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Vegetation Ecology and Diversity is an international open-access, peer-reviewed journal edited by the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV).

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The problem of oak decline in southern Italy. VED new article addresses this topic and evaluates environmental and climate parameters for modelling purposes
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Oak decline in southern Italy: environmental and climate parameters for modelling purposes
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...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Read the new article from VED entitled "Multi-faceted short-term dynamics of plant understory across forest regeneration stages". 👉 ved.arphahub.com/article/1578...
Multi-faceted short-term dynamics of plant understory across forest regeneration stages
Biodiversity is a multidimensional concept, and capturing its various facets simultaneously offers a more robust framework for predicting vegetation responses to anthropogenic disturbance. Yet, multif...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Check the new national and regional Annex I Habitat records (from #139 to #147) 👇
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New national and regional Annex I Habitat records: from #139 to #147
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 ce...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Reposted by Vegetation Ecology and Diversity
ITV-net: leveraging intraspecific trait variability to bridge vegetation science and trait-based research in Italy ved.arphahub.com/articles.php...

The ‘manifesto’ of our initiative is out in @vegecoldiv.bsky.social! If you have itv-level data and you want to share them read the paper and dm me!
ITV-net: leveraging intraspecific trait variability to bridge vegetation science and trait-based research in Italy
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. T...
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September 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢New VED article presents the DALIA database: DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso (Italy) 🧑‍💻
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DALIA: a relational DAtabase of tree, shrub and LIAna taxa recorded in the Functional Urban Area of Campobasso (Italy)
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 ...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚨New article entitled "Vegetation classification and conservation aspects of Atlantic dune pine forests in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula". Ready it at the following link 👇
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Vegetation classification and conservation aspects of Atlantic dune pine forests in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula
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 Medi...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📢Check the VED Special Collection of papers "Diversity, dynamics, conservation, and restoration of European Vegetation". Read more about it at the link: ved.arphahub.com/topical_coll...
Diversity, dynamics, conservation, and restoration of European Vegetation
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 pre...
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June 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Read the new article from VED entitled "Rediscovery of a relict Searsia tripartita maquis in Southwestern Sicily (Italy) with data on habitat 5220" at the following link: ved.arphahub.com/article/1409...
Rediscovery of a relict Searsia tripartita maquis in Southwestern Sicily (Italy) with data on habitat 5220
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 ...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New article from "Vegetation databases: enhancing data integration and accessibility for ecological research" entitled "SALTISH: The SALt-affected vegeTatIon dataset of Tuscany coaStal Habitats, central Italy"
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SALTISH: The SALt-affected vegeTatIon dataset of Tuscany coaStal Habitats, central Italy
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 ...
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April 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
New article available from issue 62.
Check the updates on distribution, ecology and syntaxonomy of Riella macrocarpa (Riellaceae, Marchantiophyta)
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New data on the distribution, ecology and syntaxonomy of Riella macrocarpa (Riellaceae, Marchantiophyta)
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 Att...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Another data paper from issue 62 is out! Read about the "MARA Vegetation Database: Monitoring Alien species along mountain Roads in the central Apennines" at the following link: ved.arphahub.com/article/1393...
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MARA Vegetation Database: Monitoring Alien species along mountain Roads in the central Apennines
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 Apenn...
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February 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
First data paper from issue 62(2): ReSurveyDunes — a data resource of resurveyed coastal dune vegetation plots in Italy.
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ReSurveyDunes — a data resource of resurveyed coastal dune vegetation plots in Italy
We present ReSurveyDunes — the first database of Italian coastal dune vegetation plots, developed through a collaborative network of Italian vegetation scientists. This paper describes the scope of th...
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February 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
We are happy to announce that is now published an Editorial to introduce the new journal 🎉🍾
Read "Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)" through the following link
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Introducing Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED)
The current issue is the first one of the journal Vegetation Ecology and Diversity, formerly Plant Sociology, the international peer-reviewed journal of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV...
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