《植被科学杂志》发表关于植物群落生态学各个方面的论文，特别强调那些提出新概念或方法、检验理论、确定一般模式或可能引起广泛国际读者兴趣的论文。植物科学的论文可能专注于任何方面,如社区结构(包括社区大会和植物功能类型),生物多样性(包括物种丰富度和组成),空间模式(包括植物地理学和景观生态学),时间的变化(包括人口统计学、社会动态和古生态学)和过程(包括生态生理学),提供重点是增加我们对植物群落的理解。只有在单个物种在构建植物群落方面发挥关键作用的情况下，该杂志才会发表有关该物种生态学的论文。将生态学概念、理论和方法应用于植被管理、保护和恢复的论文，以及有关植被调查的论文，应直接发表在我们的副刊《应用植被科学》上。
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The Journal of Vegetation Science publishes papers on all aspects of plant community ecology, with particular emphasis on papers that develop new concepts or methods, test theory, identify general patterns, or that are otherwise likely to interest a broad international readership. Papers may focus on any aspect of vegetation science, e.g. community structure (including community assembly and plant functional types), biodiversity (including species richness and composition), spatial patterns (including plant geography and landscape ecology), temporal changes (including demography, community dynamics and palaeoecology) and processes (including ecophysiology), provided the focus is on increasing our understanding of plant communities. The Journal publishes papers on the ecology of a single species only if it plays a key role in structuring plant communities. Papers that apply ecological concepts, theories and methods to the vegetation management, conservation and restoration, and papers on vegetation survey should be directed to our associate journal, Applied Vegetation Science journal.
