Editorial
Vegetation classification and its application are relevant globally
Biurrun, Idoia; Bergmeier, Erwin; Dengler, Jürgen; Jansen, Florian; Willner, Wolfgang
Phytocoenologia Band 49 Heft 1 (2019), p. 1 - 6
39 references
published: Jan 31, 2019
manuscript accepted: Dec 7, 2018
manuscript received: Dec 7, 2018
ArtNo. ESP024004901000, Price: 29.00 €
Abstract
The annual editorial of Phytocoenologia 2019 brings bittersweet news about plot-based vegetation classification. On the one hand, the editorial of our Special Issue “Classification Approaches” (issue 48(2)) reported noticeable gaps in several regions of the world. On the other hand, articles in recent Phytocoenologia reach more and more of these underrepresented regions and extend to previously rarely classified plant formations. Our last issues 48(1–4) included several papers applying vegetation classification to address a number of ecological and socio-economical questions. We highlight the classification of steppe vegetation in Pamir Alai and Tian-Shan Mountains in Middle Asia (Nowak et al. 2018, Phytocoenologia 48: 369–391) and acknowledge the authors with the Editor’s Award 2018. Our Ecoinformatics Section attracts many submissions, but we regret that in 2018 we did not publish any paper in the Phytosociological Nomenclature Section.
Keywords
bibliometric index • ecoinformatics • editorial • global • journal development • Phytocoenologia • phytosociological nomenclature • vegetation classification • vegetation survey • vegetation-plot database