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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

2024 Annual report

This report summarizes the activities of the European Vegetation Survey (EVS) Working Group from June 2023 to June 2024.

(1) EVS Conference The 32nd EVS conference will take place in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, on 16–20 September 2024, thanks to an invitation by Jorge Capelo. It has been agreed between the EVS Steering Committee, the IAVS Governing Board and the Local Organizing Committee to hold this conference as a joint event with the 66th Annual Symposium of the IAVS.

(2) European Vegetation Archive (EVA) The European Vegetation Archive has been managed by the EVA Coordinating Board, which included Idoia Biurrun (ES), Milan Chytrý (CZ), Stephan Hennekens (NL), Florian Jansen (DE), Borja Jiménez-Alfaro (ES), Ilona Knollová (CZ) and Anna Kuzemko (UA). In March 2024, EVA comprised 108 databases with 2,077,540 vege­tation plots. Of these plots, 79% were accessible under the semi-restricted regime, 17% under the restricted regime, and 3% were open access. In total, EVA data were provided to 200 research projects (including 22 new projects in the last year; https://euroveg.org/…ase/projects). Data from EVA have been used in 12 new journal articles published in the last year and 81 articles published since the database was launched in 2014. An updated list of all publications can be found at https://euroveg.org/…publications. Further details are summarized in the EVA Annual Report at https://euroveg.org/…ORT_2024.pdf.

(3) ReSurveyEurope Intensive efforts were devoted to the further development of the ReSurveyEurope database, which was coordinated by the elected members of the EVA Coordinating Board and the ReSurveyEurope initiators Franz Essl (AT), Helge Bruelheide (DE), and Stefan Dullinger (AT). By March 2024, this database contained 481 independent datasets with 85,000 plots and 434,005 plot observations (repeated records from the same plots). A report article describing the ReSurveyEurope database was published: Knollová I., Chytrý, M., Bruelheide H., Dullinger S., Jandt U., Bernhardt-Römermann M. … Essl F. (2024) ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe. Journal of Vegetation Science 35: e13235. https://doi.org/…11/jvs.13235. Marta Gaia Sperandii (Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia) worked on an analysis of changes in European non-forest vegetation based on ReSurveyEurope data. Ute Jandt (University of Halle, Germany) and a team of international collaborators, mainly from EVS, were awarded the Biodiversa+ project MOTIVATE, which aims to further expand, improve and analyse the ReSurveyEurope database in collaboration with European vegetation scientists.

(4) FloraVeg.EU The FloraVeg.EU database (https://floraveg.eu/) was further extended and updated. Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of vegetation alliances were thoroughly revised, updated in FloraVeg.EU and published with a detailed description in a data article: Preislerová Z., Marcenò C., Loidi J., Bonari G., Borovyk D., Gavilán R.G. … Chytrý M. (2024) Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances. Applied Vegetation Science 27: e12766, https://doi.org/…1/avsc.12766. The system of European vegetation syntaxa presented in FloraVeg.EU has been updated to reflect the decisions of the European Vegetation Classification Committee (see point 5 below), and version 3 of the EuroVegChecklist was published on 12 June 2024, with a crosswalk to the original version published by Mucina and collaborators in 2016. Efforts have also been made to collect more photographs of vegetation syntaxa. A new submission portal for syntaxon photographs was created on FloraVeg.EU with automatic functions to fill in some metadata information. By 1 June 2024, FloraVeg.EU contained 4,699 photographs of 476 alliances, contributed by 93 vegetation scientists. The species section of FloraVeg.EU has also been improved. On 1 June 2024, FloraVeg.EU contained 37 plant traits and other characteristics, 36,404 species with at least three characteristics, and 29,779 photographs of 4,233 plant taxa. A report article with a detailed description of the FloraVeg.EU content was published: Chytrý M., Řezníčková M., Novotný P., Holubová D., Preislerová Z., Attorre F. … Axmanová I. (2024) FloraVeg.EU – An online database of European vegetation, habitats and flora. Applied Vegetation Science 27: e12798, https://doi.org/…1/avsc.12798.

(5) 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 and attended by 30 participants, was held on 19 January 2024. The main outcomes of the meeting were as follows:

a. Minor changes in the EuroVegChecklist, such as corrections of typos, were approved by vote.

b. Information on the status of the proposal for syntaxonomical and nomenclatural changes in the classes Ammophiletea and Helichryso-Crucianelletea (proposal 003 by Marcenò & Chytrý) was given. The proposed changes had been accepted earlier, but during the process, several nomenclatural problems emerged, which were fixed in the article Marcenò C., Danihelka J., Dziuba T., Willner W. & Chytrý M. (2024) Nomenclatural revision of the syntaxa of European coastal dune vegetation. Vegetation Classification and Survey 5: 27–37. https://doi.org/…7/VCS.108560.

c. The EVCC voted on the proposal for syntaxonomical changes in the vegetation of Mediterranean pine forests (proposal 008 by Bonari & Chytrý). The proposed addition of the new class Pinetea halepensis was not accepted, while the new scheme of alliances within the order Pinetalia halepensis was accepted.

d. The EVCC voted on the proposal by Jiroušek, Peterka & Hájek to add the alliance Erico mackaianae-Sphagnion papillosi in the order Ericetalia tetralicis and to add the alliances Sphagno baltici-Trichophorion cespitosi and Rubo chamaemori-Dicranion elongati in the order Sphagnetalia medii. The proposal was accepted. The accepted changes have been published online in FloraVeg.EU (see point 4).,

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

● “Vegetation survey and restoration of ecosystems” in Rendiconti Lincei, based on the online EVS conference 2021, Guest Editors Fabio Attorre (IT), Michele De Sanctis (IT), Rosario G. Gavilán (ES), Flavia Landucci (CZ), Zygmunt Kącki (PL), Mária Šibíková (SK) and Giuliano Fanelli (IT). Five articles have been published so far. https://link.springer.com/…s/jddjcgijhf

● “Species and community variability in vegetation dynamics and plant biodiversity conservation” in Plant Sociology, based on the online EVS conference 2021, Guest Editors Gianmaria Bonari (IT), Silvia Del Vecchio (IT), Fotios Xystrakis (GR) and Federico Fernández-González (ES). Eight open-access articles have been published and four articles are in press. https://plantsociology.arphahub.com/…lection/101/

● “Plant communities in changing environment” in Biologia, based on the EVS conference in Bratislava 2022, Guest Editors Katarína Hegedüšová (SK), Sándor Bartha (HU), Idoia Biurrun (ES), Milan Valachovič (SK) and Jozef Šibík (SK). Thirteen articles have been published, of which five are open-access. The special issue has been closed. https://link.springer.com/…s/gbijdficbb

● “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). Ten abstracts have been accepted, five manuscripts submitted and one article already published. After the inclusion of Vegetation Classification and Survey in the Web of Science, the editor team decided to open a new call with an extended deadline for abstract submission on 15 September 2024 and manuscript submission on 31 December 2024.

Milan Chytrý, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Anna Kuzemko and Joop Schaminée (EVS Steering Committee)