EDITORIAL ARTICLE: Twentieth year of the Journal of Vegetation Science: the journal for all vegetation scientists

WILSON JB; CHIARUCCI A; DÍAZ S; PÄRTE M

JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Opulus Press

Año: 2009 vol. 20 p. 1 - 2

1100-9233

The Journal of Vegetation Science was launched by the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) in 1990, specifically to be a journal owned and governed by the Association. Now, in its 20th year of publication, it is the reference journal for plant community ecology. Eddy van der Maarel concluded in his editorial of the first issue: ??Vegetation science is rapidly developing towards a general science of plant communities with its own body of theory and an enormous potential for application in the fields of nature conservation and environmental management. . . . Let the Journal of Vegetation Science be a journal for all vegetation scientists?? (van derMaarel 1990). The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. science is rapidly developing towards a general science of plant communities with its own body of theory and an enormous potential for application in the fields of nature conservation and environmental management. . . . Let the Journal of Vegetation Science be a journal for all vegetation scientists?? (van derMaarel 1990). The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. by the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) in 1990, specifically to be a journal owned and governed by the Association. Now, in its 20th year of publication, it is the reference journal for plant community ecology. Eddy van der Maarel concluded in his editorial of the first issue: ??Vegetation science is rapidly developing towards a general science of plant communities with its own body of theory and an enormous potential for application in the fields of nature conservation and environmental management. . . . Let the Journal of Vegetation Science be a journal for all vegetation scientists?? (van derMaarel 1990). The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. science is rapidly developing towards a general science of plant communities with its own body of theory and an enormous potential for application in the fields of nature conservation and environmental management. . . . Let the Journal of Vegetation Science be a journal for all vegetation scientists?? (van derMaarel 1990). The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. The world has changed much in those 19 years. So has vegetation science, with the Journal of Vegetation Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. Science drawing together vegetation scientists from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject. from almost all the countries of the world and with every approach to the subject.