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PHOTO: Protea cynaroides, one of the beautiful Fynbos species of South Africa |<br /> CREDIT: N. Smits

PHOTO: Protea cynaroides, one of the beautiful Fynbos species of South Africa |
CREDIT: N. Smits

Welcome to the International Association for Vegetation Science


The International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) is a worldwide union of scientists and others interested in theoretical and practical studies of vegetation: its composition and structure, history, classification, distribution, ecology, dynamics, management and uses in the landscape.  The main goals of the IAVS are to faciltate personal contacts among vegetation scientists all over the world and to promote research in all aspects of vegetation science and its applications. Toward these ends we hold meetings and excursions, sponsor publications, and provide mechanisms for vegetation scientists to communicate with each other and the world at large.

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Future submission of manuscripts to Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science should be through the new webpages at Wiley-Blackwell: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vegetationscience.

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