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2025–09–11 Seminar for Sandro Pignatti, Rome, 21 October 2025 See more »

2025–08–18 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 20-24 July 2026 See more »

2025–07–16 New Special Collection "Broad-scale classification of European vegetation" in Vegetation Classification and Survey See more »

2025–06–13 Professor Sandro Pignatti (28 Sep 1930 - 13 Jun 2025) See more »

2024–12–23 Website of the European Vegetation Survey conference, Perugia, Italy, 28 Apr - 2 May See more »

2024–12–03 New EVS Steering Committee 2024-2028 See more »

2024–11–09 Professor Edoardo Biondi passed away See more »

2024–11–05 New Special Collection "Vegetation classification of islands and archipelagos" in Vegetation Classification and Survey. See more »

2024–09–22 33rd Conference "European Vegetation Survey" - Perugia, Italy, 28 April - 2 May 2025 See more »

2024–05–25 19th Eurasian Grassland Conference Bolzano, Italy, 26 Aug – 1 Sep 2024 See more »

2024–01–24 32nd EVS Conference, Madeira, 16-20 Sep 2024 - website open See more »

2023–10–17 New website of the Italian Society for Vegetation Science See more »

2023–06–02 The need for protection of the Svydovets Massif (Ukrainian Carpathians) See more »

2023–02–02 31st EVS Conference, Rome, Italy, 21-25 May 2023 - website and registration open See more »

2023–01–31 Documents Phytosociologiques, fourth series See more »

2022–12–22 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Dierschke (1937-2022) See more »

2022–11–29 31st EVS Conference, Rome, Italy, 21-25 May 2023 See more »

2022–04–25 Eurasian Grassland Conference - extended deadline See more »

2022–03–06 EVS Statement on the war in Ukraine See more »

2022–02–16 17th Eurasian Grassland Conference, Tolosa, Spain, 12-18 September 2022 See more »

2022–01–22 30th EVS Conference, Bratislava, 9-13 May 2022 See more »

2021–12–22 Asian Grassland Conference 2022 - registration open See more »

2021–06–01 New version of the EUNIS-ESy expert system published See more »

2021–03–31 Virtual Conference of the EVS, 6-7 Sep 2021 See more »

2020–12–23 International Symposium in honor of Salvador Rivas Martínez See more »

2020–10–07 EVA is starting the ReSurveyEurope Initiative See more »

2020–09–21 New Steering Committee of EVS elected See more »

2020–08–28 Prof. Salvador Rivas Martínez passed away See more »

2020–07–13 Special Collections "Classification of Palaearctic Grasslands" See more »

2020–06–02 EVS meeting in Rome postponed to spring 2021 See more »

2020–05–06 Start of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), a new IAVS journal See more »

2020–04–21 17th Eurasian Grassland Conference in Spain IS POSTPONED to 2021 See more »

2020–03–26 JVS Special Feature "Macroecology of vegetation" See more »

2020–03–04 Eurasian Grassland Conference: registration is open See more »

2020–03–04 EVS meeting postponed to autumn See more »

2020–02–21 Vegetation Classification Survey - a new IAVS journal See more »

2020–01–27 39th meeting of the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14-17 April 2021 See more »

2019–12–14 29th European Vegetation Survey Meeting, Rome, Italy, 4-7 May 2020, Website open! See more »

2019–12–11 14th EDGG Field Workshop: Ukrainian steppes along climatic gradients, 25 May - 3 June 2020 See more »

2019–12–11 17th Eurasian Grassland Conference, 7-13 September 2020, Tolosa, Spain See more »

2019–04–19 Atlantic biogeographical chalk grassland workshop, 18-20 Sep 2019, Rouen, France See more »

2019–03–15 Website of the EVS Madrid meeting open! See more »

2019–03–07 Eurasian Grassland Conference, 29 May-5 June 2019, Graz, Austria and Maribor, Slovenia See more »

2019–02–11 1st circular of the 28th EVS Meeting, Madrid, 2-6 September 2019 See more »

2018–11–27 IAVS Symposium Bremen, Germany, 14-19 July 2019 See more »

2018–11–16 Vegetation Database Workshop, Triesdorf, DE, 27 Feb - 1 Mar 2019 See more »

2018–08–16 EVS Meeting 2019 See more »

2018–06–26 The 2018 Annual Report of European Vegetation Survey published See more »

2018–06–23 Special Feature “Vegetation Science and Habitats Directive” See more »

2018–04–11 Publication of a report updating the French interpretation of 35 habitats of Community interest See more »

2018–03–17 Jornadas Internacionales de Fitosociología, Mexico, 21-24 November 2018 See more »

2018–03–16 New online database of Czech flora and vegetation See more »

2017–10–16 Officers of the European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC) have been elected See more »

2017–10–13 Next EVS meetings See more »

2017–08–22 Boris Mirkin died on 9 Aug 2017 See more »

2017–07–31 Virtual Special Issue on European grasslands published online See more »

2017–06–15 EVA Annual Report for 2017 published See more »

2017–03–31 EuroVegChecklist interactive online application See more »

2017–01–25 European Red List of Habitats published See more »

2016–12–05 EuroVegChecklist published! See more »

2016–06–01 New EVA Coordinating Board elected See more »

2016–05–26 Vegetation of the Czech Republic online See more »

2016–05–23 Proposed revision of the EUNIS habitats classification See more »

2016–04–09 New EVS Steering Committee See more »

Annual reports

2025 Annual report

This report summarizes the activities of the European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Working Group from June 2024 to September 2025.

(1) EVS Bylaws change and election of the new Steering Committee. The four-year term of the EVS Steering Committee (composed of Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Milan Chytrý, Anna Kuzemko, and Joop Schaminée) expired in 2024. As the EVS Bylaws required that the Steering Committee elections be held in person at the EVS Business Meeting, several EVS members expressed concern about their inability to participate in elections because they could not come to the EVS Conference. Therefore, the EVS Business Meeting in Funchal on 19 September 2024 approved the change of the EVS Bylaws to allow electronic elections. This change was approved by the IAVS Council on 7 October 2024. The electronic elections were held on 12–22 November 2024 and organized by the IAVS Administration Office. There were 12 candidates from 9 countries. A total of 1740 ballots were sent out, and 275 votes were received. The candidates with the most votes were Milan Chytrý (230 votes, 84%), Idoia Biurrun (187 votes, 68%), Anna Kuzemko (127 votes, 46%), Joop Schaminée (116 votes, 42%), Gianmaria Bonari (90 votes, 33%), and Jorge Capelo (90 votes, 33%). Because of the tie for the fifth position, the new Steering Committee included six members. The roles in the Steering Committee were divided as follows:

  • Idoia Biurrun (Bilbao, ES) – Membership administrator
  • Gianmaria Bonari (Siena, IT) – Social Media Coordinator, Special Issue Deputy Coordinator
  • Jorge Capelo (Oeiras, PT) – Conference Coordinator
  • Milan Chytrý (Brno, CZ) – Secretary, Website and FloraVeg.EU Administrator
  • Anna Kuzemko (Kyiv, UA) – Social Media Deputy Coordinator, Conference Deputy Coordinator
  • Joop Schaminée (Wageningen, NL) – Special Issue Coordinator

(2) 32nd EVS Conference. This conference was held jointly with the 66th Annual Symposium of the IAVS, and it took place in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, on 16–20 September 2024. The main hosts were Jorge Capelo, Miguel Sequeira, and Sandra Mesquita. It was attended by 318 participants from 41 countries. The most represented countries were Italy (38), Spain (25), Czechia (25), Portugal (22), and Germany (20). Special sessions were devoted to the study of European vegetation. The symposium organizers offered the pre-symposium excursion in the Madeira archipelago, several mid-symposium excursions on the island of Madeira, and the post-symposium excursion to the Canary Islands (La Gomera and Tenerife).

(3) 33rd EVS Conference. This conference was held in Perugia, Italy, from 28 April to 2 May 2025, and was hosted by Corrado Marcenò and Roberto Venanzoni. A total of 158 participants from 28 countries attended this event, including 36 from Italy, 22 from Czechia, 10 from Hungary, 9 from Ukraine, 8 from Poland, and the rest from other countries. Ten participants received support through IAVS travel grants, including: Bulgaria (2), Ukraine (2), Bosnia & Herzegovina (1), Croatia (1), Germany (1), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1), and Spain (1). A total of 53 talks and 61 posters were presented, including six plenary talks by Sabina Burrascano, Josep Padullés Cubino, Gianluigi Ottaviani, Zdeňka Lososová, Ladislav Mucina, and John Rodwell. The winner of the Young Scientist Best Presentation Award was Kryštof Chytrý (Austria/Czechia), and Honorary Mentions were given to Lucia Čahojová (Slovakia) and Giacomo Quattrini (Italy). The winner of the Best Poster Award was Štěpánka Pustková (Czechia), and Honorary Mentions went to Martina Biagioli (Italy) and Natalia Mazurek (Poland). Two excursions were held on 30 April, one to Monti Sibillini (led by Alessandro Silvestre Gristina, Riccardo Guarino, Corrado Marcenò, and Salvatore Pasta) and the other to Marmore waterfalls (led by Flavia Landucci and Roberto Venanzoni).

(4) EVS Honorary Membership. The first Honorary Membership of the European Vegetation Survey was awarded to John Rodwell, one of the founders of our group, who served as its secretary for many years. He actively promoted international cooperation among European scientists in the field of vegetation survey and its application in nature conservation. The Honorary Membership ceremony, introduced by Joop Schaminée, took place during the EVS meeting in Perugia, where John presented his Honorary Membership lecture entitled “Aftermath”.

(5) European Vegetation Archive (EVA). A new EVA Coordinating Board was elected in the elections held on 4–14 December 2024, organized by the IAVS Administration Office. There were 15 candidates from 7 countries. All 95 members of the EVA Council were invited to vote. A total of 54 votes were received, some weighted by factors 2–4 based on the database size. The highest numbers of votes were given to Milan Chytrý (89), Ilona Knollová (78), Stephan Hennekens (62), Idoia Biurrun (56), Borja Jiménez-Alfaro (46), Gianmaria Bonari (42), and Florian Jansen (40), who became members of the new EVA Coordinating Board. In March 2025, EVA comprised 108 databases with 2,086,610 vege­tation plots. Of these plots, 82% were under the semi-restricted regime, 15% under the restricted regime, and 3% were open access. The database of resurveyed plots, called ReSurveyEurope, included 507 datasets with 439,663 plot observations. In total, EVA data were provided to 241 research projects (including 41 new projects in the last year; https://euroveg.org/…ase/projects). Data from EVA have been used in 7 new journal articles. An updated list of all publications since the launch of EVA can be found at https://euroveg.org/…publications. Further details are summarized in the EVA Annual Report at https://euroveg.org/…ORT_2025.pdf.

(6) European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC). The EVCC was coordinated by Wolfgang Willner (AT, Secretary) and Idoia Biurrun (ES, Deputy Secretary). An online meeting of the EVCC, chaired by Wolfgang Willner, was held on 31 January 2025. It was attended by 20 members online, 4 assigned proxy votes, and 4 sent advance votes by e-mail. The main decisions taken at the meeting were as follows:
  • Exclusion of the alliance Ormenido multicaulis-Malcolmion broussonetii Br.Bl. et al. 1940 from the EuroVegChecklist (proposed by Z. Preislerová)
  • Several nomenclatural corrections (proposed by M. Terzi et al.)
  • Addition of several syntaxa from Armenia (proposed by D. Vynokurov & J. Dengler)

(7) Special issues. Several Special issues and Topical Collections are in preparation based on the materials presented at previous EVS Conferences:

  • “Classification and diversity of European forests and forest-fringes” in Vegetation Classification and Survey, based on the EVS Conference in Rome 2023. Guest Editors: Idoia Biurrun (ES), Jorge Capelo (PT), Pavel Novák (CZ), Jozef Šibík (SK), and Wolfgang Willner (AT).
  • “Vegetation classification of islands and archipelagos” in Vegetation Classification and Survey, based on the EVS Conference and the IAVS Symposium in Funchal 2024. Guest Editors: Erwin Bergmeier (ES), Jorge Capelo (PT), Jürgen Dengler (CH), Riccardo Guarino (IT), and Kyle Palmquist (US).
  • “Diversity, dynamics, conservation, and restoration of European vegetation” in Vegetation Ecology and Diversity, based on the EVS Conference in Perugia 2025. Guest editors: Corrado Marcenò (IT), Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta (IT), Jorge Capelo (PT), Alessandro Silvestre Gristina (IT), Anna Kuzemko (UA), Salza Palpurina (BG), and Salvatore Pasta (IT)
  • “Broad-scale classification of European vegetation” in Vegetation Classification and Survey, based on the EVS Conference in Perugia 2025. Guest Editors: Idoia Biurrun (ES), Flavia Landucci (IT), and Denys Vynokurov (DE/UA)

(8) Social media. In 2025, EVS opened a new account on BlueSky: @euroveg.bsky­.social. On 24 September 2025, the “European Vegetation Survey” BlueSky account had 67 followers, while the “EVS – European Vegetation Survey” Facebook page had 537 followers.

Milan Chytrý, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Jorge Capelo, Anna Kuzemko, and Joop Schaminée (EVS Steering Committee)