Applied Vegetation Science enters its 20th year

Restoration and management of plant communities in Applied Vegetation Science

“…In this editorial, we take a look at the key issues and topics of interest in Applied Vegetation Science (AVS) over the last five years. Our brief analysis complements and updates information on the major topics from 1998 to 2016 in an earlier editorial (Chytrý et al, 2017) and is parallel to the analysis published simultanously for the Journal of Vegetation Science (Pillar et al, 2022).We examined the 389 articles published in AVS since 2016 excluding Editorials. We extracted key terms in the titles, abstracts and author addresses.…”

“…They clearly identified the main topics within the journal: restoration ecology (red and yellow clusters), conservation management (green and blue), vegetation change (turquoise) and vegetation classification (purple). These topics were identified in the journal five years ago (Chytrý et al, 2017), and they have increased in importance since then.…”

Does biogeography need species?

“…In the language of ecologists, biogeographers and conservationists alike, 'species' is one of the most commonly used words, topping key word rankings (Kissling et al, 2015;Chytrý et al, 2017), or even being disqualified from such rankings on this very account (Franklin, 2013). However, not everyone using the word 'species' means the same thing, and it is often unclear exactly who means what.…”