Applied Vegetation Science - 15 (2), 2012

Contents:


    Species introduction – a major topic in vegetation restoration (pages 161–165)

    Norbert Hölzel, Elise Buisson and Thierry Dutoit

  
    Liming induces changes in the macrophyte vegetation of Norwegian softwater lakes by mitigating carbon limitation: results from a field experiment (pages 166–174)

    Esther C.H.E.T. Lucassen, Alfons J.P. Smolders and Jan G.M. Roelofs

   
    Irrigation, organic fertilization and species successional stage modulate the response of woody seedlings to herbaceous competition in a semi-arid quarry restoration (pages 175–186)

    Santiago Soliveres, Jorge Monerris and Jordi Cortina

  
    Vegetation recovery of gypsum quarries: short-term sowing response to different soil treatments (pages 187–197)

    Miguel Ballesteros, Eva M. Canadas, Ana Foronda, Emilia Fernández-Ondono, Julio Penas and Juan Lorite

 
    Sowing of low and high diversity seed mixtures in ecological restoration of surface mined-land (pages 198–207)

    Anita Kirmer, Annett Baasch and Sabine Tischew

 
    Restoration potential of the persistent soil seed bank in successional calcareous (alvar) grasslands in Estonia (pages 208–218)

    Rein Kalamees, Kersti Püssa, Kristjan Zobel and Martin Zobel

  
    Biomass accumulation during reed encroachment reduces efficiency of restoration of Baltic coastal grasslands (pages 219–230)

    Marek Sammul, Karin Kauer and Tiina Köster

 
    Restoration of flooded meadows in Estonia – vegetation changes and management indicators (pages 231–244)

    Jaak-Albert Metsoja, Lena Neuenkamp, Silvia Pihu, Kai Vellak, Jesse M. Kalwij and Martin Zobel

 
    Spontaneous restoration of target vegetation in old-fields in a central European landscape: a repeated analysis after three decades (pages 245–252)

    Alena Jírová, Alexandra Klaudisová and Karel Prach

   
    Regional seed mixtures for the re-creation of species-rich meadows in the White Carpathian Mountains: results of a 10-yr experiment (pages 253–263)

    Jonathan Mitchley, Ivana Jongepierová and Karel Fajmon

  
    Grassland restoration to conserve landscape-level biodiversity: a synthesis of early results from a large-scale project (pages 264–276)

    Szabolcs Lengyel, Katalin Varga, Beatrix Kosztyi, László Lontay, Eszter Déri, Péter Török and Béla Tóthmérész


    Using a two-phase sowing approach in restoration: sowing foundation species to restore, and subordinate species to evaluate restoration success (pages 277–289)

    Clémentine Coiffait-Gombault, Elise Buisson and Thierry Dutoit

  
    Enhancing plant biodiversity in species-poor grassland through plant material transfer – the impact of sward disturbance (pages 290–298)

    Ralf Schmiede, Annette Otte and Tobias W. Donath

   
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Applied Vegetation Science - 15 (1), 2012

Contents:

    Editors’ Award, vegetation survey, remote sensing and restoration (pages 1–3)

    J. Bastow Wilson, Alessandro Chiarucci, Milan Chytrý and Meelis Pärtel

 
    Regional context affects native and alien plant species richness across habitat types (pages 4–13)

    Núria Gassó, Joan Pino, Xavier Font and Montserrat Vila

   
    Plant diversity consequences of a herbivore-driven biome switch from Grassland to Nama-Karoo shrub steppe in South Africa (pages 14–25)

    Michael C. Rutherford, Leslie W. Powrie and Lara B. Husted

   
    Active restoration of woody canopy dominants in degraded South African semi-arid thicket is neither ecologically nor economically feasible (pages 26–34)

    Marius L. van der Vyver, Richard M. Cowling, Eileen E. Campbell and Mark Difford

  
    Direct and indirect effects of grazing constrain shrub encroachment in semi-arid Patagonian steppes (pages 35–47)

    Pablo A. Cipriotti and Martín R. Aguiar

   
    Resilience, persistence and relationship to standing vegetation in soil seed banks of semi-arid Australian old fields (pages 48–61)

    Andrew J. Scott and John W. Morgan

   
    Vegetation changes associated with cattle (Bos taurus) and wombat (Vombatus ursinus) activity in a riparian forest (pages 62–70)

    Philip Borchard and David J. Eldridge


    Restoration of native vegetation following exclosure establishment on communal grazing lands in Tigray, Ethiopia (pages 71–83)

    Wolde Mekuria and Edzo Veldkamp

 
    Decadal-scale aspen changes: evidence in remote sensing and tree ring data

    Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey

 
    Recolonization of vascular epiphytes in a shaded coffee agroecosystem (pages 99–107)

    Tarin Toledo-Aceves, José G. García-Franco, Adriana Hernández-Rojas and Keith MacMillan

   
    Traits and growth of liana regeneration in primary and secondary forests of Central Amazonia (pages 108–118)

    Mareike Roeder, Dirk Hölscher and Isolde D. Kossmann-Ferraz


    The age of Calluna stands moderates post-fire regeneration rate and trends in northern Calluna heathlands (pages 119–128)

    Liv G. Velle, Liv S. Nilsen and Vigdis Vandvik

 
    Response of blanket bog vegetation to drain-blocking (pages 129–135)

    Paul E. Bellamy, Leigh Stephen, Iain S. Maclean and Murray C. Grant

  
    The influence of environment, management and site context on species composition of summer arable weed vegetation in Hungary (pages 136–144)

    Gyula Pinke, Péter Karácsony, Bálint Czúcz, Zoltán Botta-Dukát and Attila Lengyel

 
    Spectral heterogeneity of QuickBird satellite data is related to fine-scale plant species spatial turnover in semi-natural grasslands (pages 145–157)

    Karin Hall, Triin Reitalu, Martin T. Sykes and Honor C. Prentice

  
    Reviewers List (pages 158–159)

  

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Applied Vegetation Science

Applied Vegetation Science (ISSN 1402-2001) wydawane jest przez Opulus Press w imieniu International Association of Vegetation Science
Spis treści numeru Volume 11, Number 2, April 2008 :

Vegetation recovery after fuel management in Mediterranean shrublands
M.J.Baeza ,V.R. Vallejo

Effects on vegetation composition of a modified forest harvesting and propagation method compared with clear-cutting, scarification and planting
Johan Bergstedt,Mats Hagner, Per Milberg,

Effects of climate change on the distribution of Iberian tree species
Marta Benito Garzón,Rut Sánchez de Dios,Helios Sainz Ollero,

Importance of grazing and soil acidity for plant community composition and trait characterisation in coastal dune grasslands
P.Kohyani , B.Bossuyt, D.Bonte ,M.Hoffmann

The effect of the expansion of the clonal grass Calamagrostis epigejos on the species turnover of a semi-arid grassland
Imelda Somodi,Klára Virágh,János Podani

Reintroduction of Nassella pulchra to California coastal grasslands: Effects of topsoil removal, plant neighbour removal and grazing
Elise Buisson, Sean Anderson,Holl Karen D., Emmanuel Corcket, Grey F. Hayes,; Alain Peeters, Thierry Dutoit

Inferring relationships between native plant diversity and Lonicera japonica in upland forests in north Mississippi, USA
Sherry Surrette, B., Brewer J. Stephen

Grazing as a factor structuring grasslands in the Pyrenees
Maria-Teresa Sebastia, Francesco de Bello, Laura Puig, Marc Taull

Germinable soil seed banks in abandoned grasslands in central and western Norway and their significance for restoration
Line Rosef

The suppression of Dendroctonus frontalis and subsequent wildfire have an impact on forest stand dynamics
Coleman T.W., Meeker James R., Clarke Stephen R., Rieske L.K.

Evaluating landscape quality with vegetation naturalness maps: an index and some inferences
Ferrari C., Pezzi G., Diani L., Corazza M.

Long-term seed bank dynamics in a temperate forest under conversion from coppice-with-standards to high forest management
Hans Van Calster, Richard Chevalier, Bram Van Wyngene, Frédéric Archaux, Kris Verheyen, Martin Hermy

Quantifying successional changes in response to forest disturbances
Penman Trent D., Binns Doug L., Kavanagh Rodney P.

Multi-scale responses of plant species diversity in semi-natural buffer strips to agricultural landscapes
Maohua Ma

Long-term after-effects of fertilisation on the restoration of calcareous grasslands
Smits N.A.C., Willems J.H., Bobbink R.




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