Plant Sociology publishes research articles on all aspects of vegetation, from plant community to landscape level including dynamic processes, focusing on vegetation & Annex I habitats interpretation, classification, mapping, management, conservation and monitoring.
As of 2025 the journal is renamed to Vegetation Ecology and Diversity, and the authors should reach the new website (https://ved.arphahub.com/) if they wish to submit their manuscript(s).
Plant Sociology is an international open-access, peer-reviewed journal edited by the "Società Italiana di Scienza della Vegetazione" - SISV - (Italian Society of Vegetation Science).
It publishes original research articles dealing with all aspects of vegetation, from plant community to landscape level, including dynamic processes and community ecology. It favours papers focusing on plant sociology and vegetation survey for developing ecological models, vegetation interpretation, classification and mapping, environmental quality assessment, plant biodiversity management and conservation, EU Annex I habitats interpretation and monitoring, on the ground of rigorous and quantitative measures of physical and biological components.
The journal is open to territorial studies at different geographic scale and accepts contributes dealing with applied research, provided they offer new methodological perspectives and a robust, updated vegetation analysis.
Plant Sociology supports the Italian Vegetation Data Base VegItaly (member of the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases - GIVD) and urges the contributing Authors to store their vegetation data in it.
Plant Sociology has succeeded Fitosociologia (1990-2011, ISSN 1125-9078) and Notiziario della Società Italiana di Fitosociologia (1964-1989, ISSN 1120-4605), the historical journals of the SISV. The name Plant Sociology is a tribute to the founder of Phytosociology, Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884-1980), who used it in the English translation of his major monographic work "Pflanzensoziologie".
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Vegetation Ecology and Diversity publishes research articles on all aspects of vegetation, from plant community to landscape level including dynamic processes, focusing on vegetation & Annex I habitats interpretation, classification, mapping, management, conservation and monitoring.
Vegetation Ecology and Diversity is a peer-reviewed, open-access international journal owned and published by the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV).
The journal publishes original research articles covering all aspects of vegetation, ranging from plant communities to landscapes, including dynamic processes and community ecology. It prioritizes papers that emphasize plant community ecology and vegetation surveys to advance ecological models, interpret and classify vegetation, map ecosystems, assess environmental quality, manage and conserve plant biodiversity, and interpret and monitor European habitats. Submissions are expected to be grounded in rigorous, quantitative analyses of physical and biological components.
The journal welcomes territorial studies across various geographic scales and accepts contributions focused on applied research, provided they present innovative methodological approaches and a thorough, up-to-date vegetation analysis.
Vegetation Ecology and Diversity supports the Italian Vegetation Database VegItaly (member of the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases - GIVD EU-IT-001) and urges the contributing Authors to store their vegetation data in it.
From 2012 to 2024, the journal was named Plant Sociology, and its content is accessible via this link. Vegetation Ecology and Diversity succeeds Plant Sociology [2012–2024, ISSN 2704-6192 (online), ISSN 2280-1855 (print)], which was formerly Fitosociologia [1990–2011, ISSN 1125-9078] and Notiziario della Società Italiana di Fitosociologia [1964–1989, ISSN 1120-4605], the historical journals of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV).
Back issues of Plant Sociology (from issue 58 to 61) are available here, while previous ones (from issue 49 to 57) are available here. Older issues under the journal name Fitosociologia (from issue 39 to 48) are available here.