting you all at our designated booth!

8 Sept

🎉 We were delighted to welcome Lukas Petrulaitis to @pensoft.net's booth at #NeoBiota2026! 👉 Lukas is an author in our journal! Check out their short #database report "KELVEG – Roadside Vegetation of Lithuania" in our journal: doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

vcs.pensoft.net34th European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Conference in Clermont-Ferrand, FranceThe 34th European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Conference will take place at the Polydome convention center in Clermont-Ferrand, France, from 7-11 September 2026, with a post-symposium excursion running th...

2 Sept

🌿The 34th European #Vegetation Survey Conference #EVS2026 is happening 7-1 Sept 2026 in Clermont-Ferrand, France! Talks, posters, excursions & a @pensoft.net-sponsored best presentation prize. Also: a new Special Collection on Balkan Peninsula vegetation is open for abstracts (deadline 31 Oct). 👇

Cc: @iavs5.bsky.social, @iavs-ecoinfo.bsky.social, @wgvc-iavs.bsky.social, @iavs-young-sci.bsky.social

2 Sept

doi.orgTranslation of the Braun-Blanquet scale to percent in TURBOVEG can bias diversity metricsBackground: The majority of vegetation plots has been and still is being recorded on ordinal scales, meaning that the values have to be back-transformed to percent for many typical analyses. Little is...

20 Aug

📊A widely used software tool ( #TURBOVEG) for managing #vegetation-plot #data may be skewing #biodiversity research, according to a new study published in our open-access, peer-reviewed journal. 👉Forum paper: doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... @iavs5.bsky.social

blog.pensoft.netTranslation of the Braun-Blanquet scale to percent in TURBOVEG can bias diversity metrics | BlogGuest blog post by Jürgen Dengler, Iwona Dembicz & Łukasz Kozub This post refers to the article Translation of the Braun-Blanquet scale to percent in TURBOVEG can bias diversity metrics in Vegetation ...

20 Aug

Make sure to check out the guest blog post by Jürgen Dengler, Iwona Dembicz & Łukasz Kozub here: blog.pensoft.net/2026/08/20/t... @wgvc-iavs.bsky.social, @iavs-young-sci.bsky.social, @iavs-ecoinfo.bsky.social

12 Aug

A study testing back-transformation methods for the Braun-Blanquet cover scale finds that TURBOVEG's default approach consistently and substantially inflates diversity metrics like Shannon and Simpson indices. Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

10 Aug

📆The 34th European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Conference runs 7-11 Sept in Clermont-Ferrand, France. 📗In conjunction with EDGG's Eurasian Grassland Conference (Sofia), a new Special Collection "Vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula" has been launched. Submit preliminary abstracts by 31 Oct. 👇

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10 Aug

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🔬 We were pleased to attend #IAL10, held last week in Trieste, Italy! ➡️ Check out the highlights from the symposium, our stand, and the talks that caught our eye by visiting our recent blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/08/07/p... #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

29 July

🙌 It was a pleasure to welcome Juri Nascimbene to the @pensoft.net stand at #IAL10 today! ➡️ Professor Nascimbene is an author in our journal - you can access his co-authored paper here: vcs.pensoft.net/article/85083/ #IAL2026 #IAL10Trieste #IALichenology

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27 July

🌍 We're at #IAL10, the 10th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology, in Trieste, Italy (26-31 July). 📚 Find us at our booth showcasing our plant and mycology journals! #lichenology #mycology

23 July

🌿 We were delighted to attend a fascinating talk on the Ecosystem Services of the grasslands of Velež Mountain, identified through the use of medicinal plants, by Armin Macanović. 🎤 This talk was presented during Session 5 of #EGC2026, chaired by our Editor-in-Chief, Idoia Biurrun.

23 July

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22 July

🎉 We were delighted to have attended yesterday's poster session at #EGC2026, which included editorial board member Arkadiusz Nowak's poster, titled: ⛰️ On the verge of change: low occurrence of alien species in endemic-rich grasslands of the mountains of Central Asia - global biodiversity hotspot

22 July

🙌 Come stop by our booth tomorrow at the final day of the conference! #IAVS @iavs5.bsky.social

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🌿 We're delighted to bring together our @vcs.pensoft.net editors at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference this week! 🤝 Having our editorial team here in person is a wonderful chance to connect with authors, reviewers and the broader vegetation science community. #EGC2026 #IAVS

🗣️ This afternoon at #EGC2026, we attended Anna Kuzemko's presentation on the impact of military actions on the steppe ecosystems of Ukraine. ✍️ Kuzemko also published an article in our journal last year on Epiphytic lichen communities, which can be accessed here: vcs.pensoft.net/article/1491...

🗣️ It was an absolute pleasure to attend Jürgen Dengler's presentation at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference, which focused on grassland diversity and composition change across Europe. 🙌 Don't forget to stop by the @pensoft.net booth today if you haven't already! #EGC2026 #IAVS

🌿 We are delighted to have attended Denys Vynokurov's presentation at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference, where he introduced cocktailr - a new open source R package that implements Cocktail clustering in a fast, reproducible and transparent way. #EGC2026 #IAVS

vcs.pensoft.netEastern European Steppe DatabaseThe Eastern European Steppe Database (GIVD ID EU-00-030) includes 6961 vegetation plots of dry grassland vegetation from Eastern Europe (Steppe and Forest-Steppe zones, mountain regions), mainly from ...

➡️ Vynokurov is on our editorial board, as well as an author in our journal. Check out a few of his articles below: vcs.pensoft.net/article/60520/ vcs.pensoft.net/article/86102/ vcs.pensoft.net/article/99167/

bdj.pensoft.netUkrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0Considering the growing demand for plant trait data and taking into account the lack of trait data from Eastern Europe, especially from its steppic region, we launched a new Ukrainian Plant Trait Data...

He is also an author in the open access @bdj.pensoft.net: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1181... bdj.pensoft.net/article/99605/

20 July

🌿 We are delighted to welcome Arkadiusz Nowak, Editorial Board Member of our journal, to the @pensoft.net booth at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference! ➡️ You can check out one of his most recent co-authored research papers here: vcs.pensoft.net/article/1026... #EGC2026 #IAVS

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vcs.pensoft.netThe 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference (EGC) comes to Sofia, Bulgaria in 2026The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), a dedicated working group of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), announced that the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference (EGC 2026) will...

17 July

🌱We can't wait to see you at the 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference in Sofia, 19-23 July! Come meet our team on site to learn more about our diverse scholarly portfolio, covering titles such as @vcs.pensoft.net @phytokeys.pensoft.net, @natureconservation.pensoft.net and more! ➡️More details:

blog.pensoft.netUnderstanding Ecosystems Through Vegetation: Highlights from the 68th IAVS Annual Symposium | BlogPensoft attended the 68th IAVS Annual Symposium in Gijon, Spain.

16 July

🌿 Between 22-26 June, we had the pleasure of attending the 68th IAVS Annual Symposium in Gijón, Spain. Those few days were exhilarating - 465 participants, 49 countries, and countless conversations about vegetation science. 👉Read @pensoft.net for all the highlights blog.pensoft.net/2026/07/16/u...

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16 July

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9 July

📍At #ECCB2026 this week? Come say hi! 🌱We are 100% open access, founded 1992 by scientists for scientists. Explore our journals at our stand! @society4conbio.bsky.social, @unileiden.bsky.social

8 July

We're at #BEeS2026, the @lifewatcheric.bsky.social Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience Conference, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 July! Swing by @pensoft.net's booth to explore our journal focused on plant community ecology, classification systems and vegetation science worldwide.

7 July

Swing by @pensoft.net booth (#10) at #ECCB2026! Our team will be happy to chat with you about publishing with us! @iavs5.bsky.social

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📢 We're at the 8th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Leiden! 📚 Pop by the Pensoft stand to explore our journal portfolio and discover the latest in conservation science. We'd love to meet you! #ECCB2026 #ConservationBiology #Biodiversity

7 July

It was lovely meeting two of our authors at #ECCB2026 - and Martina Viti and Annika Zuleger both from the @idiv-research.bsky.social!🌿 📄 Martina published in VCS: doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... 📄 Annika published a #data paper in @bdj.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... @society4conbio.bsky.social

vcs.pensoft.netPensoft to attend ESA 2026 in Salt Lake City, USAFrom 26-31 July, Pensoft will be at the 111th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, held at the Salt Palace Convention Center.This year's theme,&nbsp...

2 July

📍 Salt Lake City, here we come! 🛫 @pensoft.net will be at the 111th @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Annual Meeting between 26-31 July, at the Salt Palace Convention Center. Stop by our booth to explore our journal portfolio and publishing solutions like the @arphahub.com! #ESA2026

30 June

🙌Last week at #IAVS2026, we had the pleasure of welcoming Susan Wiser, President of #IAVS, and Anna Kuzemko (@anyameadow.bsky.social), Vice-President of IAVS, to the @pensoft.net's booth to discuss our ongoing publishing collaboration. 📚 @iavs5.bsky.social, @wgvc-iavs.bsky.social #vegetationscience

🎉 Yesterday, we had the pleasure of bringing our editorial board together at the 68th Annual International Association for #Vegetation Science #IAVS2026. 🌱A wonderful reminder, once again, of just how vital our community is to the journal's growth and direction. @iavs5.bsky.social

Cc: @wgvc-iavs.bsky.social, @iavs-ecoinfo.bsky.social, @iavs-young-sci.bsky.social

It was fantastic to meet Prof. Javier Loidi at the @pensoft.net' booth at #IAVS2026, he is among the most prolific authors of VCS. 📓 You can read some of his research in our #open-access journal: ➡️ doi.org/10.3897/VCS/... ➡️ doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... ➡️ doi.org/10.3897/VCS.... @iavs5.bsky.social