Editorial article: Applied Vegetation Science in 2010: new opportunities for the vegetation scientists

CHIARUCCI, A.; PARTEL M; DÍAZ, S. ; WILSON J.B

APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2010 vol. 13 p. 1 - 4

1402-2001

With this issue, Applied Vegetation Science is  starting its thirteenth year of life. Under an anthropomorphic  point of view, it is not anymore a child  but a teenager. In reality, Applied Vegetation Science  is now, together with its sister periodical Journal of  Vegetation Science, a consolidated reference for the  whole vegetation science community all over the  world and the leader publication venue for applied  uses and investigations on vegetation science, such  as vegetation restoration, management and conservation.  The inclusion of the journal in the Wiley-  Blackwell package greatly enlarged the number of  institutions that subscribes to Applied Vegetation  Science and, consequently, the potential readership  and authorship. In 2009, the number of downloaded  papers was extremely high, exceeding ten thousand!  The number of downloads was really exceptional for  some papers, even for recent ones. One of the papers  published in the last volume (Pickett et al. 2009) at  the end of November 2009, so in the same year of  publication, has already been downloaded 277  times. This paper showed that some of the Clements?  insights about community-level processes are well  recognized in the present theoretical and practical  framework of vegetation science and that these  concepts are used to address the role community-level  processes for applied issues such as ecological  restoration (Pickett et al. 2009).