Vegetation Ecology and Diversity

29/09/2025

𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘: Oak decline in southern Italy: environmental and climate parameters for modelling purposes
𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞: https://doi.org/10.3897/ved.160170

The future of the Mediterranean oak forests is under threat from the dangerous effects of global climate change, such as increasing droughts and heatwaves. The combined or individual action of certain climatic and environmental factors can lead to oak decline in various oak forest types. A study was...

25/09/2025

Our Journal Vegetation Ecology and Diversity participated today to the celebration for the 100 years of Acta Botanica Croatica in Zagreb, Croatia

12/09/2025

NEW ARTICLE: Multi-faceted short-term dynamics of plant understory across forest regeneration stages
LINK: https://doi.org/10.3897/ved.157888

Biodiversity is a multidimensional concept, and capturing its various facets simultaneously offers a more robust framework for predicting vegetation responses to anthropogenic disturbance. Yet, multifaceted studies exploring forest understory regeneration remain scarce. We investigate taxonomic (TD)...

05/09/2025

NEW ARTICLE: ITV-net: leveraging intraspecific trait variability to bridge vegetation science and trait-based research in Italy
LINK: https://ved.arphahub.com/article/154284/

Vegetation science is a branch of community ecology that relies on species identities and abundance to classify vegetation in coherent units and to explore species coexistence and turnover dynamics. The advent of trait-based ecology has expanded vegetation science, providing a framework that allows....

13/08/2025

NEW ARTICLE: New national and regional Annex I Habitat records: from #139 to #147
LINK: https://doi.org/10.3897/ved.160563

This contribution presents new Italian data on the distribution of Annex I Habitats. Specifically, 9 records are reported, including 3 occurrences within Natura 2000 sites and the addition of 9 new cells to the EEA 10 km × 10 km reference grid. The new data refer to the Italian administrative regio...

18/07/2025

NEW ARTICLE: DALIA: a relational DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso (Italy)
LINK: https://doi.org/10.3897/ved.155222
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We developed the DALIA relational database (DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa), which contains records of tree, shrub, and liana taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso, a small city located in the inner-Mediterranean Region of Southern Italy. The DALIA database, developed thro...

30/06/2025

NEW ARTICLE: Vegetation classification and conservation aspects of Atlantic dune pine forests in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula
LINK: https://doi.org/10.3897/ved.142914

This study refines the classification framework for Portuguese dune pine forests included in the alliance Coremato albi-Pinion pinastri at the association level after the syntaxonomic revision of Mediterranean pine forests of the class Pinetea halepensis. We collected 61 original vegetation plots be...

29/05/2025

Special Collection of papers in Vegetation Ecology and Diversity for the 33rd European Vegetation Survey (EVS) https://ved.arphahub.com/topical_collection/297/

Special Collection of papers in Vegetation Ecology and Diversity for the 33rd European Vegetation Survey (EVS)This Collection of articles is featured, but not limited, to researches presented in the 33rd European Vegetation Survey (EVS) conference held in Perugia from April 28th....

29/05/2025

NEW ARTICLE: Rediscovery of a relict Searsia tripartita maquis in Southwestern Sicily (Italy) with data on habitat 5220
LINK: https://doi.org/10.3897/ved.140946

This paper reports the presence of a nucleus of thermophilous maquis with Searsia tripartita within the “Monte San Calogero” Nature Reserve (Sciacca, Southwestern Sicily, Italy), within a Natura 2000 site (ITA040009). S. tripartita is a summer-deciduous shrub with a South-Mediterranean distribut...

17/04/2025

NEW ARTICLE: SALTISH: The SALt-affected vegeTatIon dataset of Tuscany coaStal Habitats, central Italy
LINK: https://ved.arphahub.com/article/144362/

Surveying vegetation is essential for documenting plant diversity, especially for coastal vegetation that results among the most threatened ecosystems globally. To support conservation and management programs, we developed the SALt-affected vegeTatIon dataset of Tuscany coaStal Habitats (SALTISH). T...

28/03/2025

NEW ARTICLE: New data on the distribution, ecology and syntaxonomy of Riella macrocarpa (Riellaceae, Marchantiophyta)
LINK: https://ved.arphahub.com/article/139958/

In this paper, we present the first reports of liverwort Riella macrocarpa in Montenegro, Sicily, and Greece. The species has been documented as occurring in former salt pans in Montenegro and Attica, in natural brackish ponds in Sicily, and in a flooded parking area in the Peloponnese. In these env...

04/03/2025

NEW ARTICLE: MARA Vegetation Database: Monitoring Alien species along mountain Roads in the central Apennines
LINK: https://ved.arphahub.com/article/139363/

The MARA (Monitoring Alien species along mountain Roads in the central Apennines) database was developed to monitor the distribution of vascular plant species along mountain roads in the Central Apennines, Italy, focusing on alien (i.e. neophytes) and thermophilous plant species. Data were gathered....