Symposium topics

Ecosystem-focused topics

  • Cold-driven ecosystems: Alpine, arctic, and mountain vegetation
  • Drought-driven ecosystems: Arid, semi-arid, and seasonally dry vegetation
  • Fire-prone ecosystems: Vegetation responses to frequent or periodic fires
  • Freshwater ecosystems: Vegetation from wetlands, mires, and water bodies
  • Tropical ecosystems: Vegetation from the tropics and the subtropics 
  • Anthropogenic ecosystems: Human-disturbed habitats, invasions, and novel communities

Cross-cutting topics across ecosystems

  • Vegetation restoration: Recovering plant communities with native seeds
  • Earth Observation of vegetation: Linking in-situ data with remote sensing
  • Plant community interactions: Relationships with animals, symbiotic and mutualist organisms
  • Vegetation dynamics: Stability, change, and resilience of plant communities
  • Vegetation from the past: Paleoecology and vegetation history
  • Functional ecology: Aboveground, belowground, and seed traits

SPECIAL SESSIONS

We invite proposals for special sessions from 20 October to 20 November 2025. Proposals must be sent by email to iavs2026@azulcongresos.com with the subject “IAVS26 SPECIAL SESSION”.

Special sessions will need to cover specific fields not considered in the pre-defined symposium topics and be supported by a minimum of two promoters and five prospective speakers who have previously agreed to participate. The scientific committee will accept proposals for special sessions based on the number of abstracts submitted, possible overlaps among sessions, and the final arrangement of symposium topics in the program agenda.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstract submission

Abstract submissions will open on  1 December 2025 and will close on 31 January 2026 on this website

Instructions

  • Abstracts for either oral or poster presentations must be submitted through the online application.
  • The main text of abstracts is restricted to 250 words.
  • Each participant can submit and present only one abstract (a talk or a poster) as the lead author.
  • Please indicate if you wish to present a talk or a poster during the abstract submission.

Scientific topics

Submissions shall be assigned by authors to one of the pre-selected scientific topics or the special sessions (select “Other” if your presentation does not fit with any topic).

The Scientific Committee will evaluate the abstracts and will assign them to the preferred topic or to another one according to the time available for each session. The Committee may also decide to switch the presentation type (from oral to poster, or vice versa).

Format of posters and talks

​​Poster presentations

  • Posters must be printed on paper and have the following dimensions: 80 cm width x 120 cm maximum height. Please ask for the necessary materials to hang your poster at the Welcome Desk.
  • The poster presentations will take place on Tuesday 23 and Thursday 25, from 16:30 to 18:00. Cold drinks and a snack will be served during the sessions.
  • The posters should be removed from the place on Friday, 26.

Oral presentations

  • Each speaker will have a time slot of 15 minutes (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for discussion).
  • Presentations must be in English, preferably using Microsoft PowerPoint in 16:9 size.
  • Please deliver your presentation at the welcome desk the day before the talk is scheduled.
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