Researchers present the first overview of the Colchic ravine forests in Georgia. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

Presenting the new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies: doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

'𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧,' our new Special Collection launched in collaboration with @euroveg.bsky.social‬, is open for submissions! 🔗 Learn more about it here: vcs.pensoft.net/news/958/

🌄 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. 🌿 #IAVS2025 #VegetationScience

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/2025/07/25/v...

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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. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

Join the VCS Editorial Board! 🔗 vcs.pensoft.net/news/955 @iavs5.bsky.social

Our Editors' Choice paper for Q2 of 2025 introduces a new method for vegetation classification, called TDV-optimization. 🔗 vcs.pensoft.net/news/948 @iavs5.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter is out, featuring several exciting updates from our journal! 🔗 Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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! vcs.pensoft.net/news/937

The annual meeting of the International Association for Vegetation Science is heading to Greeley, Colorado from 28 July to 3 August 2025. 🔗 vcs.pensoft.net/news/931 @iavs5.bsky.social

Vegetation Classification and Survey has received its first ever Journal Impact Factor. vcs.pensoft.net/news/918

Vegetation Classification and Survey achieves improved Scopus CiteScore and climbs to Q1 across three categories. vcs.pensoft.net/news/891

Registration opens for the 20th Eurasian Grassland Conference in Oulu, Finland. vcs.pensoft.net/news/857

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. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

Does the use of ordinal cover scales bias biodiversity metrics? 🔗 vcs.pensoft.net/news/854 @vegsciblog.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social

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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. doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

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. doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

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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. vcs.pensoft.net/news/849