Post date: Mar 10, 2016 3:53:23 PM
The steering committee of the VCWG is now promoting the publication of a Special Issue on "Global overview of plot-based vegetation classification approaches", to be published in Phytocoenologia. The Special Issue aims at being a 21st century update on Whittaker (1973) by providing an overview on the diversity of plot-based vegetation classification approaches used in different parts of the world.
We are looking for people interested in contributing to this Special Issue with research papers (describing a single classification approach) or review papers (briefly comparing a set of approaches). To make the individual treatments well comparable, all submissions will follow the same structure as described in the attached outline document and use the consensus terminology described in a recent multi-author paper (De Cáceres et al. 2015).
Agreements to contribute should be sent to the S.I. Editors until 15 April 2016. Also suggestions for modification of the overall structure are welcome, especially for review papers. Proposed submissions will be evaluated by S.I. Editors and Chief Editors, leading to an official start of the S.I. and invitation of selected contributions. If space and time allow, invitation of additional contributions is possible.
De Cáceres, M., Chytrý, M., Agrillo, (...), Wiser, S.K. 2015. A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification. Applied Vegetation Science 18: 543–560.
Whittaker, R.H. (ed.) 1973. Ordination and classification of communities. Junk, The Hague, NL.