Plant Sociology is an international open-access, peer-reviewed journal edited by the “Società Italiana di Scienza della Vegetazione” (SISV).
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”.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Gianmaria Bonari
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Siena
Co-Editor
Prof. Gianluigi Bacchetta
Dipartimento di Scienze della vita e dell’ambiente, Università di Cagliari
Co-Editor
Prof. Simonetta Bagella
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali Università di Sassari
Co-Editor
Prof. Daniela Gigante
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università di Perugia
Co-Editor
Prof. Daniele Viciani
Dipertimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze
Consultant Editor
Prof. Edoardo Biondi
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Social Media Team
Giovanni Rivieccio
Università degli Studi di Sassari Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali Università di Sassari
Michele Mugnai
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze
Editorial Board Members
Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta
Marina Allegrezza
Olivier Argagnon
Silvia Assini
Erwin Bergmeier
Frédéric Bioret
Carlo Blasi
Alessandro Bricca
Gabriella Buffa
Helga Bültmann
Marco Caccianiga
Maria Carmela Caria
Andraz Carni
Simona Casavecchia
Stefano Chelli
Milan Chytrý
Süleyman Çoban
Renata Ćušterevska
Ulrich Deil
Pauline Delbosc
Yakiv Didukh
Panayotis Dimopoulos
Romeo Di Pietro
Edy Fantinato
Emmanuele Farris
Annarita Frattaroli
Hamid Gholizadeh
Lorenzo Gianguzzi
Gian Pietro Giusso del Galdo
Victor Adrian Indreica
Zygmunt Kącki
Cesare Lasen
Lorenzo Lastrucci
Lorenzo Lazzaro
Rachid Meddour
Ladislav Mucina
Bianca O. Andrade
Salza Palpurina
Ricarda Pätsch
Simone Pesaresi
Marta Puglisi
Daniel Sánchez-Mata
Giovanni Sburlino
Alberto Selvaggi
Pilar Soriano Guarinos
Giovanni Spampinato
Jean Paul Theurillat
Ioannis Tsiripidis
Rossen Tzonev
Kiril Vassilev
Roberto Venanzoni
Fotios Xystrakis