期刊名称：APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Applied Vegetation Science is administratively linked to the Journal of Vegetation Science.
It accepts original papers (including shorter ones), reviews, forum contributions and reports. It commissions reviews of selected books.
Applied fields covered by the journal include human impact on vegetation, particularly eutrophication and global change, nature conservation, nature management, restoration of plant communities and habitats of threatened plant species, and the planning of semi-natural and urban landscapes. In addition it publishes book reviews and notices of scientific meetings.
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Instructions to Authors
Scope
Applied Vegetation Science includes any community-level topic relevant to human impact on vegetation, including global change, nature conservation, nature management, restoration of plant communities and of the habitats of threatened plant species, and the planning of semi-natural and urban landscapes. Vegetation modelling and remote-sensing applications are especially welcome.
Applied fields covered by the journal include human impact on vegetation, particularly eutrophication and global change, nature conservation, nature management, restoration of plant communities and habitats of threatened plant species, and the planning of semi-natural and urban landscapes.
Acceptance criteria
To be acceptable, a paper must have something that will interest an international readership, even if its immediate scope is local. (Other papers, even if competently executed, would be better published in a local or regional journal.). A paper can be new/interesting by doing one of several things:
• Develop new concepts in understanding vegetation, or
• Test concepts applicable to all plant communities, or
• Add particularly well executed empirical examples that are part of a growing literature on a general conceptual issue, or
• Represent a particular interesting combination of models, observational data, and experiments, or
• Demonstrate new and generally useful methods, or
• Present a particularly exemplary or thorough analysis, i.e. be a definitive paper, even if concepts and methods are not novel. A definitive paper is one that represents the state of the art (methods and statistics) that presents a critical and final (definitive) test for an interesting hypothesis, even if that hypothesis is not new and even if many other papers have collected data that bears, in a less definitive way, on the hypothesis. It might be regional in its scope, but be a model of how to write a type of paper or how to apply methods, or
• Describe the vegetation of an area, whether large or small, when that description will be of interest to readers worldwide because that habitat/vegetation will be of such interest, or when it attains the exemplary qualities described above, or
• Demonstrate how vital vegetation science is to social questions of the day (species invasion, global warming, nitrogen deposition).
The questions in the paper can be addressed by many means, including description, experiments, simulations, meta-analysis, inference, extrapolation, etc. We do not limit the nature of the approach, as long as the work is sound.
As a very rough rule of thumb, we would accept a paper if in our judgement we think that 66% of vegetation scientists would regard it as having some interest, or 10% would regard it as being very interesting.
Manuscripts
The language must be in English (either British or American throughout). Papers should be concise, and shorter articles may be published sooner. moreover, a concise paper often makes more impact on the reader. There is no minimum or maximum length, but the length should be proportional to their content of interest.
One of the Chief Editors or Associate Editors will be selected as Co-ordinating Editor for each submitted mss, and will make the final decision on acceptance.
There are four categories of contributed paper: Ordinary article, Forum, Letter, and Report.
Ordinary article
This category includes survey, experiment, simulation, theory and review (including mini-reviews), or any combination of those (which is often especially valuable).
Forum
Forum papers are essays with original ideas / speculation / well-sustained arguments. They will usually contribute to free debate of current and often controversial ideas in vegetation science. There may be criticism of papers published in JVS/AVS, or (if interesting to our readers) of papers published elsewhere. An Abstract is required, but otherwise the sectional format is flexible. Maximum length is normally four pages. Forum papers have high priority in publication.
Letter
A letter is a very short but refereed paper (= 0.5 pp.) with one scientific idea. It will have the highest priority in publication. The section is intended for positive ideas, not for papers primarily intended to criticise.
Report
This includes items that are not scientific papers: e.g. news items, the existence of databases and technical information. Reports are short, usually two pages; additional material should be put in electronic appendices.
A report can describe a new or much expanded computer program if this will be of interest to vegetation scientists.. We can accept paid advertisements for commercial computer programs. We alsocarry reviews of computer programs, and authors of new programs are very welcome to submit them for review. [Papers that, whilst mentioning a particular program, are basically descriptions of a new method, can be submitted as ordinary articles.]
Criticism and responses
If a paper (Forum or otherwise) has a major element criticising a particular paper or body of work of (an)other scientist(s), the latter will be invited to comment on the paper (doing this does not prevent the criticised scientist(s) from writing a reply). However, those comments will be taken in context, and there will in addition be one or two referees who are outside the controversy.
The author who has been criticised will be offered a right of reply in the same journal issue, so long as the reply is received before an indicated deadline, typically four weeks from acceptance of the criticism, especially since the criticised author will already have seen the criticism (see above). The reply will be refereed. It will be sent to the author of the original criticism, to check there is nothing unreasonable or offensive.
The criticising authors have no automatic right of further responses, but the editor may allow this. The sequence will normally finish with the author(s) of the originally criticised paper, or when the participant next due to submit does not do so, or submits an article that says nothing that is both new and valid as judged by referees. Such further responses will normally be published in a later issue.
The editor will ensure that the process is fair to all concerned, and that the readers of the journal can evaluate both sides and make their own decision.
Correction of simple errors
If a paper is submitted that contains only a correction for a simple error in a paper published by another author, but one that is likely to mislead readers, if the error does not appear to affect the results (e.g. it is an error in a formula, though the correct formula was used in the original calculations), the original author will be offered the opportunity submit an erratum with an acknowledgement to the author who pointed it out, which would be published in place of the submitted critical paper.
An author may of their own initiative submit an erratum note for an error that is likely to mislead readers.
Submissions
Applied Vegetation Science accepts submission at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/avsci. This enables the quickest possible review. Manuscript submission online can be as Word document (.doc) or RTF (.rtf). On acceptance, you will be required to upload your manuscript as one text file and additional high resolution graphics files. TIFF (.tiff) or EPS (.eps) are our preferred formats. Full upload instructions and support are available online from the submission site via the 'Get Help Now' button. Please submit your covering letter or comments to the editor when prompted online.
Please forward any general submission queries to avsci@editorialoffice.co.uk.
Copyright Transfer Agreement Form
All non-OnlineOpen papers must be accompanied by a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form (CTA) upon acceptance for publication. Signature of the CTA is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Copyright Transfer Agreement Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here.
OnlineOpen Service
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/onlineopen#OnlineOpen_Terms.
Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at:
https://wileyonlinelibrary.com/onlineopen
Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
Format
Number all pages, and number the lines on each page. Do not use a two-column format. Use scientific names of taxa, and avoid vernacular names. Units of measurement must follow the International System of Units: e.g. mg.m2.yr 1. The time unit for contemporary phenomena can be 's', 'min', 'hr', 'week', 'mo' or 'yr'. For palaeo-time use 'ka' or 'Ma'. Numbers with units of measurement must be in digits, 3.5 g . Numbers in the text of up to ten items (i.e. integers) should be in words, e.g. "ten quadrats", "five sampling times"; otherwise in digits, e.g. "11 sampling times". Use '.' for a decimal point. Thousands in large numbers should be indicated by a space, e.g. 10 000 for ten thousand.
Figures and tables
Numerical results should be presented as either figures or tables, but not both. Figures and tables may optionally be embedded in the text. The definitions of symbols and lines should be given as a visual key on the figure itself, not as a word key (e.g. 'solid bars', 'open circle', 'dashed line') in the legend.
Figures in the submitted manuscript should be reproduced at the size at which they are intended to be printed: either one-column or full-page width. Figure and table legends should be included within the text file on the same page as the figure/table to which they refer. The legend should contain sufficient information for the figure/table to be understood without reference to the text of the paper. To this end, the first sentence of the legend should comprise a short title for the figure/table.
Technical Issues
If your paper is eventually accepted, there are several technical issues that will need to be checked. You can check these when you receive the Co-ordinating Editor's response and make necessary modifications (the Co-ordinating Editor may give you directions on such issues, or may not, depending on how busy they are at the time). If your paper is accepted, it will be passed via the Editorial Office to the Final Editors. If only minor technical issues remain, they may make the changes themselves, perhaps checking with you first, or asking you by a note on the proofs to check the changes. For more major changes (e.g. if there are many language problems), the Final Editors will be unable to correct your paper for you, and you will be given the choice of doing this work yourself, even at this late stage, or having it done at cost to you. Exceptions to these charges can be made only for ecologists from the developing world. It is quite possible that none of this will apply to your paper, but we warn all authors at the submission stage just in case it turns out that it does.
Technical Checklist
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Abstract: Up to 250 words (fewer for a Forum paper). No references. The abstract for ordinary papers should have named sections, normally: Question, Location, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Vary this structure when necessary: e.g. for reviews; omit Location for theoretical papers; make other small changes when expression is clearly enhanced |
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Title: Catch the reader's attention with topical issues or an interesting hypothesis |
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Logical structure: The Introduction should state what topics will be addressed, and those topics should be addressed by the Methods, Results and Discussion |
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Author list: e.g.:
Bush, George W.1,2; Smith, A.B.1,3 & Coxon, E. Fred4*
1Ecology Department, Little Marsh University, 11 Main St., Little Marsh, Berkshire, UK;
2E-mail gw_bush@lmu.ac.uk; 3E-mail ab_smith @lmu.ac.uk;
4Botany Department, Herbicide Manufacturers, P.O. Box 2002, Southend-on-Sea, UK;
*Corresponding author; Fax +4412345678; E-mail doughnut@herbicide.co.uk; Url: www.herbicide.co.uk/efcoxon |
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Keywords: e.g. Aardvark; Copper mobilty; New Zealand; Zebra tail [don't duplicate words from the title] |
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Nomenclature source: Give if relevant |
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Introduction: Ending with questions or hypotheses |
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Results: The claims in the Results section text should match what's in the figures and tables |
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Citation format in text, e.g.: (Smith et al. 1999; Tan & Sim 1970) |
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Table and Figure captions: Understandable without reading the text. |
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Tables: Concise, with row and column labels as self-explanatory as possible |
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Figures |
a. Not too many of them, and compact |
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b. Readable at the size they will be printed |
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c. No superfluous lines (e.g. across a graph, or to the top and right of a graph). |
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d. Lines and symbols explained in direct language, e.g. * = Litter removed
not: * = LRT or * = Treatment LR or * = Treatment 3
e. Symbol key in the figure itself, not a word key ('dashed line', 'open circles') in the caption |
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Reference format [take especial care with book chapters]
Greig-Smith, P. 1983. Quantitative plant ecology. 3rd ed. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
Lane, D.R., Coffin, D.P. & Lauenroth, W.K. 2000. Changes in grassland canopy structure across a precipitation gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science 11: 359-368.
Levin, S.A. 2001. Immune systems and ecosystems. Conservation Ecology 5(1): article 17. URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss1/art17 [Ecological Society of America].
Whittaker, R.H. 1969. Evolution of diversity in plant communities. In: Woodwell, G.M. & Smith, H.N. (eds.) Stability and diversity in ecological systems, pp. 178-196. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, NY, US.
There should not be an unnecessary number of references. A reference that is cited only once, and that time along with several others, may be redundant. |
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Citation of JVS/AVS papers: Are any directly-relevant recent JVS or AVS papers cited? |
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Electronic appendices: All appendices (except mathematical ones), large figures & tables, extra photographs and raw data, go here. |
If your paper is eventually accepted, there are several technical issues that will need to be checked. You can check these when you receive the Co-ordinating Editor's response and make necessary modifications (the Co-ordinating Editor may give you directions on such issues, or may not, depending on how busy they are at the time). If your paper is accepted, it will be passed via the Editorial Office to the Final Editors. If only minor technical issues remain, they may make the changes themselves, perhaps checking with you first, or asking you by a note on the proofs to check the changes. For more major changes (e.g. if there are many language problems), the Final Editors will be unable to correct your paper for you, and you will be given the choice of doing this work yourself, even at this late stage, or having it done at cost to you. Exceptions to these charges can be made only for ecologists from the developing world. It is quite possible that none of this will apply to your paper, but we warn all authors at the submission stage just in case it turns out that it does. Once your paper has been accepted, it will be forwarded to the publisher for production to commence.
Graphics
Artwork guidelines are available at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp
The journal welcomes colour figures and plates, when information would be lost if reproduced in black and white. Please note there is a charge for colour in print - if you have colour figures please fill in the form available here. In the event that an author is not able to cover the costs of reproducing colour figures in colour in the printed version of the journal, Applied Vegetation Science offers authors the opportunity to reproduce colour figures in colour for free in the online version of the article (but they will still appear in black and white in the print version). If an author wishes to take advantage of this free colour-on-the-web service, they should liaise with the Editorial Office to ensure that the appropriate documentation is completed for the Publisher. Tables: Tables should be typed on separate pages, as an integral part the text file. They should have a brief descriptive title and be self-explanatory. Units should appear in parentheses in the column headings, not in the body of the table. Repeated words or numerals on successive lines should be written in full. Footnotes should be minimal. When the precision of data is expressed as standard error (se) or standard errors of differences (sed) the degrees of freedom (df) should be given.
Electronic artwork
When an article is finally accepted AVS requires submission of electronic artwork. Vector graphics (e.g. line artwork) should be saved in Encapsulated Postscript Format (.eps), and half-tones in Tagged Image File Format (.tif). TIFF files should be supplied at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch) at the final size at which they are to appear in the journal. Colour files should be in CMYK format. Figure sections should be designated with upper case letters. Magnification bars should be given on electron and light micrographs. Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at this webpage.
Cover images
Electronic artwork/original photographs of high quality suitable for the cover are welcomed. They should be sent to the Editorial Office and be accompanied by a relevant caption. It is preferred, but not essential, that images should be related to submitted papers. Contributors are required to assign copyright to the International Association for Vegetation Science by UK law.
Sections
Title: This should be strongly directed towards attracting the interest of potential readers.
Author names and addresses: Follow exactly the format in an issue of the journal. Give an E mail address for all authors.
Abstract: Up to 250 words (fewer for a Forum paper). Include no references.
The abstract for ordinary papers should have named sections, normally: Question, Location, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Vary this structure when necessary: e.g. for reviews use whatever structure is appropriate; for theoretical papers Location is not needed; for Forum papers a different and compressed structure will probably be appropriate.
Keywords: These should not duplicate the title.
Nomenclatural reference (as a source for the authors of scientific names).
Abbreviations. List any that will be frequently used in the text.
Main text: Start this on a new page. Indicate new paragraphs by indentation. Avoid footnotes.
Variation from the usual Introduction - Methods - Results - Discussion structure is acceptable when appropriate.
If coloured figures are required, a financial contribution for the extra cost will be negotiated.
Acknowledgements: Keep them brief. References to research projects/funds and institutional publication numbers go here.
References
Citations in the text: Use forms such as: Smith (2005) or (Smith 2005) or Smith et al. (2005) or (Smith 2005 a, b; Jones 2006). Citations should be chronological by year, except where there is a list of years for the same author - in these cases group the author's citations together by the first year. E.g. '(Zebedee 1950, 1970; Abraham 1960; Smith et al. 1965, 1974; Zebedee et al. 1969)'
References section: Use the formats below. Journal names; always give the full name.
Lane, D.R., Coffin, D.P. & Lauenroth, W.K. 2000. Changes in grassland canopy structure across a precipitation gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science 11: 359-368.
Greig-Smith, P. 1983. Quantitative plant ecology. 3rd ed. Blackwell, Oxford, UK
Whittaker, R.H. 1969. Evolution of diversity in plant communities. In: Woodwell, G.M. & Smith, H.N. (eds.) Stability and diversity in ecological systems, pp. 178-196. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, NY, US.
Levin, S.A. 2001. Immune systems and ecosystems. Conservation Ecology 5(1): article 17. URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss1/art17 [Ecological Society of America].
Noble, D.L. 1978. Seedfall and establishment of Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir. United States Department of Agriculture [report no. 575], Washington, DC, US.
Ronco, F. jr 1979. Establishment of seedlings in clearcut openings in Colorado [Rocky Mountain Experimental Station report no. 273]. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, US.
Wallin, G. 1973. Lövskogsvegetation i Sjuhäradsbygden. Ph.D. thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SE.
Computer programs: All information on computer programs used should be in the Methods section, e.g. "performed by DoStats (version 6.2, StatProgs Inc., Springfield, NY, US)". There should be no entry in the References section.
Unpublished material: The References section can contain only material that is published, in press or is a thesis. Indicate all other material as "unpubl." or "pers. comm." (the latter with date and description of the type of knowledge, e.g. "local farmer"); "submitted" may be used only if the cited item is in some journal's editorial process, and the reference will have to be removed if the item has not been firmly accepted by that journal by the time proofs are corrected for citing paper.
Editorial Board
Chief Editors
Alessandro Chiarucci, Siena, Italy
Milan Chytrý, Brno, Czech Republic
Meelis Pärtel, Tartu, Estonia
J. Bastow Wilson, Dunedin, New Zealand
Associate Editors
Alica Acosta, Rome, Italy
Email: acosta@uniroma3.it
Peter Adler, Logan, UT, USA
Email: peter.adler@usu.edu
Philip M. Dixon, Ames, IA, USA
Email: pdixon@iastate.edu
Lauchlan H. Fraser, Kamloops, Canada
Email: lfraser@tru.ca
Sabine Güsewell, Zürich, Switzerland
Email: sabine.guesewell@env.ethz.ch
Geoffrey M. Henebry, Brookings, SD, USA
Email: Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu
Martin Hermy, Leuven, BE
Email: martin.hermy@biw.kuleuven.be
Beth A. Middleton, lafayette, LA, USA
Email: beth_middleton@usgs.gov
Aaron Moody, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Email: aaronm@email.unc.edu
Tim O'Connor, Johannesburg, South Africa
Email: timoconnor@xsinet.co.za
Ralf Ohlemüller, Durham, UK
Email: ralf.ohlemuller@durham.ac.uk
Janet Ohmann, Corvallis, OR, USA
Email: janet.ohmann@oregonstate.edu
Robin Pakeman, Aberdeen, UK
Email: r.pakeman@macaulay.ac.uk
Juli Pausas, Paterna, Spain
Email: juli.g.pausas@uv.es
Andreas Prinzing, Rennes, France
Email: andreas.prinzing@univ.rennes1.fr
Suzanne Prober, PO Wembley, Australia
Email: suzanne.prober@csiro.au
Duccio Rocchini, Trento, Italy
Email: duccio.rocchini@iasma.it
Joop Schaminée, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Email: joop.schaminee@wur.nl
Angelika Schwabe-Kratochwil, Darmstadt, Germany
Email: Schwabe@bio.tu-darmstadt.de
Amy Symstad, Keystone, SD, USA
Email: asymstad@usgs.gov
David Ward, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Email: ward@ukzn.ac.za
Editorial Board
Renée M. Bekker, Groningen, The Netherlands
Email: r.m.bekker@rug.nl
Roland Bobbink, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Email: R.bobbink@b-ware.eu
Thomas C. Edwards, Logan, UT, USA
Email: t.edwards@nr.usu.edu
Don Faber-Langendoen, Syracuse, NY, USA
Email: don_faber-langendoen@natureserve.org
Norbert Hölzel, Münster, Germany
Email: nhoelzel@uni-muenster.de
Michael Jennings, Moscow, ID, USA
Email: jennings@uidaho.edu
Regina Lindborg , Stockholm, Sweden
Email: regina@ecology.su.se
Ross Meentemeyer, Charlotte, NC, USA
Email: rkmeente@uncc.edu
Gerhard Overbeck, Hanover, Germany
Email: gerhard_overbeck@yahoo.com
Debra Peters, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Email: debpeter@nmsu.edu
Kris Verheyen, Ghent, Belgium
Email: kris.verheyen@ugent.be
Book Review Editor
Scott L. Collins, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Email: scollins@sevilleta.unm.edu
Software Review and Forum Editor
Mike Palmer, Stillwater, OK, USA
Email: mike.palmer@okstate.edu
Consultant Editors
Robert Peet, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Eddy van der Maarel, Groningen, The Netherlands
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