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Opulus Press was founded in 1989, and became soon involved in science publishing. We strongly believe that also small companies can produce fast and high quality publishing and information services. It is our aim to offer top journals at affordable prices, and we are proud that both Applied Vegetation Science and the Journal of Vegetation Science are included in the SPARC Alternative programme. The Alternative program supports lower-cost, directly competitive journals as an alternative for academic disciplines formerly dependent on high-priced journals. Opulus has its offices in the village of Grangärde, situated in the countryside in the middle part of Sweden.
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 9Connectivity and management enables fast recovery of plant diversity in new linear grassland elements
QUESTIONS: How does small linear grassland elements (paddy levees and road verges) contribute to plant diversity patterns in sites with modern or traditional management? Which factors determine small‐scale plant species richness of small linear grassland elements in a Japanese agricultural landscape? LOCATION: Shiga Prefecture, Japan. METHODS: Aerial photos from 1963, 1985, 1995 and 2008 were used to investigate landscape changes and to measure landscape structures within a typical agricultural landscape (~25 km²).
What lies beneath: detecting sub‐canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three‐dimensional classification method
QUESTION: Increasing population pressure, socio‐economic development and associated natural resource use in savannas are resulting in large‐scale land cover changes, which can be mapped using remote sensing. Is a three‐dimensional (3D) woody vegetation structural classification applied to LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data better than a 2D analysis to investigate change in fine‐scale woody vegetation structure over 2 yrs in a protected area (PA) and a communal rangeland (CR)? LOCATION: Bushbuckridge Municipality and Sabi Sand Wildtuin, NE South Africa.
repeat photograph analysis of long‐term vegetation change in semi‐arid South Africa in response to land use and climate
QUESTIONS: How has the vegetation of the major biomes (Grassland, Nama‐karoo, Albany Thicket, Azonal) of southeastern South Africa changed over the course of the 20th century? How do changes in climate and land‐use drivers relate to long‐term changes in vegetation? What are the implications of these findings for land degradation hypotheses and future climate change projections for the region? LOCATION: The biogeographically complex semi‐arid, Karoo Midlands region of the southeastern part of South Africa.
Discriminant analysis reveals limited association between forest habitat types and the environment in western United States land classification
AIMS: Critical assessment of the connection between units of the habitat type system and physiographic, climatic and soil factors in interior western United States land classifications. LOCATION: Interior western United States including Utah, SE Idaho, W Wyoming and Colorado, N Arizona, NW New Mexico and E Nevada, representing 11 Bailey's ecoregion sections and covering 389 519 km². METHODS: We analysed 2754 plots from the extensive FIA database, representing 185 different habitat types.
Invasive grasses change landscape structure and fire behaviour in Hawaii
QUESTIONS: How does potential fire behaviour differ in grass‐invaded non‐native forests vs open grasslands? How has land cover changed from 1950–2011 along two grassland/forest ecotones in Hawaii with repeated fires? LOCATION: Non‐native forest with invasive grass understory and invasive grassland (Megathyrsus maximus) ecosystems on Oahu, Hawaii, USA.